Take roll call. [ roll call ]. Clerk you have a quorum. Thank you, all. Welcome to the february 12, 2020, meeting. We have a long presentation regarding the budget tonight, so we will have two minutes for Public Comment. With that, we are ready for the first item. Clerk item 1, consent calendar, receive and file action. Sfpd dpa protocol report 4th quarter 2019. Do we have a report on this or this is just to accept . We dont have anyone from the d. P. A. Who can help us . Why dont we skip that item and go to the next item for now. Clerk line item 2, reports to the commission, discussion. 2a, chiefs report. Weekly crime trends. Provide an overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco significant incidents 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 the chief describes for a future commission meeting. major events provide a summary of planned activities and events occurring since the previous meeting. This will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. Commission Inquiries provide a brief followup to inquiries made by commissioners during previous meetings to include Police Response to nfc championship celebrations throughout the city presentation of the departments collection and analysis of Sexual Assault kit evidence and reporting of results to Sexual Assault victims report, per Commission Resolution 1628, adopted april 20, 2016 presentation regarding the Law Enforcement assisted Diversion Program lead thank you and good evening. As always, ill start my report with the weekly crime trends, then ill touch on significant incidents, major events, provide some follow up on a Commission Inquiry regarding the n. F. C. Championship, our response to the postgame celebrations. Then the deputy chief and his team will have a presentation on the analysis of Sexual Assault evidence. Then commander foray will present on Law Enforcement assisted diversion, as requested by the commission a couple months ago or a month or so ago. Starting off with our crime trends for the week, we are down on both violent and property crime. Were 2 down on overall crime, part 1 crime. Our property crime was down 2 , which includes our burglary, Motor Vehicle thefts, larceny, and arson. Auto burglaries are down 25 compared to 2017 when the numbers were at an alltime highs. Our total Violent Crimes are down 1 . Our homicides, we have three this year compared to five last year. Were up on robberies year to date. We have 18 more incidents compared to this time last year. So this is a point of focus for our department. Our Sexual Assaults are down significantly from this reporting period, down by 22 crimes, which is a 57 decrease. Looking at gun violence, overall were down 11 . We have one shooting in the past week and in total eight shootings resulting in eight victims of gun violence year to date. Out of the eight, two were fatal and six have been nonfatal. There is a report that there were no homicides in the past week. We are down from the same time last year. Traffic, we are at two vision zero traffic fatales year to date. We did have two major traffic collisions over the past week. One was on the 9th of february at 3 15 p. M. In this incident, a pedestrian ran into the street in front of a vehicle and sustained major injuries but is suspected to survive. The other was in southern district. This is a hit and run that occurred on february 7 at 4 00 p. M. In that case, a suspect vehicle, a truck, ran over the victims foot and fled. The victim has some pain and is expected to survive and the injuries dont appear to be lifethreatening or serious. In terms of largest events, the biggest event is the warriors are in town actually, theyre not in town. The chase center will be hosting a concert which starts on the 13th and another concert on saturday, the 15th. Now i will go into our response to some of the questions that we received from the Commission Regarding the response to the n. F. C. Championship celebrations. Im going to give you a brief overview. There was some specific questions that some of the commissioners asked. I will address those questions and take any additional questions you have. On sunday, january 19, the 49ers hosted the Green Bay Packers and won the championship which moved them into the super bowl. The game began at 3 40 p. M. And ended at approximately 7 00 p. M. In the past, we have had spontaneous celebrations after these victories which have required multiple deployments to various districts. We thought that was the case on the 19th and it was. Each district station had staffing dedicated to n. F. C. Dedicated events. All of the areas had some levels of increased staffing, both on duty and off duty i mean e. W. W. , overtime, to address the increase in crowds at bars, et cetera. This increase in staff was to ensure that our regular calls to service were not interrupted throughout the city in the event of celebratory activity after the game. Im going to go into the actual incident that night because i know the commission was very interested in both the donning of personal protective equipment and use of force. Im going to go into some detail about that. First starting on the policy of personal protective equipment. All officers are assigned personal protective equipment to include a helmet, face shield, gloves, rode through the district and one motorcycle struck a pedestrian at the intersection of jefferson and levenworth. The tenderloin had staff available, but there were no reported incidents. Park traffic concentrated on foot traffic and bars, with both people staying inside the establishments. In the Mission District crowds started pouring into the streets with a Gathering Spot at 24th and mission. Also, on mission between 24th and 16th street, there were large crowds of people celebrating after the game. Also, the valencia corridor on 16th street. Close to 8 p. M. Due to the size of the crowd, additional tactical teams were deployed to the area. By 9 p. M. There were 150 to 200 people in the area. The crowds were much larger earlier, but most of the folks left. At around 9 00 p. M. There were still 150 to 200 people in the area. Thats what youll see on the video in a second. The people in the area were posing Public Safety concerns, including blocking major roadways on Mission Street and destructive behavior, which included throwing bottles randomly at officers, shooting fireworks, drinking from open containers. The area posing the most hazardous situation was at mission and 24th. By 10 00 p. M. The intersection was littered with debris, including broken glass and officers stayed within 50 yards of the intersection, at which time the remaining crime became more boisterous and volatile, throwing bottles and other objects directly at officers that were lined up 50 yards from them. It was this time the decision was made by the Incident Commander to disperse the crowd to prevent further disruptive behavior and prevent injury. The personnel began issuing dispersal orders, which you will hear on the video, over a loudspeaker. This is a longrange diverse used to disperse crowds. The order advised the crowd this was an Unlawful Assembly and instructed the crowds to clear the streets and onto the sidewalk. I want to make note of this. We actually did not ask them to leave the area. We just asked the crowds to clear the streets and go to the sidewalks. As the line of officers began to clear the streets, officers continued to instruct the crowd to remain on the sidewalk. At this time, multiple bottles were thrown directly at officers, making direct contact with at least two officers and one police vehicle. The use of lesslethal options was authorized by the Incident Commander. It was at this time that three arrests were made. One for intentionally walking into an officer. One for swinging at and striking an officer and resisting arrest. And a third, one for delaying a peace officer in the course of their duties and for resisting arrest. All three individuals were cited and released. So at this time i want to show you the video. I have hours of videos, but these were basically snippets to give you a feel for the atmosphere. Can you give us a time frame how many hours this is after the game. Yes, it is on the video. This is shortly around 10 00, i believe, but its actually on the video. [ indiscernible ] im sorry . Is the time in the upper right corner . Yes. Let me see this one is around 10 00, i believe. What is the time on there . [ indiscernible ] this was after the majority of the crowd had left and this was i believe around 10 00. You have 150 to 200 people there. But the majority of the people that had been there earlier celebrating without any violence had dispersed. Im sorry, if you could start that over, because i think we there we go. [video presentation]. This video is after the actual bottles after the street had been cleared. What this video youre about to see depicts are after some of the fires that remained. There were several trash can fires. All of those fires were put out by officers who had fire extinguishers as part of their equipment. Again, we faced these types of situations before, so we were prepared with fire extinguishers. This video shows one fire that was still lingering, just to give you an idea of what was happening. These fires were hit we believe during that episode where the bottles were being thrown and the officers were able to put them out. [video presentation] [video presentation]. What time was that . This was around the same time. So all this is after 10 00. So once the intersection was cleared, officers began, as i pointed out, extinguishing small fires that had been started. This was even with the bottles still being thrown at the officers. I mentioned one of the issues that we had that particular evening were side shows in various parts of the city. The first sideshow i already talked about, the 20 or 30 motorcycles in the Central District that resulted in one person being hilt by a motorcycle. In bayview officers responded to a call of reckless driving and observed approximately 100 motorcycles driving towards San Francisco. A large group of these motorcycles were observed on 3rd street driving to gillman park and driving in and out of the park. A number of calls of reckless driving were received. Between 7 40 and 8 15 p. M. At 25th and valencia, there were calls of reckless driving, cars honking their horns for over an hour. At 9 20 p. M. , there was reports of vehicles doing doughnuts in the streets. As to fires, we had calls related to fires at 9 30 p. M. In the 600 block of mission and at 10 20 p. M. In the block of bartlett. The force you saw in the video was a lesslethal force option. After this option, the less lethal techniques were being used. With all those bottles you saw being thrown at officers, they maintained their discipline. None of the officers went after the individuals throwing the bottles, which is pretty important in this type of situation, but that was a call made by the onscene commander. Basically their mission was to get the streets clear to reduce this situation from being what it was, which is a very dangerous and unsafe situation. As you saw bottles going over the heads of the very heads of the officers that were there to protect. To incidents and that decision was made by the onsite Commanding Officer. Their objective was to clear the streets and keep everybody safe. As bottles and other objects were being thrown, including directly at officers, six officers fired a total and this was to commissioner elias question, six officers fired seven rounders of 40millimeter less lethal launchers which deployed foam batons. One round was fired towards one individual and two rounds were fired at two individuals throwing milk crates and bottles at officers. One round was fired to an individual throwing a glass bottle. One round was fired at a person who was making a motion as if they were throwing an object. One round was fired at a person seen as throwing a bottle at an officer. There was a use of force, and that was a physical control hold to gain control of a suspects hand, resulting in complaint of pain to the hand. That subject was assessed at the scene by the Fire Department and released for further Law Enforcement processing. They were actually cited and released. No, im sorry, i think that person was actually taken to the station. So basically that is the scenario. I believe ive answered all the commissions questions from last week, but im happy to answer any further questions that you might have. Okay. Thank you both. So i think these pictures i mean, it was a long name, but did that game early at 5 00 or 6 00 . No, maam. I think it was about 7 30. I thought it was early because the super bowl started much later if i remember. Yeah, i had it in the report. I think it ended at 7 30. I guess the question is at least the people who the people ive talked to, are they indicating that you had Mission Street was already closed before they got there. After the game when they went down there, theyre claiming it was closed from brine to mission, Mission Street north bound was closed. Theyre saying you had valencia down to portrero down to 21st street, which is quite a lot of streets. Theyre claiming the impression im getting from some of these people is when they got there, the streets were already in the middle of the street and had closed Mission Street down. So youre saying the celebration was going on in Mission Street . Now, the people do say there were people walking along the sidewalk on Mission Street, but when they tried to walk on the sidewalk, they wouldnt let the latinos walk on the sidewalk, but other people did. Theyre claiming racial profiling. When you were going to handle it, you had people dressed like the tech squad or they were already there. One of the things you said to me is there was side shows going on. From what i hear here is there was one donut going on. I dont know what reckless driving is, having their horns on, but all i heard was one donut. I dont know what reckless driving means. These are vague and pretty broad. The motorcycle, the central and the Bayview District, did you have the Central District shut down and the Bayview District . If you did, what areas did you shut down . Did you have the same amount of force in the bayview or central . Theres a lot of questions. Ill respond. If i miss any, ill respond. As far as the street closures, the streets were closed prior to the bottles. That decision was made for a couple of reasons. One of the things that we intended to do from the start was to facilitate i mean, we expected celebrations. Basically we knew that we would be basically giving up the street. When you have that amount of people as long as theres people, we closed the streets intentionally to prevent people mixing with cars, which we believe and i believe is the right thing to do. Yes, the streets were closed in anticipation that exactly what happened happened, they would spill onto the streets and be excited the 49ers won. It is not a good idea from a Public Safety perspective to have the streets open to vehicles with hundreds of people on the streets. Weve seen many, many tragedies that have resulted. The side shows were being reported all over the city, including the side shows and the doughnuts and all of that. The sideshows are dangerous in and of themselves. When you make sideshows, it was proactive in order to not allow that to happen in our city. So it was an intentional and conscious decision to close the streets. Was there a sideshow on mission . No, but the thought process there is lets not allow ourselves to be put in that position where people are in streets where cars can drive down and do what was happening. We already had a report. So 80 to 100 motorcycles coming into the city and they did come into the city and they did sideshows. What im getting at, chief, is people were saying if you were going to close down the street because you did tell us you had plans in place for the celebration. None of us asked you what plans you had in place. If the streets were going to be closed, a public announcement should have been made here. The low riders like to go into the mission. They were turned away. When they were trying to walk, they say they were being turned down. They said white people were walking there and they wouldnt let the latinos there. They claim it was closed when they got there. So they feel its racial profiling. They wanted to know and i think you were in a meeting with this. The motorcycle gang sounds like they were in the central and the bayvi bayview. So its really information to the community. If youre not going to allow cars and make the street closed to cars, say that and make it clear, rather than turning it away and having a traffic jam. Then it sounds like there were four officers and you were expanding the street closures. First of all it was brian down to portrero. Can we get the chiefs response to the racial profiling. Yes. I mean, on the video you can clearly see in my opinion what happened there. The officers were there to keep people safe. The accusation why people were allowed to walk and be in the streets