I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Commissioner, id like to take roll. Yes, please. [ roll call ]. You have a quorum. You also have with us chief William Scott of the San Francisco Police Department and Paul Henderson. Thank you, everybody. This is the january 15, 2020, meeting of the Police Commission. We do have a heavy schedule tonight, so we will have two minutes for Public Comment. Im going to change slightly the agenda order. Ill ask the chief to give his report first, and then we will call line item 2 next before we move on to the d. P. A. Report. So with that, i turn it over to you, chief. Thank you, president , Vice President , commission, and executive director henderson. I start off todays report with a summary of our crime trends for the week. As of january 13, our overall crimes are down 21 year to date. And i just want to remind everybody we are ver
Mode of like, i guess, a real stable place to progress my supervisor peskin i think we hear you. Right. It helped me to stop what i was doing to progress back no a regular living situation. Further myself there. I also performed well in track and instead of going cold turkey and easily being drawn back into the situation, it allowed me to ease the tension into a regular living situation. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you for your testimony. Seeing no other members of the public on item number 1, well close Public Comment. Supervisor haney and his staff have asked for an amendment that is in the long title on page 1 and the substance is subsection c on page 3. If theres no objection colleagues, i will move that and we will take that without objection. And i have been advised by the City Attorney that because ha amendment is deemed to be substantial in nature, this will require a oneweek continuance so without objection, we will continue the item as amended one week to our meeting o
Groveside. When youre at the site, it seems like this piece of land is already part of the park because we already operate and maintain that piece of the property. However, on paper, this parcel remains a separate piece from under the jurisdiction of ocii. Ocii was formed as a successor to the Redevelopment Agency which dissolved in 2012 and as part of ociis longterm prompt management plan, it guides the dispostion of certain redevelopment property and under the plan, ocii must transfer this addition of adam rogers to the city and county of San Francisco. Staff brought this potential acquisition before prozac back in february of 2017, where they nancy recommendeunanimously reco had. They recommend occi to ensure the department owns the entirety of Adam Rogers Park and title. No cost for this property transfer and Maureen Munsen has joined me today and also available for question. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Janice, just a q
Ill ask the chief to give his report first, and then we will call line item 2 next before we move on to the d. P. A. Report. So with that, i turn it over to you, chief. Thank you, president , Vice President , commission, and executive director henderson. I start off todays report with a summary of our crime trends for the week. As of january 13, our overall crimes are down 21 year to date. And i just want to remind everybody we are very early in the year, so these percentages usually change pretty drastically through the year. With that our total property crimes are down 23 . Weve continued to have fewer reported incidents in all categories, with the exception of arson which has increased 22 year to date. Our burglaries are down 31 and our auto burglaries are down 21 when compared to 2019. When compared to year 2017, were down 38 . Our total Violent Crimes are down. Specifically drivewaysing homicides, we had no homicides this past week, and a total of one for 2019. That represents a 2
homeless is a temporary move, where the person returns shortly after they re removed by police or they re moved across the street. and then this third point is around an inhumane response. according to the declaration of human rights, everyone has a right to an adequate state of living, including housing. in the u.s. 3.5 million people experience the trauma of homelessness each year. a police response can be inhumane. this is not blaming individual police officer r s, but it s inhumane because of the structural response to the approach. police officers don t have access to housing and treatment. at short, at best, they can move people along. for unhoused people, so much of their time is spent finding a place they can rest out of the way. a place with little stability. when police officers move them, that little bit of stability is rocked. that may be worth it if it s leading people out of homelessness. when it s just moving people from block to block, it can exacerbate behav