Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Public Safety Neighborhood Services Committee 20221013

Good morning the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday october 13th, 2022 meeting of Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. Gordon mar and Catherine Stefani and myrna melgar. I want to thank stefani cabrera for the Clerks Office for staffing and matthew from sfgovtv and before we move forward i would like to announce that supervisor melgars hearing on Resources Available to students experiencing reporting sexual abuse at sfusd schools will be continues to the october upon 27th meeting. Madam clerk . We need to vote on the continuance and i will proceed with the announcements. Vice chair stefani. Aye. Member melgar. Aye. Im sorry. Continuance. Yea. It was an announcement. Move ahead with yours and we will make the motion shortly after board of supervisors are convening hybrid meaning allowing in person and Public Comment and remote comment via phone the board recognizes that Public Access is essential and will take Public Comment first on each item on the agenda. Those in person the be allowed speak first then those who are waiting on the phone line. For those watching channel 26, 28, 78 or 99 and sfgov. Org the phone number is streaming on the bottom of the stream it is 4156550001 again 4156550001. Enter the id access code 2484 459 2786 and press pound and pound again. When connected you will hear the discussion but muted and in listening mode only. When your item come up and the Public Comment is called those in person line up to speak along the wall. To your right, my left and those on the phone dial star 3 be add if you are on your phone turn down your tv and listening devices you have been using. We will take Public Comment from those in person first. And then go to our Public Comment phone line. You may submit comment in writing in either of the 2 ways e mail them to myself the Public Safety and negotianted Service Clerk stefani. Gov sfgov. Org or via e mail tell be added to the record. You may send written comments Via Postal Service to city hall 1 doctor color ton b. Goodlet place. Finally items acted upon will appear on the agenda of october 18th unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Chair. Thank you. Call item one. Hearing to consider the transfer for type 48 on sale general Liquor License convert friday type 47 on sale general for bobified eating place Liquor License to Connor Murphy llc at murphys pub in district 3 tell serve the county of San Francisco. Member who is wish to comment on this item call 4156550001 enter access code 2484 459 2786. Please dial star 3 to lineup to speak. The prompt will indicate you raised your hand. You may begin your comments when we go to Public Comment. Thank you. Welcome officer the sfpd to present. Officer . Thank you. Do we have a representative from murphys pub . Perhaps on the line . Apologize. Do we have a representative from murphys pub . The Liquor License transfer on the line who would like to speak . Locate them they should be joining virtual today. I see john murphy online. Hi im john murphy can you hear mow . Yea. We can hear you mr. Murphy. Thank you. I was not able to hear the officer could you reiterate when he said. Yea i think the officer reported from the sfpd hayea that recommending approval of the license transfer and yea. Fine. I upon dont have comment, thank you. Yea. You dont have to mr. Murphy you could just take the opportunity to describe the why you are seeking this Liquor License transfer for the record. Just for the record. Downtown business got slow. And serve food it has been cost prohibitive for us we can serve liquor like the other establishments on our block, we feel we have a chance to be competitive. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Murphy for your service to the community and adapting to the new conditions caused by the pandemic. Thank you. Why dont we go to. We appreciate it, thank you very much. Why go to public ment on this item. Thank you, mr. Chair. Members who would like to make Public Comment for item one lineup on the wall to your right. Remote call in members press star 3 to be added to the queue. No people that would like to speak we will move to remote. There are zero listeners and zero in the queue. Public comment is closed. I understand that supervisor peskin is supportive of this license transfer. Given that i am make a motion to directing the clerk to prepare a resolution determining this this license will serve the public convenience necessity. In that we send the resolution forward to the board with a positive recommendation as a committee report. Madam clerk. Vice chair stefani. Aye. Member melgar. Aye. Gordon mar. Aye. Thank you, there are 3 ayes. This item will be sent to the board with a positive recommendation. Thank you mr. Murphy. Can you call item 2 . Item 2 a hearing to consider the premise to premise person to person transfer the double transfer for a type 57 special on sale general beer, wine and spirits Liquor License to expensify to do expensify lounge on 88 kearny street in district 3 will serve the necessity of the city of San Francisco. Members if you wish to provide comment call 4156550001 then access code 2484 459 2786. If you have not done so dial star 3 to lineup to speak the system the prompt you raised your hand wait until you have been unmuted then you may begin your comments. And officer, can you present on this item as well. Operate a special on sale general premise zer over letters of protest and zero letters of support it is high crime area census track 117 high saturation area. 7 ral station has no opposition and recommends approval. Thank you, officer. Do we have a representative from expensify lounge here . Yea. Rebecca white on behalf of expensify. Good morning. Would you like to speak about this Liquor License transfer . Sure. So. Expensify is going to be putting together lounge for its members. Alcohol is incidental to the lounge experience. It is mainly intended to bring people together downtown. And you know have a work space where they can meet. And socialize and there will be Alcohol Service between 8 a. M. To 6 p. M. Mondayfriday. Great. Thank you. This sounds like a good wonderful addition to the yea. The operation there. Um go to Public Comment. Thank you, mr. Chair. Members who would like to comment on item 2 lineup to the right. Remote call in members press story 3 to be added to the queue. Continue to wait until you have been unmuted. No people in Public Comment in chambers i will go to the line. Wherevero call and zero in the queue. Public comment is closed. And i understand that supervisor peskin is supportive of this license transfer. So given that i will make a motion directing the clerk to prepare resolution determining that this license will serve the public convenience and necessity and that we send this forward to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report. Madam clerk. Vice chair stefani. Aye. Member melgar. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. There are three ayes. Okay. This will be sent at this time full board with positive recommend agsz as a committee report. Call the third Liquor License item 3. Item 3 a hear to consider the person to person premise po premise transfer beer and Liquor License save mart, 3801, third street in district 10 will service the necessity of the city of San Francisco. Members who wish to comment on this item call 4156550001 then access code 2484 459 2786. If you have in the done so dial star 3. To lineup to speak the system the indicate you raised your hand. Wait until you have been unmuted then you can begin to comment. Officer, please report on this as well. Okay. Save mart apply for type 20 license allow them to operate off sale beer and wine premise zero letters of protest. 2 letters of support. They are plot 338 considered low crime inform census track 612, high saturation. No opposition and alcohol liaison unit recommends approval on one condition monitored under control to prevent loitering persons adjacent on abc 253. Thank you, officer. So this is will be a new lucky market open nothing bayview. Yea. Move in the location there was a wall greens there. New super market to the area. That is great news. Is there a representative from lucky or save mart here that would like to speak about the Liquor License . Permit . Good morning, this is reggie. The new store manager for lucky bay vow to talk on behalf of save mart. Hi, thank you for being here and really exciting news that luck seopen nothing bayview. Actually the market i wanted add is my go to market i live close to that one. Really glad to see you are serving bayview community. Would you like to speak about the Liquor License transfer application . Sufrm definitely. Talk to you about our new store and the bayview plaza. Lucky bayview will offer a full Service Grocery store. And that our customersment and need and deserve. Feature a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, cheese, meat, poultry and all the basics. Want our customers to have the full venals of also purchasing alcohol who i in our store to get that full experience on having a full store grocery store. And made a commitment to hire from the community and actually have over 90 employees from district 10 so far. We are committed to reflecting the community and partnered with a lot of several of our local vendors like coffee and [inaudible] and we look forward to serving the community beginning the end of this month on october 26. Thank you. And thanks to save mart and lucky for serving the community. Why dont we go to Public Comment. Thank you, members of the public who would like to comment for item 3, lineup along the wall to your right. Remote call in members press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on holds wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. No people in chambers for comment. Move to the phone lines there are zero listeners and zero in the queue. Public comment is closed. I understand that supervisor walton is supportive had this license transfer i will make a motion directing the clerk to prepare a resolution determine thanksgiving the serve the public convenience and necessity and send it forward with positive recommend agsz as a committee report. Vice chair steph no aye. Member melgar. Aye chair mar. Aye. There are 3 ayes. Great. Thank you officer. And is can you call item 4. Will a hearing on the state of Traffic Enforcement and Street Safety in San Francisco and requesting the Police Department and Municipal Transportation Agency to report. Members of the public should call 4156550001 then access code 2484 459 2786. Then pound and pound again. If you have in the done so dial star 3 to speak. The system will indicate you raised your hand. Wait until you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments when we go to Public Comments. Thank you. And welcome supervisor mandelman for joining us and sponsoring this hearing. We have been frustrated with the lack of Real Progress to meet vision zero goals and continuing traffic fatalities and that happened in our streets every year. Thank you very much and the floor is yours. Thank you chair mar and clothes for accommodate thanksgiving hearing which is important to all of us in all districts. I called for this hear nothing light of new data showing San Francisco is failing to make progress on vision zero goal to e eliminate traffic deaths lie 2024. The city adopted vision zero in 2014 and set a bold vision to e eliminate traffic deaths by 2024. And committed city resources to build better and safer streets. Educate on Traffic Safety, enforce laws and adopt policy changes. We are down to 18 months left until the conclusion of this 10 year period and unfortunately it is hard to see meaningful progress toward the goal that is despite tense of millions of dollars of Infrastructure Investments that we would have hoped would have made our roads Sexual Harassment according to the year ends report, according to the year ends a according to the year ends report,f according to the year ends e according to the year ends r according to the year ends report, San Francisco saw 27 deaths they are 10 prz decrease since 2020 remain the average of 28. Since implement in 2014. And even more concerning is that 2022 is now on track to potential low the deadliest year on San Francisco streets since the Vision Zero Program began. Seems there has been a missing element from this conversation for several years. Which is Traffic Enforcement. At a time when San Francisco is failing to meet the gospel limiting traffic deaths it seems we have given up on enforce am of our existing traffic laws. Sfpd writing 10 citations per day city wide compared to seventyfour per day in 2019 down a good bit from over the prior decade. That statistic was reported by the chronicle. And featured an analysis of every traffic citation issued by sfpd the past 4 and a half years conducted boy 2 Community Members and add have indicates we will hear from in a few minutes thanks for their work. I believe the city can and should be doing more to enforce existing traffic lus that promote safety. I think that is all the more important upon given the voters rejection of prop a in june. Which was 400 know Million Dollars bonds that include investment in Traffic Safety infrastructure. Bhooil while we will continue to fund vision zero and safe streets infrastructure using the Transportation Authoritys sale tax proceeds the Infrastructure Investments alone will not be enough if people are going to routinely run relates or drive 10 miles over the speed limit with no consequence. As i noted, sudden fran Police Department citations plummeted even for speeding or running a red light. Related low on the mt aside of the house, i think many people in San Francisco are increaseingly or frustrated and increaseingly frustrated had, peers to be a lack of enforcement of nonmoving violations like double park nothing bike lanes and under mine our transit first policies like parking in red lanes. My hope todays hearing will be an town to start a conversation with the Police Department and mta what need to be removed to begin effective enforcement of moving and parking violations that pose a risk to cyclists and pedestrians on our streets. I said, we will hear a short presentation from the 2 communities advocates know steven and luke who recently published the analysis i mentioned and from sfpd on the work the departments traffic enforce am work the department does nonTraffic Enforcement and the mtas parking Traffic Division about efforts to address parking problems like obstructing bus and bike lanes. So, first up supervisor mandelman. Thank you. Supervisor melgar. Thank you supervisor mandelman for calling for this hearing. I appreciate that we are talking about these issues. So district 7, i represent have the poorest infrastructure for pedestrians and bicycles. And now i think the poorest enforcement with district 4. We are more out of the way. And there are 2 neighborhoodings where we have seen just terrible safety issues had is sunny side and golden gate heights. Both are very hilly. Folks cut through at great speed and there is not the infrastructure physically to product people and no enforcement. We have seen a lot of close calls and myself i was riding my bike and someone republican a red light in front of plea i came within 5 inches. Being hit and screamd and she ran the next stop light. I let out a scream a couple seconds later. I was shocked. This is on a slow street. And i im wondering 2 things, one, had is the relationship between staffing the sfpd and traffic enforce and want whether there is a relationship. And when we can hope to rekt foil that for the moving violations and for the nonmoving violations, it frustrates mow we seen a rise in the population of folks living in vehicles. We do need to have a proactive pop3 that provides Real Solutions for folks. But that is not what should stop us from enforcing everything else. Which is seems like that is happening. We are not enforcing we have one subfaction of the population we want to create solutions for. And i want to see that actually happen. And the third thing i would like to hear is how the infrastructure that the mta is building out for pedestrian and bicycle safety. How is that time line connected to our Climate Action goals. Because every time that i bring up the subject, it seem it is like it is opportunity driven. We have an opportunity top have a bike lane rather than, no we have the goals and the time line and we will get it done. Day before yesterday i rhode my bike from my house in engleside to china deys basin. It was scary. There are several freeway under passes in place its disappear and you are in the freeway. It terrible we dont have thought out connections we know we need to be and seems like we could have a time line and goal and know where folk who is are crossing the street ends to be at risk i would like a connection between the policies of the department of the environment, of everything else. So we are all on the same page. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman, i hope that we can get answer in this hearing and i will be on the same page of thank you, chair mar. All right. You have a presentation. We do. Do i put my computer whats the protocol . Thats okay . It the show up to your right. Okay. The delay you see it . Okay. Thank you. Thank you all, first wanted to thank supervisor mandelman for calling on this hearing and chair mar and stefani and melgar you care dopely about peoples safety on our streets. First of all, thank you for that. As you know, im luke and i will hand it off to steven now. Hello, good morning. Thank you im steven brach San Francisco resident im a data analyst passionate by safe streets and bicycle and Pedestrian Safety. Why are we here . Since the city signed vision zero we lost 240 people to traffic violence. 26,000 people have been injured by Motor Vehicles on streets since 2014 and census data 50 of the residents dont own a car or cannot drive. The captions are covering about i think every 3. 7 hours a crash happens and results in injury and lose a person every 13 days. So, in may, i requested data from the city and received 64, 2 huh human violations that go back to september of 2017. Well look at the past 18 months. A time line below you review how we got the data and how we got to the hearing today. So, currently, we are sfpd writing 10 citations per day we saw in the chronicle we said the data over the past 18 months on average it is 19 per day down from supervisor mandelman noted 74 in 2017 i think it was. Of those citations being written, 43 are focusing on the 5 most dangerous violations that result in injury, speeding, rung relates. Failure to yield to pedestrian in crosswalks. Where i believe there is an established goal of 50 we are not even hitting that. Within our Equity Priority Community the neighborhoods and areas of the city that have our vulnerable residents, 20 of citation activity is on the 5, means that the sfpd is dispropotionately are arlingtoning residents in most vulnerable communities for tail lights and they should you believe focused on speeding and actions resulting in physical injury. Of all the violations written, the past 18 months 60 on High Injury Network. 80 is streets or 13 of streets result in 80 percent of this is an area that should be focussed on. On the streets resulting in crashes and personal injury. And only 60 of all citations the past 18 monthsor High Injury Network. When you merry the 5 violations dangerous driving behaviors result nothing physical injury and High Injury Network 18 of all citations on High Injury Network for the 5. That it is a big problem in our ice. We make a recommendation we will talk to in a moment having enforce am focusing on the 5 most deadly violations committed by drivers. And lastly, we are working on an audit of mta parking. Over the past 18 years box to 2004 the data set of 20 million parking citations that will come out later this year and will share more about that. I will hand it become to luke to talk about recommendations. Thank you. Steven. Next slide. We wanted to touch upon a few areas of recommendations to call out at a high level. The infrastructure data and transparency and enforcement. As you all know and talked about many times around the world, infrastructure is the most effective way to stop people from getting killed seriously injured on streets. So, we need to ramp that up while also increasing transparency and dast around things like what steven shun shine said we can create this and we will talk about enforcement. So regarding infrastructure, we again the most effective tool we have is infrastructure. And so we need to both increase funding and staffing there to make those projects happen sooner. We need to be reducing process and stream lining the press to get them in the grounds, often we see Street Safety improvements stopped because a person complains about a parking spot they are losing or unfounded fears that congestion we happen and we and mta knows will not happen. Mta level we need funding for that and red light cameras. From the board as well as the mayor and state representatives, we need to see full support so when that one person complains about the on Street Parking spot, we move the projects forward. And we work to stream line the process so people are made more safe on our streets. Regarding data and transparency at a high level, this analysis would not be possible without steven and the data that he collected. Getting that data is hard now. Steven who want to help the city and make people safer in the city, have to dig through data or sunshine data from different departments. So, at a high level we would love to see all of the data currently collected by the agencies up loaded to data sf and agencies Work Together to make all of these piece of data aline so that people like steven can analyze it and create visualizations and help our agencies and city move forward to making streets safer. And finally on enforcement, you know there are tools right now in resources you in this we have that can make our streets safer. For mta they have red light cameras as well as ones used to Issue Citations for parking. Right now, we rely heavily on parking control officers to hand the ticket to somebody had they are issuing a ticket, which creates you know a hurdle where someone does in the want to issue a ticket as stein was experienced on valencia, pc o is concerned about someone carrying a gun in their car. And so we have tools for mta to use, cameras, on the pd side as steven talked about in the research and analysis, we know where our most dangerous streets are, where people get hurt most often and had violations most severe low impact peoples safety. What we want to see is pd use the resources they have. Which have in the changed much since 2019 and before. To actually enforce, focus on the 5 violations on High Injury Network. We believe doing that and for a set period. Time Going Forward will hopeful make our streets safer and see is this changing the reality on the grounds is focusing on the 5 and High Injury Network make it safer and reduce serious injuries. The combination of those together would be outstanding. And finally for the board, and state representatives, both working to get automated Speed Enforcement the state level for a pilot. And working with representatives and advocates around the state on legislation for unarmed Traffic Enforcement. So there are others in the state working on this for a possible pilot legislation. And so it would be great to see that we know that often times the traffic stops things get deadly or severely injured people result from a traffic stop. So, next slide. Thank you all so much again for your time. And your energy and your attention on this. This issue. If you have questions we are happy to answer them. Um i will start. I want to thank you both for all of the work that you have put in this. I am intrigued. It luxury like something looking at slide 6 and 7. I think, if you have not sent those to my colleagues, i bet they would love them and the clerk for the file, anyway. But approximate terrible low there is a positive trend may be . In 6 and 7 . Where because that 43 number would be much lower, i think, if in the for the last for4 or 5 months of enforcement. May be there is some i can ask pd, there might have been upon some increase there in focus on the 5 . We will ask them. I dont know if you have thoughts rather than speculate why we ask this data made available weekly we would have the answer. All we have now is did thea through the end of may 23 arerd now it is october. Got it. I think the other thing to point out is at a total level of citations, they are you cited, 7410 over the 3 years, looking at other data yesterday from pd city wide, twenty 19 to the past 6 months. Anual for this year down 90 on traffic citations. The focus on the 5 percent may be hire in total what people know on our street system that the traffic laws are not being enforced. Thats why you see people driving dangerously in addition to the fact the infrastructure and street design encourages that driving. People know it even if they dont know the numbers. Total number on the 5 citations is dramaticly low. Right. The other more sort of also a00ue said we have infrastructure the met important thing you can do about to reduce traffic fatalities and injuries. I agree and clothes are and thats why we appropriated money over this period for a variety of Pedestrian Safety improvements. Seems like our roads are chopped up to do new things that will make the streets safer. What is somewhat troubling for that is that the data seems so seems to suggest no relationship between the investments we made and improvement and i think we will hear later that is not the case but im curious aboutior thoughts or is it that we have improved except our lack near lack of enforcement swamped what gains we might have gains around infrastructure. If we held enforcement steady at 2014 levels would be in a dramaticically situation because of the enforce am we have done. I believe that infrastructure is the most effective tool we can use. I think that what we have seen at a microand macro level that efforts to make our streets safer get bogged down in process. Get bogged down in public hearings about a single parking spot going, way or day lighting area. We see a lot of bogging down of that and a lot of watering down from like one person complaining on a parking spot or it will cause congestion with no data to become that up or more often inner agency level the Fire Department opposing Street Safety improvements we get projects that are watered down. A bike lane or a pedestrian improvement that is not as effective as it could be because someone was concerned about change. People dont like change whether the Fire Department or a single neighbor. That results in projects not moving forward as fast as we need them or as effective as they could with. I would like to add we are interested in the correlation with mta and pd efforts and how it impacts Street Safety and the metric we use is from d ph. They have pushed all their data going become to 2012 or 11. On to data sf, you in i have it available. It is quarter low but a rich data set. We will look at slow streets and one of our big infrastructure efforts, obviously. And looking at how crashes reduced on slow streets because of the infrastructure upgrades made there and we will have that later this year or early next. I dont have further questions for you. I dont know if my colleagues do. Thank you supervisor mandelman i have a follow up question you know you guys know better than anyone during the pandemic we took bold steps in the city to try out pilot new ways to make our streets safer for pedestrians and bicyclists and in my district there was significant and bold changes the great highway, obviously and the slow streets. We had the most blocks or miamis of slow street in district 4 of any district. And i guess, you know, thank you for both of you. All of the advocates for pushing for these yea new slow street in our city. I had a follow up question how it the enforcement or your thoughts about enforcement or lack of enforcement from the infrastructure changes that happened that in district 4 for the slow streets, there was zero enforcement. And even had the great highway has been closed, that lead to cut through traffic on residential streets and outer sunset. There was increased enforcement on low great highway we saw but over all, there was minimal if any enforcement. That is counter productive to the goals of the efforts wanted your thoughts and how it is importance of combining enforcement with infrastructure. It is what is the right ratio temperature is in the a blanket number tell fluctuate. Witness we assess what the impact of slow streets infrastructure changes had on crash data we are looking how many were before slow streets went in. And how they are now and give the efficacy of the infrastructure changes. Men there is none but we are looking into that. And additional low, looking how many tickets were written on the corridor [inaudible] and what is the efficacy or. Enforcement to impact the number of crashes. Crashes is the data set we have that shows where people were injured or hurt there is location and time and date stamps. That it is a lot of work but thats what we are trying to do. We believe if you make infrastructure decision and enforce am decision should be based on did thea we have available from the department of Public Health. This is a rich data set. We like to see it updated more and im not clear what the bottle necks are to resolving that. But we have more work coming. Hopeful low as we continue the conversation we will have higher fidelity to make better decisions. You mentioned slow streets. Bike lanes are an example where too often we see half measures for infrastructure. And obviously the pandemic had a lot of affects and mta has funding and resource constraints. Specifically with slow streets the infrastructure was temporary sine signage that did not self enforce the design that made people obey the rules, do not drive through this street. In the sunset people drive on the streets but lake street as well. Anyone who wants to drive around the signs they do it there is nothing stopping them. Enforcement could help. Half measures infrastructure is hayou get. A good example of lack of Political Support is lake street a proposal to have traffic diverters put in and they were ripped out of that proposal. Due to like lack of Political Support. So i think it is a 2 part thing of mta proposing full measures that self enforce the upon design. And then backing thatum with Political Support this says, we are going to do this. This is good and might scare people and change and like you know. The planet is burning we need to do something. So, we need to make is safer to get around outside of a car. I will you know a lot what motivate third degree w is provide with tools and go out public low and make the decisions if you go out to constituents and have solid did the that show this is should happen, we are hopeful this the support you to all the push back you get from people who dont want to see change. Data informs the decisions. Thank you very much. And yea. Can you go over what the 5 are . You said 3 of the 5. Sure. It is speeding running relates. Failure to yield to pedestrian in crosswalks and failure to yield to opposing traffic and stop signs. Thank you. Thank you. And im wondering if, if you have compared us on both of the things infrastructure and enforcement to other cities around us there are city nas do more enforce and want infrastructure that is berkeley almeida has better infrastructure for both bicyclists and pedestrians. And if there is a relationship with the out come based on the investment of either. Gi wish we had this. If i did this full time wield, we are volunteers we do this on our spare time we look at Data Available in San Francisco but what is happening across the bay and how decision in oak lands and berkeley influence the safety on streets and that is something we can reference the problem the data in San Francisco is not unique around Traffic Safety this is a global issue not just a bay area issue. I would add that you know i will get become to you on data from around the world as well. We know from other countries succeeded reducing pedestrian and deaths of people riding bikes, that product does at this time nether lands did not get their by having cops they do have enforce. They use mostly automated but infrastructure does the trip. There are cities in the u. S. Like cambridge, massachusetts that infrastructure and stream lined improvements. Of course. It is just politically it is easier when you look over your neighbor across the bay. They have been able to pull it off in a similar setting so thank you. I there is a case study in new jersey they gone 4 or 5 years without a single fatality. It is 1 area mile but dense. They achieved that because of infrastructure improvements. While we might not have great examples in the bay area i think this is i see this as an opportunity for our city to lead on being the city that does this so that others will want to. We do have great examples. This is why im asking for data anybody who has had a kid play on the street in beshg low most of the residential areaers like physically you cant get through or almeida, where there is a bike lane on every like street and 25 Miles Per Hour speed limit every where. There, like we have the examples. And you know it is frustrating how come we have not been able to do the same . It would be helpful. I hear you. We will figure it out. I will if i may, i will addon that i think a lot of people who oppose the changes approximate improvements in the city refute data. We have seen this of the great highway people make up collisions happening that were not happening. We will w on getting you the data and i will western that you the people who oppose these may not want to listen to that data. There are people who claim there is no climate crisis, too. Yea. Political reality. Supervisor stefani. Thank you chair mar, thank you for your presentation and your concern about this. Im concern body it and have served on vision zero. I agree with you on the lack of infrastructure and the we need to invest in that. Red light cameras i talk about that when we have the mta in front and the subject matter we have 8 red light cameras that need to be installed. I have been asking for more in district 2. And obviously i think all of us want to see automated Speed Enforcement that has to get passed at the state. What im concerned about is am the idea resources have not changed in the Police Department and that more Police Officers were not help the situation. And i know that since 2019, we are staph beingful level the lowest in 30 years. On chief scott based on will way we decide how many we need. And when we hear from chief scott the inspect analysis in march of 2020300 Police Officers short based on demands for service now that increased based on retirement. The fact that we have less Police Officers in Traffic Enforcement to me is significant. And is something that seriously. There is an idea that even though there is a significant can reduction in Traffic Enforcement that the police are in the doing their jobs. Im sure there are incidents that but when we know is that there are significant decrease in traffic officers. So even so that 23 years ago supervisor mandelman demanded we increase the amount traffic receives to address this issue and to focus on the 5. We agreed at the time and something we agreed this is something we need to increase our number of our traffic officers to enforce the laws on the books. We know the police other only 1s that enforce the moving violations. Im looking forward to hearing if the Police Department on this issue. I do believe it is significant we dont have enough receives to do the work we are asking them to do. I do believe they will be effective in doing that work. Also the idea of unarmed Traffic Enforcement. And may be it is my bias and work in gun violence prevention that does not seem like a good idea. I know beshg low is looking at it there is a lack of existing models. And to talk about it is fine but there is currently no civilian traffic in the u. S. Because when you look at gun violence in the country and look at the amount of road rage increased in just the last 4 years. It is terrifying the idea of someone a civilian unarmd and i hate guns pulling over machine who is poeding or acting in a way we find inpromote. Does not make sense to me. And i know this this is the nation of wash and guns. With the Supreme Court hearing that knocked our ability in california to prevent people from carrying guns is concerning to me. The idea we will have civilians take the place of Police Officers, in this type of in this area of Traffic Enforcement concerns me greatly. I dont want to place stock in our ability go town that Road National model and we know the stats and the road i want us to have an open mind from the Police Department about what their struggles near terms of staffing what is required of traffic officers and try not to jump to the conclusion i think a lot of people do they are not doing their jobs. Because i dont believe that to be true. So, i know that you it concerns me great low i have a 17 year old son and 13 year old daughter who take Public Transportation and the idea of us not invest nothing our police force to combat the bad driving that i see. A teacher killed why . Someone republican a red light. Not because of infrastructure or roads someone made a bad decision to run a red light and killed someone. And if we dont have people enforcing those laws, and letting people know if you speed in San Francisco you will get a ticket. If you continue to turn on a right or violate the five that we look at, you will be caught. In all the neighborhoods. I agree with you on the disprosecute portionate focus. And we need to be of course enforce it. But i want everyone to have an open mind when chief scott come up and says we are 500 officers short and we than per 10,000 residents in san front we have 22 officers new york they have 42 and washington they have 61. That is an issue of great concern to many people in my district. And we will hear from commands are walsh but the idea that more cop system not the answer for me is it is a little seems to be naive. I wanted to say that because i know this is something that has been said. I read it in the article. And i want to solve this problem i want to make our streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists and everybody. If we close our minds to the fact that we do actually need more officers based on the objective did thea that we are upon shown. We will do everyone a disservice. Am can i respond . Upon one way that would help us and the public understand wlo they are doing job system give us badge numbers. If we got 50 people in Traffic Company and badge nshs writing one ticket every dwo weeks that may be a problem. If they are assigned enforcing laws. If we have a badge writing 80 of the tickets each day that person is over stretched. We dont have the badge numbers that connect become to individuals. If provided we give you an assess am who is doing hawhere and who is in the doing enough commander walsh will have a chance to respond. I will add yesterday i was look at pd data around vision zero through the ends of john this year and their data nonTraffic Company officers the traffic citations they issue have dropped about 90 in 2019. I, too, if curious why that is. Why nontraffic Traffic Company has other jobs. But like nonTraffic Company officers used to Issue Citations regular low they almost disappeared. I am curious and i talk to many in the public who are curious, why is that . I had people say, was there a memo to stop traffic citations. Im very curious and im interested to hearing. And you know, im open mindsed this and ultimately want our streets to be safer. I believe in infrastructure is the way to do that. I than enforcement is an important part to have involved in interim or another. Thank you. Surprise mandelman before i give it to you for the hearing i did again want to thank steven and luke for all of your really thoughtful, dedicated work and activism around the issues to create safer street in our city. And i think this discussion at this hearing i wanted bring it become for mow, it highlights the need for better planning on how we create safer street in our city and really achieve our vision zero goals this includes a better design on traffic calming and diversion. On designated streets and better infrastructure and design. Also how that needs to be paired with better planning around Traffic Enforcement to ensure that designated streets and surrounding streets are safer and in instead of more dangerous. And i do think that slow streets experience and work is has been helpful in seeing how we can implement effective changes to our streets and ensure safety and highlights the i feel the lack of effective design on the slow streets the way they were created and the lack of thought around Traffic Enforcement as well. We saw that play out in my district in district 4 i think the slow streets were not very effective and not effective toward the goals and not utilizeed the extent i think that they were ensuspicions to be. We have the opportunity to draw on the messons and as we move ahead with sunset neighbor ways in district 4 that are will be prioritized for walking and biking. And both to robust input and Community Input on the design and need to make sure we also plan for Traffic Enforcement as well for the sun set neighbor ways we are working with you and otheros that. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you for the work and the presentation. The discussion between our presenters and supervisor stefani is interesting to me. Ip tends to agree with supervisor stefani that we are short on Police Officers within our Police Department that we were on the order of 500 short at this point it is projected grow. We are losing more than recruiting. And so there is a host of challenges around that, i am curious. Will be having command are walsh in a second. Im im curious how much of this can be explained by that. The desideline in Traffic Enforcement. In the 40s may be. But the decline in enforcement seems greater than the decline in traffic now i imagine stories that were related if we were relying on outside officers doing enforcement and now that is on the way side people are trying to get the priority a call. May be that is the explanation. Im curious to hear that and whether this is that impacts our ability to do something about this. If a matter of getting 10 more officer in Traffic Company this is easier if it is about we need 600 more officers on the force that is a critical prior but a harder problem to solve that is like speculation from another supervisor. Thank you and lets bring commands are walsh up. Thank you very much. Good morning i appreciate graphs and maps you will see what City Contracting does. A pitch for the budget coming up. Im here tortalk about safe streets and d ph and mta in this it it is a multidisciplined group when we talk about vision zero. And if we go to the next slide. Next slide. Thank you. This is a quick break down of the strategy im sure the 4 parts you see are education, enforcement and engineering. Engineering and evaluation fall on mta how they take the data and where incidents happen. We are partners with mta in the education part from where we pushed out all the information on some of the streets down to 20. Started from 25 Miles Per Hour to 20. That took place in the tenderloin and spread out to districts throughout the city. We work with mta on getting that information out whether in hundred outs or social modia, et cetera. What other part of education, which i will get to when we talk about sites that does not a pore in statistics and something we work on. You have more stops throughout the city. Than citations. And lastly is enforce am. And when you take a look at the picture. You see it well is a radar but these are multiofficer type operations that are asked for. When i get in staffing you see huwe run the operations in a directed fashion. And then we have to spread them out throughout the city because we get calls from all your offices from all your constituent and merchance groups, there are issues inthos outside of a high injury net w or outside of vision zero type effort. Okay. Enforcement, so, enforce am went Traffic Division does include vision zero and other type of citations. We also have to grapple with side shows or from our stunt driving unit and follow up investigations. We also do collisions. So most of the most we dont run 2 shifts a day watch and swing watch of fatal fist it happens after a certain time they are done by accident trained receives in the district stations. All of our time is not always focused on Traffic Enforcement. It is an umbrella. So, this is the over liof the vision zero. Severe and fatal High Injury Networks. I will story with the map on the left. With those are the areas that vision zero pointed out in 2017. And i wish we had the over lay of the communities that are affected by this in the last presentation. If you look you see mostly the tenderloin. It is headed toward the freeway and cutting across the city. As you get, way from that financial tenderloin district and this south of market area, it is dispursed. In those areas. So we try to concentrate on the areas downtown, which really most low the heavier areas where the violations take part. Just for a note the circles are from you see 2014 through 2021, they represent those areas of the severe and fatal injuries within them for all of those years. You new to the right, you will see the heat map the darker the red is where more collisions happen. And those numbers in the areas core respond to the heat maps. So here is our Department Wide Traffic Violation and focus on the 5 violation totals. You will see absolutely they completely gone down since 2014 and 15. There is a confluence it is not a simple answer temperature is heard for me or anyone to prove a negative. What i like to put out there so everybody realizes in 2015, we had ferguson, a lot of people remember the shooting of Michael Brown when they dont realize hat federal government came in to do was to look at the traffic citations and the despairivities included in ferguson it was then put under a watch by the federal government and a lot of Traffic Enforcement wents by the way side. Again that is anecdotal. I cant tell you thats why. If you watch the decrease stories from 2015 we hit 2018, then the state of california watched with a thousand or more officers ripa the racial identity and policing act, it is where it not only in every stop i write you a ticket for that violation now i get your demographic information and put nothing my perceptions of that inneraction and who you are. Talking about whether or not i cited you. Arrested you, towed your car a myriad of things. That in itself added extra time to traffic stops and more work. You are not just getting the officers start to put this data inform thats totally fine and thats where we see are we doing our job. Where are the problems how can we avoid them and mitigate them and to that point. As you condition to go down. Nobody is driving, covid hit and we are not enforcing a lot of things let alone traffic in 2021 has in the rebounded at this point. So, again, one thing and gwen this is anecdotal in talking to the travel officers i have my rep with, they other high lite trainod using all of these devices. I forgot to mention 201617 body cameras come out we odd on another. The officer who is do tht most are on average saying their stops last 20 to 30 minute for one traffic stop. You have 5 to 10 admissibilityos writing a ticket. Five10 on entering data and you have to tag your body camera to that system so your body camera is now connected to that. Can be done in the field. Some save the 2 data pointses after the ticket. And bring everything back and do it in the last hour of shifts and fill out that data had they get back. Next slide. So. The percentages for the department, again, the numbers are down. The percentage of 5 is higher. And our commitment from focus on the 5 has been 50 . Thats the break down per year. For over all department in the just traffic. So, this is the fatalities by mode. Pedestrian, vehicle, motorcycle and bicycle. So, well is a discrepancy when you see fatalities for a year if they dont fall in the 5 categories stop signs, relates and et cetera, tiare in the vision zero. So, we do have fatalities that are solo. On the stats if you go to the vision zero wieks you will see no bicycle fatality we have one the person hit an object in the roadway and fell off their bicycle and passed. So when we talk about a lot of the fatalities here these other fatalities that go up and down. Our stat this is year include a sail boating collision. My Office Investigates this. So it is in the i great number but something should be aware of. Next slide. Okay. Injuries. Injuries by collision. Um this takes everything from a fatality you see the top numbers on each to if you were involved in a fender bender somebody at 5 Miles Per Hour refer ended your vehicle and you windsum complaining of pain neck and back. They are all the numbers that get tossed out in this and for sfpd reporting and what d ph has done the left year we dont see every injury collision. If you have a solo bicyclist or you have a solo person on a motor scooter they migo to the emergency room. California law or the vac code, they may have been involved in a vehicle collision. So we changed our policies several years ago we were having issues with solo bicycle collisions i person was injured on that and officers at first were not sure if they take those. Bicycles and vehicle in thes vehicle code we switchd that up and they are included but we miss a significant, a number that d ph puts out that is in the in our data we take injury collisions in our data. These other victim, who was injured. Met low it is drivers. This is the gammet of injury. From know pain up to fatalities. Our big issue is pedestrians, which i know does not which is not easily seen here. Had you go to august of vision zero fatalities killed by walking is 11 year to date total. Last year 10 and 2020 it was 8. The last time it was this highway in 2019 it was 15 at the end of august of 22. So vision zero this year is 21 fatalities end of august of 21. And that is only below 2019 which had 23. Sorry, is that pie chart cumulative over time ownership the last year . That is i believe is cumulative 2014 to 21. Is the other category scooters . I will go back. Go back to slide 8. No thats fine. Pie chart looks like others is agreeing and assuming that is scooters. This so00 autoway they are put in now for data purposes is they are called. I will get this right. Stand up power device that covers from the unicycles or motorized all the way to scooters that are. Power that looks like more than 2 in 2021. I have vision zero in front of me for 21. They had one year to date and it was through august this year we had 3. But the other on this, i apologize i should have had a better definition im not sure if this includes nonmotorized scooter also. Thank you. And just as a note going to vision zero and manage expectations i said this left night at the Police Commission and not in any way faulting of a person who passed but using what happened to illustrate that the difficulties in achieing this goal 2 of the 3 stands up fatalities the people running a red light and contacting one was a garbage truck and the other was sfmta vehicle. The education component is going to be billing one of again going become to earlier establishment. The things we get criticized for is stopping somebody on a motorized power device or bicycle, et cetera. But there are issues that need to be addressed. Im not saying we need to site bicycle and do all that but there is an education component a Police Officer has this conversation or it is noted. It is probably something we do aggressively with the bike coalition. To get this information out that hay, there are sometimes repercussions for you even when than i are not your fault. Not blaming the bicyclist but a component that has been over look immediate this and that is also on the Police Departments part. But it is something this needs to be addressed. Slide 10. So this is the over all staffing. Of the sfpd and so all those numbers when you look at the entire department includes the chief, all the way down. It is in the broken up by patrol, not broken up by investigations. Administration, or the marine unit or tactical teams, et cetera. Those are whom numbers of all ranks in the department. Had i want to do is concentrate on traffic. Which you will see on the bottom right of 21 is 50. If i could go through some of the issues that face when we look at whole numbers. So in 2019, the Traffic Company had 5 squads of traffic officers divide up 3 on day watch. Over lapped throughout the week. That is a 6 a. M. To 4 p. M. Shift. The 3 watches over lap through the week. 2 more on swings a total of 5 squads. That number was 7 sergeants and 45 im leaving lieutenant and the captain out. They do write tickets but not to the numbers of sergeants and patrol or officers on motorcycles. Within that same year 2 additional swauds vision zero designated. They had no other duties but pursue vision zero citations 2 squads split apart. All they did did in the handle collisions, rare leave volve in the motorcaded or other issues. 20 between our numbers stilled the same. 5 squads dropped from 5 averages to 7 and 35 receives for enforcement maintained the vision zero squads they dropped 22 in 5 sergeants and officers. 2021 we get decimated. From 5 squads down to 4 squads. With one in 15 split between the week and one in 14 on swings with zero vision zero squads they do everything Traffic Enforcement does. Side shows. Collisions, high visibility enforcement. We are in the tenderloin in the mornings and afternoon for safe schools and walking the kids the motorcycles are visible they are easier to get around in traffic. When we had shootings in engle side last month Traffic Company was deployed Law Enforcement officers on geneva in the areas around where the shootings took place. Their folk susnot only on traffic. As the Department Staffing goes down, everybody is tasked to do more jobs outside their normal enforcement. Moing to 22. We are down to 4 sergeants and 22 officers divided with the 4 shifts. 2 day watch that over lap on wednesday and 2 swing this over lap. The numbers we talk about in 50 so i can put those in perspective. Again, so now i have one captain, 4 lieutenant, 3 sergeants and 22 officers that are full duty. 2 that are on medical leave. I have a commercial vehicle unit one sergeant that gets count in the the main number. I have an acting sergeant at the stop window for the vehicles that get towed throughout the city by investigations or it is towed by traffic driving with a suspended license and we tow your car. I have 2 sergeants one on medical leave who in the stunt driving unit. Those other 2 investigators that handle all side shows. In San Francisco. I have a sea receive for collisions involving pd vehicles handles all those issues a red light camera officer under state law g every red light camera has to be verified by an rough now she has 900 citation in her queue show has to verify them to go to court sent out and a court date or paid. I have a misdemeanor rebook officer that is all drunk driving or traffic misdemeanors she takes every case half her time at Traffic Division and the other helpful at the das office. I have an event sergeant. Every events in San Francisco that will shut down streets that officer is involved. Data breakers, warriors parades. There are lots i think you all realize that from your districts there is always something going of i have the other group under is i have the muni division. But muni has been cut. We had a muni Response Task force that rhode the buses they were disband and sent to the streets an Investigative Team to handle crimes to muni transferred to general w to put the receives become on the streets to answer 911 calls and the 6 the one lieutenant one sergeant and 6 officers the 6 receives and sergeant have tsa dogs. Mentes top go to events throughout the city for bomb detection and muni. We used them to show up to areas on muni such as we use them down in the southeast section of the city in order to be visible presence. Because we are stretched thin. Going to the stations. I did work Field Operations for over 2 years. There used to be a traffic car in almost every district the only job this receive or officers had was to take collision reports which take, lot of timer and handle complaints from the district itself. We have stop sign runners and red light run are they go that effort is something that you need to be in that your to do over and over. As those units and type of officers collapsed, they are going from call to call. Again i cant prove the negatives to you i cant tell you i think there is a confluence of events i think there is the time it takes to write a traffic ticket. It takes a lot of receives going call to call. I know you are aware of. And when we have done to improve that on our staffing did is prior to the arm reexperimenting with direct the enforce am opposite and going to go out and supplement the district stations. We expandd that since then to handle the vision zero where we are dedicating several hours a day per squad if than i dont have other, going of collisions, we are getting to have visits again. City is open. But election season starts. Aeliminate of people are Vice President are coming. And we take every single motorcycle receive to run one of those. We are almost at minimum from dog this safely. We had to supplement with former motorcycle receives to is up element the escourts to get them through the streets. I believe the next is questions . Thanks for this and for the presentation and the updates on Traffic Enforcement. Supervisor melgar. Why thank you for this thorough presentation i have a number of questions. So during your few millions you remember talking about how it used to be that every precinct had a patrol and when that collapsed. I dont that statement. Did a memo get written or something happen that people were it the First Priority of every district station is staff their sector cars. If you are in engleside they have 6 sector cars you want to staff each car with officers. When you start having officers do just traffic you are taking them out of calls for service or regular not that traffic is not Law Enforcement but more crime related. When staffing gets lower you will not have that luxury to have that person you would not give up a car sector to do just traffic. You say that each individual has to make that decision at some point because of staffing shortages and they have to have 24 7 coverage with the thats what you say . Not like a central. No, no. I want to be clear not every station had it not every station has the same amount staffing. Park district is our most the lowest amount of staffing. They would not be running an i cant tell if you than i had a traffic car. The stations that did have put nel in patrol. Like they have taken we dont have muni Response Teams we had to send the receives to fulfill respond it 911 calls. Thank you. I of course think this you know in the individual level, those officers know the community, know the streets and going become to my incident where this lady ran the stop sign and almost killed mow and i saw her run the other i put it on twitter and the neighbors in sunny side anyhow who this was. She does it all the time. They know her car. These folks and you know in the 100 dints this is happen. 50 are like 1 or 2 people who do this routinely. I think that is why having folks who understand the communities is important in terms of prevention. Okay. I wanted to ask you about your presentation. This is more a question for the Public Health department it is total numbers that show areas of concentration. So by definition supervisor mars neighborhood, my neighborhood would be the short ends we have low are density but per person, crossing the street it may or ninot be lower. You know al indicatoring resources in this way seems to me like it is even if we have higher concentration of children or seniors or people likely the case in our neighborhoods, you know, you see our dilemma . One thing i want to points out and again we started this pilot in july to be subelemental now we are directing the captain in traffic, purke the receives out in the areas that have. One way we get that is from the cap aints through their community. As a support unit im not at your meeting having a District Meeting like your captain is your captain will get those and can we get some time during the month this is complained about. They send the e mails. Other things we do that is important to us is we always when you electric at our stats every traffic stop is the same. They are not. Every stop had a reason upon behind it whether it was a commune complaint, whether the receive happened to be there. One thing we are doing in order to take the issues and trying to help with the desparity issue if your approximate office was to call your captain and say this intersection i get, lot of complaints we are listing supervisor melgar requests through the captain. To say, we have information that says the officers are not random low in this area pulling people over but able to put it back. As that program. It is in its infancy but going. I can tell you one thing i left out of the presentation that i like i dont want to be careful with this. Everybody does in the misunderstand me. We are to parse out how many vehicles and how many are pedestrian and in that how many are traffic related. But if we are affecting traffic stop in a high injury corridor or affecting them from a complaint, that should show up statistically the absence of this says we are not dog our yen but well is more going on. That is something i told the Commission Last night we are looking into as far as pulling this dast that is a state wide data base im not sure how that works. I understands thank you for providing that you in analysis. My last question was about data. And im wondering if in how you record these there is anyway to figure out for the vehicle, car vehicle you know Traffic Violations. Whether they are commercial or personal. So you know i do wonder often know, whether or not some of the, you know the algorithms this uber and lyft use altered our traffic pattern in cutting through neighborhoods or ways that were for and people are not used to it. You know, i hear your you know, what you talk about in terms of the education that needs to happen especially on like newer modes like scooters. I tell you i am a member of the Bicycle Coalition i have taken the training i facility rowels and mindful every day im like, cars come at me in ways they should not. Not that im perfect but i do think there is a great imbalance on who like and also who has the power. Anyway i wonder if that is like commercial. That it is interesting question. I know in a collision upon report it may be listed. That is a state wide form for collisions they added the vehicle section it was not on the form yet. One officer is inunidated with this process. So i do know that as far as collisions now, there is 2 ways for those vehicles to be found as far as looking at uber or lyft, it is a question we raised as a command staff. The policy wing group we are looking at had citations we should or po pretext stops opposed stop signs. One question this a lot of us had on that uber is lyft. The exception to any of those is if they are a commercial vehicle. But those are personal vehicle and it is question would be how would you know it any time if that vehicle is on duty or off duty. So im not sure to that category. It was simpler when commercial vehicle plates were one letter, the condition tractors had them a pickup truck with one letter that was a commercial vehicle. I dont know how we would be able to get that data off the plates. You know, and the other thing i want to address i would love to give you as much data as soon as possible in conversations with the person who doesor did thea, we are 2 weeks behind internal low. Tickets are issued 2 ways. Moving violations, one the officers have an electronic ticket now which is synced up to their felony they do all this and prints out and you get the however if it is in the working or the officers because that can be from not abling to connect to the network, technology it goes down it happens. There are writing tickets the Old Fashioned way. Those take about 2 weeks after every among we publish this later we are waisting for those tickets to route down and go to snail mail. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you, chair mar. I have confusion about a couple slides. Go become to some of them. So the first question i have on the slide that showed the focus on the percentage of the stops that are focus on the 5 are we able to get that . That looks like over more then and there half of the of stops have been focus on the 5 stops which would be consistent with the policy and will the goal. Thats not consistent with what what our upon Community Analysts are finds when they look at the data. And im wondering if you know when account, if you have a sense of what accounts for this difference . I cant i dont know where all the data was pulled from them. Im not we could be completely wrong. We have to compare the data sets they used as prepared this is the person within our group. Who does this. I would be i dont know whether they would be open to a conversation with your data person to get some understanding of like how they may count different low from how you are and that would be useful if no. I dont think it is an issue. Again. As i complimented them before budget asks technology is one of those things. We are still using paper ticket in some insubstances that put in a system. So we are in the way back machine with some of these. And may be data again miscounts im not sure we are happy to discuss that. And could be our data. Im not saying this but again when we look at some of the numbers and i will use staffing. It looks like we have 47. On one of them you have my badge number i have not written a ticket since 2012 i would be your people there. But i think how we break it down is probably may be the conversation that gets done. We be happy and open to do that. I think that would be usefulment and then i think you were talking about this a bit with supervisor melgar but the delay in public availability of data so we are looks like may be 45 months behind what is actually going on. Can you say onone explain why it takes this long to get information out in i way the public can look at and understand . Jot delivery of public i could not a. I can tell you this internal low we try to wrap everything up within that 15 days after the close of the month. On october 31st hopefully november 15th internal low we have that information. Im not sure exactly. It is in the my area. I dont know how that informing gets pest federal through data sf or through you know the technology, et cetera. I dont have that information. That is also something im interested in and my office can work with you or your people and think about whether there is a resource question you may need something from the mayor and the burden to make that happen. It would be noise to have a more close to role time understand handwriting is going of i love to celebrate an increase and focus on the 5. But we dont know that because we are looking at stuff from 5 months ago. I will pinlt this out, again, for internal we are like these new operation since july that resides within us. The tickets will be public. But we are trying to figure out as we figure out the best way to deploy limited resources we keep track by hand and underwent it in a spreadsheet to say, here is an operation we held and cited 12 people but advised 20 others or vice versa. Again, might need better Data Tracking and management. We [laughter] we do. We are a big pot but everything guess to the department. But the nuance this is we get answered on is stuff this we cant capture or have to go back. You know stunt driving and side showsure a big question to relate them to individual events when i say we towed 10 cars we go back and say we have done all the cars but this was not for a side show that was for fleeing the side show. There is a nuance to that. And things like that. And so the bucket but then it takes a lot of grappling internal low to get simple things done. If my office can be helpful in any way in facilitating a conversation and thinking through what your Department Might need and supportive with the Mayors Office and budgets. Make that is the thing we can help with. And i apologize i have a few more questions. If we could pull up the slide that shows the decline in tracking of staffing over years . Thats it. I find myself getting confused about counting Police Officers. Because the way in which the department counts the officers and reports that has changed over the time that i have been on the board of supervisors. And so, um and the reason this is im stuck on this is i have it in my head when we did this analysis of the state of Traffic Company in 2018 or 19; that you were in the 30s in terms of staffing. Again, that kicked up to men in the 50s right before the opinion dem and i can that ticked down. But this is a bit lower than these numbers. I wonder what is there do you have a notion i didnt think the numbers are lower . I think i will use 21. Where you see 50. This includes me. All the way down to an officer on a motorcycle. We were looking at the officers if you look at Traffic Company there is a whole number. They are not all doing Traffic Enforcement. I think that is where there is some types of disconnect in numbers that the Traffic Division the mta division is much big are than Traffic Enforcement. Again, i Vice President a commercial vehicle person and we have an events person. And so they are worn but not out there doing Traffic Enforcement. This gets to the i mean. I think suggested this we have did thea on enforcement by officer number. I may be see problems with that im not sure that is a great thing for the public to look at necessarily but, i hope someone is looking. I like to know the department has a way of tracking efficiency of its officers and how much of their time is getting productivity rates or something. And is that a thing that we do in San Francisco . Is there a way for you to know like over all, this month collectively we are doing you know we are spending is the reason the number is low because no one is doing Traffic Enforcement this month because they were pulled, way or there are Traffic Enforcement but productivity is for the reasons you talked about it takes longtory do stuff. Is it all, well, the numbers decline and think there are reasons but not actually looking at who is doing what. Are we looking at who is doing what . Great question and very complicated. We know haofficers are doing in the sense of when we sends them out. I will use traffic. When we sends them out to do Traffic Enforcement. We know from we will do from 7 a. M. To 9 a. M. In downtown for commuter traffic. You might have a sergeant and forofficers there. We will ash count for that. Where you get in the numbers, though, is and what they are doing and productivity we lose it on administrative time that has been talked about the administrative time when i talk to you that i wrote a ticket within 10 minutes now i have 15another 20 minutes doing administrative cameras, i cant track that. I dont think how long it takes every officer, right, so the productivity of using the ticket is really a third of that piece of a puzzle y. You should get an average . Right. The average productivity of an officer based on hayou described less than 2014 the action took you 10 minutes in 2014 now 3 hours you are doing other things related that. Even in 2022 we can figure out if some folks spends are bringing in 3 tickets for 5 days of work and others bring in 20 tickets for 5 days worth of work. That seems worth understanding and having someone in the hierarchy keeping track. Man rafael, something is going on with him and we need to talk to him. Absolutely. Again, i would i the only caution i give you is that even on if you take 2 exact same officers and their day could be different. Let me give you an example. In district 2 there was a collision last night. So we have had 4 officers working. In traffic. It was serious enough where traffic came out to dot collision opposed to the district station. One officer going to the hospital to interview the victim. 2 officers are doing the investigation and the third officer is the fourth officer is directing traffic. So all 4 of them are working on the same collision and trying to save time by doing that at the same time i have taken them away from if i measure them doing Traffic Enforcement which is why i go back to when i 7 them all out in a directed operation, i can at least give you that box for that amount of time we directed them and say these officers went out for this time here is how many citations they brought out opposed to that 10 hour day. You will see gaps that have no statistical answer i can give you other than if we looked it up im doing the sligz report. I think that this is unfair. I think there is a perception in San Francisco now the over all lack of officers for officers not doing their job and having some ability to assure the public we are tracking efficiency and projectivity in the Police Department we are not just standing down. The extent we assure the public we are looking at those things would be useful and may be we will follow up with you and condition have a that to the public. Hopefully what well be able to do it will give a good thumb nail when we dot operations within a begin day. The street take over now on the blocks directing traffic. We are getting there it is antiquated that is why we tried institute that at traffic. To show this this is your main mission for the 22 officers and sergeants. Lets show everybody what we are doing and show it is at your request. Nathat we are not going to randomly pull people over we are doing it with a mission that has a goal. The last slide i want to look at again is the chart showing the over all decline in citations. It is it is pulled up on my end, i can try again. Talked about the reasons to explain the long decline and i could imagine a variety of responses being needed. And may be we can grant that we dont want the beige graph back up to what it was. We probably doment we want the blue back up to when it was in 2016. So and we are far away from that. You may not able to answer this now but i think we need to have a conversation the Police Department about what does the mayor and the board of supervisors need to do the answer may be hire 600 more officers. What do we i dont think that is entirely the answer. What do we need to do to get from this 2021 little blue back up to a 2016 level of enforcement of the focus on the 5 . I mean if i am you and that is daunting now, right . Go out and do this tomorrow. I mean can be as simple as that. If i direct remember when we talk about having the officers on 4 different shifts than i split a week. Day watch. Swing, swing. Say today is day watch is a sergeant and sick officers and i say i need you to go focus on the 5 supervisor mandelman picked like based on you may be had a collision or getting complaints whatever that may be. We want it to be something role in the go do that. Having said that, i have had we talk about within traffic we talk about haofficers are seeing. Not always the focus on the 5 and so they are writing a ticket cell phone is huge for us. And using devices while driving. So well is probably more than just those 5 within that we see any time. Fisends them and say we will do speed i would need one and 6 officer and they sit with an officer number one goes. Officer 2, we can do this. But we are ticketing people on cell phones we think that is dangerous but in the a [inaudible]. Men we focus on the 6. If machine is on their cell phone they are the most dangerous collision related. If thats the case i want you become to 2016 levels in the because something happened in my district last week because that is something that San Francisco committed to doing and begin you the resources you need to do this even though your officers for good reasons are quarter productive as in 2016. Did we need for you times as many Traffic Company officers is that motorbike the answer. This is a coninfluence of, staffing is one. Cannot be the only one. When you have less things to do you have to be more productive. One of the things we have in ouroms is focus on the 5 mission my captain or i can say go out to the intersection. At the same time i know well is in the a trafb car in the Park District and supervisor megoverns i have to deploy those resources that may not fall in that. It is yes to everything you say and i think if i will argue for the 800 or 600 fiam supportive in terms of staffing i need to understand how that will lead to a level of policing in areas that are important like focus on the 5. I think that i will ask we continue this hearing to the call of the chair rather than foil temperature the follow ups for this. I dont thank you is you it is higher up in the department and the majors office and but i think size a steel we need a conversation how resource we need our Police Department to be to be able to dot level of Traffic Safety enforcement i think we need and i think we need to be thinking about what effective policing looks like in the post ferguson and george floyd era we are continuing to police respectfully and also doing the important Public Safety things we were doing in 2016. I agree. And to use everybodys dast a think that the easiest way to do that is make that a data driven you say this intersection as an impact of collisions. Of pedestrians or whatever who ever the victim is and go to that your and designate yours that is manage we are trying to do. In order to mitt fwat and tick, way some of feelings of being targeted. I want to add one thing. Just again, you know sometimes we allment to seat site and is will be again it is anecdotal im with the traffic receives and dont upon. Want you to think from the sun glasses and say yes, maam, no. There are type it is i pulled soandso over and she was on her way to work and i told her dont run a stop sign again. Thats not documented. Im not telling you that that will change the numbers much but it it is still a discretionary issue. And that you know sometimes it is hard to give a 400 dollar ticket on their way to work. Feels like we are so far off of where we ought to be we need a focusd and concerted strategy for get to where we think we need to be. I agree and we have a first step and hopefully we will be able to bring that you. There needs to be clarity about that the board wants i know the department feels do more, less, more i imagine that if i introduced a resolution asking for a significant increase in focus on the 5 enforcement and get become to 2016 levels that would get super majority. I think men we will put this to the test. I know it is helpful for the d. To know what the city leadership wants. I would obviously of that is within your purview the thing i caution we are talking about 2016 staffing elevens. Versus 2022 Staffing Levels and to put a priority demand is great butt question is if we dont reach the goal not due to we make this effort and fall short it xhg come become you did in the reach that. My request in Traffic Enforcement will do their best it takes interest acountries we divide 2016 on where were these tickets who wrote them. What were the numbers. I dont have the 2016 numbers but i dont have 2 vision zero squads of 2 sergeants of search i have zero. Thats all they did was write vision zero tickets. May be thats what you need and the department cant provide that now but men we need to have a goal of recruiting significant number of receive this is year and having a chunk of this go it rebuilding this capacity. Okay. Im done. Thank you. Supervisor stefani. Thank you for your presentation i have a quick question about 2022, how many receives did we have in traffic and how is that split up. We have a total of 47 full daoism they north duty. Active duty at this time divided between 4 enforcement squads. The motorcycle Police Officers. Within that group one acting captain. 4 lieutenant, 2 acting. 3 sergeants. One is acting. And i have a total of 22 officers with 2 which make it 24 out on leave. For Traffic Enforcement i caution you, i love my lieutenant they will get mad they are directing these operations they are not out citing people. They do. We are down to 3 and 22. Divided on 4 shifts. One in 5, one and 6 on those split across the okay. And thank you for the break down on everything that they are required do. I think people think if they are on bikes they should be constant low giving tickets and obviously they have other duties in terms of investigating and things like that. I was wondering whether or not they get pulled emergency 911 calls . Very rare. I say that is the rarest thing fist they are in an area where an officer may need help, but what generally happen when is they are pulled off on unscheduled events we have demonstrations the Traffic Enforcement goes out there are traffic issues. They are mobile. And but they are not answering calls for service. Okay. Thank you and i understand one of the reasons why you can correct me. The reasons why we dont have enough officers in the Traffic Division is because of staffing issues and the demand on 911 calls. My understanding is that almost 80 of receive time is committed to 911 calls and of course, we need receives to do that. So is that the reasons why we dont have enough officer in traffic unit sns i can say traffic the Traffic Division the enforcement section we talked about has not had anybody necessarily pulled from it. Wee got 2 replace am sergeantses you need supervision. We seen it because of attrition the most sought after places to g. You toast geoff get inform trained they invest money and collision and driving a motorcycle. Dog all these things they have training days. And it is it has lost people basically because if you are a sergeant orb officer you dont want to leave it is a great job, as we have gone those officers have left the department or we had a couple promotions. And thats general low why it happens. We have not had our unit opposed to muni pushed out in stations and say you need to get in a radio car now. Gi understand, to, the San Francisco Police Department has difficult in recruiting officers to the basic Academy Classes do you think that plays a role in not being able to bring them up to Traffic Division should is an extra Academy Class . It does. And affects our number one priority and00 eye think everybody from the chief down understand is receive a 911 call. When you had i was coming through we averages 50 recruits per whiches there were multiple classes that over lapped the bubble under clinton era im at the beginning of this generation they spent money to put in. We are seeing that and then again a confluence of event its is i tough job statutory is hard to be in San Francisco to live regardless of the job and so i think it it is a hard thing to recruit. So i think we generally averaging 25 people. And then if you look at our atrician rate i dont know if we keep up that Department Wide. One last question i will ask it i think supervisor mandelman got at the question in terms of productivity and subjective opinions about what Police Officers do and not doing. Do you have anything more to say the notion written about people think Police Officers are just not doing their jobs. I think it is like any i think that the police have been under the spotlight for a long time i will not make excuses. There hen and anybody had argues against it there has been a bit of depolicing. That proactive event. Traffic stops are proactive me coming to you unless i do an operation. So i cannot blame that reduction on that. I would say well is a component of that. You know officers are gaugeod who they pullover. And things like that and. Ful there is anecdotal discussions i dont want to winds up on this dash board or that dash board that is in the an excuse. And again, in a way im trying to push traffic ahead and make it a beacon for this thing where it a proactive thing i say we did an operation we sent the officers to go that and take that away. I dont want to blame that whole relationship on what is gone over. There is a bit but it does in the qualify. Im sure as in every organization there are receives who see thing and like i will not handle it it hen in the paper we have to address had and say you need to go do your job sdpchl upon general, you know there are 9 million ways to do that. I live in the city. I explained to officers when i was in field operationless what that is my family that is your family you need to go out and do your job the expectation level of people you know. And not displace it. So, any down tournament ask upon leadership to change and on top of that you ton fight that and give them a tool. I think the directed operations are a tool. Not a scapegoat leadership. No here is the data, where we are going and the question from supervisor mars office. Those are all ways that we get officers to perform and make them feel they can do their job especially in self initiated action. Thank you for the good questions and thanks command are walsh. It is important discussion. I had a couple of questions myself and first im following up on the discussion about staffing challenges and the department and how that impacting Traffic Enforcement. You are saying we have 47 full Duty Officers on traffic enforce am in 2022. Do you know what the numbers were or for 2019 and 2016. I dont i only did the break downs because of traffic enforce am. This is something we can research through staffing deploy am. My break downs were specifically addressing one of the reasons not the only reason why there was a ticket decline and a reason is staffing. And there is i have those and happy to repeat them. I dont have the full Traffic Company on what they had. And it seems like there has been we are down Traffic Enforcement officers. Im then there so manies like a drastic decline in citations and Traffic Enforcement yea. Violations both department Department Wide and focus on 5 it was a drastic decline than the staffing decline. Yea, there was. I would i was looking and im not going to quote them. One thing i was looking at we are all trying to figure this out. If you go to the Golden Gate Bridge and look at southbound traffic the reason i looked at that you can stay on the highway to go where you want 80 and 101. If you come across the Golden Gate Bridge you will g see traffic in San Francisco. And you know im using the pandemic section because around 3 million or Something Like that. Southbound in traffic in 2018then they do it by fiscal year. Dont quote me on the numbers you can look them up. There is a decline as we get in and a huge decline for us in the sense that we when the pandemic hit im speaking the last years we went from one type of schedule to number to separate officer fist one side got hit they did not wipe out a station or unit. You Start Playing with the numbers, too, and then you have a bit less of people working at any time. And thats another reason not the only reason i dont want to pin one thing as if we can only sovl this it is a myriad ofnings but this is the most drastic. When you go become to 2015 we did not have a pandemic and it herb a slow decrease. I cant answer for all of that and this is why i said this and you can 3 my nondata answer out. Im trying to figure out prepandemic why that would help and premassive staffing issues. Thank you. Appreciate your thoughts about what the key factors where on that decline we have seen steadly since 2014 from the slide and they were drastic since 2019. What corns me is you mention third degree in 2022 the number of traffic fatalities has really shot up and we are on pace to perhaps having the highest number during the period that we are tracking. Focus on the 5 i think if i look back, we were 2019 there was 23 and we are at 21. We have more fatalities because of solo issues. Vehicles or bicycle riders. And again, we have more traffic coming in the numbers are we are enforcement a key. Absolutely. I want to leave it to mta and i think that you know there is a lot of new drive nothing san front if you have in the been in the city i dont know how much that confuses people im not blaming that on anything but you know we had collisions where people say they were confused which way to go or do whatever that does in the take away accountability and being safe drivers. You know it it is it is i myriad of answers to this upon one significant question. Thank you. And would condition kershaw with supervisor mandelman, this is something this the board is taking seriously now. Every traffic fatality is a tragedy and then we are concerned we are going backwards on progress toward our vision zero goals. Look forward to continuing this discussion and seeing what additional policies, resources and Program Strategies are needed in order to really turn things around. Thank you. I had one final question. For the fines the citations, is that do you know how much that amounts to like in revenue in recent years. And the other question whether that is dedicated where does this monmcgonigle from traffic enforce am fines. Is it going to i dont know. I will defer to mta if they know. I dont know where the fines go. From those. You know and a lot of them obviously if you go to Traffic Court they are reduced and i dont know how all of this is klth calculated. And you dont know how much that is. It has gone down since the numbers. By sheer numbers. Yes. Absolutely. And it sounds like it is in the dedicated to Traffic Safety or infrastructure or education . I dont have an answer and hate to say no if it is yes. Okay. Thank you command are walsh. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you command are walsh for your presentation and bearing with us through what is so for a long hearing. I want to thank you and your officers for all the w they do every day. I think that i am interested in having a conversation with your department when will take Resource Wise to increase Traffic Enforcement and focus on 5 and other priorities and a conversation what Political Support your department and officers need if they are going to be engage nothing more policing. I think done an extraordinary job inrousing bad encounters with San Francisco and the department the last 6 or 7 years. Now need to think about how to try to keep that progress and success and also it cannot money that we you know dont draechsz person Public Safety challenges. Where we are with vision zero is an important Public Safety challenge. So things are never easy for the Police Department. Things will be more complicated Going Forward. Thank you for being here and thank you for the w you do. Thank you. Thank you. And then last but not least eatingtory come up Sean Mccormick the director of Parking Enforcement and traffic and tom mc guire Streets Division thank you for being with us this afternoon. Thank you. We could have the slides please. I will Start Talking before the slides get here. I im tom the streets director at San Francisco mta i lead our multiagency effort toward vision appreciate the comments where we are and where with respect to that goal we are not to track to meet that by 2024 that is a real problem. And that we need to think about what steps we are taking not between now and 2024 but setting up to reach that goal. The city adopted vision zero discovering a 10 year time frame does not make sense the goal is zero fatalities. There were thoughtful comments at the beginning about the relationship of the vision zero to Climate Action plan. Things we are trying to build out every mile of the High Injury Network. Command or showed a map every mile will have a Safety Engineering treatment by end of 2024. Working with your officeos rolling out the new flexibility to lower 20 Miles Per Hour on retail corridors. Supervisor melt govern we are on ocean avenue there are 30 more woeful want done this and next year. Quad ruleling quick build fracture [speaking fast] is in the just getting a touch meaningful rebuilt in to high engineering standards and finally making sure that we have a vision to support longterm mode shifts in the city that means bodiesing transit only lanes and making bring forth a proposal later this year to make the slow Streets Program per minute 99 there is a relationship with Engineering Investments and [inaudible]. Lowering speed limits reduced speeds we will continue to do that. We are excited on november first, we january first the state gave us the power to use our on bus cameras to the enforce bus lane and bus stop violations. Director mccormick and officers have been w to ramp up our ability to do that. That is a way to protect that face for roadway and ares keeping streets safe. We will talk about the role that our mta parking Patrol Officers play in Traffic Safety. The roles enforce am by the sfpd. They cannot write moving violations they cannot do focus 5 work they can address the parking violations that cause safety occurrence. Double p. Blocking bike and bus lanes they write the tickets and deter the bad behavior. Achieve vision wherevero in transit first goals. The Staffing Levels. So staffing is an issue not as acute as the Police Department. On any given day, there are any weekday there are between 200 and 250 parking Patrol Officers assigned to work a hit in the city. Not all are writing safety critical violations off the bat purit 50 are doing street cleaning work. Following public ws to make sure the clean streets take place and if i have to 15 officers are wing in miscellaneous duties or serving over [inaudible] writing citations and 20 officers are held become for radio calls. If your driveway is blocked we make sure the vehicle is tow exclude that thing. The ends. Day there are 1 huh human and 150 officers available throughout the dito cover 1200 miles of streets. 2800 parking meters. [inaudible] and the big city and network and 150 officers is if we have more we can do more. Sean and his team have been rebuilding. The Staffing Levels of the pc os the mtas budget calls for 2 new classes of pc os there will be net officers available rising the next 2 years. And while parking Patrol Officers are different then and there Police Officers in duties and the way they do their yen its is important for mow to say here that these officers have also a hardion and they are treated bad low by the public. At least witness a day parking Patrol Officer is seriously verbally abused. Witness a week they are physically abused. Something thrown at them. Pat at t. Is a challenging job it always has been. The department for many years good people tough j. W. S they are good people and dog a tough yen we are work to do what we can to passport them so the efforts through any knowledge hiring process are not eroded by atrician. I will hundred it to sean that will go over key safety violations and examples huwe use the 311 data to address the safety concerns. Thank you very much. Sean mccormick. This is our lack of a better focus on Traffic Congestion and safety issues the primary categories being double parking, bike lanes, obstructing traffic. Bus zones. With the exception of the bus zone all of the others are combined sometime when is we get call in 311 someone call double p when they are park in the a bike lane. We try to combine those. In 2022 we had 3,000 violations issued. Prior to covid the rage of 40 to 50,000 violations. That number is coming up as traffic is coming becomeum. If you go to the next slide. The break down how the citations fall out. A majority are double parking. And then the next big category is a bus zone. Behind its a bicycle lane. Those are when we see the most out of the 33,000. The numbers are not as dramatic but this is the First Quarter of the year. Those numberers trending to be 25 higher then and there they were in 2022. We continue to focus on that and the break down if you see on the next slide will show you almost the similar trends of more than 50 . So the 50 of double parking dropped i bit. We have seen the bike lane enforcement is the second category now exceeding double parking. They flip flopped their numbers but it it is a dip and focus on had we are doing. And if we go to the next slide well talk about 311. When we do is can get questions through 311 for blocked bike lane and double ping. We know a lot of the citations are not enforceable by the time we get there we get the call and dispatch the vehicle is long gone. What we have doesnt using the data from 311. All the case get closed. Aggregate it and we generate a heat map this is of the last july firstseptember 30 of this year. To identify those areas where we have the most violations reported by public. You see the biggest area the red dot that is primarily valencia. We the other another one that hit this is area is we get complaints on mission. Which is i border of valencia, when people double park and buses driving on the writtening side of the street to go north bounds. It is allows us to tart enforcement in that area. The 2 big corridors valencia and folsom that we see the majority of the complaints coming in. Regular low and as an example. We will look at valencia. The totals at the bottom are all the violations the number dont add up to the total we pulled out street koreaning and temporary constructions unrelated to the time enforcement woe look at. Thats how they break out of the different types of violations when you see a high number of meter i have litheos valencia that is help handwriting a pc o is looking for meters they are at the same time being affect the deterrent for the bad behavior occurring on valencia. Thats a quick look at numbers we will conclude there. If you have questions. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you both my first are for director mc guire. I want to go back the question i asked earlier about our belief that these millions of dollars of Infrastructure Investment we are making are making San Francisco safer and are important and can you explain why we should condition it believe this given the numbers are still so bad yes. Great question. The big of the reason you should believe that is because when you sitting at the Transportation Authority funds us you include scope for you to do evidences we see there are tools daylighting, road [inaudible] anything this reduces speed do show not just first order affects speed slowing second, reduction and collisions. Seen that cross most programs. We publish that this is the Action Strategy that came out in fall of 21. It reflects 7 years of learning. There were things we thought would be effective in 2014 with vision zero. Which are in the effective now. We gotten away and focus more on infrastructure. I think the simple answer is, you always challenge us when you fund things. When you challenge funds street infrastructure you challenge us to demonstrate through sxeflgz witsdzing down the to thes our data proves and we can show the investments we newsmakers the areas safer over all the city continues to be dangerous. Or you know in fact, i mean in ways what we see around see next the liability task force in 2019 service and reliability and we are seeing there were improvements from the red lanes and the stuff that we were able to move more people. But other things coming in play like tmcs and other new inputs adding congestion and under mining the progress with the physical improve amless we were doing and getting good out come from. Buff sometimes that was obscured by the other stuff coming in. That makes sense. Do you have a map . Can you explain why we are moving so slowly on the red light cameras it feels like we are and that feels like an intervention that should make a difference. The red light cam rales i have an personal accomplice in the system. We are supervisor stefani mentioned building 8 more around the city in the current budget we have 16 already. Red light cameras are expensive. And the return from the cost benefit point i rather would rather narrow a roadway or put in place thing this is stop speeding because investments in upon toing speeding cascades down to all the others. It it is a dangerous behavior and accomplice its happens like on lombard and the financial district i rather in the cents roll Business District want to keep doing it. There are in the hundreds of locations will noting legal to the and where it would be for the third of a Million Dollars we spends we get bank for our buck this is the reason for our pace. Okay can we bring up the slide the summary of citations from 2016 to 2023 . And we dont have to look at it but a slide a couple later shows the congestion violations that are the equal of focus on the 5 for the parking violations or the things that seem like they are making life dangerous for cyclists and transit riders. The over all things we are issuing the numbers seem large but a small percentage of the over all citations we are giving. Can you talk more about how do you think about or you think about how we should be balancing out that work which seems quite important it me. It is related health and safety the functioning of the Transit System on the other versus someone over stayed their washing meter. Gi will start and talk mur the art and design of enforcement in terms of prior there are 35 of the citations in the city. Parking officers are doing a doing a wide variety of things the some of the violations they are assigned to enforce including street sweeping are violations where the officer is just the nature of the j. W. They are like low to write a large number of citation in a shift f. You seen a street sweeper people dont move car. And there is in the like a driver what will drive away when they see the pc o show up and Revenue Generating and personal for keeping the streets clean. Things like a bus lane detail or bike lane detail. There were 4 violation when is i rhode boy on my bike one was issued and all 4 stopped when the pc o showed up in that moment. But to have an impact over time you need to have a pc o driving up and down if that the way we will dweel this driving up and down all the time. Can you explain, there is great interests we received e mills about temperature people hate this behavior drives cyclists nuts and drivers and see others being jerks in the bike lanes or bus lanes. And figured out brown and hes photographs of the bad behavior and then this person will suffer the consequence. Which is satisfying and also seems like a far more you know reliable preventive than sending a pc o out there once a week. Can you explain, it is complicate todd do that. It is a state law requirement something to well issue those violations the one that is authorized via in camera. Red light and transit only enforcement. Called out in legislation to allow that enforcement and now we only allow it by well. You need a pc oh , reviewing that approving and that ticket goes out. And the bike lanes there is new in addition on the bike lanes. And many more bus stops then and there bus lanes we are in the process of wing up grids the camera system its address the bus stop this is is specific to the stop. We will have to fence this area and not get violations outside of that. Review the red light cases machine needs to make sure it is i violation because the come ha are thought they may have been moving they may not have been stop the. Do you have a sense how often had someone is blocking i bus listen and we have the camera that how often we sends a ticket to that person . How confidence can we be when machine is blocking i bus lane they are getting a ticket after the fact . Based on the the cameras this we are able to review daily, everybody that gets reviewed on this camera is but in the able to pull every bus tape every day from the bus. It is a manual process we want to get to an automated process we will review 100 of approximate terrible violations the buses see. Do you have a sense when percent we review now. I dont know what the approximate terrible is i know we issue 50 or more a day. Another way, how many of those i imagine we are able to review a small percentage. Watching to catch violators. Why we review after the fact. You need a person. There are not many people doing temperature i gota believe now i dont want to put this out there but a lot of the people00 eye cant be confidence this the people blocking the bus lanes are getting tickets temperature it is mall percentage you in we are working on ways to automate the data check so that the officer who is have the mall number have the right under the luto do that use time fortunate low. How far away are we . The legislation became effective on january first. I dont believe any other agency in the state yet has rolled it out. We will be another 9 months or a year of review. We have a project manager hired. They are in the process of reviewing the technology we currently have on the buses to see whether or not that our concern vender with tweaks and sat ware enhancements ewe likewise that technology. We have been in touch with many cities within the state. They have been reachingut to us we were the first to do it. Had conversations with venders. So the technology is there. We are excited see what is coming. It is but i dont think other steles other than alameda county, their expansion is the same boat another 912 months before you see it helps through the the state. Which will help when we have visitors in the stele they will be familiar with that enforcement not just Something Different this happen in San Francisco y. This is encouraging. I and my office and others will be interested in hearing how you are dog on get thanksgiving automated there is a likelihood someone blocking the bus listen they will get a ticket. We have nothing similar around bike lanes nothing. We would need a day law chinked make it easier how to collect forecasts and evidence of bike lane violations and gent ritting tickets for this . Yes. How they chose to enact that legislation. There are different ways to consider that. That we have my staff would be sad we have reached tout sop senator wieners office to explore whether there might be a path there. Okay. Thank you for your work. Those are my questions. I see my colleagues have questions. Supervisor melgar. Thank you, chair mar. So my first question about the heat maps you put up can you put this up again . In my district there are others around San Francisco there is the perception now the lawlessness that is happening in San Francisco. And you know i have lived in thats where there is the least. In the middle there district 7. I have never seen anyone being ticketed for ping double parking on the bike lane or for commercial vehicles this are parked in the bike lane, which happens all the time. And like on valencia it drives people nuts but unlike valencia we dont have enforcement or people are nice. They dont call 311 but it is really madning. It is dangerous. It does get in the perception of lawlessness. I have 2 questions one is what percentage of these citations happen because there is a 311 call versus a routine this is where we are today. What advocate for my district. How do we get enforce am especially on the commercial corridors. And then my last question is you know of those enforcement citations what percentage are commercial vehicles versus private vehicles. Where we are a bit further out we have a problem. With for example commercial you know halling and other vehicles parked in the bike lane free park and people park well and like go down in the bike lane it is dangerous and free pua public way. We see a lot of the commuter bus catharsis operated by private companies that use it as a staging area it drives people nuts and dangerous. I wonder how i do get love from you all for these things because it does. You know, to bring approximately tick in if you look at the bond that we failed to pass and you look at the heat map it is like a direct relationship. Will i think that there is something to that. That people are not feeling that they get the services that they paid for. Thank you. You want to answer the 311 jovm with regards to 311 and bike lanes and double ping all those case are closed and use the heat map to direct. Any violations that are issued i know there are, violations per bike lanes and double p nothing your district and throughout the city i personal low written some myself. All of those are either asigned officer going down there to address some of the heat map identified areas. Or as the patrol. We do patrol your meters and patrol those areas. There is an officer working that area. Regular low. We do enforce a lot of that residential ping you have on in those areas there are officers daily. We have assigned our beat map in a way ensures the city is covered every day. Even though somebody may have i large area because of a staffing shortage. People have multiple areas we make sour well is coverage throughout the city every day. Percentage from 311 is zer over we use that data to get us to a points where we can be more effective. If we case one and in the getting anybody out of any of the upon zones we are chasing calls gone bit time we get there. How do we get love in district 7er yours that dont show up red on the heat map. Making sure that there are officers out there being visible deterring and enforcing. And regardless of where the bike lane violations are. And something sean is focusod is to reshape the daily work of the park patrol receives you are not a resident permit or leader officer you are there to enforce all the parking violations you see. That is an evolution. I get it t. Is a little goes a long way. This is in the we struggled for years it get this bus stop and when it was done you know 15 of the niches came out and give your guys coffee they were so grateful for taking care of the safety issue. It was 8s in the morning and 15 neighbors were like a little morning party. A little makes a huge difference in the quality of life for people. Thank you. Supervisor stefani. Thank you. A few questions we have been talking about double p parking and bike lanes. New York City Council proposed a bill to allow silentses to report and get 25 of the ticket would that, 175 dollar ticket the reporter gets 25 would that require state change . Or is this something you have considered or talked about. I think that is something we want to have a conversation about the equity in governors of that with you as the board of supervisors and our board. I am familiar with the bill there are safe guards to prevent if being abused but one thing we see in 311 suspect there are several times a week a call about a tow. Manage is blocking my driveway. But it is a neighborhood dispute and useings the system. We want to be careful about making sure that a tool that powerful is used for good and not but. I agree with you. Right. I was worn figure you thought about it im not for us on one another but it is a problem. With people park nothing bike lanes a significant can issue. The state passed a bill allowing cities to ban rights on red and simultaneous i spchlty wonder what is the stay sfmtas plan. We are rolling out a right turn on red in the tenderloin. A place where high speed, illegalal and unsafe turns kill people. We think that right turn on red is a promming thing to do on the High Injury Network. In places where there are vehicle pedestrian conflicts. Study says so that researching right on red is most pelf and obeyed when there is like they understand the reasons for the rule. Im on lombard and there are period of times. No right on red. Right. Also again, the Sherman Elementary School tragedy was awful and seen success on franklin street with regard to retiming of the stop lights to reduce speeds what are your plans to make sanks to the built environment to reduce speedings across the city that is effective. Yes timing traffic signal system a low cost way to get the system to slow down on streets like franklin. On franklin we are working with the community to go to eaching intersection north of broad way to slow the speed of turning traffic and prevenn dangerous left turns made at a speed faster than 5 Miles Per Hour. Slow down of the behavior that tragically killed the professional. And giving more walk time so period of times especially period of times had need it kids and seniors. That is the tool box for franklin. And that is something we do all over the city. Am i think the other thing that compliments this is the Quick Build Program we are again, a corridor we use the best tools we got if we are look to manage traffic the traffic significant untils and read markings and everything so we attack the problem at once. And one last question about state cooperation issues like lombard street in district 2, i have been working with the sfmta to reduce the speed on lombard to 25 Miles Per Hour. I wonder if you have thoughts on why it is taking cal trans long or hug will it tick to do that. Do you see it as a possible. I do see it as a possibility. We had great conversations at cal tain on lombard. We have i different idea. Than even the people at cal trans do. Cal fransnings in terms of the way the law is written no speed trespasses and protecting meritists in San Francisco we care about protecting period of times and community from unsafe driving. Im comfort we will get this done. Why thank you. Thank you again for this discussion and all of your work on Parking Enforcement i had a few questions around staffing. First, looks like mta has been able to do a better job of maintaining or sustaining Parking Enforcement overnight years and during the pandemic than pd around Traffic Enforcement. I appreciate that. As you heard there was discussion about pd staffing challenges how that impacts Traffic Enforcement for mta and staffing for parking control officers you showed the Staffing Levels 261 total is this pc os . Yes. Thats not thats the Number Available to work on the weekday. Or assigned work five or 10 will be out sick. 261 is in the we would apyre to a higher number. And so do you have what is a vac analysisy rate for this now . And du see atrician of pc os during the pandemic . We did in the have higher than normal atrician rate. We have 10 to 20 officers retire each year we did not lose anybody the pressures were different than on the Police Department. With everything going on as well. We are authorized 326. 261 is what is actually visible to work. We have about 25 vacancies and a class starts next week we will have 15 come in a class next week. We will finish up that class with the second like a b version the end of november somewhere not red to start. We tends to try to keep moving they needle forward. But we do have a significant can number of people out on leave or comp or injuries. They have been attackd and assaulted. We had a pc o stopped at a red light after issuing a citation the guy punched the window out of her vehicle and glass cuts all over her face. Sent her to the hospital. Sfpd was there and captainured the perpetrator. But that is sometime it is not likely to happen. There were Police Officers in area and this helped us do this. Of one final question related the heat map you showed and supervisor melgars points around want to see broad are geographic coverage of parking enforce am in the residential neighborhoods on the west side. How do you deploy what is your prop to deploying the pc os in the city . So mine tom mentioned i want to change how we deploy. Ensure there is somebody assigned every square mile on any begin day. Does in the money they can get to every street or every block of every street on a daily base but want that coverage. But where there is more regulations there is a higher volume of officers ash signed if you are in an area high of residential parking in order to cover that we know how much you can cover on an area on a begin day. So we want to make sure we dont under deploy because we send one person that needs 5. I want to 75 limits driving down might be down lincoln to address parking on lincoln but you are able to take a quick peek down the streets and see if there is double parking as you circle around without having every street that does not have a regulation will not draw in a lot of extra officers above that. What we saw before i might have 5 show up one doing meters. One residential p, one the radio call. 2 street cleaning and somebody else going to lunch. Thats infortunate we are trying to be more fortunate with our resources. Are appreciate that. Thanks again both of you. So when we go to Public Comment on this. Thank you, member of the public had would like to comment on item 4 line up on the wall to your right. For call in members press star 3 to be added the queue. You can proceed. Hi. Im [inaudible] i have been homeless for 20 years. In 99 i had a dui driving a [inaudible] and [inaudible] 10 times within 6 months. I have been buying cars and one of the vehicles i bought i put 8 guarantee down on to live in i was having problems at the shelter. They sold the arlington ton hotel got complaints i went in the hotel on the section 8 voucher projects section 8 and i was given 2 mont section 8 to go where i wanted to. I was made to live in a room that was filled with mold. And i came here to complain about it brought the owner to my room and gave everyone vouchtory go where they wanted. Now i bought this car from [inaudible] volkswagen i put 8 grand down the guy picked mow up from the bart station. The police came to the shelter and within a year 3 days they came and lifted my vehicle every vehicle i got they went through every vehicle. This said i this 20 thousand dollars in tickets. I within dun there. Than i have no tickets on record anything and no record of me own thanksgiving vehicle but i have capitol one acounsel saying i owed 4 thousand dollars on it. Now i have this on my record. It is nowhere to be found im black balled they have no record of me like i dont exist. Your time lapsed. There are 5 callers with for you in the queue. Forward the first caller. Goovend wesley favor senior policy manager for glide. Calling on behalf of the oa ligz to ends bike stops uniting to end stop in San Francisco. Regardless whether the number of offices or ticket issued are down racial desparity [inaudible] this discussion must center the people impacted the harm and account for and Solutions Traffic stops are most common way people come in contact with Law Enforcement. There is emphasis on nonPublic Safety enforcement. The stops are not making streets safer for people who bike, bike or driveway. Mirorth the state in over pleasing [inaudible] and that leads to police misconduct. Use. Force and already ban in the other jurisdictions and spur Analysis Shows drivers are stopped and searches by sfpd. Clear unjustified it is tandem out to harsment. The rates have in the changed much since collecting data we should address the harms left an impact in our communities the Police Commission wing group in the process of advising traffic enforce am policy and San Francisco is red to be i leader. Thank you. Next caller, please. Good upon afternoon chair approximate supervisors im brian and im advocacy and policy manager at walk San Francisco. Thifrngs to luke and stone for data and grateful that supervisor mandelman for call thanksgiving hearing we know that the citys commitment to ending traffic deaths and severe injuries is not just for the sfmta or something that they can did alone the citys commitment signed boy a dozen departments and agenciesingly and we need every one of them to be accountable for commitments. We are concern body Traffic Enforcement low level nondangerous offenses especially in equity priority communals. 7 the 10 police stations the majority of citations are not focusod the 5. We vg have been asking for focus and aimed at 5 most driving behaviors on High Injury Network. Other agencies use did thea for limited resources pd needs to use that, too. This is in the when we are hearing we had 15 pedestrian deaths 93 of the pedestrian fatalities on the High Injury Network on to electronic to have the most deadly years on streets we need improve am in the strategy every week the agencies are not following through on the vision zero xhirments more people are dying trying to get around the city. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your comments. 7 on the line and 3 in the queue. Supervisors, i have been listen to this long, drab meeting. My first question to you is do you understand what is Legacy Technology as opposed to digital platform we near 2022, and there is still so Old Fashioned. Do you really not with the vision zero policy having so many deathless yall opinion to constituents of the city of San Francisco . Yall should limit your questioning to 3 minutes. Or 2 more or 5 millions. You talk too much you cannot finds solutions. You are not educated on issues come to needs assessment. Yall are [inaudible] in [inaudible] in the 18th century. Thank you very much. Thank you for sharing your comments mr. Francisco. Next speaker, please. This is adam from district 6 and a couple comments one supervisor mandelman talked about the bounty bike lane program needing a state law change this may be true, what we dont need a change for is enforcing the no ping in the bike lane. Had is luthat apply if it is reason it is in the enforced because sfmta leadership chosen not to enpores and the board of supervisors chosen not top make laws to require the sfmta to enforce it. If you call in car blocking a bike lane sfmta will refuse to sends an officer out that is standard policy. Which is frustrating. As far as coverage is concerned id love to been coverage in soma we have none since the central subway went in you know delivery trucks like the park on the sidewalk. Last week. Call in to 311 about a full on truck blocking a sidewalk blocking the sidewalk on fourth for 45 millions. Forcing pedestrians and in the street to get around it. If you cant responded in 45 minutes what is going on. Traffic back and blocking the box you maim it forcing people in the street. Bicycle you felts blocking cars, illegal turns there is no enforcement cars behavior they have no rules because you have chosen not to enforce the existing rules that is what needs to be understood your time has lapsed thank you. Forward the next caller. Good afternoon supervisors it hen a long meeting and i appreciate your commitment to Public Service. First, i like to say if you want to be stronger the board of supervisors, you have listen to what the mayor i will say it again. Mayor [inaudible] this speech is all that is needed we need support our Law Enforcement. And we need to support our strong mayor. The strong mayor. Who kicked the nra out of San Francisco. And i i absolutely [inaudible] backed supervisor mandelman introducing [inaudible] [inaudible] on one hand and [inaudible] tweets out [inaudible]. Im baffled. I cant believe this. If you want safe streets you need less traffic if you near traffic you are traffic you need more riding muni. You should have advertising to take muni. Get people out of cars on to muni and busy muni is a safe muni. And i just absolutely baffled to use the word of my mayor the mir who called out the stood up for everybody like the strong leader she is. Im baffled you are not running adds to get people to stop driving and take their transit. You got a great bart and bay ferry i could go on im not. Im not that great im an ordinary am guy who likes watching sfgovtv and i appreciate you making time to listen to the public. Thank you for your Public Service and wish all 3 of you supervisors and mayor stefani all my best. Thank you. Thank you for sharing your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im lisa church a resident. I want it say thank you to luke and steven who did amazing work the city should have done itself. Period. I do believe that many of you here and on sfmta and the city care about the safety of us when chos to walk or bicycle in San Francisco. I hope that you understand that it feels like nothing is being done and it gets worse all the time. It is super frustrate to see and hear the same meetings over and over again and do nothing this shows basic graphs about talking points about when we might do sometime with nothing getting done. And in fact slow streets are regressing, losing ground there. We clear already failed at vision zero men we should scrimmage thap and do enforcement. I dont know. I lived in San Francisco over 30 years and the First Time Ever i am concerned wuking down the sidewalk or sitting in a bus shelter. There are cars on the sidewalks all the time they w there. They cause accidents there. Drivers in San Francisco know, they can do whatever they want with no consequences and i realize that every division this hen up here today of has kept repeating pandemic, staffing, staffing. No dub staffing is a part of it. I think if people managed resources better may modify a better outcome. I want you to understand that the people in your city it feels like not lack of staff but the design of our systems, occurs do when they want. Drivers. Your time lapsed. Thank you for your comments. Forward the next caller. Hi there thank you supervisors for holding this important hearing. Im a resident in bay vow the time i lived here i have 2 mall wayed we are a bike first family and do public transand i minimize the use of our caller. I agree with steven and lounges presentation we need to build infrastructure. Have the transparency and enforcement of traffic laws to make our city safer. I support the use of technology for automative enforcement. It can bring down the Traffic Violations that pose a Public Safety issue. [inaudible] in march bayview will reduce to 20 Miles Per Hour. Nothing changed in driver behavior. Cars on third street continued to surpass the slims. There is double park thanksgiving enforcement [inaudible] behavior. On february 10th this year a hit and run on third and fair fixture a cyclist was injured took her to the icu the lack of infrastructure has consequence. That incident help in the february it october in the 8 months nothing on third street if a design or Enforcement Point of view changed. It is sad as residence denials to write letters and seeing no improvements. As a period of time, cyclist, transit roadway and driverment enforcement for traffic laws for everyones safety. Work together and do so on this important issue. Thank you very much. Thank you for sharing your comments. There are for you callers on the line with one in the queue. Thank you. Maam. I in [inaudible] i [inaudible] previous callers comment. Imagine mag that if in the first for you neighborhoods of the city the [inaudible] listening to this imagine how it can be whether walking sidewalks, Traffic Enforcement any speed or double parking. And this whole thing about reducing the ped is so fun tedoes in the make sense. And we have heard nothing new from the agencies here we have not heard before the same excuses and blame things on covid is not defensiveness the enforcement has been dropping for the last [inaudible]. Lastly you [inaudible] last 3 hours you can let the homeless person speak. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. There are in other speakers. Public comment is closed. Supervisor mandelman do you have any remarks. Thank you chair mar. I want to again thank luke and upon steven but for um sort of prompting this conversation. Or prompting the renewal of conversation. I want to thank command are walsh and our folks from the mta for participating today. I have a long to do list coming out of this hearing. And i hope that the departments do as well. And so my request would be this we actually continue the members continue this to the call of the chair rather then and there filed. Thank you. Thank you supervisor mandelman for calling this person hearing and i would move that we continue this to the call of the chair. Vice chair stefani. Aye member melgar. Aye. Chair mar aye. This will be continued. Clothes we have a special order item person hear thanksgiving was scheduled at 4 p. M. Today on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment, thank you for calling for this person hearing. We will recess until 4 p. M. And i wanted to note we will continue that hearing so we can schedule it continue to october upon 27th. We will be appropriateed have everyone realize to be at the hearing. We will recess now. Thank you. [music] good morning. Im San Francisco mayor london breed and im joined today with our police chief bill scott. Our sdreshth tournament jenkins and our member of district 6 board of supervisors matt dorsey. Today we are here to talk about hahas been really frustrating for all of us. Especially the people who live in the tenderloin and so many community. The open air drug dealing that destroying our city. I have been out a lot and talked to so many people especially a lot of people who live in the tenderloin and people who i grew up with. People are angry with when they see and experience. The brazen drug use and sales during broad daylight. We know what is at stake. The sale of drugs on our streets they are killing people. And open air drug markets disrupting neighborhoods and residents. In fact we had moreover dose deaths since the start of a Global Pandemic then and there covid deaths. Kids are wuk by things they should not see on the way to school. No one should see or experience that. This does not include the violence which we know has been extremely problematic. I know there are so many who are struggling with addiction. And this is a city of compassion. Of course, we want to help. We have been balancing our work around expansion of services and treatment for them. And we need to firm low establish what is acceptable conduct on our streets and in our public spaces. San francisco has to draw a firm line at behaviors that harm that injury and cost neighborhoods peace of mind every day safety and quality of life. And part of this means we must be more aggressive with arrests and prosecution for the organized criminal operations that are flooding our streets with drugs and violence. That in some cases have lead to people losing their lives. The driving of drugs especially fentanyl in our city is going to require all levels of government Work Together including enforce am against those dealing drugs. Tell require Police Working with the da and board of supervisors working with the city agencies. Us soliciting support and help from the federal governments, which we are doing this is a hard issue. I want to be clear, that the leaders of the city are final low working together the way they should in order to address it. Police chief scott will provide details on the data and the department strategies. Da jenkins will talk about haher office has been working on and supervisor dorsey a strong advocate for Public Safety not just in the district he represents but other neighborhoods in the city. He has been supportive of Law Enforcement and addressing the issue. And this does require a Public Health approach as well. Over the last year we connected 4500 people to services for Substance Use in stan San Francisco across our health system. We are 2 thirds of the way toddaing 400 treatment beds adding make it 2,000 and adding that to 2, 200 that already exist. The Health Department is setting goals to increase people medically assisted treatment. Help them get off opioids. Housing and other places we are createingly for people struggling on our streets. The investments are designed to create solutions that can get people off the streets in safe settings and ultimate low stability. We will snot stop until we get to the goal where no neighborhood should be responsible for living in the conditions like the ones we see sad low in the tenderloin. Residentses and merchants deserve a clean and safe neighborhood. Be clear using drugs in the open is unacceptable. We have to move together and thats why it is important we have our police chief and District Attorney. Board of supervisors here working together. Police department making arrests and seeding the fentanyl. Interrupting the open air drug deal and confiindicating deadly substance as we build strong case against criminals profiting from drug sales and they have a partner in our District Attorney. Who is sending a strong message around accountability and who is working with our offices to build strong case. That is not about them it is about what they are doing together to help the people who are struggling in our city especially again the folks in the tenderloin. When our Police Officers make an arrest there needs to be consequence for the seniors, immigrants, kids who are trying to live their lives. And do the basic things we take for granted. We are working on every option to get people the help they need and hold those who bring warm to our streets account act. For what they are causing the significant damage. Standing with everyone today im confident our Public Safety agencies will work more closely together will make a difference for residentses and workers and visitors and with that i want to take an opportunity to introduce police chief bill scott and everyone in the department to make sure our foot beats and patrols and officers are responding to calls we have a lot to work to do it is important that we support Law Enforcement in this city because ultimate low we have to make significant change and that means we have to make sure they are consequence when is people break law in San Francisco. And thats what we will do to make our streets safer. With that police chief bill scott. Thank you mayor and good morning. First, thank you to the mayor our District Attorney and matt dorsey this is a mall fraction of the city team working hard to address this issue. We want to make sure that everybody understandses unity and the commitment of city leaders to make situation better this. Is about saving lives and protecting the people who work with and play in the city. And this is about producting our great city. I want to talk about the balance that we are trying to achieve here. The Police Departments role is enforcement and guess way beyond that. This city is known for compassion and known for reaching out and helping people who need help this city is known for balance what needs to be done on the enforce am scale and to get people who want and need help to a better place. Our role the San Francisco Police Department and the officers out in the streets starts with had we are hear for this is enforce am. We are also here to treat people with dignity and he respect and make connections with all the resources in the city family to get people to a better place. And we are doing both. This is about working more effectively, working efficiently and always evaluating hawe are doing and can we do it better. This is something this mayor breed stresses on a daily basis. And we are responding to that direction to work efficient low and effectively. I want to talk about how we plan to do that. We made 600 narcotic related rests and for sales. Possession for sales met low. The Police Department and our officers have to give the District Attorney the evidence she and her team need to prosecute cases. And if we do our jobs we can have the accountability that we are looking for. There has to be consequences. There has to be accountability we cannot be the city people think they come in San Francisco or live in San Francisco and do when they please and nobody will say anything or do anything. And i guarantee you we are not that city. We are committed to accountability and consequence. In addition to the 600 rests, a part of readjustment we realize we had to do more to address the people who need help the people most addicted. I have been doing this for a long time and every wagz where we have groups of drug dealers on the streets, what closely follow this is are people who are addicted, have a Substance Abuse disorders and they are operating in tandem. We have to address both sides we cant arrest the deal and then leave the people buying the drugs alone to do as they please and think this will get better. It is tough balance to do that. The same time, we respect Harm Reduction and make sure that people who are addicted are not using dirty needles and pipes and spreading hiv and things to make a Public Health issue even more complicated. However, that does not mean people addicted get a free pass. The criminal Justice System as tools to get to that issue. This city leads with service. We lead with services. Our officers and come in contact with people who need help they are directed to get them to help. Not everybodiments help. Not everybody is red for help. And when they are still addicted than i are going to buy drug and use drug and when we have seen and have to put a stop top is that is happen nothing broad daylight in the street. Kids and families see it that harms our communities as much as violent and property crime and we have to do more that is our commitment to do more. Our officers storied in june of addressing that issue. Over 350 citations for people using in open space in public spaces. Many of those people have warrants and orders from the courts than i were not sfoezed to be there in the first place. The District Attorney talk about policyos how to dlaesz when we need to do is do our jobs and make sure the people understand that is not okay. And i have talked to many people in the city i dont care what sifted e wagz you are on i have not heard anybody say it is okay to smoke fentanyl in the street with kids walking by and families. I have not heard anybody say that is okay. We should be in agreement to do something about it. And this is when we are committed to doing. The operations and this enforce am will condition and it has increased. We know the affects of harms to our community that drug dealing the tenderloin is one community they have more deaths than any part of the city for drug over dose. Our officers are saving lives. The reversals are a daily occasion. Whoaness what the over dose would be if we were not doing that and the other per ins trying to stave lives. We have to dig deep are. We cannot allow this to continue and we will not allow this to continue on our streets. I will close with a person story. This past friday, myself and a couple officers and sergeant were at eighth and mission. It is known for drug sales and addicted people hanging out. Supervisor dorsey was a half block, way conducting a Community Clean up. Officers makes arrests while i was there for drug sales. Needles spread out on the sidewalk. It had been cleaned up a couple hours before public works had just cleand that corner up and you never would have known it. I saw a girl walking down the street with her mom, stepping over needle another girl and her mom wanted to get on the bus. The bus shelter was peculiared with litter with people using and people passed out at the bus shelter. Thats not okay. Folks. It is not okay. We gotta clone it up within an hour. Officers came and cleaned it up. Arrests were made as i was out there arrests were being made for sales. Couple hours later. Back to the same. Here is the point to this story. This mayor this da and board of supervisor and many others in this chief are committed to try to resolve this issue. The spitzes the mayor talked about are vital. And one way