Montgomery singleton and trent williams. I will be as supportive of everyone as i possibly can, and i am sure you will continue to move in the right directions and be successful. And thank you chief for your commitment to the members of the San FranciscoPolice Department. Thank you, lieutenant will coms for your service to the officers for justice and for the wonderful job that youve done as your long tenure as their president. Further Public Comment . I was listening to public radio, and there was a show about tear gas and within it, they discussed tazers, and i dont know if youre all aware of this. I never heard it told at any meeting that i came to, and i would just went to almost all of them, that the information from body worn cameras and the tazers, the data goes directly to axon, tazers international. So why is a Public Service group, the police, sending data to a private corporation on the people of this city . If we we already have the body worn, and im still wait fighting against the tazers. I want to know about that. I want to know why this wasnt discussed. If you all have an issue about it, i hope you do. You know, probably the next thing is theyll want to collate the data and sell it back to us. This is appalling. The brown act, my reading says you can discuss the actions of any employee of the city by name, so at these meetings, when we say we cant discuss them, thats not right according to the brown act. As i now under the brown act, have filed a complaint that is going to be heard by the Sunshine Task force. I differentiate what president turman says about tazers, and the action that you took at that meeting. For example, during the presentation, commander walsh twice apologized for going over time. No one stopped him. No one was concerned about it. He was, and i think that was respectful of him to say that. But that the woman that was speaking for us, Kristina Maria was cutoff immediately and the sound killed at exactly two minutes with no opportunity or respect for her to say, could you wind it up, could you other people want to speak. You know youre a respected member of the community. No, she was just cutoff. And so again, there was not no one informed us of where that meeting was moved to, and people were locked out of city hall, and that is not legal, so were going to fight this tazer thing, and were going to keep being the best city in this country to not have violence and people being killed or tazered with electric shock that we at first also was never discussing was fatal. And now of course we have to own that thats the truth and over 1,000 people have died from tazers. And by the way, you know, the Mental Health issues within the Police Department and with officers in the correctional institutes is three times as high. The suicide rate, three times as high as the general public. Are we caring about them . Wheres the concern about their Mental Health because theyre not doing well living with these things. Thank you. President turman any further Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Secretary kilshaw. Clerk item 6, Public Comment on matters pertaining to item 8 below, closed session, including discussion on whether to hold item 8 in closed session. President turman members of the public, we are about to go into closed session to discuss both matters with Legal Counsel on existing litigation as well as other disciplinary matters. So any Public Comment on the fact that were about to go into closed session and were going to vote on that . Sorry. Mr. Alden stood up on that, and i thought we had Public Comment on that. All right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Clerk item 7, vote on whether to hold item 8 in closed session, and whether to vote on items 8 a and b, and San Francisco commissioners 51. 7 section. President turman okay. Commissioners, ill entertain the appropriate motion. I think we should go into closed session. Second. President turman all in favor . All opposed . Before we say good night to the public, is there anything you want to tell them about the next two weeks . We arent meeting oh. Were dark the next two weeks. Sorry. Thank you, commissioner. We are dark january 24th, january 31st, and we will be clerk commissioner, were back in session and you still have a quorum. President turman okay. Item 9. Motion. Second. President turman okay. All in favor . Any opposed . Thank you. That item passes. Next item. Clerk item 10, adjournment, action item. Motion. Second. President turman okay. All in favor . Thank you, commissioners. We are now adjourned. Hi everyone. Welcome. Were going to start our program today. Im captain paul yep. I want to welcome everyone here today. Elected officials, Department Heads and thank you media, i know youre getting wet. Thank you for being here. First of all, happy up coming Lunar New Year of the dog. Some characters are loyalty and honesty and principles in helping and serving others, thus they make good Police Officers, scientists, politicians and judges. The office at Central Station must be convinced i was born in the year of the dog because of the barking i do at the station but i was born in the year of the monkey. I had the fortune of taking over the station. I worked at Central Station for retired deputy chief tom, the captain for the years of the dragon, the snake and the horse. During the dynasties, they worked vigorously to end extortion, reduce overall crimes and increase Public Safety in chinatown. We work hard to continue to build on their successes and legacy. They built great relationships and friendships in the Chinatown Community and our city family. Chinatown has been known as an underserved community. I want to personally thank officials, the mayor, commissioner peskin for their continued support and dedication to Public Safety and resources to chinatown. Thanks to you, we have more officers dedicated to you can wassing we have more officers working in chinatown. We have improved Traffic Safety and safety on muni we will continue to work on. Thank you. applause thank you very much. Thank you. You have to protect the hair. Youre absolutely right. Hello everyone. Im the new executive director and happy to be back in San Francisco. Were looking forward to making it another celebration of a crimefree Lunar New Year. When the event was started 21 years ago it was a time when San Francisco was often fearful because of the extortion and pick pocketing that was common. Until recently extortion cases were in the hundreds and now down to very few. Were thrilled to say the reports of Lunar New Year related crimes directly related to our work and building connections with neighborhoods and businesses and folks like you in the community. I hope you join us as we walk the neighborhood to visit our neighbors and share more tips while we celebrate the Lunar New Year. Well hold another event like this tomorrow at mr. Bread. We hope to see you there. To help launch one of the San Francisco great celebration seasons, a native and someone i have known for a long time, i want to introduce acting mayor london breed. applause thank you. No job too big or too small. laughter thank you commander lazar for protecting my hair today. laughter he doesnt just protect people, he protects hair. Good afternoon everyone. I want to start by thanking sf safe executive director for being here and congratulations on your new role. This is another incredible event. We host it every year. I want to thank and acknowledge, i know many of my colleagues are here and will be speaking, thank you to chief scott for being here and carmen chew. This is a good moment to remind people to be aware. The Lunar New Year brings so many people to San Francisco, but specifically to our great chinatown. And the festivities, although we have a good time and love the excitement of it all, it sadly provides an opportunity for criminals. We need our residents to be vigilant and alert. And please remember, if you see something, say something. Shortly after mayor lees passing i met with a number of chi chinatown leaders and heard some of their concerns and sadly some of the examples going on, including the asian blessing scams that have targeted seniors. To help address the issues im announcing today were adding two foot patrol officers to join the chinatown Central Station from 11 00 a. M. To 9 00 p. M. So a total of seven officers walking the beats and in the area during that time. The two new officers will be joining the one sergeant and four officers of the Housing Units that are already a part of the shifts. And i want to stop and thank all of the Police Officers who are here today who continue to serve and protect our neighborhoods and i want to thank captain yip and the folks at Central Station for the work they put in specifically. By working closely, well make sure the neighborhood is a safe and secure place for all of its residents. I wish you have a safe and prosperous Lunar New Year. speaking chinese thank you. applause i want to introduce one of our most crucial partners for building connections between San Francisco and officers, welcome chief of police mr. Scott. applause thank you. Thank you mayor breed. Im going to be brief and get you guys out of the rain hopefully. Thank you to everybody who came here today and braved the rain to talk about safety for the Lunar New Year. Happy new year. This will be a prosperous year for our city. This is the 21st year that sf safe has given Safety Awareness tips for the Lunar New Year and i know our campaign on Public Safety is really about the people and keeping everybody safe and making sure people dont get victimized. First of all, i want to remind everybody to be aware, we have had some i believe targeting of some of our asian merchants. We need people to be aware of that issue. Im going to talk about a few tips to help people with that. Blessing scams have been an issue in the community and we dont want anybody to fall prey to that. Be aware of strangers, if anybody is asking for money or jewelry or anything like that, you might want to take caution and be aware. Dont follow strangers home and dont bring any to your home. Dont bring strangers to withdraw money or take out valuables in their presence. Before withdrawing large sums of money or valuables, have a discussion with people you trust in your family first. Often times people act on emotion and thats what the scam artists and people who prey on this type of person, thats what they do. They play on emotions. So often times when you talk to other people, you have a chance to collect your thoughts and think twice before you act. Please talk with someone you trust in your family or a good friend before withdrawing large sums of money. Our commitment to providing education for the merchants is ongoing. Well have merchant walks, im going to rollout the calendar, i think over 2,000 of these got it upside down but i think theyll be given to the merchants and it has safety tips as well, those will be readily available to remind people what to do to stay safe. Also, Pedestrian Safety is really of the upmost importance. San francisco through the leadership and vision of mayor ed lee has engaged in vision zero and what that means, we want to cut traffic fatalities down to zero by 2024. We believe what was once a distant vision and dream, were well on our way to make it happen. We need your help. Pedestrian safety is very important, particularly in chinatown. Its a condensed area. Please dont drive distracted and if youre walking dont walk distracted. Those simple things can help reduce accidents and fatalities and be kind to neighbors and friends in terms of allowing the pedestrians to walk about the street freely without having to worry about distracted driving. One of our commitments is Language Access. We know we have a lot of non English Speaking residents and people who visit and live in the city. And sfpd is committeed to giving Language Access to those who dont speak english. So our officers are trained, we have translators and access is a huge thing in the community. We need people to report what they see. We need people to feel comfortable talking to us, the Police Officer and the District Attorneys Office and other people in the criminal justice sxm access is really, really important for us. Our training is ongoing and were working with a lot of stakeholders from the community to make sure the Language Access is not a problem for anybody. I can go on further but im going to stop there. I know we have a lot of people who want to speak today. I want to say thank you for your support and its a pleasure to work with you and lets have a safe chinese Lunar New Year. Thank you. applause throughout his time District Attorney has been a fantastic partner, including prosecuting the people who committed blessing scams. District attorney. Thank you. And happy year of the dog to everyone. Its wonderful to be here today, even with the rain. We were talking that weve had years here where we have to wear sunblock and today we wear as umbrellas. We continue to move forward for Public Safety in this community and other communities. Years ago we would be talking about blessing scams and the first jurisdiction in the country to prosecute the cases successfully and theyre not what they used to be. But nevertheless, we need to continue to be vigilant. Were still having people who are victimized and we depend on the media, specifically the Chinese Media because its a crime that impacts the Chinese Community mostly, our phone number is 4155519595. Its a 24 7 phone. We take cases and we work with our partners at sf safe who are great incredible partners and the Police Department. But at the end of the day, this is a collaboration and community plays an Important Role. Happy Lunar New Year and thank you for all you do. I look forward to the parade and the merchant walk today and i just want to take a moment and i know its in all of our hearts, maybe if we can take one moment of silence in memory of mayor lee. This is a community that obviously he had very, very deeply ties to it and we all should recognize that. So if you would take a moment of silence please. Thank you and happy Lunar New Year. applause now i would like to introduce a 30 year district three resident who faithfully represents the businesses and people at city hall, everyones supervisor peskin. Thank you. speaking chinese all right i want to first, i want to thank and welcome sf safe for doing this for over 20 years, what she said is right, we have seen the number of extortion cases drop year after year. Im delighted to continue to do this to stay vigilant. Thank you chief scott and captain yip and men and women of the San FranciscoPolice Department. You can see how important it is, from our acting mayor that every member of the board of supervisors, we take it seriously. Let me leave you with one thought to the media to say again and again, report, report, report. If people do not report extortion, we are only as good as the eyes and ears that we have in the community. We have Language Access as you heard, but please, send the message that people should feel comfortable contacting the police, contacting elected officials to keep our community safe. applause she is smart and Solutions Oriented representative for San Francisco, growing up in a family running a Small Business, please welcome miss carmen chew. Im pleased to be here with everybody as well. I think theres a phrase our supervisor didnt say in chinese. He said them all. He didnt say chinese which means have many children to everybody. Happy new year. Im glad to be here. I really think its important for all of us to get together to remind everybody about the importance of reporting crime. We talked about blessing scams, i think our District Attorney spoke about that earlier. I think people know the scammers are very smart. They figure out new ways to trick people and get access to your information and money. So whether it is pretending to be the Consulate Generals Office