Purpose. The chart here, let me make it perfectly clear, this is not guilty there, this means a complete acquittal of all charges. An acquittalis only when you get across the board not guilty. With respect to, we go to the hung juries, where a jury cant make a decision and guilty is where they are convicted of all the charges. So i want to be clear that is what these represent. When you see 54 of your cases, juries saying they are not guilty of that crime, that should at least require that you take pause and say should we have prosecuted that case . If the answer is no, they should not be trying that case. You could argue that Domestic Violence cases we should try every case, but again, do we have the resources to do that in each and every case . And supervisor chiu, you also asked about the question of whether we should be prosecuting more cases by virtue of the fact that there is a low conviction rate in San Francisco . And again, it depends on who you are prosecuting. If you are pro
And again, this is based it does show that is going up and that those are possibly the numbers that were being used there. Through the chair, a clarification, i wasnt studenting that number, but i was disputeing 60 cases from the public defenders misdemeanor caseload versus the 30. I think that is comparing apples to oranges and the appropriate comparison would be 60 cases per criminal defense attorney in the misdemeanor unit on the public deferreders side versus a couple hundred on the District Attorneys side. That is what i was really getting it. This does not show anything for the public defender, nor talk about overall caseload for the department. Its just focusing on the Domestic Violence cases. I would also like to respond, supervisor mar, you were asking about the caseload, the reduction from the Police Department. And questioning the District Attorney about the difference. I would just comment that looking at table 10 and table 11 on page 19 of our report, table 10 reflects the
Takes exception with that and we did go back to the Police Department and clarify that those are the actual cases being referred to the District Attorneys office, if you look at table 11 on the bottom, that is information provided by the District Attorney. Which actually shows the same trend. Although not as large. They showed the actual number of cases being referred to the District Attorney going down. As well as the number of cases being charged by the District Attorney going down by the order of 18 , over the last two years. Thank you, supervisor mar . Thank you. Miss newman i know miss dubury mentioned 2012 seemed to be an anomaly and if you could look at trend for five years, but looks like 2012 was a significant drop. I am wondering if you could address that . Certainly, through the chair, supervisor mar, we agree it does look like an anomaly and when i get to our recommendations its one of the reasons that we make a recommendation for all limited positions because if that trend
Reassign in areas where custody is, where the demands are most pronounced. And so, one area that were taking some proactive move is in our it department of a staggered roll out of us being able to bring in civilians where there are four sworn deputies and supplant for the civilians two sworn deputies and be able to help reassign those deputies in other areas. Technologically, the department has come a long way, but i believe through its Customer Service initiatives so that for the general public and those who have business with the Sheriffs Department, both on the incarceration custody side or the civil side and or programmatic side, that we have to significantly improve everything from our website to just general access to finding somebody who might be incarcerated in our San Francisco or san bruno jail system. That initiative has been underway and we are confident that the results will be well received. And then on i believe that on the next slide in the overtime expenditure, the abi
Pronounced. And so, one area that were taking some proactive move is in our it department of a staggered roll out of us being able to bring in civilians where there are four sworn deputies and supplant for the civilians two sworn deputies and be able to help reassign those deputies in other areas. Technologically, the department has come a long way, but i believe through its Customer Service initiatives so that for the general public and those who have business with the Sheriffs Department, both on the incarceration custody side or the civil side and or programmatic side, that we have to significantly improve everything from our website to just general access to finding somebody who might be incarcerated in our San Francisco or san bruno jail system. That initiative has been underway and we are confident that the results will be well received. And then on i believe that on the next slide in the overtime expenditure, the ability to go ahead and tackle the overtime i think hurdle that ha