Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

[roll call] commissioner, you have a quorum. Also present our chief scott of the San Francisco Police Department and director Paul Henderson from the department of police accountability. Okay, good evening, everybody this is the september 11th, 2019, meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission, and i would like to say that we sit here tonight in memory of the people who died 18 years ago on september 11th, 2001. We have a long meeting tonight so we will allow two minutes for Public Comment, and we are ready for the first item. Item one is adoption of minutes, action, for the meeting of august seventh, 2019. Is there a motion . I so move. Is there a second . Second. Public comment . Public comment on the minutes hang on, i dont think that is on. Okay. Go ahead. My family has been four generations in San Francisco. I was very active in Civic Affairs for a long time and a federal Civil Servants and i spent i expect a lot. I really expect good service in San Francisco, including the police. I believe that if i went to the special victims unit today, i should see a sign up there that says abandon hope all you enter here. Let me stop you for a second were just taking comments on the minutes right now. Im sorry. I thought it was general Public Comment. No, we havent gotten there yet. I will come back. Thank you. Is there any comment on the minutes . Hearing none, comments are closed. Can we have the vote please . All in favor for the adoption of minutes for the meeting of august seventh, 2019 aye. Any opposed . The motion passes unanimously. Next item, please. Line item two his reports to the commission, discussion. Chiefs report, weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offences acquiring in San Francisco, including an update on overall reported Human Trafficking incidents and homicide clearance rates. Significant incidents, chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for a future Commission Meeting major events, provide a summary of planned activities and events occurring since a 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 calendar for a future meeting. Overtime expenditures for fiscal year 20182019. Presentation highlighting the departments participation in the opportunities for all summer intern programs. Presentation of the Second Quarter, 2019 audit of electronic communication devices for bias. And status update regarding building 606 located at the old hunter Hunters Point shipyard. Thank you, good evening, chief. Good evening, commissioners. I will start off with our crime trends for this week. Overall, part one crimes are down 9 . Our total property crimes are down eight his and this includes eight and this includes burglary, auto thefts, and arson. We continue to have fewer reported incidents. Our auto burglaries are down 9 when compared to 2018, and 21 when included include compared to 2017. For Violent Crimes, the total Violent Crimes is down 11 , led by our homicide, which is down 21 yeartodate. We have 207 homicides compared to 34 this time last year. This is a 20 this is a 21 increase. We did have one homicide in the past week and i will give more detail on that in a second. In terms of gun violence, we have a total of 94 victims of gun violence yeartodate and that is a 12 decrease from this time last year. Of done violence, 16 of our students shootings have been fatal and there have been 75 shooting incidents causing injuries that resulted in injuries 278 victims yeartodate. I want to speak a little bit about the homicide clearance rates. We are doing really well with clearance rates for homicides, we have an 81 clearance right yeartodate, and i just want to note that last year, we ended the year with a 100 clearance rate which is really, really good work by our homicide team. We will continue to reach out to the public and work the cases that we have not solved. There are a number of cases we have not solved and we are continually working on those cases, but we are really pleased with the progress of our homicide unit and their work yeartodate. I think a lot of that has to do with our outreach to the community, in addition to good detective work by investigators as i mentioned, we did have one homicide this past week. That was in the 300 block in ingleside district. It occurred on sunday, september 8th at about 9 00 p. M. Two victims were sitting in their vehicle one an unknown suspect fired in their direction. The male victim received multiple gunshot wounds and was declared deceased at the scene. The female victim was also struck by gunfire but she was transported to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Investigators are working on that case and we are asking for the publics help. If anybody has any information, please call the tip line at 5754444. We also had four other incidents, four shooting incidents resulting in six victims with injuries over this past week. We had a shooting last night at 17th and mississippi in the southern district. We had a shooting on sunday, the timber eighth, at union and poke and the north end district we had an unrelated shooting at golden gate and poke on sunday when the victim walked into the hospital. On sunday, september 8th, we also had a shooting in the 300 block of venice van ness. All of those shootings are under investigation so we hope to bring them to resolution. Again, if the public has any information regarding any of those violent acts, please call us. In terms of traffic, we have four major injuries collisions over the past week. Vehicle versus pedestrian were our biggest causes of accidents or collisions. Three of our four major injuries were vehicle versus pedestrian. We had a 12yearold child struck at golden gate. This occurred on september 10 th, yesterday. It resulted in an arrest of the driver for driving under the influence. The child was transported and is in serious condition. We also had vehicle versus pedestrian collision that occurred at sixth and harrison. Almost 6 00 in the morning. That vehicle, that pedestrian also was transported with serious injuries and is expected to survive. On september 6th, we had another vehicle versus pedestrian on Mission Street in ingleside district. This occurred at 9 45 p. M. In the evening, and that victim is also expected to survive. The other incident involved three vehicles with critical injuries. This occurred on september 9th at 6 10 p. M. At san jose street. Again, we are continuing with the focus on our vision zero. We have upped our Vision Zero Team and our traffic company, we have doubled in size from four officers to eight, and they will focus on the five enforcement areas where we see most of our traffic collisions occurring, and focus on high injury corridors where these accidents occur. Major events for this week, the opening of the chase center occurred last week with the metallica concert. It was a very well attended event. A lot of excitement with the opening of the chase centre. We didnt have any major issues there. We didnt see any spikes in crime, and we did have traffic congestion, which we are continuing working with m. T. A. And the warriors and the giants organizations to make sure that we do everything we can to mitigate the traffic concerns, but so far, everything has worked really well and we are really excited to bring the words in and be a part of that. Next they want to give an update on the overtime expenditure. Our 2019 over time, the budget is enclosed for that period for that fiscal year, last fiscal year. We closed within our General Fund Budget of 19. 2 million, and we are actually 1,800 under with our overtime. Im very happy to report that. I know that has been a big issue that the Police Commission has been following and we will continue to try to tighten up our overtime, our systems and controls, and stay with our taxpayers money. This is a second year in a row that we have met our overtime budget. Next, i would like to talk a little bit, this is a followup for Human Trafficking. I know commissioner taylor had asked for followup with our Human Trafficking, and basically with the issue was, last year we saw a pretty significant increase in our Human Trafficking cases over the year before and this year we are seeing a significant decrease in the question was asked, what is the reason for . We really dug into it. A couple of things we have found. We spend a lot of time and effort because of the community complaints, particularly in the mission district, with focusing on some of these streetlevel activities that were happening in terms of Human Trafficking. As a result, we had an uptick in reports and arrests, and some of those, what we found is some of those reports and arrests were miscoded and some of them were missed. The good thing is we have a backup of our Human Trafficking unit, led by tony florez to hand count these cases. Inspector florez goes back and looks at each case, some of which had to be reclassified both ways. So we are in a process of updating our numbers to reflect the backup in terms of each one of those cases actually having human eyes on them rather than just relying on the coding and the reporting system. With that, what we have this year is 41 total Human Trafficking cases. If you look at the numbers, we only have 14 on the report from the original report. There were an additional 27 reports that had been upgraded to Human Trafficking after the investigators looked at them. Our total this year is actually 27. We also looked at last years Human Trafficking cases and got eyes on each one of those and what we discovered. There were 37 additional reports that did not make last years numbers. In total, they should have been there were 145 Human Trafficking investigations. Moving forward, what we will do is do actual hand searches, and make sure those numbers are reconciled before they get on the report. We have had to do that in a couple of other categories in the past, including Sexual Assault, and we still do it with homicide. We will still do that until it fixes our coding issues with these reports because when they are coated, they automatically go into the statistics, but the hand count with human eyes on them looking at the reports is a much more accurate way to do that at this time. In the future, moving forward, we will have these reports hand counted before we actually report them to the Police Commission, to correct the errors we found in this review of our cases. That concludes that part of my report if there are any questions. Any questions from commissioners . Thank you, chief. One thing that im going to be asking for in the future, and i thank you know at this point that im interested in these issues as a general matter. I know we had a presentation on the status of rape kits. They were incredibly helpful, but i would like a broader recommendation on the status of Sexual Assault and sexual trafficking in San Francisco, especially with respect to vulnerable victims. Lgbtq victims, victims were especially vulnerable to Sexual Assault, hotel maids, janitorial staff, people who work audit hours and are largely unseen and unheard of in our communities. So, these kinds of folks are often victims of Sexual Assault i want to know, i would like a report on the status of sexual report Sexual Assault in San Francisco as a general matter, but especially concerning vulnerable victims and what sfpd is doing to protect women and children with Sexual Assault and transgender victims , as well. Yes, maam,. Next item, i guess. Presentation and the opportunities for all former interns program. Commissioners, good evening. My name is darrell fong, commander of the department of communications division. Tonight i will be providing a brief overview of the departments participation in the opportunities for all summer intern program. I would like to provide a little history in terms of sfpd s participation in the summer Youth Programs. The program started in the summer of 2010 with the garden project, in which there were 50 youth that were employed and they were they learned about horticulture and good planting in that particular industry. In 2012, the future grads program was developed and implemented. In 2015, the San Francisco fire participated in a Community Safety Initiative Project program, as well as the mayor youth works program. In 2016, the youth career academy, under operation genesis, was developed and implemented. Since 2010, sfpd has hosted or supported approximately 2,000 youth in our communities during the summer months. They are still currently supporting all of the above summer job programs with the a section of the garden project. Under the opportunities for all program, which was announced in october of 2018 by the mayor, the goal was to expand Youth Employment and opportunities within the city and county of San Francisco for youth to create meaningful Work Opportunities for San Francisco youth and this was seen as a pathway to economic inclusion through exposure, engagement, experience, as well as employment. In june through august of this year, the youth participated in sfpds future grads program, which involved crew develop and partnerships with tech companies, where youve learned about coding, a partnership with Architectural Foundation San Francisco were youth also learned about Architectural Software design, and various sfpd units and administrative duties which included our passwords division, our Academy Training division, the Information Technology division , as well as other administrative functions. There was also Youth Community academy that was held one day a week for six weeks. In this academy, you the learned about their rights, about School Resources and officer duties, community policing, first aid, the department of emergency management, implicit bias, forced options, tactical demonstration, and there was a chiefs roundtable held, as well. This program involved 20 hours a week committed by the youth, and youth were recruited from the San Francisco unified School Districts throughout the High School High schools throughout the city. There are 37 heisel youth that participated. Twentyfive males, there were 37 High School Youth that participated. Also from june until july, the youth participated in youth career academy. This was a partnership between sfpd and operation genesis, spearheaded by officer jason johnson. This sixweek program exposed youth to various Career Opportunities within the community. There were three cohorts that were held. One in criminal justice, one in medical health and fitness, and one in stem, which entails science, technology, engineering and math exposure and training. There were various city agencies that participated in this program. The sheriffs office, the fire department, the d. A. s office, the public defenders office, idol probation and the s. F. Courts. In this program, they were 36 students that participated. There were 305 africanamerican , one hispanic, 22 females and 14 males. And the youth primarily who were recruited from the bayview Hunters Point community. Some of the highlights were youth having the opportunity to visit the state capitol, capital, visit the academy in San Francisco, visit the olympic club and also participate in a mock court trial were youth are given the opportunity to prosecute and defend a case. In june until july, there was also sfpd also hosted the Community Safety initiative, which was also in partnership with magic. This is a programmer youth participate in Group Projects related to sfpd and plantation of programs and Community Police strategies. They had an opportunity to learn about affect sfpd policies and procedures. The goal is to build strong relationships with youth due to increased dialogue. Youth participated by interviewing officers and community m