Thank you very much. We have a special program for you today. And first i want to introduce claire sassen. The executive director. She wanted to say a word about the partnership on this. And well get into the statements. Thank you. Can you hear me . I will only take a minute of your time. We are delighted to be able to work with the cia to bring you this we think exciting briefing this morning. Also want to thank kevin and the National Press club for hosting us this morning. For those of you who dont know the Naval Historical Foundation were a nonprofit membership organization. We focus on preserving and commemorating naval heritage. And we use naval history to help educate the American People on the importance of our navy. And the mer time domain. Were located the Washington Navy yard. And we work closely with the naval history and heritage command. Our board and members throe of whom are four of whom are sitting who are today. David admiral kevin and norman polmar. A wealth of knowle
Property crime as well. We had 30,980 Properties Last year which was 24 increase over the year before. When we looked at a fiveyear trend, we went from 15,000 in 2012 to 30,000 car break ins last year which is upward trajectory we need to turn around. Weve added some things to our reptoire, including standing up, a general crimes unit in november. That consisted of 48 investigators, 10 of which are dedicated to property crimes. They have citywide responsibility. They work with the station investigators to identify crews that are multijurisdictional inside and outside of the city. In addition, when we enhance our foot beats in august, thats when we started to see the increase in homicide, not to say thats the answer but we think it will help us both in our property crime efforts and our Violent Crime efforts. And then we are enhancing our prevention campaign. Park smart is the name of our campaign. Weve been doing this for the last several years. This campaign was created in part with s
Were going to commissioners that spoke about this and having been on this commission. You know, for the officers only to view their own cameras and footage for the integrity of the investigation so when they do go forward, they have what theyve seen and perceived and what they write is not what others have perceived. That comes in later on when they put together police reports. I see what the chief has bought forward and it looks effective and in line with our legislative intent as a commission for those of us on the commission at the time we voted for this policy. Thank you. Thank you chief. I have a couple of comments and questions. On page 3, the failure to activate may subject a member to administrative investigation. In my view, if you have not complied with the rules above, why wouldnt it generate and admit an administrative investigation each time. It gives discretion and i dont know what it ends up looking like. So i would recommend that that word be sal and not me. There are s
Were going to commissioners that spoke about this and having been on this commission. You know, for the officers only to view their own cameras and footage for the integrity of the investigation so when they do go forward, they have what theyve seen and perceived and what they write is not what others have perceived. That comes in later on when they put together police reports. I see what the chief has bought forward and it looks effective and in line with our legislative intent as a commission for those of us on the commission at the time we voted for this policy. Thank you. Thank you chief. I have a couple of comments and questions. On page 3, the failure to activate may subject a member to administrative investigation. In my view, if you have not complied with the rules above, why wouldnt it generate and admit an administrative investigation each time. It gives discretion and i dont know what it ends up looking like. So i would recommend that that word be sal and not me. There are s
Commissioner here. You have a quorum and with us tonight is the interim director of Police Accountability Paul Henderson and chief of Police William scott. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, members of the public, welcome to the first meeting of the Police Commission in 2018, for wednesday january 10th, 2018, meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission meeting. So, to begin with, a little bit of information. Yesterday and today i had to have some emergency oral surgery, so i am a little out of it. So i may have to at points turn this meeting over to our vice president. So i apologize if it is at all distracting. Looking at the agenda, there are going to be a few changes we have now made note of. First of all i want to say that we have eight very large and very long closed session agenda we need to move. So Public Comment on all matters and within all categories will be limited to two minutes because of that. Also, because i need to participate in this item and i want to do it before i