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Zoo too too captioner. Testing. This is the captioner testing. So now im captioning can you see me captions . Im writing for you. This is the captioner. Okay. Yup. I can see your captions. 9716 Police Commission city of San Francisco and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Commission i would like to call roll. Please do sergeant. President . Here. Vice president. Here. Marshall. Present. Dejesus. Here. Mezuko. Present. Wong. Present. Malara. Present. You have a quorum with us tonight is the interrum chief of police tony chaplain and mr. Hicks. Good evening welcome everyone to the september 7th. 2016 Police Commission meeting we have been chris crossing the city doing a lot of Committee Meetings for the chief search we have a long ogeneral da i welcome all of you and watching at home. We have rules available here and the on the website i need everyones cooperation because given the length of the agenda Public Comment will be two minutes today. We will do agenda clean up to start off with. The agendas are over there if you dont have one. We will start off with chief chaplain item 1a on your report we will have to put over because of the deputy cheap you are going to present is that correct . That is correct. And mr. Police patrol samuel raise we need further investigation so were putting that over. That is correct. On the closed session calendar item c a disciplinary matter that is put over. Is that correct. That is correct. Those retire changes to the agenda with that sergeant call the first line item. Discussion 1a chiefs report this item is to allow the chief of police to report on Police Activities and make announcements. Good evening chief. Good evening. I will start with our Violent Crime been in the headlines nationwide lately San Francisco, we have not seen surges like other municip municipalities. In 2015 we had 96 small up tick by there. Firearm for 2016 the total we have 126. Last year we had 119 Violent Crimes is down 15 fers. Robberies down 17 here today. Firearm seize 667. Over the summer months we seized a few hundred firearms close to half this summer. Burglaries are down 18 . From july of 2015 to 2016 we had a 30 drop overall. On the body camera deployment. Training station bay view station august 1519132 members were signed for the training for the Body Worn Cameras 112 were trained and issued body cameras between august 29th and september 2nd of 2016 at the ingleside station. None reported with the ingleside station. We had small issue with the mounting brackets with the garments the magnets are not strong enough. And theyre sending stronger magnets to affix to the outer garments. As far as policy issues are concerned were still doing polly questions overall we have 64 trainers 143 are trained in bay view. 500 remain untrained 20 in ingleside remain untrained that is generally for people on disability and other issues precluding them to be trained. The training schedule in northern station september 2017th 2016. Mission is 19th 19th. Twentythird and thats the beginning of fleet week just of note. October 27th of twentyfirst richmond station and southern october 24th to 28. Park following november 1st to the 4th. And finally of the ten district station that will be central that will be november 14th to 18 that will be followed by tack cal copy sob Station Bureau and headquarter for the remainder of the year to january of 2017. Of note, we had a really good story officer rilely bandy one of our officers foiled an Armed Robbery in oakland in july 8th, 2016. The suspect was pointing a rifle. He was unarmed approached the subject what he was asking. Officer told the suspect to drop the gun. He ran bandy chased him. During the pursuit he pointed the gun officers arrived at took kcustody of the subject he is honored the second highest honor of valor in the mrpd. The homicide ocured. May 16. Williamson was shot on the twentysecond block a 28 year old San Francisco resident was taken into the Bay View District and was booked for the murder of in bay view for the murder of mrs. Williams. A couple of incidents of note we had an officer critically energid during an arrest of the subject. Officer responded to a call of exboyfriend harassing he was found in the backyard where he resisted the officers and arrested for multiple charges including the threats and injury to the officer he was taken to San Francisco General Hospital for mental state. She was transported to the San Francisco General Hospital with swelling to the face right eye possible fracture she also had a broken left Little Finger buzz is in stable condition and that is kept on Body Worn Camera we will look at that. There is another incident on fi5th on mission on sunday. This is officer on bike patrol on 5th and mission. Aal suspect came up behind him on the skateboard he jumped off the skateboard taking a swing striking the officer on the head he got off the bike and tackled her. Several bystanders recorded it on the phone but none came to the officers aid. Nearby buses captured the attack. The officer was wearing a bicycle helmet that was cracked that saved him frr injury. The suspect is homeless 20 year old female with no local arrest history. She was found in position of a psychedelic drugs mushrooms special investigation is handing that particular case. The officers continue to do an outstanding job on the burglaries there have been several arrested theyre tracking i cant go into detail were tracking people that are serial burglars but a lot of arrested and properties recovered. Im looking at some of these investigations are ongoing i wont go into detail about those but they recovered property from serial burglaries which contributed to the numbers. I will jump to the shootings on 93 of 16. Shooting occurred 762 follow ton street involving a shooting. From a housing complex in Western Grove and involved in a vehicle collision officers arrived and number of vehicles involved front end damage. There appeared to be a bullet hole in the backside window. They avised over police radio they located a shooting victim in western oak. They had a victim bleeding on the head the second victim was standing next to the first uninjured. They were hanging out in a parked vehicle in a parking lot of the 700 block of fullton street. The victim told officers that the unknown male began shooting at his vehicle he feared for his life and drove his vehicle at high rate of speed to the parking lot which is where the accident occurred. That is under investigation by the gang unit. Another shooting on the same day 93, 16 of 3 00 p. M. In bay view. No arrested in that one. On the 1100th block of fits gerald numerous shot from an unknown location. On the unit block of nickels way began response they located a male victim with two gun shot wounds to the lower back. The victim transported to San Francisco hospital where they were informed by medical personnel the person suffered two gun shot wounds to the lower back. No suz perspectives located in that one. And bay view officers investigating in that one. 9416 approximately 1 50am on the 100 block of harbor road. Male victim exited a bus felt a pain and noticed he had a gun shot room to his lower right leg. He exited the muni 400 line and felt a sharp pain. He did not know who shot him and refused to answer any more questions theyre investigating in that case. Last incident of note was 82916. At 6 39 p. M. On the 1700 block of green street a person having a psychotic break down. With shots fired. They were met by wit enss by residents of green street. Officers observed subject bleeding from one of his fingers they conducted a sweep they saw multiple firearms in the front room. They observed water coming from the room onto the kitchen floor. Which they believe to be bull loet let bullet holes. They had a safe where more weapons were located. Witnesses said he was acting strange lately. The subject appeared to be angry officers located mids and well as narcotics they recovered. 57 firearms machine guns multiple ammunition. The subject was transported to sfgh and booked in county jail for multiple firearms and unsafe discharge. Investigation team is investigating we had no homicides in the reporting period i have five steps i will leave for commander sullivans presentation later. That is it. Just of note. In the Police Academy we have 260 in. 200 first recruit class has 42. They will be graduating on 92316. We also have the 504 sfpd. [inaudible] that concludes my chief report. Thank you chief. Questions for the chief . One question i might have missed it did you give us year to date homicides. Student . 30. 30. Do you know where we were this time last year . 30 here and this time last year we were at 34. Okay thank you. Sergeant call next line item. Occ directors report. this item is to allow the director to report on recent occ activities and make announcements. c. Commission repor reports. Good evening. Good evening commissioners. I will call for Public Comment. Thank you. And members of the public. The occ continues to participate in community out reach in late july attorney manny forts participated on a panel. Organized by the Bar Association. And reported at the last Commission Meeting 7occ investigators and donna salzar participated in night out at stations. Donna tabled back to School Give Away. At the Community Center on august 6th and 13. Occ car lo carlos and candice tabled. The b magic back to School Give Away at the Hunters Point side in ginning street at next meeting i plan to present the quarter reports of first and second for 2016 we lodged reports with the Police Commission for the august 10th meeting. The agenda was extremely full so we will be presenting those reports as the agenda permits next week. Additionally, next week i will provide you with the july and august 2016 month loo statistical reports that concludes my reports. Any questions for director hicks . No . Okay. Sergeant call the next line item. 1c update on the fuse corp fellow. Commissioners reports report on meetings with community and Department Members regarding qualities in the next chief of police d. Commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future Commission Meetings action . There is one business item i specifically wanted to update you all on which we talked about at the last meeting which is one of the efforts this commission has undertaken to get more information in particular policy support and looking at areas and things were supposed to by charter or some rule that already exists be effecting right now. As well as a number of proactive policies we have. We interviewed terrific candidates from commissioner malara and dejesus. We have identified a candidate we will bring that individual when everything is completed to the full commission and inproduce this person were making progress i think the start date will happen some time in october. And there will be an on boarding process for that individual. This is a first for the commission to have that additional Staff Support that reports directly to the commission so i wanted to give you all that update. And if there arent any questions we will move into individual Commission Reports what we have done the past few weeks with regard to the chief search. Who wants to start . Lets see. I attended participate nondeterminate the Mission Community Mission Castro Neighborhood Community meeting. That was very enlightning. The other was the chinatown that was one that i did yesterday with commissioner with commissioner loftis we did a pride alliance. And i am scheduled to do ingleside tomorrow. I have been called to jury duty. And actually i was ordered to appear tomorrow. If anybody has time. I was the only one that was going to be there. If anyone is available at 11 oclock otherwise, we will have to reschedule it. Then i will meet with commissioners wien and dejesus. In the late afternoon. And i will do teraval on monday as well. Great. Commissioner mazuko. I attended two Community Meetings with lara and marshall. We did the Community Meeting in gordan low in chinatown. Great input from the community. It was interesting side note most of what were hear frg the community were hearing the same thing from the officers thats a good sign. We did that meeting and we did the meeting myself commissioner loftis and wong did st. Community ka thee ral. A lot of folks were present at that meeting we had the youth in our group to facilitate our meeting we heard a lot of the things we heard in chinatown. So its very helpful. Important lie, i went to two district stations each of us divided which stations were going to talk to the officers i volunteer for central and north stations. I did four line ups. Police officers have line ups before a shift where theyre advised by the Community Officers what they need to know. Any departmental bulletins theyre debriefed on it its a por mall process i covered every officer that worked in the central station. We went to the swing shift in the morning it was an eye opener because the officers i learned and noticed that the overwhelming majority of officers have less than five years of experience. Theyre very young. Theyre interested in motivated the officers after going through to dispel any rumors about the police chief process we explained to them about the process how it works under both the charter and what we do as a commission how we review the application and everything told to the public we go through this process while the officers were not aware of that we asked how the process answer worked. We received significant input from the officers what theyre looking for and the police chief. They have to work for that person. It effects their live as it does the public. We received input from officers about the re reforms and changes theyre making when the officers told me about the concerns for the reforms theyre making its important as commissioner to hear. That theyre all willing to make change. They all said we want to make change we have a great job we had canndid conversation about the activity that has an impact. The stupid things some people do the officers got it theyre great. I learned a lot from them. Thank you. I was going to say dr. Joe . So i think i had three of the five. First i wanted to thank a couple of groups i want to thank everybody that came out number one i really do, just to come out and you know, spend your time giving us your opinions about the qualities you would like to see in a new chief and i also want to surprise you president , thank the young people from the Community Safety initiative who helps facilitate three meetings i assumed all of them. They were great. My thing was want tog hear from every Single Person in the room i kept prompting folks every voice is important. I didnt hear anything that surprised me because i have heard it before with previous searches. No that was at bay view along with who went to bay view with me. Did west side together. Bay view then chinatown. That is the other group i want to thank the interpreters who stepped out of nowhere. That was a great meeting i enjoyed that because they put forth the effort to make that happen and teraval i wanted to thank the public for coming out. Not tereval. Well. To me it was. Any way we take everything all that everybody said to heart and it will be incorporated like we said thank you. Next commissioner . Wong . Jump in. I attended two town Hall Meetings with the public one at bay view and one at st. Marys overall they were good meetings i was disappointed in the fact that i recognize so many of the folks i attended regular commission attendees and Public Commenters i would have lofed to have seen a broader perspective trum of the two meetings i was at i attended two line ups in park richmond station i had a conversation with the officers there an hour to hourandahalf the officers were not shy in expressing their views and i said i would bring back their comments they were apprehensive about the chief search. That explained things they had a lot of comments on the Police Commission. That was a great process to go to the stations that is something we need to incorporate into our process more. And i think there was a lot of misunderstandings and miss conceptions about what we have done from the poll sighs we have passed and a lot of direct input got a lot of direct input after response times redistri redistricting a lot of officers say it has impacted stations. Officers asked me before a make decisions on the corroded restraint hear frg the officers. We heard a lot about tasers but took a quick vote and at least for few process we should hear from the folks training on the subject. I said i would try to bring that up before there was final decision on the matter. Officers comment on the 36 inch baton who had complaints and safety concerns on that. There is confusion with the line up officers carrying the baton and others who werent. It was clear to me if that was still in force. There was confusion about the policies by the time i got there it was straightening itself out and most folk