Vice president would like to take roll call. President hirsch is excusessed. Excusessed excuseed. [roll call] you have a quorum. Also president are chief scott of the San Francisco Police Department. We also have a cantonese translator in the back for those that need it. Good evening, everyone. This is the february 19th meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. We have a special meeting in the ingleside district, this is my Police Station so im really happy to be here. We dont have too full of an agenda tonight, so well allow three minutes for Public Comment. With that, lets get started. Call the first item. Line item 1a. Chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents in the chief describes for a future commission meeting. Thanks for welcoming me to ingleside. Im going to be brief in my report today. And ill open it up for questions from the commission
Tonight, they will take all necessary measures to protect and defend u. S. Personnel and partners in the region. Earlier today, the defense secretary mark esper, said that the u. S. Is seeking a diplomatic solution. Not seeking more with iran. But he also said what happens next depends on them. We know that military leaders have been increasing force protection in the region. On capitol hill, natalie brand, kpix 5. Iranian state tv reports at least 56 mourners were killed today when a stampede broke out at soleimanis funeral procession. More than 200 others were hurt. The victims were reportedly crushed when the crowd pushed to get close to the casket. A massive sea of people have been following the procession through soleimanis hometown ahead of his burial. Reporter devin fehely has been speaking with local iranians about soleimanis death. While there is not a lot of morning in the u. S. There are some questions about whether it was handled the right way. Reporter general Qassem Solei
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
Reports were made in person and the majority of the reports were Domestic Violence related. Again winning no reports were denied. And again, the majority of the reports were made by the victims themselves. And still under the last quarter of 2019, it took a little over a day for these reports to get returned and available to the requesters. We do track although not required, we do track the forms of how the requests are being made. The majority of reports requests are made in english, but also the spanish population has also been using the forms to request these forms. Going forward in 2020, we will get back on schedule where the First Quarter of 2020, that report will be delivered to the commission on april 15 and then subsequently the following squad car quarter of july. Any comments . Vice president. I just want to say, i was on this working with commissioner hamisaki and this is fantastic. This is both helpful information to have and its great to see how quickly the department is f
Struck on the sale of the coliseum site, andrea has the playbyplay. Reporter brian, we are talking about 5 million now, 85 million total, four a sale of half the coliseum site. Before the 85 million sale of alameda counties sale to Oakland Athletics was approved, they wanted to make sure it wouldnt hit the gas on gentrification and displacement. Other than the trust me factor, what would you say towards the efforts to ensure that the outcome to the best of your ability, your participation, as minimal effect . Reporter one of the few undeveloped stock spots with a bart station, its a potential gold mine. It could be comparable to downtown in terms of the development potential. Reporter neighbors wanted to make sure that the oakland as included people and businesses in the rapidly shrinking Africanamerican Community displaced by high costs into their plans. Today we did talk about not only the vendors but the contractors, all of the people that would benefit the community and in whole, w