Crimes that you are describing. They are really awful crimes. The trend is downward except for the aggravated assault. And then this may again be based on some of the media reporting and some of the things that i have seen and there has been it seems like targeting of elderly individuals for street robberies or aggravated assaults, and again not that any other robbery is any less or any use of force, but when you are targeting older people, people with health issues, people that are unable to defend themselves not they should have to defend yourself, mind you is that also are we seeing trends in that regard . Because i just, you know, it is beyond me what would go i dont know. Seeing the nature of the crimes and the nature of the victims old people and children, to me it is like it is appalling. Yes, sir. Commissioners several of the ones that have gotten played on the news or social media have involved elderly victims. Overall in the district, and in chinatown, it is not an overwhelming trend. However, it varies. Through the investigation or there any other information that we have that are committing these crimes, we have not gotten any indication with their intend to target the elderly. These are crimes of opportunity. People can be taken advantage of for opportunistic and predatory reasons. However, very discouraging nonetheless. These resulted in injuries to bystanders who came to help the person who was getting robbed or assaulted. So again with the public, Public Engagement is a really good thing. We just ask that the people, you know, use good judgement. Be careful when you engage and call the police. First and foremost, call us, 911 that is the first and foremost. Like i said, some of the victims that have been injured were rendering aid to people that were being robbed or attacked. Finally, is there anything else that the department is lacking in regards to dealing with these incidents . Or the targeting that is going on in the district . I know more bodies, and i understand that. We have gotten support from the community. We have gotten support through the budget with additional funds we have used some of that funding throughout the time to find employment. It is a good thing to have because it really helps like i said, we can always want more and can use more. We have gotten good support. Thank you chief. Vice president taylor . Hi, chief. I have questions about vision zero efforts. You mentioned 26 traffic fatalities this year which is incredibly concerning. What were the numbers this time last year . Last year, in total, we had 22, i believe. This time last year was below 26 so we already exceeded the numbers for the entire year last year. Yes. I think last time the department was here presenting on vision zero efforts in one of the questions i had was what are you going to do differently . I really would like an answer to that question because obviously this is a big deal. So that is my second point. You might not have that today but i do want to hear what the department will do differently because our current efforts seem to be, i dont want to say failing, but they are succeeding i do have part of the answer. There is still more work to be done. This time of year last year, we had 19 for 2018 and 2017 yeartodate. We had 17. In 2016 we had 26. We are tied with that year. A couple of the things that we have done differently the first thing, and this goes back to what commissioner how masaki asked about, we had gone down as low as it had been in years. So since this time last year, we have added officers to address the Company Motorcycle officers , whose primary responsibility is traffic enforcement. We have increased. We have had two motorcycle officers which will be back over 50 now. We are down to the low forties. Although 10 or so officers might not sound like a lot, it is huge in terms of the ability to enforce. A couple of different strategies and tactics that we employ now that we didnt have a few months ago, through the deputy chief and special operations bureau, and the commander we actually had a vision zero unit. That has been increased to nine officers now. Their sole responsibility is vision zero enforcement. High traffic, high injury traffic corridors to focus on the five violations. Those types of things. They have been very productive since they have been increased on vision zero crimes and vision zero traffic violation, and it has been an enhancement, and part of the reason that our productivity in terms of enforcement is up by two where it was assigned last year. A couple of other things that are happening this is a work in progress but part of traffic mitigation and trying to reduce delays is education. There are partnerships with organizations. These make a difference. We have, not only vision zero issues with our vehicular traffic, but we also have issues with our pedestrian traffic. People walking in front of cars, jaywalking those types of things. The education enforcement is focused tremendously on that area. We have had one traffic cyclist fatality. Those things, we hope will pay dividends. The bottom line is there is a significant role from forces. People tend to drive better when we enforce. That is what we aim to do. My third question is we have 26 fatalities this year. What are the causes . Are these people under the influence . Are they texting while driving . Do you have has there been any analysis of what the factors are for these collisions . There has been a little bit of all of that. There has been a few under the influence, there has been several where pedestrians were jaywalking or committing a violation itself. We have had kind of a variety. There is no one overwhelming trend except for the majority of our fatalities our pedestrian by and large the majority our pedestrian. That is the biggest trend. The drivers who hit those pedestrians they were driving under the influence. We have had personnel who were said to be blinded by the sun. We have had people who started out from in between cars people who did not have a chance to stop speed there has been a little bit of all of that. It would be good to know, if possible if it is true that maybe we see an increase in d. U. I. S or we see an increase in speeding, whatever the issue is we could identify the root causes for the majority of those and tackle the root cause that may be one way to address this. Thank you. With weatherford with reference to these disturbing types of crimes, we are seeing the chinatown area. The former prosecutor in me sort of comes out. It does appear that members of the Asian Community are being targeted more often than other communities for robberies. And it also appears that a lot of robberies that you spoke about in the area what i see having an office down that way has to do with being close to a station. These are the things you sort of look at. Is a former prosecutor way back when we had a cooperating witness. This goes to working with the community. We had a cooperating witness who told us how they didnt divide targets for home invasions by identifying the homes, and we were told straight up that we knew that in those types of homes, culturally there is cash there is generally a gun and there is a 50 chance they will even call the police. I was in there for that debriefing. And i said, you know, we think we have to continue to educate the community. It is not a 50 chance to call the place. It is a disturbing trend. I look at it every day. You do see a lot of cell phone robberies off of market street. Obviously we have a strategic crime unit and we are looking at that. Im sure that is what we are doing. I cant help but notice that, i was extremely disturbed by those videos. I have seen a lot in my career and it is ridiculous. Thank you for that, commissioner. We have seen some other trends with a good number of our individuals that have been arrested who dont live in the city. Theyre coming from other areas. Sometimes they were using Public Transportation to get here. We have conducted a number of search warrants in the east bay and other cities in the east bay that is a concern in working with bart police and trying to do what we can to identify who we can. It will help. Hopefully we do it well. Thank you chief. You have one other item. Is that right . It is our thirdquarter and electronic audit of communications. Good evening commander. Good morning. Good evening it has been a long day. Good evening, president hirsch. As mentioned i am commander Robert Osullivan with the Risk Management office. Im here tonight to present with regards to the thirdquarter bias audit. This audit is conducted in regards to potential bias that maybe discovered through Electronic Communications that we used throughout the department. By way of background, the audits are limited to devices the department owns. Not any members personal devices. They do capture electronic passages that are transmitted from personal devices to department devices. All members are aware of this policy. Those policies are set forth in three different documents. First is the department general order 10. 08, use of procedures, and secondly, Department Bulletin 19051 which is title sfpd members expectation of privacy, use of computers, peripheral equipment and facilities, and finally a document that is referenced within the internal Affairs Division. So there are essentially three systems that are audited. The first is the California Law enforcement Telecommunication Telecommunications system which is commonly secondly department email, and last text messaging Via Department issue cellular phones. What id like to do is go through and give backgrounds of the systems these systems and provide you with these results. I believe each of the commissioners and director in chief have a letter from the chief that is responsive to this particular audit, as well as some statistics from the thirdquarter. First, it is a program that was established with searches and all entries made into the system using an established word list. The audit process is passive in nature and runs continuously. If a member uses one of the identified words a hit is generated automatically and sent to internal Affairs Division personnel via the level two access portal. Each is printed, scanned, and saved to a file. Staff then analyse is the hit throughout the week and those determined to be potentially biased are investigated. The level two audit process has been fully operational since beginning december of 2016. From july 1st through september 30th of this year, they were four hits returned from the program, excuse me, let me reference. Yes, they were four hits that were returned from the program. And after review by personnel none of the four hits were determined to be potentially biased. Second, department email. All email sent and received internally and externally through the Department Server are audited using an established word list. The same word list is used throughout these three different mechanisms. This audit is also processed is also passive in nature. If an email contains one of the words on the list, a hit is generated and set to personal sent to personnel via an email address used for this process. Those emails are saved and maintained on the server. Again, steph analyse his every hit and those determined to be potentially biased are also investigated. For the thirdquarter, there were 95 hits returned from the program, and after review by members, none of the 95 hits were determined to be potentially biased. And lastly, text messaging via our department issue cellular phones. Audits of Text Messages sent and received internally and externally is conducted by us. Staff is trained to conduct active audits using a program developed by the cellular provider at t. In conjunction with sfpd Information Technology division. Every 30 days, a search is done of all texts using an established word list and additional terms can be sourced as well. Similarly steph analyse his every hit to determine the context in which the term was used. Those hits are determined determined to be potentially biased are investigated. All false positive hits are saved by at t so there is a historical record. For the thirdquarter there were 34 hits returned from the program, and after review, two of the 34 hits were determined to be potentially biased. As a result we have initiated investigations. Thank you. Any questions or comments . Okay, thank you very much. Okay. Anything else, chief . That concludes the report. Next item, please. Line item two b. , d. P. A. Directors a port report. The report will be limited to brief description of activities and announcements. Discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for future commission meeting. Good evening, director henderson. Good evening. We are at, i will be brief because i know we have other presentations. We are currently at 659 cases that are currently open. This is up from this time last year which is 560 cases. The closed cases is also up higher right now. It is 563 cases. This time last year we were at 464 cases. The department has 409 cases that are pending right now. In terms of sustained cases we are at 72 versus 36 this time last year and cases that are past nine months and under investigation, we are at 32 this time last year where we were at 24. The mediation cases are also up. We are up to 31 cases so far that have been mediated versus the same time last year which we were at 18. Tonight you will see receive a presentation about the Mediation Program that we have. In terms of operations, we started meeting collaborate leave collaboratively with the city on the department of technology now to update our website. I have been talking about the website for very long time and i think it has been in need of an update and a refresh for a while so as more people coming to d. P. A. They can get information externally and independently which i think is really important. That process is going on now. The priority was the c. M. S. System before, which we have been talking about while we are working out i dont want to wait until all the kinks have been finished before we refocus on the website to make the information that we have at d. P. A. More accessible. I will keep people updated on that. We started doing test meetings with the city coordinating that rollout. In terms of outreach, we have had a number of events that the agency has participated in. In november we represented the s. F. Pride Community Meeting at the lgbt centre at the rainbow room. We participate in the participated in the africanamerican Leadership Forum for the city. November 8th we participated in reviewing all of the stations doing our checks to make sure that the information is available and contained in all of the stations. As you are aware, we talked about in september of this year that now all of that material is in every single station and obtainable and accessible from visitors in the station and the last check that we did on the brochures are still there. We replenished a lot of the stuff that had been taken in other languages. That is great. Specifically that the material from d. P. A. Is being taken in other languages, so people are at least getting the information we will continue that process. There are no sessions, there are no cases tonight for closed session. But in the audience tonight a senior investigator his here, as well as our director of policy who will be presenting on the sparks report. Also the director of our Mediation Program is here, as well as our administrative analyst. Also our newest employee is here in case there are issues that come up this evening in the audience that can be addressed by staff. Theres a lot of people here from d. P. A. Thank you. I will be a broken record on this question. Of the 32 cases that are beyond nine months, some are told by the statute of limitations because the criminal investigation. Some are not. The ones that are not, what is causing that delay, and what are you doing about getting those moving . We are as you know we track all of those cases independently and that is where we first starting get started getting this number. Those cases come to me in a report with although recently i havent been getting them with the new system, which doesnt mean they are being tracked they are being tracked. I just spoke to someone about it today. I get report i get a report on all of those cases while we track them to figure out what is going on and if theres something i need to get involved with specifically related to why cases go beyond. Most of it is related to difficulty. This is just hours ago that i got the information. A lot of them have to do with vacation schedules from the department to diskette to schedule interviews, theres not a lot of intention behind the delays beyond the cases that are told. Most of the issues are cases that are wrapped up and they are they are riding sustained reports. There are delays related to vacations, sick leave remembers from the department being out to schedule final meetings or conversations with them. That is generally what it is. If you are interested, i am happy to present a snapshot maybe of what all of those things are. I guess what i am most interested in getting those things moving. So you are not up against the 12 months and we dont constantly have cases that are pending for more than nine months. To me that is a long period of time. I know your staff should be hammering those cases. We have been hammering those cases. We are in a very different place now. We have sped up a lot what the length of those investigations are. I feel pretty confident that my staff is working diligently in those efforts to get them out the door as quickly as they can. I mean we can always improve on those issues. Like i said, i get those. I was getting those reports until we got the new system. I would get them every single week to review what the specific cases were beyond the ones that were just heard told, which are put into a separate category i am staying active on it. [please stand by] okay. Next item, please. Oh wait thats all for the d. Pennsylvania . Other than the present all for the dpa . Other than the presentation. I thought they were now. Go for it. This is my director of mediation. Good evening. President hirsch, fellow commissioners chief scott and director henderson thank you very much for inviting me and giving me this opportunity to talk about the Mediation Program. Im going to start with an overview. And i understand that many of you are very familiar with mediation but just on the ab