Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20221008

Fellow commissioners, chief scott, sergeant can you please take roll. Absolutely. Thank you. Commissioner walker. Present. Commissioner benedicto fmgt present. Commissioner yanez. Present. Commissioner yanez present. Vice president obertone . Present. Commissioner byrne. Here. Commissioner ye. Here. Commissioner yee is here. You have a quorum. Start with the first one. Line item 1, general Public Comment. At this time the public is allowed to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but that are in the subject matter of the commission. Speakers should address the remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa personnel. Under the order, during comment Neither Police or personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public. But may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and police and dpa personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during Public Comment. If you would like to make Public Comment, please dial. And access code 24941789940. And press pound. Good evening, caller you have two minutes. Speaker commissioners im francisco decosta. I want to make a statement that we San Franciscoians board of commission in total to have the freedom to express themselves and to take a position on anything. I say this because nobody has chosen as a commission to do some other job. Everybody is chosen as a commission to represent quality of life issues and serve our constituents. And recently, when it begins to light that behind the scenes, some people want to manipulate that is simply wrong. They need some psychological inspection. That is why on this commission, the ordinance says let us have a judge, we dont have a judge. Why . Because a judge has a lot of experience. Thats all i have to say. I have a blog i can express myself in detail on my blog. Im pleading with you commissioners, treasure our freedom as i treasure my freedom. Thank you, caller. Caller you have two minutes. Speaker im a resident of district 1 and i volunteer in the black community. The following is a quote from often disparity felicia jones, quota dressing the injustices of black San Franciscoians is urgent, im calling it what it is, anti blackness traffic stops by the sfpd. Ive grown tired of walking to sfpd. Where is the urgency, if it was white folks, i know there would be a urgency. When are you going to address the statistics. You took an oath to uphold the law. Like i said im tired but not too tired to quit. Weve reached out to new sources and therefore we sought help from attorney general end quote. Though the bulk of findings department of justice house report which resulted in 272 recommend remain asas ever. 2022, q1 report has they have since 2016. Report to this commission and analysis of wrongdoing and discipline with demographic including prior actions and discipline histories. This would show with racist track records. House recommendation, 69. 3 under accountability. We attend these meetings regularly and have never heard this type of reporting from sfpd. They must do its job and provide regular reporting and report repeated officer including information. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Good evening, caller you have two minutes. Caller i volunteer, the quote is a quote from our founder felicia jones. Im going to call it like what it is, anti blackness in terms of use of force, arrest and racial profiling at stops. Where is the urgency . If the tables were turned and these were white folks, i know there would be urgency. When are you going to address the biases. You took an oath to uphold the law for all San Franciscoians. During a Commission Meeting last month, there was a presentation for officer involved shooting. The report showed only 2017 and forward. Why is it . Did they leave 2016 and prior years off the report because they want you to forget that it was in those years that there were so many troubling shootings of unarmed people that they are the National Spotlight to do its Community Services review. We demand the report of an officer shooting cases, no matter how long ago it happened. There is no statue of limitations. And use in the report, they are people not case numbers. To this day, resent sfpd record. 15 times likely to experience use of force as a white San Franciscoians. The deadly use of force remain with sfpd, thank you. Thank you, caller. Good evening caller you have two minutes. Caller im jane bridges and i volunteer with well and disparity in the black community. The following is a quote from the founder felicia jones. Im going to call this what it is, anti blackness in terms of use of force, arrests and racial profiling via traffic stop by sfpd. Ive grown tired of talking to Police Commission and to the board of supervisors. Where is the urgency, if the tables were turned and the statistics represented white folks, where would they take the urgency. You took an oath to uphold the law for all of San Francisco ans i said, im tired, not tired enough to quit however tired of beating a dead horse. We reached out to new resources and therefore we sought help from attorney general, end quote. During the september 7 police Commission Meeting there was a discussion about 4th amendment training photoeder purpose of reducing bias and policing which is one of the oriented policing sefshsz or doj cops recommendation. Chief cop and mcguire mentioned. Commissioners walker and benedicto mentioned shadowing training. Was this for the amendment training they attended . Why isnt the commission asking about the impact. Isnt this a crucial topic in terms of reducing Racial Disparities which have remained at the same high level since 2016. The commission seems to have expressed frustration about on going disparity but not identify or pursue any solutions. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Caller my name is paul allen, ai speak [no audio] caller are you still there . Caller yes. We cant hear you. Caller can you hear me now . Faint, its a faint voice. Caller ill try to do better. Im paul allen, a 30year resident with the city. I speak in enforcement order 101 and this supplement my written submission of september ~ caller are you still there . And president elias, that concludes the Public Comment. I think the last caller had some technical issues. Thank you, next item. Sorry i was muted. Line 2, adoption of meeting for september 7, of 2022. This is an action item. Great, can i get a motion to adopt. Move to adopt. Before, before we adopt the mibz on this, the election of officers, i think that was a september 14th. Indicated that there was no second in the motion to nominate mr. Yee. And i recall making a second. I would like the minutes after. I move that the minutes of september 14th so that the minutes are reflected, the minutes say that there was [indiscernible] from what i recall, and we need to look back at the tape. I think she made the motion and there was already a pending motion on the floor. So, thats my recreation too. Until the next motion is adopted, i dont think you can make the motion. I mean, unless youre going to take all the motion. My recreation is there is a motion made by commissioner benedicto and commissioner walker made a motion after that and only roberts rules, once a motion is made there could not be a subsequent motion. We may need to have go after. Maybe we should table the item if there is lack of clarity about what happened and we can review the tape. Yeah, i think what we can do is take up the september 7th and 21 and table the 14th. Move as amended. Well go ahead, and start a vote on september 7th and 21 minutes and were going to table this 14th. Commissioner walker how do you vote. Yes. Commissioner benedicto. Yes. Commissioner benedicto yes, commissioner yanez. Yes. Vice president oberstone. Yes. Commissioner byrne. Yes. Commissioner byrne yes. Commissioner yee. Yes. And president elias . Yes. You have a unanimous vote, president elias. Do we need to take Public Comment online item 2, if would you like to make Public Comment please enter the queue now. There is no Public Comment. Next item. Line number 3, strategies for recruitment of women. Discussion. Thank you, im going to turn this to Vice President carter oberstone. Thank you, as some folks may recall, i said, i wanted this commission to increase gender diversity. And ever since then, i knew that at all cost, we need today get one person to present on this issue because of the amazing work that she is doing in this area. And that person is lori who is joining us tonight. Professional back grounds and just a couple of her credentials. Maureen is the founder of 30 for 30 initiative which is a grass roots improvement to improve representation and women in policing, launched in 2021, they have masked over 2000 partners including some big ones. As well as state agencies and local agencies and University Departments and federal Law Enforcement axes. She is also chief of policing project at Nyu Law School where she oversees standards for Police Departments. She joined the policing project from the National Police foundation where she lead her training and Technical Assistance effort as director of national programs. Prior to that, maureen spent a decade with the federal government at the u. S. Department of justice and department of state. She served as Senior Policy Adviser to the director of institute of justice which is Evaluation Agency where she lead efforts to policing and implemented criminal justice reforms. Some of her other experience is serving as counsel to the Deputy Attorney general. Being a assistant u. S. Attorney for the district of columbia and efforts through embassy. Maureen is a member of fbi Law Enforcement education and training counsel and executive board member of policing and resent public leadership executive fellow with the brookings institution. Finally just on a personal note, i had the opportunity to work with maureen at the policing project. I would say that she is one of the most dynamic leaders i have met. I remember when she first launched 30 to 30 and its just amazing what a resounding success its become. So mo, thank you for joining us. I know its late in the east coast so i will turn it over to you. Thank you so much for that kind and long introduction if i knew you were going to say read the whole thing i would have submit something shorter. I do have a presentation. Should i share my screen. First of all, thank you, thank you to Vice President for having you share your wealth of knowledge. Thank you so much. I just wanted to extend my gratitude. I know policing and many many issues that you could be discussing at this moment. And im grateful that gender equity is something that youre giving your department attention to we think it critically important. All right, next slide. So just a little bit about why this work is so important. So current estimates from your justices, statistics shows that women make up about 12 of sworn officers in this country and only 3 of police leaders. We have some reason to believe that in the leadership, we have numbers be lower than 3 . And of course thats concerning from a gender clarity perspective but its especially concerning because we believe that under representing of women in policing is contributing to the crisis that were experiencing in this country. Next slide, we have per seed this work because of the case of research that youre seeing on the screen. I know this violates of a power point but we cant help that to support the research why this is so important. So Research Shows that Women Officers often and they use less excessive force. This one is the limit most supported and supporting it there is even some research that indicates women have a classifying affect when a man is less likely to use force when a woman shows up. Fewer non discretionary arrest. And we suggest that they find a non punitive ways to resolve. There is associated with Better Outcomes, especially victims of, Sexual Assault, they conduct fewer searches during traffic stops. But when they do search, they are more likely to find contraband. Theyre perceived as being more honest and compassionate. I would say that is perception, right, we dont have to have access to proceed them to be and that in and of it is important. This one is an area that is most seen interested in learning to less office and there is some research because of that, they result to up 05. 5 times less. And they fired a Service Weapon in the line of duty. And some of these samples are small but a lot are in the process of being replicated and they do tend to trend in a particular direction. And if there was a training out there that offers these kinds of benefits, everybody would implement that training. But instead were thinking definitely about who we hire in the production. Next slide. So 3530 was coalition of mostly women that this is part of the safety crisis and we need to do something about it. So youll hear in a second about what our goals r our slogan is 30 by 30 but its not just improving the representing and policing its also about improving the experience approximates of women across all ranks in the profession. We really focus on achievable actions that were no lower or no cost. We were built where youll hear a little bit on in a second. But its still acknowledge that this is an extraordinary time in policing for a lot of reasons. And the last thing that you want to do is create goals that are simply unattainable. And it divides strategy to move the field forward with regards to representation and recruit classes and agency culture. In terms of who is at the table, lets hear about this. Were focused on north american agencies. I think we have 6 agencies, everybody else is in the u. S. , were learning about what works and what strategies have been affected in Law Enforcement agencies across the globe. Next slide please. You may wonder why 30 by 30. I got a little bit of slack that say that they dont think women could do the job. And ive gotten a lot of dubious looks from people from the profession that they think. Weve only been running up for years and they are reaching that 30 . So i think we have all the reason in the world to be optimistic. But its really important. So the theory represented suggests that until a Group Reaches 30 , they cannot impact that organization and have any impact of agencier al culture. Where that manifest, particularly, if you have discussions around gender and Police Department, one of the things they hear is well thats all good. And thats an element of function of mind set because there is not yet 30 in that agency. So thats something that were working on. Next slide. Here is how were going to do it and how were actively doing it across the country right now. So that 30 thats really important. But the last thing we want to do is get a bunch of women in the door in an organization that is not set up to support their success. And here i want to make one note because i think there is a misconception about what were saying here. Were not implying that theyre trying to keep women out of it. But what were acknowledging is that policing was a profession that was built by and for men and thats a profession that is going to change. It should bethat the status quo may have some biases against anybody who is is not a man and may not be set up to support unique ways of women. And also understand how the current practices and strategies assessment may be inherent against them and they may meet their needs and something about it. Next slide. I think its really important to understand where we came from, for you to understand where were going next. Most of this work has come out of the advocacy who was the chief of the Newark Police department. Doj we were looking for Police Reforms and work together. And she brought the statistics to the doj. Those numbers have been set for decades. She brought the research about the value of Women Officers and found the doj to do something about it. So in 2016, they found forces where we tried to explore what were the drivers and what can be done about it . That was the foundation for 30 by 30. In 2019, we formed a committee where Women Leaders from a lot of departments across country, weve got midofficer, and advocates to really understand what could be done to advance the profession and improve gender equity. In 2021, we watched the pledge. And i want to tell you about why we watched the pledge that we did. We started trying to fundraise to do this work and provide technical in 2019. At the time, there was a real ince duity that they would have priority gender parity. That people would not raise their hand and do the work. There was an ununderable shift alternative policing. So we realize, we had to just go ahead and launch without any funding to demonstrate we were ready to do this. So we pulled together all of our researchers and practitioners leaders, we came up with an evidence pledge that included several dozen items that Police Departments can make a difference. It felt a little bit like we were throwing a party and we didnt know who was going to show up. And from there, we have been going gang busters ever since. If youre interested in seeing the report from the department of justice, from the barriers overcome them, call them and policing breaking barriers to be able to the doj and happy to provide that rank in the followup discussion. All right, next slide. So we look at how were targeting and what youre getting out there. When we were in there that summit in 22, we heard some pretty funny stories that didnt have any aviation access, not even a drone. But the recruitment were big guns. So being really intentional about how we describe the profession. And were really optimistic that once the departments start to do that, well see an increase on gender and other diversity. Were looking at hiring assessment and removingmaking them more accurate for what affective policing entails. Were looking at retention entering a really big area for us. We lose women right around the 6 or 7yearold mark when they have to choose between a family or career and the career will usually lose. Parttime options and san diego just institued first childcare in the country. Making sure that you spernl taylor to see women, you would be surprised how often that is not happening in your jurisdiction. Things like nursing spaces, were hearing stories from women in Metro Department where theyre having to pump breast milk in a dark alley or using a restroom. Making sure that the women needs are taken care of. And the other thing that we focus is understanding the experience of a women that is policing and helping agencies run the focus groups. And often, i mean this goes without saying, the best ideas for how to work come from the people working with that. Next slide. So this flag is to show what weve got. We max mentioned this in the introduction. Weve got a lot of major metros but weve got midsize as well. Then the small agencies, theyre doing the bulk of the work and recruiting other agencies to recruit. We have about a to see state level, theyre National Numbers are closer to 4 or 5 in representation. And as of this month, we got the first agency to join the service and as of today, we have custom Border Protection as well. Next slide. In terms of some resent development, its times. Were not that out of the grass roots movement. We still have grass roots but we have structure so we have a lot more agency to see participate. We parted to do a National Tour to understand the stories in women and policing and make sure that our strategies and priority reflect what their priority and change are. I would say, our next stop is waco. Thats our last stop we are looking to do in the west coast. Climate justice institute, they helped with things like Data Collection. I should have mentioned this previously, Data Collection is a huge component of the pledge. We feel there are barriers to womenand there was some research now gets First Responder body. When they started to collect data and when they removed a 30 application fee, they saw an increase in 80 for racial diversity. We believe those barriers will help with the policing. Thats when the technic comes in. Earlier this month, we partnered with bureau of justice. Director is making an organizational priority to direct funds from the bureau of justices to agencies that are working this facility in the 30x30. The president issued a executive order in policing, part of that executive order calls on department of justice to develop, the 30x30 is going to be by that and will improve work on diversity. Next slide. I think its important to acknowledge that 30x30 is a different part of the story,. We think its equally imagine who police are. And we think thats a story that is start to go resonate across the country and its getting more traction for improving policing. So just want to demonstrate that its getting that type of attention. Unsing backer i think that story is going to affect each article the chief of nebraska who is implementing this kind of change and is the only Law Enforcement in the state that is actually seeing an increase in the number of applicants and thats a waiting list for officers and its all because of gender parity. Next slide. Here is contact information. Our website is really comprehensive. We have a fairly active twitter presence where we celebrate the sort of wins and gains of our participating agencies. And there is an email address there to welcome you to reach out to me directly if you have any questions or concerns or access to any information. I can stop there and happy to to take any questions, i know there is a little bit of overtime. Thank you so much for that mo. There is a number of names in the chat, people with questions. Ill ask one question and divert to my colleagues. Which is one thing that you hear, you know, in all different types of industries when it comes to diversifying not just with gender but any kind of demographic, you hear from the employer that is the problem is on the supply side. Were not just getting enough applicants from insert the name of the group. So im just curious, if you hear a lot in the work that you do and if so what your response is . So that is something that people raise and i have great news. Thats only a concern if you have sources of ask. But in policing, were not all that creative when we think about who would make a officer and how to reach them. They go to local university and military. Those are both important pools. The one thing that we suggest is look for College Majors that service orients, go to your nursing majors, your social work majors, your sociologist, psychologist, it also happens that those groups have an over representation of women. Great, thank you. Commissioner walker. Thank you, commissioner oberstone. Im so glad that this came back up. I had it in mind asking for it to be reagendized. This is such an important issue. Ive been touching on it, as ive been talking in the community with folks looking for alternative responses which interestingly often times touches the social worker, the advocate, the neighborhood advocate the community group. Discussing with what were calling ambassador group. And programs. The control special all of which wrap around the criminal aspect, the Law Enforcement and Street Safety aspects of Law Enforcement. And everybody says we knee to recruit more women into these roles maybe even through those programs. So you step up and sort of understand it. I really appreciate the timeliness of this. So much of what we do is figuring out what the issue s where to direct people, and rather than just in kars racing, going into treatment or program rehab. Im interested in that and reforming. Your statistics about that there were less stops that accelerated into searches but more it lead more often to actual finding of crime. Did you get into the detail of wla that w was . Thats the question we get asked often. Is it biology . How people survive training differently. And the studies dont get into that, at the level of detail. So this one is out of chicago it was the 2021 study. Im happy to send it to you. We dont know why, we just know the difference in performance is there. Interesting. Yeah. So i would like to see that study. And one more question, im trying to go quick here. The importance, i mean the dealing with the issues that directly affect women. Childcare, for instance going through the academy some have expressed concern to me as i meet people on the street, that academy uses large guns for the testing. And times it affects the way women shoot, our hands are smaller. And seeing women in leadership. That is how we can recruit. I cannot say enough. And i look at statistics and i feel strongly about this, that we have to be the example of promoting and thats a big deal. That whole representation in leadership is critical. Its why we pursue all of those objectives, were not focusing on recruitment but were talking about how police understand and values women, right . But again, sort of ob trayer micro barriers to womens promotion. So that firearm side issue, there are long guns that are massive. Denies entry into the department because of that gun. There was finally a chief who let up and joined swat and leading swat and became chief. Where are these barriers that using this specific gun is not grounded in any Scientific Evidence that a better person. And it does affect, i know benedicto and i went. And there were not any women and i mentioned it. Its sort of like, thats its like putting the cart before the horse. I think the only way to see change is to make change. Amen. We have a webinar on the experiences of Women Specialty that would be great. Thank you. Of course. Thank you again commissioner. Commissioner benedicto. Thank you very much, Vice President carteroberstone, would i like to thank you for getting this item on the agenda and inviting our guest here today. I think this looks like its a process that is one of participating agencies. What is that process for us . So like i said, it was almost exclusive Law Enforcement. So we were cognizant to lower the barrier. What youre willing to do is increment, thats the only quasi accountability measure that we have and we doenlt even use it for accountability. We make sure that we build programs to support their work in getting a pledge completed. Next change for participation, what agencies receive is we do monthly webinar wz national researchers, we have monthly newsletters where we have a research on what works and what matters and all of that. I think the most important thing you get. And people on this call know better than anybody who is most affected alt changing Police Departments mind . Is other departments. And especially seeing how it works in other metros where its less nimble, i think its helpful. And its a really good ties to get involved. We suspect it will be a specific resources that help objective moving forward. Thats right, my next question will be the chief as, you know, it seems like something that we should get involved in. With oakland, and San Francisco, weve got free mont, sacramento, so we even put you in the spot here, but what do you think about adding our department to this list . Thank you for the question. Actually on september 12th, we announced to the department that were going to join the 30x30 initiative. I dont know if work has gotten where it needs to get. But we made that nounsment on september 12 that were going to participate in the initiative. Thats great. Thats super exciting, thank you so much chief, were looking forward to working with you, thats awesome. Likewise, and thanks for the presentation. Sure. Thats all i have. Thats great work, thank you chief. Thank you, i guess i missed that announcement. Thats huge. Thats a big big deal. And we should be celebrating strides like that for the department for these participating in this wonderful organization and effort. Thank you for being here. And one stuck out was the research of Women Officers and less use of force the traffic stop and more likely to find contraband when they do. So i know youre gathering the research around that and other things that youre doing, their ability in ability to train the entire department . You know what i mean . How do we harness that and expand on that. Is that something that the organization looks into as well . Thats a very good question. We dont have the capacity to expand that evidence. But what im hoping to do by going in the u. S department of justice, department in arms, filling in some of the research and finding replications of studies. There is a huge proponent of the work so im looking to working with her and create a more Solid Foundation of evidence. The beauty is, the more they participate, the more partners well be able to have in duplicating the research. The other thing that weve done, we did a survey a volunteer survey, we got over 800 responses. The biggest data that women and policing exist. Were sitting on a lot of opportunities, we just dont have the capacity but its something that we hope to achieve in the future. Do you post the findings from the check in, on the website. We do not. Okay. We do not. And we were, we were kind on the fence about that, the reality is i think all of this information is viable. I dont think its anything that is protected. We wanted make sure that the agencies were comfortable and sharing with us where the challenges were, thats where the meat of those reports helpful. Currently, its not public. Thank you again for being here. Thank you again for this presentation, this is amazing. Great job. Thank you, again for the time. It really means a lot, i appreciate it. It looks like commissioner yee . Youre on mute commissioner. Thank you very much, Vice President carter oberstone for bringing this out here. I also want to thank you for bringing this up here to us. And i see the chief is one step ahead of us. Thank you chief again. One of my question, as youre taking a look at the San Francisco Police Department, staff us on, i mean on the on our ratio and what are your thoughts on there and how far do we need to go . And what more can we do to make it happen . I know one of the problem thats we have is recruiting base that is so low. So, looking forward for maybe some leadership there and new innovative ideas to energize the next generation of Police Officers or members in the Police Department to come forward. So, im very excited too. Thank you very much. That makes two of us. I dont know if it makes you bet per, but the recruitment is huge everywhere. I guess, i dont know. You know one of the things that we found is that because its so dire, there is a lot of really interesting innovation thats are happening across the country and what we do is so you make it so we have access and learning in realtime. The Police Department is doing some fascinating work. To understand, if you have a 30second spot, there is so many different aspects of policing that you can talk about. But they partner from researchers, what aspect the policing resonates with them. How should we talk about it . With people were trying to work with. So there are all of these little things, they take the work and take some elbow grease but theyve been done in other places. And thinking differently about the source, is a different one. And how it is that you talk about what the job of policing entails and who is good at it is important. But to your direct question, i dont have a lot of inside to the San Francisco Police Department. But now that there is, i look forward to having one. Thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioner yanez. Thank you Vice President oberstoneoh i am muted. That was a great presentation, the more we hear about the needs, the more compelled to hurry up and catch up. I think we do a decent job of the recruitment element. What would be your guidance to us for our existing personnel to engage in that process. So that that way we can take the ball and start running with this, so we can sign the paperwork. So that way, we kind of have, some guidance around the best direction to take. Great question. We have a researcher redeveloped for agencies. We know that not every agency that can facilitate that. We have promising practices to motivate conversation and protect peoples privacy. I can send. Thank you very much. How to take the next step. Thank you very much. Thank you. Commissioner byrne. Thank you, Vice President. I just want to say thank you for what youre doing. Its important work. Thank you so much. Well mo, i cant remember the last time we had a presentation with 100 participation from the commissioners in the comment. We could not have been more fortunate in having you join us. Thank you for joining us late at night in the east coast. And thank you chief for joining the cause and im really heartened that our department will be part of the 30x30. Maybe we can have you back when we do the sixmark. I would be happy to. Thank you again for the time and i look forward to working with San Francisco. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you, sergeant renolds can we go to Public Comment. We also have a presentation from recruitment did you want to hear that first or after. Yes, youre right. Thank you for reminding us. We have commander nicole jones. Thank you. Good evening everybody, can you please pull up my presentation . Good aong, president elias and commitsingers. Commissioners. That was a tough act to follow but i want to thank you for advocating for the women of this commission. Im here today to present, on sfpd and the women in the ranks. Im the Commanding Officer of our recruitment unit. Next slide please. I wanted to first provide everyone a little bit of context about the current state of affairs. So across the nation, 12. 8 of Law Enforcement officers are women. In terms of leadership, the National Average for sworn women as dr. Mcgraph mentioned is 3 or less and sfpd17 of leadership ranks. While sfpd is above the National Average, were not content with this. Particularly in women comprised 55 of the population. Are the recruitment of women has been repriced under the leadership of chief scott. And as the chief mentioned earlier, it was announced that well be participating in the 30x30 initiative. Weve seen returns in this recruitment of women and have made progress. Currently in 2022, year to date, women comprise 19 of all of our academy recruits. In terms of our recruitment units, we have a staff of four recruiter one of who is a women and 90 recruitment40 of who are women. Targeted demographic as each recruitment. Next slide please. This is just sampling of our campaigns that feature our sworn Women Officers. Our slogan is be the change, which we believe embody and the kind of candidates that were trying to attract. Next slide please. We have employed a multiple of strategies aimed to attract women in the profession. Sfpd attend well over 100 recruitment reenters annually and often beyond 200. And nearly half all events are focused on women. Includes the rif tore celebration, women job fair p invincible women, women returning to work career fair. We also select non traditional venues as well. Were 50 or more attendees are women. So this is job fares and mermaid run, fit expos and bay area to name just a few. Our improve unit heavily recruits at colleges, National Statistics show that over 50 percent of women are women. And recruiting female member and College Campuses than career fares. We also make sure that we have ample female representation at recruitment events. In 2022, they had at least one recruitment present. And 80 were lead by an all female Recruitment Team. We utilized expensive Advertising Campaign and every single advertisement in the last year has been women and diversity focus. Every single one. Our advertisements appear in local papers, magazine, college kie ofk, local dmw screens. Billboards and San Francisco throughout the bay area. And we also utilize social media including instagram and facebook and twitter. And use linkedin and handshake, thats the number one recruiting platform for colleges. Rivet for pop up cell phones. Next slide please. We have really tried to leverage the community particularly in relation to the recruitment of women and diversity. We take advise from the community regarding recruitment events. Connecting with. The recruitment units attends Community Meetings and we establish the Community Ambassador a few years back and currently have 46 members. 37 of those members are women. These ambassadors are trained regarding applicant and testing components and provided with recruitment material to distribute. As i mentioned, be the change is our current campaign. The recruitment also does out reach to our internal groups including the Womens Leadership Committee for assistance and recruitment efforts and reaching certain kind of candidates. And develop strategies to discuss strategies. Women have been resent focus which i will discuss later on in this presentation a little bit more. Next slide please. We have put effort into women entering the hiring process. And that is changing components. I think we have spoken about this in past. A component of our ability pace. The trigger pull was causing female candidate to see fail. And replacement of this test with alternative has lead to 50 improvement of women passing this component. In march of this year, we eliminated within the hiring process. Which correlates with the local hire. And gender analysis and were hoping this will reduce barriers for women even further. Our recruitment began facilitating which each phase of the hiring process. These types of profession include guidance for the written test, physical abilities test practice sessions and workout sessions to get candidates in shape. Women workout sessions were initialed in 2021 and these session wrz lead by a team of all female trainers. One on one workout, training opportunities were also provided and all geared towards women and conducted by women. We have worked with dhr to be more in line with other local agencies were competing with. Theyre slated to take affect in november. And we believe this testing component is more equitable and help our female candidates be more successful. And every applicant in our hiring process is assigned a recruiting to mentor them. Next slide please. And it is in the recruitment strategies, we have in place. I would like to discuss future strategies to bolster through the recruitment of women. Marking to not only help us brand ourselves but also help us help us. The firm will assist with the content and social media and discern what is giving us the most for our buck. Application tool. This tool is going to help us keep candidates engaged through the process and were hoping that this will also help successes so we can push forward and improve those that arent. This will help us mitigate resource constraints. We also received funding, the use of a firm will help us target women and other candidate thats were not reaching. We also received funding to the Recruitment Team and make us more efficient determining what strategies we should consider to use. And were also hiring a Public Relations assistant that will help with all of our social media endeavors. Largely digital these days and a team is going to help us tremendously. Next slide please. We want to get all our recruitment, if youre still on the call, we would like to talk to you but were hoping to bring in professional recruitment trainers and cutting edge techniques. Were also working on expanding and reimagining our Community Ambassador program. We want to discuss and incentivize and successes to drive additional members into the program. Were embarking on a new test day. Our Recruitment Team will be presenting at colleges to have people fill out the application. And then were going to return the next week. And when we return, were going to conduct all new phases of testing. All in that one day. And we believe that by consolidating all of these testing into one day, this is going to shorten our hiring process for from six plus months to approximately three months. Were also working on formal, our participation in the 30x30 campaign so our application, dr. , i dont think shes on anymore but im going to say that again. Thats also one of our key strategies. Next supplied please. So we know that measuring the success of our current strategies and future strategies are going to be key. Most will determine what is working and what isnt including the company. Recruitment application tool which will allow for far superior collection and our Senior Analyst who will be able to complete analysis that will provide future direction. Next slide please. I also wanted take a moment to discuss local recruitment efrtsz as well. Efforts as well. There is much effort to recruit local San Franciscoians. Local recruitment is a top priority and has been for several years. We believe that members of our San Francisco communities are essential to help us understand and police our communities. And we want as many as local communities in our department as possible. As such, in 2021, 06 of recruitment events, attended or hosted were located in San Francisco. And over the last three years, 32 of the a recruits were San Franciscoians. We aim to attract local San Franciscoians to a an a array of local events, including the city college of San Francisco career fair, china town night out and clean up and resource fair among many others. Next slide please. Hand and hand with the recruitment of women and San Franciscoian, we prioritize. In 2021, 75 of the revents were diversity focus. And the success to recruit evidence is evidence through the chart on this slide. So the diversity of our academy has increased steadily over the last few years but peaks last year. We are currently working on incorporating all of these strategies that ive discussed tonight until formal Strategic Plan. The Strategic Plan is going to be a important rollout for many years to come. Next slide please. Thank you, ill be happy to take any questions. I know na was a lot. I was trying to get it in, commissioner. You did great. Speeding through. You did great, you didnt even flinch or take a breath. You want to take a breath before we start. Lets talk about recruitment. I love a quick question for you and then im going to turnover to my colleagues. What is the department doing or does the department have a plan to address some of the issues that are raised by female officers and smft issues that were just raised by ms. Mcgaffe about the example she gave about nursing, i know i heard about the type of gun used and the hand sized something that commissioner has raised. Are there things that the department is doing to address those issues for the female officers . Yes, i think a lot of issues that she has brought up is things that the department is thinking about or has already done. So she talked about the best, that is the complaint that we got. Any member including our men, who dont have vest that fit properly, will be issued a new vest. All our facility have lactation accommodations. And were looking to improve those. The facility when the sufficient as they believe it should be, were working on really addressing that better and finding a better optimal space for them. One key thing is it gets to the heart of being a mom and a woman and allows for some scheduling for childcare reasons. I think its hard, its hard to be a woman or a parent just in general in this department. Chief. President thank you. And ill just add the, the issue with the guns and the, let me get back to the body armer. And specifically, we had, women test that to see if that worked better and a lot of our women said that it did. Its been very well received by both men and women. But specifically who gave relief to women who could not find the right body armer. We changed the testing for the trigger pool and the entry level process which was the data that we had at that time, it was a barrier that really that was one fpt factors. Of the women committee, i meet by them regularly. And more vaifrable and friendly for women who are, pregnant and who have give birth children. Those conversations are happening. I want to thank the commission and commissioner carl ober stone for bringing the presenter tonight. We are fully implementing these strategies in the 30x30 strategy. I saw in the slide that you were going to do it by 30x30. I realize i didnt mention, were looking at a new weapon. But a weapon that would be more suitable to our women. Thank you so much you did a great job. If we have to circle back and ride in, thats fine. So i know you saw your slide, the 19 of women. Are those recruits going in or. Going n. Ill get you the class going out. Yes, and i would also be interested in seeing that women are represented in the academy and dont end up graduating. If so, that is something i want to explore. I know that as mentioned in her slide, that 3 , she had 4 percent number and 3 of leadership, do you have a number for sfpd. I do, were at 17 . So you know, aiming to go higher. So were higher than the 3 . But we still have work to do i think. Absolutely. Do you know if there are any members. I dont believe that we have any current women who are members in the specialist team. And that the same for tax. Yes. How about women representation. We have two women captains. Are any in district captains. Not at this time. No district at this time. As we send that out to be acting, are they all . No i dont believe that any of the acting captains are women at this time. Okay, you got all the numbers already. Thank you so much. And commissioner ill get you the numbers about the women graduating. Ill make sure that we followup. I love it, she does not take breaths. Next up, commissioner walker. Thank you very much for this presentation. A couple of questions, i love the advancement around paid maternity leave. The previous presentation mentioned chicago had a maternity program. Not necessarily paying for it but make iting convenience and publicizing. Part of what i think what will help with recruits, when there are better than advancement. We should have the Women Officers telling the story as we go out and as we make Public Service announcements. I think that helps with recruitment. Just curious about the childcare efforts and where we are in looking at that. So i can say what ive done. And i have definitely had some very preliminary conversation wtz Womens Leadership Committee about the childcare issue and thats something that were trying to figure out how that would work, you know, in a specific world everything would be easy. Law enforcement, we work midnight hours, and people dont have childcare. If there is a way that we can ease the burden for our members. I do think that that will help in our recruitment and getting more women in particular into this department. I totally agree. Any update from chief . Yeah, we have not put anything in place, commissioner and thats been an issue that has been raised that were work on. San diego is doing it. So i will report back. But thats been a topic that were trying to figure out how to be better a at. See your Ambassador Program for out reach. I think there is potential in these Community Folks that are doing some of this Street Safety present in the different areas. Commissioner, it sounds simple were making recruitment specific business cards, so its going to have all the information you need to know on how to join sfpd. We wanted to cast a very wide net. And to do that, we distribute within our own department and urban alkamhe. I go to a restaurant and i go, have you ever thought about Law Enforcement. Heres my business card. At this point were open to any and all cret i have solutions to recruit. And the last question, is i know youre doing a lot to reach about educational facility the colleges and high school, does the police, does the sfpd have an education you know like the milt tee pays for it. There is a reimbursement. You dont get tuition to join the military and they pay for your college. Its not like that. Thats a huge incentive and resent changes in the law where everybody has to be a Fouryear College graduate very soon, that is going to be very very important that we are competitive with ability to be educated. And its a good tool for recruitment. Interesting how we can help with that. I think thats important. Definitely, so there is some money but its not full, its really, limited to be honest. Maybe we can talk about it. Thank you commissioner. Youre going to skip me. It says dw and then jb. We have to retrain you. But anyway. Thank you, thank you president elias for the recognition. Just wanted pickup on a point raised both by commissioner walker and presentation. Which is, just what are we doing in terms of reaching out for recruitment to pool of applicants that would be potentially, where we would be good fit to join the academy, that has an over representation of women. Social workers, psychology things like that. What are we doing in that area right now . And just to clarify commissioner, youre talking in terms of at colleges . Or just, you know, how about that. Did he freeze . See how he yells at us and takes off . Were on the college campus, were work withing gi o fencing for when we have events that are in the area. You know, were looking for any and all people. And i think just beyond the College Campuses. Thats where really wanting to leveraging the caout. And security guards and the people that we would naturally gravitate to. All of those other people, this whole pool of candidates. So were hoping that, through using that recruiting firm once we get them hired that were going to be able to do that and target exactly to dr. Mcgraphs point all of those people that would be great ambassadors. Thank you so much, thats all for me. Thank you, commissioner byrne. Thank you, madam president. Commander jones, who was thestation last year. It was me. I think the engelwood station, they love you. I miss them and what they dont know is when i come back and theyre going to be my ambassador recruiters. Were getting all of our ducks in a row to expand that program. Theyre going to help us reach out the people in San Francisco and target the demographics that we want to see. Its definitely an opportunity that were ready to see. Great job. Since the commander, the San Francisco police, department Community Ambassador. Do you see us growing and how much do you think. We all know the staffing numbers, we know that were short staffed of the were 500 plus officers short. Do we need to grow . Absolutely. In order to a grow effectively, we need to bring more candidate and more diverse candidates and only way were going to do that is to employ any and all of these strategies and to get super creative and figure out how to be able to compete effectively with these other agencies. And i would say that were competing for sure, you know what i mean . There are things that some of these agencies have that we cannot offer and were going to try to get these things so we can have them too. Right now were open to any and all ideas. Thank you, we look forward to followup and the 30x30 work and thank you chief for your commitment to join and hopefully well have update before 2030 that is going to be the goal. Absolutely. I love it. All right, lets go to Public Comment. If you would like to make Public Comment regarding item 3, please press star3 now. Good evening caller, you have three minutes. Caller the commissioner, i want to do a needs assessed on this present ace. And you commissioner have to do a Needs Assessment before your makes suggestions. You have a real problem, with the appointing of the commissioners. And we need to give the board of supervisors, more power than the mayor. Before we start bringing in women and letting them go out the door as we have seen the statistics. Nationally, our nation is in turmoil. Nationally, Supreme Court is against our women. And we need to do a Needs Assessment on that. Especially in San Francisco. No nonsense from the San Francisco Police Department. And then, you commissioners should follow all the cases that complain, follow the cases on time. Half of them have to be dismissed. And when you talk about leadership, good leaders, and go other way, they have not same day, from our board of supervisors, they have not send this from our mayor. And our kudos to the chief who i met a long time ago. I know how he was chosen including a women chase. So kudos to chief scott thank you, caller. President that concludes Public Comment. Thank you, next item please. Line 4, discussion, weekly trends and Public Safety concerns provide an overview of incidents or events occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Commission discussion on activities the chief described will be limited to whether to calendar for future meetings. Thank you, renolds. Good evening, commission and executive director im going to work on crime. Crime is a still up 8 in property crime. Weve had some success at least with the burglars being down 22 but Everything Else is up in burglary crime. That includes larceny, and larceny is 17 and that is the biggest number. Car theft. In terms of Violent Crimes, also up 8 thats an increase of 287 incidents over 2021. The good news is were tracking down a little bit with homicide. Ill get to the shootings but we also have reduction with gun. The other Violent Crime category, rape, robbery are up. Race is up 11 and up 11 as well. As i said there is been a total of decrease in homicides. 60 year to date. And i do have some good news on some homicides arrests were made and two separate homicides which ill get to a little bit more details in a second. In terms of a firearm were down 18 , thats 27 compared to 23 last year. And our total gun violence was down 4 which is a difference of 6, 164 this year compared to 170. Our gfn recover hes are up or our seizures are up about 6 over last year, thats 805 firearms of which 1im sorry 163 are ghost guns. And thats 3 more government guns this year from last year. The homicides i mentioned, i want to get some, some praise and kudos to our homicide unit. They did make three homicide arrest this past week. Two of the arrest was one particular homicide that occured on september 18th this year in the 900 block of youre. There was a stabbing and both suspects were arrested on that particular case in the da is expected to file charges on that case. The second homicide where an arrest was made was a homicide that occured on september 22, and this was at 24 street and balmy street. And in that particular incident, there was a suspect arrested i believe yesterday or today, and we do expect klarjz to be filed on that particular case as well. In addition there was a an upsetting robbery arrest. This was an Armed Robbery that occured on 19th avenue and boulevard, at shell gas station here. And that suspect was also believed to be in multiple robberies in that area including davis city. That person was arrested and we expect that case to be filed as well. And couple of other highlights that i wanted to mention on arrest, just to highlight some of the good work that is being done. And ill focus on the commissions district on a number of really good arrests including a, a arrest on suspect in position of stolen vehicle. This happened in 17th and commission. We had an arrest of another stolen vehicle. Tlfsz a robbery arrest at 19th by officers that were at the right place at the right time. There was an auto burglary arrest. And then a firearm position arrest at 16th and mission. So i want to give thanks to the officers out there would bering hard. We still have a lot of work to do, there are cases that we still need to solve. So thank you to the officers and leadership of mission station for deploying officers for all of those arrests. The ones that hi just mentioned. Moving on, couple of major incidents to report. Five injury shootings this week. And luckily none of them are thankfully, turned into homicides. But ill just high lied where they occured and date and times. September 28, 18 am in ranzville, september 29, 1 34 this was in the afternoon brad daylight. 1800 block of sunny dale. October 2, golden gate and nanes in the northern district. And on september 2, 6 37 the 100 block. We have not made any arrest on those five cases yet but those investigations are on going. What were doing in those areas, we have had a up stake including the bay view. We are patroling and identify areas where were getting guns fired. Not all of these shootings and people reporting them. But its indicative that we need to be out there and take care of this before it turns into a homicide. Also, there is prenasty spike of up shootings and homicides. And ive been in contact with chief armstrong and oakland and were committed to doing, we collaborate but we have to do more collaboration with oakland and the region. A lot of our violence is inter connected. And well keep you posted on how that is shaping up. Good news to report on one of our homicide arrest that went to a jury trial, this occured on july 27, 19. And that resulted in a conviction this week. And that one occured in the city nightclub on harrison. And person was from out of town, very sad situation. But our investigators did an outstanding job to solve that case and present the case to prosecutors. That resulted in a conviction. The next thing i want to report we had a significant what could have been significant event over the weekend. It start by chp their helicopter contacting sfpd to let us know that there was a large group of vehicles that had participated in slide shows that were headed to San Francisco. Our leadership that was out there that night, went over the watch that was on duty. And the stunt Response Unit was activated. The cars did make it across the bridge but it was quickly disbursed in the area outside of the city. Many of these, and were talking about hundreds of vehicles attempted to come back in the city and we were waiting on them in the traditional hotspots. Again hats off to the leadership that was working that night, the communication with chp which is a part of our strategy and some really good work was done that night to prevent those events from happening. There was a fatal collision vehicle on september 28 at 11 21 am. The victim was driving when he slided in several cars and continued to drive at a high rate of speed and at the intersection, he drove over the sidewalk and unfortunately collided with the tree. He was transported but did not survive his injuries. That investigation is on going. This vehicle is fleet week. Youll probably already notice, our milt personnel all of our city. Fleet week is very very thought event for San Francisco hundreds of thousands of people come to tour the navy ships and engage with our military personnel, see the blue angels fly over. That is happening this weekend. Were heavily deployed, we want everybody to have a good time. We met with Public Service announcement to be individual dent, dont leave valuables in your car. Along with the sunday and northbeach which we will participate and be deployed for that as well. Last thing i would like to talk about before we get to strategy. There was a present, with the myself, nothing new was, introduced in terms of new strategies but it was really good to show solidarity that were committed to deal with a particularly, in the tenderloin and to work through some of the issues of areas that make this a complex issue. So a lot of work to be done on that. Theyre having to announce, to get people addicted before enforcement happens. With na were working with our partners at dpa that when officers call for assistance from our Service Providers, that they also have a way to be transported, not in a police car but in vehicles where they have people that can help them. Were i excite beside na, we tried that and the transportation was always an issue. Sfpd is stepping up and were actually providing the transportation, not in police cars but in unmarked vans and Service Providers will be driving them and well get people to help if they want and need help. Im really excited about that. To get the Service Providers. So that commitment was reiterated today. The next thing that i wanted to talk is one that occured earlier this week is on a homicide that occured on october 7, 2016. And this the victim was tarantula mont. He was killed and shot in cold blood. We increased the reward to 200,000. We have a meeting with the family and they just want some closure. And a lot of people out there that day with witnesses and were just trying to get people incentive to come forward and report what it is that they saw. So im asking the public for their help. Were meeting with the family. Its not the first time. Theyre just crying out for justice like many families with unsolved homicide and were going to try to continue this case. Strategies, day view, i talked about the passing calls. Were still doing our plainclothes units. Weve made some good arrest there as well. The areas include the parking lot in and around northbeach and union square, 5th and Mission Garage where weve been having some issues. Our officers made a really good arrest. For an individual chattered windows on 7 cars. They were able to take him to custody and hopefully put an end to that at least for that day anyway. I will end it there and if you have any questions, well be happy to answer. Thank you. Thank you, chief. I noticed on the press release regarding the the press presence you had today, that they department was going to be taking officers from narcotic Traffic Division and ambassador and focusing them on the tenderloin. And i have a couple of questions, which are one, how long is this diverting of the officers to the tenderloin going to last . And what affect will this have on the Traffic Enforcement . Because its my understanding that the Traffic Division is already short staffed and the ability to produce numbers has been dwindling. So what affect will that have . Yeah, the traffic unit will not be only be working in tenderloin. They will focus on tenderloin but they have other duties. They have narcotic units as well. Another focus, tenderloin, because were seeing, because of all the efforts in the tenderloin, we have some activity even some in the mission. I was out there friday, walking with officers, narcotic unit was out and in the Southern District which is east of the tenderloin. Where they were working. We understand that when we focus in one area, there is this issue that we have to deal with. I think i report to the commission, that we redeployed several months ago, several avenueser to the tenderloin and theyre still at the tenderloin. They have to be flexible when we do a surge. Depending on what effectiveness we have and whether or not we can, i will not say solve the displacement issue but deal with that effectively, the officers will be assigned where we need them. I guess thats what im not understanding, i think when the mayor had delayeder the emergency at the beginning of the year and the focus, you would come to the commission and reported that you were focusing or diverting officers to the tenderloin to address the situation and you had them there for several months. And they didnt seem to curtail anything in terms of long term results. So im wondering how this is going to be different. I still dont understand how the Traffic Division is going to be focused there . What does that mean . Are you going to have some of the Traffic Division going to the tenderloin instead of other areas . Yeah, we just like we do, lets say lets take the tenderloin out of the conversation. When we have a spike of shootings and this is happened just a couple of weeks ago. We focused our attention and deployment in the bay view. If other things are happening in the city, we had to deal with that as well. And, particularly, its the focus and something jumps and lets say the tara bill, very with to redeploy the resources because we only have x amount of resources. We go into a strategy and say the hondas are going to do what they do in the tenderloin. And then whatever we have in the other part of the city, we will redeploy them. As far as making a difference, let me be clear. Arresting people is not going to be the solver of this problem. But we do have to arrest people. And really the thought process is that we let people do what they want. Particularly in the youth side and its a common place seeing people what they do and in the bark, platforms and that is something that were focused on making sure that we address the issues. Its not always an arrest. Sometimes its hey, if youre willing to go through the center, well get you transportation and we dont have to do any of the enforcements. But we want to make sure that we address the issues. Its not okay what is happening in our streets. And i dont think nrs any disagreement there. The arrest are part of what were doing. But that is not the final solution. We have to have everybody involved in the process. And there are many other departments that have a stake in this. Im just not understanding what the new solution it is, youve done this before in terms of putting officers in the tenderloin. We said that we have to be more efficient on the things that we have to do. To be involved with getting people involved. Which does not make sense to me. If theyre willing to go to the officer, the cast, you know, there have been times where weve been discouraged from being part of that which is nonsensecal to me. We want to be sure that were all part of it. We want to make sure that we do everything, not just enforcement in law. If we can do that, we can be more affective. Thank you chief for that presentation. I know we asked this last week, and i expect well be asking a version of it. Is just confirming that the, final version, that is not operational wise, is that correct . Thats correct. I know on the september 14th meeting, you informed us of the latest extension with the mou to october 17th which is now 12 days away if i wanted to see, to gauge if you think that deadline looks likely or if were going to get another extension. Were meeting with the judge assigned to the case and we hope to have those issues resolved. We have not signed another extension. Doing the District Attorney and our team and me and our team on this side. It seems great. I saw that, i want to ask about, we all saw on the news that there were a number of, alameda county, Sheriff Deputies that were relieved due to psychological issues and i saw the post announced today, they were doing a review of San Francisco sheriffs. I wanted to see if two agencies that have been impacted by this. Is this anything of this sort in San Francisco . We dont believe we have those issues. We honestly dont believe that we have those issues. We have a very thorough offense with that and we dont believe we have those issues. When that was a noufnsed, we discussed entirely here. I dont believe we have about an audit, we got notification about that post was digging into the issue. Can circle back, ill try to get back to it right now. I dont believe we had any certification of anything. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner byrne . Thank you, madam president. Chief, since ive been in the commission, i noticed significant improvement. But night time, night time seems to be the way it was last few years. Am i to assume that night time will still be the same then . No, please, no we dont assume that. What we had done in the night time. We were deploying our narcotic units late night at night. And the some of the, vending of stolen property those are being addressed at night. So we did increase our deployment at night. It has not involved the problem but there has been some Better Outcomes with some of what was going on at night. Honest re, we do need more deployment there. And were using to get a better place there as well. Had in terms of the narcotic, i believe it was last month. And i can verify that, and they were i want to say august. We started to decrease our deployment in terms of, officers working the tenderloin, the plaza area and some of what we know is problematic at night. One of the issues and theyre out in the streets and a lot of time they end upright. We still do have challenges dealing with that population who, a lot of them, dont have anywhere else to go some of them and some dont. This will be my last question, its not the local population that im as concerned about. And obviously of dealers what they did in huge numbers during the day. They seem to be doing in daytime. The numbers that come to San Francisco to deal. Police presence dis sayed a number of people from doing this. Youre the chief, that that type of strategy that works during the day to a degree work at night because these people dont want to deal drugs in front of uniformed Police Officers. A lot of number of people that are a dicked to drugs live in the area. Its their area too as well as the Huge Population that lives there. A lot of the people that appear to be dealing drugs, theyre coming in to San Francisco to do that. And a police presence, at night time will display them from. That gives the neighborhood back to the people that live there. And a lot of these people, unlike people in San Francisco, they cant vote for elections, theyre not citizens in the united states. I know i may be sounding like a broken record, but things have goent better during the day and i think things can get better at night. Thank you, commissioner. Thank you, commissioner yee. Thank you very much, madam president. Chief i know last week, we had a quite of events happening in San Francisco. I want to thank your team for solving many of these, homicides and Violent Crimes. Im looking at gun violence coming down. Im wondering if there is anything we can do in the bayview. Im hoping that it subsides. Maybe work some of the people that are that you had out there that retal tory gun violence that happened in bayview and ingle side. As commissioner byrne said, i has gotten better. From 10 to 4, which i believe is a drop of 6 homicides. So i see that is Getting Better but im wondering if its going down to some station that some of the violence that is happening. I believe there is a up take in the shooting and homicides. They would say, you just khak them and then, is there a of guess forced deployment of a balanced low. You have more officers in the evening. Last power man. Thank you for that question. And this is what commissioner byrne asked. One of the things that were working on as we speak, we have a lot of people working overtime. And we have to manage that and we have to make sure that they dont exceed thresholds, they can only work so many hours. To have a thoughtful over plan time where we spread the wealth a i donts the department. Some people dont mind working overtime. Their life situation allows more than others. Often times what i hear from officers, that is pushed to less tenure officers. We have to watch people who work on equitable plan. Ability to bert deploy. Particularly the back field, we have officers that get tired. Thats not getting us where we want to go, so were working through that. By coming up and working with the Police Officer on a plan as much as we can do this, is equitable and we can spread it across and we think that will stabilize. I agree with commissioner byrne, when we were deployed at night, we were better protected. Financially, there is more people working during the daytime because you have, administrative and investigative and more people working to draw from that are not working at night. So im hopeful in coming up with a plan that works na is not in violation of the mou that way we can spread the deployment out. We hope to reduce some of the exhaustation that officers are complaining about and were seeing that now. That is an issue that we need to be a tentative to. Okay, thank you. We have one regards overtime. Are you on a mandatory or is it mandatory base . Or, or the third one as needed . Well its a little bit of both. Some is mandatory, but we hold our offices over, well hold the watch that is on, over. You talked about recruitment and effort. That is not going to turnover night. And were staying afloat with overtime. We tried to do voluntary as much as we can but some is mandated. Thank you very much, chief scott. Commissioner yanez. Thank you, president. Chief, im really happy to hear that the clearance rate on some of those murders are taken care of. Im happy to hear the positive developments. With regards to some of the numbers that were included in todays press release. Im concerned that Somebody Just mendsing, you know, might have been commissioner byrne that the whackmo thing, you get one arrest and theyre preplacing that seller with a new drug seller, and unfortunately thats the challenge of the work. My question is about the adverse impact that this has had on the population of justice center. I know that we have made it a point to you know, minimize putting people in detension. Whether there was any for thought given that commissioner bern alluded to, all of the people involved in the sale had not necessarily from the neighborhood, lets say. From San Francisco and they may not have placement options. Where in last year, weve been averaging four or five or six of the ones that we really needed. Some of this is a impact on strategy that were arresting people for selling drugs. What is our strategy in that area . I, i dont have specific statistics in front of me. Im going to venture to say were not making a lot of juvenile arrests selling drugs. I would like to bring it back to the commission. But one of the things that, the probation chief katie miller and i meet regularly. And were working on 7. 01. More than a year, couple of years, it works with all the partners on really having a Diversion Program for juveniles, a prearrest. I know the District Attorneys office did a little bit of that. I think the collaboration could have been a lot better because, the Diversion Programs that work and ive done a lot of research on this, i was involved with this before i came to San Francisco are the ones that are collaborative. Where everybody, juvenile Probation Department, the Public Defenders Office are trying to work in the same direction in terms of diverting youth out of the criminal Justice System when its appropriate to do that. And it can be done. And we have not gotten there yet where we have one like im talking about, i dont believe its going to be a part of 7. 01 but that discussion has been on the table. The Department Heads that chief and i have talked about wanting that, commissioner that is one of the things that we can do. It should not take years to do that. A lot of kids who get in trouble and diversion is the right thing for them. And so i really am hopeful that we put some effort into that, were going to put effort that we can really get that going. The last question in that area will be around bolstering the opportunities whether its in the diversion or preadjudication of the work. For some of the young people that do end up in the system, we know that sometimes are victims themselves, right. Victims of human trafficking, victims of coercive situations. Im hoping that, with that in mind when we are, engaging those young people. Specifically resource thats are devoted to particular different approach right in a different set of resources that need to be in place in order to work with some of these folks that basically are, you know, treated as mules both in their home countries and sometimes in our neighborhood, right. And this is still sanctuary city. So i want to compel us. And Probation Department to make sure that we have this in mind as were implementing whatever strategy because the affects are lifelong when we do have a young person in detention longer or for reasons that we shouldnt. But im hopeful that the strategy will lead us to us catching the big fish, not those, people that are running, part of that turn stuff. So, i will would like to know what that number is. And if there are any, additional strategies that come as a result of that conversation fwaoen you and the chief that that is presented here. I know that we dont want to go backwards when it comes to the positive impact that weve had on reducing that population up in juvenile detention. Thank you. Thank you, sir. And ill keep the Commission Posted as that develops. Great commissioner walker. I have a question about the deployment in tenderloin at night. Am i correct that there are no other of our partners out there . Those stop at night, correct. They do, the urban alchame i believe the latest is 11. And even at 11, theyre smaller than in the daytime. It was, the conversation were having because you know, just using the patrol specials, they were present at night. You know, they were available to help out during the night. Obviously it gets them trained enough, its a different at night, but, as were talking about how we coordinate all of these different groups beinger its something to think about of having better assistance around being able to transport to different solutions. It just, we know that having increase foot traffic stops other kind of behavior. So i know, there is less of that going on at night. Its interesting as we get into the conversation of how to partner. Commissioner, if i can say, since you brought that up, we hired as part of our pop add and 960 sergeant and he reports to the tenderloin captain, he just came aboard. Thats great. And his job is to do that. We understand, he understand all that and has the personality to really have the conversations and can make things work better. And coordination. Can we go to Public Comment . If you would like to make Public Comment, please dial star3 now. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Caller hello, good evening. My name is paulet brown im calling on behalf of my son who was hurded in 2006. To this day his case has not been solved. And there, is actually a, i also wanted to give a, a thank you for jt. Help me get my son headstone. I saw the check that was sent to the pinecrest lawn concerning my sons headstone. And that gives me a little bit of closure. And that this does not, and i thank you also for every year that youve given me the Media Coverage for my son. That is most that you have guys have been doing for me and i thank you for that. And i thank you, she said she lost a child too. And it does not matter how you lost a child through homicide, through medical condition, the grief is still the same. I had to go to pinecrest lawn to finalize my sons headstone. And i wanted to say that this is something good for me. Its just a little bit of closure, i just thank god for what hes doing in my life and what hes doing. I thank god for you, for you that listen to me every week. That that you hear me and that im being heard. And again, im waiting for the little placard that is going to be put out at my sons where he is that i can just see until he gets his permanent placard. Again thank you. Thank you, again. Thank you ms. Brown. If you would like to make an a non tuesday tip, call the 24hour tip line 4155754444. Good evening, caller you have two minutes. Caller thank you for the two minutes. So commissioners i want to be very clear okay. You commissioners have to mention. Calling themselves practitioners. Right now the op tholology of practitioners. We can bring people who are mostly not from San Francisco. There are a hidden agenda with urban alcame. And those people who are not even security guards, they dont have guns or nothing. You put them in harms way. What kind of talk is that. But were talking about crying, its very easy to talk about crying. In, do you think that we can fight the cartel . Yes we can, but we have to get the feds. Do you think the feds would approve of your massnation shenanigans to employ urban alcame. Do not treat the people of San Francisco as if theyre children. We need to upgrade the force. Were on a national level, wereif youre not doing a neat assessment, soon, there will be renegades in San Francisco. And well have to carry our guns to defend ourselves. Well have to carry our guns to defend ourselves. Read what is happening on the national level. Stop. Thank you, caller. And president elias that concludes Public Comment. Thank you, next item please. Line item 5, dpa directors report and discussion on dpa activity and announcements. It will be limit whether to calendar any issues raised for future committee meeting. Director paul engelston. Hello, director. Good evening. Commissioners, good evening president elias. Ill be brief and just go over my numbers i have a few comments but ill save them until the end. We have 526 cases that are open currently so far this year. And we have closed 566 cases this year. We have tending 232 and sustained 49 cases this year, this time last year, we sustained 39 cases. We mitt gated 65 cases and currently we have cases that who is investigation have gone beyond nine months but still pending, 23. And thats the same number we had last year. Of the 23 cases with on going investigations, 18 of the case right side told either in civil or criminal litigation. And we have ten case thats are pending with the commission. We still have an outstanding number of 83 cases that are pending with the chief. Andle various pipelines. Were going to hear a report and were anticipate ing this discrepancy. But those numbers, the difference for is indicated from cases that we just sent over. Thats why there is a difference. In terms of the weekly trends in terms of what is coming in and complaints that have been made at the agency, nine new cases have come in to the agencies. The top two allegations is for officers behaving or speaking inappropriately to the public. 16 and then 11 complaint raises matters for outside of dpas jurisdiction. Those are different departments. That may include the sheriff. And in terms of district break down, there is the highest number of allegations and complaints this week came in from toneder loin station with 7 allegations and complaints. And next to that were a tied for second place of three complaintant that came from Central Station and bayview station. Again, this is just the overview and i reveal the talk about the top two indicators. But for the full break down and analysis of 100 , you can check out the website that has a break down in all of these allegation thats have come in a weekly basis. In terms of out reach we gave a presentation and as part of that panel, we had an attorney and investigator discussing operations for dpa as well as engagement conversations from the folks at the meeting on how to contact dpa and what information needs to be provided. A lot has been reenergized as to how to deal with complaints made with the department. We are going in terms of audit, that was also one of the topics that was covered at the meeting. But since were at the objection, were going to be issuing interim reports for the audit. Im wanting to make sure that im flagging that. Its too much to try to consume all of one time when we have one singular audit because the audits are so complicated. Rather than wait until the end do a comprehensive audit im going to do the interim reports that theyre rolling into the place commission. So as soon as the quality gets better. My intention is to take action on the matters. So im going to try it this way to see if that helps us take the recommendations and digestable chunks for broader conversations and broader actions or more immediate beings i think that is going to be important. There is nothing in the close session for todays meeting. But present, in todays meeting is senior investigator alan who is joining us in case there are issues that need to come up during our meeting. And if folks want to get in contact, they can contact us at our website or contact us on phone number at the 4152417711. That concludes my report. I didnt want to leave with both acknowledging with the gender and recruitment that was fantastic. And i know we had one just the other week, with the 96 report, i think those are important. Was having an academic partner working with the department. And those seem to be the more robust discussions if not the most rebust discussions in terms of action steps that the department can take. The comprehensive ways of all the project that are involving academic partner so we can see and track the progress so they dont come as a surprise and maybe the commissioner knew about them but i didnt know about them at dpa. And if there are other partnerships, lets know what the full list of what those on going activities are so we can award and acknowledge and participate if not support what the at the point is doing in terms of supporting both. So that concludes my report and my humble suggestion and i will end my commentary with that and answer any questions you may have. Im going to save my commentary to the issues as they come up as they relate to other agenda items. Thank you, director henderson. I dont see any hands in the chat. So i think you covered everything. Can we move to Public Comment. If you would like to make Public Comment, please press star3 now. President elias, there is no Public Comment. Thank you, next item. Line item number 6, commission reports. Commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements, it will be limited to determine whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future Commission Meetings. President commissions report and commissioners report and scheduling of items identified at future Commission Meeting action. D g. O. S that are assignedcious i woen courage fellow commissioners to reach out to dpa. Im also going to encourage people to move their discipline claims forward so we can clear the backlog. Making residents safer and im on board to implement the policies and im wondering if you can share with us the plans so we can work on implementing them along with the d g. O. Process. Thank you very much,. Are you talking about the dpos making it safer for us. And what i would like to, i guess bring forward is wraper and we like to revisit that and see where we can add chief scott talk about. Making sure that we do have these issues, suspect that we do arrest that, we put them in the right place. And making sure that they are served, how people are served that our residents are safer too. I can tell you whether the agencies let them out and weve got to make sure that we have enough, i guess Public Safety officers and Police Officers and our so i would like to talk about that in regard to one of our i guess, regarding one of your d g. O. S and thats the psychological that we have for our d g. O. Its 6. 14. And and i would say that we need to take a look at that. I will move that forward, i would like to see if we can maybe agendize that to the next meeting. Anything else . I guess number 2 is that looking at the chief and also probably doing it more Community Policing. I think we need to reach them out to our station and balance the load. Making sure that our residents are safer and feel safe. And then making sure that they push through it. I would like to see that that is being done and maybe assistant chief to talk about that. We can get that back from the department. Commissioner working on the Community Policing plan. Im so im going to turn it over to him because his name is in the chat. Thank you, president elias. And i did have an opportunity to meet with dpa staff, diane and diana and director henderson and i did, you know get an update on the ddgs that i was assigned and we want to get a lotion. A motion. I would like to agendize, and create a possible action item for the use of social media dgo which is 2. 09. Its definitely in need of revision and bolt sterg developments since that was written about five years ago. As far as the Community Policing question, i know there is a presentation today, and my understanding is after that, there will be an going work group on going effort to police the plans. The d g. O. Itself was reduced and revised only a year ago. I believe it would be a beneficial to have a presentation. So as theyre having a rollout their effort to obtain Community Input that we can have that presentation here so that folks know in the community where to access spaces to contribute the feedback. That would be my comment on the Community Policing d g. O. And the last thing i have to report on, i would like to have an update at some point chief on what the timeline might be for the launching of the benchmark which would then leave to us revise d g. O. In the Early Intervention system. That way we can put that on the agenda. And thats my report, thank you. Vice president carter oberton. Last week, president elias, commissioner benedicto and myself attended a town hall for officers in the Traffic Company to solicit feedback on the draft to curtail the use of pretext stops. We took questions as long as there were still questions. Maybe 10 officers attended. It was a really good conversation, a Good Exchange by diaz. We heard a lot of suggestions that were valuable. I just want to thank all the officers who took time out of their day to attend and to provide really thoughtful feedback. Also on the dgo front, i wanted to address, president elias on leadership on this. And i want to thank henderson for flagging this issue of just, you know, dozens of dgos that have been languishing without action despite receiving best practices from dpa. Now theyre there to shepherd and i know were going to take that responsibility and take personal accountability for the dgos weve been assigned. With that, ill run through some of the dgos weve been assigned. So dgo program, its my understanding that that dgo is set for concurrence a week from friday so october 14th. In 40 Business Days there ever pursuant to section 4e of dg03. 1. I would like to make clear that the clock should start today on that. Dto, 8. 03 crowd controls. Again i want to make sure that the 90day clock starts today. Dgo10. 4, guidelines for First Amendment act please. Dpa has issued a number of outstanding audits. Hope that we can come under the 0 day maximum. And then the final one ill address today, is dgo9. 5, the 90day clock should start today. Thats it for me. Thank you. Thank you, commissioner benedicto. Thank you, president elias, a cup of things, i want to point out. I want to echo what president elias said and wish everybody a happy latin heritage month. And also filipino. Im glad that the department who is in the department right now, im grateful for that participation. I would like to echo what Vice President said and president for the process of signing out dgos for update and clearing up backlogs. There is a dormant worker in the process of scheduling that. Also would like to note that with commissioner yanez has asked to assist on that and very excited to be assisting with that with commissioner yanez as well. One note and i dont think the initial, ill work on 1. 6 reflected. On our list so were convening i think the chief we have a meeting in a couple of weeks. Search warrants. I wanted to report as audit liason that i had an email with dpa who is head of outsidity, thed plan to go as they become ready. Im glad theyll be supporting with the audit. And i think the rough estimate is before the commission in the month of november. And i also want to 9. 01 as commissioner carter obertstone we attend thed town hall. And would like to again thank director davis for their assistance. And we expect that they will be providing a summary out of that out reach that will be provided to commissioner soon. The work in process is resuming, we have a Group Meeting tomorrow and i would like to note for members of the public as a reminder all the materials and working group from public out reach are all available. On the commissioner website as we continue to work on this process. Thank you commissioner benedicto. Commissioner yee . Oh, sorry about that. I just want to followup, thank you Sergeant Reynolds for inviting me over to alan Griffin Community out reach to the ruth out there. To another event it was great to see, some recruiting out there as well. I got to see smft volunteers and some of the apri group. So looking to do more of that out in the southside. Thank you for that, madam president. Thank you commissioner yee. And also to thank you Vice President carter oberstone. I want to start the 90day clock on the dgos on my list. Seeing no other commissioners in the chat. Im going to turnover to Public Comment please. If you would like to make Public Comment online item 6, please press star3 right now. President elias there is no Public Comment. Thank you can we have the next item please. Line item 7, presentation regarding the status of sustained dp cases review. We have commander paul yets available. Good evening, president elias and commissioners chief, director henderson, im commander of the wrist management office. Im realize that im the third power point that youre going to watch tonight. I did see the first two, they were informative. My topic will not be nearly as exciting but im confident that my presentation will be precise and short. So im going to go ahead and start. Tonight im going to discuss the status of sustained dpa cases and sergeant if you can power point. Thank you. So well move on to slide 2. So we did prepare this prior to this date. The numbers are slightly different because of the dates, we have closed some cases since then. Engagements. One is open pending a meet and confer which means the chief is requesting the meeting with the department of accountability to discuss a recommended discipline for the finding and or the finding. And then finally, 3 cases are open pending police the Police Commission, number is waiting on the Police Commission. So theyve made the appeal and the police and figuring waiting for the guidance. Okay, next slide. Please. Thank you. Actually that, from the charter i used the definition and i included in slides so we can move on. Okay, let me talk about the 3304 gate. It a government code and its a statute of rotations. Im going to read a portion from the code. Because its a government code, so action should be undertaken from other allegation of misconduct. Flt investigation is not completed within one year of discovery by a person authorized to initial an investigation of the allegation omission or other misconduct. So that is 3304 of the government code. And i want today 3304 status of the 89 cases that im speaking to tonight. 80 have met so the police chief has made a determination regarding the allegations and the number has been notified of the police mrin decision. Nine cases are the approaching the date. Next slide please. So im going to talk specifically about the nine cases. So on the first column you have the case number for those cases. The top graph cases are pending. The is reported thats when the 3304 startscious thats when they started the investigation. They take time to complete their investigation and the third call reflects the date that my Office Receives the investigation, or their findings. So that date is recorded on the third column. Finally the fourth column is the 3304 code date. So thats one year beyond the date or the date that dpa starts the investigation. So, on the top chart, the last column is the approximately days to 3304 government code date. That was report to the dpa on our reports as october 13 of 2021. Our Office Internal Affairs Division received that case on august 25, this year. We know that the 3304 date is october of this year. So thats less than 30 days. And we know, we had a update me on every case on this chart. That was approved and signed by the chief on the findings on december 15th. So that would be in the category of open. So theyre preparing the leter of intent and they shall receive that for october 13th 22. So we similar. I have the status of the rest of the cases, i will not take the time to go over that, unless there is a specific case you want me to talk about. Im going to move on to the next slide. And im going to talk about the open cases. What happens in that year. And i prioritize my cases for my review my portion of the review. So we try the window. It depends on the complexity of the case. There was a case, directed by hendersons team. I spent a good portion of my day and im not reviewing this particular case. In fact the case on my case is one of the previous slide. I spock about this earlier. They have a moment to coordinate. That does take a good amount of time. That was actually, we know about our staffing issues. There is, there is there are cases that were dealing with, and obviously dealing with. I touched base on the appeal progress. I can explain that. Okay that actually, concludes my presentation. So thank you for your time and im here and available for questions. Thank you, commander. This is a great presentation. I had a question on slide 6. One of the cases that is assigned City Attorney and it has the deadline which has passed. What does that mean, does that mean that the case missed the 3304 deadline and youre unable to impose discipline . Thats a great question. And yes, the timing is the presentation. I will give you an update that was signed by the chief of police on september of 6 of this year. And we know that that member is appealing, he filed his appeal on september 4th. So we did meet the 33. With respect to the ones in the box above it, there is one due in a few days. Some of the ones that im really concerned about is so on the stop column, on slide six. It has a deadline of 1014. Has that been resolved or is it still standing. That was signed by the chief of police on september 15th of this year. And that member is appealed. Ill go to the next one because that one is coming up. Thats 3304 date is october 27, this year. That was signed by the chief of police on october 8 and that one is the attorney so were confident that well meet the deadline. Do you also have another one with the box below, which is 403 with the deadline of 13 as well. That was signed by the chief of police or approved, that was with the attorney also. Its pending the attorney, they do a summary and review of the case. They send out that notice to impose discipline. So they have the case assigned so that is pending, clarifying. So there havent, let me ask you this, have there been any 3304 deadline violations since the one, i think it was a year, the year plus ago that commissioner pointed out . Are there been any since then . I dont know, i cant say the exact answer to that. I didnt i was not provided with that information but that is information ill give. Ill get that for you. Okay and the other question i had, the 46 pending chief, how old are those . And is there a way to clear out the backlog . I understand that theyre done with a limited amount of arbitrator to deal with. How old is the backlog . What we can do to get the backlog . Thats a great question. In fact the timing is perfect. So, we did on chief scott. Our chief attorney has come up with recommendations regarding issuing a date with the hearing in alignment with our deputy chief schedules as you know, i dont have to say it, theyre just super busy. So the coordination is part of the issue. If one of the parties is unable to appear, that throws a wrench in the efficiency right. So we have come up with some really good ideas such as assigning the date a month or two months in advance. So all the parties have plenty of time to adjust their schedules. Staying with that date, so we dont have, a moving target so to speak. So were talking about efficiencies and to answer your question. 3304 date has been met on these cases. Giving them time to go through discovery. I hope i answered. I think one other question and then im going to turnover to director henderson. I saw his hand up. What is the oldest case . I will look that up, yeah, i actually have i dont have in front of me now, but ill look it up. I lied you have one more question. On these cases or under open cases that are waiting the hearing, are there multiple offenses meaning if somebody is waiting for a hearing and they pickup another case what happens . So if they pickup a new case, that does not affect the outcome of a case that we already reviewed. If you can also find out the number of these pending cases, how many have multiple cases that would be interesting to know. I dont want to put you on the spot. Im going to turnover to director henderson. Ive been on mute this whole time, good thing i was not making side comments. Let mre start by commending both chief scott and commander yip for this presentation. I hope its not lost on this commission and watching, that this list from department and internal affairs is literally unprecedented. We dont get reports like this typically from Law Enforcement. And so i want to commend him for engaging in this conversation and having this material be presented having information like this go a long way and making transparent for everyone and that only improves the outcome. It speaks for progress and its a really big deal. And i want to thank the department for having this presentation. I will say, i think that part of the reason and part of how we got to todays presentation, is on going concern about what the discipline, what the discipline process looks like both from the commission and the meet ing demands of the public that here to four have been primarily and solely focused on evaluating the records and evaluating the outcomes of dpa. So i welcome the opportunity to have us both seat in the seat of being more transparent about our records. That said, i know that a very specific concern about this commission and a real concern for the public thats involved the 330 had cases. I would like to meet as well that we can do a comparison or at least just a clarification of those records are. To see what the value from the department and dpa. I want to be able to meet the same record search that you guys are about to do. I will say there are some really old cases. And it would be helpful if you do the top five do it however the Commission Wants it done, but having an unjust to give an indication. If you have cases that are very very old and there is only one of them, i dont want to have a false sense. I would say take the top five case sxz present that. And you talked about the current cases. Thats what president asked for. Thats great too. The other point, this is the 3304 summation number of multiple cases, outline na is three things and the fourth thing that i would ask, is you articulated about the cases that our aids due to rescheduling with the chiefs hearing. And to date, im not aware of any hearings that my department was allowed to or asked for in terms of rescheduling. Im curious do you track the reasons for those rescheduled hearings . Do you have terms of volume that may add to the caging of the cases . Director thank you for those questions. I do know that those cases are tracked bit attorney, and she does track the reasons. Im thinking about the case, what the original date was, and then any reason that might be rescheduled. And her efforts to coordinate. So we do have that data, i dont know that we have collected it for presentation, but yes we will have that information. I think that would be helpful to have them. Its going to be hard to compare when there were 12 but out of context, whatever it is. Also because i know covid had presumed is going to be one of, who knows why, i dont know why, i dont want to preassume to know any information. And if thereses anything that my agency can do to help pull that information, please dont hesitate to let us know. This is so important and this is to affirming the commission that goes on but making transparent, this is a huge step. I just want to end with commending the leader ship that made this presentation possible and i do really think this is a big deal. Ill end with that. Well director i did want to say that your team is working very collaborative with my team. So i know that, they are able to pickup the phone when they have questions or im sure about Something Like a date. Whatever the question may be. So theyre working collaboratively so i to thank you for that. And i know that firsthand so thank you for that. Thank you, you really did a great job. I dont see any other names on the chat with that were moving to Public Comment. If you would like to make Public Comment regarding line item 7, please press star3 now. President elias there is no Public Comment. Thank you, i indicated 5. 18 was my dgo, its 5. 08, my apologies. All right next item please. Line item 9, presentation report recording the policing plan. Discussion. And we have captain delgandio and director presenting. Thank you, commander if you want to go first. Ill start it off. Good evening, president and members of the commission, chief scott. Director henderson, members of the public and members of the department. I oversee the engagement division. I would like the commission for an opportunity to present this evening. Our Community Engage division captain chris who will present the Community Policing plans. And also director diana roacha. Before i turn it over to captain, i just wanted to comment on commissioner yanez, comments earlier regarding some of the work that youre doing on youre looking for 1. 08. To show the Community Input that theyve been doing. We all know that there is always Community Input in my Committee Event or problem solving. So were working really hard for that. Just wanted to point that out. Without further ado and at this time, would i like to turn it over to delgandio. Thank you, good evening, power point up please. I just want to talk a little bit about the history. They were born o out of doj reform originally. And that being said, the 272 recommendations from doj as you know, probably know, 60 were Community Policing related. Under those 60 was recommendation 45. 1 which recommended s j. D. Throughout the entire agency and in response to that, we developed department general order 1. 08 which years ago and also project manager for the Police General order. Next slide please. So within the department 1. 08, it talks about Community Policing plans. So the policing plan, the legislation is mostly on district stations. However n. 08 we refer to all districts and details. To have a Community Policing plan. And how they get to us, is that the plans are developed and they go through their normal change of command within their respective bureaus or divisions. However previously the plans, they were not public i would say. I must have had a memo form. Earlier this year, we decide today make them into a power point presentation. Theyre either on website or more user friendly. So we did that in the spring with the 2022 plans and they were posted to our website in may of this year. And some of the folks that have come hard to find, so we had the link, now front and center of the Community Section of our website. So those are upright now. Theyre coming up again, looking forward to 2023. Next slide please. Were working through various Community Partners and groups. As you see on some of the plans, it lists countless partners that helps the police strategies. The feedback that we get from our partners, through Community Meetings, through surveys, all contribute to the an mule plan that we have now. Next slide please. This is specific to the San Francisco ordinance. Ill turn it over for this slide and then ill go back. Good evening im diana, roache im the director of Public Affairs and i deal with anything that deals with government affairs. We worked and enhanced Community Policing. In june 2022, the work life formed an ordinance to move forward that took them a step forward into highlighting the importance of Community Feedback. Already have been done and supported by this commission. The ordinance itself requires an emphasis on working the deployment of officers and working with the Community Residents. It also really under scores the importance that there is a thoughtful and strategic having police stations engaged with Community Residents in different groups, essentially to highlight specific strategies. The strategies with bike controls and Language Access moves. Where there is a requirement that were transparent and actually publicizing on our website and that we continue to engage in a way that is transparent around membership of the community and those that engage. We also have intention to report in general around any other services and Additional Services that may increase the work around Community Policing. There is also a very scriptive group in terms of groups that work with us. To work with business groups and organizations and organizations. In terms of the staffing availability, the only thing that i would highlight for these strategies, were going to need to continue to deal with the budgetary provision with the charter. And also work that were required to do under doj and our current policing. Thank you, and ill pass it over to you. Thank you, director. Next slide please. So when we began, to develop the Community Policing plans. We developed a template to send to the captains as well as the training for the captains and their staff. Everyone was represented, everyone attended for the most part and, everyone worked collaboratively. People were giving items to each other in terms of how they can bury their plans and where they can use improvement and what their strengths and weaknesses are. Going forward, theyre going to work with community for 2023 plans. Engaging Community Feedback and on the plans that currently have and looking forward to 2023. So were going to continue that training and its on going process. The plans are up now, but the new ones are up for 2023 and were going to reevaluate that. Committee policing, next slide please. And just an example of where you can find them. And next slide please. And that concludes our presentation, ill take any questions. Thank you all for that presentation. I did get to look at the station plans, once again and there was a lot more content than the previous time i reviewed, so thank you all for investing time and energy and resources into this. Its very important. I think the pgo outside of the legislation that was introduced this year, the dgo itself, pretty many expects some sft things that was in the legislation. Like plans around policing and bike patrols and Language Access. As you mention, every station has a number of relationship. Those relationship are as long as the communication between the station and the partners. There are some that condition and beneficial to the departments efforts. To make sure that were reporting on the number of sessions taking place. Ill use one example like the mission station lists a number of meetings that the captain has. But it does not say how many b officers are engaged in Community Events outside of those that are are the public, events that happen every year like carnival or the larger events. To develop a base line so that next year were working towards improving the number of people and partners that are contributing to the conversation. I think the d g. O. Itself says that an effort should be made to include individuals who have been critical of department and or city services. Positive and adverse impacted by the Police Interactions should have a voice in the matter. I dont see how the feedback that is used or generated by the community is incorporated into these plans. Im going to part out park station. But when you look when you look at all the plans, and im not going to recommend that we have cookie cutter plans but i think some are just more robust which leads me to leave that there is more investment in the process. So how can we use data and numbers to measure and almost create this kind of sentiment that everyone should be lifting the same amount of weight in this process. Those are my initial thoughts. Even if its just the numbers themselves. If were going to have could aof with a cop but not report on how many people actually have coffee with a cop. If were creating spaces and we know we have a shortage of officers on you the beep because of our challenges with hiring up, then maybe we need to use that information to implement a new strategy. Maybe offering four hours with a cop is going to produce one providing feedback, we dont have the numbers to be able to have the analysis. Oh great, its good to have you in place. And im going to request that we have you in the position for as long as possible. I dont know if its possible to make commitments, you know to think where youre going to be three to five years from now. But there is importance and something to be said about the retention of the leadership in the Community Engagement division to be able to set that vision right . For all the departments to buy into the process and inform how the department wants to move forward. Is there a commitment is there a way to kind of hoild and how can we support you in engaging that and providing leadership in the foreseeable future . Maybe ill let the chief speak to that. Hes smiling over there. Thank you, commissioner ill answer as best i can. When we set up Community Division in 2017, commander now assistant chief was our first cap ten and commander. To get rooted this command staff has turned almost completely over since the five years ive been there. And people retire and need to seek a high level of responsibility. But we will be intentional about that. Even with that, its been a total turnover at least during my times. Well dot best we can, just there is a lot of turnover, promotions and retirements and we have to kind of plug new people in. So when people do retire they plug into the same system and they do their own thing. Very high level in the department so we can be consistent with what were doing. Even when the names and faces change. Language access was not necessarily. Im going to focus on the station plan where there are a large numbers of mono lingual or bilingual constituents who need that access. I really want to make sure that that is prioritized because that is part of the d g. O. And that is part, i believe, i thought it was in d g. O. And it was one of the Community Policing plan that came out in 2018, i believe. And i also didnt see what plans are. I know that those are happening. And as mentioned before, that is in of itself, the present is deterrent, were walking those streets and thats how were building relationships. So i would like to see that highlighted because not only because of the legislation examines because i think the community would benefit from that. Thank you, commissioner. I think to comment on smft stuff that you said. There was a lot, all great points and i agree. What we look at is how does Community Policing, you know, turn into Community Engagement would in turn give us public and then it creates Public Safety. I know when i was at the center station, how many people showed up. Well how many cops and then how Many Community members and then we look at the next one. So yes, i think its being done. Its us making sure that its being reported, documented and such a way where we can go and grant nada at that. How do we know that, i think that one is a little bit tougher. Those are valuable for us to look at certain events on comments from the community. If things went well just like Everything Else, what do we have to do to make it better. I think that is all going on. We know what has been done, its just a matter of getting everything on board, this is across the board by, laying that information out. The template is what it is, its a template but its customized, the unit has to customize it to what the district is. Everybodys is going to be different. Thats why you see some variance in some of these plans. For the most part, all the things that you talked about plus more, et cetera. But thank you for sharing those comments and i think that were going to be working hard on making consistent across the board. And my last comment on that was the more that is actually, hes requiring position in leadership there. And were releasing principles, the numbers mean a lot to maybe learn from and not redo and not make, not recreate the wheel and also not recreate some of the challenges and obstacles and some of miss investments that we have made in the past. Thank you for your feedback on this. Thank you commission. Just two areas that i wanted to address in regards to commissioner yanezs suggestions. One we are trying to work closely with academic. So there is conversations right now with that sort of committing to public somebody more specific. To start telling the story in a more telling way. Yes in the way that diversity is. Are these the best bench marks are you looking at data in the most accurate way in the way the impact on that corridor in the neighborhood. Are you building the relationships authentickly with the Community Residents. The business corridors the different communities engaged. The person walking down the service that one on one. I would be remiss if i didnt say that. I would also say that were looking at other cities and trying to cult with them. And to be able to do that. Community policing plan, they had a marketing campaign, they had all of these resources to really elevate Community Policing to a different level. Lookinginging at what is nypd doing and what is seattle doing to get better as what we do. As a San Franciscoian, i like to think that we have the best ideas in the entire country. And were hoping to get better. The last thing i would say is we have a strong commitment and being able to support mono lingual communities. The heritage month of where were landing this help, latino heritage month and filipino heritage month. Thank you. Commissioner yanez, did you . Okay thank you. Last comments, if ill then use the time since i am on, i think as you looking at other jurisdictions, i think defining Community Policing is going to be a challenge, we know because everybody is a part of the community but at the same time. Lets define the activities. Right. Lets make sure that they have amen ooh of onsings so that if that way, theyre just charting. I was playing football, i just made that up. But the more we can gear officers that instruction and guidance around what will be considered Community Engagement activity, the easier it will be for them that will improve everybodys safety outcome including the officers who maybe dont have the relationships yet. So thank you very much for the presentation. I appreciate all of your hard work. I dont see any commissioners in the chat. Can we go to Public Comment. If you would like to make Public Comment regarding line item 8, please dial star3 now. Fwaod evening, caller you have two minutes. Caller im from the disparity community. Has not fully understood Community Policing which is to build mutual respect, trust and regard with the community and the police. Were ip invited to take part in the guns down Violence Prevention Program in the bayview. Held hundreds of programs. Effort and engagement that they have demonstrated will result in Community Policing in name only. Thank you. Thank you caller. Good evening, caller you have two minutes. Caller this is gloria in district 10. Its nice to see commissioner elias and and oberstone in president and Vice President position. This was a brief, its so easy to google and get information on how to do better on Community Policing. I hope there is never ever a police car again. Thats not cool and that should be stopped. Also, i think at the Community Eventscious we need to stop sending the same ol black team. I think if you sent more white officers to the event, they could build relationship because most already have the relationships in the community. Also some simple Community Events that officers can attend, would be neighborhood clean up, and Community Service type program like food giveaways and what not. A lot of donations and companies what not. And next better marketing as far as what is being done. Simple social post where they come up on peoples pages and what not. I used to go to Bayview District meetings when chief was a captain. And to this day, there is still nothing. I dont even know who the captain is now. Armstrong is good. Goody is going and there was another man i asked him. Thank you, caller. And president elias that concludes Public Comment. Thank you for your feedback, i would suggest that you reach out to commissioner yanez, im sure hell be following up with you as well. Thank you for the next item. Line 9, approve recommendation discussion and possible action. We have commissioner byrne and yee available for questions. Commissioner yee, or commissioner byrne you want to start it off. Thank you madam president. Dgo3. 09 this particular criteria that needs to be met. Yeah, liflted in the d g. O. One is whether the officer is facing charges. Ful second one is there any conversations of bias or Sexual Assault . The third was the officer involved in an officer involved shooting has not been, has not been closed or for 18 months is a lot since time of the officer involved shooting. So there is a letter in the recommendation by the chief indicating above officers are, disservicing of the award and they need the qualifications as listed in the dgo. So that unless ads, i move to adopt a recommendation to these officers be award letter. Thank you. Commissioner yee do you have anything to say. Thank you very much, commissioner byrne. In our conversation with the september 9th meeting with the i guess with award, came over it and darrel and i support the recommendations. We spent some good time on there. If whies, second. Commissioner want to chime in before we go to roll call vote . Or actually Public Comment and then vote . You would like to make Public Comment regarding the certification panel. Please press star3 now. President elias there is no Public Comment. Would you like me to take roll call vote. On the recommendation, commissioner walker how do you vote. Yes. Commissioner walker yes. Commissioner benedicto. Yes. Commissioner benedicto yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Commissioner yanez yes. Vice president . Yes. Vice president oberstone yes. Commissioner byrne. Yes. Commissioner yee. Yes. And president elias. Yes. And the motion passes. Next line item is 10. And that item has been pulled and rescheduled at a later time. Do we need Public Comment regarding that as well . No, line discussion and possible discussion to approve revised general order 2. 08 peace officers in investigation for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the San Francisco association as required by law. We have the peace officers right pretty straightforward, it confirms with the Police Officer bill of rights. Its a twopage d g. O. And im going to open it up to any with questions and thefn im going to ask to make a motion to adopt and ask for a second. Seeing no questions or comments. More progress in the last three months or so. [indiscernible] thank you, that sounds like a second, lets go to Public Comment and then reel take a roll call please. Public comment regarding line item 11 press star3 right now. President , there is no Public Comment. Great can we go to vote. So on the motion to approve d g. O. 2. 08 for meet and confer, commissioner walker. Yes. Commissioner walker, yes. Commissioner benedicto. Yes. Commissioner benedicto yes. Commissioner yanez. Yes. Commissioner yanez yes. Vice president carter. Yes. Vice president yes. Commissioner byrne. Yes. Commissioner byrne yes. Commissioner yee. Yes. Commissioner yee yes. President elias. Yes. President elias yes, you have a unanimous vote. Thank you. Line item 12, discuss and possible action to approve revised department general order 8. 01, major and Critical Incident evaluation and notification due to the department, im sorry for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the San Francisco Police Officer association as required by law, discussion and possible action. And we have chief scott to answer any questions if necessary. Thank you, i think chief im going to turnover to you because there were some updates and corrections you wanted to make. Couple of highlights in this, and commissioner changes elias spoke up. This commission directed the department to be more specific on the responsibilities of their first responding officers and first responding supervisors. And i think we hit the mark there. I believe we hit the mark there. Its not all inclusive but it gives the guidelines