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Commissioner byrne here. Commissioner yee here. Uh, Vice President carter oberstein, you have a quorum. Commissioner. President elias is in route. Also with us tonight, we have chief scott from the San Francisco Police Department and executive director Paul Henderson from the department of police accountability. Uh, sergeant, could you call the first item, please . Line item one. General Public Comment at this time. The public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonights agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Police Commission under Police Commission, rules of order during Public Comment, Neither Police or epa personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email the secretary of the Police Commission at sfpd. Commission at sf dot org or written comments may be sent
Been opened. So far this year, and weve closed 96 cases. Uh, there are currently 305 cases that are pending and open on the docket. Uh, that is up this time last year, there were 263 cases that had opened because there are more cases that are coming into dpa right now. Uh, weve sustained 12 cases so far this year. Weve mediated one case, and we currently have 32 cases whose investigation has continued past the 270 day period. And of those, uh, 32 cases, 22 of the cases are told cases, meaning that time isnt being, uh, measured while there is ongoing litigation and legal action, either criminal or civil , in terms of cases that are awaiting disposition, there are ten cases waiting disposition on from the commission, and there are 96 cases, uh, awaiting disposed action from the chiefs office. In terms of the cases that have come into the office and the allegations weve received 15 cases this week from last week. Uh, the highest percentage of those allegations. Again, these are allegation