Transcripts For SFGTV TA Full Board 42616 20160427

San francisco to this day do not opative smoke alarms in their units and the lack of working smoke alarm is a major cause of death from fire. We are this law requiring loaners to provide nrfgz in english, spanish, chinese to renters every year on the importance of smoke alarms and their responsibility they as pauperty owners have. The second problem the law addresses is many biltdings dont have opative fire alarms in common areas. This means that in the case of a fire tenants often times are not aware that a fire is actually taking place and we heard this from a number of the people who survive some of the fires that they didnt hear the alarm so this law requires there is proper inspection and testing of fire alarms in these buildsings and also requires department of building inspection maintain a website where tenant can look up for themselves to find out whether or not the building where they live is in compliance mpt the third piece of this legislation addresses the fact many buildings have outidated fire Alarm Technology in common areas. One thing we have heard from some of the surviveers of the fires like at 22 and mission is they never herds the fire alarm. This legislation insures people hear the fire alarm by requiring that the departments follow new standards of the alarm meeting the so call, pillow test. That is the alarm has to be loud enough so that someone is sleeping in they are bed can actually hear it. The fourth point this piece of legislation addresses is often times fires spread too quickly from within bulding to the other and specifically what we do is to prevent the spread of fires or minimize the spread we are requiring that landlords place fire blocks, draft stops or fire safety installation in open accessible attics to insure or prevent as much as possible the spreading of the fire. The last piece, what we have seen when tenants are displaced by a fire is most of the time those tenants are left without access to belonging in the biltding and often times they dont know when they will return or information about when the building will be repaired. This legislation insures that once there is a fire that the landlord when a fire occurs must inform the tenants within 72 hours and then one 30 days when the building will be repaired. When they can come back to the building and actually collect belongings and they have basic information so they know what to espect. We heard in a conference from a senior couple the [inaudible] who had a fire that happened 4 months ago and havent gotten any information from the lands lords and quite sadly they have been homeless since the fire and have been sleeping in their vehicle. We have to do bet frr those couples, for those families. We have to do better in San Francisco. The next item isi want to thank hillary roanen my chief of staff for working on this, a resolution im introducing at request of mill gr drid moussely, a mother and it is pretty shocking that we have to introduce such a resolution in San Francisco, but this is a mother who was recently shamed and hurassed by a Security Guard for Breast Feeding her 4 month old son in the waiting room of the Human Services agency in that office which mrs. Museny was waiting to apply there california work opportunity to cal works. It is hard to believe that you have to have this resolution, but mrs. Museny was trying to feed her 4 month old baby and she was ridiculed by the worker at the hsa department. When mrs. Museny called the San Francisco Police Department for assistance because she felt intimidated the plus officer who arrived at the seen was dismissive of complaints and told her that if she nursed in public she might actually be charged with indecent exposure here in San Francisco. Of course it is a right to breast feed in public in california and government and Public Health agencies across the country passed policyed that encourage mother tooz breast feed their children given the Enormous Health Benefits of Breast Feeding for the child and mother. Given the treatment of this mother i introduce this resolution that is asking all city agencies here in San Francisco to post a sign in any public waiting room that clearly welcomes Breast Feeding in that given the actions of the security gourd guard in this case who worked for the city agency and Police Officer involved im asking the Human Services agency in San Francisco Police Department train all staff employees, contractor alike about the rights of mother tooz breast feed their babies here in San Francisco. The last item is a resolution supporting a 1 day strike that is called apain by the aft local 2121 of city college. This resolution supports the right of city College Faculty to strike tomorrow. We are at a critical juncture in city College History where we need visionary leadsership to restore city college to the leading Community College institution in california. City college is undera tack by the discredited accjc which has been attacking them institution for years. Faculty at city college sacrificed for many years to save and rebuild city college. Today that faculty earns 35 percent below what they earned in 200 7 and life has gotten more expensive in San Francisco since 2007. We need propotional like what supervisor kim introduced. That visionary proposal creates more enrollment at the coalage and who are spreading to advance career and make San Francisco their home. We cannot grow city college if administration continues to bargain for Salary Increase that keep faculty at levels they were below in the past. I hope you will join me in supporting this important labor action and thank supervisor kim, mar, yee, avalos for their cosponsorship. The rest i submit. Supervisor kim can go next. Thank you i want to to speak in support for david com pose ordinanceory saelft legislation. It was a heavy lift and took over a year of Task Force Meeting and multiple stakeholders including the private property owners, deunlt permit of building inspection and fire and tenant impacted by the fires here in San Francisco. These fires had a devastating impact and on our most vulnerability residents many are seniors or immigrants who speak english as a second language. The fires impact the oldest buildings which do not have sprinklers and may not have everything in place and are wooden in structure. This legislation will take us many steps forwards down the road to make sure we prevent more fires in the solution keeping tenants in place so they dont lose their homes. It offers to set up a process tenant are allow to retrieve belongings rf a a fire. It is one of the most pornts components the legislation. We dont have a protocol in place residents can go and get some of thoest mare personal belongings whether families photos clothing even if the units remember left unharmed. I want to acknowledge supervirez david compose and staff this was a lot of work and happy to see this is moving forward and thank you supervisor cohen for letting me speak on this ordinance. Thank you supervisor kim. Supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. I have two meeting requests that i would like to discus today. In advance of the anticipated construction on hill side in the bayview committee, the hill side oof the ship yard project that is built by lunar i want to have a hearing to receive a update and as wrel as updating the community as well as board to protect the community from the dust and provide information obthe construction schedule to insure the community has notice and a opportunity to understand the development happening at this particular site. The second hearing request is a hearing to update the Land Use Committee on Marketing Strategy for below market rate units to insure we are reaching out to qualified San Francisco residents in all cornings of the city and insure those that have leftd the city are aware of the opportunities that are in San Francisco and so that we encourage them to come back. I want to also hear about the ways and measures that the Mayors Office of housing is reaching out to qualified residence and insureing they are doing so in multiple languages so there is cultural companyitancy embedded in the outreach and media and marketing strat egy. Thank you supervisor cohen. Supervisor peskin. Thank you madam clerk. I want to join in letting everybody know im honored and delighted to be joining supervisor campos in his effort to finally hold corporate on line hosting plat forms accountable for the role they have played and continue to play in exacerbated our housing crisis in San Francisco chblt. I think everyone knows the numbers a. Pennsylvania state study revealed 30 percent, 378 million of air bnb revenue came from full time operators with rentals available at least 360 days a year. Individuals and entities renting out 2 or more residential propertys on air bn and b account for 17 percent of host in the 12 cities studies and drives 40 percent which a80s foomore than a half billion a eryoo. It is a business model. I dont have a problem if people want to rent out their places to make ends meet when they are out of town or want to rent a room but in San Francisco the study estimates all most 2 thousand units were taken off the market as a result of the under regulate practice combined with limited city enforcement. This was legislated at a time when air bnb and short term rental industry was inunidated San Francisco and San Francisco politics with a flood of money and it was not a auspicious time but there were memberoffs the body particularly supervisor campos and kim and avalos who worked very hard to try to pass effective amendments that would have protected our Housing Stock while holding these on line plat forms accountable so im delighted this legislation has finally arrived and think it is narrowly crafted and will achieve what we need done and hopeful it will pass this body and become the law of San Francisco so we can continue to lead the way. Also we have been passing quite a number of resolutions in support of legislation at the state level. There is one of them on our agenda later this evening and it occurring to me that it is time i think for us to understand what our city lobious is doing, we are the policy body and we take support of the bill i know there is a committee our president serves on with representative oz thf Mayors Office but would like to call a hearing on the protocols to carrying out duties of representative of city and county of San Francisco with policy makers in sacramento. Finally, i would thrike adjourn todays meeting in the memory of lilgy yee, mother of dorathy lee, partner of gordon chin that concludes the introduction of new business. Thank you madam clerk. Can you read Public Comment. Add this time it is the time for the public to address the board of supervisors for up to 2 minutes on items within the subject matter to include the minutes without reference to committee calendar. Public comment isnt allowed when a item is previously subject to Public Comment. Direct your remarks to the boards a a whole not to individual supervisors or the audience. If you like to display a document on the ovhead please state such to sfgtv and remove the document when you would like to the screen to return. First speaker, please. I think it is time we have Public Comment at about 215 so we can come here, speak our mind and leave. Some of the mundane topics just go on and on. Having said that i would like to the controller and City Attorneying and naome kelly and mayor and public defender [inaudible] and others to whom i have addressed a personal letter, we have young men and [inaudible] protesting outside the Mission Police station and the captain of the Police Station has the adacity not to allow them to use the restroom and has been hurassing them. We need some the supervisors who have a heart to go visit the San Francisco Mission Police station and do something about it. This is San Francisco and it is not illegal to voice our opinion. I have been there and spent some hours and have seen that everybody keeps the place clean and i havent seen any ruckus going on. There is more ruckus going on here at the board of supervisors than outside the Mission Police station. So, you fee supervisors who have your heart in the right place, could you please go to the Police Station and do something about it . They are lowing laying down their lives because the police bill of rights allow policeman to shoot and kill and ask questions later. Thank you, next speaker, please. [inaudible] thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon president breed and supervisors. [singing]. You ask your red corvette, Affordable Housing mess. Fix it up all the best. Well put you the test. Well be your housing affordable guest. Im glad this historic item met. [singing]. Protect us from the construction dust and make it right not wrong. Please make us strong and from the dust and make us strong. We dont want to make another one gone and another gone and make us strong from the construction dust. [single] occd Advisory Committee pick a good one going away baby for affordable city and you will be to [inaudible] we are going to keep moving on. Go [single] somewhere over the city hall rainbow, Affordable Housing flies. It flies over the city hall and it wont make us give to us give it a try. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good afternoon. [inaudible] from San Francisco. Just a little nonsense here. A few months ago i read something about a little boy who thought he was superman but finally got over it but has another identity crisis so here it goes. A little boy walked up to his muthder anded, mom i have a secret i want to tell and she said if you tell me your secret it wochbt be a secret anymore. I dont care i want to tell you my secret anyway. Mom, i am a girl. You could center fooled me. I have been changing your diapers for years and could have sworn you were a boy. So, how long will you be a girl. He said, forever and ever. You mean to tell me now i have to go out and buy you a whole new wardrobe . No way. Forget it. Thank you for listening. Thank you next speaker please. Hi. My name is merlin and a taxi driver and want to say thank you for letting me speak. I agree with the first speaker putting this before you have your meeting because when wree get to talk most give involved in your cell phones and texting while we sit through 2 hours of talking to have two minutes to speak. I also want to say what are you do for the taxi drivers . You are doing all this stuff for different groups but what are you do for the epipool who dedicated the last 30 or 40 years in the city. The Big Companies air bnb andubeer come here and get this free avenue to do whatever they are doing, they use techniques like brain entrainment and put up ads all over the city to get people to consume products that are not safe. Lift driver killed a passenger and mother the son who died is the person who takes liftd is held accountable for taking services and the Companies Put out ads and all these campaign tooz make it like they are soft weir is safe. The drivererize not trained by the sate city or finger printed. It takes forever for things like this to come into talks and feel like you owe it to the people who center have been following the rules and trained. I put in my two weeks at my taxi company and it was hard because i worked with them and have seen the struggles they are going through and i wanted to be there but it is just hard, i cant ufford a sro in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Tom gillburty. A Growth Development density hub more housing, 88 percent of San Francisco cant afford. But do it now Affordable Housing [inaudible] build build build. We need a now algorithm, it is obvious. We say we need a new change and new policy. New direction. We love leadership from the mayor but he isnt part of that. As long as the Developers Get their money everything is fine. I applaud 25 percent but think market rate should be only 30 percent. More about that in fact the overhead [inaudible] can we see the overhead . Just pass that along. Just in housing we need a new policy and what we need with the Police Department we need a new policy. We just had a Bravo Company applaud 10 years veterans 10 Year Experience they dont pull a gun, we need them to the defy policy and procedure picking out the Police Department for our future. Applause a new direction. The eastern neighborhood south of market a city booming, a new city bit and yet we have light rails built with less cars for seats and more room for standing. In state of the Affordable Housing rule im for the local zip code rule. I would like to see some people from our neighborhoods investing and enjoying the reaps of new development. We need new direction and security and dignity for those that live in the city. Thank you next speaker please. Choochoochoochoo. [inaudible] i live nearby. Some years aago and experienced the experience of appointment is done by formula and how all sorts of opportunities simplistic formula, and all sorts of opportunities are lost when that happens. I like the idea of if you go with aopponentment looking to newer people and maybe different identity groups. I like that a lot and i wonder where that thinking fs when michael antinni was appointed to the planning commission. I heard commissioner antinina equate into support of urban infill, the idea of putting new housing in denser neighborhoods and led me too cont plate the idea that maybe urban infill isnt cool anymore. By that i mean it is simply not sufficient. It is absolutely not sufficient. Thank you. Any other members that like to provide Public Comment at this time . Please come forward. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we go to the without reference to Committee Items 3134 are considered for immediate adoption without committee reference. A single roll call may enact. A member may have a item considered separately any members who would like to sever any items listed. 34, please. Anyone else . I like to sever item 31. 31. Okay. Farrell you said 34 . He said 34 madam president. Seeing no other names supervisor farrell said do not pull 34 but pull 33. Okay, colleagues. As has been our tradition for the past couple weeks well call each item individually rather than collectively as they should be. Madam clerk please call item number 31. Item 31 to urge California Attorney general [inaudible] heiress into San Francisco please department racial Text Messages. Supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. Colleagues the item that is before us today is a resolution requesting that our state attorney general initiate a investigation into the racist Text Messages and other practices that have been found in our Police Department. I also circulated a few clean up amendment tooz the resolution which corrects a reference to Operation Safety School which is found on page 1. It add it citation to data reference on page 2 and replaces 2 clauses on state 3 with authority under civil code section 52. 3. Im sure all of us were appalled and angered when we learned a few weeks ago a new group of San Francisco Police Officers were exchanging racial texts and the conitant of the messages were very revealing as well as discussed on national television. We are converted with bias of those who sworn a oath to protect and serve the city and think we heard this cry but when is enough enough . The resolution is asking for attorney general to look into a more broadly the practice of our Police Department. The residents of all of us we represent the residence and all expressed a concern about the arrest detention and use of force policy in the Police Department and demanding a change and that there has to be more done to address the concerns. The Police Departmentill submit the rest of that. If you dont mind i like to go into detail about the amendment. Page 1, line 16 addition of word, whom where and clarify the second part of the sentence by changing file suit alleging to alleged in legaling filings. Page 2 line 16 and 22, the addition of citation where the data in those where as clauses derive from San Francisco chronicle and hayward burns institute. Page 3, 39 will be deleted. Like to make a motion to dopt the amendments. I circulated the amendments and ask for your support. Thank you. Supervisor cohen has made a motion to amend and second by wiener. Can we take the amendment without objection. Without objection the amendments pass unanimously. Supervisor cohen, is that it . Yes, thank you. Okay. On the items as amended madam clerk can you call the roll. Supervisor kim, aye. Mar, aye. Peskin, aye. Tang, aye. Wiener, aye. Yee, aye. Avalos, aye. Breed, aye. Campos, aye. Cohen, aye. Farrell, aye. 11 ayes thiz resolution is adopted unanimously. On item 32 and 34 do we need to call those items to take a vote . 32 and 34 you can do those without objection. I called out item 34. Not 33 . Both. Madam clerk please call item 322 resolution to commend the men and wem ochb San Francisco public work squz declare april 2529 as public works week in San Francisco. Take this item same house and call . Without objection the resolution sudoptedue naninously. Item 33 urge the california state legislation to pose stailt senate bill 1102 which could [inaudible] San Francisco and other local jurisdictions ability to enforce regulation of short term rent jl collect transit occupancy tax for rental unit in the city. Supervisor farrell colleagues i know this is just a resolution but i will ask to be excused. As of last month the firm i am involved in has interest in a company that is connect today the short termerant lt company else where and the City Attorney informed me im not legally required to refrain frame voting [inaudible] motion by supervisor campos and second by cohen. Without objection supervisor farrell is excused. On the item pleasesupervisor campos. Thank you madam president. Colleagues i have a set of amendments that i have circulated and hopefully you received. We have yet to receive them. Im sorry. I know there will be a motion to continue for a week so hopefully that gives you time to digest the amendments but essentially this is a resolution i introduced last week apoise posing senate bill 1102 which deals with tax correcting of short term rental. It gives the ability of the state [inaudible] restrict access to data. I want to thank San Francisco City Attorneys office and Tax Collectors Office in San Francisco because they have actually made changes to this resolution to strengthen the resolution and to actually enhance protection relative to San Francisco. I also want to note the only entity that is currently endorsing this legislation is sacramento is air bnb. The cities pulled their support there bill last week and the reason for the very limited support this legislation has is that the state plays no role anywhere in collecting this tax. I also cht to note the law sets precedent for restricting public right to know which is the reason the sacramento be came out in opposition to the bill in the editorial. I ask for your support and want to thank supervisor peskin, yee, avalos, mar and kim for their cosponsorship. Supervisor campos made a motion to amend. Seconded by supervisor wiener. Thank you. I move to continue the item 1 week. From what i have seen the legislation does raise concerns for me but i havent had a opportunity to speak with senator mu gire and like that opportunity so ask we continue the item 1 week. Supervisor wiener made a motion to continue 1 week to the meeting of may 3, is there a second. We have to vote on the amendment first. If we can vote on the amendment. Colleagues, the amendment was moved and seconded, can we take the amendment withoutit wasnt seconded . Yes, it was. Supervisor campos we take it without objection. It was supervisor wiener. Supervisor wiener made a motion to amen, can we take without objection . I second the motion tew mend and house changed so think we may need a roll call. My understanding is we dont need a roll call bought because it is without objection. We always indicate in our rules that when the house changed a roll call is taken. Even for the purpose of a amendment without objection . I would just air on the side of caution. Okay. Since we want to prolong the meeting madam clerk can you please call the roll on the specific amendment . Offered by supervisor campos and seconded by supervisor wiener. Supervisor kim, for mr. Know it all aye. Mar, aye. Peskin aye. Tang, aye. Wiener, aye. Yee, aye. Avalos, aye. Breed, aye. Campos, aye. Cohen, aye. 10i the amendment passes without objection. Voted for unanimously. On the item to continue to may 3, 2016 is there a second . Seconded by supervisor cohen. Colleagues can we take the motion to continue to may 3, 2016 without objection . Without objection the motion passes unanimously. Alright. Madam clerk, lets go to had next item item resolution declare kfog dj Appreciation Day appreciate you entertain this one. Since 82 the disk jockeys of kfog have been a big part of the city in San Francisco and many were disheartened to hear they are going away. They helped select record produce live from the archives which raised 4. 8 million in the years and contributor to bayair area food baj banks. Great disk jockeys [inaudible] shot out to our ish rsh peeps and many others and [inaudible] k fog so unique on the reaio seen. We want to recognize the service of them and all the or the k fog dj and colleagues i hope you join me in this resolution. Seeing no other names madam clerk can you please call the roll . Item 34, supervisor kim, aye. Mar, aye. Peskin, aye. Tang, aye. Wiener, aye. Yee, aye. Avalos, aye. Breed, aye. Campos, aye. Cohen, aye. Farrell, aye. 11 ayes the resolution is adopted. Todays meeting is adjourned in the memory of the beloved individuals on behalf of have visor kim for the late mrs. Asenseian [inaudible] supervisor peskin for the late mrs. Lily yee and behalf of supervisor avalos for the mrs. Blanch wawneta dillwort this bring tooz the send of the agenda. Madam clerk is there any further business before us today . That concludes our business for us today. Great, we are adjourned. Have a great day. [meeting adjourned] youre watching quick bites, the show that is San Francisco. And today youre in for a real treat. Oh, my food inspired by the mediterranean and middle east with a twist so unique you can only find it in one place in San Francisco. Were at the 55th annual armenian festival and bizarre. This is extra special not only because i happen to be armenian, but there is so much Delicious Food here. And i cant wait to share it with all of you. Lets go. Armenia, culture and cusine has had much cultural exchanges with its neighbors. Today armenian food infuses he flavor from the mediterranean, middle east, and eastern europe. This is our 55th year and in San Francisco were the largest armenian Food Festival and widely recognized as one of the best Food Festivals in the area. We have vendors that come up from fresno, from los angeles showing off their craft. We really feel like we have something for everyone in the neighborhood and thats really what it is, is drawing people to see a little bit of our culture and experience what we experience weekend in and weekend out. We are behind the scenes now watching the chef at work preparing some delicious armenian kabob. This is a staple in armenian cooking, is that right . Absolutely, since the beginning of time. Our soldiers used to skewer it on the swords. We have a combination of beef and lam and parsley. And every september over 2000 pounds of meat being cooked in three days. After all that savory protein, i was ready to check out the fresh veggie options. This is armenian cheat sheet. Its tomatos and mint and olive oil. That makes summer food. And what im doing is im putting some nutmeg. It is kind of like cream cheese. In armenia when they offer you food, you have to eat it. They would welcome you and food is very important for them. In every Armenian Community we feel like were a smallvilleage and they come together to put on Something Like this. What i find really interesting about San Francisco is the blends of armenia that come together. Once they are here, the way people Work Together at any age, including our grandmothers, our grandfathers, skewering the meat, its fun to see. Fun to see everybody get together. We call it subarek. Its a cheese turn over if you want. We make the dough from scratch. We boil it like you do for la san i cant. The amount of love and karin fused in these foods is tremendous. They come in every day to prepare, cook and bake bread, all in preparation for this big festival. Nobody says no. When you come them, they have to come tomorrow for the feast. What a treat it is to taste a delicious recipe, all made from scratch and passed down through generations. It really makes you appreciate the little things. Its one of the best festivals. Its outstanding, a marvelous occasion. Were outside checking some of the food to go options. I grabbed myself a ka bob sandwich, all kinds of herbs and spices. Im going to taste this. Looking fantastic. One of the best ive had in a long time. You know its delicious b i have just enough room for dessert, my favorite part. Were behind the scenes right now watching how all the pastries get made. And weve got a whole array of pastries here. Honey and nuts and cinnamon, all kinds of great ingredients. This is amazing. Heres another yummy pastry made with filo dough. Oh, my god. Really sweet and similar, its lighter. This is what i like. We have a lovely row here. Looks like a very delicious and exciting surprise. Im going to bite into it. Here we go. Um. This is great with armenian coffee. Now were making some incredible armenian coffee. We buy our coffee, they have the best coffee. They come from armenia, specially made. And would you like to try it . I would like to try. Would you like sugar or no sugar . No sugar today. Im so excited. Really earthy. You can really taste the grain. I think thats what makes it so special. Really comes out. I hope you try it. Were having a great time at the armenian festival. We ate, we saw, and we definitely conquered. I dont know about you, but i have to go down to the food. Check out our blog for so much more at sf bites at tums abler. Com. Until next time, may the force be with you. First of all, everybody is welcome and we ask two things when they get here. One, that they try something theyve never tried before. Be it food or be it dancing or doing something. And if they feel like it was worth their while to tell one person and bring that person, that family member, that friend down the street to come with them. Were going to have to do a lot of eating so get ready. Get ready. And you diet tomorrow. 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Can i please ask you to turn off your Electronic Device sz as they tend to interfere with the equipment in the room and can we please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice is for all. President loftus, id like to call roll. President loftus, here. Turman is en route. Commissioner marshall is excused. Mazzucco, present. We do not have a quorum at this time. Also with us is police president. My name is suzy loftus, we do these meetings every month, we go out and have our third wednesday of the month at a district station so we can have a klapbs to hear directly from folks who might not come to city hall or working closer in the neighborhood by hearing whats going on. We are going to start off by introducing ourselves. We also have day jobs and live in the city like you all. I will start with commissioner mazzucco z. My name is tom mazzucco, this is my favorite part of being on the commission and going to different districts. Im a native of San Francisco, my day job is im a partner here in San Francisco but before that, like commissioner loftus, i served for 10 years as an assistant District Attorney here in San Francisco and then 9 years as an assistant assistant u. S. Attorney, so 19 years in Law Enforcement on the attorney side. On my day job i am the executive director of riley Family Services at saipbtd Francis Hospital here in the city. Im also on the affect kuplt of San Francisco state school of social work and i live in westport. So i already introduced myself, suzy, i love the Richmond District, i spent most of my childhood here, i went to alamo elementary and roosevelt middle school. I live in the sunset now, raising my 3 childrens, they all go to San Francisco unified schools, great place and my day job i am a lawyer at the California Attorney Generals Office and like commissioner mazzucco in a former life i was a city prosecutor here in San Francisco. I wish more of my colleagues were able to be here tonight because they also have wonderful stories and kupb tribtd a lot of time to the Police Commission. We will be joined by Vice President turman so when he comes ill have him introduce himself, but given that we dont have a quorum, we cant do any action to start so im going to do a couple things. Public comment will be limited to two minutes so we make sure we have a chance to hear from everyone. Im going to use my discretion as chair to move right to 3a, which is the chiefs report and we can do without having a quorum. 3a, chiefs report. This item is to allow the chief of police to report on recent Police Activities and make announcements. Good evening, i am greg inaudible i live west of twin peaks although not in the richmond, one less degree of cold in the outer sunset. Anyway, im going to be brief because i want to save this time for captain silverman as we usually do here, but i want to comment on a couple things. The fbi released their crime reporting, crime in San Francisco was up about 17 1 2 percent is the not so good news. The better news is that Violent Crime was flat when compared to the year before. Were still down about 300 Police Officers so our focus has been on Violent Crime, its not that long ago that everybody remembers in certain parts of the city, not the richmond, we were having a horrible time with gun violence, homicides and the like, that the new normal for homicides is still closer to 50, we had 52 last year, than it is to 75 which is what the new normal was for the 5 years prior to this, just focusing on gun violence in San Francisco. The not so good news is that property crime is driving that increase in crime being up about 17 1 2 percent with 30 percent of that being in auto burglaries. Again, we have an Auto Burglary Task force, our academy is briming with Police Officers, hopefully by summertime next year we will be at full staffing and the uptick in crime almost responds directly to a correlation in when we got down 300 Police Officers with some also things yet to be determined, some legislative changes. So hopefully as the cops come back those two lines will go back together and well get a handle on the property crime. To that end we graduated the 252nd Academy Class on friday night. I want to thank the commissioners that were there. We also had three recruits in that class from oakland, we have a very Good Relationship back and forth across the bay as some of our situations do travel. We participated in the st. Patricks day parade, commissioner loftus was there with her 3 daughters as well as other members in the room apblds just yesterday i sat on a panel with the chiefs of Bart Oakland Chp and san moh say at the National Organization for black Law Enforcement executives and director hicks was on an evening or Afternoon Panel as well. We spoke about our efforts to reengineer force and other things that were of concern both to the community that was there as well as to the oakland Police Department and other Law Enforcement leaders that were present. Thats going to conclude my report and i will defer the rest of my time to the good captain silverman. Okay, well start with the captain after director hicks, sergeant please call the next line item. 3b, this item is to allow the director to report on recent ocb activities and make announcements. Good evening, director hicks, good evening, president loftus, commissioners, chief sir and members of the audience as well as captain silverman, good evening. I am joyce hicks, director of the office of citizen complaints. In addition this evening here from our office is senior investigator Edward Mcmahan i thank you for the opportunity to speak with you about the functions of the office of citizen complaints, also known as the occ the occ is the Third Largest civilian oversight of Law Enforcement agency in the United States, only surpassed in size by new york and chicago. Both the may, 2015 final report of president obamas task force on 21st Century Policing and the march 14 report from the United States department of justice acknowledge the importance of independent oversight of Law Enforcement and community policing. Briefly, the history of the occ is that it was created by a San Francisco board of supervisors sponsored Charter Amendment that was adopted by the voters in 19 82 and became fully operational in 1983, so that makes us 34 years old. The occ was originally an office in the San Francisco Police Department but the occ was later placed under the direct supervision separate from the Police Department. Just briefly, the Police Commissions role, it is a 7 member civilian body, 4 members are appointed by the mayor and 3 by the board of supervisors. The Police Commission holds hearings for the most serious transgressions in the Police Department, untruthfulness of a Police Officer, Excessive Force and discipline is imposed by the chief of police. The Police Commission sets policy for the Police Department by among other things recommending and approving department general orders. The Police Commission oversees the Police Department as well as the office of citizen complaints. So the occs functions are to assist the Police Department in Building Trust with the community, by being the bridge between the public and the police in matters of Police Misconduct as well as Police Policies. To that end the occs mission is to ensure Police Accountability by conducting fair, timely and unbiased investigations, making recommendations on Police Policies and practices and conducting mediations between complainants and the police. In california Law Enforcement agencies must have a procedure to investigate complaints by members of the public against Police Officers. The occ serves that purpose for the San Francisco Police Department. Our office is a Diverse Group of civilians who have never been San Francisco Police Officers but they could be and some are from Law Enforcement in other agencies. We have 39 budgeted positions at the occ, 34 of them are filled. The majority of occ employees are investigators. Currently we have 19 investigators and the balance of of our staff consists of attorneys and support staff. So what do we do . We investigate civilian complaints of Police Misconduct. We investigate complaints to find out what happened. We follow the evidence by interviewing the person who brought the complaint, we interview the involved officers and also civilian witnesses. We have subpoena power to compel testimony and also to obtain evidence. We obtain additional evidence from the Police Department in the form of Police Reports and other documentation thats generated by the department. We go out to the site of the alleged occurrence and we may canvas for witnesses when we are doing our site visit. We aim to complete our investigation within 9 months and with limited exceptions because of the Public Safety officers procedural bill of rights we must complete our investigations wane year. When we complete our investigations we make a finding of whether the xlaipbtd of misconduct violated any Police Department rules or local state or federal laws. The standard of proof that we use is the preponderance of the evidence. That means that the probability that the complaint of conduct occurred is more likely than not, that is, the probability is greater than 50 percent. Our investigations are confidential because they are protected by the Public Safety officers bill of rights. When we kupb clod our investigation we advise the complainant in very general terms but we do not name the officer nor what discipline he will receive because we are precluded from doing so by state law. If after an investigation concludes we find that an officer violated a rule, we forward that finding to the police chief for further action. The chief can impose discipline of up to a 10 day suspension and that pursuant to the San Francisco city charter. The Police Commission has jurisdiction over cases where the recommended discipline is greater than a 10 day suspension as well as over officer appeals of the chiefs decision. If the chief agrees that one of the occ cases should be filed with the Police Commission, the occ prepares charges on the chiefs behalf. But if he disagrees then i can file charges myself and i have done so once under a prior police chief. The Police Commission holds an evidentiary hearing to determine if the preponderance oevidence supports the charges and, as i said earlier, the Police Commission also hears appeals of chief discipline. It also engages in outreach. Our staff of investigators and i participate in outreach and the chief mentioned that yesterday i was on a panel for noble, the National Organization of black Law Enforcement executives, and my panel was on civilian oversight and there were practitioners on that panel from bart, the independent Police Auditor from san jose, the independent Police Auditor as well and then there was also an attorney who represents the police union. We conduct our outreach pursuant to a Community Outreach Strategic Plan that we adopt annually and it focuses on communities of color as well as communities that are traditionally not likely to use Police Services or have conflicts with the police. Another area that the occ is engaged in is in mediation. We provide mediation as an alternative to discipline. In 2015 the occ facilitated 45 mediations. Thats about 7 percent of the 629 cases we closed in 2015. Our Program Allows complainants to resolve issues with the accused officer in a sdmuet resolution format and the goal is to britt bring the parties together in a mutual understanding. The occ has a partnership with Community Boards and the San Francisco Bar Association who provide us mediators free of charge. We conduct our mediation in languages other than english if necessary and our participation in the mediation program, both for the officer as well as the complainant, is voluntary. I do not have the, all of the final statistics for 2015, were still preparing our annual report. But what i can tell you is that in 2015 we received 673 complaints and we found neglect of duty or misconduct in 57 of them. That means that we found wrong doing or neglect in 9 percent of the complaints we closed last year. I do have some detailed statistics that the occ received in 2014 and those are instructive because they remain pretty kupb consistent throughout the years. In 2014 we sustained 8 percent of the complaints we closed. We found 3 percent of the allegations were unfounded, that means they werent true. The largest percent of allegations we received were for unwarranted action, followed by conduct reflects discredit, unnecessary force comprised 8 percent of the allegations we received and we sustained 4 allegations of unnecessary force or 3 percent of the allegations we sustained. A majority of the allegations we sustained were for neglect of duty. Ill tella little bit about the demographics of our complainants. 26 percent of them were african americans, caucasian comprised 27 percent of the complainants, 26 percent declined to state their race. Complainants also klud Asian Americans at 6 percent, latinos at 11 percent, native americans and Pacific Islanders at 2 percent and 2 percent other. The occ staff speaks several languages that include kapbt neez, man darin, tagalog and spanish. Two of our investigators are bilingual and thats important because the largest number of nonenglish interviews we conduct are in spanish and for languages other than the one i previously mentioned we will obtain interpretation services. Last year we conducted 24 case intakes in spanish, 3 in cantonese and one in russian. You can learn more from our web site. We are located on the 7th floor of 25 van ness, near the corner of market and van ness. We receive walkin complaints regarding Police Conduct from the public between 8 00 am and 5 00 pm during normal work days. We also receive complaints by email and fax. You can also file a xlaipblt with00 Police Officer. We have an afterhours service for xlaipblts and that concludes my remarks. Thank you, director hicks. Ladies and gentlemen, as promised Vice President turman joined us and id like him to just briefly introduce himself. Thank you, director hicks. Good evening, folks, i apologize for my tardiness. It has been a very challenging day professionally and personally today. My name is julian turman, i am Vice President of the Police Commission, ive been on the commission for about 5 years. I am a partner in the law firm of reed smith, im head of the Northern California office and labor employment practice. Although i missed the chiefs report and most of director hicks, i apologize, but i am here to hear what the public has to say so i am glad to have the opportunity to hear from you. Thank you and i hope you will excuse my tardiness. Thank you, Vice President turman. While we are apologizing, my mother would say i have forgotten my manners because i neglected to thank the jcc and anyone else who is here from the jcc for so graciously hosting us. Sergeant, lets go back to item 1. Item 1, adoption of minutes for january 6, 13th, and february 3rd. Are there any questions on this matter . Do i have a motion . Second. All those in favor . Those opposed . Motion passes. Is there any Public Comment on our adoption on the minutes . Hearing none, Public Comment is closeclosed. Item 2, consent calendar, receive and file, action request the chief of police for approval to accept 26 bicycles from swunk, inc. Valued at approximately 7,726. 94. Request of the chief of police for approval to accept 26 bicycle helmets for essay questions, celebration event, valued at approximately 1,115. 78 and request the sergeant for approval to accept 250 travel point lodge gift card from miss jacqueline krieger. For members of the public in order for the police to accept any gifts we must have approval from the chief of police. These are generous gifts that folks want to give. Any comments . I move we accept the gifts. All those in favor . Those opposed . Motion passes. Item 3d, commissioner reports, commissionments report, commissioners report. Quickly, we have yet another fantastic commissioner here with you tonight so id like dr. Marshall to introduce himself. Dr. Joe marshall. I run a Youth Program called alliance and free and ive been on the commission for a long time. For my report as the president s report i think the chief covered most of it. We have a fabulous Academy Class graduation, 3 officers from oakland, 42 officers from San Francisco, very diverse, very enthusiastic. It was great to see so many enthusiasm. We also had the st. Patricks day parade and it didnt rain until we were through. We met with the richmond cpab, thid they may have been mentioned already, i spoke yesterday at the national meeting, noble, on community and policing. Chief spoke on the panel after me and joyce i saw your name after that so we were well represented and had a good reception. Item 3d, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future Police Commission action. Anything to add to the agenda tonight. Just want to check, which day are we on for the social media policy . I know we have a scheduled day, i just want to make sure. For members of the odd yen, the department is looking at a social media policy for officers to follow what they can and cannot do in this day of technology with the internet and twitter and facebook. Its a whole new era. I believe that was april 6 but id have to check. Okay, anything further on this matter, colleagues . Commissioner, just to make an announcement that the commission is dark march 22nd and march 30th. We will reconvene on april 6 6. And that will be at city hall, correct . Yes. Item 4, captain Simon Silverman and captain paul yepp to address the commission on activities in the Richmond District. Welcome, captains. We have a projection. Thats a nice way of saying we have to move. All right, thank you, everybody, for coming. Thank you commissioners and command staff as well and thanks also to the jcp for hosting. My name is Simon Silverman. For the last 26 months ive been the captain at richmond station so everything you are going to see here is my fault. Paul yepp is the incoming captain for the station and is taking over as of this week. I wanted to put myself down as outgoing captain but my boss, commander sullivan, reminded me im not that outgoing laughter . Okay, so that shows our geegraphy here in the Richmond District and some of the communities that we serve. We redistricted in july and when that happened the Richmond District gave some of the portion around Pacific Heights to northern station and also some of the University Terrace area to park station and then in that exchange, park station gave us some of the area along gary boulevard, including kaiser hospital, target and best buy so thank you, captain sanford, for those. At the same time we redrew the car sectors and there are 5 car sectors within the district. One of the things i wanted to do was make Golden Gate Park itsds own car sector. Previously golden gate had been split among 3 different car sectors and i wanted it to be its own car sectors. Its been one of the areas where weve had a significant amount of crime. For the park its breaking into cars, stealing things from cars. Those show you the supervisors who have parts of our district, although president breed has a very, very small portion right up in the area of sutter and broaderick, just a couple blocks, along the present presidio area. We work closely with the supervisors officers. Weve done a lot of work particularly on traffic calming measures that neighbors have brought to the attention of supervisors offices and also just with general concerns about people contact the board of supervisors about crime in the area, problems, say, with parking of overnight vehicles is another example. Im going to run through sort of whos who at richmond station. So we have a day watch with two different start times. So some of our officers start very very early at 6 am and some of them come on later at 11 00 okay to kind of cover us through the midday portion. In the day watch is where most of our special assignments are, so as you can see weve put some emphasis on having foot and bike patrols particularly along geary and along our main corridors. We have two officers who did nothing but spend time in the schools, the two middle schools, presidio and george washington. We have two officers who work specifically in Golden Gate Park and then we have traffic officers as well and also two Police Services who are folks who work at the front counter at the station. Our night watch has two different start times. We have a 4 00 start and a 9 00 at night to 7 00 in the morning shift if anybody wants to volunteer, always a popular shift. So fewer special assignments, most of the emphasis there is on patrol because. Later hours. It wouldnt necessarily make sense to have a Patrol Officer watching geary boulevard at 2 00 in the morning. Then we have an Investigations Unit right now that consists of one inspector who is actually acting as lieutenant, hes our senior inspector, and 5 sergeants doing investigations. I put the picture of the horse, thats quinn the police horse because if you look at the top there theres a little lighter brick area. Thats where the Investigations Unit is. Thats the back building of the stais, it used to be the hay lost and i think quinn is there because hes expecting some hay. I know in the 26 months ive been working here i know theres a joke about the hay loft if anyone can think of one. This tells you a little bit about our diversity and this is actually improved since we did our presentation back in 2014. You can see that we have a fairly Diverse Group there and actually i included something you dont see in a lot of the other stations, the russian officers of russian background, i have 5 or 6 officers who actually speak russian which is important because we have the largest Russian Community in the city out here in the richmond. Paul and i said it would be a seamless transition from one captain to the next, but maybe not from one slide to the next. Not our fault, blame technology. Technology helps us do our jobs better. I tried both, ill keep trying. At this point, paul, its traditional for the incoming captain to sing a quick song laughter . So speaking to my captain staff, Sergeant Matthew freeman, head of the captain staff. Well, i can talk about whats going on. Now we have a blank slide. All right, so thats coming up. Do we want to president of the commission has asked me how many twitter followers we have which is an issue that we faced last month. Hang on. Okay. If we just go back a slide we can go right past that one. Did we miss one . Theres a cig slide in there i think before this. Okay, so picking right up, crisis intervention training. This is training that all new officers are getting before they even hit the street and also training that we are putting everybody through who is already out there on the street and has already finished the academy, crisis intervention training. This is where officers learn the Critical Skills for deescalating situations for dealing with people who is Mental Health crisis going on and obviously our goal there is to be able to defuse and deescalate any situation that we possibly can. The folks who are cit trained at the richmond right now are spread out fairly evenly on the watch or on the watches and then of course if we needed to we could also ask for cit trained officer from a neighboring station in a crisis as well. We have a lot of different languages in the station. The ones that we use most are probably cantonese, a little bit of mandarin, russian, spanish. Not a lot of call for hebrew but we are the jcc so you never know. Two hebrew speakers, i think that might make us. Part 1 crime, a little bit of a mixed bag for us. We have very low Violent Crime in general in the richmond. Just last night i found some stats going back to 2009 so for the 5 years or so before 2014, typically we were seeing in the high 200s, 250, 280, 290 Violent Crimes a year. Were actually down, being under 200 is a considerable improvement for us. On the other hand, property crime as we have seen just about everywhere else in the city is up for us. What drives almost all of that in the richmond is breaking into cars, stealing cars and a very small amount of that is also residential burglary. Middle most of our burglaries are from garages. If i could say just a couple things, i say it over and over again, never leave anything in the car at all. Putting it in the glove compartment or under seat, if we know them then the guy who breaks into cars all day certainly knows them. Also locking up, anything you can do to make your car a harder target, the better. Garage burglaries are going around looking for open windows, unlocked doors, anything you can do to get in their way makes it more likely they will move on. All things being equal, we ought to have 10 percent of the crime but were very happy, we only have 1. 7 of the Violent Crime in San Francisco and 6. 4 of the property crime. We are a bit underrepresented and if you had to be underrepresented, this would be the number you want to be underrepresented on. We have done a lot for Traffic Safety in the last two years. We had a really, really good year in 2014 and wrote a lot of citations. Not as many in 2015, i actually think thats more about how good 2014 is than it is about anything going wrong in 2015. In 2015 we had staffing challenges, lots and lots of new babies. Theres something in the water at the station so be careful. Weve had lots of folks on leave due to having kids, weve had folks promoted, so those are two good reasons that people wouldnt be at work but weve also had folks sick and injured as well. One thing i am very happy about is consistently we have had over 50 percent of the cites we write focused on reducing injury and traffic fatalities to zero. So we focus on the 5 most common causes of our injury collisions. Consistently over 50 percent of the citations that officers in the richmond are writing are focused on the 5. Texting while driving is not one of the focus on the five violations but its something we want to work on. Its pretty rare for somebody to say well the reason i hit the guy is because i was texting, of course. They wont admit that. I always like this picture. Again a little hard to see but thats actually right in front of the station, thats one of our traffic officers and hes using whats commonly known as a radar gun. On 6th avenue you will see there are 5 or 6 marked cars right there. Officer luhan that morning is taking his equipment out to a car and almost gets hit by a guy. He said to himself i write tickets everywhere else, i wonder if i can write them here. We were routinely clocking people in our 25 zone well over 45, so it just goes to show you. This is something were really proud of, youth and community engagement. If you see down on the right there, this kid just broke loose on officer neil there and threw a great lay up. Thats our sand lot program that we run spring and summer after school where its drop in for the kids to play with the cops and get to know the cops, which we think is really important for us to know the kids and for the kids to know us. So we work in the schools, we work a lot with Neighborhood Associations, just about any Neighborhood Association that i can get in front of you, ill get in front of. That really helps because a lot of times with Neighborhood Associations its very focused, what can we do about crime in a bar neighborhood. Weve had a lot of neighborhood watches started. We work closely with the sacramento street merchants, clement street, our sand lot program, weve done some great work in the Senior Centers. There was a case i like to talk about, it got a little bit of media atense. At thanksgiving time every station raised the mine to the money to feed 10 families that probably werent going to have a thanksgiving dinner. Safeway donated the food for that and it was for a family of four, it was a really big spread. In talking to the Senior Centers we realized we had People Living alone in the program and they werent going to be part of that program. So a couple officers on the night watch took it on themselves to raise money just from the night watch right at the last minute, a couple days before thanksgiving when they found out seniors living alone werent going to be part of that program, then on their day off they cooked the dinners and delivered them to everybody that we could find. All completely on their own initiative, a great thing. Then weve had a tendency to focus a lot on youth sports in the department but were not going to get all the kids that way, so we also are hatching a creative writing program, an after School Program partners with creating writing after schools to create an fter School Program at our station. When last we met we had a scant 462 twitter followers. Its probably over 1716 now i think today. I think the commission has under 300, im not going to boos richmond station is the no. 3 station for commissioner turman reminded me that the commission does this. We have the Third Largest number of twitter followers. Where we have gotten a great deal of our engagement is with next door dot com. We have a potential reach of over 10,200. We have been posting a weekly newsletter, were really the only station that posts regularly and a tremendous amount of engagement there. Our last post had over 44 engagements or comments where people are posting comments and replying. That weekly email also goes out in a direct email to over 1600 people who subscribed, just written to the station and said, add me to the list. It gets reposted on the Richmond District sf blog and then the captain writes, i didnt tell you this, you get to write a monthly article for the richmond review as well. Weve gotten a lot of reach with that. We also have had learning experiences with platforms like next door not inherently a problem with the platform, its just that when people are afraid and upset they often spread misinformation, right, like the game of telephone or rumor and its easy to do that on the internet. We had a situation kind of blow up on us where people were posting on next door that there had been a series of sexual assaults and there simply had not. So being able on get the real facts out there is a big help for us. So our goals moving forward, the first one is an easy one because as youve just heard were graduating an Academy Class very, very regularly. New folks are flowing into the station so that is going to come. That is already in the works. Once we get a few more officers i think the next thick we should do is reestablish a plain clothes team of officers, four officers and a sergeant seem to be about right and put them on particular crime problems. So wherever were see ago crime pattern that would be someplace they would work. That may help us with reducing theft from autos which is, as i said, our no. 1 crime challenge. Then the other one is to increase Traffic Safety enforcement as well, so possibly if we get some more people we might put some people dedicated just to Traffic Safety although as i have said in the station everybody is a traffic officer. So that is, that lifting should be done by all the officers in the station on patrol as well. And that pretty much wraps it up, so thank you very much. applause . All right, i know my colleagues usually have a number of questions for the captain but they are usually better after we have a chance to be informed by everybody . Oo . A item 5, Public Comment. Public is now welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Speakers shall remark the remarks to the commission as a whole and not individual commissioners or department personnel. Under Police Commission rules of order, under Public Comment Neither Police 94 occ personnel nor personnel are required to respond to the public but may provide a brief response. You should refrain, however, from entering into any debate with speakers. Please limit your comments to two minutes. Okay, welcome. Public comment, come on up. Good evening, miss brown. Good evening, everyone. I am here again, i just want to bring awareness to my son, arbor haslet, who was married february 14, 2006. Im a mother who has been on the Battle Ground and who runs a healing circle for mothers and fathers who have lost their sons and daughters to homicide. We are out there trying to help other mothers from suffering. Again i say im that advocate but when it comes to me, talking about my own child is not easy. So this is my son. His case is not solved, theres a 250,000 reward to solve his case and its not solved. And i bring these names with me all the time. These are all the names of the perpetrators that were there when my son was murdered. Anthony hunter, marcus bryant. These cases are all on my sons file that my investigator let me see. I want you to know that my son had a mother and a father. This wasnt a single parent home. He had a mother and a father who raised him well. He graduated from st. Dominick, went on to gateway high where his mother had to walk across the stage to receive his diploma in death. His father is from nigeria and his father hurts worse than i do. I never tell the person that they want to see their mother and father standing over a casket. This is what i have to live for and this is what i have left of my son now. Thank you, miss brown. And the other thing, this is his body laying on a gurney. People say why do i carry these . I need people to know you all have children. You dont want to go through this. I wouldnt wish this on the perpetrators who murdered my son. So hear me. His birthday is next month, april 6. So help me. Somebody say something. Help me solve this, help me find the murderers of my son so i can heal. Next month is his birthday and august 14th it will be 10 years, 10 years, everybody. Thank you, miss brown. If anybody here or watching at home has any information into the murder of aubrey aubrecasa theres a tip line. Further Public Comment . Come right up. I dont even have to call on you, you can just come right up. Mike mitchell, im retired, 8 years ago, i was a state parole agent stationed here in San Francisco and actually i had a couple things i want to say. I have to talk really fast. Theres been a lot of hysteria and its really making me sick. I came from another agency to San Francisco and i couldnt believe how diversified the force was, all kinds of people, all kinds of races, you name it, and how professional and basically how friendly. I mean when you are in a fight its not a friendly thing. Taking down a drug dealer is not friendly but after people were cuffed i saw so much courtesy and professionalism to guys as long as they had calmed down. This hysteria i think comes from the National Level and it started with misinformation. That was my first thing out of the way. I read the captains newsletter every week and i love it and one of the things i noted is, i live right at ocean beach, and a few months ago in a twoweek period we had three nighttime burglaries in which the people were at heme. Extraordinarily dangerous situation. Not a word in the chronicle. And one case the guy got up and confronted them and they pulled a gun on him. Extraordinarily dangerous and none of my neighbors knew of it. 4. 30 there was a strong arm robbery, today i was talking to neighbors, nobody heard about it. That one was actually in the chronicle but it was such a small spot nobody saw it. A nighttime burglary if they break into your home its presumed they are here to harm you, not just to rob you. When i was working there was tons of stuff that never got reported but it seems like its gotten worse in the last few years. I hear that little ding, thats for me, right . For you, right. Thank you, sir. Oh, my gosh, are you okay, sir . Take a moment, take a moment. You looked like you came down hard. The bummer the rules dont even allow me to give you more than two minutes. All that and you get the same amount of time as everyone else. Good evening and welcome. I am barry raider, by way of identification i retired 10 years ago from a law firm. I speak as an individual not as a representative of the organization. I think captain silverman is terrific, thats what got me involved in this project. And i found it very illuminating and illustrative for me, a lot of very different things, some good, some bad. My concern and the reason im speaking right now is that his newsletter and the inaudible have had meetings that made clear that there is a dysfunction between the officers who make the arrests and the das office which doesnt seem to prosecute. I understand that thats not something you guys can do anything directly about. I also understand what you said that you have some personal experience in this area. It would seem to me that perhaps some liaison with the das office could increase their sensitivity to the fact that your officers have to get very frustrated to be arresting people and see them back on the streets a day or two days or three days. I understand from captain silverman that a lot of the crime is committed by a very small number of people and if and i also understand the jail is overcrowded and we dont have a place to put these people. But that ends up creating a loselose situation and i know its not your jurisdiction but i dont know whose jurisdiction it is. If you guys cant talk to somebody, who can . Thank you. applause . Thank you. Okay. Good evening, welcome. Good evening, im roslyn payne, i live a few blocks from here. 11 00 last night someone rank the doorbell and i went to the front door and said who is there because thats when you have a change of shift at the station and the comments were unintelligible and i loudly said im not opening my door and did not, turned on all the lights, et cetera. I spoke with an officer louie at the station and he suggested next time that happen that i call dispatch or 911 so that someone would come out and actually circulate around the neighborhood. I called my son who lives a few miles away, he came over and spoke with a Security Officer who is hired by others in the neighborhood. So what i wanted to recommend is that in your news letters and other communications, all of which i think are quite terrific, if you could constantly say if you hear anything, heres the number to call and just keep repeating that. I know i now have it palace stered at my house at every phone but i think thats a good way to remind all of us as to what our actions should be. Thank you so much. Good evening and welcome. Thank you so much. Okay, thank you. First i really want to thank you, the commission, for coming to the richmond. My name is david heller, im president of the geary boulevard Merchant Association and ive been able to locate captains i was able to work with in what i Call Community policing. We are having just one issue right now and something that the captain has mentioned and we have a lot of car breakins, i know its an epidemic not just here but all over the city. I got to talk to some people and then i was in the parking and i saw this sign, you know, and i decided to copy it and i went to the parking lot where we have 5, 6, breaking in at the same time. I became a graffiti tagger, dont leave your valuables in the car. I really want to thank you for coming here, i want to thank the chief for always giving us a1 captain, you are all good but they know that i have your number so we get to work, you know. Id also like to introduce henry. Henry is a dear friend of mine and he is president of the District Council of merchants so i would like to have him speak. Good evening, sir, welcome. David, those are kind words. Yes, im the president of the Merchant Association. I want to echo what dave was saying, that just most recently what happened in the parking lot was just the other night we had a dinner coming up and one of our people said station members was out to help us and she went out to the car and it was broken in. This happens all over the place. I know its tough for the police to do much about it, but i think after you get some lighting it will help. I think we have a great police force and the chief has a great force, i have known him for many, many years. Thank you so much. This is your shot, guys, this is your time. Good evening, welcome. Hello, im tracy, im been a member of the cpap for about 3 years now. I had a chance to work with former captain ninos and im feeling quite blessed as far as the communications that i have encountered as far as working with the Police Department, the richmond station, as well as working with my neighborhoods, my merchants, but its all just a lot of work, its a lot of work for the communications every week i appreciate the breakins, every time i go out to my car and my car is not broken into, i give a little hallelujah. I am certainly experiencing the pressure myself. The other day there was a brick thrown through the window for no reason. Im a big fan of using next door and making sure our information is really clear. Ive actually seen people say, no, dont call 911 if you see something suspicious. Not to just assume that the Police Department does everybody, we really have to step up and keep helping the Police Department with all of our actions, encouraging people to improve their personal home safety and just become away. Im a big fan of all that. So im over near sacramento, im not going to say the name of the business but i look forward to seeing more of you in the future. Hi, im patrice mattely and i wasnt going to say anything but i am. First and foremost we have been so fortunate to have such wonderful captains here in my district. Ive been a member of the cpap since the beginning. But one thing that drives me crazy is just as we start getting in the groove you guys promote, or you transfer. But honestly im an executive recruiter and as a business, when we look at things we say it takes a while as a ceo, a head, to get to know what the issues are and to start to make traction. If bee really really want to have a connection they need to stay longer, ideally 3 to 5 years. Thank you, miss mattely. Well, i also was not going to say anything. I am a retired Police Service aide, 33 years in the Police Department. Life long native San Franciscoan and a resident of Laurel Heights right now. As a Police Service aide my last 4 years i spent in the Central District and the bane of my existence and i left new years eve, 2009, was auto boost. Unfortunately the Central District being north beach, fishermans wharf, is a big tourist area, i had people come in daily, i couldnt tell you how many reports i took, travel the world, these people come from the airport, they park their car they come to the top of lombard steps and they get out and come back and everything they own is gone. I cried with him as i took these reports. I see obviously since i was gone things have not gotten any better. Unfortunately we can get into prop 47, we can get into all the reasons and all the White Elephants that we cant talk about why this is going on. I also remember, if im not mistaken, i did a little testing many years ago takes about 8 seconds to get in and out of a car, to get in. So the one thing i will give you to take away is if you get out of your car, do not stand there and open your trunk and put your purse in your car. Do not get out and put things in. Go a few blocks before you stop whatever you have that you want to put in a trunk if you feel the need to, remember, its not that hard to get in a trunk. So if you have to do it, do not do it where you are leaving your car. I sympathize with all of you who have that happen, believe me, it breaks my heart to see this happen in my city. Thank you. Any further Public Comment . Hello, come on up. Good evening, welcome. Hi, my name is margie brown and i can see that the gang is up, im the third person up here from our group. Im here specifically because we want to say inaudible captain silverman. We work as a team and its really sad that it has to be broken up, but then lots of luck to captain silverman, ive enjoyed working with him and i want to thank whoever came up with the concept of having these neighborhood advisory groups because it does bring the Community Together and based on my experience its been a very positive move. Thank you. applause . Next speaker. Good evening and welcome. Hello, thank you. My name is jonathan lyon, i want to say thank you to the commissioners for coming out tonight and joining us out here in the Richmond District. I am also a member of the richmond cpap, i want to say thanks to my colleagues for coming out as well and wanted to just sort of echo some of their comments. I guess the Richmond District has been a proving ground for captains on their way to bigger and better things, but we definitely, i think we feel it out here. You know, we get some of the best and brightest that the sfpd has to offer, we just dont get them for very long. But captain silverman, i wish you the best in all your next adventures, you have some big shoes to fill but given your recent past i have nothing but confidence that you will do so. Also to echo some of the other concerns, i see a lot of it out there in the neighborhood around car burglaries, its been touched on already tonight but you get your within window touched on, housing costs are going through the roof, replacing a car window is a significant cost. Weve got to find a way to get a handle on this. Thank you, mr. Lyon, further Public Comment . Okay, hearing none, Public Comment is now closed. Lets bring the captain back up. Colleagues, questions for the captain . Ill just start off by saying in one calendar year while i was a da when i lived in the western addition, my car was broken into 5 times. Five times in one calendar year. So me as a prosecutor found myself at the station with tears in my eyes because its a horrible thing to happen and you feel powerless and the one thing was i had a 15yearold car at the time and they somehow would always break into that corner window thats the most expensive one, you know . Its like a 15yearold car, just break in the other one. In any event, captain silverman we are hearing this across the city, what strategies have you deployed, what do you need, how can this commission to the point the community is asking us to work better together. So. I think theres a couple ideas to have. One is just my mission to get people to stop leaving things in their car. My theory, its very much like the bear in the camp ground. You are not supposed to leave food in your tent because a bear will come and tear up the tent. The problem is once the bear learns that the camp ground has food, he will tear up everybodys tent even if they dont have any food. So taking my bear analogy, bringing it into epidemiology is also herd immunity. If everyone in the neighborhood stops leaving things in the car, that neighborhood dries up, most of our property criminals are not dedicated hardworking individuals, they will move on to somewhere else. So its about reducing the popularity of your neighborhood. And we deal with tourists who are constantly transiting through. So thats the supply side. On the demand side, the thing thats been in the past most effective. We have had plain clothes but high visibility patrol seems to be the thing that when we got any traction that did it. Going to the areas where we know were going to have breakins, mr. Heller has a lot next door that is just a magnet. We have been making arrests, we have been arresting people who are already on probation or parole who are breaking into cars and they are not getting a vigorous sentence if they are getting anything. Really my no. 1 thing would be never leave anything in the car, no. 2, high visibility patrol in the areas we know are problematic and hopefully being able to reestablish a plain clothes team to try inaudible . Thats one of the things i was going to say. If you get one person they tend to break into multiple cars. A good plain clothes operation can get someone that i know, chief, there was some collaboration with the district terbs office. I think i read that. Would there be anything that we should know about, how were partnering with the district as Office Specific to these crimes. We do have the Auto Burglary Task force. We had one years ago and we are having success with these guys. We got one guy, we were able to attribute him to 22. In san mateo county, lets say a person does 10 auto burglaries a day, on the first offense especially if they are on probation or parole, you get 180 days and you get 10 percent less auto burglaries and it goes from there. That part is a work in progress but they also just got a pretty prolific serial the other day. The woman who did 22, one of them was a stoler firearms that i believe murdered a muralist and i believe he got 6 years and he is not a person that will be doing San Francisco. If we get these oneman crime waves its just about getting them off the street. San francisco county jail has a record low jail population. Captain, do you have a neighborhood District Attorney asaned to the station . We do. The other advice i would give, having been the neighborhood d. D a, when i was a Community Member and trying to advocate for myself, i would try to get everybody in the same room at the same time. Sometimes it would be, well, the case isnt Strong Enough to charge, the police are saying what can we do differently again. So my advice would be that you just keep trying, make sure that communication is ongoing. I dont know, nir mad mad, what was your situation. I was just asking with staffings you will be able to have a plain clothes detail that is trying to find the auto burglars. Maybe the district captain should report when the arrest has been made, lets people know the arrest has been made in the district and let them know what the actual disposition of the case is. The Sheriffs Department has empty bed space and everyone is pointing fingers about who is to blame. I heard a commercial yesterday but a lot depends on having the cases prosecuted. I live in the marina and we had a burglary right in front of my house, they were proud of the disposition, he got 3 months and he had a gun in the car. So i think that maybe captains ought to put out there the arrest, went to disposition, you cant delete some of the problems are the judges. And i think you should report who the judges are and what dispositions are given and its very important because this is a very unique meeting for me i want to come back next week and the week after and i generally am proPolice Department. Your voices are not being heard. If the captains start tracking dispositions, track the judges, they are all politicians and they react. Captain, to that point what i think you have done an excellent job of and led the way is the communications piece. The joke was, we had a meeting two years ago and i asked how many twitter followers, we didnt even have a twitter feed and were following your lead. It was very fair what was coming back to me that we only had 300 fwit err followers. But the think you are doing well, and i think to commissioner mazzuccos point, using platforms like next door clearly you are using the lift to get the works out. I can see thats really working and certainly a molds for the good captain to follow in oots stations as well and main what i hear commissioner mazzucco about as well when it leaves you and goes on to the next world is there a responsible way of communicating the members . Where we sit it makes a difference about how knowledgeable everyone is. Colleagues, questions or comments for the captain . Vice president . Thats good. Thats a good thing. Okay, theres a question on where youre going next. Sure, i have gone. I am whats called the night captain so overnight from 7 00 pm to 5 00 am we have one or two captains who work at night. So my day has just begun. Wonderful. If theres nothing else for the good captain then thank you for everything. You are a night captain, we dont get to see you. applause . Sergeant, please call the next line item. Item 6, adjournment, action. Colleagues, do i have a motion . So moved. Second . All in favor . Ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned. 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