And over the longterm with our testing strategies. It is also crucial to continue to do everything we can to prevent people from getting sick in the first place. That includes staying at home, social distancing covering your face around other people and frequent handwashing. It is also important that we continue to ensure that the Healthcare System is on high alert and prepared to handle a surge of cases and to be able to treat everyone safely. And it is critical that we do all of this work with an eye towards equity. The Health Department is commit to the health and wellbeing of all people in San Francisco and to do everything we can to support the health and full recovery of all communities in our city during and after this pandemic. Thank you. Is and now police chief bill scott who has been incredible partner to this pandemic will make a few weeks. Remarks. Thank you and good afternoon. Im bill scott, chief of police of the San FranciscoPolice Department and i would like to start off as i always do by thanking our mayor, london breed, and director of Public Health, grant colfax to for their outstanding leadership during this ver very challenging time. I want to thank the members and the people of San Francisco for their support and for their compliance. The vast majority of the public are compliant with the measures that are meant to stop the spread of the covid19 virus. With that said, we do have some instances in which weve had to Issue Citations to people and businesses who after being warned continued to flout the order. To date, weve issued 1 16 citations, seven businesses and nine individuals for violating the county Public Health order or the state Public Health order. We admonished or warned 71 people which breaks down to 48 businesses or Business Owners or managers and 23 individuals. Our enforcement will continue and in addition to those figures that i just mentioned, weve informally reached out and contacted hundreds of individuals for warnings to gain voluntary compliance. Weve already received press inquiries about how we will enforce the updated Public Health order regarding the Face Coverings. From the outset of the original Public Health order that was issued in midmarch, the sfpd paid it clear oudmade it clear t has been an option of last resort, but i have stated and continue to state that we will use that option for those who flout the order. That motto has been largely successful and we will continue to use that motto Going Forward in the issuance of the latest Public Health order which requires Face Coverings. Our compliance pathway, again, started with educating the public and asking for voluntary compliance. We then issue warnings and formal warnings come with an incident report that our officers take if they issue a formal warning and as a last resort, particularly for those who continue to disobey the order after being warned, we have cited those individuals or businesses. I want to say that we are working with director cheryl davis, who you heard from during wednesdays press conference. Director davis has mobilized Key Stakeholders in the community and, basically, those stakeholders along with director davis is other city workers plan to distribute Face Coverings thanks to the mayors gift to sf campaign. Those Face Coverings have been donated and we think that will go a long way in preventing the spread of covid19 as well as voluntary combines. Scompliance. Thank you to directd the others who have been involved that effort because we think that will make a difference. For those interested in our enforcement protocols, visit our covid19 website on our departments web page and read the Department Notices that lay out all of our enforcement protocols. As weve stated before, the purpose of the Public Health order is not to arrest or cite. Its about promoting the Public Health practises that will help to prevent the spread of the virus and the San FranciscoPolice Departments role in that is to help our Community Get through this extremely difficult time in ways that dont make the situation worse. By working with our Community Members and by working with our other city partners, we have been largely successful and we ask for continued cooperation and support to stop the spread of this virus. Now i want to turn to our crimes to give you an update. We saw an 18 update and that was mainly fueled by 11 additional robberies and two additional assaults. There was a 31 decrease in part one property crime, which equates to 154 fewer property crimes this past week. And overall, there was a 25 decrease in part one crime which equated to 142 fewer crimes from the previous week. As weve stated, we have had burglaries and vandalisms of businesses and we want to ensure the public and let the public know and let those wouldbe criminals know that we take this extremely seriously. Weve made progress on several of those investigations and are well on our way to identify the perpetrators so those individuals can be brought to justice is held accountable for those crimes. We want our Business Owners to know that during this difficult time, that the San FranciscoPolice Department will be out patrolling, particularly during the nighttime, because thats when weve seen many of these crimes occur and our Field Operations bureau chief, as well as our Operations Assistant chief, michael redman, and their teams are working tirelessly to make sure we do Everything Possible so that we dont have people being victimized during this difficult time and in some cases our investigators by working with the District Attorneys Office have been able to get additional charges for looting, which is section 463 of the california penal code and weve had 22 instances where individuals have been arrested and charges of looting have been brought fort anbrought forth. So thank you tot attorney for working with us on that. As always, we encourage people to report crimes but do so in a way that decreases facetoface contract in the midst in the spread of the coronavirus. Call 911 to report Violent Crimes and crimes in progress. We will respond to those crimes as we always do and we will be there for you. Please also make use of our newly implemented text 911 service if you are unable to make the phone call but need emergency help. Particularly for those that might be experiencing domestic violence, if you are unable to get to the phone to make the call, please take advantage of the text 911 service. For crimes that have already happened, use our nonviolent property crimes, use our nonemergency line at 415 5530123. Thats 415 5530123. You can also call 31 or utiliz11 orrequest a copy of g police report. As a reminder, this is National Crimes victims right week is we want to honor crime victims and raise awareness for victims crimes victims for what they have gone through. Lastly, the men and women of the San FranciscoPolice Department want everyone infected by crime to know that we are always here to provide the service that you need with dignity, compassion and respect. Please listen to the direction of our Public Health officials under the leadership of dr. Grant colfax. If you must go outside, please wear a Face Covering as the most recent order mandates. Also, maintain six foot of social distancing and stay six feet apart. Let all do our part for the prevention of the spread of the covid19 virus and flatten the curve. Thank you. Thank you, chief scott. The first question is for you. From marco gonzalez, kqed, how will sfpd enforce the new Public Health order regarding Face Coverings . As i stated, our motto has not stated from where we started when the first issue was ordered. I want to make something clear. When i talk about progresstive e pathways to combines, admonished, warnings, it doesnt mean were not engaging. Our officers are engaging on a daily basis and engaging with many, many people. And i want to let you know, that, yeah, you might be contacted with a San FranciscoPolice Officer who might ask questions about either where you are or why you dont have your Face Covering on. Please be patient with us because we are here to help. Our goal is to further promote the Public Health orders. Our goal is not to write a bunch of citations and arrest a bunch of people. Our goals are actually to keep our Public Healthy is safe. Be patient, and understand the orders are there to keep us all healthy and safe and please dont mistake the fact that progresstive enforcement or progressive pathway to compliance equates to lack of engagement. We are engaging thousandsch people and will continue to do so because we want to get to voluntary compliance. In order to do that, it takes engagement. Thank you, chief scott. The next set of questions are for mayor london breed madam mayor, the first question, the San Francisco county committee chair, david compose switchewageswitch to all mail fs election and what is made to make this a reality . To be clear, as someone comes from a community who, unfortunately, has a history in thiscallinthis country of not hg access to the voting booth, we, of course, take the ability for people in San Francisco and others to have access to voting very seriously. In fact, weve already started this process over a month ago, working with the department of elections to prepare for what could happen if in november we still are in a very similar situation to the one were in. We want to make sure that this in no way impedes anyones ability to vote. So preparing to have access to more mailin ballots and also more outreach around voting will be critical to ensuring that everybody has the ability to vote in this election and its something weve beesomething wen for over a month and we will continue to do so. The next question is from joyce cutler, bloomburg law. The board of supervisors passed requirements for companies to pay for or reimburse gig workers for protective equipment and sanitizing products. Will you be signing the legislation . I want to be clear that its important that not only does any other company or business in San Francisco provide the appropriate support to their employees, including soap and Hand Sanitizer and protective equipment, especially to those essential workers. Its important that we do so at a city level. The legislation was just passed and so, were still reviewing it, but its definitely something overall that i agree with. Thank you. Also from joyce, what is the proposed level of budget cuts and how many positions will be eliminated to deal with the upcoming 11 billion deficit . As i said earlier, we anticipate based on the controllers report that there will be a budget deficit of anywhere between 1. 1 and 1. 7 billion and i think that what that means in the upcoming budget and next years budget, well have to look at the financial projections and where we could make specific changes in order to cut the budget. We dont have the specifics as to what positions or what programs or anything of that nature might be impacted. Because that is something we will continue to discuss as we move through this crisis based on what were spending and based on what we would receive in federal or state reimbursements, as well as some of the resources weve allocated, some of the revenue loss. Its not as simple as being able to answer a question like that right now to say that definitively something is going to happen. But the fact is, close to 1. 7 billion projected deficit means there will be major shift in priorities and definitely some significant financial impacts on services in our city. Thank you. Thank you, madam mayor. The next set of questions are for dr. Grant colfax. The first question is from kt u. S. Tvu. Are there any measures to address the black latino americans who have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic . Welling, yes. Yes. These populations have been a focus of our work since the beginning of the pandemic. There are resources to ensure that they have the educational materials, the support and access to the care that they need in order to pi to mitigatee effects and get the testing, care and treatment they need. One example would be at Southeast Health center. We have established a field clinic so that people can get their primary care and urgent care needs met there rather than going to another medical setting. Weve established a testing site there and i mentioned that maxine hall center, we will Start Testing site there tomorrow. And within the mission district, which has a high proportion of latin x residents, zuckerburg San Francisco hospital is right there and we will continue to care for the population, for all of San Francisco, but especially and including the mission. And an example of a collaboration with regard to learning more about what we can do better, we are collaborating with ucsf on a study of a census track in the mission which has many latin x residents to better understand the prevalence of the virus there. So the goal there is to test thousands of residents in that track over a relatively short period of time to better understand the dynamics of the pandemic in that community. But i think beyond that, thats a study and i think the important thing is that we are reasoarereinforcing and buildinh Community Leaders and stakeholders and ensuring everyone in sanfrancisco, regardless of where you live in San Francisco has access to testing and care during this time. And also general healthcare overall. The next question is from dominick from search f chronicle. Sf chronicle. Is the volume of swabs keeping capacity with the Testing Capacity and what is needed for ppe and frontline healthcare workers . So this remains a huge challenge, a challenge locally, regionally, statewide and nationally. Our aspirational goal for universal testing is further complicated in amendmen implemeg because on a daytoday basis, i do not have the metrics needed to plan as intent fullfully as d because its unclear of the supplies will arrive and there is simil simply no centralized m to help local jurisdictions to figure out in a clear way how do we expand. Right now, where we stand, we have enough testing materials and equipment to of course pan to that next set of eligiblability criteria and mean have any symptoms consistent with covid19, close contacts with people who are known to have covid19 and then, as we expand to these broader populations and testing, its going to be an iterative process and it will be dependent on the supply chains stabilizing over time. The next question, based on the facts this was weeks earlier than believed, are there any indications that San Franciscos first death may have been earlier than we believe . I do not have indications of that. It a theoretically possible and we are having conversations with our medical examiner to determine what retrospective analyses can be done. From the beginning of this pandemic, we have been vigilant in testing unexplained cases of death for covid19. But its certainly something given the data that was released yesterday that we will be looking at. Thank you. The next question is from kathy novack. Will essential workers seeking tests at the two sites need a referral . So with regard to this testing program, people can go online and are screened online for eligibility and then they can take the next steps depending on their answers with regard to receiving testing at those sites. Can the city start to reopen before we reach the goal of universal testing for all people in San Francisco . So i think there are a number of factors that will help us determine based on data, science and facts how we will potentially relax the shelterinplace order. Certainly expansion of testing is one important tool and another important tool that is linked to that testing is the ability to do aggressive contact tracying stracing, so that in pg where there are outbreaks, we can quickly response. Then we need to ensure theres a consistent methodology to how we ensure theres capacity in our Healthcare System in the event of an outbreak or a surge in need. There are many other components that will help us to determine relaxation of shelterinplace orders and the number of switches we turn on overtime, we need to be flexible and have the capacity to shut those down if, indeed, we start seeing coronavirus cases increase. Thank you. The next question is from mission local. Dr. Colfax, you mentioned that lab testing has increased fourfoal. Fourtold. Fourfollowed. Whafourfold. What is