and obviously this week it is mission station and captain are the main events here and so our meeting will be different and we also do something different at our community meetings and actually have the commissioners introduce themselves and tell you a little bit about what they do in their day jobs. and so we will start from the left to work the way to the right. tonight special meeting because we have our brand new commissioner with us tonight for the first time and i would like you to welcome sonia melara. >> she is the newest member of the commission and she served on several commissions here in san francisco and we talking earlier that she is in my opinion is a native and came to san francisco when she was 14 years old and educated here and has both her bachelor's and masters degrees and on the faculty of san francisco state and she is the specialist social worker, and she works at the saint francis hospital and she just a great, great edition to our commission, and she really really has fondness for the city, her city and so, without further adieu, welcome and tell the commission about yourself and the audience. >> well, i thank that you have done quite a bit of good job, saying what i do and where i have done by presently i run, a saint francis hospital, i ran the valley services xh is the program that provides visitation for the children and the parents referred from the family court. and these families are referred to cause different things,, and domestic violence, and i have worked for many years, and one of the issues that i have focused on is in the area of the domestic violence and so your problems here are a lot of my opinions on this commission related to those issues, and as, the president said, i am on the faculty of san francisco state university. and i am married and have no children. and only a bird, and her name is stella. so, but, what i tell people is that at the very, you know, i can leave my child in a cage and nobody will call child protective services. so, that is pretty much is my little history, and. okay, thank you, dr. marshal. >> dr. joe marshal. i run a program called the boys club and my previous to that i was in the san francisco unified district as a teacher and an administrator for a number of years. and i was the assistant principal at this school for four years. and so this is really surreal, and there are a lot of things in this auditor um and a lot of assemblies and a lot of kids and great to be back with what we spent the time with. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner turman. >> good evening, my name is joyce turman and i am the vice president of the police commission and i am a former district aid resident and i lived right up the street for a long time and i now live on potrero hill and i am a partner at the law firm of read smith where i am the group leader of the labor and employment department. and i specialize in single playing in a different class action and litigation and for three years now and it has been a great time serving i am glad to be here this evening and yourp concerns with the police department, so thank you so much. >> thank you. >> commissioner dejesus? >> i am dejesus, and i am a native san franciscan and i have been on the commission for quite a while. and my day job, and i am an attorney and that is it, i live in the neighborhood and i live up there and that is it. and commissioner loftus. >> hello, my name is susy loftus and i am also a native san francisco and my day job is actually just recently to return to the attorney general's office for the state of california where i work in the division of law enforcement. most recently i worked in the bay view hinter's point who have been exposed to violence and consider to break the cycle and help the kids heal and so i am raising my three daughters and i always make this mistake and my husband and i are raising our three daughters in case, in fairness, in case you are watching darling and we live in the out in the outer sunset. >> thank you. >> and i have been on the commission less time than dr. marshall and commissioner dejesus and i am also a native san franciscan and we have raised the children in the city and my career and i have been an assistant district attorney for ten years and an assistant united states attorney for nine years before going into private practice and i am a partner at a firm and it is the best part of being on the commission is coming out to the community and we are looking forward to hearing from you and what your concerns are, and without further adieu, we are going to move right into our agenda, and ladies and gentlemen there are quick items that we will handle and in the beginning we will go through the consent calendar and the quick reports and then we will have the public comment after the native attraction, where captain, one of your native sons give us a report. >> let's start with line number one. >> we have spanish translation. >> item one is proval of minutes and action and for the meetings of april 23rd and june 4th, and june 11th, and june 25th and july 2, 2014. >> commissioners you have the minutes in your packet are there any corrections or changes that you think that we should make? hearing none, do i have a motion? >> move approval. >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> move on to line item number two. >> consent calendar and request and approval accept donation of $7500 from miss karen fireman for the sfpd mounted unit and request for approval for accept the donation of $6,000 from the san francisco police officers association for the use of the sfpd wilderness program and also a request for approval to accept a donation of $4,000 from the supporters of the sfpd wilderness program and for use by the sfpd wilderness program and a request for approval to accept five canine bullet resistive vests and valued at approximately $7500, and cover your k9 from the sfpd canine unit. >> we have to approve any gifts over a certain amount, i think that it is 25, when people make gifts to the police department, as you can see there are a lot of memos in the packet from the commanding officers and we get the gifts for the dogs and the horses and so i want to just tell everybody thank you for those gifts, it supplements what we do on the budget for the horses and the mounted unit and the dogs, and the horses and the dogs are the favorite members of the department and i know that the chief would like to have more of them and because the dogs bring in a lot of money. have you looked at this and reviewed it? and are there any questions or concerns? >> hearing none, do i have a motion to accept these matters on the consent calendar? >> move approval. >> yeah, do i have a second? >> all in favor? >> aye. >> that is great. before we move on to line item number three, i would like also to introduce our patrol special police officers that are here tonight, iron who is the leader, and fits who is one of the patrol specials they are in the back and i asked them to come to the meetings because they work through the police commission, and they are private enterprise that actually they own the beats in your neighborhood and they are paid by the merchants by their service and they look similar to the police department and i want everybody to see them and if there are any questions about the service that they provide, they are here tonight and thank you guys for coming. >> line item number three, please? >> 3a, reports to the commission, discussion, chief's report, review of recent activities. >> chief is fresh from the beyonce concert. he is ready to go. >> actually i missed the concert. but i understand that you might be able to hear. based on the complaints. so, any way, it is a pleasure for me to be here and it is a pleasure to be back in the mission. and i spent six years of my time in the police department here in the mission and it was absolutely one of my favorite times and if there is a community that teaches you your trade, it is the mission district and so everybody, there is plenty of input and plenty of back and forth and i think that the district now is certainly a safer place than it was back in the mid 90s, when i was here. and i think that now, with it and it is in great hands, going forward and i am sure that you will hold them accountable or you should based on what you did for me for six years. any way, i am going to be brief and then i am going to give it to dan, but, the city wide out look on crime right now, violent crime is down significantly, we did suffer enough homicides in june and july, one of those homicides occurred in the mission district on saturday july 19th. that suspect is in custody. so, that case is cleared, and you will be prosecuted for the offense. homicides, year to date though are down tremendously. although, we sadly have suffered 23 homicides, in san francisco. relating that to 2007, and 2008, both of those years about this exact same time we were around 60. and so, it is, we are going in the right direction, i think that one of the reasons that we are there, again, that we can talk about it during the summers, is our engagement of young people and it is now, we are now doing 7,000 summer jobs, through the mayor's office. 300 of those jobs, are through the police department and when you think that the summer job idea started back in 1997, in the mission district, and we called it the queen team, and they worked, and it was all privately funded and i see the people over there and he was good for $1,000 of that at the time. and there were, i think, ten or 12 kids and that is all of the money that we could pay, i kicked in a little a bunch of the merchants did, and all of the kids did the clean up and that is mushroomed to 300 kids and we actually have the police officers in the department right now that were the original clean team members and so it totally works, and now, as we see the homicide rate half of what it was, just five or six years ago. and getting the kids to graduate high school, and the child ready or college ready, it is totally the way that it should be, and how we are back there on that beat and that is committed to educating our young people. so, with that, we are going to graduate all of those young people from their summer jobs and get paid this friday, and then hopefully back to school, year after year after year and we consider, we are going to be doing it again and again. we are hosting the jz, beyonce concert here at san francisco at at&t last night we had a few auto burglaries but that went without event and it was well attended and we are getting a lot of noise complaints and hopefully that will not be the case this year, last night was national night out, in san francisco and including in the mission district it was terrific to see so many kids out and everybody together and the city agencies and young people and it really was a perfect night, traffic we continue to do our piece of the enforcement, education and engineering and enforcement and education, and being something that the police department can have an impact on, citations are up better than 50 percent, including here in the mission district and some of the engineering is actually coming in as we just put in one of the first new signal lights at yorba and sunset boulevard, where unfortunately a fatal collision had occurred and two injury accidents just in the calendar year, 2014, so the message has been heard loud and clear we have to get a better handle on the pedestrian and traffic safety. and we want to keep our focus on violent crime as a police department and as the 300 officers that were short right now, come back, you will see all of those beat officers, bicycle officers, and school officers, and park officers and hopefully that will also give us a chance to make a bigger impact on property crime, which is up and that is my concert refrain is do not leave your belongings in your car in plain view. if there is nothing in the car, and all of the burglar will go to the next thing and if you are going to use your cell phone, try to step into an old phone booth to do it and don't just walk down the street and not pay attention and fall victim to someone taking it. and although we are better this year than we were last year, our cell phone robberies are still a problem across the country. so i am going to yield the rest of my time to the captain. >> before we start with you, we will go through a kick report from the occ director and the commissioners. >> good evening, director hicks. >> good evening. >> good evening, president mazzucco, commissioners, chief suhr, and captain and members of the mission police district, community. i enjoy the director of the office of citizen complaints and in fact, here this evening from the occ is senior investigater edward mcmahon is standing up in the back of the room. it is a pleasure to be here this evening to speak with you about the functions of the officers of the citizen complaints. we are also known as the occ. we are the third largest civilian oversight of law enforcement agency in the united states, only surpassed in size by chicago and new york. civilian oversight agencies. for historical purposes, the board of supervisors, sponsored a charter amendment in 1982, to create the office of citizen complaints and we became fully operational in 1983. and i have been the director of the occ for almost 7 years now. and the office of 32 years old. and it was originally an office of the san francisco police department. but later the occ was placed under the jurisdiction of the san francisco police commission. and in the agency separate from the police department, the police commission of course is also a civilian body. the function of the occ is to assist the police department in building trust with the community by a bridge between the public and the police in matters of police misconduct and police policy. and our mission is to insure the police accountability by consulting fair, famely and unbias investigations making recommendations on police policies and practices and conducting medations. in california, law enforcement agencies must have a procedure to investigate the complaints by the member of the public against police officers, or peace officers. or the occ serves that purpose for the san francisco police department. and the staff of the occ is diverse, and it is a diverse group of civilian whose have never been san francisco police officers. there are 35 employees, budgeted for the office of the citizen complaints and the majority of the employees are investigators and the balance of staff consists of attorneys and support staff. our investigation process is that we conduct investigations to find out what happened and we follow the evidence by interviewing the person who brought the complaint known as the complainant and we also interview the involved police officers, subject officers and the officers and the civilian witnesses. we also have the power of the police to obtain evidence, and we on tain the additional evidence from the police department in the police report and the documentary evidence that the police department has generated or received. we can also visit the site of the alleged occurrence and we take photographs of places or persons and obtain video footage if it is available. our aim is to complete our investigations within nine months and with the limited exceptions we must complete these investigations within one year. when we complete the investigation, we make a finding of whether or not the complaint of officer violated any police department rules or local or federal laws. we have a standard of proof that is the preponderance of the evidence which means that the possibility that the complaint of conduct occurred is more likely than not. that is a probability is greater than 50 percent. if after an investigation, the occ finds that an officer violated a rule, we forward the report to chief suhr for further action and can impose discipline up to a ten day suspension, if the discipline could exceed ten days, then the police commission hears that case, they have jurisdiction over the most serious cases. and in addition to investigating complaints, we are very proud to say that we have one of the most successful medation programs in the country and that is an alternative to discipline, last year the acc facilitated 59 medations representing 8 percent of the cases that we closed last year and the medation program allows them to resolve the issues with the complaint of the officer in person and in a dispute resolution format. the occ does not conduct the medations, so we have mediators who do that. the goal is to bring the involved parties together in an effort to achieve mutual understanding. we have a partnership with community boards and the san francisco bar association who will provide us with neutral mediators, they are conducted in languages other than english so that if needed we will obtain interpreters. medation program is voluntary, both the complainant and the officer must agree to medation in order for it to occur. last year, 89 percent of eligibles officers participated in the medation program and the medation coordinator is donna salazar, and she was last year's recipient of the president's award from the association of dispute resolution of northern california. i will briefly provide you with some statistics about the complaints, the office of the citizen complaints received in 2013, and how we resolved them and some dem graphics. and in 2013, the occ received, 727 complaints, that is a 2 percent decrease in complaints that we received in 2012, when we received 740 complaints. we sustained allegations in 6 percent of the cases that we closed we found proper conduct on the part of the officer in 25 percent of the allegations that we investigated. and we found that 2 percent of the allegations were unfounded or not true. the largest percentage of allegations we received were for neglect of duty followed by conduct reflecting the credit and then, unnecessary force, which comprised ten percent of the allegations and we did sustain, five allegations of necessary, of unnecessary force. how do we receive complaints? well, let me back up for a moment and talk about demographics which i skipped. in 2013, 28 percent of the complainants were african americans, caucasians comprised 30 percent of complainants. 19 percent declined state fair rates. and complainant included asian americans at 6 percent, latinos at 12, and native americans and pacific islanders and 2 percent at other. the occ staff is a diverse staff and we speak several languages. two of our investigators are bi lingual spanish speak and hers that is important because a large number of non-english interviews are in spanish. and for the languages other than the ones that i mentioned we will obtain the entertation services. last year we conducted 25 case intakes in spanish and three in cantonese and two in mad rin, and one in (inaudible) and one in korean and one in russian. you can learn more about us, at our website at www.sfgov.org/occ. how we receive complaints. we located on the 7th floor of 25 van ness avenue. accessible by public transportation. and we received walk-in complaints regarding police misconduct, monday through friday, between 8:00 and 5:00 p.m. we also receive complaints by telephone and as of today, on-line, on our website, by e-mail, mail, and fax. we have an entering service, for after hour complaints. and you can also file a complaint at your district police station the station personnel forwards those complaints to us. and if you would like more information this evening, about the occ, and as indicated earlier senior investigater edward mcmahon is in the back of the room and he will be happy to speak with you. that concludes my remarks thank you. >> thank you, commissioner, director hicks? chief, yes? >> you are welcome. >> thank you. >> before we get into captain, this is going to be a commercial break, so the san francisco police department annual report is out, and available. this is in the unbelievable product. and it is all, all of the credit goes to sites for the men and women of the police department, tho those civilians and the one that did the work and also chris teen fountain who is my office manager and her husband phil, this is an act of love. they take ownership of this thing and it looks like it should cost one million dollars and they do it in their spare time just because he and she are that good at it and so there are not that many hard copies because we wanted to keep the expense down, but anybody interested in having one, can go to the san francisco police dot org it is on the website, and you can look at it and if you want a copy you can download it but it is worth looking at and the pictures in it are unbelievable and of course, that has made the cover. >> great. >> thank you, chief it is a great job and thank you to everybody who has been involved in that. >> just before get on to the presentation by the captain and are there any commission reports? >> actually one. >> sure. >> just this is a follow up. and to the state about the jobs and i just want to commend the mayor's office, and you, and anybody else who has been created or put these kids to work. and actually i see more kids just working and it is just great to see. and internships and jobs, and some of the things turning into it and there is no better way for the people to spend the time during the summer, than working. and so, just kutos to the mayor's office and to you chief and it is great to see all of these young people doing it. >> yeah. >> commissioners? >> anything else? >> okay. without further adieu, i think that it is time now for the main event. captain? >> good evening, captain. >> we got to move. >> right? >> president mazzucco. >> this is up a little bit here. >> good evening, for everyone, and president mazzucco, and vice president turman and chief suhr and director hicks and everybody, from the mission district, that came out. and officers buckley and cowel. sorry, i always miss pronounce, these are for people who don't know these two officers back here. these are two very fine examples of the type of police officers that we have in the mission station. so, we will go to the powerpoint here and this is of course, a picture for those of you who can you see it and it is the mission. and on to our next slide. our logo, and our mission, and our motto. and this is mission station, and not today. but in one as it was originally built, in 1902 at 17th and treat and that building still stands today and for those not familiar with the history of mission station, for this station in 1950, mission station moved to 1240, alantra street which is a station that i started out at 23 years ago. and we are now, at the building, 630, and the lower corner there on the left. and take a moment here. the commissioners in..., and... >> i have a story about this building, as well. commissioner marshall. i have never been up here but i have been in the basement when i was in high school, they had a junior achievement, i don't know if anybody remembers junior achievement. and so i came up for junior achievement and then i did not turn out to be a business mogul but i got a better job. the mission district, that the slide was there left and that is where we are situated 2.3 square miles and i think that at last count, we were at 53,000 residents and that is not counting the people that work and visit the mission district. and on the top right corner you can see how we have our district divided up in six patrol car sectors and then underneath, within the sectors we have various foot feet assignments the valley and the castro and the 41 there on the top which runs from castro street and that is one of the largest that we have, and the 44 on the 24th street. and 43, along mission and then the 45. so our district supervisors for the mission district, we have supervisor scott weiner who represents district eight and a portion of that is the castro district and market street and we have supervisor campos is down, the lower part of the mission. and supervisor cohen who is just on the border of our police department. i guess the relevance of having this is that the district supervisors are very involved in the things that go on in the district and often times, they are constituents will go to them with information and concerns about the particular issues that require the police attention. so, i wrote what i think is a good working relationship with all three of the supervisors including the aids