President hirsch okay. Good evening, everyone. This is the november 6, 2019 meeting of the San FranciscoPolice Commission. We do have a long closed session agenda, so well allow two minutes for Public Comment, and with that, were ready for the first item. Clerk line item one, adoption of minutes, action for the meeting of october 2, 2019. President hirsch is there a motion to adopt . So moved. President hirsch all right. Any discussion . We need comment on that. Any Public Comment on the adopt of the minutes, the motion . All right. Seeing none, all in favor . Opposed . Carried unanimously. Clerk motion passes. Line item 2, consent calendar. Police consent disciplinary action Third Quarter 2019. President hirsch all right. Is there any discussion on this that we need to have . All right. Can i have a motion on the consent calendar item . So moved. Second. President hirsch i need Public Comment on the adoption of the report, Third Quarter disciplinary actions. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All in favor . Opposed . That carries. Clerk line item three, reports to the commission, discussion. 3a, chiefs report. Crime trends. Produce a report on crime trends in San Francisco including Sexual Assaults. Chiefs report will be limited to a brief report of the significant incidents. Discussion will be limited to describi describing an incident for a future meeting. Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for future meetings. Staffing and overtime, status of current Staffing Levels and over time. President hirsch okay. Thank you. Thank you, president hirsch and commissioners. Overall, part one crime, overall serious crimes, we are down overall 6 . Our total property crimes are down also 6 . We continue to have few you are reported incidents in all categories of property crimes, includi including auto burglaries which are down 20 compared to 2018 and 19 when compared to 2017. In terms of violent crime, were down 8 . Specifically, we have 33 homicides to date. Weve had no homicides for the last week, and the last reported homicide incident was october 26. We had four homicides in the month of october, unfortunately, and three in the month of september. 22 of the 33 cases have been cleared, 21 cleared by arrest and one cleared by exceptional clearance. Looking at our gun violence, we are at 112 victims of gun violence and that includes two shooting incidents. This represents a 12 decrease from 2018, so were really pleased that we have a reduction in gun violence, as well. Of the 112 victims, 20 have sustained fatal wounds, 20 with a firearm to date. Which is a small reduction. We had 21 last year. When you look at the fiveyear trend in firearms yeartodate involving a firearm, this is the lowest in the last six years, actually, at 20. Our yeartodate homicides, when you look at the trend line, this is the lowest amount of homicides that weve had this point in the year the last six years. We hope to keep that trend going in the upcoming year and beyond. There are two shooting injuries in the last week that resulted in injuries to victims. One occurred at an unknown location which the victim was selftransported to a local hospital. The victim provided no information as to where the shooting occurred, so police are still trying to investigate where that shooting occurred. The other incident involved a robbery attempt that occurred at navy and griffith in the bayview area. That victim was injured but is expected to survive and that incident is also under investigation. Halloween last week, we had a very heavy deployment for halloween. It was a peaceful night with no major incidents. We had good weather and very few problems. Five districts that are particularly very busy were the areas that were most impacted by halloween crowds. There were a total of eight felony arrests, one felony arrest warrant, one served for 647f of the penal code, which is public intoxication. 19 medical calls for service and one arrest for driving under the influence halloween night. During this past week, we also had three major injury traffic collisions resulting unfortunately in one fatality and four injuries. The fatal incident was a vehicle versus pedestrian which occurred on halloween after evening, actually. It was about 330 in the evening at south vanness. In this case, a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle as she tried to across the street. The driver stayed at the scene and the investigation is ongoing, but unfortunately, the victim did not survive her injuries. The major events this week, we have already 30 events around the city this week highlighted of course by the chase center where the Golden State Warriors kicked off their season last week, and they will be back in town next monday against the utah jazz. There have been no major concerns, although traffic continues to be a challenge. And again, thats evolving. As the season wears on, we hope to straighten out some of the traffic calendars in conjunction with m. T. A. Other major events include Cirque Du Soleil which kicked off their season in the parking lot of the oracle park. With again, the concerts and events creates Traffic Congestion but no major events associated with the event. Quickly on staffing and overtime, for the first three months of the fiscal year, we spent, according to budget, about 25 of our budget, so were right on track if we continue to the spending trend that were seeing for the first three months of the year. We do have a few preplanned events, including new years eve, and we do have events toward the end of the fiscal year, which is pride. Halloween is the Third Largest event during the year, so were reconciling those numbers. I would like to point out our mutual aid requests for the w sonoma fires, including a 24hour a day, sevenday a week Operations Center in support of the logistics and the deployment of our 227 officers. Preliminarily, we expended 3,333 overtime hours, and we do expect reimbursement, however, as this is a reimbursable event, so well keep on top of that. In terms of staffing, we are at full duty sworn staffing of 1,859 officers, which is 112 positions below the mandated 1,971. We just had an Academy Class that graduated last friday with 28 recruits. We also had a new class that will be starting on december 12 of this year, and that will be class 269. And then, we have class 270 thatll start on march 23, and class 71 thatll start on june 15, so were excited about that and hopefully, we can increase our attendance in the upcoming academies to our recruitment efforts. The last thing i want to update you on on our staffing is our Union Organization efforts. As you all know, the budget that was passed this year included 25 civilian positions. Of that, we have filled 13 of them. Six of the positions were officially posted last month, and we have six positions where were still working on examination analysis materials, and we still have the posts. So 13 filled, six that we just posted, and six that we were still work being through the examination materials to actually see the new positions that we have to actually create requisitions for, so were in that process, as well. And the last thing in this portion of my report, i want to speak to a news article that i think it was friday in one of the local papers regarding j f jttf. Most of the information was taken from a blog site. The article highlighted a document authored by the f. B. I. , and for us, just want to point out to the commission and the public that we are still not actively involved in the jttf, and as you all know, the commission any jttf discussion will be brought before the commission, at which time if we decide that thats the direction well go, working with the commission and the Mayors Office and the Police Department. We are working to make the best decision in the interests of the city. Thats where we are and what i can comment at this point, but i just want to make sure that the public understands that our position has not changed, and thats where we are at this point. And thats it for this portion of the chiefs report. President hirsch thank you. Any questions . Commissioner elias . Commissioner elias thank you. I have several questions. On the classes that you mentions, 269, 270, 271, do you have any idea of what the class size is going to be . Were still in the process part of budget process this here is they actually cut down the class size that we were authorized, so were hoping, you know, in approxima the mid30s, but up until we fill that class, that process really goes until the academy starts because were always having classes. Sometimes we lose some, sometimes we gain some, but were hoping we are at our authorized number, which is 30 for those classes. Commissioner elias and then, my other question was regarding the sort of articles that came out. So i was wondering what i was wondering about, in the articles, it mentioned sort of a white paper, and im wondering what you know, if you know what this white paper is and sort of some of the stats that were mentioned in the article that cased that that indicated that the Police Department had, that those stats were being provided to the v. P. A. So they could be included in their reports because i understand some of their reports are blank or dont have these records, but its because they havent been provided the records. So im concerned or maybe wondering these records, if they exist and are not being provided to the d. P. A. Yes. In regards to the first part, i am aware of it or was aware of it. There is still investigation on that matter, so inappropriate to go into detail on it at this point. In regards to the second question, there and thats part of the issue at hand in terms of what can be turned over to d. P. A. And what cant. Everything that was connected to those investigations, from my understanding, that was before i arrived in town here. But everything that is connected to those investigations are classified and cannot be turned over and was not turned over to d. P. A. I think thats part of the discussion connected to as we evaluate 810 and d. G. O. S related to that issue. Commissioner elias and then, my third question, am i question in understanding i know you had said a few years ago there was an m. O. U. That you it signed regarding a Drug Task Force in the tenderloin. Is that the only operation that sfpd is engaged in with the federal government in terms of sort of Law Enforcement activities . There are operations ongoing, and they, in terms of our work with, whether it be the d. E. A. Or other f. B. I. , other federal agencies. The department was provided with a copy of our m. O. U. , so theres hundreds of m. O. U. S. So in terms of your question, are there other m. O. U. S with the federal government, there are some, but i dont i cant list them all off the top of my head, but the commission was given copies of that when we the commission passed, i think 2. 04. Commissioner elias right. And i know when we asked for all those m. O. U. S, that was prior to your announcement that you had resumed sort of working with f. B. I. On a task force. And i guess my concern is i want to make sure i know that they have different interests than sf papd and tha has led to lawsuits in terms of best practices, so i want to make sure that things like that dont happen again. Some of the best practices dont involve m. O. U. S, but like any operation, we have to abide by city and county policies and Police Department policies. So thats the first safeguard. We have to abide by our policies. We cant get around that, nor do we want to. You can rest assured in terms of any immigration issues or those types of things, that we are very mindful and careful of that when we engage in any operations with any federal agency. And you know, thats high le l levels of reviews that we have in our d. G. O. Required for interagency operations. Its actually a protocol that we have to follow when we do an interagency operation. So there are levels of reviews to safeguard against our officers not following sfpd policies or getting into a situation where that might be a risk to that. So good policies in place, and you know, we do follow them, and i think that protects us from that concern. President hirsch commissioner mazzucco . Commissioner mazzucco thank you. Thank you for filling us in on staffing. Weve heard that San FranciscoPolice Officers are lateraling or looking to transfer to other agencies. Ive heard that from several different sources, so im worried about having enough officers go through the academy and making their way through, and wondering why officers want to leave. We have lost some officers, and we do conduct exit interviews with those officers because we want to know why. Some of the answers weve heard lately are commutes. A lot of issues, the officers live far away. They get offers closer to home, and its more desirable for them. Some other officers leave for different reasons, including discipline. Some officers leave for better pay. Some officers leave because theyre just dissatisfied, you know, with either the department or policing in the city, so it kind of runs the gamut, so we do a lot of work to try to determine why officers are leaving when they lateral out, and those areas that we can work on and fix, we try to mitigate those. But its hard to contend the other reason, just one other, is family reasons. We had a few officers and these are mostly newer officers to the department, that they leave for whatever their family situation is that makes it not, either timing wise or just not agreeable to their family situation. Commissioner mazzucco one of the issues you just raised, officers with discipline, hopefully, these Police Departments understand if officers have discipline events with us, that information is given to other departments. Their background investigation, depending how thorough they are, they do follow up, and theres a process for that. Commissioner mazzucco and then second, i notice that commander perea testified before the board of supervisors about the number of traffic citations that the officers are issuing, and there was a concern that theres not enough citations being issued, and he gave an explanation, so i just might add, i met with a couple young officers and asked how long does it take to write a citation now under the new format, and its literally a 15to30minute process because they have to synchronize their clocks with the body worn camera. I think its important for the board of supervisors to know that theyre following what we asked them to do. And also, its kind of hard to make traffic stops when you have calls for service that arent being responded to. You dont have time to make traffic stops, so i think that was good to make that classification from the boots on the ground clarification from the boots on the ground. Thank you for that. We are always looking for improvement, but that is one of the areas where information to the public and education to the public, there are a lot of administrative tasks that officers have to do that they didnt have to do three years ago. The department didnt have bodyworn cameras three years ago. The department didnt have the racial profiling act three years ago. All of those administrative tasks, they do the work on the back end. And we are looking into how that impacts our deployment, which it does have an accouimp. Were going to do the best we can, but it does have an impact, and they do take time. Commissioner mazzucco i just wanted to get that out there. President hirsch commissioner dejesus, and welcome back. Commissioner dejesus thank you. I just wanted to get some information. You said in your report, the department wasnt involved. Did you say with the f. B. I. , under an m. O. U. With the jttf. Commissioner dejesus you said in your report, the departments not actively involved. Commissioner elias i think he said actively involved in jttf. Commissioner dejesus okay. Thank you. Thank you. And then i guess going back to the article, when you first came on board, i think you suspended the jttf that was in place. Correct. Commissioner dejesus im assuming that m. O. U. Has expired. Yes, it has. Commissioner dejesus and you mentioned that if any new contract came with a jttf, it would come in front of this commission. Yes, as well as any new contract with a d. G. O. 10. Thats one of the things that regardless of how jttf goes, thats one of the things that we are looking at, as well. President hirsch for members of the public, there was a civil grand jury that was convened in 20182019, and in the summer of 2019, this year, they issued a report, and it focused on the Police Departments lack of involvement with the joint Terrorism Task force with the f. B. I. , and a response was required from the police chief, from the mayor, and from myself. My response is posted on the San FranciscoPolice Commission website, and i think i made it as clear as i could to the grand jury and to the city that we are not the Police Department is not part of the joint Terrorism Task force right now, and if that ever becomes a ripe issue where the city seeks to participate again, i committed that i would make sure that the civil rights organizations that helped draft general order 810 will be part of any working group along with the f. B. I. , along with the department, along with other interested parties in working through the many issues that existed, and there are issues, and theres a reason why the department hasnt participated in the jfft for the last 2. 5 years, so thats available if anybody wants to read it. Commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner hamasaki thank you. Chief, you may have covered this before i arrived, and i apologize for my lateness. Traffic here is lovely. And i had actually emailed you, requesting that you address the articles in the white paper that it come out regarding the departments past participation with jttf. And