In june of 2018, almost a year ago, the budget and legislative analysis analyst provided the board with a performance audit of the San Francisco Police Department so we could better understand, number one, how to put the police are deploying police staff, that is funded by the general fund, and number two , how uniform staff is allocated to administrative versus patrol duties. One major finding and recommendation of that audit was that in light of an increase in property crime in our city, with public demand for more officers on the street, the San Francisco Police Department should put as many administrative positions in as possible. This is best practice is recognized by major Law Enforcement associations including the International Association of chiefs of police and adopted by most major Law Enforcement departments in the country, but San Franciscos ratio of sworn officers to civilian staff remains higher than the National Average over its peers. While there is a need for sworn off
Please ensure you have silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the november 5th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Can you please call the first item . Number one is a resolution declaring a state of emergency regarding pedestrian and cyclist fatalities. Supervisor haney . Welcome. Yes. Thank you, chair mandelman and thank you for having me back, committee members. I feel like i am an honorary member of this committee at this point. Thank you for hearing these very important items. I authored this resolution with president yee declaring a Traffic Safety state of emergency on pedestrian cyclists pedestrian and cyclist fatalities with walk s. F. Immediately after the tragic death of Benjamin Dean and the injury of his wife in the tenderloin after a driver ran a red light and struck them both, but this is about even more than one death i
Both violent and property crimes. Burglaries are actually down by 31 . Time now is 4 30. The other big story is what will your forecast be . Your forecast for your halloween. Teacher is here for that. Just fine. No problem. Good thing its not sunday night or monday. Halloween. Yeah. Its a big change. Then we have rain. And cold. Next week is going to be cold. Early next week, thats for sure. Today, though, its all about sunshine. Once we get going here, but its going to be a nice day. Maybe a little patch. Q y fog. Again, that doesnt have much of a chance. Seventys. Eightys. Upper 70s to near 80. Everything comes together. Santa rosa would be one. Overall, clear skies. Were waiting on a system. It wont be here until sunday with incrossing clouds. Sixty for some. 47. Fiftyseven. Santa rosa 48. Palo alto is at 48. The Oakland Airport is at 49. Fiftyeight. Fiftysix. Boulder creek is at 46. Must be eyebrows. And holding Scotts Valley up becauser in running warmer than santa cruz which is a
Really price any further. The argument that i would make is one of effect it has and that is drowns in yemen despite the Obama Administrations rhetoric to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al qaeda, that its not drowns or airstrikes that are driving. It is civilian casualties. Its the individuals being killed along with the al qaeda targets. When i was in yemen, i was talking to someone whos very, very close to al qaeda he said look, you know, theres a difference between yemen and afghanistan and yemen and afghanistan are arabs and a knock at the country. In yemen archenemies in yemen. They move around much easier than they did. They can be a member of al qaeda and can be no locally. Maybe some people known them as he tribesmen another see the u. S. , for instance you would see them as an al qaeda member. The u. S. Thinks its killing an al qaeda member and maybe it is. But hes been a killed on the ground and yemenis seen being killed is in fact the tribesman. This is a challenge that the u