Commissioner turman i like to call roll call president turman here, vp mazzucco present, marshall present, dejesus present, melara present hing, here. Just the members of the audience thethis is live on tv. However the screens in the room are not working. Theyre sending someone up. Thank you secretary kill shot. I want to welcome the members of the public to the wednesday, february 8, 2017 San FranciscoPolice Commission meeting. Lets start off first with wishing joyce hicks the executive director of the department of Police Accountability a happy birthday. Happy birthday. [applause] thank you so much so, Gail Marshall will be eating cupcakes while we arenow you understand why. Secretary kill shot these call the first item item 1 reports of the commission shes report. Report on recent Police Department activity is including major events weekly crime trends and announcements at present patient regarding a Safe Place Initiative good evening commissioner turman. Good evening vp mazzucco and board. This week im going to get started with some good news with our crimes. Im going to start with Violent Crimes. We got off to a really rough start with homicides this year. We had six in the month of january. Last week we had no homicides and no major Violent Crime issues. So year to date, we are still at six compared to two last year, this time last year. Year to date, last year we had 58 total homicides in 2015 we had 52. So we plan to try to hold steady as much as we can to keep those numbers going down. But we had a good week this week. Nonfatal shooting victims, thousands of the year to date weve had nine. This year, this time last year 2016 we had 14. A total of 189 nonfatal shooting victims for 2016. Oregon violence is down. 2000 something year to date we are at 13. That was composed of 12 incidents and 2016 year to date sometime we were at 15 with a total 17 incidents. In 2016 the totals for gun violence work 228 that were made about 189 incidents. Firearms read 92, year to date and in 2016 we ended up with 1216 compared to 1085 in 2015 should we are on pace to basically get about the same number of guns off the street as we did in 2016. In terms of in terms of homicides again i said or done during the week. I do have an update on the shooting that occurred at 1001 potrero ave. In the Mission District and we had a victim arrested or suspect arrested in a once on that case. This was from february 1 at approximately nine oclock9 05 am in the morning when our officers responded to a walking gunshot wound victim to his left side. He was uncooperative and initial investigation and according to the victim knew shot in the city of San Francisco and took the muni to San FranciscoGeneral Hospital. He refused to answer any further questions at that time. It luminaries investigation revealed that our victim is on parole and is an active parole warrants. He was treated for gunshot wound but he ended being transported and booked at San Francisco county jail for the wants. Our mission as it unit is investigating. So i misspoke the victim was arrested and the suspect is still outstanding. So hope we will get some cooperation to solve a crime. Traffic report for this week, we had the most serious of our traffic incidents was at 4175 mission st. And a private parking lot. On sunday, february 5 at zero 9 30 am hours and 86yearold female victim got up and i victim back in again she subsequently had the driver the driver subsequently hit to particle cars remained at the scene i was cooperative. The victims condition is critical but she showing sign of improvement. The other traffic significant traffic incident report occurred on 30th st. And Mission Street in the angle side district on friday, february 3 at 2 40 am. The mail just left a nightclub when he was struck by a vehicle i suspect fled the scene after dropping the victim dropping off the victims girlfriend was a passenger in the vague hope. He remains unclear as to the motive. Maven assault with a Deadly Weapon with a vehicle but that still has to be investigated. The victims girlfriend was not able to identify the suspect. The victims is currently at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital and has internal injuries but is in stable condition. In terms of our enforcement, Traffic Safety enforcement operation plan, for San Francisco as part of an ots grant, we will conduct Traffic Safety enforcement operations on ip we did on february 7 which was yesterday. 16, 24th and 27th. We have identified several locations over the past three years were pedestrian and bike collisions have occurred. Special attention be directed towards our focus on violations which are driver speeding, making illegal turns, failing to stop or stop signs and signals, failing to yield to pedestrians and crosswalks and other dangerous violations. We are committed to eliminating traffic deaths as a part of our vision 0 x 20 24. And vision zero czar citys commitment to prioritize safe streets for everyone. Today there was a press conference at San FranciscoGeneral Hospital put on by Assembly Member two and hes can introduce legislation with the city supports on basically electronic monitoring of speed in order to reduce speed related traffic fatalities. So that legislation will be per put forward and we hope, if passed, will enhance our efforts to reduce Traffic Related Fatalities due to speeding in the city of San Francisco. In terms of major events, last week there were two major events id like to discuss. The first was a no man know while San Francisco in the northern and tenderloin district that occurred on saturday february forth from 4 pm7 pm at the civic center and United Nations plaza. Door possibly 2500 people better. We had no issues reported no injuries no arrests. Second event was kaiser San FranciscoHalf Marathon that occurred in a richmond taraval district on february 5 at 7 30 am until 3 pm. There were location was handle and the great highway. 10,000 people participated we had no issues. It was a safe event with no arrests and no injuries in terms of crowd issues. Upcoming events of note, the Chinese New Year parade will occur on february 11 and it will include a street fair on the 11th and the 12th good we expect approximately 750,000 during the duration of this event. It will be held in the Central Police district of chinatown area. Just so bright the Chinese New Year of 2017. The year of the rooster. The Chinese Chamber of commerce is housing a new year parade on february 11 and then the communities street there is quickly on the 11th and 12th and the fair street there will be located on grand avenue from california to broadway street and washington to jackson and pacific between stockton and journey. Members of the department including the command staff and our family will be attending the festivities along with our mayor mayor ed lee. Second event is the ssa as to our annual conference. Now we thursday, february 7. Through im sorry tuesday, february 7 through thursday february 7 am7 pm daily. Location will be at the bill graham auditorium and 99th grove in the northern district. Expect about 5000 participants for this conference. Is the emergencyno [inaudible] pipeline action. This will be actually was today from 8 am until 6 pm this afternoon. Location is 95 7th st. At the San FranciscoFederal Building in the tenderloin district. The Us Army Corps of engineers is expected to grant financial easement for the dakota pipeline. No issues are anticipated. Facebook party. Today from five until 3 aa. M. In the pierce pier 70 in the Bayview District we expect 4000 people to participate. We dont expect any issues there. Justice for animal [inaudible] we dont know the time. Its going to be an inside the district and this is in relation to the animal [inaudible] officer involved shooting we shot and killed by San FranciscoPolice Department on february 26, 2016 in the Mission District. [inaudible] will be held in front of a private residence and we will monitor that situation. The last event is the demand uber support this will be tomorrow february 9 from 3 pm ivan i mean 1 pm2 pm at 455 markets right in the tenderloin district. [inaudible] protest at uber headquarters demand publicly support the right of Saudi Arabian women to drive uber vehicles. One other event of note is the trump must go now protest. Thatll be saturday the 30 11th from 10 30 am12 30 pm location will be ocean beach across from the beach la in the richmond district. This event is expected to be a peaceful familyfriendly rally open to all who would like to see the president out of the white house. There were 12,000 folks interested in attending, with about 1000 that confirmed they would attend this event. Those are the major events for the upcoming week. The concludes this portion of my report. Thank you, chief. Next we have the report on this Safe Place Initiative. Good evening good evening commissioners present turman and commissioners chief scott. Dir. Hicks, happy birthday. Numbers of the public, my name is Greg Mceachern im the commander of the Investigations Division of the San FranciscoPolice Department. I am pleased tonight to have a couple other members that work with me specifically one sergeant that is designed for special Investigations Division. That sgt. Pete shields why will bring up in a minute. That will speed you about the Safe Place Program that is currently in place in seattle and some meetings he attended where the particulars of that program were presented to our department. I just want so you will about sgt. Shields. As i mentioned to me would permit the special Investigations Division. He is the lead investigator for all hate crimes within the San FranciscoPolice Department. So he is responsible for investigating needbased crimes whether they are against individuals or groups as well as hatebased graffiti and those are for hatebased acts such as almonds religion, color, race, national origin, sexual orientation, gender and disability. So earlier this year i know that sgt. Shields was able to go to a presentation. I know commissioner melara last year im sorry last year. Its been a while. From seattle and member the seattle Police Department called safe place. The program just briefly all those sgt. Shields its you was designed to reduce hate crimes and harassment in the Lgbt Community. So they give a presentation and at the time commissioner melara that is appropriate for us to look at it as a department and wanted to put it on the calendar for you to hear the commission is first with the presentation was. So sgt. Shields is here tonight to talk to you about that. You also add in some information about what we currently are doing in San FranciscoPolice Department regarding a Similar Program that is called safe zone. It was initiated back in 2000 1300 and chief cancer and will discuss some of the similarities and differences between the two of them. Once he is done all be available to answer any questions or specifics that you have on it as well as any opportunities the commission believes that apartment may be interested in in exploring the program that they have in seattle. With that i more than happy to bring up sgt. Kee gels from our special Investigations Division. Good evening, sgt. Good evening commissioners good evening, to get my name is sgt. Pete shields am the lead investigator with a Crimes Division or San FranciscoPolice Department. Last summer to mr. Melara and i had the opportunity to attend a meeting was held by an officer from the seattle Police Department and the officer wanted to give a presentation regarding a program that they have in place in this seattle area. In very simple basic terms, the officer made an analogy. He asked us if we remembered back in the 70s the yellow hand in the window. When your kid walking home from school if you felt you were in danger, if you saw a yellow hand in the window you knew that was a safe place to go to where the people within house would call the police and make sure that the child was safe. So the concept he developed world over to say place for seattle and that was the seattle Police Department partnering with businesses in the seattle area where if there is a victim of an lgbt hate crime, that individual can go to that business where they see a symbol, and i believe you all received packets with that symbolthat business had been trained by the seattle Police Department to call the police and keep that victim within that business, safe. They developed this program in 2015 and they been rolling it out asking various Police Department to be on board with this program. We also have a very Similar Program in the San FranciscoPolice Department back in 2012 and in 2013 it was developed called safe zone. The safe zone was for people within the Lgbt Community to go to a Police Station and feel accepted and comfortable to talk with police about a crime, any crime that happened. I did bring a picture. Every Police Station the 10 districts station have a laminated poster that is in every station which is very similar to the seattle. So the seattlebased project went beyond businesses where San Francisco is within Police Departments. In addition, we had a resource guide the was also printed up to be placed in every district station with resources to the Lgbt Community, and thats available for anyoneanyone in the general public and is everything from support groups to resources and the like. That was basically the presentation that was given from the officer from the seattle Police Department. So im so glad we got to this point actually because weve been trying to come here for many months. I got so excited about this because i think that when you involve businesses, when you involve the private sector, you take it outside the Police Department. You put it into the community, and anything that has to do with safety cannot be just within the Police Department. It has to be put out into the community. I was really excited that it really was involves the Business Community because everybody uses businesses. Sobut one of the pieces that reallyi really liked was the fact that the whole program in seattle has extended to other communities. So it is open. It actually appeals to the victims of crime. In seattle, i rememberi did not see it in this listbut one of the things they talked about was that bank of america became collaborated in this effort and they have all of their branches have these decals. So,this could be a real great thing not only for our community relations, Community Policing, just it could reallyyou know it could work on various levels. Right after we met i did talk to the bank of America Foundation and they were interested in participating. At that time i was thinking well, they could possibly fund some of this. So i would like for us to really explore the possibility and look at how our officers and every station could carry this message through the communities where they serve. So, i am really excited about it, but the one piece that you didnt say is that, one of the things that needs to happen with a program like this is there has to be one person that is assigned to this task in that its available fulltime to be able to implem