Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171210

Even if we were to immediately reduce greenhouse gases. We are committed to climate change. It is important for us to begin adapting to climate impacts. This is the first year the mta Climate Action contains adaptation areas there are five of them. Education capacity and communication vulnerable, plans and policies and partnershipses and collaboration. We are working with the City Partners on conducting the Vulnerability Assessment of the entire Transportation System and begin to build a more resilient Transportation System that is important. If you think about the important transportation corridors on the shoreline this is really important work in the years ahead. A transformation of the transportation sector is important. There are few cities as well positioned as San Francisco in large part because of the investments in the transit is system and the investments better Market Street and the sprt to pay climate dividends in the years ahead. Our dense and diverse land use and connected neighborhoods allows us to be a climate leader. Our public is quite supportive of environmental and sustainability goals. This strategy it willtay policies and projects and sustained leadership. That concludes my presentation. I am happy to take questions. Thank you very much. That is important work that we are doing and it is so heartening to see that San Francisco has come such away. We still have a ways to go. I am particularly pleased to see that the adaptation is starting to be a bigger piece of it because as other cities have learned if we are not ready for what can happen it is a complete mess. Any questions or comments. I want to say this is great work and i am glad to see we contribute less than 2 to the emissions. It is amazing. We do very well. This is what we should show at everyone of our hearings to get more people to take transit. I also wonder the Climate Summit is here next year in San Francisco. Are we doing anything that highoit the work we are doing . It is amazing when people talk about the growth and development. People perceive that there are greater levels of pollution. They understand the New Buildings are so much better than previous for climate purposes it is a good reminder when we talk about consolidation and the overall impact this needs to be part of the language when we look at a change to help people ride buses and ride bikes and walk. We need to include that as one of the big reasons to do things quickly and safely and efficiently on that note i think what this strategy should you choose to adopt it today suggests is that the mode shift goal when tim mentioned the goal of 50 is the goal that you established when we put into place our current Strategic Plan in 2012, we are going to discuss the next plan at the retreat in january it will beg the question if 50 is good enough. In the strategy it is reaffirming the longer term goal that 80 sustainable mode share. 50 is great and we met the goal more quickly than we thought. Holding at 50 doesnt get us to where we need to go. One of the Big Questions we need to contemplate for the next plan is what is the next interim step that we need to take . I dont think we have Public Comment. Before i ask for a motion for approval i will remind us if we approve this we need to hold ourselveses to it in future actions as we continually remind ourselves we need to hold to vision zero goals we need to hold ourselves to Climate Action strategy as well. Motion to approve. That concludes the meeting for today. That was a long meeting i appreciate you sticking with us. We are adjourned. We are back on the record in open session. You still have a quorum. Please call the next item. Item 10 discussion on item 9 held in closed section. I move not to disclose. President turman second. On the question arent we prohibited from disclosing this no matter if we want to or not. We have to make this motion. President turman moved and seconded all in favor. Any opposed . All right. Next item. Item 11 adjournment. President turman members of this commission tonight we close the book on the commission in 2017. We are concluding our calendar for the year and we will be back on january 10th. It has been a challenging year, it has been a hard year. But we accomplished much and there is still a lot to do. Lets work as productively together as we have been able to do in the past. I look forward to working with all of you in 2018. 2018 in one capacity or another. And i thank you for all of your time and attention to the commission and to the goal also of serving the people of the city and county of San Francisco. I want to thank you and the commissioner for your leadership. It is a difficult year. We do what we have to do. I want to thank you for your hard work. And we hope you get well. Thank the chief, too. All in favor of adjournment. Aye. I will make a motion to adjourn. Second. I vote no. I will go with the majority. President turman all in favor. Any opposed. Thank you. We will see you on january 10th. Can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [ pledge of allegiance. President turman okay. Clerk president ure man, id like to call roll. President turman okay. [ roll call. ] clrk clerk president ure man, you have a quorum. Also with us is the police chief and the interim director of accountablity, paul henderson. Thank you very much, secretary kilshaw. President turman members of the public, welcome to the december 6, 2017 session of the Police Commission meeting. Well jump rite . Clerk item 1, request and file action. Request from the chief of police to accept 6,000 in gifd cards from target to help 40 under privileged and disadvantaged children. President turman commissioners, are there any questions or comments on this particular consent item . If not, ill move in favor. Move. All in favor . President turman any opposed. Thank you. Next item, please. Clerk [ inaudible ] presentation of safe place initiative. Good evening, chief scott. Good evening, commissioners. Commissioners, president ure man, Vice President mazzucco. Ill start this week with crime and then talk about some significant events that have happened over the past week. Start off with our homicide rate. I know thats really been a huge issue for us this year. We are at 56 homicides year to date. Last year, we were at 50. We ended up 2016 with 58 homicides, so we have seen a downward trend in homicides in the last couple of months, and we are hoping that we can hold the ground to keep from having an uptick by the years end. In our sheetings, we are actually down 8. 4 from yeartodate. This time last year, we had 152 shootings year to date, last year, we had 166, so its about 15 less than this time last year. So again, thats a good sign, and i think weve deployed some Good Strategies to try to keep the homicide rate at bay for the remainder of the year, so we have three weeks left to do that. There are some significant at least one significant. We had an arrest on a homicide that occurred on september 6th of this year. It was a stabbing, homicide with a knife. We had a suspect that was arrested on the 28th of november. His name it gregory speech. Hes an African American male, 35 years of age. He was charged he was booked for 187 c murder and charged with that offense, as well. So that is good news to report, and hopefully, that case will be prosecuted successfully. There is actually there was one significant event and that was a shooting at the 1600 block of sunnydale. One male was shot with life threatening youries. He is expected to survive. This thing happened at about 7 22 in the evening on december the 1st, and we do believe there may be some gang involvement in this particular crime, and so our Gang Task Force is investigating, and that happened in the i thingle district, and thats it for significant crime for the week. The most significant event weve had this week is an officerinvolved shooting that occurred this past friday, and ill read the details. On december 1st, 2017 at about 1 30 in the morning, San Francisco officers responded to the 1800 block of 3rd street regarding a carjacking. A female lottery employee was assaulted and sustained nonlife threatening injuries during the lottery. A second vehicle observed as a gold suv was at the scene and is believed to be involved in the lottery. State Police Officers saw the lottery vehicle and the suv traveling closely together in the bayview area district. The vehicle sped up and the vehicle was stopped in the area of ingelside and were detained. Officer pursued the suv and eventually an officer was involved in a shooting. Body cameras from the officers involved in this incident have been retrieved, and the area was canvassed for other video and evidence. The San Francisco Police Department robbery detail investigating the carjacking and the robbery, and the San Francisco Police Department homicide detail, along with the San Francisco District Attorneys Office, the San Francisco Police Internal Affairs Division and the office of police accountablity, and the office of the chief medical examiner were also called to investigate this incident. Anyone with any information about this incident is asked to call the sfpd tip line or text a tip to tip411, and begin the message with sfpd. You may remain anonymous. Tomorrow, we will have our town hall meeting at 1800 oakdale. Itll be at 1 00 in the afternoon involving our practice at town hall, which we try to have it at the same time the shooting occurred, unless it happened in the morning, so we will have that at 1800 oakdale, and its open to the public. Police, im going to ask you to schedule that town hall to sometime in the evening. 1 00 p. M. Will not give the public enough time to attend that meeting, especially in the middle of the day. So please work with your staff to come up with a 5 00 or 6 00 p. M. Start time, please. We will fulfill that request but it might put it off to another day. President turman i would rather put it off to another day than not have the public have access, so thats fine. And the other events this week is Traffic Safety operation plan for president turman could you hold one second before you go further, chief. Commissioner d commissioner dejesus, is this along the same line of what you just said yes. I think its important that the community and the public be able to go, and so id ask that it be moved from 1 00 in the afternoon. President turman thank you. Chief of police, please proceed. Thank you. The police will conduct a Traffic Safety operation on december 12th, 15th, 18th, and 28th that will focus on bicycle and pedestrian safety. Over the past three years, the department has identified areas where significant numbers of pedestrian and bicycle related collisions have occurred and responded by deployed additional officers to those areas in an effort to prevent deaths and injuries. Special attention will be given focus on the following allegations speeding, failing to signal for righthand turns, as well as any other dangerous violations, and that is the my report for this week. President turman thank you, chief. Did you want to call the next item on your list, chief . Yes. So we have commander david lozar who will make the next presentation. President turman good evening, commander. Good evening. Members of the commission, chief scott, im david lozar from the police chief commission. Im here to speak to you and present to you a new program and initiative that were initiating in the San Francisco Police Department called the Safe Place Program, and officer navarros going to get that up on the screen here. So briefly, ill just give you the background what our objective is, the implementation and our key points, our goals, and plans moving forward with the Safe Place Program. So a little bit of on the background is that theres an officer by the name of james ritter in the seattle Police Department, and in 2015, he created the Safe Place Program in seattle, and it was essentially created to address the Lgbt Community issues president turman weve had this part of the presentation. Can you get to what were doing . Yes. Okay. Heres our plan, and i just will say this in 2013, the San Francisco Police Department under chief sur started a similar initiative, but it was just relegated to police stations and the will Lgbt Community. Were starting this in january. Well have an officer who was be engaged in the liaison division. Were going to message this program through bill boards and press conferences and social media and any way possible to get the word out. Weve created our own symbol to recognize San Francisco safe place initiative. Thats new branding decals, but a 6 by 6 sticker on the window. Anyone whos willing to participate, theyll get a little bit of training and well be grateful for their assistance with the public. As you know, the goal is to help the public, anybody is in need of Police Services, if theyre fearful, if they need help, they will see this sticker, they will see this symbol, and they know they can go into a business and be helped. Our phases will be in four phases. One will be schooled, followed by community facilities, followed by businesses, followed by faithbased organizations, and of course were rebranding our own brand. Is essentially, the plan, were going to exceed the seattle Police Departments model. Were redesigning the logo. Our Pilot Program will begin on february 1st, 2018, in the mission and the bayview districts, and then, based on surveys, and our interaction with the public, well make adjustments to the program and essentially roll it out citywide by the fall of 2018. In terms of the Community Engagement division and the tasks, were going to look for Grant Funding and other federal grants and donations to roll this out. Were going to do internal training with the department by putting out a bulletin, letting every Police Officer know that we have this program. Were going to work with our Community Officers at mission and bayview. We need their support and officers and buyin to roll this out in two districts, and were going to have the officers on foot beats and have every officer we can to promote the program. Each station will be marketed, and were going to get Success Stories on how it works. Well put it on our department website, and well promote it any possible way that we can. I know tonight i thanked you for approving the 6,000 grant from target. Thats for another program, but target now has agreed to provide 2,500 to help us kick this program right away. Thatll be a consent item that comes to you down the road for approval. On the last page, id like to reference the decal, if you have it in your handout. Thanks to officer Yolanda Williams and tory grady. Each part of the star has a symbol compassion, justice, honesty, integrity, respect, and this purple star will be placed, four by six decal, in the windows of these businesses. Were very excited to roll this program out. Last note, id just like to note that we made changes to this presentation and powerpoint from the original one. Its been amended for the public that may have received it on the internet when the Commission Posted it last friday, and with that, ill take any questions that you may have. President turman commander lozar, i want to say, i meant no disrespect. Its just im sick and ive got a long agenda. I just want to get this. Its okay. President turman commander lozar, thank you for your dedicationtu dedication. President turman chief, do you have anything you want to say . I just wanted to say i thank officer lozar for putting this together. I just want to say i am so grateful that i am to have a program of this type in the city and keecounty of San Francisco, and i assure you were looking forward to making this a model that other cities will also want to tailor. President turman thank you very much. It should also be known that we took seattles program and modelled it outwards. Thank you for taking the first step. Thank you so much for your hard work. Commissioners, do you have any comments . Commissioner melara officer lozar, ive been waiting for this for a long time. I was involved in the initial conversations with the seattle program, and so i want to extend my help because when i we started talking about this here, bank of america, whos very involved in seattle, and has expressed interest in contributing here, so id ask you to follow up. Thank you. President turman commissioner dejesus. So thank you for expanding it. This just for lgbt or anyone . Its for anyone. Anyone who needs possible assistance, they need help. Theyll see this and know they can go into a business or school or faithbased organization, and theyll know they can g