Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20180226

SFGTV Government Access Programming February 26, 2018

Yes, commissioner in. In answer to your question . One of the first phase of this, thats one of the things that the consultants helped us greatly was laying out a timeline with deliverables. It was a very tight timeline. We had to get things working on time. As we go forward in working with the commission, that same process will be incorporated, and these strategic clusters, everything that you said will fit in one of these strategic clusters, so theyre pretty broad, but all the things that you mentioned, recruitment, hiring, changing consuulture w fit in one of these, and the collaborative process, those will be headed by the appropriate Department People or collaborative work groups, including commission, community, leaders in different fields that will add to building this Strategic Plan under these clusters. And then, the last thing, are we going to continue to work with the consultant through all these different phases of this of meeting the dgo changes im sorry, meeting the doj changes. We have to go through a process, commissioner, so we do want to work with a consultant. We cant say itll be this one, because we have to go through an rfp process, but i think we learned a lot about this process. And what deputy chief connelly didnt mention, we looked at many other Police Departments, too, the consultants, and we reached out to many other Police Departments that had Strategic Plans that we thought were good ones, and reached out to these departments and picked their brains on some of the things to get their plans on board, as well. To answer your question, we plan to use a consultant. We have to go through the prosper city rules. Thank you. Thank you very much deputy chief connelly. Next presentation, please. Our next presentation, we have presentation of the limited English Proficiency report. This evening, im going to provide a brief report, which is our annual report on limited English Proficiency. Before i do, i would just like to call out and thank the Language Access working group that meets on a monthly basis. Its led by commissioner melara, and its been in existence since 2012, and its a great way to get the collaborators at the table to move fashd Language Access. Tonight tonight, we have some of those collaborators present. La casa has a huge staff. They volunteer their time, they teach at the police academy. If youd like to standup, thank all of you for all your work you do all year for the department, and for the city [applause]. Thank you very much, very much. So theyre here this evening, and they contribute their time to make our Department Better and our city a better place to live and work. So tonight, im just going to briefly go through some statistics with you. These are statics you hear on an annual basis regarding limited English Proficiency. Starting with the first one, this is the number of calls for service, contacts, investigations that an lep person that thwe work with lep person. In january 2017, there are 3,308 incident reports, and if we look at fiscal year 20172018, there were 4,402 incident reports, and there was thousands of interaction and providing the community with information, but this is specifically actual incident reports that are prepared. Turning the page, department general order 2. 0, you have something thats straightforward. If you have a person thats limited English Proficiency, you call a by lingual officer to the scene, followed by a person interpreter followed by a telephone interpreter or Language Line. In emergency situations, we can use anybody thats available to assist us, but once that emergency is resolved we need that bilingual interpreter to come. R assi r come assist us. Lingu last january , we had a how to be an effective interpreter class that began. We are finally working to update over 300 officers who are bilingual speakers and giving them an undate, so we had an expert flown out to San Francisco and put on the class. Were going to have another class on march 7th with 25 officers and move forward from there. And finally after ten years or seven years were having updating training that is taking place. Second, when citizens come and the Community Comes to file a report, there is information on several languages, and it provides information to them while theyre waiting to prepare a report. Were going to experiment with that as mission station. Again, were working on lep, not only training for all our certified officers, but also a refresher for our Field Training officers. We are working with dispatch right now because currently how it works, is if an officer needs a bilingual officer, the dispatch dispatch will ask theyll put it out on an all or theyll put it out for all the officers to volunteer. Were going to change the system and have dispatch call units directly because they now have a list of officers that are certified to respond. The last thing id like to mention, instructions for obtaining reports are now in five languages, so if you go to our records division, you can get you can find out in five different languages or if you go to our website. This is a service that we are now providing to the public, and thats my report for limited English Proficiency. Thank you, commander lozar. This is a project that was championed by former commissioner chan and commissioner dejesus. Theres a recognition in some situations like Domestic Violence cases, they werent sure who was the victim and who was the assailant because of language issue, and weve come a long way on this. What helps is the discipline part of it, that the officer becomes familiar with it. This has been going on many, many years, and i want to thank commissioner dejesus and former commissioner angela chan, because their where we are today, in order to have the ability to do this. Two weeks ago, i saw this in action where there was an elderly woman who was lost, appeared to speak russian. When the officer arrived from northern station, the officers sat and talked with her, they called the access line, she was taking the bus, she got lost, and she had some dementia issues, and we got her back to where she needed to go. It works, and i want to thank you for it, and i want to thank commissioner dejesus. Commissioner hing . Thank you, Vice President. I want to pick up on a on something you just alluded to, mr. Vice president , and thats the a real challenge with respect to Domestic Violence victims and the importance of doing your best to identify the victim. There for a few years now, when the when the secure Communities Program was in existence under ice, which has been reinstituted under president trump. It ended it flourished for a while under president obamas ice. It stopped, but it has been reopened. There are reports of individuals who actually were victims where the officers not in San Francisco, where officers were not sure who the victim was in some cases because of language problems, and so the victim actually got fingerprinted, and those fingerprints got shot off to the fbi and were shared with ice under the secure community programs, and these victims got deported, and so thats one thing that we want to be on guard for here in San Francisco. Lets make sure if were going to fingerprint someone, that its actually the alleged perpetrator. The question that i have of you, commander, is whats the Response Time in terms of when theres a need for an interpreter . Can you give us a sense . I know it probably varies. Yeah, it actually does vary. It all depends on the station, the assignment, whos working, whos available, whos around. So generally, how it works is an officer will say i need a certified bilingual officer to respond to the scene. The dispatch will attempt to locate an officer within the district or close by, but the officers are very sensitive if theres going to be an extreme delay, to go to plan b, that certified interpreter, and if not, we need to go to that Language Line and have that translation take place so that were not delayed in providing service to the public, but again, it just varies, and sometimes it happens right away, and sometimes it takes a while, depending on the language and whos available. To that point thats why we need to continue to train our bilingual officer, and really build in a pool out so we can reduce that Response Time and make folks available. Mr. Vice president , just one more point. Its not a question. I just want to commend commander lozar for his approach for the various working groups. Ive worked with him a little bit on the community policing, and i found your approach to be very inclusive and respectful, and i really appreciate that. Thank you very much, commissioner. Thank you, commander lozar. Commissioner melara . Thank you, commander lozar. This committee is very close to my heart, not only because i believe in delivering culturally Competent Services and also because of my commitment to Domestic Violence, but i want to say that this committee would not be what it is and producing what it does without the commitment of the many people from the community that come to those meetings, and i would say the leadership of mayor of miss marian, because youre the one who keeps it together. Youre the glue who brings it together, and so i want to thank you because your commitment really brings me to the tab the table, you know, its really commendable. Which agency is she with . You know, i forget. Shes with the Police Department. Thanks very much, commissioner melara. Thank you very much, commissioner lozar, and thank you, everyone, beverly, everyone whos been doing this throughout the years. Again, people come to talk about the things that arent right, and we started this process how many years ago . So many years ago, and look where weve come so far, so thank you. Please call the next presentation. Thank you, Vice President mazzucco. The next presentation will be drar john sanchez and acting captain john pera, to present the analysis of Sexual Assault kid and evidence. There was another project that was championed by a former commissioner, john hammer, and that was when we found out there was a backlog in testing of rain kits, so the former prosecutors on this commission know how important that is. Again weve made a lot of progress when we found out that there was a lot of untested kits, and the rational given was because they were known silents. We as a commission made a commitment to have every kit tested, just for other cases, for additional evidence, and weve come to a pretty good point, so i hope the numbers are good tonight, and im sure they are. I want to thank you for your report on that. This Police Department is updating something that others havent. Go ahead. Thank you, mr. Vice president , commissioners, director and chief. Thanks for allowing me time to speak. My name is john sanchez, and im the civilian director of Forensic Services for the department. Im here to provide you with that brief status update are for the processing of the kits from december 31st to joule 31st, 2017. In that time, we had 110 kits collected and submitted to the laboratory. All were concluded within the 120 day limit established by the commission, and most, the average time is under 30days for those kits. Having said that, 15 of those kits did exceed the fiveday window of commission to the treatment centers, but that did not affect the ability to turn those kits around within the time frame. None of the kits was outsourced. All of that work was completed within the laboratory here in San Francisco. Of those kits, 93 kits provided foreign dna profiles. 8 of those were determined to meet codis eligibility and suitablity requirements. They were subsequently updated within the 120 day period, and of those 88 uploads, 26 results in codis hits or associations. 103 kits had no foreign dna profiles available when processed. As for notification and out comes, of those kits, the number of victim survivor notifications made by svu through the victim bill of rights was 114, as well as the number of declined or refused notices by victim survivors was 55. And the number of outside agencies kits we processed were six. Of the total sae case collects, Sexual Assault kits collects, the disposition are as follows 111 are inactive. 26 of those were cleared, and 47 remain open. Total sent to the District Attorneys Office for charging was 27, and the number charged was 13. And the number discharged was 14, with no convictions to date. And thats the report for the commission. Thank you. Again, thank you very much for your work on this, and the last time we had the presentation, dr. Mar or captain mar from the Police Department explained that its a lengthy process. Its timeconsuming, but weve increased the number of people that can test for dna in the lab. Weve increased the number of people that were involved in the process. That started with chief sur and his request for more budget, so i want to commend you of doing that. Of 27 presented for prosecution, only 13 charged, but at least we gave some closure to some of the victims. That really, im sure well talk about that in Public Comment, but its really important we do that for people. Thank you, commissioners, for your hard work. Thank you so much. These numbers are great. Anything further . My only comment is this has come a long way. I remember when this was brought up, so great job in moving things along. Thats impressive. Thank you. Thank you. Very impressive. Thank you very much. Please call the next presentation. Thank you very much, commissioner. Next presentation will be pete walsh, presentation of the audit of Electronic Devices for bias for the Fourth Quarter of 2017. And as commander walsh makes his way to the podium, this was one of the doj recommendations that weve already implemented where to eliminate bias, we do random audits and checks of Electronic Devices that are used by our officers to see if theres any sort of trigger words that would show bias. Its an intense process using words, and for those of you that are very computer literate, theres a lot of algorithms that they use, so we get a quarterly reports. Sometimes theres hits, so in case a ci, a confidential informant sends something to a Police Officer, sometimes speaks in language that a Police Officer doesnt speak in, and that will trigger a hit. But without further adieu, command you are walsh . This is going to be the final report for 2017. The three platforms that we do monitor are all department owned. We get a lot of questions, why dont we do personal cell phones, and wed need a court order, a subpoena or some kind of search warrant. So level two is clets, and tsf and Text Messages on the departments cell phones. We have a secret list of words. I know that we generate these through sources such as urban dictionary or whatever the latest information may be. We get a lot of false positive hits that are generated. Iad reviews all of these hits thoroughly, so even when we get the same word over and over, they go through it. Where were seeing a lot of our hits are in innocuous words that in every day mean nothing, but we put them in because they can be used in context. When you see a spike, thatll be run of the reasons for quarter four. Next item, please. So again, this is just to give you context on the Third Quarter that you can see. This is just clets. If we go to the next one, this is how we break them down. Next slide is level two, email for the Third Quarter. No confirmed hits, and then, you will see our email of the Fourth Quarter, no hits, but this is where the spike comes in, it was an innocuous word. We go through all these, because it was the second time with this particular word to take it out. Again, i offer if you ever need to come down here and see, if you want to see the list and how we do it so we dont give away our trade secrets, were happy to demonstrate that for you. You can see in quarter three, we did have one hit. That case has been fully investigated and has been sent through the disciplinary process and is awaiting a decision on where it will go through the chief. Quarter four, for Text Messages, nothing, again. So overall, i think were doing a pretty good job. Heres the Third Quarters, as you can see the hits between each individual device. Theres not really a rhyme or reason other than newsletters is where we get a lot of our hits. Our biggest one, i dont know if anyone on the commission recalls, we did have a hit of a word that was graphic. It was a hate crime email, so the public was emailing into a captain in the station. Captain sends it we need to take care of this case, and sent it to sit and out. We do get hits like that, where theyre coming in from the community for police action. I think weve done a really good job on department owned devices and systems. The one case that we did have, we automatically investigate that and bring that forward, and that is going to be brought forward very quickly. Any questions . Thank you, commander walsh. Any questions for commander walsh . Commissioner dejesus. Her buttons not working. Its right here. Ive got

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