Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Commissioner, you have a quorum. Also present as chief William Scott of the San Francisco Police Department. And the chief of staff Sarah Hawkins in place of director Paul Henderson from the department of Police Account ability. Thank you. Good evening everyone, this is the august, august 7, 2019 meeting of the San Francisco Police Agenda Police Commission. Adoption of minutes. For the meeting of june 2017 and july 10, 2019. Any discussion . Do we need Public Comments on this . Seeing none. Public comments are closed. Please call for a vote. [roll call] all in favor . It carried unanimously. Line item to, consent calendar. Receive and file; action. Sfpd dpa report Second Quarter 2019. Do we need a vote to accept or approve . To accept. Can i have a motion to accept so moved. Seconded. Any discussion . All right. All in favor . Opposed . It carries. Line item three, report to the commission; discussion. Chiefs report, provided an overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco, including on yeartodate homicide clearance and an overview of reportable Human Trafficking incidents. Significant incidents, chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of significant incidents. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to counter any of the incidents the chief describes for a future Commission Meeting. Major events, provide a company of a summary of planned activities and events occurring since the previous meeting. This will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco, having an impact on Public Safety. Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities, the chief describes, will be limited to determining whether to counter for a future meeting. Community Engagement Division highlights, provided overview of recent activities correlated by the community Engagement Division. Thank you. Good evening chief. Good evening. I will start out this week, with our crime trends for the week. Starting with homicides on gun violence. Our homicides are down 15 for the year. We had 23 year to date compared to 27, 2018 year today. Our gun violence is also down. 28 reduction in compute shooting victims. Compared to 76 this time last year. Homicides 7 . Fourteen year to date compared to 15, this time last year. Our total gun violence victims were down 24 . Sixtynine year to date compared to 91 at this time last year. Our part one crime is down by 11 . The breakdown is a 14 reduction in Violent Crime and a 10 reduction in property crime. In terms of Violent Crime, our rates are down 14 . Robbery 14 , assaults are down 11 . We are actually doing pretty well. We are pleased with the progress at this point in the air. Property crimes, burglaries are down 17 . Our Motor Vehicle deaths are down 1 . Our arsons are down 5 . Larceny, and theft, down 10 . Included in larceny and theft is the car breakins which are down 11 year to date. Significant incidents, i am happy to report, since our last Police Commission meeting on july 10, there have been no homicides. We did have four shootings this past week that resulted in five victims shot. There was one at 29th and diamond on august 6. There was also one on treasure island, the 1200 block of mariner drive on august 6. On july 31, there was a shooting way to victims shot, on july 31 there was also shooting at 17th and vermont in the southern district. Of those five victims all are expected to survive. Although one victim is in critical condition. We do not have suspects in custody on any of the shootings and the investigations are ongoing. Traffic collisions, there was one major injury collision this past week, it was a hit and run with a muni vehicle involved. The vehicle may contact with the driver side of a muni coach traveling west on the market. The driver of. The muni driver was injured with complaints of pain. That passenger was uninjured. That investigation is also ongoing. Significant events, we have a number of events this weekend. I will just go with the highlighted events. We have the giants in town through 17. We are deployed for that. We also have outside lands that starts on friday that goes through sunday. There will be robust San Francisco Police Department deployment for that. In light of the National Events that have gone on, people are asking a lot of questions about our preparation for outside land. As with any major event, this planning process has been in the works for quite some time. We are robustly deployed this weekend. We will have officers highly visible. Also working with other city departments including the Fire Department and others on Public Safety and it will be a team effort with other city departments. We are pleased with the way that is going. We want everybody to come out have a good time, enjoy themselves and we will take care of the security and facilitating traffic in and out. Again that will be starting friday morning, ending sunday night. Let me add with outside land we are asking the public if you are attending, please go on the website and take a look at the bag policy. Certain bags will not be allowed in the venue, we dont want anybody showing up, particularly those that are taking rideshare, Public Transportation i cannot get them because their bags do not fit the criteria. Its online, make sure you take a look at it if youre planning on attending. So you dont get turned around at the gate, because your bag is against the entry rules. Community engagement highlights. Just a brief overview. Our annual citywide Community Policing Advisory Board symposium was held on july 13. It was a great turnout with members from all over the city. Helping to coordinate this, it was a really good event. A lot of good dialogue and facilities facilitated on Community Policing partnerships with our Advisory Board and other members of the community. Really good turnout. We are really pleased with that. Our summer Intern Program, with the mayors opportunities for all will conclude in the next couple of weeks. We had quite a few young people employed and interning at the seven cisco Police Department. That included our program where we placed 50 youths on an internship, we had 30 youth that are interested in Law Enforcement, working with our Youth Community and in our eight week course we had 40 youths go through that course. Our csi Community Safety initiative program, we had 75 youth go through that they share which we are really happy with. Our youth Career Academy has hosted about 50 youths. It was really good engagement. I attended a graduation for future grad this week. Parents came out, really good event. Kids were really bright and had great presentations including some of their recommendations after doing a lot of research on our homeless issue in the city about what they think we could do to improve that situation. Really good presentations there. Lastly, National Night out was last night. All ten of our district stations held close to the National Night out event in partnership with their community volunteers, assistant chief mosher and i attended for them. Starting in tara vale, richmond, park, and we ended in the northern. Really great turnout. The fire chief was also at several of the events. We just want to thank the members of our community, that partnered with us for a great National Night out. It was very energizing to be among the community, and the fellowship working together as a team. That concludes my report for the week. Is there any questions . High have a question for you. Last time i talk to you, at our last meeting, we talked about the founder had not been an officer involved shooting in San Francisco. Im just wondering is that statistic still moving. S, sir, it is. We are really happy that our last officer involved shooting was june 9 of 2018. Its been almost 14 months now. It a stunning statistic really. Ive asked the staff and im going to ask again. Im curious to know if there were any other major cities in the United States to have statistics that are anything like that. Crime is down in the city right now, and we are doing it with less lethal force. I think that is a great sign, for the department. Let me ask one brief question today that was news broke that the feds, the dea was working together with i understand i. C. E. To conduct, or made some arrests, is the department anyway coordinated with the feds on this one . My understanding, from talking to the special agent in charge of the dea, number one the department does collaborate with federal entities on drug enforcement, and operations, or investigations that meet federal criteria. My understanding from my discussions with the people in charge, the dea, and the San Francisco u. S. Attorney, is that Homeland Security investigations which only handles criminal investigations is the entity that is involved in that, not the immigration enforcement, which is the enforcement arm of immigration violations. H. S. I. Is a part of this. We work with h. S. I. Before on homicide investigations that i talked about in front of this fleet division. The only do criminal investigations. We have collaborated with them on the drug dealing, in the city. To my understanding there is no enforcement in terms of immigration that we are involved in any way. I guess, that is some of the reporting saying that i. C. E. Was part of the Collaborative Team there. I think people were concerned about it and it just came out this afternoon, or i heard about it this afternoon. Was the department involved in these investigations . The department has been involved in the investigation. We were involved in a press conference. It went beyond the investigation, as they announced efforts with additional prosecutors that will be adopting federal cases. If they meet federal criteria. We have been involved in have collaborated with the dea on narcotics investigation. Criminal activity. Were any of those turned over to i. C. E. . No. Next item please. Item 3b, epa directors report. Report on recent epa activities and announcements. The report will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future Commission Meeting. Good evening, director. Good evening, thank you. I have our Second Quarter document protocol on the consent calendar. I still have some of the same as similar stats i normally give at our meetings. And so at this. We are at 449 cases that have been open this year. This is up almost 50 more cases than we were at this. Last year. In terms of cases closed we are out there in 49s cases we have 349 cases we have closed this year versus 320 this time last year. In terms of open cases and cases pending we are at 407 versus 281 at this time last year. Hours disdain cases are 39 versus 29 at this time last year. Our cases that have gone beyond nine months, are 34. We were at 35 this time last year. Our cases that have been mediated are also increasing. We are at 24 so far this year. Which we were out 14 this year, and just for the record, that number is reflective of more than what we did for the entire amount of last year. A lot of the mediations are up in the department. In terms of the technology we are still adjusting with our new Case Management system. For the past few weeks we have exhaustively been transferring our old existing case data for a new system and learning how to use it with the staff. Again, a lot of what we are doing is using our new system to its fullest capacity which will automate and make broader transparencies to connect and compare our data with the San Francisco Police Departments data. My staff met with last week, the department the Police Department internal Affairs Staff to discuss setting up information transfer for the Early Intervention system. We have some of the data before, but now we have an opportunity to make the informational flow reciprocal and not just backandforth based on requests made we are in the early stages of it, because once we are able to connect and share the information back, we can also elevate that information and participate with data. That part of our project with our informational system starts next week. The entire city uses of the public can access information as well. We have a case on a closed session today, hawkins will be the attorney there. The audience today have my chief of staff at hawkins, active senior investigator and obviously all of the interns that have been with us for all of the summer that are prepared to make their presentation. Im really excited about the stuff they have to say. We really put a lot of work into the Internship Program this year. We want to maintain it throughout the year, next year as well. Thank you guys ahead of time for your attention and allowing us to make the presentation. I have a question for you. There was a question that was posed to me by a member of the public. The person asked whether the dpa does followup with vivid individuals on officers that go through mediation, to debrief and get their feedback as to the value of that process and am just wondering if you do that . Not only do we test at a rate the individual expenses both from the officer side and from the complainant site, but we followup separately to find out if we can get feedback so we are constantly improving it and by improving it, i mean, making notification and tweaks on how to best prepare force of his specific types of complaints. And how to assign specific mediators. Right now, for example, one of the things that is on the table right now is for us to talk about some group or type mediations for people that have general complaints that are not specific to an individual officer but speak to individual policies, im not just the Police Department, but specific areas. If there are problems associated with a specific part, and specific locations that are constantly happening. How do we raise that discussion with dpa acting as a media airy to allow those conversations to take place and have the department respond without having to be a complaint, or having it evolve out of a complaint beyond a sustained, or not a sustained case. Does that make sense . It might be helpful for the commission, if once a year you could give us a summary of what your office has determined the value of the mediation. They would love that. My Mediation Team i have doubled it from this last year. I wanted these numbers to go up, i wanted to have broader mediation. Specifically to engage and address folks that are making complaints. They will not be resolved by a sustained case or could it be resolved with a sustained case. They just want a broader audience to voice their concerns about something that they participated in, observed, or know about so yes, i welcome that opportunity and we can sit down and schedule something. Okay. Next item, please. The presentation regarding dpas Internship Program. Hi there. Good evening to you all. Good evening president hirsch, my name is ms. Thompson, im an attorney with the department or Police Accountability and a supervisor of our fellowship Intern Program. Our structured Intern Program has been full of showing the intersections of government, community and the private sector. We have a legal aspect of focus, and our interns engage in a variety of interviews that lend to the workings of dpa. Our summer dpa Intern Program 2019 consists of [reading notes] we were honored and privileged to be given the opportunity to be a part of opportunities for all. It is initiative started by mayor london breed to address economic inequality by assuring all young people can be be a part of San Franciscos thriving economy. Led by executive director, cheryl davis of the human rights commission. It allowed the majority of our interns to have a paid internship. This is a tremendous opportunity and a blessing for the students. As we all know, internships are unpaid. This allowed to alleviate that burden of going this summer and allowing to pursue your dreams of actually being in the Workforce One day. We are extremely grateful for the opportunity to have worked with osa, hrc and partnering agencies who really played a Critical Role