Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240711 : compareme

Also we have chief William Scott from the San Francisco department. Thank you. And as always, for the pan elists that will be speaking in the web exmute yourself and put your name in the chat if you would like to be heard. Members of the public please make sure there is no background noise playing as it will interrupt our ability to hear what you have to say. Detective youngblood call the first items. Adoption of minutes action for the momenting of november 4th, 2020. Do i have a motion . So moved. So moved. Is there a second . Second. All right on the motion to accept the minutes on the last meeting on november 4th, commissioner before i do that we have to take Public Comment. Remember that the public who would like to make Public Comment online item one you can dial 415 6550001. Enter access code 146 9128348 press pound and pound again and star 3 to raise your hand. For members already logged press 3 now if you would like to make Public Comment. We have one Public Comment. Okay. Good evening caller you have two minutes. Okay. So i called in at your last meeting two weeks ago and basically to bring to your Attention Police matter that boils down to a cover up. Among other issues. And. Sorry caller this is for the adoption of the minutes only. Can i would ask you to call back during general Public Comment. Im talking about the minutes. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Would you please start the clock again . Are you starting the clock again . Yes. You have two minutes. Okay so last meeting i called in and my comments are not in the minutes. So the irony here is that i was calling reporting a coverup, and now we seem to have a cover up of the coverup. I mean, would you, would any of you be surprised that somebody comes to that conclusion . I mean its actually three levels of coverup. If you recall, im the disabled senior who was yanked out of a safe way store by my feet, on my back, by multiple officers for wearing a small backpack. Ridiculous situation. That use of force was completely omitted from the police report. So thats cover up one. Two, all this was reported to the dpa who completely omitted it from their conclusions. So that was cover up number two. And now my comments in the last meeting apparently vanished. So again, and id like to hear from some of you instead of just getting crickets. Does it concern any of you . That theres three levels of coverup on this matter . Thank you caller. I believe that if you look at page 11 of the minutes for adoption it references your call last week. Well i will let you know later if it does. I just read it i didnt see it. Go ahead i will call back later. Thank you. Are there anymore callers . There are no more callers. Okay. All right on the motion to accept the minutes from novembe. [ roll call ] you have five yeses. Thank you next line item. Next line item. Line item 2 reports to the commission, discussion, weekly crime trends. Provide a overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco. Major significant enge dents provide a summary of planned activities and events this will include a brief overview of any unplanned events occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. Update on feet beat development, deployment, with the focus on the bayview presentation of the sp1421 Monthly Update and presentation of the initiatives cri updates. Presentation with the critical mindset coordinated response cmcr training. Good evening. Good evening Vice President taylor. Commissioners. Director henderson and to the public good evening. I would like to start off my report this week with an incident that happened last night. Which was an officer involved shooting on marcus street between 4th and 5th. I want to start by saying first of all, as we always do in the San Francisco Police Department, our goal is to preserve life and the sanctity of life is really important. This particular incident the person that was actually shot is still alive and is undergoing treatment at a local hospital. So happy to report that news. Just a basis on the incident, and we put this out in a press release, yesterday, november 17th, at approximately 5 09 p. M. , San Francisco Police Department officers responded to 5th and marcus street regarding male subject in a fight. One of the subjects reportedly was armed with a knife. Four officers arrived on the scene located a man brandishing a knife. During this contact a officer involved shooting occurred on the 800 block of marcus street. San Francisco Police department deployed less lethal weapons and San Francisco Sheriff Department deployed a taser. The subject is a 26yearold male. He remains hospitalized and injuries are lifethreatening. His identifying information will be released once he is at county jail. If and when he is moved to county jail. We are aware of the video that was shared today on social media. And we have forwarded this information to our investigators. And just want to remind everyone when viewing this video we want the public to understand that as that video, officers used less lethal options including the 12gauge and 40millimeter extended range impact weapon, also known as eriws. Which when deployed, are like gunfire. The incident is being investigated by the San Francisco District Attorneys office, independent investigation bureau, the department of Police Accountability, the San Francisco Police Department Investigative Services division and the San Francisco Police Department internal affairs division. Anyone with information is asked to call sfpd at the tip line 800 sorry. Or text a tip to tip411. And begin your text message with sfpd. You may remain anonymous. And lastly i will say as a part of our commitment towards accountability and transparency with members of our community, a virtual town hall has been scheduled for tuesday november 24, 2020. We do anticipate releasing more body camera footage during the detail and Additional Details will be forth coming. Next i will move onto our trends for the week. Violent crime is down overall at 22 . Our total Violent Crimes are year to date year to date is down 22 . For the week its down 4 . Total property crime is down 26 for the week and 25 year to date. Starting with part one cries which include burglary, Motor Vehicle death, larceny. Were down 25 . We continue to see the trend in burglaries. Wee had a significant increase in burglaries this year compared to this time last year. There is a 45 increase in burglaries mainly garage burglaries with tools and bicycles and the like that have been taken. But still alarming and concerning nonetheless. Of note we had an investigation into at least two recent residential garage burglaries which bicycles and other items stored in the garages were taken. It ended up with a subject being identified on november 10th the subject was arrested and at the time he was in possession of one of the stolen bicycles. Our Investigations Bureau continues to work on every lead and all reported cases to curtail the activity of crews that are connected to past events and more importantly to prevent future burglaries. We like to remind all of Community Members of San Francisco, please lock your garages, secure belongings if you have a bicycle in your garage, its a good idea to lock it as well. I know that sounds like a bit much, but it definitely helps and if you have a bicycle, please register it on the sf safe website which you can do and what that does it helps us identify property when we recover it and get it back to the property back to its rightful owners. Next i will go to Violent Crime. There is a report there were no incidents the past week with you we are still at a 30 increase. Homicides were at 43 this year compared to 33 last year at this time. Homicide clearance rate is 67 year to date and for the month of november, we have had one homicide. 23 of the 43 cases year to date have been cleared. 41 by arrests, two by exceptional clearance. And also, weve had prior year homicides that we have cleared this year. So as i stated were at 57 on site clearance rate for the year. Hopefully we will be able to bring more cases to resolution in the remaining six weeks of the year. Looking at our homicide by district, not as much as changed since our last meeting. Ingallside has the most increase significant increase. They have 8 more compared to this time last year. Looking at the other districts, mission, mission, bayview and central all have had increases year to date. Southern is same level they were this time last year. And northern and richmond have actually had decreases in homicides. In terms of our gun violence were up 23 over this time last year. There have been 17 im sorry 127 shooting incidents. With 143 victims of gun violence. 116 nonfatal and 27 fatal is the breakdown. There were two shooting incidents during this past week that resulted in injury to two victims. Districts with the large effort gun violence increases are ingall side with a 150 increase. 8 last year compared to 20 year to date this year. Tenderloin has 100 increase. 11 last year verses 22 in 2020. Mission 79 increase. Bayview has a 28 increase. 36 this year, verses 46 this year verses 36 last year. Metro has a 63 decrease in shooting incidents. 3 in 2020 compared to 8 in 2019. Northern has a 40 decrease. Six this year compared to ten last year. Southern had a 25 decrease in shooting incidents. 8 this year compared to ten last year. So i will pause there if the commission has any questions before i go onto the next part of my report. For the commissioner if you have a question put your name in the chat. I dont see any. I dont see names. Chief. Thank you Vice President taylor. As to other major events there were two shooting incidents that caused injuries to victims over the past week. One was 500 block of alamany in the ingall side district. Our victim was inside a residence. Heard gunshots and realized she had been shot. That one we are still looking for leads and again anybody that has any information please call the tip line at 415 5754444. The second one, 1115 at 4 17 a. M. We dont have the exact location where this shooting happened. Our victim was selftransported to the hospital. It was a gunshot wound by the time the officers arrived the victim was undergoing surgery and was unable to provide any information leading to the shooting. We do have some spot shotter activation around the town of the shooting so we are investigating whether that activation or those shots fired are connected to this incident. That information is yet to be determined and that investigation is ongoing as well. Last thing of significance with major crimes, we had a bank robbery series on 11 7. The subject walked into a bank on grant treat demanding money. The teller gave the money to the suspect and the person fled. On 11 9, november 9th, a subject matching the same description as the november 7th incident walked into a bank on kerney demanding money. The teller complied and the suspect fled from the location. On the 12th of november, officers responded to a call of a person in possible crisis. The subject was threatening to stab himself. Officers were able to defuse the situation and take the person into custody. And that was later identified as the individual responsible for the two bank robberies. So that investigation is also ongoing and if anybody has any information please call us at the tip line 5754444. Lastly with special events where a couple of stunt driving incidents planned over the weekend. Actually planned for this weekend. That has been advertised on social media and we have redoubled our efforts on watching these events that are very dangerous. Board supervisors, supervisor saffai has introduced legislation on this. We have also stepped up our efforts with regionally with other bay area Police Departments as we know, historically that these events can go from one city to the other within a matter of minutes. So the coordination has been really good and thats helped us actually cut off a couple of these events that were headed into our city because we due to communication and with other agencies we knew they were coming and ready and prepared in the area that we believe they were coming to and weve been able to actually put a lot of that activity down and prevent it from occurring so thats really pleasing to report and well continue to work on our internal processes to make sure we do what we can to stop this very dangerous activity. On that note, this past saturday on the 15th of november, there were several events that began at midnight throughout the bay area. Our night captains, weekend captains and command staff as i said because of the sharing of information between the local and regional Police Departments and the california highway patrol, our efforts were coordinated at midnight for the better part of two hours, numerous stunt event shows and stunt driving shows with more than 20 vehicles manifested throughout San Francisco. We were able to prevent some of those from materializing and others that started totalize we were able to respond quickly to curtail that activity. So, we will continue to work on that. Its something that we have brought forth to this commission in the past couple of months and definitely something for our residents of our city who are very concerned about this activity. We would like them to know that progress is being made. Okay. Next part of the presentation is the followup on the foot beat questions that were asked last week, but i will pause there in case there are any questions from the commission. I dont see anything in the chat. So go ahead. Thank you. Also a request from the Commission Just to followup on Vice President taylor i know you were involved in this conversation about improving our procedures to add some type of mechanism in terms of our promotional exams to have a mechanism to test for bias. So weve worked with the department of the City Department of human resources, dhr on this issue. And we have actually through dhr improved, we have everybody proved our Testing Process and improved our Testing Process and added a component. We put out the announcement this week for the q50 sergeant promotional exam and the application period is from november 20th through december. Those qualified to take the test must apply during this period, either they applied for the prior test which was actually halted the process was halted while we worked on improving this process per the Commission Director and for the mayor directive. As a part of this initiative, heres what dhr and the Police Department have come up with. Any applicant with a sustained allegation of misconduct for race based conduct for example, use of racial slurs, racial biased, racial behavior or treatment, or other forms of selective enforcement based on race, may be prohibited from moving forward in selection process. So they will be disqualified if they have a sustained complaint in those categories. An example of disqualifying conduct includes, but not limited to violations of department general order 5. 17, 11. 07 that involves sustained allegations of race based activity. Also, any sustained allegation of misconduct means all for fiduciary matters have been exhausted and at that person the person will be disqualified. And so i think thats actually a status update on your question Vice President taylor that is now in place, that advertisement has been posted and as i just stated, the filing period starts next week. Through december and then the test will be early in the beginning of next year. Thank you. Im going to ask you to comment on that in more of a complete way to the commissioners. I wanted to hear about you know, bias testing at the hiring stage and some of what you just talked about. I would like more kind of complete presentation on that in the coming weeks. Thank you. Thank you youre welcome. And now on the followup on the questions for the commissioner on the foot beat. Sergeant youngblood we have a power point. And we can go to the next page. As followup from the november 4th Commission Meeting when a member of the public called in and commission asked for a update on the status throughout the city with the emphasis on the bayview. This presentation is only a few slides, but there is quite a bit to talk about here. And you see on the slide here, starting with the overall staffing of patrol officers, which we refer to q2s on the slide. What is depicted here is the overall picture of the department deployment from 2012, through 2020. And the reason i want to start here for this presentation is its relevant to this topic as to what drives our decisions on staffing foot beats, how many we can staff and when we have to make a decision to reappropriate or reallocate resources to other parts of the department. A lot of it is driven on this overall staffing level of q2 staffing throughout the operation arm of the department. So what you see here, the top line graph is our staffing from 2012 to 2020