the voters and became operational in 1983. we are now 30 years old. the occ was originally in office of the san francisco police department but later placed in the direct supervision of the san francisco police station commission as an independent agency separate from the police department and a civilian agency as the san francisco police commission. the function of the occ is to assist the police department in building trust with the community by being a bridge between the public and police in matters of police misconduct and police practices and policies. to that end, the office of citizens complaints has hey mission to ensure police accountability by conducting fair and timely and unbiased investigations and making recommendations in policies and practices and conducting mediation between the police. the occ investigates civilian complaints against san francisco police officers and as previously mentioned the policies recommendation. in california law enforcement agency mu
body board who provides us with mediators and we provide them in different languages ands provide interpretation services. the both, police officers and complainant must agree to mediation for the mediation to go forward. i m happy to report we have a high level of cooperation with police department. our mediation program was 90 percent. in addition the occ received the 2012 practices award. our was the recipient of the award for dispute resolution for the state of california. now i will share a report to you about the occ report in 2012. in 2012 the occ received 746 complaints. when i first started with the occ in 2007, the occ was receiving over a thousand complaints a year. the number of complaints we received last year, 746, represents a 6 percent reduction in complaints we received in 2011, when we received 784 complaints. last year we received 6 percent of the cases we closed. we found proper conduct and 4 percent were unfounded. the largest allegations were recei
this community. we have some regulars in city hall whchl when we come out, we enjoy this. we introduce ourselves. and tell you about what we do in our day jobs and tell you about what we ve done in the past. i will start to my left. thank you, president mazzucco. welcome everyone. my name is susie loftus. i have been on the police commission for a year. i m a former prosecutor where i have prosecuted all types of cases where domestic violence, drug abuse and gun violence is where i specialized. i come from a law & order and make it work. i have the good fortune i have been with the right people in the room to be able to fix problems. we look forward to coming to these meetings to hear from you all. i really encourage you if there is something on the back of your mind, now is the time to hear from you. there is no issue too small. personally i work in the bay view where we work with children who have been exposed to toxic levels of stress, kids who live in violent commun
in complaints on weekdays. we also receive complaints by telephone, e-mail and fax and we have an answering service for after hour complaints. additionally you can file at your station and they can forward that complaint to us. our staff speaks a broad number of languages. they speak cantonese, mandarin, tagalog and spanish. that s important because the largest number of non-english interviews we conduct at the occ are in spanish. for languages other than the ones i mentioned we will obtain interpretation services. last year we conducted 14 cases in spanish, 5 in cantonese and one in american sign language. if there is additional information would you like to receive about the occ while you are here this evening. as i mentioned active senior investigator sherrie hall is here to answer why you questions and we have brochures available here. that conclude my remarks. thank you for your attention. thank you. for questions, thank you very much. please call line item 3d. commi
they have robbed from, that they have taken from. we did not receive funding from dcyf. we re asking in reference to the add back is we can receive our funding back because we are doing a tremendous job and we need to do more. thank you. thank you very much. next speaker, please. don t think that i budget i ll please you and no budget of mine is going to be where in the name of budget shame budget child always meant to be budget child we need some money budget child always be the budget bet budget child we need some money like the red and we budget [speaker not understood] and the budget s gonna share with you budget love you thank you we need budget from you and no matter what you budget do or say we re gonna get the budget anyway come on, budget come see about we no, my budget arms you may be out of reach and we need some money and you need to teach come on, budget, come see about we in the district everywhere we need some money thank you. thank you very much. is