President , you have a quorum. Thank you. You always know the a students. They always said present as opposed to here in class. This is the San Francisco Police Commission meeting of october 9, 2019. I want to welcome a new employee of ours, phil lowhouse. Welcome aboard. Hell be working with the commission as an adviser. We dont have an extremely lengthy agenda tonight, so there will be three minutes for public comment. With that, were ready for the first item. Line item 1 a . Chiefs report. Update on youth engagement. Weekly crime trends provide an overview of trends occurring in San Francisco. Chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of the incidents. The discussion will be limited to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for a future Commission Meeting. Major events. Provide a planned summary of events occurring since the previous meeting. This will include a brief overview of unplanned events in San Francisco having an impact on public safety. Commission di
Information that is on procedural changes training, general information, and messages from the chief of police. Will submit the d. G. O. Change form that will lay out the actual changes to the d. G. O. Specifically. And then that bulletin is valid for two years, and then the d. G. O. Has to be reopened i imagine the commission would want to adjust at that time. Otherwise, just a reminder this is the document in front of you. It first came to the commission january 2018, approved in february of 2018 and then we revisited it in january 2019. Talking about adding m. O. U. s to the scope, we made a small additional change related to this matrix and the written directors annual work plan. Written directors will develop an annual plan. We have this fiveyear plan, as you see it tonight. The annual plan will solidify each year, which d. G. O. Needs to come up we have to adjust the fiveyear plan according to d. G. O. s, or bulletins that are about to expire. Such that we have to change a d. G.
14,000 citations had been given affecting homelessness as defined by the budget legislative analysts office. By 2017, we were happy with the department and working with them and getting those numbers down. The last time we got those numbers it was at 9,000, still a huge number, and a huge cost, most of them unpaid. Since 2017 we have not seen that data. I have been on the phone with the Treasures Office who said the police are not collecting on the data. We should be tracking this. We should be able to see if we are giving more or less citations. These numbers are low. We have heard the citation of 647e mentioned. That is important. That is used to threaten people taking the tents away and taking it as evidence. When i was doing evidence in 2014 and 2015 this was not regularly used at all. This is something we are hearing on the streets and now in data and the prosecutor is not progresses cuting the cases because the threat carries a lot. We have heard, though, that they are using 647e
Actual changes to the d. G. O. Specifically. And then that bulletin is valid for two years, and then the d. G. O. Has to be reopened i imagine the commission would want to adjust at that time. Otherwise, just a reminder this is the document in front of you. It first came to the commission january 2018, approved in february of 2018 and then we revisited it in january 2019. Talking about adding m. O. U. s to the scope, we made a small additional change related to this matrix and the written directors annual work plan. Written directors will develop an annual plan. We have this fiveyear plan, as you see it tonight. The annual plan will solidify each year, which d. G. O. Needs to come up we have to adjust the fiveyear plan according to d. G. O. s, or bulletins that are about to expire. Such that we have to change a d. G. O. So we will have to address that in the annual work plan as well. The idea being the Commission President would approve that plan, and then we will make the current five
14,000 citations had been given affecting homelessness as defined by the budget legislative analysts office. By 2017, we were happy with the department and working with them and getting those numbers down. The last time we got those numbers it was at 9,000, still a huge number, and a huge cost, most of them unpaid. Since 2017 we have not seen that data. I have been on the phone with the Treasures Office who said the police are not collecting on the data. We should be tracking this. We should be able to see if we are giving more or less citations. These numbers are low. We have heard the citation of 647e mentioned. That is important. That is used to threaten people taking the tents away and taking it as evidence. When i was doing evidence in 2014 and 2015 this was not regularly used at all. This is something we are hearing on the streets and now in data and the prosecutor is not progresses cuting the cases because the threat carries a lot. We have heard, though, that they are using 647e