Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240711

Thank you, and as always, if i could ask for the commissioners to mute their microphones. If you would like to be heard, just put your name in the chat box. Members of the public who are dialing in, i would ask you to please mute any background noise so that we can hear you and there is no feedback. The dial in number is [indiscernible] 0001, access code 146424 [indiscernible]. You will have two minutes for Public Comment. Please call the roll. [roll call]. You have quorum. [indiscernibl [indiscernible]. Thank you. Im getting a lot of feedback, so im going to ask everyone again to please mute your microphones. Please call the first line item. Line item one [indiscernible] meeting of september 16 [indiscernible] of 2020. Do i have a mover . [indiscernible]. Second. Public comment [indiscernible] regarding the adoption of minutes. Please call 41565 0001, access code 1464241219, press pound, pound again and then hit star three to raise your hand. For members of the public that are already logged in, please press star 3 now if youd like to make Public Comment on line item one. There is no Public Comment. Is anyone else [indiscernibl [indiscernible]. A lot of background noise, yes. [indiscernible] and i dont know if youre able to mute people on your end, sergeant, but that might be helpful. Is that better . It sounds better to me, yes. Okay. All right. On the motion for the adoption of minutes, commissioner how do you vote. Yes. Commissioner elias. Yes. Elias yes. Commissioner . Yes. [indiscernible] how do you vote. [indiscernible] and i have not reviewed the minutes thoroughly. [indiscernible]. Yes. Commissioner, unfortunately under the charter were not allowed to recuse yourself. [indiscernible]. Commissioner cohen is aye on the adoption of the minutes. And commissioner taylor you have five yes. Okay, please call the next line item. Line item two, reports for the commission. Chiefs report. Provide an overview of events occurring in San Francisco. Major significant incidents, provide a summary of planned activities in advance. This will provide a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Discussion on activities determining whether the calendar for future needs. Presentation of the fdrb findings and recommendations and investigative summaries Third Quarter 2020 and presentation of family [indiscernible] through june 30, 2020. Okay. [indiscernible]. Good evening. Hi, president taylor, commissioners. Welcome back, commissioner cohen, and congratulations. And good evening, chief of staff hawkins. Ill start the presentation with the crime trends for the week. Ill start with the not so good. We continue to see rise in burglaries year to date. We are 44 above where we were this time last year. I would like to say of note there was a significant arrest made in connection to several garage theft burglaries, which is one of our areas that we were really trying to focus on in the city. An arrest was made on october 30, and during that arrest and subsequent search warrant 18 bicycles and one scooter that had been reported stolen was recovered from this particular individuals residence. That brings a total of 15 suspects arrested over the past two months in connection with garage thefts. Our investigation [indiscernible] continues to work leads in those cases, and again, we are really trying to focus on the significant or individual that we identified because of their criminal history to be chronic offenders, and hopefully that will bring it down and make a dent in not having as many victims. I want to just remind our residents in the city please secure your garages, lock your bikes when you can, scooters, regardless of whether or not they are stored in the garage. We know how difficult it can be, and sometimes what we find is some residences are easier than others to victimize, so please secure your garages, lock your bikes, even if its in the garage. Please register your bike, and can you do that through sf safe, and if you go on their website, www. Sfsafe. Org you can register your bike online, and that really does make a difference when we recover stolen bicycles or if we come across a chop shop investigation when bicycles are registered we are able to return them to the owners. Unfortunately for the 18 that were recovered, we were fortunately for the 18 that were recovered we were able to return many to the owners. In terms of other property crime, we are continuing to add this portion to our year for burglary which was down 43 year to date in reduction of car burglaries when compared to 2018 were down 45 and when compared to 2017 when we were at our height we are down 53 . So again, same strategy, focusing on those that we believe because of their criminal history to be prolific, many of the individuals that we come in contact with are working in an organized fashion, and we are also trying to identify crews that are victimizing people in our city and addressing those crews. In terms of violate crime, we are down year to date 22 . However, as i have reported in Previous Commission meetings, we are up in homicides, and that is concerning. We have right now to date have 42 homicides which exceeds last years total. We ended the year in 2019 at 41 and we are already up to 42 with seven weeks left in the year. At this time last year we had 33 homicides. The good news is that we did not have any homicides or we have not yet had any homicides this month yet. There were five homicides in october, and of the yeartodate homicides, 22 of the 42 very cleared, which is 55 of this years homicides. Our overall clearance rate for the year is 71 , and that includes previous years homicides that have been cleared this year. Looking at this district, eagleside has the largest increase. They have gone from 2 in 2019 to 8 to yeartodate this year. Tenderloin has a 38 increase going from 8 last year to 11, and the majority of those homicides are firearmrelated homicides. In terms of gun violence, we are up 22 for the year. There have been 130 shooting incidents resulting in 135 victims of gun violence. 26 of those have been fatal, and 109 of the 135 have been nonfatal. We had five shooting incidents last week that caused injuries to five victims. In terms of the district stations, the districts with the largest increase in gun violence are tenderloin, which is a 110 , 10 last year, up to 21 this year. Eagleside is 100 increase, 8 last year and 15 year to date. Mission had 67 increase in gun violence, 9 compared to 15 this year and bayview has a 29 , 35 last year versus 45 this year. Central area and central district, Northern District and Southern District all have double digit decreases in gun violence. Central has a 53 decrease. Three this year compared to eight last year, and northern has a 40 decrease, six this year versus ten last year and southern has a 13 decrease, eight this year versus nine last year. In terms of significant events for the past week, a few things on homicide. We did make an arrest of three suspects from a 2019 homicide that occurred on december 20, 2019. In that case we had two victims in their vehicle near the Southwest Corner of leaven worth and ellis when the suspects vehicle pulled up next to them and opened fire striking the passenger who succumbed to her injuries. On october 27 our investigators served a search warrant at various locations in San Francisco and as a result three suspects were arrested. One of the suspects is booked for the murder, a gun was recovered in that with those search warrants, and that is good news in the arrest in that case. Other significant incidents this week are we made an arrest on a series that occurred in the Pacific Heights community over the past several months. On october 29 our Northern District plains clothed teams spotted the subject matching the person suspected in these crimes. A subject who approached females and then sexually battered them, touching or squeezing their buttocks and then fleeing from the scene. The officers identified a suspect who matched the description and actually made an arrest in this case after conducting a surveillance. We also used a decoy operation in order to bring this case to resolution. The officer and the decoy operation was placed out on the street in the area where the suspect had been seen or victimizing his victims. The suspect followed the decoy officer for several blocks, and when they reached the area of 3200 block of clay the suspect came up from behind and sexually battered the decoy officer. The suspect tried to flee and officers were able to apprehend him without incident and took him into custody. So that crime has been solved and hopefully we wont see other people victimized by this individual. Another arrest of note on yesterday, investigators from the San Francisco Police Department in conjunction with the oakland p. D. , the department of Homeland Security, a county and the sheriff and the unified Police Department of another area actually made an arrest on a two suspects, actually, who sexually exploited a number of students. These were internetbased crimes, and this [indiscernible] from the San Francisco Police Department with our internet crimes against children unit, also known as icac. In this investigation we determined that one of the subjects that created dozens of social media accounts across various platforms using false names and profiles. In some cases the subject pretended to be a minor engaged in chats with unsuspecting victims. Once contact was made, the victims were solicited for sexually explicit images and videos, and if the victim refused, the subject allegedly used means to extort victims, threats of physical harm, to either the victims or their families, and also to circulate photos obtained by other means at their school. By using software, the subject was able to determine the approximate location of the victims. The investigation revealed that eight minors ranging in ainge from 11 to 14 years old living in the area and utah were victims of this particular suspect. When search warrants were executed, devices and other materials were found that linked the subjects and his accomplice to these crimes. Due to the nature of the crimes and the area in which the crimes were committed, which was across state lines, the u. S. Attorneys office of the Northern District of california is lead on prosecuting this case. Again, the agencies who assisted were the San Francisco Police Department, the department of Homeland Security security, oakland Police Department and the unified Police Department of the greater salt lake area and utah. The next thing is just want to give an update on any incidents related to elections. I know there was a lot of anxiety, not only in our city, in our region, but across the country on potential unrest because of the election results. The good news is that we have not had anything in our city to date. There have been cities across the country that have had incidents, isolated incidents in several of the cities of unrest. Some violence and vandalism and the like, but we have not had any of that or experienced any of that in San Francisco. We did have one incident yesterday at a polling location that required sfpd response. In that case the subject showed up at two separate polling stations acting erratically. We were called. We actually responded at the second location, and that subject was located and actually arrested. He hasnt [indiscernible] locations and that caused some concern with many individuals. So we actually contacted him and arrested him. As far as demonstrations, there were there was one small demonstration today in front of a mission station. No incidents, no violence, not a large turnout, but it was uneventful and no problems there. At this time there are a few planned events for this weekend that we will be deployed for. We dont really know when the election will be officially called or a winner will be officially declared, so we will be deployed and staffed up until that happens, and then depending on what happens, when theres a winner declared, we will step up accordingly. So far so good. We are prepared for whatever comes our way as best we can be, and we are communicating with our local departments in the area, as well as our federal partners to make sure that that information is being communicated about whats happening elsewhere outside of San Francisco. So that is it for this portion of the report. If theres any questions from the commission . I see questions in the chat. Thank you. [indiscernible]. Next we have the activity. We have commander osullivan with the fdrv findings and recommendations, or deputy chief i cant see whos actually on. [please stand by]. Next slide please. Since the last presentation to the Police Commission, the in custody review board reviewed the following in custody death investigations. 15. 001, 16. 002, and 17001. Next slide please. In custody deaths, 15001. On april 3, 2015, bayview station officers responded to a call at 145 recording a trespasser. They contacted a male subject and placed him under arrest for an outstanding warrant. The subject was transported to bayview station and processed for booking. The subject was later transferred to the county hill number one to be subject stated, yeah, i do want to kill myself. The untake nurse was cleared by the Psychiatric Emergency Services at San Francisco again hospital. The subject became agitate and starting yelling. San francisco sheriffs deputies held down the subject and continued to resist. The subject was take on the the ground by the deputies and restrained by continued his resistance. The officers on scene requested medics to respond to sally port. The medics and officers on the scene held the resisting subject by holding him down. There was no reportedable use of force by the San Francisco Police Officer. When the medics arrived, they injected the subject with perced, a sedative. And one sfpd officer rode with the medics. While envut route, the subject stopped breathing and had no pulse. The medics began c. P. R. And there was a pulse. The subject was admitted to the intensive care unit. On april 6, the subject was pronounced deceased. At the conclusion of the investigation and the recommendation of the internal Affairs Investigation, we found that the officers acted in policy with regards to use 5. 01, the use of force, 6. 14 the psychological evaluation of adults, and 8. 12 incustody death policy. Next slide please. Incustody death 16. 002. On june 18, 2016, about 9 24 in the evening, tenderloin station officers were dispatched to 41 jones regarding a male subject with a nice attempting to force his way into the building. Upon arrival, officers conducted an investigation and subsequently arrested the subject and take on the tenderloin station for processing. That station was subject indicated to require Blood Pressure medication and therefore was not placed in a holding cell. About 1 26 in the morning on june 19, the subject was transported to the county jail number one. At the county jail the intake nurse refused to admit the subject due to the high Blood Pressure. He was transferred to San Francisco general to be medically cleared prior to booking. The subject was treated, provided a prescription for Blood Pressure medication and medically discharged. The officers later advised they did not know the medical staffed a ministered any medication to the hospital while he was at San Francisco general. While escorting the subject back to the patrol wagon, the officer was shaking and ambulatory but had some difficulty walking. The subject was transported back to county jail one about 4 5 an in the morning, upon his return to county jail one, the subject had difficulty walking and was sweating profusely and appeared confused and disoriented. The intake nurse medically refused the subject again and the worsened condition and the ambulance was requested. While waiting the ambulance, he was placed in a temporary holding cell. The subject stopped breathing and c. P. R. Was initiated. The ambulance transported the subject to San Francisco general where he was pronounced deceased at 6 19 in the morning. Based on the internal Affairs Investigation and the recommendations from the internal Affairs Investigation, it found that the officers acted in policy with regard to general order 5. 01, 6. 14, psychological evaluation of adults, 81. 12 incustody deaths. There were some policy violations that were found, but based on the investigation, those were found not to have contributed to the incustody death. Next slide please. Incustody death 17. 001. On march 11, 2017, mission station officers responded to just 2200 Market Street and restaurant. The call was regarding a male patron who was being aggressive and breaking windows and harming himself. The subject was being restrained by other patrons. The officers took over who was actively resisting and pleading from a cut to the wrist. He was still actively resisting in custody and he was kicking at the officers. The subject was placed in a position of recovery and moved to a seated position and he continued to resist the officers. The San Francisco Fire Department medics arrived on scene and administered a sedative to the subject and the medics were able to treat the lacerations. The subject was placed on a medical backboard and handcuffed and hobbles were removed. Soft restraints were applied to the subject and tired to the backboard to restrict the movement. The officer noticed the subject was tonight in responsive and recognized he had no pulse and was not breathing. The officers on scene immediately began to perform c. P. R. On the subject while he was take on the the ambulance until relieved by the medics. The subject was transported to San Francisco general and at the time the officers were advised the subject was in critical but stable condition. On march 24, 2017, the San Francisco general notified the San Francisco medical examiner that the subject deceased as of that day f the during the investigation by internal affairs found that the officers were in policy reviewed the use of force and 8. 12 the in. Custody deaths and 10. 11 with the body one camera that ewas worn. Active and criminal investigations that 180 o 5 and 20001 were recently heard at firearms discharge and these are the five remaining incustody deaths that have criminal or administrative investigations ongoing. And that is the end of the presentation. I have one question and i also see a question from my fellow commissioners. All these were found to be in policy, but was the cause of death determined for any of these . I do have for 17001, tiff medical examiners investigation determined that the subject died of complications of i cant say this word. Anoxic and it says encephalopathy due to methamphetamine exposure while under Law Enforcement constraint and obesity. The matter of death was ultimately deemed an accident. That was 17001. I dont have the other ones but i can get that information for you, commissioner. Commissioner elias . Thank you. I wanted to thank you for presenting on this. The question i had is with respect to the incustody death of 16002, you mentioned in the letter that the chief wrote dated september 1 which indicates with respect to the incident there was inpolicy but also an out of policy element to that incident which isnt reflected in the power point. I am still unclear to why because i was present during this fdrd and this one didnt sit well with me. But i am wondering why on the power point slide it is within policy and the chiefs letter says it is within policy and out of policy is first question. My oversight on that that the in policy is with respect to the officers actions that were investigated and reviewed as where the actions of the officers, did though contribute to the death of the subject. The out of policy findings were transportation search on two members. And during the investigation they found that those two policy violations did not contribute to the death of the subject. It was a search. It was a search policy. Okay. I will clarify future presentations include include the visual of the recommendations in policy and which ones are out of policy. I will put those in future presentations. Thank you. That would be helpful and if the mes findings like commissioner taylor indicated is also important because in this one particularly because there was an is search issue with respect to the contraband which i think also played a role in it, i think its all tied together. Right. I think that information is important, so thank you for that. And my second question is to the chief. With respect to your letter, i read your letter and in your letter it indicates that dcle suggests in the future the photographs of officers and subjects in the incidents be eliminated from the presentation in order to main tan confidentiality. However, these fdrb hearings are confidential, so what confidentiality is there to be concerned with . It is a closed session event, a closed session not hearing, but event, if you will, where all these individuals are present in the room. I am not sure what confidentiality issues he is speaking of. Can i chief, can i clarify that one . Go ahead. Please. Commissioner elias, it was not more of confidentiality, it was more of bias in that the fdrb should not see or should not be presented with a personal picture of a criminal history, so we wanted to remove that information from the Decision Making process of whether an officers actions were in or out of policy. It is a matter as a booking photo and removing that information that we felt that our dcle felt was not relevant to the death, a persons criminal history or the booking photo. The way the letter is written is it indicates you wanted the criminal history omitted to eliminate bias toward the subject, but i didnt realize that also the pictures because during the hearings if you are referring to when they flash the picture on the screen. Correct. Of the subject. And the officer. Right. And so are you saying both officer and subject now there will be no photos . No photos will be portrayed when the officer will be portrayed in that the fdrb wants to see what the officer was wearing at the time of the incident. But for the subject, the picture and the criminal history is to be removed on all future presentations to remove any form of bias. Okay. And going back deputy chief, i heard the recommendation that the actual investigator presented because i have been to a few of these and it is very difficult it is like a game of telephone where there are a lot of specific factual issues that people have questions and unfortunately, they arent answered because the individual who conducted the investigation is not present. And they are unable to abc the specific questions. As you know, these reviews are very fact specific. And the policy and out of policy determination is really independent on specific facts. I think that is a well made suggestion and i would really encourage them or the department to adopt it. Absolutely, commissioner. As we go through these hearings and these reviews, were always looking at ways to improve the processes and make sure that all the information is presented and the people who or the investigators who have conducted the investigation are there so they can speak firsthand to a great level of specificity that somebody else cannot. Thank you. I appreciate the presentation. Commission, dejesus . So thank you. The coroner was one of the questions i was going to ask as well. I also want to clarify when you say 001 and 002, are we talking about from 2001 and 2002 . Are these that old . This is 15 is the year, commissioner. Thank you. That is it. And so let me ask you a question. In two of these it says that the medics came and gave some type of antianxiety type of drug and the people ended up dying. And that was interesting when you said that the coroner had methamphetamine in his system. I am just wondering if the drugs that they are giving them are contributing to the demise. That is, i guess, dr. Martin was with us in the room, and i dont remember specifically what he said, but there are studies out there and i guess it is the Research Study to further determine if it played a part in a persons death. I cant make that determination. Commissioner okay. And the coroners report, everyone just talked about why that is important and we can at least get some semblance or some idea of that. I also thaerd changes you discussed and that makes sense. Those are all the questions i have. Thanks. I have one followup question. I apologize. And that you were talking about not using photos which i think i agree not using booking photos, but the fdrb and theres a video that need to be shown and so we are only talking about booking photos for the subject, is that right . It is the photo but more importantly the criminal history. The criminal history should not be part or and it is not a factor of consideration. Got it. Okay. Commissioner . Thank you for the presentation. It is not a question but a follow up on commissioner dejesus that each of the subjects had been given perced and to find out how much from the Fire Department how much is given to each subject. Is it subjective . By height, by size, by weight . Its real interesting and thank you, commissioner dejesus, because that was at the forefront of my mind that we have folks in custody that are passing away and while the coroner may not say it is because of i dont see any other questions. So so dont let me stop you from that concludes that presentation. The next item is also the presentation of the commissioners and this is the july 1312020 quarter record with family code 6228 and the incident report release. If you have the document and 89 were related and with the the highest number and 86 within six to 10 days. And the vast majority were 65 for domestic violence. To page two, we will notice that we did have some delays in three of the cases. And one of the cases was due to our inability to get the proper identification from the requester so that took a little time. That still occurred within six to 10 days. The other two requests were reports or requests made on the wrong box checked and one was a Law Enforcement request and not the 6228 and another request did not include the case number to find the requests and the case number and read the report and later find out that it was a 6228 request the what we have done as the improvement to scan for the 6228 request when they come in, but now we will review all requests that they check the wrong box and missing information, we can that is from the with the turn around time is less than two days and the vast majority are made in english with two made in spanish. Thank you. I dont see any questions from my fellow commissioner. With that, tauch for your presentation. Next line item. 2b, dpa directors report. It will be limited to a brief description of dpa activities and announcement. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future Commission Meeting. Presentation of the monthny statistical report september 2020. The regular staff and so far this year we are at 682 cases up this year. And this is up from the same time last year where we were at 631 cases. In terms of case thaven closed we have closed a number of cases. This year at 769 so far. This time last year we were at 541 so part of that number is reflective of the volume of cases from that is year and the increase in case this is year. We have currently 350 cases that are pending and open. This time last year we had 409 cases that were open. And in terms of cases sustained, we are at 37 cases this time last year we were 71. We have 33 cases whose investigations have gone beyond nine months. This time last year we had 311 cases that had gone beyond nine months. In terms of cases mediated, we have mediated 32 cases so far this year. This time last year we mediated 27 cases. This is a new section that has been added. We have currently in cases that are pending with the chief, 31 cases pending right now. And we also have 13 cases that are pending with a Police Commissioners themselves. We also have a case tonight that is in closed session. And my lawyers and team and star are here for that as well. And in terms of the outreach since the last Commission Meeting on the 27th, we hosted a virtual Mediation Division 101 for Community Meeting for community members. We also attended both the terrabell and the mission Community Meeting where we were asked to speak about dpa for the audiences that came to the meetings. And on the 29th we had our virtual mediation conference that was an allday conference for the folks that do mediation with our office and training. On the 30th of october, we had a Stakeholder Engagement meeting. That was with the youth commission. They asked us to come and make a presentation to them. And also on the 30th we dpa with the San Francisco youth defenders participated in a panel talking about knowing your rights and understanding the role of dpa with youth and children. Thats where we are so far. I think that the next line item is for the statistical report so im going to talk briefly about that as well. This is a separate line and a separate line item, but i wanted to articulate the information is for the september statistical report. In september, d. P. A. Received 511 cases this received 51 cases this year compared with 64 case in the same period last year. The september case total was 4 higher and from january to september t decrease is reflective of that month from january to september and received a total of 627 new cases compared with the 568 cases filled during the same period in 2019. And the september year to date case total represents an increase. That concludes my report. Also, we have a number of my staff here available to call in for the agency or need help, we have folks on the call that are available and the individual case for closed session this evening. Thank you, director. I appreciate the new background that you have for us tonight. And i dont have any this is the first time i have done this at home and it didnt work here. I had to call Sergeant Youngblood and it was all terrible. But it worked. Here i am. Next line item. Sergeant youngblood. Line item 2c, commission reports. Commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether the calendar any of the issues raised for future Commission Meeting. Commission president s report, commissioners reports and commission announcements and scheduling o f items identified for consideration at a future Commission Meeting, action. Okay. Please call the next line items. Next line item is Public Comment on line item two. To make comment, call 41565 a0001 with access code 1464241219 and hit pound and pound again. For those logged in press star 3 and raise your hand to make Public Comment on line item 2. So far we have one caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Commissioners, my fame is francisco decosta. And i was paying attention to the report by the chief. And the longer presentation that looks like something as if you are in a perry mason type of court case. I think that shouldnt be done as a presentation because the viewers at home cant even read what is being presented. So its just boring. So to the commissioners and to the chief, nobody is going to Pay Attention to you all because in order to Pay Attention to you all, you have to know something about the deliberation. You have to know something about the needs assessment. None of which was given in this one hour that we spent just listening to you all babbling around. And downtown and see all sorts of crimes. You come home and gunshots. And we know that our youth now have more guns than they ever had before. What do we hear in this presentation . Nothing about the safety of the people who pay their taxes. So why do we have commissioners . What type of policy making, deliberations are you involved with that improve our quality of life in San Francisco . People are leaving San Francisco in droves. Not because of the jobs. Not only because of the pandemic, but because of the safety. Thank you. I would just remind the public that for every Commission Meeting there is an agenda posted and along with an agenda on the Commission Website, there are the supporting materials for every presentation that you see, every document and every presentation that is discussed will generally have supporting materials that are available to the public if the public is interested in seeing them. I want to make sure that everyone knows that. Thank you. Any other callers . Yes. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Good evening, commissioners. Chief scott and executive director henderson. U am public defender and would like to register my agreement to rule 19002 out of policy. We should speak plainly. The shooting was illegal not just out of policy. For the public, the shooting involves and offduty officer who pulled the gun out and shot at a civilian because he was afraid of the person who had driven past him was trying to shoot him. I like the public am eager to find out what will happen here. This incident occurred more than a year ago. Why had it taken to long to reach the conclusion . It is obvious that the officer was excessive. It is important to note that the officer did not save the man with a gun but held something shiny. How many black and brown men died when officers saw something shiny and feared for their live when the men werent armed . The larger point is why is the officer not identifyed . Under California Law the record relating to the incident involving the discharge of a firearm at a person as the fdrb report clearly is no longer public it is public and no longer confidential. There is no reason to deidentify the officer. And even if some statutory exception is applicable, the department should should articulate that as a matter of policy. It is important to inform the public to what is happening. Thank you. Thank you. Any other callers . We have one more caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Can you hear me . Yes. This is paulette brown, and i am calling as usual concerning my son who was murdered august 14, 2006 and just hearing the chief saying that there have been 42 more homicides and half of them havent been solved. They caught them, but have they been convicted . I am still thinking about my son with the unsolved had had. As a mother, again, its been 14 years. And even though i am not in front of your faces right now, i am looking at you on my zoom thing and it is just im just wondering what else can we do to solve these unsolved homicides . For mothers like myself, so that we can have some kind of closure. I dont have any. I want to keep bringing my sons memory to the Police Commission so that no one will ever forget that i am still fighting so hard for my son to get justice so that my family can kind of settle somewhere. But i am just hoping that and i did speak with sergeant, agent, special agent kobe millstrong, and i will bring that up in the other Public Comment because i only have two minutes. But just if you could give another shout out about my son, i appreciate it. Thank you. The material and the flyers have been provided to the commission and are posted in the Commission Website in the 30d 30day correspondence. It is 4155754444. Those who saw the Police Commission know that she is is before us week to week. Please call that line. Thank you. There is no more Public Comment. Okay. Next line item. Line item 3, discussion and possible action to adopt a resolution urging the board of supervisors to authorize the chief of police to do retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of 185,242 from the California Commission on peace officer standards and training, post, for the project period beginning on october 15, 2020 and ending june 30, 2021. Discussion and possible action. Presenting is going to be director patrick. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioner scott, director henderson. I am the chief Financial Officer for the San Francisco Police Department. There are two resolutions that we are requesting commissioners approve for tonight. The first one is from the California Commission on Police Officer standards and training. The grant will be used to help develop and certify a limited English Proficiency course. Under a discipline environment. There are approximately 22 of San Francisco residents who have limited English Proficiency. Statewide this percentage is approximately 19 . With the grant funds, this course is certified and the Training Course will be made available to other Law Enforcement agencies throughout the state. And with that, if there are any questions from the commission, i will do my best to answer. Are there questions from the fellow commissioners . Do you want to go on the next one . And we can take a vote on this one. Whatever is easiest. I know that you are sharing a chair. So to present them both and then we will vote on them individually so you dont have to keep switching. Sure. The next resolution is from the California Department of parks and recreation from the division of boating and waterways. The grant will help pay for a thermal imageing camera and will replace an inoperable thermal imageing camera on our marine vessel. The existing camera has raeched the end of the useful life and is currently inoperable. And so this grant will help pay for its replacement. The equipment would be used to help locate search and rescue victims that may be located in water and californias operational safety where there might be poor visibility. And with that, if there is any questions on this resolution, i will do my best to answer them. I dont see any questions on this resolution either. So maybe that makes sense for Sergeant Youngblood to come back and we will take a vote and Public Comment on each item. I would like to read the line item into the record. Of course. That is last one that was just presented was line item 4, which was discussion and possible action to adopt a resolution urging the board of supervisors to authorize the chief of police to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of 101,859 from the state of California Department of park and recreation, division of boating and waterways, for the sfpd marine unit for the project period beginning october 1, 2020 and ending september 1, 2021. Discussion and possible action. So for line item 3, i need a motion. Sergeant youngblood, line item 3 . Motion is to accept the resolution. Do i have a second . Second. All right. On the motion to accept the grant, commissioner dejesus. Will we take Public Comment . You are correct. For members of the public that would would like to make Public Comment on line item 3, 4155550001, access code 1464241429. And hit pound and pound again. For those connected, press star 3 right now to comment on line item three. And there is no Public Comment. Okay. All right. The motion to accept the grant for 185,242 on post training. Commissioner dejesus. Yes. [roll call vote] that passes with five yess. Lets move to the next line item. Line item four, we will need a motion and second. Motion. So moved. Second. Okay. Public comment . Members of the public that would like to comment on line item 4, dial 4156550001. Access code 1464241219, pound, and pound again. For members that are logged on, press star 3 to raise your hand if you would like to make Public Comment. Do you have a question, commission sner we can take it after we vote, though. Okay. I see no Public Comment, commissioners. All right. Call the vote. [roll call vote] on the motion to accept the grant for 101,859. You have five yess. Motion passes. Next line item, please. All right. Commissioner. It is all good. I meant to do it when the c. F. O. Was there and might be for chief. Just because of my curiosity, who writes these grants for us . Is it i cant remember her name. Is it kathrin . Who writes the grants and proposals. That is cfo youngs shot and we have a grant person that handles grants. Sometimes it depends on the grant. For instance, the grant that was written primarily by director and you all remember that grant we talked about with director sutton with the crime strategies update. That was written by director sutton with the unit and so really depends on the grant. And if there is a particular subject matter and expertise that is needed to form that portion to get the grant at whatever level it needs to be for competitive consideration. Gotcha. Thanks. And commissioner, i think on one of these at least the l. E. P. Grant Training Division i believe played a big role in the writing of that actual grant. It just depends on the grant and what is needed. Okay. Thanks. All right. Next line item. Line item 5, discussion and possible action to adopt revised Department Order. Action. Who is our presenter for this line item . Its me, Vice President taylor. Good evening. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioner, chief scott, director henderson, members of the community. I am captain james david and i will be presenting on Department Order 6. 19 victim of Violent Crime notification. I will give you a brief overview of the general order, some of the changes we made, acknowledge the members of the working group and take any questions. The general order with the it nos at district stations. Updates and changes and updated name and address changes for the Victim Services division of the district attorneys office. Noting that the San Francisco we passed a copy of the Violent Crime notification to the department general order so that officers will associate the form with the general order. At this time i would like to thank the department of Police Accountability to recognize the working group for the valuable time assisting the San Francisco Police Department. And the working group consists of dr. Geena rodriguez, chief of Victims Services and maria renoso. And Victim Services and the lead advocate for the homicide team. And the supervisor for the victims Services Division and street Violence Response Team for the San Francisco Police Department. And tenderloin housing clinic, and then director stephanie felder, San Francisco department of health and crisis services. Just like to say one of the main goals of the working group was to make sure that victims of Violent Crime were aware of and getting referrals to the services and resources they need. This is a positive step toward that goal. I will ask for a motion. Is there a motion . I was trying to type in my name, but that is okay. I will make the motion. I really am happy for the work that you are doing that is so important and that the victims and get them all the help we need and do the Victim Services and help with the Police Reports and do whatever you need to do and thank you for you and the task force for doing this and i move that we adopt this. Thank you. Can we get Public Comment . For members of the public that would like to make Public Comment i think director henderson, is he tries to speak . Is he . I dont see anything. Im sorry to interrupt you, Sergeant Youngblood. You have to put your name in the chat. I dont see everyone on the screen at the same time. We dont have it all together with this app on the phone that i am doing. I am fine. It was a mistake. All right. Public comment. Call 4156550001. And access code 146424. For members already on line, press star 3. It looks like there is one caller. Hi, caller. You have two minutes. Two minutes. I think you need to be more welcoming of public feedback. I am a disabled senior and pounced on by several officers while quietly standing in the checkout line at safeway during senior hour. My crime . I was wearing a small backpack. I had shopped at this safeway for 30 years. The police dragged me out of the store by my feet on my back. The officers could not even deescalate a calm situation. The Police Report said that i had been escorted out of the store. No mention of the police use of force. And some might say that is a coverup of the fact that Excessive Force is in use. The report also didnt mention the actions of the most aggressive officer, simply saying that he was present. This was pointed out to the d. E. A. Cha concluded that this was proper conduct. And apparently there were no corrective actions whatsoever and that is the primary concern of mine. If there should be any discussion on this matter, i would ask that it remain anonymous. This all came about because the store manager had it in her brain that the mayor prohibited backpacks in stores. That led to Excessive Force by police. I probably have been considered a friend of the police up until this incident. Thanks. Thank you, caller. Thank you. Any more Public Comment . There is no more Public Comment. Next line item. Is general Public Comment. At this time the public is welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes that are not on the agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction. Did we vote on we did not vote on the dgo. And the caller got off topic. Am i missing that . And we need to vote. There is a motion and a second. And that could have been Public Comment for the dgo and ended up it was not. So lets call the roll for the vote for 6. 19. On the motion to adopt 6. 19. Commissioner dejesus . Yes. Good catch on that one. Elias . Yes. Yes. There is a lot of feedback. Yes, i am. I cant even hear you. I am voting yes. Vice president taylor, how do you vote . Vice president taylor is a yes. We have 6 yes 5 yess. I want to thank the department and all the members for the hard work on the d. G. O. It is very important as commissioner dejesus mentioned. Now the next line item. General Public Comment. At this time the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on the agenda but are within the subject jurisdiction of the commission pef Neither Police nor d. P. A. Personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. Comments or opportunities to speak during Public Comment period are available by calling 41565 a0001 and access doed 1464241219. Press pound and pound again. Press star 3 if you wish to make a comment. This will advise the moderator that you wish to speak and add you to the queue. You may submit Public Comment by emailing the secretary of Police Commission. Or written comments may be sent Via Postal Service to the Public Safety building at 1245 third street San Francisco, california, 94158. Members that are logged on, press star 3 now to raise your hand. And we have three Public Comments. Okay. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Hello. I am a volunteer with wealth and disparity in the black community. I am regarding our founder Felicia Jones who sent a letter i think via emailed to you and was resent this past week requesting the commissioners to meet in person to discuss sfpd reform and to work on the issue for many years and to work in collaboration but is concerning that you have not heard back from you. And very much like to see that change immediately. Thank you. Thank you. Next caller. Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners, d. P. A. Henderson, chief scott. My name is Lashon Walker and i am a steward and resident of the bayview. I couldnt get myself unmuted fast enough during chief scotts report, so it is not directly related to the report but i do have a question. I would like to know if during future reports you could share some information about foot patrols, particularly for the bayview. There used to be some foot patrol in the bayview and some of those officers were promoted out and they dont then get replaced. I would like to know if theyre going to be replaced and also if there is any data on any visual deterrent that a foot patrol might provide with actual Crime Statistics year to date related to corridors particularly where you dont now have foot patrol. Looking at crime data when you have foot patrols and looking at crime data when you dont have them. When you have them and dont have them. I would like to see those numbers because were missing that now in the bayview. I would like to have to find out if that can be presented at a future agenda item so that i can attend and hear the response to the information request that i am making. Thank you. Thank you very much. Chief, is that something that you could be prepared to present on at the next meeting or should be scheduled for a later date . Those are excellent questions. We can do that for the next meeting. I have the answer to that now, but it is not on the agenda, so we can do it the next meeting. If i may, a question and followup. Just a point of order. [please stand by] that study is out there. Its actually online for anybody who wants to look at it, and i can talk about that in more detail next week. Commissioner elias yeah, that would be helpful, chief, because we all get notifications when theres shootings and homicides, and in certain neighborhoods, we are concerned about that. So i know its resonated with me. So if you could present more on that in the next week, that would be good because wed like to hear more, so thanks, chief. And i see a very cute baby, but thats also not on the agenda, so well move onto the next line item if there are no other callers. Clerk we have one more caller. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk okay. You have two minutes. Yes, this is mrs. Paulette browns. I spoke with an officer, and i asked them about recanting about what they said about my son being in a gang. They said theres nothing that they can do because theyre reappealing. I asked him, does he have any kids, and he said well, he has a 13yearold boy. And i said, well, hes almost the same age. He said well, we werent trying to defame your son, we were saying he was affiliated. I said, whats the difference . I would go and take those mothers to church, and so then i would be affiliated. So were n he said well, were not trying to defend your son because he didnt kill anybody. I spoke with him for a half an hour. He said there was nothing he can do, and i was, like, then why am i speaking to you . But for that half an hour but the point is what im asking the commission is to, you know, if im asking if you can respectfully write a letter to the you know, the Police Commission write a letter to the department of justice and the Federal District court to, you know, correct the record about my son and he even said it. He said it to me, that your son were not defaming your sons character, but you did. I have all the records, i have all the files. And also, its in the complaint. I want to send you from the office of council of chief responsibility, 1800 pennsylvania avenue in washington, d. C. Ive already asked youngblood, you know, to give me an email, and i think he sent me one, so im trying to see if i can get this to you guys so i can get help. Clerk thank you, miss brown. Okay. Vice president taylor any other callers thank you, miss brown. Any other callers . Clerk one more caller. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Hi. I spoke under item 5. You know, that should be under item 6 in the agenda. I am not looking for an apology because i was dragged out of safeway wearing a backpack, but i would like some sort of explanation or are you just telling the officers, go ahead and do the same thing again . Thank you. Clerk we have no more Public Comment. Vice president taylor next line item. Clerk line item 7, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item 9 we low, closed session, including Public Comment on item 8, vote whether to hold item 9 in closed session. Members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on item 7 call 4156550001, enter the access code, press pound, and pound again. Members of the public who have dialed in, press , 3 now to make Public Comment on item 7. And we have no Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Next line item. Clerk line item 8, vote on whether to take item 9 in closed session, San Francisco administrative code 67. 10, action. Vice president taylor okay. Do i have a motion . Commissioner brookter yeah, so moved. Vice president taylor is there a second . Commissioner elias second. Clerk all right. On the motion to go into closed session, commissione session, [roll call] we do have a quorum, right . Thats correct. We can go into closed session shes back. Clerk all right. And commissioner cohen was aye. You have five yeses, commissioner. Vice president taylor great. Can w okay, call the next line item. Line item 10, disclose any or all discussion on item 9 held in closed session, San Francisco administrative closed session 67. 12a, action. Motion to not disclose. Second. Okay. The motion not to disclose. Commissioner dejesus, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner elias, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner cohen, how do you vote . Yes. How do you vote . Yes. President taylor yes, you have five yeses. All right. Public comment on for members of the public that would like to make Public Comment on line item 10, please call in. For those who are already logged on, please press star 3 now. No Public Comment . No Public Comment. Okay. All right. So do you want to go to line item 11 . [indiscernible]. Line item 11, adjournment, action item. Can i have a motion . Motion. Second. All right, on the motion to adjourn, commissioner dejesus, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner elias, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner rukter, how do you vote . Yes. Commissioner brukter, yes. Commissioner cohen . Aye. Taylor how do you vote . Yes. Vicepresident taylor is yes. You have five yeses. All right. Have a good night, everybody. Thank you