Twenty meeting of the San Francisco police commission. Thank you for bearing with us. We had a few technical difficulties. Could you please call roll. roll call you have a quorum. Also here tonight chief scott from the San FranciscoPolice Department. Commissioner is not on video tonight due to some Internet Connection issues. But he is here on audio and able to participate in the meeting. Members of the public who wish to make comments on items on the agenda can call the number on the screen. Access code. As always please mute your lines. Mutiny televisions or devices that could contribute to background noise. It becomes difficult to hear speakers when comepter commentee things that are not muted. I thinkyou said we have two minutes of Public Comment. If you could please call the first line item. Line item one. Reports to the commission. Provide overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco. Provide summary of plan, activities, and events. Any unplanned events occurring in San Francisco having an impact of Public Safety. Presentation of the monthly report. Presentation of the monthly initiative and dri update. Hi, chief. Good evening. I will start my report this week withmajor and significant incident. Well present the monthly s c 142 1421. Well go to our collaborative update. Ill ask lieutenant eric to chime in and present with me on that. If the commission has any followup questions, he can answer any questions. Starting withitem two is commander darrel song who will present the manual to the commission for consideration for approval. This week overall, year to date we are down 19 percent. The unfortunate news is we are up in homicides. Violent crime is down overall, we are up by 28 percent. Itotal number of homicides is 3. Thats up from last month where we had five. We are making progress with the clearances. Year to date, twenty five cases. Which is good news. The goal is to prevent these homicides from happening in the first place. Were working hard to do that with our community and internal processes to prevent these homicides from happening in the first place. The gun violence is scabbingl in with what we had last year. Eightyone victims total this year. Those victims resulted from seventy three incidents year to date. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. N is on going. Like any case, if anybody has any information please call. Or you can tiptips can be sent via text at text to tip. There was a vehicular and it occurred in ingleside. The details are as follows. On that date at 5 00 p. M. An Armed Robbery occurred in Castro Valley and a suspect vehicle being identified and that broadcast was sent out regionally. At 6 15 p. M. , one robbery victim contacted sfpd to ad advise ther phone was pinged in the Southern District of San Francisco and our officers met with the victim in the area and at the same time the suspects vehicle was seen passing by the location. Our officers stopped the vehicle and conducting a traffic stop, the suspect vehicle failed to yield. Our sfpd units ultimately soft site of the vehicle. Shortly after losing sight of the vehicle, it entered against the red light and striking another vehicle. Unfortunately, the driver of the other vehicle was killed in that collision and was declared deceased at the scene. Two passengers were safely injured and transported to the hospital in critical condition. The driver of the suspect vehicle attempted to flee and was arrested nearby. A firearm was located on his person. There were four other occupants in the suspect vehicle and they were treated for minor injuries and transported to the hospital. The driver of the vehicle has been looked for felony charges including murder and several other vehicle code violations. In that case has been filed the District Attorneys office. The investigation is ongoing. The Alameda County sheriffs are vexininvestigating the robbery d coordinating with our investigators on that case. Also he want to give you an update on the homicide that i mentioned last week that happened at fourth and mission. The victim was talking on Fourth Street towards mission when the suspect feared to follow the victim many of the suspect and victim edge gaged in a brief fishal and a physical altercation when the suspect shot the victim multiple times before fleeing. Suspect left evidence behind at the crime scene and the victim was transported to the hospital and later succumbed to his injuries. The suspect was seen fleeing into the fifth street and Mission Garage where sfpd units established a parameter and conducted our officers located a firearm during the search that was believed to be used in this murder and it was located on the garage as well. Our suspect is incompetent viewed and booked into custody for murder. This case has been filed by the District Attorneys office. So, we are making progress on the cases but again, our priority is really prevention of these cases in the first place so we will continue to update the commission and the public and we need the publics help on the one we have not been able to solve up to this point. So please, call us if you have any information. In the city and the First Amendment demonstrations and some are planned and some are unplanned and facilitate activity and facilitate peaceful activity and we do that my monitoring the size and nature of the event and deploying resources when appropriate as appropriate. These events by and large continue to remain peaceful and we have not had any major issues of concerns associated with our the Police Department is involved in going out with our cadets giving facial coverings and masks to the public in places like dalores park and marina green and other places where people get out on the weekend just to get fresh air and enjoy their families. So we will continue to do that and were also involved with daily conversations around the response to slow the curve of this pandemic in our city. Were working with all the city entities who have dunph done a phenomenal job in terms of the collaboration in order to have the type of response weve had in our city which is over we willingloverwhelmingly positive. The last thing id like to discuss are the wildfires around San Francisco county. Mutual aid has been requested from the San FranciscoPolice Department by the regional mutual aid coordinator, our first assistance will be sent tonight. Well be sending officers to be dispatched, mostly used for assist ing evaluations and evacuations and also ensuring that evacuated places remain safe and are not looted or peoples homes and businesses are being broken into. We will support as long as that call goes out but at the same time, we are deployed to provide Public Safety in the city as well. The last thing i want to go into before we get to the cra presentation is i just an update on the commission and this is good news as far as progress and reform and we will ask this to be calender by Vice President taylor and i want today share good news that the bodyworn camera policy that has been in the process with the Police Officers association is actually been agreed to by the Police Officers association and they sent a letter to the commission that confirms that the policy is concluded so thats really good news and were looking forward to implementation of the policy that the commission has asked and i want to give a thanks to both who works for the Police Department with the specific purpose of speeding up this process so we can get the reform done at a quicker pace so they have done an outstanding job since theyve come afford in the last couple of months and also i would like to thank the p. O. A. Because, weve asked them to work reform and get them through with ex pend yen see and theyve agreed to do that and this move pretty quickly when we got everything in place so, id like to thank them for that and i look forward to this continuing into the future. That will be calender for the commission and to consider and for discuss or ask questions and again, i just wanted to share some good news with that. Before we go to the c. R. A. Presentation i will followup with any questions from the commission . A couple things, i want to thank the members of the department and Fire Department as well i mean, we rarely think of first responders, you know, in emergencies like this but the truth is, we couldnt exist without them and so, just thank you for the department this is off topic but last here there was a news report that came out and about pain negotiations happening and the commissioner and i expressed some kind of shock about it. Can you give us some sense if that includes the department is involved in and i talked about calender for future Commission Meeting but im trying to figure out who the actors are here. Yes, Vice President taylor. That is dhr is in charge of that negotiation. Its my understand tag the departmenunderstanding that then negotiating that. Dhr is in charge and that is about as much as i know. These negotiations are happening confidentially as they always are and, you know, just Library Everybody else, the department is waiting to see the results and hear how that goes. That is a dhr function and process and ive reached out to the director of dhr to just verify what i can talk about in this setting and what i was advised is they would be happy to come in and explain what is going on. They wont be able to talk about confidentiality of the negotiations but, just general or whats going on which is basically an economic understanding an economic discussion about, based on the current economic climate in our city and county. They are not reopening the contract for anything other than that is my understanding. I will take them up on that offer. Commissioner you are muted. Can you hear me ok. Yes. Thank you. So, when we thank you commissioner taylor for raising the p. O. A. , the police union raised issues. You know, i think theres an a lot of concern about that because when everybodys hearing at least in the media is the p. O. A. Is getting a 6 raise while were in a 1. 7 billion shortfall. And we asked last week to have someone appear on that. What can we do im concerned because were not going to be back until september and is this something thats going to be passed and signed and sealed and were not going to have a chance to weigh in as the police over side body . Do you have any information about that, chief . My understand asking this is a board of supervisor issue in terms of approval or not approving. Like other contract negotiations, it goes to the board of supervisors so that is about as much information as i have for you. And again, they are dhr is in charge of that process. Ok. To the drove that there are terms in that contract that it impacts our ability to do our work on the commission so, im hopeful our supervisors will take a hard look at that and determine if theres ways we cae with a suspect vehicle that ended up in a death. So, im not really that famine i thought we stopped doing these high speed pursuits after another person was killed in a different pursuit. Is that are there concerns that this is the fatality occurred because were engage in a pursuit or did had he just crash. Can you fill in the details a little bit, chief . Well, there was a pursuit that was initiated by our officers at the time of the crash. They lost sight of the vehicle and were no longer in pursuit. It was with that said, though, pursuits are always evaluated and they determine the appropriateness and whether theyre in the policy and guidelines of their pursuit policy, however, set of the crash the officers lost sight and were not near the vehicle as it ran through the red light and collided with the other vehicle. How long before the crash had the officers, the vehicles stopped pursuing . I dont have the report in front of me so i dont want i know it was some minutes but i dont have the report and i dont want to miss speak but i was told it was several minutes before the officers lost sight and the vehicle crashed into the other officer. Policy compliance whether or not theres an accident involved. This one, the officers were not in active pursuit when the crash happened. Was there a highspeed pursuit prior to them losing them . There was a pursuit. What was the underlying crime again . Armed robbery. Ok. Is it possible that we can get a report back at some point about the conclusion of that investigation. Its not an ois and it sounds like theres some time to pass which is good to hear and lowers my concerns but i remember this was a while ago but there was a pretty bad situation where a civilian was killed and one of these pursuits and i thought we retaught our approach so i thought it would be nice to hear after the investigation. Yes, absolutely. You mentioned the First Amendment demonstration, the on going First Amendment demonstrations and the something that come up during that was around surveillance and the use of private companies surveillance by the department. I saw the department drafted a response letter and the demonstrations that followed have they all adhered to our protocols under First Amendment dgo8. 10. Yes. Have they been signed off on the commission, commissioners . The ones involved on the First Amendment activity. Theyre supposed to be essentially signed off on or reviewed by a commissioner . Well, i believe what you are referring to is if we conduct an investigation on First Amendment activities, there are restriction and protocols that have to go up through the chief of police and to the commission. We have not had any protest to fall in that category. We need peaceful protest and were not conducting investigations into them or criminal investigations no any of these protests that i referred to in this report so they dont qualify for that protocol. Let me ask, because the whole surveillance issue came up because you were conducting investigations about some Property Damage that occurred and the Property Damage that occurred was in the First Amendment activity so, you know, i didnt rush up on 810 but it was to implicated on the high level of oversight that we wrote into that general order . I think were talking about the same issue. The investigation and the video retrieval was for crimes that had been committed. Setting of fires, looting and buildings, thats not First Amendment activity its criminal activity and even under other county ordinances, the sfpd can retrieve video when its connected to a crime. And a report and response and talking about and that was activity and that was investigations into looting, burning down the buildings, assaults and other criminal activities. Right, but its all occurring in the context, right. Theres tens of thousands of people out there and then theres 15 to 20 or 50 or however many people that are doing the property dax damage, right. You are investigating First Amendment activities and they a roadwayarise theres an overlapn the activities and criminal conduct. I do think it implicates it and i maybe we should talk off line and maybe see if this is something and is demonstrations and i apologize for asking questions and its been a while. I saw this press conference with the feds and taking one of our San Francisco cases, a homicide that occurred and it wasnt arising out of a federal investigation it was a shooting that occurred and obviously a tragedy but, weve talked about this before about seating our local jurisdiction to the trump administration, not something im a fan of. Im expressed that repeatedly. I know that is going to change in come january and what are tht made that case, why did you bring that case to the feds instead of our local District Attorney who has prosecuting local state matters . Its part of a larger federal investigation which is still active and the actual federal authorities actually were working that particular case as well with their own evidence. We collaborated with them on that case but that case was one that being persuade federally but its a part of a larger investigation. You mean this is the situation where the young man shot and took another young man who had been working with the i think one of the Community Groups and so you are saying that the feds began an investigation at the same time that sfpd did into the homicide . No, what im saying is there is more to this investigation than just that case and that is followed a under federal jurisdiction. Ok. Its a larger investigation. Ok. Let me finish up. I think this is probably something we should have a bigger discussion around. Thank you for your responses, chief. Thank you. Yeah, ill be short. Definitely want to make sure i echo what commissioner taylor and commissioner brought up in terms of the p. O. A. So really what to hear more about that and the chief. The one of the things that stood out for me was the uptick in homicides. I think what i would like to see, chief, as were almost in the third quarter, is if we can get some statistics on which districts these homicides are taking place in, and i would like to hear what we are response is to not share the strategy what are we going to do understanding that theres an up stick in homicides in districts here in the city and what the department is planning to necessarily do about that. I think its something that is on the forefront of Community Members and i thi