[ ] i really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world, you shouldnt just be something in museums, and i love that the people can just go there and it is there for everyone. [ ] i would say i am a multidimensional artist. I came out of painting, but have also really enjoyed tactile properties of artwork and tile work. I always have an interest in public art. I really believe that art should be available to people for free, and it should be part of our world. You shouldnt just be something in museums. I love that people can just go there, and it is there for everyone. Public art is art with a job to do. It is a place where the architecture meets the public. Where the artist takes the meaning of the site, and gives a voice to its. We commission culture, murals, mosaics, black pieces, cut to mental, different types of material. It is not just downtown, or the big sculptures you see, we are in the neighborhood. Those are some of the most beloved kinds of projects that really give our libraries and Recreation Centers a sense of uniqueness, and being specific to that neighborhood. Colette test on a number of those projects for its. One of my favorites is the oceanview library, as well as several parks, and the steps. Mosaics are created with tile that is either broken or cut in some way, and rearranged to make a pattern. You need to use a tool, nippers, as they are called, to actually shape the tiles of it so you can get them to fit incorrectly. I glued them to mash, and then they are taken, now usually installed by someone who is not to me, and they put cement on the wall, and they pick up the mash with the tiles attached to it, and they stick it to the wall, and then they groped it afterwards. [ ] we had never really seen artwork done on a stairway of the kinds that we were thinking of because our idea was very just barely pictorial, and to have a picture broken up like that, we were not sure if it would visually work. So we just took paper that size and drew what our idea was, and cut it into strips, and took it down there and taped it to the steps, and stepped back and looked around, and walked up and down and figured out how it would really work visually. [ ] my theme was chinese heights because i find them very beautiful. And also because mosaic is such a heavy, dens, static medium, and i always like to try and incorporate movement into its, and i work with the theme of water a lot, with wind, with clouds, just because i like movements and lightness, so i liked the contrast of making kites out of very heavy, hard material. So one side is a dragon kite, and then there are several different kites in the sky with the clouds, and a little girl below flying it. [ ] there are pieces that are particularly meaningful to me. During the time that we were working on it, my son was a disaffected, unhappy high school student. There was a day where i was on the way to take them to school, and he was looking glum, as usual, and so halfway to school, i turned around and said, how about if i tell the school you are sick and you come make tiles with us, so there is a tile that he made to. It is a little bird. The relationship with a work of art is something that develops over time, and if you have memories connected with a place from when you are a child, and you come back and you see it again with the eyes of an adult, it is a different thing, and is just part of what makes the city an exciting place. [ ] i view San Francisco almost as a sibling or a parent or something. I just love the city. I love everything about it. When im away from it, i miss it like a person. I grew up in San Francisco kind of all over the city. We had pretty much the run of the city cause we lived pretty close to polk street, and so we would in the summer, wed all all the way down to aquatic park, and wed walk down to the library, to the kids center. In those days, the city was safe and nobody worried about us running around. I went to high school in spring valley. It was over the hill from chinatown. It was kind of fun to experience being in a minority, which most white people dont get to experience that often. Everything was just really within walking distance, so it make it really fun. When i was a teenager, we didnt have a lot of money. We could go to sam wongs and get super soup for 1. My parents came here and were drawn to the beatnik culture. They wanted to meet all of the writers who were so famous at the time, but my mother had some serious Mental Illness issues, and i dont think my father were really aware of that, and those didnt really become evident until i was about five, i guess, and my marriage blew up, and my mother took me all over the world. Most of those ad ventures ended up bad because they would end up hospitalized. When i was about six i guess, my mother took me to japan, and that was a very interesting trip where we went over with a boyfriend of hers, and he was working there. I remember the open sewers and gigantic frogs that lived in the sewers and things like that. Mostly i remember the smells very intensely, but i loved japan. It was wonderful. Toward the end. My mother had a breakdown, and that was the cycle. We would go somewhere, stay for a certain amount of months, a year, period of time, and she would inevitably have a breakdown. We always came back to San Francisco which i guess came me some sense of continuity and that was what kept me sort of stable. My mother hated to fly, so she would always make us take ships places, so on this particular occasion when i was, i think, 12, we were on this ship getting ready to go through the panama canal, and she had a breakdown on the ship. So she was put in the brig, and i was left to wander the ship until we got to fluorfluora few days later, where we had a distant florida a few days later, where we had a distant cousin who came and got us. I think i always knew i was a writer on some level, but i kind of stopped when i became a cop. I used to write short stories, and i thought someday im going to write a book about all these ad ventures that my mother took me on. When i became a cop, i found i turned off parts of my brain. I found i had to learn to conform, which was not anything id really been taught but felt very safe to me. I think i was drawn to police work because after coming from such chaos, it seemed like a very organized, but stable environment. And even though things happening, it felt like putting order on chaos and that felt very safe to me. My girlfriend and i were sitting in ve 150d uvios bar, and i looked out the window and i saw a police car, and there was a woman who looked like me driving the car. For a moment, i thought i was me. And i turned to my friend and i said, i think im supposed to do this. I saw myself driving in this car. As a child, we never thought of police work as a possibility for women because there werent any until the mid70s, so i had only even begun to notice there were women doing this job. When i saw here, it seemed like this is what i was meant to do. One of my bosses as ben johnsons had been a cop, and he i said, i have this weird idea that i should do this. He said, i think youd be good. The department was forced to hire us, and because of all of the posters, and the big recruitment drive, we were under the impression that they were glad to have us, but in reality, most of the men did not want the women there. So the big challenge was constantly feeling like you had to prove yourself and feeling like if you did not do a good job, you were letting down your entire gender. Finally took an inspectors test and passed that and then went down to the hall of justice and worked different investigations for the rest of my career, which was fun. I just felt sort of buried alive in all of these cases, these unsolved mysteries that there were just so many of them, and some of them, i didnt know if wed ever be able to solve, so my boss was able to get me out of the unit. He transferred me out, and a couple of weeks later, i found out i had breast cancer. My intuition that the job was killing me. I ended up leaving, and by then, i had 28 years or the years in, i think. The writing thing really became intense when i was going through treatment for cancer because i felt like there were so many parts that my kids didnt know. They didnt know my story, they didnt know why i had a relationship with my mother, why we had no family to speak of. It just poured out of me. I gave it to a friend who is an editor, and she said i think this would be publishable and i think people would be interested in this. I am so lucky to live here. I am so grateful to my parents who decided to move to the city. I am so grateful they did. That it neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Would you like to take roll. [ roll call ]. President , you have a quorum. Thank you. You always know the a students. They always said present as opposed to here in class. This is the San FranciscoPolice Commission meeting of october 9, 2019. I want to welcome a new employee of ours, phil lowhouse. Welcome aboard. Hell be working with the commission as an adviser. We dont have an extremely lengthy agenda tonight, so there will be three minutes for public comment. With that, were ready for the first item. Line item 1 a . Chiefs report. Update on youth engagement. Weekly crime trends provide an overview of trends occurring in San Francisco. Chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of the incidents. The discussion will be limited to calendar any of the incidents the chief describes for a future Commission Meeting. Major events. Provide a planned summary of events occurring since the previous meeting. This will include a brief overview of unplanned events in San Francisco having an impact on public safety. Commission discussion on unplanned events or activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether the calendar for any future meeting. Presentation of the Early Intervention system Second Quarter 2019 report. Okay. Good evening, chief. Good evening, president , Vice President , commissioners, and director. I would like to start off this week with commander daryl fong presenting on our youth engagement. We have retired command officer rick bruce here. So we want to highlight some of the work done with our youth engagement. Commander fung. Good evening president , Vice President , commissioners, director. My name is daryl fung, commander of the Departments Community engagement division. At the Commission Meeting on september 11, we presented an overview of the departments participation in a 2019 summer intern youth program. At the conclusion of that presentation, the commission requested the Department Submit followup presentation following metrics which is contained in the report contained in front of you today. Regarding the Summer Youth Intern Program in summary, over 2180 youth have participated in the s. F. P. D. Sponsored projects including future grads, project poll, youth works, and a youth career academy. The Largest Group presented was africanamerican with 55 of the participants, followed by asian youth with 18 followed by latinex. Currently the department does not have a system implementation in place to follow up with interns after the program. However, it was determined that the Community Engagement division will work with the recruitment unit to develop a process in which a career in Law Enforcement presentation will be provided to summer interns as a component of their Program Participation in the future. This presentation is currently done for the paid parttime Police Cadets as a means to encourage and nurture those interested in a career in Law Enforcement to pursue a career with the San FranciscoPolice Department. Furthermore, the Community Engagement division will provide the list of participants from the 2019 Summer Program to the recruitment unit to conduct outreach to these young adults to gauge their interest in future career in Law Enforcement. Now, in regards to the paid police Cadet Program, there have been 146 paid cadets hired since the program was reintroduced in 2015. There are currently 43 cadets on staff with funding available for an additional 23 positions. Now, while we do not have statistics on whether or not any of these paid cadets have participated in summer intern programs, we do know that at least 15 were graduates of the San Francisco pal summer cadets academy. Of the 146 cadets, 30 have been hired as Police Officer recruits with our department, with eight currently in the basic academy. We also currently have 15 paid cadets going through the hiring process at this time. In addition, there have been an additional 15 cadets who have accepted positions with other Law Enforcement agencies throughout the region. That concludes my report and update regarding our youth intern programs. Thank you. Any questions from commissioners . I dont see any, so thank you. Great. Thank you, commissioners. Now its my pleasure to introduce retired captain rick bruce, longstanding board member, to present an overview of the s. F. P. L. Cadet program. Good evening. Thank you. Good evening president and members of the Police Commission, chief scott. Its our honor to be here tonight. We wanted to give you a brief overview of the p. A. L. Ive been involved with the p. A. L. For 25 years and weve been a bit remiss because we havent made a presentation during that 25year period. We celebrated our 60anniversary. Chief scott has been a tremendous supporter of the p. A. L. And thats one of the reasons were here tonight, just to express our support for chief scott and everything hes done for this program. In terms of why were around and how p. A. L. S came into being. Its 105 years ago in 1914 in new york city, a Police Commissioner named arthur woods looking at these millions of children streaming in and there were no playgrounds. So he directed his Police Officers to go and find vacant lots. He did that and he would station a Police Officer at a vacant lot and the kids were free to go and play. They ran out of vacant lots. So they started what they called the play streets program. What he did was cordoned off blocks in man hat tan. He would barricade off a street. That program grew into the new York Police Athletic League at that time, eventually the athletics league. They had a famous guy on their board of directors, babe ruth. That program spread around the east coast. In 1954 there was an officer named joe martin. He was working in the louisville, kentucky, department. He was approached by a 12yearold boy who told him that his bike had been stolen and he wanted to go out and get the bullies. Officer martin told him he wouldnt do that, but he would teach him how to box if he came down to the gym. The boy came down and between 1950 and 1960 he won Golden Gloves championships. He went to rome and he was a light heavyweight. There was this old cop from the Louisville Police department, martin. Those two remained friends until his passing. Thats kind of the background in terms of why p. A. L. S are arent and the type of mentorship that can take place. In 1959, a group of San FranciscoPolice Officers got together. They literally went to the Police Credit union. They took out a small loan of a few thousand dollars. They started what they called the Police Athletic league at that time, so 60 years ago. If you were a kid growing up in 1960s San Francisco and you had any athletic ability at all, you were a p. A. L. Kid. All the great athletes participated in p. A. L. Programming. We didnt have the type of programming we have across north america. So the p. A. L. Filled a void in San Francisco. It became coeducational in the 1970s and expanded to a lot of different types of programming, hence the change from Police Athletic league to Police Activities league. In those ensuing 60 years, our program has produced some incredible san franciscans, including two chiefs of police. Chief heather fong was a p. A. L. Cadet. Weve got a couple of cadets with us tonight. If you go back with those of you who are sports fans, just a few years ago, when the 9ers were still a candlestick, there was a year where jason hill and donald strikland were on the field at the same time. They came out of our program. Thats a broadbrush stroke to what the p. A. L. Has done. Our commission has been keep kids off the streets and on the fields. We were a large Umbrella Organization when i got involved in the early 1990s, where we had, for example, 3,000 soccer ki kids. But we didnt have a huge level of involvement for Police Officers. We made a decision at our board of directors that every p. A. L. Program was going to have a really large stake of Police Officers involved. Weve done that since that time. Our current programs, ill go through them for you very briefly, we still have our football program, its out there at kimbell playground. Theyre on the field as we speak. Chief sc