Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 72215 20240622 : vim

[inaudible] welcome to the wednesday july 22, 2015 meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. First of all i want to apologize for being late but getting here from financial district proved more serious than i thought today. This evening i want to start off by letting everyone know that we will be adjourning tonights meeting in memory of scot of the Hayward Police department killed in the line of duty this this morning. [inaudible] call the first line item, please. Sorry. Excuse me, this is our meeting in the community. The Police Commission is always very enthusiastic about this meeting every month because it gives a time to come to the community, hear what is going on both the positive and negative and work arm and arm with the community to see what improvements can be done, what things we are doing right and what direction we should move in because it is our Community Meeting and we want to give folks tonight to hear who we are as well. My name is julius termen and the Vice President of Police Commission. Suzy loft us is not with us tonight. She is excused. During the day i am the Department Chair of the Labor Employment Group of the [inaudible] where i practice labor and employment law. Good evening my name is victor faung and happy to be here tonight and a resident of this police district. [inaudible] by day im the Deputy Director of api legal outreach. We are a non profit law firm in the 40th year. We provide Legal Service in domesting silence, immigration, elder abruce and representing the undocumented youth coming over from guatemala and other Central American nations hi, my name is sonia mulatta and kurg the day i work at Saint Francis hospital and on the faculty of San Francisco State University and live in this district on [inaudible] tom [inaudible] for the members of the commission and most Senior Member tonight until doctor marshall gets here. In the day im partner in a law firm and prior to that assistant District Attorney assigned to units 234cluding the gang unit. Went to private practice when i went to the commission. Why dont you start with the roll call president loft us is excused. Vice parenthesis dntsd therman here. Commissioner marshall is in root. Commissioner dejesus is excused. Commissioner wong, present. Also is deputy chief [inaudible] chief of police and director of nob naurb joyce hicks and mr. Vice president you do vaquorum. Thank you madam secretary. To start off with laej ladies and gentlemen of this is the Community Meeting and excited to hear flum community and will have substantial amount of for Public Comment but before we get to that well have a presentation by your district captain and there are a few lines of business we need to take care of ahead of time. With that can you call the line item, adoption of minutes for may 13, june,thry june 10, 24, and july 8. In the packets are the minutes sergeant just identified. Hopefy you had a chance to read through the minutes. Are there comment or additions and will entertain a appropriate motion i move to accept. Second. Sergeant kill shah is moved and second. All in favor . Opposed. Those minutes are approved as written. Item 2, consent calendar receive and file action. Request the chief of police to accept a donation och mego former poloty machine nob nub for use at the Police Academy valued at approximately 6 thousand dollars. Ladies and gentlemen, when the department receives or gives in excess of a certain amount, which i believe is 50 dollars, it comes upon the Police Commission to approve the acceptance of those gifts. In your packets should be information about this donation [inaudible] it is something he plan tooz donate to had academy. Chief [inaudible] do you have anything you want to add . Good evening Vice President therman and commission. [inaudible] i would like it add anything that promotes to the helths and well being of the officers allowing them to be healthy and at work and provide the services to the community is a benefit for the department and request you approve this gift to the department. Colleagues are there questions . Will the chief be doing pulotys or maybe yoga . Colleagues this item is on our consent calendar and there are no questions. All in favor of accepting this gift . Any opposed . Any abstentions. The action item is approved and thank tooz mr. Dean graufoes and the folks at 440. Item 3 report to the Commission Discussion 3 a chief report review of recent activities. Good evening chief [inaudible] good evening. My name is deputy chief [inaudible] chief of staff for greg sir who is out of town. I want to thank captain [inaudible] for hosting us this evening. On to my report we had 2 shootings overthe past week, one of them in the Bay View District on 1600 block of south. This happened approximately 6 olock in the evening last wednesday. Officers respond today 1600 block of the south. The victim walked into sfgh to a gun shot wound. He stated he was walking to the store and shot by a unknown suspect. The Gang Task Force is investigating this case. The faultoge day there was a shooting in the mission 656 in the evening. Officers respondsed to haircern and cesar chavez and located a victim with a gun shot wond wournd to the chest, transported to General Hospital where he is in critical but stable condition. We expect him to survive. He was not interviewed due to the condition and [inaudible] is investigating that case. On to other matters within the department, another cit class graduated last thursday on the 16. We have a group of officer tooz the trained officer and one service aid and brings the total to 344 officers trained to date. We have cat officers assigned to all district stations in the city and believe on all watchs as well. Also, we have had a cadet graduation last week. 20 cadets graduated from a intensive Training Program at the academy. These cadets come from various neighborhoods in San Francisco and move to internship positions within the department. This program is designed to give youth hands on skill squz leadership development. These are [inaudible] volunteer cadets. The hope is to move them to cadet of the paying cadet program, the psa, Police Officers or other fields in the crimial justice system. The 244 Police Recruit class graduating august 13. There were [inaudible] we hope they make it through the remaining 3 week squz assigned to the district stations upon graduation. The next 2 weeks, august 3, 248 class will start. Well have another 50 Academy Recruits so we are rebuilding the ranks with the hiring we have been doing for the past year and a half. The new district boundaries went into effect sunday. Tenderloin being one of those [inaudible] previously assigned to the southern station is reassigned to the tenderloin station pick tupe continue their responsibility of paroling midmarket area. So far there have been no problems with the switch over. I wish to thank the commission for your work on this effort, the Controllers Office, the department of emergency management, the Public Safety Strategies Group and lieutenant walsh if you will talk about the district boundaries for their work on this project. Lastly, as you mentioned at the beginning of your remarks Vice President therman, hay word pd scott [inaudible] was killed in the line of duty. I contacted hay word pd to extend or condullances. Our thoughts and prayers are with them all. Thank you chief. Any comment or question s for the chief . Thank you chief. The only thing i would like to draw attention to is the departments doing a [inaudible] job of recruiting the classes and getting them through there academy. These are people we need and appreciate the effort going into the recruitment and training and getting these folks assigned. As for the cadet taxes it is excellent training and a excellent opportunities so grateful for the department for having this program as well. Thank you. Next line item item 3 b rks occ directors report, review of recent activities. Good evening director hicks. Good evening Vice President therman and member oz the commission. I am joyce hick jz the drecktder of the San Francisco office of citizen complaints. In addition here tonight is senior investigator shery fletcher. She is here in the audience. It is pleasure to be here this evening to speak with you about the functions of the office of citizen complaint. We are also known as the occ and the first oversight Law Enforcement agency in the United States only surpassed by chicago and new york over site agencies. Both may 2015 final report of President Obama Task force on 24 Century Policing and the march report from the Civil Rights Division of the department of justice of civil rights violation in ferguson acknowledge oversight of Law Enforcement and Community Oriented policing. The office of citizen complaints was created by a board of supervisors sponsored Charter Amendment and adopted by San Francisco voters in 1982. We became operational in 1983. We are 33 years old and we were originally an office of the Police Department under thenow we are placed under the direction supervision of the Police Commission. We are a independent agency and separate from the Police Department. The Police Commission is also a civilian body as the occ is. The occs function is assist in the Police Department in Building Trust with the community by being a bridge and also Police Policy. To that end, the occs mission is to insure Police Accountability by conducting fair, timely and unbiased investigations of Police Misconduct or negligentive duty and make recommendation on Police Policy and practices ask conduct mediation between the complainants and the policeism in California Law enforce mentd agencies have a peerjs to investigate complaints by member thofz public against Police Officers. In San Francisco the occ serves that office for the San Francisco Police Department. The occ staff is a Diverse Group of civilians who have never been San Francisco Police Officers, but some of them have been officers in other Law Enforcement agencies. The occ has 35 employees, the majority of who are investigator and the balance affthe staff consist of attorneys and support staff. Due to recommended budget enhancements, we are will soon have 39 employees. Ill now talk about occs investigation process. We conduct an investigation of complaints to find out what happened. We follow the evidence and interview the person who brought the complaint, the involved officers and civilian witnesses. We have supeen apower to compel testimony and obtain evidence. We obtain evidence from the Police Department in the form of Police Report and other dumeation generated by the department. In our investigations visit the site of the alleged acuns and gather by taking photographs a place of the persons in addition to other evidence gathering. Our aim is to complete our investigation within 9 months and with limited exceptions because of California Law we must complete our investigation within a year. When we complete a investigation we make a findsing of whether the complaint of officer violated any Police Department rules or local state or federal laws. The standard of proof the occ uses is the preponderance of the evidence. It means the property of the complaint of conduct that occurred is more likely than not, that is the probability is greater than 50 percent. When we conclude our investigation, if the occ finds a officer violated a rule, we will [inaudible] the chief can impose discipline up to a 10 day suspension. If it is our daurmation that the discipline would exceed 10 days then we would forward the finding to the Police Commission for action. Police commission has jurisdiction over cases where recommended jurisdiction is greater than a 10 day suspension. Another nungz occ performs is mediating complaints. We provide mediation as a altern trfb to discipline. Last year occ mediated 50 cases and that represents 7 percent of the 706 cases we closed last year. The Mediation Program allows complainants to resolve with the accused officer in person and it is dispute resolution format. The goal is bring the involved parties toort together in a effort for the parties to achieve a mutual understanding. We have a partnership with Community Board and San Francisco Bar Association and through that we are able to use neutral mediation or a Mediation Program. We conduct our mediation in languages other than english. The Mediation Program is a voluntary program which means officers and complainants must agree to mediate. Last year 94 percent of eligible officer participated in our Mediation Program. Ill also discuss statistics this evening of the cases we received in 2014 and how we resolved complaint. We received 728 complaint in 2014 representing 1 case increase over the cases we received in 2013. Last year we sustained allegations in 8 percent of the cases weclosed. We found proper conduct in 19 percent of the allegations we investigated and founds 3 percent of the allegations were unfounded or not true. The largest percentage of allegations we received were for unwarranted action followed by conduct reflecting discredit. Unnecessary force complies 8 percent of the allegationess and received 4 allegations of unnecessary force or 3 percent of the complaints. A majority of the allegations received were for negligented duty. About 50 percent of them. In looking at who the complainants are who file complaints with the occ, 26 percent of the complainants were african american, caucasian comprised 27 percent. Another 26 percent declined to state the race. Included Asian Americans at [inaudible] native americans and Pacific Islanders at 2 percent and 2 percent other. Occ staff has several languages included cantonese [inaudible] 2 of the investigators are bilingual because a lot of interviews we conduct are in spanish. For languages other than mentioned we obtain interpretation suvss. Last year we conducted case intakes [inaudible] 3 percent of our case intake, [inaudible] less than 1 percent. One in korean, less than 1 percent and one in russian. You can learn more about the occ on the website, www. Sfgov. Org occ. Finally we are located on the 7th floor of 25 van ness avenue near the corner of van ness and market. We are easily accessible by Public Transportation and receive walk in complaints regarding Police Conduct during week days mondayfriday between 8 a. M. And 5 p. M. We also receive complaints by telephone, email, mail, on line and fax. We have a after Answering Service for after hours complaints. In critical complaints after hours an investigator will meet with a complainant in very urgent situations. You can also file a complaint at the District Police station or in station personal elwill forward the complaints to us. If any of you would like additional nrfgz about the occ this evening i introduce senior investigator shery fletcher in the audience and can answer questions and also have brochured available. That concludes my remarks. Thank you colleagues any questions for director hicks . Thank you. Director hicks, i want to thank your and your department because know that you have had chal