In richmond station, we have a high need for a language thats not certified. And that we are having we have hinn hindi and arabic. There is a plan Going Forward and ill brief you more on it when i get a better handle of the details. Two other things though is even though we are working on certification and language interpretation, that is different from translation. And we do have instances where the victims were right in their own language, a statement, and those statements technically, i think there was a bulletin out that they had to be translated or at least the gist of it to put in the police report. She said he didnt do it. And we had something worked out but it fell apart. So theres no way to translate what a victim statement is. And many times not be incorporated in the report. And that could be a liability actually for us if a victim is saying i was the one who was attacked, and we charge the victim as the attacker because nobody could read the statement, and it wasnt translated. So thats something that was taken on. And right now thats an open issue. Theres no way to do that. The last thing we have officers who were being used in the Language Access field repeatedly, and theres burnout for those particular officers. So this is some of the things they are dealing with. And i just wanted to report on that and when we get the plan in place ill tell you more about that. Commissioner mazzucco. Thank you. I want to talk about an incident that took place involving our officers in the community that i was a part of. And it tells you how the Community Works with the officers, we can achieve things. We have a close ront on octavia street and very proud of what happened and there was a homeless person who has been there for quite a while. She is not making a mess or causing trouble or screaming, but the neighbors are worried about her. Theyve contacted 311 homeless outreach, they are feeding her providing her with blankets jackets. And this one whom marie who is a friend of my wifes was worried about this person. And she wasnt getting results with the usual channels. And she was worried about her. And marie is fighting her own battle and winning with some health issues. I drove by and saw the woman in the doorstep and she was shivering and i contacted the captain of the northern station and said can we do something about this . The neighbors are concerned. They want to help her. And a car came right away. And the officers were talking to her and she refused to go anywhere. And marie came outside and said maybe if a woman talks to her it will work. And she worked as liaison between the officers and her and she wanted to go to a womans shelter. Shes more comfortable with a civilian than with officers. This woman left and went to a shelter for the first time. So i want to say this is an example of what our Police Officers do on the street that goes unrecognized and when they work with citizens who were truly concerned and giving this woman soup and blankets we have success in this field. Last week i drove by and she was not there. Again in this society we live in and people are saying nasty things the officers do great things working with the community. And i just want to share that with the commission. And thank marie for what she did. Shes an incredible strong woman. Thank you. Commissioner hamasaki. Thank you. Thank you commissioner mazzucco for sharing that story. I think thats as commissioners we see that the homelessness issue is an issue that has to be embraced by the whole city. And its good to hear about all of our friends, neighbors, community and Law Enforcement being a part of a positive resolution not a resolution but at least a step forward of an individual incident. I just wanted to say that im glad that this election is behind us, and i wanted to congratulate our new District Attorney chase bodine on his election. And i know that there was a lot of divisiveness that went on during this election between various actions. I stayed out of the whole election. I didnt i mean, i voted. So i didnt actually stay out of the election, but now that its behind us, i think that its good to see signs that everybody is looking forward to putting that behind us and working to move forward to ensure that our system of justice is functioning in a way that the citizens of this and the members of this city have demanded. And the divisiveness that took place, that shouldnt extend down to the hall of justice. And im optimistic that were looking at a Bright Future for this city under District Attorney bodine and to thank everybody and acting District Attorney and former Commission President for running a Great Campaign and for sitting in until the new District Attorney takes over. So im looking forward to great things. Thank you. Commissioner elias, i have a question for you about something you said. I want to make sure i get it. An officer who is not certified i understand cannot testify in court. Does the certification hurt the officer outside of court . The lack of certification . So we have an expert on this if you can answer. A lot of our officers have technically been recertified for life. And we picked that. They have to be certified now. Let me ask about the noncertified officer. What are the problems outside of a courtroom . In the criminal court an officer not be certified outside of a courtroom. Forget the courtroom. Part of whats going on is under the general order, officers need to be certified through dhr so its an administrative violation if they are not certified and the process is to ensure the officer is at a certain proficient level. And thats part of what the working group is trying to do is right now dhr only provides certification for sworn officers in four targeted languages. But the Police Department has many proficient officers in many languages beside the four certified languages like vietnamese or arabic. And so they could be certified. And thats part of what weve been trying to do is expand that pool. But they run all officers if they are not dhr certified when they are in court, they run into trying to establish proficiency and certification enables them to get over that hurdle. Certification right now must come from dhr. Cant come from a Third Party Entity . Thats an interesting question. We are aware other agencies like the department of Emergency Management they have used outside Third Party Certification agencies. So thats part of what we were exploring with dhr as well. And at the end of the day, weve been talking about it for so many years, and when incidents happen like the orchard bakery incident where theres a need for a certain officer and most certainly the department has those officers but theres a hesitancy to call out those officers because they are not certified. We want to get the tools to those officers so they can respond as they want to respond. And theres other incidents where theres been a need for arabic speaking officers. And we want certification. So officers feel confident, be it when they are doing their interview or in court they feel like they have the certification behind them. Thank you. The dgo says they have to be certified is an unfunded mandate. Maybe you can explain about theres no money to do that. Well, i would say its on the one hand dhr certifies in target languages. But for us to expand to go beyond those target languages i think thats been a challenge and the other thing weve been trying to do and again its our agency and other agencies working with with the Police Department is to be able to do that certification right at the academy so theres no its going to be more efficient, its going to be less costly to be able to certify recruits right there and offer right at the academy this certification so officers know where to go. They are not having to figure out how to get to dhr and take time from recruit officers having to leave the academy to go to dhr to the the certification process so we are wanting a more efficient system. And that was great to have captain hart come to that meeting because now that hes at the academy he is committed to working with the chief and dhr to get these systems in place. Thank you. Next line item please. Thank you. Line item 2e Commission Announcement for scheduling of items identified for consideration at future meetings. Action. Any items from commissioners . Seeing none, next item. The next Police Commission is scheduled for wednesday, december 4, 2019. 5 30 p. M. At city hall room 400. The public is now invited to comment on items 2a through 2e. Public comment on just the matters we have discussed so far. Seeing none, Public Comment sorry. Is this general Public Comment . Not yet. This is just on what we have discussed. Good evening. Im not exactly sure all what was discussed or not. Well, its important that we do that, because otherwise, if this is general comment ill ask you to wait im waiting. But i thank you. Okay. See you in a bit. Next item then. Comments closed. Line item 3 presentation of the dpa report on general orders, policy proposals second and Third Quarter 2019 discussion good evening. Good evening. The department of Police Accountability. I have a powerpoint. It will take me a second to put it in. Its here somewhere. [laughs] okay. You are on. Thank you. Good evening commissioners chief scott, director henderson members of the public. Director of policy from the dpa. Tonight is the night when sfpd and our agency has an opportunity to give you an overview of Department Work that weve been working on for the last two quarters. I wanted to briefly talk about our policy role quickly and get some highlights of that work. This is really more for the general public. We are mandated through the city charter to provide policy recommendations on a quartly basis so we provide them through this report and a quarterly report. When we finish investigative reports thats another time we provide findings and recommendations. For the highlights of what weve worked on, we put together a know your rights brochure we made recommendations for an mou between the district and Police Department. We made recommendations concerning consent searches and we worked on a manual so im going to go over those fouryears. Concerning know your rights brochure when we knew there was a change in state law concerning interrogations of youth and there was a City Ordinance that lowered the age to 17 and below for youth that are in custodial interrogation, they have a right to immediate access to an attorney and need to have access to the attorney before they are interrogated. Because of those kinds of changes we wanted to update a know your rights brochure and get that information out. We worked with the Police Commission. That was the first thing we did. I spent time going to their meetings talking about what they wanted to see, things they wanted to have updated. I worked with a bunch of other organizations. I worked with other youth organizations that provide Legal Services. I also worked with the Public Defenders Office. So we vetted it through those Youth Commission and through those organizations to make sure this is going to be a brochure that included the resources that you wanted to have included. And we are making it specific for youth and their parents. So organizations that we worked with the Youth Commission, the Public Defenders Office, asian law caucus, strategies for youth, Legal Services for children and San Francisco immigration immigrant legal and educational networks. And some of these organizations agreed to include their resources their phone numbers within this brochure. Its available in six languages. Its on our website. Its a little more difficult to find it on our website. When we redo our website, we want to make sure its much easier. Its a brochure that we passed out at all our outreach. We have copies here as well. We have it in six languages. We are working on getting it translated into arabic. As i said, we have many brochures here. Ive also provided those brochures in our materials to the commission. So thats one of the big things that we did that we rolled out, i believe in may we did that. The other thing we did was we made recommendations both to the Police Department and to the School District concerning the mou and we had collaborated with the Youth Commission some youth organizations on the recommendations we made. And we presented them to a subcommittee of the board of supervisors. And our recommendations included we wanted training and you were all just talking about the strategies for youth training. Since 2010 weve been advocating with the Youth Commission that all officers get the strategies for youth training, because its about information about the juvenile brain its about deescalation specific to youth encounters with police. So weve been envisioning this training would be rolled out and all officers would get it in addition to the School Resource officers as well. So we wanted that training to be included in the mou. And we made those kinds of suggestions. We also made other recommendations concerning making sure that the procedure now for interrogations of youth that all of that language would be included in the mou including a 24 7, theres a hotline for the Public Defenders Office so we know that youth parents and Police Officers know what that number is and they are able to call that number before a youth is actually interrogated. And we made other recommendations making sure that not just youth who are limited English Proficient but also their parents making sure there are rules, making sure there are interpreters provided. The prosignificance visions of 7. 01 provisions of 7. 01, we wanted to make sure those aspects are included. To my understanding the mou was in front of the School Board Last night. So we are hoping that process is moving to a conclusion soon. So a third area that we focused on has to do with consent searches. So historically the Police Department requires written consent when theres a consent search of a residence. But building on the 21st century policing, our agency back in 2015 recommended the Police Department now require written or recorded consent if a consent search of the individual and their person. So we made this recommendation studies across the country are showing consent searches disproportionately impact people of color, and they are not particularly effective as a crime strategy. In fact, what studies are showing the data is showing even our own when the department of justice did a study of sfpd data they found that historically and with the data that individual it is of color, they are searched at a higher rate but the rate of return is substantially less than what a caucasian individuals are. So its not an effective crime strategy. And in fact really undermines trust. So based on that, we had recommended that there be if theres going to be consent searches, and there are departments who are now doing away completely with consent searches, because the disproportionate impact and the low rate of return. So there are agencyies we are ad elevating for advocating for a written or recorded consent. Its a proposal under consideration by the chief. Weve written a procedure and we are thinking thats going to move forward soon. And then the last thing that we did in the last two quarters was worked on a number of manuals. We reviewed the elder abuse manual the Community Advisory board manual and the reserve manual. And we appreciate the departments willingness to share those manuals with us and for us to be able to provide that feedback. The last thing that has been really a project of almost three years was we created collaboratively a Domestic Violence manual. And we are getting close to finishing up that manual and hope it will soon be in its last stage and be presented to this commission. And thats my presentation. Thank you. Commissioner elias. Thank you. I wanted to actually commend you on the know your rights pamphlet. I think its really well put together. And i know that you had shown us this in the working group when sfpd was putting together their know your rights manual for the youth and in speaking with a lot of the stakeholders at the meeting they had indicated how sort of hard you had worked and the sort of collaboration and Community Input you received to make this pamphlet bring this pamphlet together. So i would commend you on your work and efforts for that. Because i do believe that the youth are they do like it, and they are benefiting from the know your rights pamphlet that youve been distributing. Your agency. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. Commissioner hamasaki. Thank you. I just wanted to follow up and say thank you to you and the dpa for continuing to put together some of the most thoughtful policy changes for both the dpa and then also for the commission to consider for our department. I always find that when i reach out to her for questions regarding certain policies, theres always a