The 2020 meeting of the Police Commission. Sergeant youngblood, please call role. A commissioner dedejesus. Here. A commissioner hamasaki. Present. Hamasaki is present. Commissioner elias. Here. Commissioner elias is present. A commissioner brook. Present. U a Vice President taylor, you have a quorum. For the members of the public who wish to make a comment the number is 4084189388 and the access code for tonights meeting is 146 6282245 and as always, please make sure you are in a quiet location and try to mute your sound, the sound around you to eliminate background noise. For the commissioners and presenters here, i will ask you to mute yourselves and minimize background noise unless you are speaking. And as always, either type your name or the emoji of your choice into the chat box if you would like to be heard. Tonight i will allow two minutes for Public Comment and lets get started. All right. Thank you, commissioner. 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Can you please call the first line item . Line item one, reports to the commission. Discussion, chiefs report. Weekly crime trends, provide overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco. Significant incidents events, provide a summary of planned activities and events occurring since the previous meeting, including summary of response to events related to the scheduled demonstrations and a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety and determining whether to calendar at a future meeting. Commissioner inquiries, provide a brief followup to inquiries made by commissioners during previous meetings to include the sb1421 and the wearing of face masks. And presentation of the Crisis Intervention Team end of year report and the status update on booking Photo Department notice. Thank you. Good evening, Vice President tae lore and commissioners Vice President taylor, commissioners, and executive director anderson and the public. I will start off with the chiefs report on weekly crime trends. Overall our Violent Crime is down. It is down 13 overall compared to 2019. This week versus last week is down 3 . The not so good news is that our homicides are up 18 . We have one homicide during the week ending june 7, 2020, and a total of 20 homicides year to date. There have been two homicides in june and as i reported last week, there were four homicides in may. 12 of the 20 cases have been cleared, 11 cleared by arrest, and one cleared by appearance. And from last week and to you to and the victim was located with the gunshot wound and transported to the hospital. And the incident apierce to have been from a vandalism call earlier in the day and escalated into this shooting. And a person has been identified and arrested connection of the homicide and our investigators are working with the District Attorneys Office. At this point charges have not been filed but the investigators are working with the District Attorneys Office in that case. In terms of total gun violence, year to date, we are down 16 . We had two shooting incidents that caused injury to victim this is past week and there is a total of 46 injury shooting related injury year to date resulting in 47 victims. 46 incidents resulting in 47 victims. In term of property crime overall t property triem is down 15 year to date. This week versus last week were down 29 , so were happy with that. For auto burglaries are down 31 year to date. And when we compare to 2017 where we really had a significant spike in auto burglaries, we are down 50 . So were happy with that. As we reopen, we will continue to put emphasis on prevention, asking the public not to leave items in their cars and also some of the measures that we had taken prior to the shelter in place orders and will resume and including patrols in areas that have been known and plagued by auto burglaries. Units working specifically to identify prolific auto burglars and working with the public on Crime Prevention strategies. In terms of other property crime, not happy to report that we are still up in burglaries, significantly up in burglaries. Year to date were up 33 which represents over 600 crimes. Motor vehicle thefts is still up 18 year to date, which represents over 300 crimes. In arson were up 47 which represents a total of 42 crimes over this time last year. Property crime has been driven down overall by a significant reduction in larceny and theft, which includes auto burglaries, which are down 26 year to date which represents a decrease of approximately of 4,300 crimes. As far as critical incidents, i already talked about the murder from last week, and other than that, there were no significant incidents to report to the commission in terms of crimes. However, we did have an incident that our officers that were called to respond to that got quite a bit of news attention, and this was an incident in Pacific Heights where a person witnessed what was believed to be a vandalism and eventually the homeowner we found out had spray painted black lives matter on their retaining wall. The police were called for that incident. Our officers responded based on the call, and i want to illustrate how important i believe the commissions approval of our fivepoint which explains bias by proxy and gives guidelines to officers in how to handle calls when that is believed to be the case. In this particular case, everything worked like it was supposed to. Community policing was in play. The officers actually because of their knowledge of the community knew the individual who had spray painted on his own wall. They knew he live there had because of prior contact and knowledge of the area. And that is really what Community Policing is the essence of Community Policing. And they did not take any action on this case, and of course, i think that the gentleman who painted the black lives matter on his retaining wall was the one that brought this to the medias attention, but again, i just want to highlight i think we are, if not the only, but one of the few who have written policy on bias by proxy and some guidelines on how to deal with it. I think that given that policy with the spirit of that was met in the way the call was handled. Kudos to the officers and thank you to the commission for getting that passed and getting that conclude. Hopefully we will have that in place shortly when we have the meet and confer. Significant incidents, i do want to call attention to an incident that occurred last week. We sent a contingency of San FranciscoPolice Officers, our color guard, along with command staff went to Santa Cruz County today, unfortunately, for the Public Memorial Service for Santa Cruz County sheriff Sergeant Damon gutsweiler. The sergeant was tragically killed while on duty june 6, 2020, while investigating a suspicious vehicle. An additional death and was wounded during that incident. A short time later the people believed to have committed the murder of the officer carjacked a vehicle and engaged in another shootout in which the california Highway Patrol ended uptaking this person into custody. Sergeant gusweiler, 38 years old, leaves behind a wife, son, and unborn child due to be born late they are morn. I just want to call out that our color guard and our command staff attended the sergeants memorial service. And just want to pay tribute to an officer that lost their life in the line of duty. The next item is well go to our 1421 update. And we have commander Robert Osullivan who will present that, and that will be followed up by commissions inquiry on the incident with the ppe we had several weeks ago. And then well have a presentation on our c. I. T. Commander osullivan, youre up. Im sorry, its commissioner taylor. Questions about this part of the report . I can answer them now or at the end. I have a question, chief. Specifically about the killing of sergeant gusweiler and the federal security officer. I was reading reports like everyone else about just this being orchestrated by a far right group and the indictment in the u. S. Attorneys office that was filed. So what f anything, can you tell us about them and kind of nationwide there have been certain groups and generally certain news reporting. And fox news is making this about protesttors and what can you tell u us about the murder of the two officers . I think the indictment and i read the press release and the connection between the federal killing of an officer in oakland and the individual that killed sergeant gusweiler and im and the group that you speak of boogaloo has risen to the surface and gotten attention an i cross the country as being very active right now. It is a far alt right group and information out there and Public Information and they are getting sources and some of the violence and the protests. A lot of that is about as much as i know in terms of unclassified information. But again, with these protests we cant take that too lightly because the bottom line on it is the vast majority of people that have participated in these protests across the country are peaceful and want to get out and exercise the First Amendment rights. When we have groups whether it be a group like that or any other group whose sole purpose is to cause chaos, violence, and hurt people, that really rises to the level of Law Enforcement attention. And we want to do everything we can in our city to insure that we dont have that type of violence. So we are continuing to monitor our protests and allow san franciscans to protest peacefully and express their right. When we see that with any sign we have groups like that in the mix, it is a cause for concern. And it is a time for us to step in and take action and make sure that we protect life. Commissioner can you tell us and if there are any of the people the department has arrested for violence and protest thus far, do you know if there is any association with that group or other rightwing groups . Not that i know off. There is speculation based on the social media posts that we have seen, but we have not been able to connect that to individuals that we have arrested or identified in any of our protests. There is a lot of hate out there on social media. We need to take it all seriously. And vet it as best we can do that. But we havent made any solid connections. Commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner thank you. And thank you for bringing this point up, commissioner taylor. Chief, i asked about this maybe a year or two years ago when we had charlottesville, and we were seeing a lot of activity around the rise of white supremacist, hate group, and id asked you if the department was engaged in any investigation around whatever that category or classification we want to use, alt right, but generally white supremacis supremacists. Is the department continuing to monitor for these groups and their activity in the community . Yes, commissioner, we are. And open Source Information and when i say open source, information that is basically something anybody can monitor. That is always the first source. And there is a lot of information out there on social media some pertaining to the city, some pertaining to the bay area, and some nationaltype of information, be u we monitor it all. Anything pertaining to San Francisco we do what we can to take precaution whether that will increased presence or if there is specific individuals that just point to, we will definitely investigate that. We have to work with the regional or Law Enforcement agencies across the region and frankly, the National Agencies as well to make sure we are all coordinated in terms of making sure that we dont have those type of events in our city or in the region. We dont want them anywhere in the country. But we definitely have a responsibility to do that. So yes, we are working with everybody that we can under the policy that we have to make sure that we do what we can to be vigilant on this. Commissioner is there a special Division Within the department or who handles it on an ongoing basis . Not just when things get hot around protests and forth. Our special Investigation Division when it rises to that level, it is handled from the Investigations Bureau and the special Investigations Division will handle that type of investigation. Commissioner okay. Interesting fact. The boogaloo is from a 1980s or something movie about break dancing. Breaking to electric bugaloo and the internet repackaged to use, like a lot of things that have existed on the internet, they packaged it for hate crimes or to support hate groups. Just thought i would share that notsofun fact. Some of us know that movie well. Maybe just me. Maybe i am dating myself. Okay. Commander osullivan is ready for the 1421 update. Okay. Good morning. Or good evening, rather. Could be morning. Commissioner taylor, commissioners, chief scott, director henderson, memberses of the public. I am commander of the Risk Management office and i am here to update the commission and members of the public with regard to the departments recent efforts around senate bill 1421. Ill start this evening as i did last week with a little bit of background regarding senate bill 1421 t. Bill requires the disclosure of records and information concerning four types of incidents. They are as follows. An officers discharge of a firearm at a person. An officers use of force against a person which results in great bodily injury. A sustained finding that an officer engaged in Sexual Assault involving a member of the public and fourth, a sustained finding of dishonesty by an officer. Since january 1, 2019, the department has received 142 public records as requests related to senate bill 1421. For the most recent period t previous week, june 3 through june 9, the department did not receive any new public records request. We did produce 39 releases and we closed three pro records at request. Thank you. Thank you. Next item. Sorry. I was on mute. In last weeks hearing or might have been the prior week, i think commissioners had questions and wanted to ask questions about the wearing of the ppe with the thin blue line. Vice president taylor, how do you want to proceed . I can give a brief overview or open it up for questions. Which way would you i think it might be helpful for a brief overview and if commissioners have questions, we can ask them. I will start off with the timeline of how we got there, if you will. February 25, mayor london breed issued a declaration declaring a Public Health emergency related to covid19. On march 7 of 2020, our City Department of Human Resources notified employees that the first positive test for covid occurred in our city and issued guidance to protect against contracting the disease. A shelter in place order went into effect on march 17, 2020. On march 20 our city administrator declared that the City Administrators Office was managing all ppe supplies including disinfected face masks and gloves due to critical shortages in the city and to have efficiency in terms of the issuance of ppe to the various departments who particularly front line or essential workers who needed ppe. On march 25, the department issued the Department Notice 20050, exposures of covid19, and it was issued stating that ppe is in limited supply. At that time there was no mandatory wearing of facial covering or face mask. I provided this information to all members related to the first known exposure of several members of our department that there was a known exposure who worked in our s. V. U. Unit. On march 31, our City Department of Human Resources released an updated guidance on use of respirators and masks for City Employees to include mandatory wearing of masks during their work shifts. On april 4, 2020, Department Noticed 20055 was issued and updated the guidance for use of respirators and mask to align with what the City Department