I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Commissioner, id like to take roll. Yes, please. [ roll call ]. You have a quorum. You also have with us chief William Scott of the San Francisco Police Department and Paul Henderson. Thank you, everybody. This is the january 15, 2020, meeting of the Police Commission. We do have a heavy schedule tonight, so we will have two minutes for Public Comment. Im going to change slightly the agenda order. Ill ask the chief to give his report first, and then we will call line item 2 next before we move on to the d. P. A. Report. So with that, i turn it over to you, chief. Thank you, president , Vice President , commission, and executive director henderson. I start off todays report with a summary of our crime trends for the week. As of january 13, our overall crimes are down 21 year to date. And i just want to remind everybody we are ver
The majority of the reports were Domestic Violence related. Again winning no reports were denied. And again, the majority of the reports were made by the victims themselves. And still under the last quarter of 2019, it took a little over a day for these reports to get returned and available to the requesters. We do track although not required, we do track the forms of how the requests are being made. The majority of reports requests are made in english, but also the spanish population has also been using the forms to request these forms. Going forward in 2020, we will get back on schedule where the First Quarter of 2020, that report will be delivered to the commission on april 15 and then subsequently the following squad car quarter of july. Any comments . Vice president. I just want to say, i was on this working with commissioner hamisaki and this is fantastic. This is both helpful information to have and its great to see how quickly the department is filling these requests and helpin
Ill ask the chief to give his report first, and then we will call line item 2 next before we move on to the d. P. A. Report. So with that, i turn it over to you, chief. Thank you, president , Vice President , commission, and executive director henderson. I start off todays report with a summary of our crime trends for the week. As of january 13, our overall crimes are down 21 year to date. And i just want to remind everybody we are very early in the year, so these percentages usually change pretty drastically through the year. With that our total property crimes are down 23 . Weve continued to have fewer reported incidents in all categories, with the exception of arson which has increased 22 year to date. Our burglaries are down 31 and our auto burglaries are down 21 when compared to 2019. When compared to year 2017, were down 38 . Our total Violent Crimes are down. Specifically drivewaysing homicides, we had no homicides this past week, and a total of one for 2019. That represents a 2
Reports were made in person and the majority of the reports were Domestic Violence related. Again winning no reports were denied. And again, the majority of the reports were made by the victims themselves. And still under the last quarter of 2019, it took a little over a day for these reports to get returned and available to the requesters. We do track although not required, we do track the forms of how the requests are being made. The majority of reports requests are made in english, but also the spanish population has also been using the forms to request these forms. Going forward in 2020, we will get back on schedule where the First Quarter of 2020, that report will be delivered to the commission on april 15 and then subsequently the following squad car quarter of july. Any comments . Vice president. I just want to say, i was on this working with commissioner hamisaki and this is fantastic. This is both helpful information to have and its great to see how quickly the department is f
homeless is a temporary move, where the person returns shortly after they re removed by police or they re moved across the street. and then this third point is around an inhumane response. according to the declaration of human rights, everyone has a right to an adequate state of living, including housing. in the u.s. 3.5 million people experience the trauma of homelessness each year. a police response can be inhumane. this is not blaming individual police officer r s, but it s inhumane because of the structural response to the approach. police officers don t have access to housing and treatment. at short, at best, they can move people along. for unhoused people, so much of their time is spent finding a place they can rest out of the way. a place with little stability. when police officers move them, that little bit of stability is rocked. that may be worth it if it s leading people out of homelessness. when it s just moving people from block to block, it can exacerbate behav