Transcripts For SFGTV Recreation And Park Commission 2024071

SFGTV Recreation And Park Commission July 13, 2024

Supervisors from the district. Yee, district 8, supervisor mandelman which includes the glen park and Diamond Heights area, and also district 9, supervisor ronen, district 10, supervisor walton from the Visitacion Valley and sunnydale area and the largest district 11, supervisor safai, which includes excelsior and Outer Mission areas. I have 34 schools in the district which include balboa high school, leadership, reardon, city college. The population is roughly 139,000. Desk grams are africanamericans 4. 2 percent, asians, 21 percent, latin, 25 percent, other is 12. S 31. 3 percent. On to the next slide. Staffing overview. I have 128 in my personnel of which 120 are sworn, five are p. S. A. , Police Service aids and three civilians. I have five lieutenants, 20 sergeants, 90 officers, four recruits. Currently i have one s. R. O. , a School Resource officer, i have two foot beat officers, one on the Mission Geneva corridor and one on leeland street corridor. I have hopes of increasing one more foot beat to the cortland area in the next cycle. I have two officers assigned to Homeless Outreach. And for investigations i have one lieutenant, lieutenant kevin, an amazing leader. Im grateful to have him. He has four investigators assigned to him. I have a plain clothes team led by sergeant lopez. Hes a great resource. Hes very knowledgeable. And essentially a plain clothes team is a Problemsolving Team for me so that i can send to address specific concerns of the area. Primarily, there are plain clothes. However they can be in uniform depending upon the assignment. I have 19 Field Training officers, they train the new recruits. I have nine Field Training sergeants which oversee the officers in the program. In addition i have 72 crisis intervention trained officers which are approximately 80 percent of the officers at the station. And other officers are in line to be trained as well. I have four specialists at the station, they are utilized for training for active shooters, a great resource for incidents and demonstrations. I have one hostage negotiationtrained officer, officer francisco, he is also my School Resource officer. He is a bright, young officer. Im grateful to have him as well especially when time is of essence. As far as certified languages, i have eight cantonese, one togalo, two mandarin, ten spanish and im grateful to have officer johnny wong who is also my foot beat officer on the leaden street corridor. He speaks two dialects of chinese, portuguese and spanish. Very fortunate to have him. Staffing overview. I have 26 supervisors. Four percent are africanamerican. 65 percent are white. 12 percent are latin, 15 percent are asian, and four percent are other. Of which 88 are male and 12 are female. Moving onto officers. 10 are africanamerican, 18 are white. 22 are latin. 28 are asian. 12 are other. 81 of those are male and 19 are female which is generally reflective of the community that we serve. Moving onto next slide regarding crime trends and these are our top concerns and strategies. Oftentimes we get concerns of increased crime in the area. How do we address that . In ingleside . We are very proactive. We have enforcement operations. Officers are in uniform. They are in plain clothes. They do surveillance. We have operations with our motorcyclist traffic unit as well so that they can conduct Traffic Enforcement at certain locations that increase our visibility in the area. In addition we have officers in unmarked cars dependent upon the time of incident that we have to try to provide extra patrols in the area. In addition, we have foot beat as well, that we could have officers go out there to provide increased visibility in the area and also increase calls for having officers go to certain locations to increase our visibility. And we conduct datadriven enforcement. We look at crime trends, we look at patterns, we look at the crime mapping. We see whats out there so we can effectively put our personnel where they need to be to address those crime issues. In addition, we utilize the copier theory. That is a Community Policing strategy where we have random, 10 to 15minute patrols in a certain location once every two hours, and pretty much what it comes down to is we address this by putting officers at the hot spots. It optimizes deterrence of criminal activity. Studies have shown crime has decreased to as low as 4 when we implement this strategy. We are utilizing that as well. We have an outreach, San Francisco safe is a great resource for us. And we appreciate them very much. I want to give a big thank you to worthy from s. F. State who helps us with the Crime Prevention strategies to help us with the Public Safety seminars as well. Its much appreciated. And also with our fliers. What we use in the Diamond Heights area. We had an increase in auto burglaries. We passed out park smart fliers to inform the public about whatnot to do. Dont leave items in view so that they could decrease their probability of being a victim. In addition, we outreached to the public through Community Meetings, Public Safety meetings, neighborhood watches, to inform them what is going on so that they are empowered to know what is going on and to become less vulnerable to crime. In addition, we post things onto twitter next door and our ingleside newsletter regarding how to prevent themselves from being a victim. Moving on to the next issue. Quality of life. Oftentimes we get issues regarding increased quality of life issues in the area. Im fortunate to have two officers, officer lou and chris, they are great people persons. So they go out there, they are assigned to increase the quality of life issues. They have great rapport with the people who need services and the organizations that provide the services to individuals in need. We work collaboratively with the operations center, the hot teams, d. P. A. , public works, parks and rec. Traffic safety. Oftentimes we get issues regarding increased traffic safety, people running stop signs, red lights, thats a common theme, and we focus on the five violations. We know the folks are very important because they are contributing factors to the traffic collisions that happen on the street. In addition, oftentimes we have a traffic car, which is specifically assigned to make Traffic Enforcement stops at certain locations to increase our efforts on the streets, in addition we worked with the traffic solo companies which conduct pedestrian sting operations. Its pretty much officers in plain clothes going into the field and other officers that are nearby waiting to see if there are going to be any violations. They act appropriately and make the enforcement stop appropriately. For the educational component with that, we outreach to social media, we go to the Community Meetings, neighborhood watches regarding Public Safety meetings like we had at Diamond Heights regarding auto thefts. We had a Public Safety meeting there, a group of people went out and we had a great discussion regarding how to empower themselves and not be a victim. So that was very informative. In addition we use our radar trailer. Depending on the traffic conditions area, we placed it out there to inform the public of how fast they may be going. Oftentimes we find out people are not aware, not paying attention and thinking about going to school, going to work, and they dont know if they are going past the speed limit. So thats helpful as well. In addition, with the traffic stops, when the officers make the traffic stops, they dont cite people necessarily, they have conversation with them to educate them about what traffic concerns that we have to have a better understanding of what they can do better in the future to prevent incidents as well. Collaboration with the m. T. A. , we work with them regarding common measures, regarding speed, volume and traffic conditions as well. So the next area of concern, the areas of focus we have which are working collaboration with different agencies, working with City Attorneys office, the district attorneys office, the department of public health, fire department, in an effort to compel owners as much as as much as possible to comply with law and ordinance. Thats very effective. We meet once a month with ingleside station with different organizations so we can strategize as much as we can to see what we can do in a collaborative effort. Moving on to the next slide with part one Crime Statistics. Going through the chart, we see homicide part one, Violent Crimes, 2018 toll 2019 down 60 percent, rapes down 24 percent, robbery is down 14 percent, assault is down 14 percent, Human Trafficking to zero percent. Total Violent Crimes a change of negative 15 percent. Property crimes, burglary, 2018 to 2019 down 29 percent. Vehicle theft down 7 , arson down 44 , larsen and theft, up 12 , auto burglaries up 20 , and total property crimes pretty much 0 change. Part one crimes total negative 3 . So ingleside is not immune from auto burglaries. The number of of organized teams do their research, they were well organized, very quick to go in, they go out. Its definitely a challenge. Its no big secret that its a change for the Police Department especially for the ingleside district. However we are very proactive. We have a plan, we have an operation, we work with the community collaboratively whether it be through educational effort, informing them like the park smart and also working with s. F. Safe to provide them Crime Prevention strategies. We work with our stations lieutenant, lieutenant kevin noble and we are looking forward, we are trying to anticipate as much as possible, looking at the trends, looking at the crime mapping, looking at the patterns so that we could sufficiently and effectively address these crime issues as much as possible to get the resources out there. The next slide, our Traffic Enforcement. One of my favorite duties as an officer was conducting Traffic Enforcement, and i feel thats important, because it provides dividends, we are out there providing high visibility in the public but also making enforcement. We are talking to people regarding traffic needs in the area. Ingleside station, we are committed to Traffic Enforcement. The focus on five violations, you see that red light violations were up 36 , 66 for stop signs, pedestrian right of way, 23 , negative and speeding negative 88 , failure to yield with turning, negative 16 . The focus on five violations, 5e for those five violations which are significant violations that contribute to collisions in San Francisco. You see that with pedestrian right of way, we have a negative 23 and my vision for the future is to increase our pedestrian sting operations so we can increase our enforcement for stings. And also for speeding is negative 88 . So with that, my plan is to increase with our training of officers to have more officers trained so they can conduct the speed enforcement. We have two officers in line to have that training in the near future. Next slide, community partnerships. Community partnership is so, so important. And im a big believer in that. I went to acknowledge members of my team for their dedication and hard work. I dont know how they spend the time doing what they do, but i appreciate them very much. My cochair, please stand up. Where are you at . Thank you very much. Give her a big hand. [applause] she is my cochair and president of the Outer Mission merchants association. She is an amazing woman. I dont know how she has the time to do what she does and other members are sharon, chris, debra, jennifer, drew, kerry, marlene, rex, megan and adam. Thank you very much for your support and your help. Partnerships of the community, i named a few here, but theres quite a few that we are working with. The boys and girls club, we have two boys and girls clubs in the district, one is in excelsior, one in sunnydale. Two of the directors are in my team, ms. Jennifer snyder and matthew henry. Matthew is here. Thank you very much for that. Next partnership is sunnydale crisis intervention team. So under reverend brunswick we work to help the community provide extra resources to sunnydale area. Also for Asian Pacific American Community center under rex, thank you very much. We provide extra resources to the asian community, and that is very grateful for that. In addition we have office hours at that location which i will discuss shortly. Monthly meetings are on the third tuesday of every month. Its at 5 30 and the current projects we are working on are National Night out and officer appreciation day. Our Community Meetings are on the same day at 6 30. Our office hours are times and places are officers reach out to the public and get in conversation with the public and Community Members to engage them and see what kind of concerns they may have in that specific neighborhood. For ingleside district, we have threeyears. We have Visitacion Valley, here, and also in the excelsior. So for example, in the Visitacion Valley, we have office hours although Community Centers and senior centers. Primarily the speakers in Visitacion Valley are cantonese speakers. Im very fortunate like i was saying, i have foot beat officer johnny wong who is bilingual. He reaches out to the public, speaks to them in cantonese, sees what their concerns are and how he can help in the community. He also, if needed, completes incident reports out in the field regarding the individuals needs. He also reaches out by providing Public Safety seminars and Crime Prevention strategies with s. F. State so im grateful for that. Its a Great Program. In addition, we have the Visitacion Valley Elementary School reading with the kids program. So this is right here. Visitacion valley, we establish this new program here with officer brittney lewis, gordon brown and cal, great partners in the community. They read to the kids there. Its a Great Program like i said. Its getting better. Very nice program. Another program we just started up, which is the kids horses and cops program. Program at the ranch in the peninsula that essentially what that comes down to is we get kids off the streets and onto horse lessons and horse management. So kids, they exchange good grades and Good Behavior for the opportunity to go out into the ranch to ride a horse and learn about horse management. When i was growing up, i dont think i had that opportunity or remember that anyway. But Great Program, very happy with that. Coffee with a cop program. I think we are pretty familiar with that program. A great event where we go out to the community and reach out to the Community Members over a cup of coffee and just speak about everything and anything and then theres no agenda. So its a Great Program that we are reaching out to different communities in ingleside. The boys and Girls Club Basketball with kids, cops program. Again, this is another program that we recently developed. The boys and girls club at the excelsior boys and girls club under jennifer snyder, a team member and with my sergeant jake, under their inspiration and dedication that we developed this program. So essentially what this comes down to is that where we have the interaction with the kids, we have the interaction with the officers over a competitive game of basketball, very competitive i might say. A big shoutout to jennifer and jake for establishing that program. The Jackson Family day and parade, a great family event in the sunnydale here hosted by mercy housing and my team member drew to Bring Community together and have that barbecue, that car show, have those games out there for the kids to interact with. Its a great engagement for everyone. You see photos of some of that activity. Next slide, please. Crime reduction. We know from the statistics i reviewed earlier the part one crimes are down 15 percent. But what does that really mean . What it comes down to is if crime happens to you, its 1 puckers percent, because it happened 100 percent, because it happened to you and you feel vulnerable. Even though our Crime Statistics for last year compared to this for for last year is low. We still have to understand that we have to be conscious and aware, we have to look at our surroundings and just be conscious of that fact, and we note that its not just a number. Its a person thats involved. And we have to do better to reduce crime. Quality of life. Two officers are signed to the issues in the ingleside district. I spoke to the officers not long ago how its coming regarding getting individuals off

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