Number two, my purpose of being here was actually to add a recommendation that we not enforce number two. But i think that that that point is moot. So i do want to thank sfpd and members of our community for coming out in support. I personally am excited about having another place to go near city hall, i think that many of us, may go there to be clientele, at the beer hall and i do want to particularly thank jennifer and andrew because they have done quite a bit of work over the last couple of months in particular with the Office Working with the sunny and gulo to make sure that we are putting forward a responsible plan that is going to enhance not detract or add Public Safety issues to the neighborhood and i think that that is very important. And tomorrow, actually, friday, the mayor and i will be at the opening of the 6th Street Safety hub, sorry we just changed the name. And given in light of the announcement, of the additional foot patrol that we are dedicating to the sixth street
Start. Most of you should have copies of this if not, it is up on the board. Northern station, for those that dont know encompasses a fairly large area of the city and council of San Francisco. But when you look at that map, you can see that northern station really starts at the corner of church and market. And it goes all the way down Market Street to larkin, from there, everything north all the way to where you hit water is northern station. So, we have the lower hate, we have the haze valley and the middle fillmore and the western addition, and upper fillmore and Pacific Heights and the marina, and it is a large area and as you can see within the Northern District there are ten districts and a number of smaller communities that we encompass. This is number two. One of the things that this picture shows you here is the five district sectors that the Police Department polices during a normal workday. The northern is broken up into five sectors as you can see the largest one is the yea
The tools of telling the authority to do what they were charged to do and so during that time period i spend quite a bit of time passing at this point, four different pieces of legislation to give this city and the Entertainment Commission more tools to do that. We passed legislation requiring clubs to beef up security requirements and to allow the Entertainment Commission to shut down clubs and to regulate Party Promoters who were responsible for a number of issues as well as operators of parking lots where many fights would break out after hours. My first piece of legislation from 2009, required quarterly reports by the Entertainment Commission of trends and night life violence and this committee used to actually hear the reports once a quarter, last year, and i would say this anicdotaly, we did not have the quarterly hearing and it is fair to say that in the last couple of months on the broad way corridor these issues have not gone away, and i have asked for this hearing to refocus
Last year the occ mediated 62 cases. Those 62 cases that the occ mediated report the work of one investigator it was 8 percent of the cases that we closed last year. It allows them to resolve the issues with the accused officer in person in a dispute resolution format. It goal is to bring the parties together in an effort to achieve Mutual Understanding and we have a partnership with the Bar Association who provide us with neutral mediators for the program. We have conducted medations in languages other than english through interpreters. Our medation program is voluntary, both the complainant and the officers have to agree to mediate pi am proud to report that in 2012, eligible officers participated at a 90 percent rate in our medation program. In addition, the office of citizen complaints the member of the Community Boards 2012 excellence in adr practices award. Now, i would like to share a few statistics with you about the cases that the occ received. In 2012. And how we resolved the
This is a 6 percent reduction in complaints they received in 2011 when we received 784 complaints. Last year we sustained allegations in 60 percent of the cases we closed. We found proper conduct in 31 percent of the allegations we investigated and we found that 4 percent of the allegations were unfounded or not true. The largest percentage of allegations we received were for unwanted action, 33 percent of the allegations followed by the conduct reflecting discredit. 29 percent of the allegations. Unnecessary force comprised only 3 percent of the allegations we received and last year we did not sustain any of the allegations of a necessary force. In 2012, approximately 26 percent of the complainants were african americans, cacasions and other percentage declined to state their rates. Additionally, Asian Americans at 7 percent, latinos at 12 percent, native americans and Pacific Islanders at 1 percent and 3 percent other. The occ is located on the 7th floor on the corner of sanes and ma