Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171226

Can give you triple honors, again, its really been a fascinating just watching you and listening to everyone working and come in with the qualitative data in a way you can understand and review and see its astounding so really honor is ours, thank you. Commissioner. This might be a Monkey Wrench question, when i look at this has been a really clear and education at presentation and the question in my mind is when we talk about Contingency Planning why arent earthquake part of it because a lot of the work that we are going inform move forward with with the seismic retro fit and you know and moving like the departments, its really contingency important that no other natural disasters happen at this period of time. The last big earthquake is 1989 and theres no predictions when the next one is. Like has the department actually talked about having a contingency plan if like in three years theres a earthquake and that was before we actually moved any of the departments, you know, what would happen . Well, we consistently have drills in terms of how were going to respond to any kind of disaster and continuity of operations is part of our planning and we do practice what would happen if we did have any disaster of any kind and its hard to predict but continuity is a Core Foundation of prepared ness and so we have a plan and we consistently look at that plan and that means also success is of who is in charge if something happens if our own city recently so we are pretty prepared and they cant prepare for everything and everything but you have a operation of Operations Plans and they would look at services and how we responded so as an example if our Community Clinics wentz down we would probably open up the types of facilities and were getting pretty good at pop um clinics and so we have contin duty plan and the doctor is in charge of that and as part of the preparedness response. So i appreciate reminder in terms of Emergency Response and you have done a great job in like organizing and planning and im really curious not concerned yet but this gives me a lot of concerns and all the natural disasters and how it hit and in the east coast and how some of the really Emergency Services its paralyzed and it happened in puerto rico so that actually thought that i have in the questions that i have its kind of fiscal impact with that have and for us and its not so much ho how we respond to if and that is for us and how how we sort those impact. We should add on this list of federal and state or economic we should add that and you are right because that could happen Significant Impact that i dont think theres anyway to answer that question because etch type of event is its own type of event and for seen and theyre a whole a lot of potential risks that could come with that and as part of our disaster prepared ness exercising and working with the and on our process for the extent theres a disaster that allows us to recoup funds and federal or state governments and our structure and process ready to respond that so that is a financial upkeep initiative and that would be part of it and the seismic safety of our buildings is probably the most obvious mitigateing event if we did have a big seismic event that disabled one of our buildings and we had to move staff or services out that would be a financial cost and it would be productivity cost and it would also be really problematic if those people are supposed to be responding to other peoples emergencies so i dont know how to answer that question but she think about it as we plan for financial contingencys thats one of them. Out of the contingency plans that would be one that is still manageable for us you know, that is compared to some other possible scenario because of this years Political Climate and which includes relationships with north korea so i think that to really be able to plan some of these or have these discussions ahead of time like maybe im just like negative nancy, i dont know. Not at all. You know the city wide we do this process all the time several times a year we are doing different kinds of scenarios and so city wide we practice as well because the department is not going to be able to do this on their own the department of Emergency Management is the conveneer and coordinator of our responses city wide but what we can do shortly and one of our next meetings coming for the new year we can kind of go over some of the disaster trainings that we have had city wide and to be able to discuss that as you can remember fleet week is one of those areas that we do real major Disaster Response in terms of doing training and activation s around drills and so we can share the network city wide and the work on the department so just recently with our heat, we did have our hospitals being greatly impacted by that so there were conversations and some of us sitting and talking about what would happen if one one of our hospitals due to heat and the machinery going down what it terms in terms of evacuations in terms of the the hospital and so we can all practice, practice, practice, practice, you cant always predict but you can always be prepared so i think we can bring that forward to you and show you the work weve been doing in the last couple of years. And mr. Wagner said well add to that the risk and uncertain tease is a good point. Thank you. Yes, Commission Commissioner bern. Just with regard to the disaster planning, does that take in to account mutual aid from surrounding counties and are they in place . Yes, they have been in place and weve actually used them not so long ago and at times to bring on ambulances and a lot of times it goes the opposite direction so for north base buyers and weve sent hundreds of police over 100 individuals from our department so we have several more layers of mutual aid and everything from ambulance to we have one non profits that responded to the earthquake but never really got funded and is the Nonprofit Sector and how important they are during this period of time and we have them in memorandum of understanding so they can respond and as you know they are on the ground in their communities and we want to make sure of that so its. It sounds like we get a little discussion about the nerd program too and how well its doing in the neighborhood so its struggleing off and on and with that so well schedule a presentation on the Emergency Disaster Program as the Department Finds it has the or we have the time for it. Further questions at this point . I want to thank you for what everybody here has said is i believe in extraordinary presentation on behalf of the department here and i think the only changes from what you have heard before in trying to and agreeing with you to stay within the budgets in terms of increasing the budget well not increasing our percentage and i do not hear anybody thought we should change that guideline and we would continue with that and continue trying to of course meet the contingencys of the future and youve certainly built the reserves up even more than we had last time and im hopeing the general funds two types of general fund are much clear to people and it look at it and i in the little colors of railroads po art arent some are grown and some are yellow but i think its very important and people get confused. Would you like to provide any last words . Thank you for spending the afternoon with me. [laughter] so lets thank mr. Wagner and his staff. [applause] our next item 10 otherwise business. Commissioners do we have other, we are not going to have a meeting on january 2nd. Because of that some items have been pushed and mr. Wagner mentioned the capitol plan presentation bumped to march 6tn and take a look at the calender in front of you. Well be here, were doing the calender. We can move on to item 11 joint Conference Committee report there hasnt been a meeting since the last Health Commission meeting so theres no report and item 12 is Committee Agenda setting which you just referenced with the calender and so we can move on to consideration of votes for closed session. Were there any Public Comments concerning closed session . No Public Comments. No motion for closed session is in order. So moved. Second. All those in favor a aye. Opposed. Commission will now go in to closed session. Thank you. Those who are not part of the closed session should vacate the room. Please stand by say aye. We will not disclose the discussion and ready for a motion for adjournment and the second. All those in favor. Please a aye. Dr. Chow. Im sorry, id like to move we close in memory of mayor ed lee. I will accept that and we will close in memory of mayor ed lee. All those in favor. Please a aye. Aye. All those opposed this meet asking now adjourned in the memory of ed win lee. 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 o