To work to help the other 10. Officers work with dpw and rec and park have been fabulous collaborators resolving issues in our district and the officers take the enforcement action but theyre first protocol is the outreach trying to get these people housed and off the street to the best of their ability. Traffic safety is an important part of our duty. I think our officers definite are doing the Traffic Enforcement. We work closely with mta and the traffic unit, sfpd and theyve been great anytime we have an issue at any particular intersection they support us and have been a great resource for us. We do typically every week we do three to six operations. We try to do one on each shift and try to do pedestrian each week because a lot of our collisions involved pedestrians. So we try to target that aspect of the Traffic Enforcement. That is on traffic safety. That brings us to our statistics. So our Crime Statistics are looking pretty good. Our home side thank goodness we havent had one today. Our rates are down from 6 to 3, 50 reduction. Our robberies down 9. 5 . Were hoping we can maintain that. Assaults are down 17. 95 . Id like to think thats because of the 10 arrests we made at the end of april. And Human Trafficking is at zero. And property crimes, burglaries are down i think because of the Educational Outreach and officers being proactive up terms of the construction workers and having all the information with them and hopefully i think thats having the desired effect. Weve also increased the number of arrests made when it comes to burglary suspects. I think that plays a role in that number. Motor theft has gone up 10. 89 . As you know staffing is an issue across the city. Weve had to be very strategic and specific in what were targeting. As we look at Motor Vehicle thefts you dont know its stole enwhen its driving in the district and it takes a while for the victim to realize its stolen. We see a trend so well do focussed enforcement in that area. Im an advocate for Traffic Enforcement because it creates high visibility for us and thats one avenue of approach in trying to bring the vehicle thefts down. Arson is down 100 . We cant get better than that and theft from vehicles are down 9 . Our Traffic Enforcement, i know the desired number for our focus is 50 so we do have some improvement. But we also on the upside increased our Traffic Enforcement. Not only do we do Traffic Enforcement we do some operations where we pull over drivers violating the law but dont fight them. We hand them out a flyer advising them its a couple minutes youre going to save running the stop sign or red light. Its not worth causing a death or paying a fine etcetera. We try to spend some of our time on the enforcement side of things educating opposed to giving a citation and creates good will and the officers love it because everybodys happy. Its a good way for us to interact with the general public. I think people are quicker to think about running the stop sign again or the red light. Thats Traffic Enforcement. And Community Partnerships of which we have many. I cant tell you how many arrests weve been able to make because of the Community Involvement be it theyre make the arrest for us or making the expeditious phone call and we get out there and they give us the information and we make the arrest. Thats happened so often. Im so appreciative because i definitely believe the more Community Involvement we have the more successful we will be. And safer wed be as a community. Going through the different organizations that we work with. Rec and park fabulous partners to us. Anytime we need them. Theyve been great as is s. F. Safe and they come to meetings and theres so much information and such a networker im surprised every time they come up with a new idea. Just excellent. Our City Attorney. Mark wolfe weve had a couple Code Enforcement issues hes had to resolve those. We work with our a. D. A. Vietnam. California Highway Patrol at the dmv on oak and they assist us when were having issues around inside and outside. The California University and department of Public Health and works they all worked the probation and parole department. They help us when we have an event in the district theres extra visibility and we appreciate their assistance. And the lark Street Youth Services and weve listed all the different neighborhood groups that attend our Advisory Board and theyre instrumental in assisting me and bringing basically all the information from their particular neighborhoods and we work on how we can change things and haight street and Traffic Enforcement is what they wanted to work on this year and hopefully well bring in innovative ideas for how people drive around the city. Ill let you know. My group is really great and they attend every meeting and do great work. Finally, i have a Community Meeting every second tuesday of every month at 6 00. So in addition we do many district event. The annual sock drive and were handing out socks and my Homeless Outreach officers and if youre out in the district you know what the cold is like even if youre in the bay view suffering the heat were out here suffering the cold. The sock drive is around december, january. We have the toy drive and go to the 420 event in the district every year, the kids games and the fun fest at gratton elementary the north Panhandle Association block party and walk to school event, haight street fair and opera in the park, cold valley fair and coffee with the cop is my favorite event because we meet people who dont typically come to my meetings but are quick to share their experiences in the neighborhood and sometimes you only get a feel for whats happening in the neighborhood and they tell you something they think something can be done about and you find theres things you can do. Thats one of my favorite events. And we got a couple photos from our coffee with a cop and different events. National night out and some fun times. So that brings me to page 16. What we stand for. It is paramount people in our district feel safe. I hope that people when they see how our district is doing crime wise and the different preventive efforts were making they do feel safe. One of our goals is certainly to maintain a 10 reduction across the board an all of our crimes. If we can maintain that it will be a great thing and i think were succeeding right now. The quality of life. I feel believed we have highly trained feel blessed we have highly trained people and four great quality of life officers that do extraordinary work each and every day. Im very grateful for that. Then trust and accountability. Im a big believer in that and transparency. Any complaints that i receive i always look into it and make sure were doing all we can and doing it right. Were all capable of making errors. Im capable of that myself and we like to look at what happened and address the issue and retain everybody. If one person is capable of a mistake everybody is capable so we try to make sure it doesnt happen and explain the importance and why its important to do certain things. I think that goes a long way because when people call you about concerns they have sometimes there can be a misunderstanding and other times its something where we havent done the best possible job and we try to correct that and i think it builds trust and we have to be held accountable for everything we do. I think thats very important. Community engagement. I think that is probably the most important because as i said as were moving forward the community are going to become vital in our success. The community is vital but more so because i rely on them all the time and we rely on them all the time for reporting purpose and for telling us whats going on in their neighborhood and for feeling safe enough to tell us when a crime is happening or even ifs if its a concern about a person thats a menace in the neighborhood we urge them to report so we can build cases. The Community Engagement and partnership is certainly important for our success and changing the community. Resources. And police give us more officers city wide. I think everybody agrees when you see an officer you feel safer. If we cant recruit more officers well be challenged in trying to make that happen and i certainly believe and know from the community having our officers on the vote or up at the fixed post they notice that and appreciate that and it just makes them feel safer. So then diversity. Of course that is super important that we reflect our community and that we as an agency continue with our differs. Of course id like to see more women. Were only at 15 . I think thats very important. I think everybodys bringing Something Different to the table. At park station we do a variety of operations we ensure everybody has the opportunity and encourage everybody within our unit that is diverse. Whatever operation were doing we try to have a mix and match of everybody. Everybodys having Equity Opportunity and i think equal opportunity and i think thats important to Building Careers and building people. I think that might be it. Commissioner i have a question for you and well see if any other commissioners do. This department has worked hard to get all officers trained in crisis intervention. I think the departments at about 50 . Youve managed to be over 75 . Im wondering how did you manage to do that . I cracked the whip. No. I took the training myself and thought it was a super great training. Im a big advocate of it. I thought because of the Team Dynamics that it addresses its probably one of the first trainings we did that allowed and talked to one another and i thought it was an excellent training. Ive really pushed and im a major advocate of the training. I think it was an excellent phenomenal training. One of the best trainings ive taken. Commissioner thank you. Any commissioners have questions . Yes. Commissioner im glad you keep mentions you need officers every time i look at the boundaries im always surprised at how big the district boundaries are for a lot of our stations and not only that how how far they are given the congestion and hills and the traffic. The idea you have to get from the inner sunset to 17th street and castro or the panhandle. Its so large. The question i have for you is if you had our druthers, how many officers do you think you would need to run the district efficient efficiently . For starters, let me be very clear. When i say we need more officers i mean city wide. Were not just particularly in my district. How many more . Whatever number of officers you get, you try to be strategic in terms of how your deploying them and what youre doing. The more officers you have, the more you can do. Like whats your minimal and maximum . I would say if we had 80 plus. Give us 15 plus officers wed love that. Commissioner in addition to what you already have . Yes. Commissioner i like that youre avoiding eye contact. I understand what our staffing is like. I understand this is city wide and other station have more challenging situations. Im not here saying i dont understand how things are being assigned, right. Im just saying as were in the budget zone and i dont want anybody to think that we and we all know. Im in the saying anything new. Were trying to recruit more officers. Its difficult. Id love more people to come into the profession. I think its a fabulous career and would be great if we could figure out a way to get and encourage people to join. My officers are doing a fantastic job in maintaining what theyre doing. Commissioner every community we go to theres just not enough officers. They do well with what they have. They always need more. Commissioner commissioner elias. Commissioner first, i want to commend you on the Crime Prevention strategies you have. I think theyre phenomenal and a wide variety of strategies youve employed and its obvious the Community Involvement and making the community feel safe and inclusive very important. Im happy about the burglary outreach program. How many officers do you have . Just one . We have two. When we have a backlog we start with two and we get two to four a week. Thats very manageable for one officer to go out. Now, let me say, everything as they thats happening on that is because of the hard work of all my lieutenants and in particular my fifth lieutenant who has been extraordinary in terms of organizing all the operations. I may bring the id yeah, he puts it into idea, he puts it into operation with other lieutenants, sergeants, officers. I know its because of all the work of not me but the work the officers do each and every day. Commissioner thats great. I didnt note the drug stats. Do you have those statistics . Not now. Commissioner that would be interesting. We track the narcotics arrests every week but i can get that to you. Commissioner it would be interesting to see and informative to see what the reduction in them have been to do the buy busts because i know it take a lot of officers to do the operations. I think that datas important. Theres a lot of collaboration between the sister stations for a variety of operations. Commissioner it would be interesting to see the data. Sure. Commissioner the other question i have is what is the captains problem solving team. That was a group we put together. Essentially what they do is they really are the people who are out there. We take the six of them which allows them to do different operations. They may have a crew up and well have a couple down and they have involved in the fret operations. It allows us to do operations without having to pull from our patrol and we also give them the opportunity to train. Its great experience for all these people to do an hones their skill set in terms of what to look for when you look at people doing different kind of crime, drug, narcotics crime is different than somebody out to steal something from a vehicle or commit a robbery or assault. We give them te opportunity to be involved differenthe opportu be involved different operations. We call it a team because theyre task driven and target enforcement. If we see an issue rising we have them go saturate a particular area. Were seeing burglary at a particular location they look at that. Thank you for being patient. We had a conversation on the way in about the great work you guys are doing here at park station. I had two quick questions. One that i had and i wanted to make sure its a clarification as we look at Motor Vehicle theft thats breaking into vehicles . No, the actual vehicle itself is getting taken and the theft from vehicles is where they take something out of the vehicle. Commissioner okay. One question i had was around the quality of life issue and you said we have a quality of life officer. Right. Commissioner i want to hear what that entails. I think of what we do in safety with respect and assume and hope all our officers are concerned with quality of life every officer is trained in how to treat everybody with respect but in particular when you deal with the Homeless Population and as i said we have a high not a High Percentage but we certainly have our share within the panhandle, haight street, buena vista park. We have two quality of life officers and two other officers. They deal with the homeless possibility every single day homeless every single day. They know the outreach and reconnected them with family and we have the success of three reunited with family and one was a serious person who drank and picked him up from San Francisco and i think if shed waited another week he wouldnt be with us and a week ago he called to thank the officers. They are there every single day dealing with people and do everything they can to encourage them to go into rehab and go to the Navigation Center. Theyre highly trained in interacting with these people. Commissioner hi. Im going ask an impossible question. Whenever we go to any district station we always hear we need more officers. When i talk to anyone in the community its the same, we need more officers. Yesterday a neighbor was talking to me about a homeless encampment in my neighborhood and just going to the Grocery Store in the morning and being threatened and having folks trying to steal her money. You couple that with the tension of budget talks and theres a constant political push to reduce the budget of sfpd and in the midst of that trying to recruit officers and making it an attractive job which is essentially running towards those to protect strangers. I dont know how do you that. I dont know if you haved a have ideas how the department can continue to attract the best and brightest and the most compassionate and committed. Id love to have the answers to all that. I recently had a conversation and were obviously challenged. Somebody was saying were not now the highest paid so people are leaving our department to go to better paying departments. I think commuting, if you think about it, officers if youre computing outside the city youre adding at least two hours to get in and out, right . Bottom line, so few people can afford to live in the city. There may be another conversation that we were having was i do think and i didnt think it from a recruitment angle but theres a schedule called the platoon schedule and i always thought it was a great idea because it allows teams of officers to work together. Its more easy to supervise and control and train and more accountable but but would be more challenging staffing wise. That might attract more people. Its an interesting situation we find ourselves in. Plus