Also president are chief scott of the San FranciscoPolice Department. We also have a cantonese translator in the back for those that need it. Good evening, everyone. This is the february 19th meeting of the San FranciscoPolice Commission. We have a special meeting in the ingleside district, this is my Police Station so im really happy to be here. We dont have too full of an agenda tonight, so well allow three minutes for Public Comment. With that, lets get started. Call the first item. Line item 1a. 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 in the chief describes for a future commission meeting. Thanks for welcoming me to ingleside. Im going to be brief in my report today. And ill open it up for questions from the commission. Basically i will discuss our crime trends for the week and for those of the folks in the audience who have not attended a Police Meeting weekly, i report the crime trends to the commission and then they ask questions, depending on what is reported, they ask questions from there. So ill start with the crime trends. Overall, part one crime, it is defined as a serious crime such as homicides, rape, robberies, aggravated assaults, Motor Vehicle theft, arson and larceny. Those are all part one crimes. And this is what i report to every week. Our part one crime overall is up 1 . Its still early in the year. But this trend is something that we take very seriously, and we are going to try to wrap our arms around it and make sure that we continue the trend weve had over the last several years of Crime Reduction. The breakdown of our part one crime is broken into Violent Crimes and property crimes, our total property crimes are actually down 1 . And property crimes make up the biggest percentage of our overall crimes in terms of part one crimes. When we break down our top property crimes, it breaks down as follows burglaries are down 1 , Motor Vehicle thefts are up 7 , and just to put it in context, our burglaries, we have had 638 reported burglaries year to date, compared to 646 year to date in 2019. So thats a 1 reduction. Our Motor Vehicle theft, cars that were stolen, we have 551 year to date compared to 516 this time last year for a 7 increase. And that is the majority of our property crime increase, our Motor Vehicle theft. Our arsons are up by five. We have 26 year to date compared to 21 this time last year and thats a 24 increase. In our larceny or theft, they were 4,884 reported this time last year and 4,882 this year. So its a reduction of or increase of 2. Our total property crimes, we had 6,099 this year, and 6,065 last year, so 34 crimes above this time last year for a 1 increase in property crimes. In terms of our Violent Crimes, good news on our homicides, we had three homicides year to date, this time last year we had sick sixth so thats a 50 reduction. Our rapes are down. We had 65 reported this time last year and we had a 58 reduction. Our robberies are up. We have 397 reported year to date compared to 354 this time last year for an increase of 43 robberies, thats a 12 increase. Our assaults are up. We have 266 year to date compared to 239 last year for an 11 increase in our Human Trafficking are down, its a very small number to begin with but we have had three reported Human Trafficking cases year to date compared to five this time last year for a 40 reduction. So overall, its a 1 increase in crime year to date. Captain woon actually will speak directly about ingleside, your home station. But that concludes that portion of my chiefs report. I want to just add one thing with our major vehicle traffic collisions, we had three major injury vehicles this past week. The most significant one was at 23rd and mission where a vehicle was traveling westbound on 23rd street, turned northbound onto mission and struck two pedestrians before continuing along mission street. The vehicle drove into the sidewalk and struck a muni bus and a passenger who was on the bus. The driver and passenger initially fled from the scene butted to the but but returned to the sustain and were retained. One was transported to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries and Bus Passenger complained of pain and was released and detained. The investigation is ongoing but luckily we didnt have any fatalities. Year to date on traffic fatalities we have had fouryear to date and none for this past week. So that actually is it for crime and traffic. I wanted to speak a little bit about whats been happening around the country in terms of Homeland Security and mainly i. C. E. Agents. There was a news article that agents would be assigned to San Francisco. From what we know, the agents have been assigned to the bay area, not just the city of San Francisco. As always sfpd will stand behind the citys sanctuary City Ordinances and we will not assist on civil immigration issues at all. We are not a part of any of those operations. So we just want to make it clear to the public that we want people to call us when they need it. We dont inquire about immigration status, we dont enforce immigration status, and we dont enforce that, and we want to let the public know the sfpd is not a part of the federal actions and Immigration Enforcement. The mayor and i put out a joint Statement Today which will probably air on the news tonight but its a big teal for our city and we want the public a big deal for the city and we want the public to feel safe to call sfpd and not worry about Immigration Enforcement. That concludes my report. Thank you, chief. I dont know if any of my fellow commissioners have questions, but i have questions about the Crime Statistics. So we are used to sitting here and getting news to you about general Crime Reduction when it comes to part one crimes. And tonight we are here, and we have Motor Vehicle theft up, arson is up, and robberies are up, assaults are up. It would be interesting to know if this continue, i hope it doesnt continue, but what you attribute this to and what you are doing to stop it. And by you i mean the department. Yes. And that is the discussion that we have daily about number one, stopping this trend. Robberies are very concerning. Some districts are up more than others. What we believe at this point, some of it are people that have been the criminal justice involved or people that we have arrested. Thats another issue. We had a very good meeting, our command staff with the d. A. s top Leadership Team on how we are going to work together. Some of it is enforcement, some of it is what we do in the back end after we make the arrest. But we will work with the d. A. s office and our officers to get a handle on it. Robbery is a significant concerning. Our shootings and homicides are down but robberies and car thefts are going up and we need to turn that around. When you say Motor Vehicle theft, you are talking about stealing cars . Actually stealing cars. Our car breakins are down, we are down 2 on car breakins, they are down for the year. But we havent been up in Motor Vehicle thefts in a few years so we need to get a handle on that. Thank you. Commissioner dejesus. I didnt see your statements on the i. C. E. Raids, potential i. C. E. Raids, but thank you for putting that out. Two questions on that. They talk about bringing in extra forces, tactical people. I had two questions. One of them is do they notify the department when they come to do a raid. And secondly, when they did do raids a few years ago they wore a big jacket that said police, which misled the public, and the public was very upset that the police were participating in these raids. We had talked about how to do it, but they are not police, they have a different title. I want to know how you can handle that or what you can do about that. Yes, maam. To the first question, when they are doing an enforcement action, they dont always notify us. If there are issues concerned with deconfliction, in other words they dont want to come in and do an enforcement action and us not know about it, and it has the potential of blue on blue as it is called, type of conflict. So we have in the past gotten basically notifications right when these actions were taken, but not advance notification. When weve had instances in the past, some of them have these things get in the community, and people get very anxious about them. We have asked for notification. Its up to them to honor that. And they have in the past, but its usually right before something actually happens in terms of an enforcement action. As far as the jackets, the raid jackets as they are called, with police on the back. We did voice that concern with leadership that was there at the time. They changed leadership too. They have a different special agent in charge now than they had. What we did see is the lettering on the jacket, although it said police, it did say i. C. E. Or customs enforcement. So that helps because they were able to distinguish from Municipal Police department. I need to revisit that with the current staff. That person just got into place, so we will revisit that so we can have an understanding. But we did get a little bit of traction on that. Commissioner hamasaki thank you. Whoa, too close. Good evening. I had a question or a followup question to commissioner taylors, regarding the its a little bit early in the year to draw any conclusions about a statistical bump in certain crimes and what it means. But can you and again, i think my view is that theres only so much the department can do with certain types of crimes to prevent them. However, on the back end of that, closure, how is the departments closure rate on the more serious part one crimes . Well, i can quote homicides, they were 68 percent clearance rate on homicides. I have to follow up with you on the robberies and assaults. Thats going to be a lower number usually but ill follow up with you and have that for the next commission meeting. In terms of closure property crimes, your car break in is very difficult. Still hovering in the single digits, about 2 in terms of arrest and closure on those cases. Auto theft is higher than that. But ill follow up with more specific clearance rate numbers for across the part one crimes. Right. Okay. I do understand the challenge with investigating a pile of broken glass outside of a car window. The other question i had was relating and i saw a headline today about Immigration Enforcement raids in the bay area in the courthouse. Are you familiar with that . Yes. And obviously for all the anybody that works in the criminal justice system, the impact of Immigration Enforcement in the courthouse tends to deter victims, witnesses, basically can potentially shut down the criminal justice system. Do you have any concerns or in what way can we ensure that our courts are kept safe so that victims and witnesses and defendants can attend Court Without fear of Immigration Enforcement . Well, i saw the sheriff put out a statement yesterday similar to what im telling our public tonight, the Sheriffs Office will not assist in those civil immigration issues as well. I dont know of anything that happened in our court, which is a good thing, but i know the sheriffs are prepared. And again, they are just like the rest of us in terms of their values of this city. They dont plan to assist. Cant guarantee what they will do. Thats a Different Branch of government yes. But they will definitely not assist. And the sheriff has been very vocal about that. Cant guarantee, but we are going to do what we can to make sure our folks are, as much as anxiety as we can relieve, at least reassuring people that we are not participating. Thank you, chief. I want to second commissioner hamasakis call for hopefully this wont continue, but if it does, what follow up we can provide. So the city clears what happens with those pieces so they go forward with the d. A. s office. Yes. Just to followup, we can take a look by district. I think theres a trend that would be good for the public to know the trends we see in terms of vehicles that are being stolen, where are they being stolen from so we can alert folks in those areas to be more vigilant so we can have our eyes open as well. Thank you. Next line item. Line item 1b, dpa directors report. Report on recent dpa activities and announcements. The d. P. A. s report will be limited to a brief description of d. P. A. Activities and announcements. Commission discussions will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission. We welcome Paul Henderson from the department of police accountability. Good evening, director henderson. Good evening. I made it. I dont want to tell you how long i was at the front door ringing the doorbell because i didnt see the sign up here and walked that way, but thats okay. I have a couple updates for you on what the department is working on and where we are with our numbers. So right now at the department of police accountability, we have opened 102 cases so far this year, and thats up from 80 cases which is where we were this time last year. In terms of cases closed, we have closed a record number, 169 cases so far this year, and that is up from 83 cases this time last year that we had closed. In terms of the cases we have pending, theres still that uptick in cases we have experienced over the past 18 months. So we are at 366 cases that are pending right now. This time last year, we were at 278 cases. In terms of sustained cases so far this year we have at seven. This time last year we were at 12. In terms of cases that have ongoing investigations beyond the ninemonth mark, we are at 29 cases. And this time last year there were 25 cases that were taking longer than nine months. Of those 29 cases that we have going on, 14 of those cases are told, meaning that they are not the time deadline isnt running out for 3304 deadlines. In terms of cases mediated, we have done seven cases that have been mediated this year versus three the same time last year. The biggest news i wanted to talk about today was our move that is coming up. We have been talking about it for a while now, but now its actually about on to happen. So the department is moving its location. I say going kitty corner from the current location. The restrictionses on restrictions about the public going to our location so there werent a lot of places in the City Real Estate areas where we could just pick up and go when we are moving. Our location is being taken over by d. P. H. They are taking over the current property and bumping us into this other property. Relocation is more easily accessible by public transportation. Its 240 feet away from the van ness muni station. So the new location will have a big welcoming, both for the public and for the commissioners and everyone else as well, the whole whole city family. The new space has four interview suites equipped with Video Conferencing equipment finally, and this is going to help us with our various groups, so complaints that are unable to easily travel to our office and expansion for folks that are multilingual. The rooms will have a. S. L. Translation services so we can continue to reach folks that dont speak english. And the lobby will have a computer terminal built in so people can fill out complaint forms and review some of the public reports. All of that is being built into the new space. Another couple things just in terms of overview, well all have the same phone number so no one has to change the phone numbers. Only the Mailing Address will be changing. The new address is 1 south van ness avenue, the eight floor, those of you familiar with the e city family may remember that was the old executive level for s fm ta. So we will be in that space. The move is taking place the last saturday of this month. Yes, the last saturday of this month. Anybody wants to come and help and carry some boxes, just let me know, after you sign a waiver. [laughter] no one is carrying boxes without signing waivers. We are also updating our brochures and signage. We are going to be getting the word out including contacting our Community Partners and online announcements through twitter and our website. But its happening pretty quickly now. Its been delayed two or three times during the construction and the update of the new space. So thats my update so far . I also wanted to say the 18th we participated in the tar very l community meeting. We also participated in the black History Month celebration which had delicious food. Here in the audience is senior investigator steve if any issues come up and someone wants to talk to my investigator. One of our new attorneys is here and my assistant Mary Ann Mccormick is here. So thats it. Thats my update. Thank you. I see no questions from commissioners. Really quick. Thanks for that, paul. As you know, im the liaison for the d. P. A. , we didnt get an opportunity to speak today. I want to apologize for that. I want to see what your thoughts are around our uptick. We had 102 cases versus 83 from last year. What do you attest that to . Do you think its Human Capital . Technology . Process . I think its al