1467731245, and as always, i would ask that you mute your mute the television or any sounds in the background so that its easier for us to hear you. And commissioners, i would ask that you would mute yourself and unmute yourself when you want to be heard. Just as last week, please put your name in the chat if you would like to be heard. Sergeant youngblood. Clerk thank you, commissioner. For members of the public, this meeting is being televised by sfgovtv. At the moment, you can get to our meeting by going to sfgovtv. Org. When Public Comment is announced either for the line item or general comment, dial starthree. This will advise the moderator that you want to speak and add you to the queue. When you dial starthree, you will hear a prompt that indicates you have raised your hand. This is your time to provide Public Comment. Once you provide Public Comment, you will be moved back into the Public Meeting and out of the queue unless and until you want to comment on another item, and you may press starthree to be added back into the queue again. Vice president taylor thank you, Sergeant Youngblood. Today, at the end of our meeting, im going to ask to adjourn in the memory of jace, who was senselessly murdered when he and his parents were watching t. V. Mr. Youngblood, next item, please. Clerk item 1, consent calendar. Request the chief of police for approval to accept gifts of three 15 starbucks gift cards and intent 10 lous sandwiches gift cards from the communititor taraval station, valued at 245. Vice president taylor is there somebody presenting on this . Clerk no. Vice president taylor okay. Do i have a motion . Commissioner dejesus motion. Vice president taylor do you have a second . Commissioner hamasaki second. Vice president taylor okay. Mr. Clerk, can you take the roll . Clerk we need to take Public Comment. So members of the public, this is the time for Public Comment on item 1, request of the chief of police for approval to accept gift cards. We have three callers. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Hello, caller . Are you there . Good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Yes, hi. My name is mimi clausner, and im responding to the introduction given by Vice President taylor. I was on the phone for 45 minutes, not knowing whether this commission was meeting or not. Why wasnt there an announcement made to the people who had dialled in, saying that theyre going to be starting as soon as possible . Its just not a good thing, and it really represents what you think of the public and your lack of regard, you know, for maintaining communications with with us, so thank you. I hope youll consider this. Vice president taylor next caller. Clerk good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Hello. I think you just opened my line, and i actually am on the line to speak in Public Comment at another section. Clerk okay. Thats the end of Public Comment. Vice president taylor thank you. Can you take roll for the vote . Clerk yes, maam. So on the motion to accept three 15 starbucks gift cards and intent 10 lous cafe sandwiches gift cards totaling 245 [roll call] clerk Vice President taylor, you have five yeses. Vice president taylor great. The motion passes. Next line item. Clerk line item 2, reports to the commission, discussion. Chiefs report. Crime trends. Provide an overview of offenses occurring in frisk. Major, significant incidents. Provide a summary of planned activities and events including the fourth of july. This will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on public safety. Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. Presentation of the audit of helike tronnic communication devices for bias, Second Quarter 2020, and presentation of the e. I. S. Quarterly reports, Fourth Quarter 2019 and First Quarter 2020. Okay. Good evening, Vice President taylor and commission. Ill give my chiefs report, and before i give my report, i want to comment on the murder of sixyearold jason young, which is the first event of this year. Ill actually start with desean. He was a 15yearold shot and killed on hingle street. There was another person with desean when he was shot, and that person did not suffer life threatening injuries, and that just really is a tragedy. To the best of what we have right now, we dont believe that jase or the other person was the intended person of the gun fire the intended subject of the gun fire, however, we still have a lot to do in this investigation. We have reached out to the public for the publics help on this. There were people out and about on that evening, and we do believe that some people witnessed this incident, and we do believe that there are people in the community who know exactly who committed this awful act. So again, were asking for the publics assistance on this. Our investigators are working pretty much around the clock on this, and we are making some progress on the investigation, but we do need the publics assistance. If anybody knows anything that can lead to the resolution of this case, please call area code 4155754444. 4155754444. You can also text your information. If you text, tip411, and start your message with sfpd, you can anonymously or you can text the information, as well. To the individual who committed this act, were asking that you turn yourself in. We made that appeal to the public via local media, and the family is asking for the same thing that we are asking for, and we stand in support and with the family and the community on this. This is a tragic situation. Its a tragic, tragic situation. We already had a second homicide less than 24 hours later, also in the bayview district. That occurred at 11 04 p. M. Officers responded to a shooting in the bayview. The victim was walking in the area when he received multiple gunshots to his upper body. He succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced deceased. We are following up on vehicle descriptions, and other items. We did locate a vehicle which was stolen, but it had no occupants by the time our officers located it, so we are following up on all evidence in that vehicle. Again, the same number, if anyone knows anything about this incident that could lead to the resolution, the same number to call 4155754444. The other significant incident major crime incidents over this week, we had a homicide arrest actually from a homicide that occurred on april 18, 2020, with officers responding to franklin and mcallister regarding an aggravated assault, and they located a 41yearold male unconscious on the sidewalk. The male was transported to the hospital and later succumbed to his injuries, and was determined to be a homicide by our medical examiner. On july 2, 2020, at approximately 12 17 p. M. , our investigated arrested a 52yearold male resident from the 400 block of eddy street in connection with this incident. [inaudible] that case has been filed and ongoing. In terms of crime trends, sadly, we are up in homicides by four from this time last year. We are at 24 yeartodate, up by 20 . I will say that in keeping up with major trends in other cities across the nation, this unfortunately is a trend that several cities are experiencing, and unknown every city is different as far as the motivations [inaudible] but its definitely something that we want to resolve and keep that from becoming worse. We are down in all other Violent Crime areas. Were down by double digit percentages in all the other are areas, and our total Violent Crime yeartodate is at 15 reduction. We are up in the areas of theft, vehicle theft, and arson, significant increases in burglaries. The number almost over 800 burglaries from this time last year, which is a 37 increase, sadly. In terms of where were down in property crimes is larceny and theftrelated crimes, which include car burglaries. Car burglaries are down significantly yeartodate. So overall, we do show a 17 reduction in larceny crimes, which is our largest category, statistically speaking, of property crimes. That is a 17 total yeartodate reduction. In terms of our gun violence, we are overall down 12 from this time last year, but again, we are up in gun related homicides by this time last year. A very alarming increase, which we are working hard to reverse, and that is it for the crime trends for this week. If the commission has any questions for me. Vice president taylor yes, chief. Im just so disturbed by whats going on right now. I mean, im so i know we all are, but im so disturbed about what happened to that little boy. Im disturbed by a 200 , 200 increase in homicides in one week. I mean, i need a little bit more in terms of what the department is doing to combat this because at the end of the day, you know, these are black bodies dying for no reason. And sometimes i wish that the people who called in, complaining about, you know, how responsive we are to te technological issues that we have no control over. I wish we had more public outcry when people are murdered in this way, asking for justice for the family, asking the department, what are you doing about it . So i have questions about what the department is doing to make sure that whoever killed this little boy i mean, the familys never going to get their son back, but, you know, this uptick in violence, its a problem. Commissioner, the Immediate Response is, of course, a Tactical Response from the effort to solve these crimes as quickly as we can, because oftentimes, when the crimes are solved, it brings closure to the community, and we dont have the we dont have these people out on the streets. When the person is in custody, and we dont have the retaliation and the payback that we have when the person is not in custody, so thats the first and foremost is to pour resources and energy into these investigations. As we saw a few months ago when we had the many shootings in bayview and sunnydale, around the housing developments, the back and for backandforth shootings, when we arrested the individuals we believed were responsible, we saw a decrease in violence, and the shootings decreased for a while. Comparatively, we may be better off than other cities, but we still have an increase. We have a 20 increase in homicides, so the longterm solution, were working with california partnership, and theyre working with us on some of our gun violence and reduction work. Weve done a piece of that with the community, and well continue contin continue to do that in partnership with the community, because there is a long range plan and goal with the community. Supervisor walton has a plan, and were working with him, centered around gun violence and what we can do to combat that violence. We know that many of these crimes have been solved through the use of Technology Video cameras not operated by the Police Department. Thats against city and county ordinances, but the information and data we gather from those shootings oftentimes create leads that help us solve these cases, and thats especially important in these cases that might be gang related, where people are afraid to come forward because when they are afraid to come forward, when we have other evidence such as Video Evidence, it takes some of that burden away from having to rely on eyewitnesses in these cases. So weve solved many of these cases when weve had Video Evidence brought to us. So some of this will be forensic. We have evidence that we recovered on homicides, including these two, and the forensic capabilities have gotten better with d. N. A. Capabilities and all. Were in a better and better place there, as well, so we hope that some of this will pan out on these investigations. Weve expedited some of our forensic requests. Hopefully, well have some on these two murders that i mentioned quickly so we can see where that leads us, and again, its a matter of getting these people responsible off the streets as quickly as they can so they can get in the justice system. And thats the first and foremost response right now to i wouldnt say closure, but at least bring some relief to the family by identifying and apprehending the people responsible for this murder. Vice president taylor its never going to bring closure, but at least it says what happened to you is wrong and your child mattered. Miss brown is here every week for her child, and we have so many parents out there each week who lost their child. What were saying is your child matters. Its just like if some white kid got killed up in marin. It matters. Im sorry, but im sick about this. Im sick about this. It happens to us at a rate thats alarming and just unacceptable, so im going to ask you, chief, to come back and report on this young boy on a regular basis, whats happening on this case on a regular basis. And also, the Community Initiative that you talked about, i want you to come back and talk about that. Im going to ask you to come back and report on what youre doing with communities to help stem the tide of this violence. Commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner hamasaki thank you. Yeah, i i want to i just wanted to echo the things that commissioner taylor was saying and offer my condolences. I think, you know, this like, losing a child in this way, and the fact that it keeps happening in the same communities that are subject to, you know, having to live in fear of violence and tragedies like this. And i think that we all obviously follow this, but i think theres been a fair amount of discussion about it, but we know this would be different if it was to happen, as commissioner taylor said, in marin or any other area of the city. But for far too long, weve neglected and abused certain communities like the bayview, fillmore, different areas throughout the city. Our government has let us down, and theres no solution thats going to come the ultimate solution has to come from our government, our city leaders coming together with the community and actually showing that theyre willing to put the resources into the community to make sure this doesnt happen because, at this point, all the police can do is close the case, and thats a necessary part of this case, but thats not going to solve the problem. Its not going to solve the problem this time, its not going to solve the problem next time. So this is my son is going to turn six in september, and you cant help but think about your own child and how this you know, how do you live with Something Like this . And for far too long in this city, weve asked the black community to just accept this, and i think its im glad a lot of the discussions about reallocated resources to the communities that weve destroyed. Its a crucial conversation were having right now, and, you know, im grateful to the chief for putting the resources into helping the family. But this is a this is another example of a time that we need to learn from this and not wait until we get outraged and put flowers out and talk. We need to see action, and, you know, this is this is just i feel, you know, were all implicated in this, and until this changes for everybody, were all responsible. Thats it. Vice president taylor commissioner dejesus . Commissioner dejesus so i i also have been talking to people about it. Its just terrible, and i actually have a Family Member that lives near the area near lasalle, and every time she turns around, theres a shooting. She stays in the back of her house. She doesnt want to go to the front of her house. So when you do your report, chief, id like to know how many shootings we have in the last 12 to 24 months in that area because it seems like its a hot spot. And one of the things, you know, youd just think that wed have some more wed have i dont know if coverage is the right word, but the activity that we have. If we could know how many shootings have occurred in that area so we can get an idea of how dangerous it is in that area with drivebys. Yes, maam, well do that analysis and bring it back to the commission. Vice president taylor thank you. Commissioner brookter . Commissioner brookter yes, i think i definitely share the comments of my colleagues, commissioners. This is touching my line of work. Jace was the cousin of a couple of young people that were in our summer programs, and when we have incidents like this, it affects the entire community and the entire city. And i want to understand theres an opportunity to come together for a vigil, where hundreds of residents came together and said we are no longer going to accept the violence in our own communities, and i just this really hit home. As commissioner hamasaki said, my niece turned six in september, as well, and i couldnt fathom, i cant fathom what the family is going through. I cant fathom what the community is currently going through. I know that we all have to do better and work much harder together to just end this these senseless acts of violence in our communities. And theres never going to be enough thats said about it. Just definitely hope, chief, we can definitely make sure that these resources are there to get this closed. But i think this is, while were talking about the reallocation of funds, its an opportunity to look across the department, as well, to ensure that where there are all these hot spots, as commissioner dejes dejesus said, that we can keep folks safe here in our communities. Yeah, just very sad. Vice president taylor i think the unfortunate thing is a lot of our callers will never know what its like to grow up in a Community Like that. I didnt grow up there, but i agr grew up in a community where you couldnt take the stairs because you didnt think you could make it, and it is wrong to grow up like that. It is wrong and unacceptable for children to grow up that way where that kind of violence is just the way it is. That is not asked of anybody but our people to just accept that, and thats the way it is, and you accept that you are entitled to less, and when bad things happen to you, thats just the way its supposed to go, and thats bullshit. That is so wrong. That is so wrong. What we are asked to bear is so wrong, and its only in these perfect circumstances where its a perfect sixyearold child that it makes the news, and this happens every day. It s