And like i said when we were telling the same story and its a tough time right now. I dont understand why is our back line process so much longer than other cities . Well, i dont know how other cities do it. Part of it was staffing. You know, weve increased the background units. We have parttime employees. But thats something that weve increased and part of it is that and the captain who is in charge of Staff Services is honed in on than. All those things and weve also researchers actually look at our processes. That is helpful too because a lot of the recommendations that its part of the challenge. Something that the commissioner raised that i wanted to clarify. He asked whether the police department, when it comes to lateral transfers whether the background check is done and i wanted to know whether when we do background checks for lateral officers that come to sfpd, do we get both allegations and outcomes of discipline cases because i know that a lot of indications with some of the cases we see where an officer has a disciplinary case before it can be heard and the outcome is reached and the individual retire and im wondering are those materials provided to us when we do background checks and secondly, do we provide those materials to the new county where an officer seeks employment because its my understanding that sometimes officers will retire here from here theres a pending disciplinary case and theyre seek Law Enforcement ploy knees other countries so when it comes, we provide them with the allegations or just the outcome. Let me answer the first part of the question. When we recruit as a part of our background and how much information they disclose and its important to us and and were legally appropriate and the same for us. When an officer quits or rescience, we makresignswe makef theyre eligible for rehigher and its disposable. If we went background investigators come to our, we dont release disciplinary files but theyll followup on the reasons why and we release what is legally appropriate to release. Its important and as much as we can be transparent with that information that we are but our background investigators seek out that information. I think commissioner was talking about this when we talked about the article on the white paper and the litigation and all that other stuff. I want to point out that its an important point and have not been uncover or talked about that i think at the worst, it talks about behavior from the article that violates local laws, rules and regulations but it at the least, this speaks to the on going behavior. We have some mandatory reporting independently not just to d. P. A. But to the commission as well and those are the quarterly first amendments that gets reported here and we dont have the conversation about it. Im just clarifying what those issues are because we have direct reports of that information that were supposed to be getting if that behavior was on going. You raise the the issue of were these things happening beyond just what was happening in the paper but i wanted to clarify and articulate what those reporting issues were and i want to thank you director henderson. Even within hn theres requirements. Is that what you are referring to . Ok. And are some of those things still working and some are working there way through d. P. A. . Theyre supposed to be turned over through d. P. A. But independent we both present to the commission d. P. A. Presents a report and the department presents to the commission as well. We havent received any the department hasnt articulated anything and any reports since ive been in the position nor that ive seen since the chief has been here. I guess that stuff was in litigation so we i still havent seen the white papers s its online. And i wanted to followup on commissioner comments. I know that theres this threshold that was set 100 years ago for officers in the city. Have we fallen below that level . Weve only reached that level. Ive always heard the discussion around that. And let me, you know, if someone who just spent six months trying to hire a legal assistant, were in a booming economy right now and how much one has to pay anybody to know any work in San Francisco right now is ridiculous. Were one of the bestpaid or finance the bestpaid Northern California department arent we. Wore competitive. Were not the top its way more than stansislaus. I guess, right, if you want to work in stanislaus or handle some fishing game cases and then thats a different type of officer than we need here in the city. Thats fine. I wanted to ask a followup, remember a few meetings ago there was a discussion about the civilianization of Law Enforcement and now were having uniformed highlypaid and highly trained officers doing tasks that are generally the positions so this budget cycle we authorized for 25 new civilian positions and there are six that we posted jobs so we hope to get a good applicant pool for that and theres another six we have to create because these are positions that didnt exist. We have to create positions. Theres a process through d. H. R. Human resources where we actually have to create the test and create position. Were in the process for those remaining six. Part of the spirit of this was as we get to civilian employees in, they with work operational positions so that is a process and it will happen. But theres a transition. City governments moving things i know we went through this process with our new policy person. [laughter] yeah. I sat on those interviews and i understand how long and ris rugs the process is but its how we get the best people working in the city. Great, commissioner. Following up on the staffing, being one of the senior commissioners here that, 1,971 fulltime officers was created in 1971 on a cocktail napkin in a restaurant in the tenderloin. With no Scientific Data whatsoever, this is where many great things happen. We did not have orical park chase, south beast, a whole new neighborhood. We didnt have Treasure Island and we didnt have the Sales Force Tower and we didnt have 200,000 additional people in the city and even before we probably should be equivalent to other department with 3300 officers that was then and not opposed to 1,900 1 so we keep what were going to hear is the population is grown and the areas to cover have grown so were probably going to need many more officers than 1,971 so people need to be realistic and we keep chasing the number with no meaning so i wanted to make that clear. Vice president tailor. We need someone for the first time and the context that is totally divorced from anything here and they find out i have anything to do with the Police Commission and its like, you know, so i think were at a really dire point so this is the neighborhood that is i know for taro is hurting one now and i hear that all the time and i can go on and there are other neighborhoods where i just hear from people constantly and i hear this more and more. Commissioner. Just one final thought on that. Taking along with that, theres a couple of additional points. One, i think we should all be thankful and grateful we live in a city with bottom crime rates we should all celebrate and appreciate that that the worst most san franciscans have to face is a broken car window. Realistically. Not to anyway diminish the people who are actual victims of crime but you know thankfully the city is in a great place crime wise at least compared to our history. And the other point just triggered my memory was the discussion we had a few weeks, months ago and about hsoc and shifting the non crime related duties again. I really appreciate the work that all of the departments that appeared here were doing doing but were sending without a criminal aspect to the conduct outside of what not and i think commissioner dejesus justice Perdita Felicien in my ear waste of resourcewhispered. We do not need our officers doing social services and those are better tasks for the agencies that are properly trained and qualified to handle those and so theres a real need to push on other city agencies to handle their caseload or their what falls within their area and not put the whole burden on the department so just something that we should be thinking about as we consider our involvement with hsoc and how to best utilize our officers moving forward. Thank you. Were going to move to the next agenda item. Turn your phones off. Ive heard three phones now. Turn them off. Next item, please. Clerk b3, bpa directors report on bpa activities and announcements. The report will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcements. It will determine whether the calender any there is one other part of the chiefs report and its the followup on requests from Vice President taylor. So we have commander and captain chin just to give that update. I thought i was chopped liver over here. Not at all. This is actually a followup from the october 17th report that you got. Good evening, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson. So im just going to go overview of the report that you already have. You have the written document. I wont go into a lot of depth on the details but i will followup with some of the questions that you had us look into. So on the followup report, you will see that trends and Sexual Assault and the definition for Sexual Assault is within that report and you will see within the city there is a drop of 9 of Sexual Assault and then if you look at survivors that were not able to provide a location theres a drop of 6 reduction if you look at 20172018. Sometimes the out of city or survivors that cant provide a location, some of the out of city are referred to outside agencies and those agencies do investigate it. 100 of out of Agency Reports are referred to outside agencies and we dont hold on to if we can identify a location. If you look at the 2019 report, year to date, and the scope is january 1st to september 25th, you will see a city wide drop of 22 excuse me. We have a request. Is there a way to put this on the overhead so folks can follow along . No, i was told to give a verbal report. Put it on the overhead. And then, another part of the report we also look at is the age. So when we if you lock at the age, we look at different between minors and adults and between the 20172018 over all report there was a reduction of the 11. 5 and for adults its a reduction of 5 of Sexual Assaults that are reported. Year to date, if you look at minors its a reduction of 30. 4 and for adults its 45. 3. And then one of the things you asked us to look into is you will see in the report there are maps. The areas that you will see concentrations of where we see in increase or a concentration of sex you assaults is downtown, tenderloin, south of market. I know the commission has asked if we can look at specific vulnerable population such as tourists or specific occupations such as Hotel Workers, restaurant workers, we were unable to look at it as a total data to look at that but we did look at locations where hotels, you will see areas in red are identified as hotels and were making the inference the victim is a tourist and then you also asked us to try to separate the report and look at other vulnerable populations such as lgbtq and unfortunately we cant do that as an over all report but what we do do is the specific case investigators the assigning officer and the cases that are assigned. They do look at that as part of their investigation. We work really closely with advocates, not profit advocates and we have the on going m. O. U. And relationship with casa de las madres for over 12 years and we look with department of publichealth and c. P. S. To further evaluate those cases and make sure that we are assessing the needs of the survivors. We look at things such as language access, medical services, house, counseling, and some of the outreach that you asked us to look at is how do officers, how are they trained. Theyre trained at the Academy Level but when they get to be investigators, we also specifically train our investigators in general crime investigations, Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and a specialty on child abuse. And child Sexual Assault. So those are our specialties. I have also i wanted to introduce captain chin who oversees the special victims unit. If there are questions id like to just open it up to that. Thats generally what we looked at from the last report. Captain chin. Well, lets just get the full report and then well have all the questions. Good evening, commissioners. Just reiterate what the commander has stated. Cold cases and financial crimes and crimes against children and human trafficking. So its an array of 11 different disciplines. So, at the present time, we have only about 20 investigators investigating Domestic Violence and child abuse and Sexual Assaults. So that is kind of like an overview of the special victims unit in that respective areas. We would like to if theres any questions, from the commission, we would be happy to answer them. Thank you. Good evening. I think and commissioner taylor asked for this reporting and i appreciate you presenting it here today. I think one of the primary questions was and i dont know if i missed it in this report was what degree of the crimes were actually resulted in arrest and closing the case and in prosecution . Do you have that data off hand . I do. Ok. Can you is that in here . So in 2017, our numbers are a little bit different because we take our numbers from our own data base and we have assigned 435 cases we have cleared 145 cases. This is 35 clearance rate. Out of those cleared cases from the ucr which is the uniform Crime Reporting system by the f. B. I. , 34 of those cases were closed one which is 33 of those cases referred to outside agencies. It says on the report. Six of them, 72 of those cases were results of an arrest. And 40 of them were close to 13 exceptional clearance. Of which 29 of them, the District Attorney declined to moved forward with the case. And cases discharged by the District Attorney was 35. What were the 40 . 13 exceptional clearance. Is that a code . Correct. What does that mean . Exceptional clearance. We have to have four different criteria and certain situations where elements of beyond Law Enforcement control preventing us from making the arrest so bringing the department to justice for prosecution. So we have to meet four of these criteria. The offenders location has to be known where we can effect the arrest immediately and we have probable cause to bring this offend error arrest them and charge them and bring them to a court for prosecution. The fourth is if we encounter any outside circumstances which prohibits us to make an arrest. For instance, if the offender passes or the victim refuses to cooperate fully cooperate with the investigation. So that is when we can close 13 exceptional clearance. Those are so there was 145 of them were closed which was 35 of the total of 435 of those 145, 33 were closed by code one. Code one which is referred to an outside agency. Seeing it happen in another jurisdiction. Yes. And then, 13 were closed for exception at circumstances. I recall that term because it came up before in another case we discussed. You have code six. Code six is when we made the arrest so there were 71 cases where we patrol or investigate through the investigation made an arrest of these offenders. The 35 referred to other agencies and 71 arrests and how many exceptional . Exceptional clearance were 40 but 29 of those were d. A. Definition of any warrants. So, can i ask is there any particular reason why all of it is concentrated in this certain downtown area tenderloin, soma, are there any trends that you are seeing there that are helpful . We cant really pinpoint whatever factors may be. If you look at your report, in the mission district, you see a high number of reports more than any other district and i believe that the fact is that a lot of resources like s f4, lgbt services, womens inc, sfgh, where a lot of these individuals go to get treatment or get their Sexual Assault kit done and and they get the reports done at that location so its in the mission. We believe thats the reason why the mission is higher than any other numbers. Just one final thought, you include Sexual Battery in here and does that include like misdemeanor Sexual Battery like can you give us an example of your days at the public defender office. Someone grabs someones part of someones body. Usually for our internal spread sheet or data base, these numbers are pulled and ive spoken to b. I. That pulled these numbers for the commission. Sexual battery is not in there and its all Sexual Assaults which is the rapes and oral cop layincopulaying. I understand now. Thank you, very much. It would be nice to have theres a lot of Additional Information that you provided as the commissioner asked questions that i asked for. It would be nice if it was all in one report so we can digest it all together. So ill give you the reason why i asked for this, one, is its subject i care about but also, more importantly, Community Members have come up to me, scheehereis what i understand. There is vulnerable populations. The data shows that for example black women are more likely to be victims of violence and Sexual Violence in particular as are lgbtq are the transgender population. Immigrant workers. I mean, there are communities that are particularly vulnerable and i have heard reports of, for example, you know, Hotel Workers not feeling safe and not feeling safe to be able to report to Law Enforcement because their immigration consequences so these are to help our fellow citizens feel safer in the city so i wanted to get the data to see where this stuff