Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240711

I want to just acknowledge sfgovtv is saying theres a Network Error so we may have some technical difficulties on the sfgov as well. Sergeant, could you please call the first item. Also we have chief William Scott from the San Francisco Police Department and paul helpedder son from Police Henderson from Police Accountability. We have general Public Comment. The public is now welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or dpa personnel. Under Police Commission rules of order, the police or d. P. A. Personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented to the public. That may provide a brief response, individual commissioners and police and d. P. A. Personnel should refrain however from entering into debate or discussion with speakers doing Public Comment. At this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonights agenda by calling 415 6550001. And enter access code 146 806 8536. Press pound and pound again or dial star 3 if you wish to make a comment. You have one caller commissioner cohen. Thank you. Caller good evening, caller. Caller hi. Hello. Im a volunteer with the black community and im calling because we have recently been aware that supervisor safai has been proposed a resolution at the board of supervisors that would roll back the pace of reform with the doj process here so im calling to ask one, whether the Police Commission would make it clear to the board of supervisors that the further delays to the doj reform are unacceptable and as called for in this very resolution and two, to wonder what roles of the sfpd has played in crafting this resolution. I would hope that they did not connect with supervisor safai and call even for the delays in critical reform but we do want to be very sure. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Thank you, speaker. Next caller. Caller yes, good evening, this is is star child im chair of the local chapter of liberaltarian party of San Francisco. Can everyone hear me . Hello . Yes. You can hear me. Ok, thank you. I had a couple things i want to mention. I second the caller proceeding with the department of justice row form and theyve been delayed too long and i also wanted to make a suggestion. I dont know actually to what extent, well, i suspect the Police Commission could do this whether you would get that involved or not i dont know. I think the sfpd, when theres an incident any persons arrested or detained along with victims and witnesses should be september a Police Report when it comes backs. I was a victim several months ago and . N would help shine a Greater Light on police expressions censure that things are happening in a proper manner and officers are putting the truth in their reports allowing witnesses to get copies of those reports to verify that and officers are saying in the record is announcing what they saw with the major important reform that would stem abuses and i had a quick question for the commissioners. I wanted to refer you to a group called the institute for justice at ij. Org and they released a report on policing for profit also known as as Asset Forfeiture and this is a practice whereby Police Departments and Law Enforcement agencies will cease property or cash and someone not so valuable but they cease stuff from poor people and the laws are set up its difficult thank you, caller. Commissioner cohen, it looks like you have one more caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. My name is Paulette Brown and im calling concerning my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006. To this day, his case is not solved. Ive been calling for the last 14 years and this is something im going to continue to do. Im just trying to keep my sons memory alive so that you know, when i do call in the Police Commission, sf gov can also the people that are turning into sf gov can hear my story about my son. I am still working on getting the pictures out there. The homicide posters out there to bring awareness to all the unsolved homicides that are happening here in San Francisco. My son, being one. My son was shot 30 times with a semi automatic gun. No mother should have to go through this for the rest of her life. My kids are grown now and im just fighting. I want to bring my sons memory back into i dont have his case number with me that i can say but i was just hoping that the Police Commission keeps my sons memory alive and if anyone i know the other person was there that usually called out my sons name but i dont know if commissioner the new president will do it. If she decides to, i would appreciate it. Ms. Cohen, if she would do it i would really appreciate it. She doesnt have to but its ok. I just wanted to keep my sons memory alive. Ill be glad when i can show my pictures. Thank you, caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Caller good evening. This is barrie toronto. Im a taxi driver and i work latenight hours. You know, as you know, theres not a lot of business anywhere because the restaurants are closed to indoor dineing and no nightclubs and bars and music venues. So, we have to rely on the business where people are going to actually need a cab. I work oust the cab stand we have next to wall greens on castro. Its 24 hours. Castro and 18th. I had a officer with two officers, price and dejarme. The problem is they treated me horribly. They parked in the red zone at the front of the stab stand and i asked them nicely to give a ticket to the car, illegally parked in the cab stand and i had to be double parked because i couldnt use the cab stand. They refused to give the person a ticket and they said well, we dont want to give tints tickety is having a hard time. I said im not even making minimum wage and you want to not support me using my cab stand. They were extremely rude. In fact, they threatened to give me a double parking ticket if i didnt move my car. Thats the opposite of two officers that help me when i had my tires slashed when i threatened to call the police on someone parking in the cab stand in the same location. Not every officers are like this. Those two were extremely rude. I tied to make a Police Accountability complaint and ive been waiting for a week to do it and no one has returned my call. A guy named elmore is supposed to call me back. I called today and this very nice woman who answered the phone, pat, wanted to help me. But theyre not giving me a call back. So why do you even have an office if we cant even file complaints. But the office of Police Accountability. Thank you, very much. Thank you, caller. Caller, you have two minutes. Thank you. My name is Susan Buckman and im also a member of the wealth and disparities in the black communities and i want to second what the first Public Commenter that was kit hodges and what she said and so thats condemning supervisor safais resolution. I cant even think what to say about that. I mean, it really came oust left field and it shows a real cluelessness about what is needed in the city and its just shocking welcome disparities has been working on this for so long and if you would come to us, we could have the mayor will take the right path and reject this resolution. Thank you. We want the resolution slowed down sfpd reform. We want the Police Commission to be aware of this since youve been working so much on sfpd reform so while its full out flowery language and support of black lives, it extends its really, no mechanism for insuring sfpd meets reforms besides just their own selfreports so that is not holding them accountable. Its making things worse. Despite a year of reinvigorating up rising calling for the end of structural anti black racism im appalled that supervisor safai is actually putting things in the wrong direction whether he realizes or not. Thank you. Thank you, caller. I am folks on staff ready to speak to callers. I dont know how to link the two but if you have the phone numbers for folks that have called in im happy to have my staff reach out to them directly. Director henderson, theyre anonymous. Oh. Ok. Well, maybe then just perhaps director henderson can you they can contact the staff and its 415 2417711 is the direct line and my staff will followup with you directly. Thank you. That concludes. Thank you, very much, director henderson. If you can call item 2. Item 2, adoption of minutes action. For the meeting of january 6th, 2021. Thank you. Colleagues, i think this could be pretty much adopted. Theres one administrative slight typo that i want to bring to our attention. I know 2021 is new but in the mint in the minutes, as of january 17th, there is a minor typo error in the public notice. It lists a january 6th, 2020 when it should be january 6th, 2021. Its very slight and inok lus but if we can make that correction, that would be great. So, i make a motion to correct the date in the minutes and we can vote on that as amended. Ill make a motion to attend the minutes. Can you guys hear me . Yes. So moved. Thank you. Ill make a motion to amend the minutes. Thank you. Looks like we can take this without objection. Without objection to the minutes pass unanimously. Thank you, colleagues. Sergeant, please call item 3. Item 3. Reports to the commission discussion. Weekly crime friends after overview of provided summary of the planned events. This is a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on public safety. Commissioner discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calender for a future meeting. Ok. Thank you. Sergeant, just as a reminder, please set your timer. Each speaker has 10 minutes. At this time, chief. Thank you, president cohen. Good evening, commissioners, Vice President elias, director henderson and the public. This week ill start with crime trends as of january 18th, 2021. Starting with part 1 crime over all up. Property crime is up 9 from last week year to date, however, we are down 39 . Again, its early in the year and these numbers will swing the percentages will swing greatly early in the year because the numbers are smaller. We continue to see an uptick in burglaries and were up 46 in burglary and we went from 266 this time last year to 388 this year. In terms of Motor Vehicle theft, were up 12 and arson were up 82 arson is up nine from 11 last year to 20 this year. Our auto burglaries are down 54 early in the year but our auto burglar hes are down 54 and these numbers will move greatly at the beginning of the year. In terms of Violent Crimes, were down from last week. Someone is on mute. Im getting feedback. If we can can you hear me ok . Again, we are homicides were even with where we were this time last year two homicides for the year. Compared to last month, we had three homicides. Were actually down from last month. Poth of our cases this year vo been clear. One by arrest and one by an appearance for the public exceptional clearance is situation where were unable to prosecute because of circumstances beyond our control and in this case, the individual that committed the homicide also took his own life. Our gun violence is up significantly from last year. The percentage is over 800 and the numbers as they pan out is 19 victims of gun violence this year compared to two last year. Ill give the breakdown of the individual district stations in a second. 17 of our shootings have been non fatal and as i said, two of them have been fatal. In terms of the gun violence by station, we have had four shooting incidents in the bayview, two in the mission, throw in the northern, one in the park, one in ingleside and 3 in the tenderloin and one that resulted in multiple people being shot. The biggest number in the bayview districts with four. As far as significant incidents, as i said, this involves a murdersuicide on the 1500 block of scott and Northern District and our officers arrived and conducted a wellbeing check and discovered that two individuals were deceased. The first was a 9yearold child and second was a 49yearold man. They were father and son. It was deemed this was a murdersuicide and the wellbeing request it was in the area of mission and persia and that incident resulted in a fatal shooting. Three people were shot and one fatally. Our suspect identified in this case area. Two accounts of assault with a semi automatic firearm and discharging a firearm in public. He was in custody from an attempted murder charge in sacramento. This is being prosecuted in Sacramento County as theres a next us from the sacramento Violent Crimes and the San Francisco homicide and these decisions were made with consultations with members of our District Attorney office here in San Francisco. There were seven shooting incidents this week causing 11 victims. One was injured from glass shattered from the shooting. Of there was one in bayview and one on january 11th. There was one in ingleside on january 12th. There was one in january 16th glen and bayview on january 16th. One in bayview on january 17th n tenderloin on january 17th. The tenderloin shooting resulted in five people being shot and we do have four individuals in custody for that shooting. That shooting was in front of a liquor store. We believe that shoot asking shs linked to a homicide. The first one occurred in the tenderloin district and it involved two groups who engage in a fight and gunfire was exchanged and five individuals were shot. There were two shooting incidents. The last thing on the report, is there was one incident with a serious traffic collision and that was at 20th and potrero at that location. Our victim was a 82yearold pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle near the crosswalk. The driver remained at the scene and a pedestrian was transported with lifethreatening injuries. That will conclude my report for this week. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Colleagues. Let me see. Im going to the chat to see if there are any questions. Commissioner brookter is that your hand . I have a question in regards to arson. I know we said that the number isnt large but the 82 just really caught my eye and i was just really wondering, you know, when were capturing this, is it arson at homes, vehicles, public property . Do we capture that type of information . We do. I will say, theres no common theme to these arsons. It can be any of the ones any of the categories you mentioned. Weve had City Property set on fire. Weve had peoples homes or arson started intended for someones home. It could be any of those. I think last year a lot of what drove our arson statistics was what happened with the civil unrest and there were many fires set for that, done that period, anyway. Were not really seeing any def net trends at this point of the year, commissioner. Its a hodge podge of different arsonrelated events. Thank you, chief. Any other colleagues interested in speaking . All right. Hamasaki, is that you . Would you like to add anything to the chiefs report . Sorry, thank you. The one thing i did want to raise was the press release that i emailed. I was emailed from the department today, friday, regarding the shooting, the homicide that arose out of the side show, probably earlier this year our last year. That was the one that i raised at last meeting recording the case that was charged out of county for a crime that occurred here. A homicide that occurred here. Are you familiar with what im talking about . Yes, thats the one i just mentioned, commissioner. Ok. And did you have a understanding or explanation as to why it was filed in sacramento when its San Francisco case . My understanding is that two things, there was a connection with the attempted murder i just mentioned in sacramento and the second thing is that my standing theres a consultation with the San Francisco District Attorney on their decision to have the sacramento d. A. File everything there, its my understanding. Ok. So, this is something that was approved by our District Attorney . My understanding is that the conversation with our District Attorney. Not the District Attorney but whoever filed the case. Whoever in the District Attorneys office who would handle these types of matters. So, i think id like to and maybe you dont know tonight but id like to get a little bit more understanding as to why a San Francisco case that was, you know, i think we all heard about it. It was a shooting that someone that happened at a side show one of those car events that weve talked about. Why it was brought to another county because i do believe that crimes that occur in San Francisco should be prosecuted in San Francisco as well. That was in consultation with our District Attorney office. The juvenile in question was already in custody for an attempted murder in San Francisco. As you know theres a whole process with extradition and all so it was done with consultation, which is not uncommon in these cases. Ive seen cases here in San Francisco where we have prosecuted based on crimes that occurred in other countries and vice versa and there is those cases have been conversations with District Attorney staff on with this instance as well. It was a case that was investigating according to the press release by the homicide division. By our homicide unit, yes, yes. Our case. You are talking about our case, yes. Right. Thank you. And you know, let me just briefly followup because a caller asked about to my understanding, that is not something we really do here. Is that the departments i dont know the specifics of the Department Policy on that. There is as set forfeiture that is not administered by us. We dont take property and keep their money. And certain investigations, particularly when forfeiture on federal investigations there is an as set forfeiture distribution so, this city has for years been a part of that and its still is but its not anything that we administer. We dont have an as Asset Forfeiture policy because we do dont take money and dop that into city departments account. That is distributed by the federal whoever does it. The federal authorities distribute where it comes from at that forfeiture. Let me interject because were getting off topic here. If you would like to agenized this discussion, we can do so for the next meeting. Im done, thank you, very much. Ok. All right. Is there any other colleagues that would like to ask questions . Chief, i just had one question. It was just for my understanding and clarification, with respect to commissioner hamasakis question, when you say there was consultation with the District Attorneys office, i guess the District Attorney refused to prosecut this individual as an adult. Im not understand what is it means when you say there was a consultation. No. I have no knowledge of that being the case, commissioner. When these cases are filed when someone is in custody and another county and in this case there was, theres decisions that have to be made. Whether were going the other counties is going to extradite because theyre in custody in that county as you all know. Theres usually consultation about the best way to handle that case whether it should be handled in the other counties or San Francisco counties. Since ive been there, theres been case thats have been handled here that were crimes commit inside other counties and thats usually with the permission and consultation of that county District Attorney and that process does exist. And in this case, my understanding is that consultation did happen and it was decided to pursue the filing of these changes in Sacramento County. Im a waiver the special provisions with respect to juvenile. Lets agenized this so we can have this discussion. Absolutely, consider it done. Consider it done. First, i would appreciate it if you could report to the commission the moment the usdoj comes back into the collaborative reform initiative, please. Now that we have transition of administration of power. I am optimistic that engagement will happen again. Also, if you could incorporate a section on your report out to us about domestic terrorism. Anything you hear or any chatter or any act of violence, please bring it to the commissions attention. Yes, commissioner. Thank you, sir. And if i may, just for 30 seconds, you asked for that last week and i ran out of time. We dont have anything to report this week as far as domestic terrorism. Theres a lot going on with the inauguration and what was on the internet and social media across the country but nothing has transpired here or nothing major in any other reports that ive gotten from cities across the country. Got it. Thats good to know. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Seeing that there are no other colleagues that have questions, and the chief is finished his report, we can continue. I believe the next is department of Police Accountability. Line item 3, dpa directors report. Report on recent d. P. A. Activities and announcements, d. P. A. Report will be limit today a brief description of d. P. A. Different tease and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to whether to calender any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. Thank you. I have, for my staff, this week, for the new year we are at 23 new cases that have come in. This time last year were at 35 cases. Weve closed 31 cases so far this year and this time last year we closed 59 cases. Compared to this time we have 401. Weve sustained two cases so far this year which is the same number of two case thats had been sustained this time last year. We have 35 cases who is investigations have gone past nine months so far still below the 33 deadline and there have been no cases that have gone past that deadline. This time last year, we were at 25 cases. We have not mediated any cases this year nor had we mediated cases this time last year. We have a number of cases that are with the commission and theyre 14 cases with the commission. And we have 38 cases that are pending currently with the chief. We did outreach this week for mlk. Dpa hosted a Virtual Panel discussion and it involved members of my staff and our Outreach Coordinator and the moderator and help panelists from my legal team, and also from my legal team and Outreach Team for community organizations. We have, on tonights calender, two cases that are in closed session just as a flag for the rest of the commissioners. And that concludes my report. President cohen let me see if there are any questions. Colleagues, any questions for director henderson . I dont see any. President cohen all right. Lets continue moving forward. Next item. Commission reports. Commission reports will be submitted to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calender any of the issues raised for future commission meetings. Commission president report, commissions report, commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration as future commission meetings, action. President cohen all right. Commissioners, well start with you. A few of you have been very busy. Do you want to report out . All right, mr. Hamasaki i see your name first. Thank you. Its been a busy week. I dont know why she madam vice are grinning so broadly but myself, commissioner elias and commissioner brookter attended a preview presentation to center for policing equity which was very interesting how to refine the report. Were not aware of they have signed an m. O. U. To the Department Regarding future work and that is something that i think the commissioners, we were interested in learning more about and this has been an ongoing challenge learning about agreements and the department has entered into m. O. U. S and i think theres i believe they are in our purview and so, i would like to understand that better. Thats it. All right. Commissioner brookter. Thank you, president cohen. Also i wanted to give you an update that commissioner hamasaki and i had our ninth meeting with the working group for djo7. 01. So members of the public and the commission that were really working to push that dgo forward to bring it to the commission and back to the public and i also just had a statement. I think before we got into covid, i was backing as a liaison for the commission and for my colleagues, working alongside d. P. A. So i wanted to get that in the record. We get our meetings back on the calender to continue to have that dialogue and be that liaison with d. P. A. Great, i look forward to. President cohen all right. Commissioner elias. I was smiling because commissioner hamasaki jumped the line. I think commissioner brookter was first. President cohen im sorry. I do that from time to time. Exactly. Commissioner dejesus was perhaps in front of me as well. [laughter] president cohen hold on. Im going to get to petra, ok. Commissioner dejesus, please so, commissioner brookter and i met with the chiefs and others regarding the we havent had our d. G. O. Regarding awards to officers. So, we have this d. G. O. That is going to come before us to approve. We have this committee that is set up to review it and we met and were not done and we have to meet again. What started is a new process to meet with the chief and others to go through these and then when they come in front of the commission, theyve been screened by a couple commissioners. The d. G. O. Itself has to be amended accordingly. I wanted to report on that. President cohen all right. Thats good. Its good to know. Commissioner elias, you are up. Thank you president cohen. I think that if commissioner hamasaki covered my updates so thank you. [laughter] thats funny. Hamasaki covers everything for everybody. President cohen ok so, i dont have much to report on. Hopefully ill have more next week in terms of policy suggestions. I would like to ask the chief if any review has been conducted on the sfpd twitter links and other social media platforms to determine whether or not theres been any similar linkages between sfpd and the activities like well, let me back up. Id like to ask if theres a review on the connection on twitter between the San Francisco Police Department tenderloin twitter account and congresswoman bowbert there was an interesting report about the connections following her you might recall congresswoman bowbert was the one tweeting the whereabouts the speaker pelosi. If there is an investigation, let me know. If theres not, i would just like to know. The curiosity. Im curious. Yes. That is being reviewed and i dont have anything to report but its being reviewed and looked into. So upon completion. The question you asked about the tenderloin and the congresswoman. Thats right. So upon review of this connection, id like you to bring it to the commission. Again, to satisfy my curiosity. I dont think thats out of line or in violation of anything. Yes, commissioner, we can do that. We will do that. President cohen all right. I appreciate that. Its a pretty disturbing link and a curious one. Are you still investigating officers that may have participated in the. They were not involved in any of the washington activities and we talked to our federal partners here connecting the criminal investigation but theres a federal criminal investigation going on. Our federal partners here have advised me theres no indication of any sfpd personnel. We havent gotten any word or rumors that any of our personnel were involved in any of our members were involved so, at this point, theres no indication at all that any of our members were involved in anything that happened in d. C. And in particular, the criminal activity there was no indication at all that any of our members were involved in that activity. President cohen im very pleased to hear that. Did you ask directly or is this just kind of an informal [please stand by] commissioner hamasaki so thats a suggestion that i raised with the chief, and i would encourage that it be implemented. I was trying to think of a way that would be more less confrontational, and this seems like it would be more of an invitation to identify yourselves and, you know, as Law Enforcement officers, anybody who is in the presence of criminal activity would want to aid in an investigation, so im making that request tonight, and i think it should be acted on. Thank you, madam president. Commissioner cohen no problem. Thank you for making that in the record. All right. Let continue moving forward, sergeant reynolds. Please call item number 5. Clerk we have Public Comment online item 3c, so any caller who is interested in speaking, please call 4156550001. Enter access code 1468068536. Press pound, and then press pound again or dial star, three. Okay. Looks like we have a couple callers. Commissioner cohen okay. Clerk caller, good evening. You have two minutes. Yes. I am somewhat concerned about, you know, i think the Police Department has a lot of things on its hand, and i wonder if why its do being things like notifying the f. B. I. About Peaceful Demonstrations. That seems a little bit like an overreach when we have things like open air drug dealing and cars being broken into, and my neighbor had their house broken into in broad daylight, and so why youre worrying about Peaceful Demonstrations that might have remote link to, you know, right wing activism, thats kind of concerning. And so and why is the San Francisco Police Department involved in the investigation into congressman boebert because what . Shes from colorado and pelosi is in d. C. , so i dont know why San Francisco has anything to do with it unless twitter is based in San Francisco. So is the San Francisco Police Department going to get involved in every single case of harassment thats involved in twitter because that seems like a lot of work for San Francisco Police Department when peoples houses are getting broken into in broad daylight, so yeah. I feel like the Police Department really needs to focus its priorities and not turn into some sort of surveillance tool, so yeah. Thank you. Clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Good evening again. This is miss Paulette Brown. I was giving the case number to my sons case for his homicide for the 250,000 reward and for the capture of the perpetrators that murdered my son, and that case number is 060862038. If anybody knows anything of this case concerning my son, even though its been many years, and its a cold case, i would love them to call in. The perpetrators that murdered my son and i got this from my homicide inspector a little bit after my son was murdered when i walked into the room and had to view the books if i knew any of those perpetrators. And the names of those perpetrators are thomas hannibal, thomas moffatt, jason thompson, anthony hunter, and marcus carter. One of them is deceased. Hannibal is still walking around. He was the one bragging about murdering my son. Paris moffatt is still walking around. These are the perpetrators on my sons posters. They shot him because they were walking up to see someone else, and he said something to them. We dont want to wait until it hits our home before we open our mouth because our silence is continuing to kill us, so we want to do something about it. Clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Good evening, thank you. This is starchild again, chairman of the Libertarian Party of San Francisco, but i thank commissioner hamasaki for following up on my comment. Locally, the departments often cant get away with doing this themselves. Basically, the feds do it for them, and then, the locals get a cut of the proceeds, so its still prioritizing crimes and property fees for Law Enforcement. This is according to ij. Org. Individual cash forfeitures are individually usually small, usually a few thousand dollars. More than that, the data show quite often makes little economic sense for Property Owners to fight. The cost of hiring an attorney to navigating complex civil forfeiture processes often outweighs the value of seized property, and theres been many, many documented cases of horrible abuse like loaning someone else their car and that person commits a crime, and then, the car is seized even when the crime is something, you know, very minor, so you would encourage commissioner hamasaki or one of the other commissioners to indeed follow up and agendize this item for the next meeting. I think there ought to be an audit. If the commission doesnt know how much money is coming in from being seized, they ought to know, and yeah, something is drawing increasing attention to many states, but yeah, its a lot of clerk thank you, caller. President cohen, it looks like that concludes Public Comment. Commissioner cohen was there anything else on this agenda . Next line item. Clerk next line item number 4, presentation of the sfpd audit of electronic communication devices for bias, Fourth Quarter 2020. Reminder, there is a tenminute limit for presentations. President cohen, its good to see you. Commissioner cohen likewise. How are you . Im sorry to interject here. I just wanted just to give you the rules of engagement. Tenminute presentation. Im going to do it in under ten minutes. Commissioner cohen youre going to make my night. Concerning the use of communication devices in systems. There are three. Number one, department general order 10. 08, use of computers in peripheral equipment, number two, Department Bulletin should be Department Notice 19051, which is titled sfpd members expectation of privacy, use of computers, peripheral equipment, and facilities, and finally here within the Risk Management office, specifically, the internal affairs division, we have a unit order 1802 that speaks to actually the audit process. It is important to note the audits are limited to devices the department owns and not any member personal devices. The audits do capture electronic messages that are captured from department devices to personal devices. There are three items, and they are as follows. Level two, the california Law Enforcement telecommunications systems, most commonly referred to as clets within the department, emails, and text messaging of departmentissue cellular phones. Beginning with clets, a program was established that investigates all messages in the system using a word list, and we use the same word list across all three mediums. The system is passive and runs continuously. If a member uses one of the flagged words, a hit is automatically generated and is sent to level two personnel. Each hit is printed, scanned, and saved to a file. The level two audit process has been fully operational since december 2016. Were starting our fifth year. So the Fourth Quarter results. From october 1 through december 31, there were 49 hits involved in the program, and after investigation, none of the hits were determined to be bias oriented. Second system, email. All emails received both externally and internally in the system is scanned. If the email contains a hit word, its sent to investigative personnel. Staff analyzes every hit, and those determined to be potentially biased are investigated. So our Fourth Quarter results. Again, from the period october 1 through december 31, there were 222 hits returned by the program, and after review by i. A. D. Members, one of the 22 hits was determined to be bias oriented. We have opened an investigation into this matter. Our third and final system, messages via departmentissued cellular phones. Audits of messages sent and received externally and internally are conducted by i. A. D. Every 30 days, a search is done of all text using the established word list. Additional terms can be used, as well. Staff analyzes every hit to determine the context in which the term was used. Those hits determined to be potentially biased are investigated, and all false positive hits are saved by at t. For the period october 1 through december 31, there were 33 hits returned from the program, and again, after review by i. A. D. Members, none of the 33 hits were determined to be bias oriented. That concludes my presentation. President cohen wow. Thats a really good time stop job, commander. Thank you. President cohen let me see if my colleagues have any questions. I see no names in the chat. Colleagues . Okay. It doesnt look like we have any questions. Clerk we have one card for Public Comment. President cohen yes, please. Clerk good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Good evening, president cohen, commissioners, police chief scott, and director henderson. I was surprised to find that it actually returned a hit. Digging deeper, i found that its been more than four hit found that in the more than four years of audits, there were only five hits. They sound more like a substantive error than a statistical finding. Why does sfpd continue to invest in this test when it doesnt provide any meaningful way to probe for bias, and why is the commission allowing to waste the time for bias instead of investigating officers social media profiles for bias . The public loses confidence that bias will be rooted out just hidden behind the thin veil of confidentiality. If we take the view seriously that bias has no place in sfpd, more needs to be done to find out how to root out bias. The commission should establish a working group off a plan of action to or a plan of action to replace this clearly limited audit. Thank you. Clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Good evening. Thank you. This is starchild again with the Libertarian Party. I would like to echo everything the previous caller just said. I think he made some extremely cogent comments both about the lack of findings and the waste of time that this seems to be taking place under the current method of auditing of social media. I was wondering if theres any kind of audit of how police are using things like stingray devices that mimic cell phone towers, basically spying on peoples phone calls, whether its the actual phone calls or just the geolocation, whether there may be those kinds of items being used in a biased manner, and i think thats maybe a question for the commissioners or chief. If the commissioners dont know the answer to that, id be interested to know if theres anything going on with regards to that. Another thing would be electronic license plate readers that would be tied to a vehicle or specific location. When bias is uncovered, i think its vital the public get to know those details. Officers shouldnt be able to hide behind the confidentiality or qualified immunity or whatever it gets called in a particular instance. We need to know who the misbehaving officers are, and that needs to be public. Thank you. Clerk thank you, caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes oh, looks like theyre gone. That concludes Public Comment, president cohen. President cohen all right. Thank you. Thank you to the members of the public that have called in to this evening. Is there any other business before this committee . Clerk president cohen . President cohen yes. I asked if theres any other business before this commission . I asked if there was anything else on the agenda. Clerk yes. Line item 5, presentation of the sfpd fdrb findings and recommendations and o. I. S. Investigative summaries, Fourth Quarter 2020, discussion. President cohen great. Thank you. Good evening, president cohen. Should i proceed . President cohen yes, please. The floor is yours. Thank you. Good evening, president cohen, Vice President elias, commissioners, chief scott, executive director henderson, and members of the community. Greg gee, the chairman of the Firearms Commission and the firearms discharge review board. So in Fourth Quarter 2020, the firearms discharge review board reviewed the following officer involved shooting, o. I. S. 200001. On april 12, at approximately 5 45 in the morning, San Francisco Police Sergeant just finished his tour of duty and was on his way home. Prior to going home, the sergeant stopped at the chevron station located at [inaudible] in south San Francisco to fuel his vehicle. While fueling his vehicle, he heard a scream of help me, help me. He looked over and saw a vehicle parked in the first row of pumps. He did not see anything or anyone and continued to fuel his vehicle. A few seconds later, the sergeant heard a second loud scream and believed there may be a possible domestic situation or some type of assault that was in progress. The sergeant ran to the drivers side of the vehicle parked in the first row of pumps. He observed a person on the ground face up with their feet still inside the vehicle and 1 foot was barefoot, covered in blood. The sergeant observed a second person, later identified as the suspect, was on top of the person on the ground. The sergeant, not knowing what was going on, yelled stop, knock it off the suspect backed up and took a few steps back. The suspect struck the officer in the face. The officer drew his weapon and ordered the suspect to get down on the ground. The sergeant pulled out his star and identified himself as a police officer. The suspect said i dont give a [bleep] about your badge. The sergeant ordered the suspect to get on the ground, but he did not comply. The sergeant holstered his weapon since he did not see a weapon in the suspects hands. He continued to give orders to the suspect to get down on the ground and that he was under arrest. The suspect did not comply and the sergeant attempted to walk backwards in an attempt to deescalation the situation and create time and distance. The sergeant focused attention back on the suspect and observed a box cutter in his hand. The sergeant drew his firearm again, and as the suspect continued to walk towards him, the sergeant continued to give orders to drop the weapon and get down on the ground. The sergeant warned the suspect he would be shot if he did not follow orders. The suspect did not comply and continued to advance. The sergeant, fearing for his life, fired his firearm one time, striking the suspect in the abdomen. The suspect fell to the ground but continued to try to get up with a box cutter in hand. The sergeant made his way back towards the Cash Register window and asked if they could call the police. The suspect, after being shot, continued to try to get up. Sergeant continued commands to drop the knife and stay on the ground. After several minutes, the south San Francisco Police Department arrived. The suspect, now on his feet, approached south San Francisco Police Officers with the box cutter still in hand. They ordered him to drop the weapon, but he did not comply. The suspect was tased by south San Francisco Police Department three times and still managed to get up. The suspect stole a south San Francisco police car, and the south San Francisco Police Department pursued the suspect. At the Termination Point of the pursuit, an officer involved shooting with the south San Francisco Police Department occurred, and the suspect succumbed to the injuries. The sergeant remained at the scene and provided aid to the suspect. The suspect and the sergeant were referred for injuries. After review, the San Francisco Police Department determined that this incident was in policy. The status of o. I. S. Investigations. Currently, there are nine o. I. S. Investigations pending, and they are active investigation and there are active investigations underway. Currently, there are five death investigations that have active criminal or administrative investigations underway, and that is the conclusion of the report. President cohen thank you very much for your presentation, deputy chief. Colleagues, are there any questions . This is the first time ive heard of such a report. What happens . You report the finding and then what are the next steps . There are no next steps. The recommendation is made to the chief of police. Chief scott will then either concur with the findings or he will not concur or he could send it back for any further review. President cohen i appreciate that. Thank you. All right. Seeing no other questions clerk madam president , theres no Public Comment pending. Line item 6, presentation of the sfpds family code 6228 quarterly report, Fourth Quarter 2020 discussion. Good evening, president cohen, Vice President elias, commissioners, executive director henderson, chief scott, and members of the public. My name is captain david falzon. As a result of a Police Commission working group, we present quarterly to outline our progress as far as our timeliness to response requests relating to family code section 6228. During the last quarter, october, november, december, we had 95 requests for 6228. All other requests exceeded 7,000. The im pleased to announce that of those 95 requests, all 100 , 95 of the requests were fulfilled within five days, which was our goal when we set out to do this working group, so were well within that commitment. I would also point out that i think this is particularly rewarding for the staff and quite heartfelt. The bulk of our requests now came from victims. 75 of those requests came from victims, so i think it speaks volumes to the relationship were building with the public. On a side note, i did want to extend a thank you to Vice President elias. During the month of december, she was kind enough to stop by our unit, and we brought everyone together. And i cannot stress enough how much we appreciated her visit. I think staff was quite surprised that she was so well informed with the work they were doing and the importance of it, and i just want to send a special thanks to her. I think often i think the staff doesnt really think that everyones watching this and the importance of the work that theyre doing, so Vice President elias, a special thank you to you. But in closing, id just like to reiterate that we did meet 100 compliance, and i think if we take a great reflection of where we were a year ago today, weve come leaps and bounds. Id just like to thank those supporting us. We have a publicfacing system that the public is now using. Were consistently seeing requests increase. This last quarter, we were up to 65 requests through the website, so i really think which is now the number one way to request a Police Report from us. So its efficient, and not only is it efficient, it documents the entire process. So we know when the request comes in, we know when they sent it, we know when we processed it. I think that symbolizes great accountability, so that is my report, and im happy to answer any questions. President cohen im going to see if commissioner elias has any questions. Vice president elias thank you, president cohen. I dont have a question, but i wanted to extend a thank you for captain falzon for his leadership in this department. When i was able to visit this department, i was able to view all the great work that your department is doing and have a great conversation that led to the great work that your department is doing, and the turnaround time. Its really great to see the turnaround times, especially for victims who have already suffered and been the victims of trauma, and they come into contact with your staff. And mind you, this department is only working at 50 capacity physically because they have to rotate in and out of the office because of covid. And even with that restriction, theyre able to turn these requests around in days. So thank you for your leadership, captain falzon. Thank you for the great work youre doing, and please extend that to the staff and i appreciate all the hard work theyre doing. Very much appreciated. No, youre always welcome as is any other commissioners. Were doing great work down here, and wed love to share it with you commissioners. Thank you very much. President cohen all right. Thank you. Seeing that there are no other names on the roster, sergeant reynolds, please call the next item. Commissioner hamasaki sorry. President cohen, this is commissioner president cohen oh, yes, commissioner hamasaki. Commissioner hamasaki thank you, and i just wanted to join in commissioner elias praise of the unit. Commissioner elias and i were present when the Domestic Violence officers presented before the commission about the difficulty that Domestic Violence survivors were having in getting the reports. It was amazingly productive. We had a little bit of issues at the end, but we got to this point, and ill say there was a great, great buyin from the members of the department. To go from that you know, it was a real people were very hurt and upset because, you know, survivors need these reports in order to get restraining orders, and so there was a lot of it was a very emotional process to get to this point and to have this report. I just wanted to say congratulations, and this is a really great work that youre doing for the community. Im really just proud to see this this got get to this stage, to thank you again. Thank you, commissioner hamasaki. And ive got to say, you know you were originally part of our original group. I just have one other comment. I think what you helped, and commissioner elias, was make contact with the human being. You nailed it. The people have already been victimized, and the staff truly gets that. I dont know if they got that in the past, but now, they truly get that connection, and the relationship that theyve been able to build with those victim survivors. This was a cultural shift. The software is great, but its only as good as the people running it. This is a credit to my team here, the supervisors. Again, commissioner elias right coming prior to christmas was really the icing on the cake for us. They hear from me all the time that everyone is watching, but having one of you walk in unannounced was pretty awesome, and it was great for the staff. Thank you. Commissioner hamasaki thank you. Were all excited when commissioner elias shows up anywhere. I agree. I feel the same way. Commissioner hamasaki thanks again, captain falzone. President cohen thank you. I wish people were excited. Im excited. You know i am. Vice president elias no, i had a great time. Thank you. President cohen great. Well deploy commissioner elias to the p. O. A. Im sure theyll be excited to see her there, too. Good choice. President cohen all right. Im kidding, tony. Please dont text me or call me tomorrow. Sergeant, whats next on the agenda . Clerk we now have Public Comment. The public is welcome to call in and press pound, three or dial star, three to make Public Comment. Looks like we do not have any callers for Public Comment. So the next line item is line item 7, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 below closed session, including Public Comment on item 8, vote whether to hold item 9 in closed session. President cohen any Public Comment . Clerk no, maam, theres no Public Comment. President cohen okay. All right. Well, lets call the next item. Clerk line item 8, vote on whether to hold item 9 in closed session. San francisco administrative code section 67. 10, action. Commissioner hamasaki so moved. President cohen all right. Thank you. A motion moved by commissioner hamasaki, seconded by Vice President elias second. President cohen by commissioner elias. And can we take that same house, theres a new Holiday Shopping tradition, and shop and dine in the 49 is inviting everyone to join and buy black friday. Now more than ever, ever dollar that you spend locally supports Small Businesses and helps entrepreneurs and the community to thrive. This Holiday Season and yearround, make your dollar matter and buy black. We are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. Say hi. Hi. Whats your favorite . The carrots. The pizza . Im not going to eat the pizza. You like the pizza . They will eat anything. Yeah, well, okay. Sfusds meal program right now is passing out five days worth of meals for monday through friday. The program came about when the shelter in place order came about for San Francisco. We have a lot of students that depend on School Lunches to meet their daily nutritional requirement. We have families that cant take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. For the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. Right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and crackers, and then we have the milk. We heard about the school districts, that they didnt know if they were going to be able to provide it, so weve been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. Theyve been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure theyre staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so thats a great thing when youre working with many kid does. The feedback has been really good. Everybody seems really appreciative. They do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems appreciative. Growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up. I have kids at home. I have six kids. Im a mother first, so im just so glad to be here. Its so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families dont have access to this food, and were just really glad to be january 25, 2021 with the meeting being called to order at 4 21 p. M. We thank sfgov tv for Live Streaming the meeting. Members of the public who will be calling in, the number is