The city of San Francisco sfgtv meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee occurring thursdaymarch 10, 2016 will begin shortly. [gavel] welcome to the march 10 for the meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Service committee. My name is jane kim and to my right is avalos and supervisor campos. I want to thank our clerk erica meijer and also recognize jesse larson and jim smith and sfgtv for making sure our meetings are available on line. Mdm. Clerk any announcements yes please make sure to sounds off cell phones electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on march 22 order supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Actually, i should amend what i said earlier. I want dragon is josh out sander at sfpd for todays meeting. Im clerk please call the first item item number one is a hearing on the car breakins citywide and prevention strategy including plans to implement successful tactics used by the Police Bureau task force in neighborhoods outside district 6. Requesting the San FranciscoPolice Department and the District Attorneys Office to report. Thank you. This item is sponsored by supervisor david campos could think of for introducing this item. Almond hand the hearing over to supervisor campos thank you very much mdm. Chairman. Thank you, colleagues for allowing me to have this item be heard today. This is an issue that is impacting the entire city and county of San Francisco and in places like Bernal Heights has reached a point where it is for so many residents a real problem. Something big you with on a regular basis. On january 21 of this year supervisors wiener and yee actually held a hearing at the government audit and Oversight Committee. That hearing focused on the crease in property crimes including car breakins citywide. Looking at property crime trends and also talking about prevention strategies. At that hearing commander kaplan presented data showing a 250 increase in car breakins between 2011 and 2015 here in San Francisco. Responding to the massive increase in car breakins, the Police Department recently created a new unit called the control bureau task force whose job is to tackle the problems specifically in district 6 where car breakins are actually relatively more frequent than other parts of the city. While the control bureau task force is relatively new, since it was created early data shows that in fact its making a big difference. But the number of car breakins in that area in that district, in fact has declined. Car breakins are a major problem throughout the city. As i noted earlier, residents of district 9 are so frustrated with car breakins and frustrated because they want more response and one of the things that is actually very disconcerting is the fact that its got to the point where we have heard from people that they do not actually even bother to file reports with the Police Department. Some of the victims because they feel nothingness can happen so why bother. Thats a problem. That certainly as representative for the district thats not something i want to hear. The bottom line is the city needs to have a more comprehensive citywide plan to tackle car breakins and we are trying to make sure that the things that are working in places like district 6 that could be replicated in other parts of the city including parts of my district like Bernal Heights and so specifically, throughout this hearing we want to hear from the District Attorneys Office. We want to hear from the Police Department on what strategies they are using and why is it that were not using some other strategies we believe based on our own Research Work in other parts of the country. The use of bait cars being an example given that one of the challenges with the issue is the difficulty in finding evidence to actually prosecute people successfully because often times, these car breakins happen without a witness, without anyone actually being there to say this is what i saw, this is what happened. So, that is the point of this hearing. It is really time for us to figure out how we can effectively, more effectively, address this issue. I know from my constituents in district 9 and especially in Bernal Heights, this is a big issue. Its rightly an issue that we have to do better job of dealing with. We are, as it is, all of us happen to live in San Francisco struggling to live in this expensive city the most expensive city in the country. When your car is broken into you can imagine what that does not only to your psyche, but also the expense that comes with that. So, with that i would like to begin by asking our District Attorneys Office, and we know Christine Deberry was the chief of staff is here. We want to thank ms. Berry for being here. Welcome back to the chamber and i know that she has to leave but we want to thank her for being here and we know one of the things i think its important to know is that the District Attorneys Office has been very proactive. We have had a Community Meeting a few weeks back in Bernal Heights with the city District Attorneys Office actually came out and presented about the work theyre doing, the data and the information about their strategy. So we are grateful to mr. Gascoigne for making this a priority this the very ms. Deberry technical difficulties. Good afternoon, supervise. Thank you for having us on behalf of Peter Gascoigne am happy to be here and present to all of you and provide information to the community unsure who watch this from home overlaid onto unearned understand some of the issues were dealing with what the das office is doing to help alleviate the problem. We are fiercely on logan San Francisco weve had an issue with property crime over the last number of years. All the burglaries being a big part of that. When i came onto our radar in office we started looking at different strategies in addition to our prosecution strategy that we want to employ to make sure we are are using all the resources of our department to help us. I think theres a variety of reasons contributed to the problems, but certainly most of the Solutions Lie in collaborative efforts between the different Public Safety entities in our city and will welcome that the board of supervisors as a partner in that effort. In the last 5 years, you can see from the first slide, weve seen a dramatic increase in property crimes overall in the city. That includes both residential, commercial burglaries as well as robbery, larceny, theft and vehicle theft. Unfortunately, what we have seen responding to that is a reduction in the arrest rate for a variety of reasons im sure the Police Department will discuss with all of you. It can be difficult to make all breasts in these incidents and hopefully we can find strategies and other efforts that will help raise our arrest rate back to what was in prior years. This slide talks through those same set of crimes early, robbery, larceny theft and vehicle theft and what our office did with the cases that were brought to us from the Police Department. Its a yearoveryear comparison of 2014 and 2015. You can see stop at august because theres a delay in the processing of misdemeanor citations their office receives. To make an apples to apples comparison between the 2 years we use just those first 8 months of the year. In 2014, there were approximately 33,000 incidents and in and in 2015 39,000 incidents. In the cases that were brought to our office remained essentially flat over 2300 cases were brought to us in both years. Then, youll see on the 4th line the total rate of action in our total action taken rates. Im happy to say weve had an increase in that rate. I dislike about one thing were looking for is when there is an arrest people are interested of whether theres a prosecution and we spent a lot of time in Office Making sure we are responding whatever we can and appropriate with the prosecution in those days. Quick question. Thats life, the presentation rate is that the arrest the percentage of arrests based on the number of incidents . Correct. Incidents . Correct. They were brought to our office in the following lines with the action we took on the cases that were brought to us. This is another representation of that. Amount of incidents, but the community is expanding at large and then the arrests that are made in those cases and the action that is taken by the dist. Atty. s office on those arrest. So, as i mentioned and is everybody here knows, the biggest push in of that property crime increase has been budgeted to auto burglaries. We werent talking about individually from the rest of property crimes. In 2015 there were 25, 813 incidents reported in San FranciscoPolice Department reported auto burglars and 07 to 70 increase from the year prior as was referenced earlier has been increasing over the last number of years starting back in 2011. Of those incidents that were reported to the San FranciscoPolice Department 487 of those resulted though presented to our office. Approximately 2 of the incidents resulted in an arrest. Where office is asked to review it and consider it for a charging decision. That presentation rate is constant for both 2014 and 2015 at approximately 2 . Then, the following 2 lines show the action rate that our office had on those auto burglary cases similar to the overall property crime category, weve had an increase in the rate of action we take it off easily, this is really significant and as we were in the Community Hearing the frustration and concern of residents we took a look internally at own operations to make sure were doing every thing we could providing appropriate resources to their view of the rest coming to us to charge them whenever possible. So, weve been able to increase our own charging rates from 63 up to 80 last year. Can i ask you, i mean just for folks who are looking at this, watching, it means that in 2015 based on these numbers, 25,000 auto burglaries, 25,800 487 arrest, but only 2 arrests. That means that in the vast majority of burglaries, 90 , we are not arresting. I mean is that kind of what this shows . Thats whats happening to auto crimes are difficult. Im sure the Police Department will be able to speak to that in greater depth, but i do think if the community is clamoring for us to react and help them the situation and if we want to look for solutions in needs to be in that front and deterrent. If you have a 90 chance of getting away with the crime its likely youll commit it again. We need to come i think all of our joint efforts and figure out ways to improve those numbers and deter the crime from happening will have the greatest impact. It also means just to clarify, that youre taking action 80 of the cases that you that are being brought thats impressive. We are. A lot of hard work that went into that. You can see was over the year prior. It was an area that didnt always have all of our country. We deal with a lot of very serious crime as does the Police Department and that has a tendency to get most of our attention. Homicides in sexual assaults of the places where a lot of our resources go as is appropriate, but as you saw this crime increasing the amount of concern in the community it occurred to us was more happening under the surface. So, with the work of the crime strategies unit we created we started to dive into the problem and try to understand, in this 25,000 different offenders or is there a set of offenders that are causing the majority of the problem and can we focus on those individuals and try to bring some leads to the communities be 6 one more question related to this. Is there a wayis that typical . Is there like a set of numbers in terms of how this looks nationwide . Is it usually thatthis is there an average in terms of the percentage of arrests . 2 seems very low to me. I would say is low on the national average. You could look at the uniform crime reports which was ou by different categories of crime with a clearance rate are for those, we believe for property crimes it somewhere between 1015 is the usual clearance rate. So it certainly isnt 80, 90 or 100 but could be improved. Bt thank you. This lab represents this crime is large focus of the Police Department and our office. This is most serious crimes weve seen in the community and we can see from this slide the increase seen in part one crimes in San Francisco is attributable was entirely to the auto burglary issues were dealing with. There is some good news. As the supervisor mentioned, as are sure the Police Department will discuss with you as well we see briefly seen a decrease in the number of auto burglaries in the city. We saw coming in june of 2014 is when we started to see an increase in this crime. We went from an average of about 1500 a month up to a high of 2500 a month at the highest point. So we as you can see from this slide on a steady increase from the summer as you can see from this slide on a steady increase from the summer of 2014 all the way through the summer of 2015. Then, by august of 2015 we started to see a decline in those numbers and were now essentially back to where we were before the spike in the when these crimes start. I think we can attribute that to a lot of focused effort from all the lawenforcement agencies both the Police Department the creation of the units theyve created, as well as our office creating a crime strategies unit and really trying to identify the drivers of the most pressing problems in our community. This chart just will help you understand the number on a monthly basis from january of 2014 all the way through january of 2016. The arrest made in the prosecution filed from those. Its an analysis of the work are does i whats brought to the other Police Department. You can see there, if you looktake a couple different jobs and increase in our charging rates in a rate of action taken over that twoyear period, of 2 a point of 9 but settling somewhere between 70 and 80 in both of those months. So, if you look at january of 2014, the first bar there will show you the were 37 auto burglary incidents presented to our office. In 2015 the were 44 presented to our office and in 2016 there were 36 presented in the month of january to our corresponding work to those arrest in january of 2014, we took action 65 of the time good good in january 2015 we took action 82 of the time, and then in january of 2016 took action 86 of the time. So, we are pleased with this increased performance in our office and response to the incidents that are being brought to our spirit hopefully, its contributing to some of the reduction. This is another shot to show the overall yeartoyear comparison, 2014 and 2015, of the incidents being reported followed next in the gray bar by the arrests that are made and then in the green bar, by the action taken by the das office. This slide will show you we and our office have a da step model similar to calm step where we look at the performance of our office on a variety of different types of crimes and efforts and this chart will show some of those efforts of theim trying to find the data here. Sorry. This chart represents the 390 cases filed by our office in 2015 134 of those have been resolved to the rest are still pending. Of those, 60 of them resulted in convictions with felony probation and county jail time attached to them for the punishment. You can see, if you combine multiple categories nearly 80 of the convictions resulted in felony probation with sentences, both where prison sentences were appropriate. Just to talk a bit about what were doing in our office and we hope to continue to be helpful. The crime strategies unit is really the biggest change weve made in our office and how we respond to crime and how we assist the community in solving crime problems in their neighborhood. The key component here is as an office were often quite reactive. We wracked with the Police Department brings us in terms of the efforts and operations they are running, and the dist. Atty. Was interested in being a more active participant in that and making sure we understood where the crime problems were and that we were deploying our offices resources to those crime problems. So, we now do our own heat mapping, hotspot mapping, to understand which neighborhoods were expensing what types of crime, and then try to really spend the time that we have, the benefit we have that the Police Department does not have because they are called to react very quickly to a scene and go to the neck seen and annexing. That can be very short window of time but the case will stay with us sometimes for months and sometimes years while were waiting to get to trial. During that time rather than working at collecting of evidence we was one be collecting intelligence in making sure we are really understanding what an individual may have done that isnt reflected in their media rest. What impact they may be having on the local community, and the crime strategies unit helps us to do that by one, being in the committee ta