Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180213

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation undergod with liberty and justice for all. I would like to call roll. Commissioner marshall is in route. Commissioner dejesus, commissioner melara, Mission Summer herrish. You have a quorum also with us tonight is the chief of police, william scott. I dont see the representative from the dpa. Mr. Henderson is arrive from the dpa. Thank you, secretary. Members of the San Francisco public, thank you for joining us on wednesday, february 7, 2018 for the regular meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. Would you begin with item one. Adoption of minutes for november 3, 8, december 6, january 10 and 17 of 2018. Thank you. In your packet are the proposed minutes as the secretary has read out november 3rd, novembe november 8th and december 6th of 2017, and the january 10th and 17th minutes of 2018. Hopefully you have had a chance to review the minutes. Any comments or questions . I would entertain appropriate motion. Move to approve. Second. All in favor. Public comment first on april approval of the minutes. Thank you. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment on item one is now closed. Moved by commissioner dejesus, seconded by mazzucco. Those minutes are approved. Next item. Reports to the commission. 2a chief report on recent Police Department activities including major events, weekly crime trends and announcements. Good evening, chief, how are you . Good evening commissioners. I am going to start this evening with the crime trends for the week, then talk about the significant events of the week. It is a short report. We are i will start with homicides five yeartodate. 17 below this time last year with six. Earl flee the year that is a good indication the way we started off the year things slowed down. We had a busy first three weeks. As far as shootings we are up. 16 yeartodate as opposed to nine yeartodate this time last year that is a significant increase, 78 . We did a five year look at the shootings. The 16 is about on par with where we usually are. 2013 there was 230, 2015, 17, 2016 there was 14. We had a good year last year. This year we are about where we normally are with our shootings. We are working to reduce that even more. Firearms and recover age yeartodate 91. That split is 45 from the golden gate and 38 from the Metro Division and eight others. We ended last year with 1023 firearms seized as opposed to 1216 in 2016. For major events. There are two major events i would like to talk about that will probably have good crowd sizes. First is the giant fan test at at t park on saturday januar january 10th between 10 00 a. M. And 3 p. M. Estimated attendance 30,000. Of course, it is always a well attended event. Hopefully everybody will come and have a good time and get ready for baseball. 2018 Chinese New Year min flee parade in chinatown. This will be from 10 00 in the morning and then it will go to 8 00 p. M. It should be a fairly well attended event, and it really is a kickoff to the Chinese New Year celebrations throughout the month of february. There is a small procession beginning at st. Marys square and grant to washington. At grant a ribboncutting at the flower market fair on washington street and grant avenue. The mayor and dignitaries will attend the ceremonies. That will be from 10 00 until 8 00 p. M. There is a dua saturation patrol. That was this past friday. California highway pa California Office of Traffic Safety provided funding. It was a dui checkpoint and proactive saturation to reduce amount of drunk drivers on the streets. Results over 30 citations written. One unlicensed driver sited. No dui arrests made from the checkpoint. We released the 9 6 00 a. M. Report this 96 report this week. The results encouraging. 33 decrease in reportable use of force in compared to the Fourth Quarter of 2016. Yeartodate for the year 2017 our department saw an 18 decrease in use of forces compared to 2016. There were 212 calls for service in the Fourth Quarter of 2017. Force was used in one tenth of 1 of those 212 calls for service. A total of 262 incidents of force used. Our total encounters for that period detentions and traffic stops were 37,916. Searches were 9,186. That is 23 of the total encounters there. Were an 18 decrease in use of forces for the quarter, 63 3com paired to 953 in 2016. That is very encouraging. I think in the spirit to reduce force that is encouraging news. The trend continues from the previous quarter. For that quarter there were two officerinvolved shootings, one resulted in death, and one in injury of suspect and injury of officers. The department received six bias complaints for that quarter. Officers injured decreased by 12 over the 2016. That is encouraging news also. That concludes the first part of my chiefs report. Director mcguire will present the second part dealing with the budget for this coming fiscal year request. Those are each individual items on the agenda unless you warrant to prove them up to this. We can do that. Im sorry the budget items are individual on the agenda. We will get to you, ms. Mcguire, thank you. That concludes my report for this week. Any questions for the chief . Chief you mentioned about the giants having the opening here. Do we have a new agreement with the giants about funding for the officers at the ballpark . I understand in years past they pay for the officers inside of the ballpark but not outside. What i hear from the public and the Police Officers it is a drain on the resources we have to send units assigned to districts to cover the outside of the ballpark for supplemental support. Is there an agreement with the giants or change in that . Last year i met with the giants before the season started. We dont have any new agreements yet. It is definitely Something Worthy of discussion. We want to adequately deploy. It is significant deployment for the game. I appreciate that. We hear two sector cars are sent over because they need them at the ballpark. They are not covering the districts and i think that is important. Any other questions for the chief, commissioners . Chief, thank you. Now report on your much deserved vacation. It was nice. Very good report. Thank you. Secretary kilshaw. 2b report on recent dpa activities and announcements. Good evening. A couple of updates. We finally got our finance clerk in. He started this week. There are a number of unfilmed openings i have been trying to fill since day one. The new investigators are finally scheduled to come in. It has taken this long to get them scheduled and cleared, but we will have five new investigators by february 20th. That is a big deal. It will change how we are able to approach officerinvolved shootings and conduct more thorough investigations with all of our cases. I also finished this week and filed and it should be on for the next scheduled commission meeting, the 2016 report. Just as a reminder the quarterly reports and annual reports went back as far as five years so is the final report to catch us up currently so there are no more gaps in the reports and quarterly stats as of the next commission meeting. We have been having meetings myself and my staff with the department on 2. 04 and various dgos. We will continue to work on those things. Our new Computer System is coming through. I have been started to manipulate the numbers and play with the information on what i can draw out, and i will as we continue having the meetings be able to tell you more about our numbers in realtime, but for this month we have 47 new cases came in for january. Our current caseload as of today is 233 cases. As a reminder, we were close to 600 last year or the year before last if you are following the annual report. In terms of the technology staff, i feel like i have to address some of it. There is an article that came out this week about our online complaints being down for a period of time. That is accurate. As you recall, as soon as i came in, the department partnered with the department of technology to issue computers to all of the staff at dpa but also to change the operating system from the operating system that we had been working on in the early 1980s to bring us current and up to staff with windows 10. As part of that many of the internal and external systems went down. One was the complaint form, and the complaint forms were managed and created by an outside vendor that has since disappeared. We had to rebuild a new one, which is the short answer it is up. Our online complaints are up. It is still using part of the old system. You can go through to make the online complaints, and i will continue to make these improvements. A lot will be easier when i bring in a new director of technology because our old director left that position as soon as i or within a month after i started the position. That is my report and my update. I want to acknowledge in the audience with me several employees from dpa. My staff are here and in the audience. Thank you for being here. Questions for the dpa director . All right. Thank you, dpa director. Next line item. Item 2c commissioners reports. I do have a report this evening, as you have read about, which i personally apologize, it is not in any way, shape or form my fault. The fact the San Francisco Police Department, California Department of justice and the Mayors Office entered a memorandum of understanding. I want to be clear. I want each of you to understand there is only one body charged with oversight of the San Francisco Police Department, and that is the San Francisco Police Commission. That is the seven member body that sits here today. That in september, i believe it is, when the u. S. D. O. J. Announced it would step out of the collaborative reform process that the department and commission voluntarily entered into for the purpose of analyzing best practices, training, tactic systems and offering recommendations to enhance the relationship between the department and the community, we began a cooperative Partnership Relationship when they stepped out of that arrangement it was decided that we needed another independent third body to look at the reform measures we were passing, the actions we were taking to make sure they were within best practices. It was decided that, of course, we cannot say we are creating these measures and they are the best. We needed independent validation and a third party to say that was in keeping with the best practices and what was going on in other areas of the country. From the very begin of this process, the Mayors Office, dpa, and the Commission Leadership were all invited to discuss these issues. From the begin, i said then and now. The California Department of justice is not the proper party to have this responsibility because they dont have any experience with collaborative reform. They dont have any experience with dealing with these type of best practices, and deciding these issues and helping departments reach these goals. Their experience is bringing pattern and practice cases against departments and takeovers and oversight which is not what we require or need of the San Francisco Police Department. Despite my objections, and when i was not present, despite commissioner mazzuccos objections, this was the party selected other than outside agencies to do this work. In fact, the only person at the department of justice that has a history of collaborative reform, and the type of Partnership Work we were looking to establish is susie loftis. We have more access to her than they do. That being said, i did continue to meet with them as a crafted their mou. My stated goal and purpose then and now, was to make sure the word oversight and that they do not in either written form or indeed understand their role to ever be to supplant the duties and responsibilities of this commission when it comes to oversight. Iin fact, there is a specific paragraph in the mou which we will calendar for discussion that says that specifically at my insistence. When you have a chance to review and discuss these issues, we will do so. I am told, and you will see also, i am told that both the Mayors Office and the coj were told the Police Commission did not have to approve or sign off on this mou because it contains no money. However, the charter of the city and county of San Francisco makes this body, this body, responsible for the implementation of practices, policies, and the governance of the Police Department. How are they going to pass reform measures through the dgo unless we pass them . So we will take up those issues and the mou at another time once it has been calendared and properly placed for discussion. Despite what you might have read, there is no oversight taken up over this Police Department by the d. O. J. Commissioner melara. On page 4 number 3 at the top. The document has not been circulated publicly and it will be calendared for discussion. Next question. Commissioner hirsch. Are we going to be asked to approve the document . The document is not calendared for discussion. It will be taken up during our next meeting. Next question. You know, i just want to say if you dont mind thank you for clarifying. I did hear the attorney general was going to have oversight over the Police Department and the radio. I was confused. I appreciate the clarification. The document has been posted to the d. O. J. Site and to the San Francisco Police Department. We cannot comment on the document or recognize it because it has not had a proper posting. Anier questions, any other questions, commissioners . I will save it for when we talk about the document. I am kind of stunned at the process. That will make two of us. Any other questions . Commissioners, any other reports . Next issue. Item 2d announcements and those identified for future Committee Meetings action. Okay. Any items for the commissioner hearing. Yes, in consultation with the City Attorneys Office and sergeant kilshaw, based on the discussion that i believe took place at the last meeting where i was not in attendance, there was a discussion of dgo5. 15, i want to report that that is ready for consideration it will be ready for the february 21st meeting. I will look at the schedule and see if we can get it on depending on our schedule. Thank you. Looking at the memorandum, the department of justice i one of the reforms was that the Police Department should not investigate their own officerinvolved shootings. I dont know if the department has that calendar or if someone is dealing with that. I wonder if we can calendar that and talk about how we want to tackle that particular reform issue. Step to the microphone, please. Good evening. Can you repeat the question. Is the department of justice indicated the San Francisco Police Department should not investigate their own officerinvolved shootings. That is one of their recommendations. I dont know if it is with the working group or not. I am in a different working group. I wonder if it is dealt with. Can we calendar and talk with what ideas have come forward in how we are going to deal with that particular recommendation . I will check that and work with the sergeant to get that calendared. Is there a working group currently working with that . Yes. Thank you. With that recommendation, there has been a discussion with the district Attorneys Office for over a year on that very recommendation and mou discussion about the investigation of the officerinvolved shootings. That is still in progress, and it has been discussed with the department of Human Resources in the meet and confer process. There is a document that needs to go to meet and confer that is the next phase of this process. This is in process well over a year. Well talk about it. The confusion i have is the District Attorney is the charging arm for prosecution, but then you have your own in policy or not discipline or training issues. Are you telling me the da is taking all of that . No, a criminal investigation of officerinvolved shootings. The administrative that the they say not the administrative investigation. That is wha what i want to follp on. There is no movement on taking the administrative investigations out of the hands of the Police Department, but the criminal investigations, yes. Can we calendar it to get an idea where you are with the administrative part and start tackling that as a committee. Commissioners which commissioners are working on use of force . Commissioner melara, are you working on it commissioner hirsch . No. Any other announcements . Calendaring any items . Yes, for february 14th meeting we will be in a room different, room 416. That is due to city hall upgrading the Audio Visual Equipment in this room, making this room unavailable for the next meeting. For members of the public we will be in room 416 for the next meeting on february 14th and it will still start at 5 30 p. M. I will be traveling on business next week.