Has an opportunity to comment on items from the august 19 agenda. So thats how were going to proceed, and then after that, we will continue the remaining items on the september 2 and tonights meeting, and once thats done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. As always, im going to ask Public Commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. If you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. Commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. Clerk yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Also here tonight is chief w l William Scott from the San FranciscoPolice Department. Vice president taylor i wanted to say that the public will notice we have a new commissioner, and oddly enough, shes probably why every Single Member of this commission is on this commissioner. Commissioner malia cohen, welcome to your First Police Commission thank you very much. So i just wanted to, you know, just straight believe that share in my beliefs that i believe in transparency, and i believe in the examining of data and accountability and also support the positive moves toward Police Reform. And as you know, im a soontobe new mother, and im aware that we need to do a lot of work in order to create a very safe and stable future for those of us that are not only here today but for future generatio generations. So i just want to say to everyone here, thank you, and thank you to the mayor who had the confidence in me to appoint me to the commission. Im excited to be here, and with that, commissioner taylor, i turn it back to you. Thank you. Vice president taylor thank you. Okay. So can you please call the next item on the agenda, sergeant . Clerk yes. Line item 1, reports to the commission, continued from august 19, 2020. Commission reports. Commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future Commission Meeting. Commission president s report, commissioners reports, and Commission Announcement and scheduling items identified for condition at future Commission Meetings, action. Vice president taylor i dont see any names in the chat, so seeing none, lets move onto the next item. Clerk item 2, discussion and possible action to adopt the Community AmbassadorProgram Manual, continued to september 2, 2020. Vice president taylor okay. Item 3 . Clerk item 3 is Public Comment. Vice president taylor this is general Public Comment that you werent able to provide on august 19 because of the technical difficulties. If you wish to provide Public Comment, please do so now. Clerk members of the public are welcome to address the commission up to two minutes on items that do not appear on the agenda for august 19 but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction. Commission. Speakers shall address they remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or d. P. A. Personnel. Under Police Commission rules of order, during Public Comment, Neither Police or d. P. A. Personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and police and d. P. A. Personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during Public Comment. So far, commissioner, we have one Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Operator good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Caller, you are unmuted, and you have two minutes. Are you there . Okay, commissioner, i will go to the next caller. Okay. Caller, you have two minutes. Commissioners, i wanted to call you tonight to ask you to produce a reasoned plan to defund the police as tens of thousands of your constituents are calling for in the street. I understand that what was done before is clearly unacceptable, and now, as we move forward, i would love to see this commission take responsibility solely for the actions of its brutal and corrupt organization where you have members taking obscene amounts of over time. I certainly dont think theres any reason to be harassing random participants in a band in a park, and yet, weve managed to turn up six cops in riot gear. I certainly dont think there is any reason to respond to levels in force that you guys have to the protest, yet for every individual small group of people, youve managed to surface 30 or 40 Police Officers. That seems to be the only function that the Police Department has, and i would ask whether large portions of that task might better go undone. And i dont imagine any other organization has the capability to recommend which of those tasks shouldnt be done by the Police Department better than this commission. So im asking the commission to man up, do its job, and figure out how to come up with a Police Department that is responsive to what the people actually want and not abusive as its primary and almost exclusive function. Vice president taylor thank you, caller. Next caller. Operator good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Caller, you have been unmuted. You have two minutes. Commissioner, that is all for Public Comment. Vice president taylor thank you. Next line item . Clerk line item 4, closed session. Continued to september 2, 2020. Vice president taylor thank you. Next item. Clerk line item five, for the adjournment of the august 19 meeting. Vice president taylor can i have a motion for the adjournment of the august 19, 2020 meeting. Commissioner hamasaki are we done . So moved. Commissioner hamasaki ill second. Clerk okay. On the adjournment of the august 19, 2020 meeting [roll call] clerk commissioner taylor, you have six yeses. Vice president taylor okay. How do we do this procedurally, opening the next meeting . Ill leave that to you, sergeant. Clerk okay. So for the meeting of september 2, 2020, we are roll call for this meeting, as well. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk roll call for the meeting of september 2, 2020 [roll call] clerk commissioner taylor, you have a quorum. And also, we have present chief of police William Scott and [inaudible]. Vice president taylor and i dont think you included me in the roll, but im present, as well. Clerk and commissioner taylor is present. Vice president taylor all the same rules apply. Phone number 4156550001, meeting i. D. 1461408360. Commissioners, put your hand up if you want to make comments. Next line item. Clerk item 1, adoption of minutes for the meeting of august 12, 2020. Commissioner cohen i make a motion to approve the minutes. Commissioner hamasaki did somebody move . Commissioner cohen yes, i did. Okay. And second. Clerk for line item 1, adoption of minutes [roll call] Vice President taylor next line item . Clerk item 2, reports to the commission, discussion. Chiefs report. Weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco. Major significant incidents. Provide a summary of planned activities and events. This will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an bakt on Public 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 safe streets for all Quarterly Report, Second Quarter 2020. Presentation of the fdrb findings and recommendations and o. I. S. Investigative summaries, first and Second Quarter 2020. Hi, commissioner cohen. Commissioner cohen nice to see you. I just want to talk a little bit about the training ive mentioned it to the commission before. Training was created and implemented in 2018, and basically, the course was developed and designed to reinforce [inaudible] tactics to involve less lethal. As you know, weve decreased our pointings of firearms and the use of force in the chapter 96a report, but we do believe that this training that we have creates has addressed gaps and really led to more effective leadership in the field. The training actually emphasizes the principles of deescalation which has been embraced by members. Its all about coordination, decision making, response, and effective decision making. We have significantly reduced the pointing of a firearm, which is actually our biggest category of use of force from where it was in 2016, when we started to track this information until to now. Theres been almost a 70 reduction in the pointing of firearms. And also, the percentage of use of forces that involve pointing of firearms has gone from down from about 70 in 2016 to 44 of our total use of force this year, so its really a good thing that this training was recognized by the International Association of chiefs of police. I think it shows, once again, that our city is on the forefront of trying to make things better in policing, and i just want to give my hats off to everybody. The training unit, commander Denise Flaherty who was the lead on this, and the participating members. Together, weve trained 1,540 members, and we believe its had an impact on the way weve trained for Critical Incidents and leading to better yut comes for Critical Incidents. Outcomes for Critical Incidents. Wanted to start with our crime trend. Overall, we are down 28 from last weeks crime. Compared to 20192020, were down 20 . Our total property crimes were down 21 . However, we are still up in homicide 23 up in homicide. We did not have any homicides this past week, which is good news, but we still have a lot of work to do in terms of our homicides for this year. We had seven in the month of august, and the previous month, in july, we had five. Of the yeartodate cases, weve cleared 13 of the yeartodate cases, and weve also cleared some of our older cases. I know there is a desire by commissioner brookter to talk about some of our shooting incidents. There are several districts that are up. The two that are most concerning are the ingleside district, with an increase of 100 of shooting incidents, and thats six 12 in 2020 compared to six in 2019. Tenderloin also has a significant increase. There is seven in 2019, 16 this year. Were talking about total shooting incidents. Bayview has one more shooting incident than they did last year, and mission has one more shooting incident than they did this time last year. Bayview, that number is 29 compared to 28, and mission is nine compared to 8. Of the remaining six districts, everyone else has had a decrease in shooting incidents. The most significant decrease is central, who went from five to one, and thats the individual breakdown of the individual districts. We, again, have a presentation scheduled with our crime strategies directors on what we are doing to reduce shootings and to work not only shortterm but longterm, so were looking forward to that presentation. In terms of property crime, we are still struggling with burglaries. Were up significantly in burglaries, which is alarming. The biggest trend were seeing are garage burglaries with items like bicycles, tools, small things that can be carried out. We are up significantly, with over 1300 more burglaries than this time last year. Our Motor Vehicle thefts are also up significantly, 900 more than this time last year, a little bit more than 900. Whats driving the decrease in total property crimes are our overall thefts are down significantly, 35 , which is a large number. Were down almost over 8,000 theft incidents than we were this time last year, and that includes our car burglaries, which are down significantly from this time last year. Overall, we are down, but we still have some significant concerns in terms of our property crime. In terms of individual cases, we had four shooting incidents that id like to brief the commission and the public on on 8 or august 30, 2020. Officers arrived and found a victim down on the 100 block of gonzalez, in the ingleside district. The victim was talking to a female, and shots rang out, and it was unknown the origin of the gunshots. The victim is expected to survive but was injured. On that same day at 2 00 p. M. , a victim stated he was walking in the area when he felt gunshots and felt weak. He was taken to the hospital, and it appeared that there was some sort of physical altercation that the victim was involved in before he was shot, so that one is still under investigation. Were trying to find witnesses for that case, as well. On august 29, at 4 23 p. M. , a victim was walking near the San Francisco general hospital, when a car pulled up and he felt pain in his leg. He was transported to San Francisco general, and no suspects have been arrested in that case. On august 26, 11 33 p. M. , two victims were sitting in a vehicle when two suspects started walking up and started shooting. One victim suffered a graze to the buck and the other a gunshot wound to the leg. They selftransported to the hospital, and both were listed in stable condition. We have some leads on that, but we have not made an arrest in that case as of yet. Moving onto major events, we continue to monitor protests in the city. We have not had any significant incidents over this past week. There are many of the events are unplanned, and we hear about them either through Community Members or through second party information, but we have not had any incidents. As you all know, there are still many very alarming protests happening around the country, but thankfully, we havent had that come to our city here lately. We will continue to monitor and facilitate peaceful protests and keep the commission updated on how thats going. There was an unplanned march in the taraval district, had about 60 to 70 people. It was in the area of sloat and great highway, and the people were peaceful as they marched up great highway. We had one unit basically trailing the group, closing off intersections in front of the group so they could facilitate the march, and it was peaceful, and that is the highlights for this week. With that, i will open it up to the commission for questions if there are any questions. Vice president taylor thank you. Commissioner elias . Commissioner elias thank you, chief. Im glad that the incident training is going to be displayed at the International Police chief meeting because i had a lot of people comment to me on the critical mindset training, so im hoping that you can discuss what the training entails because i think the fact that its already had such positive responses from Community Members will be helpful. Thank you. Be happy to do that, commissioner. Thank you. Vice president taylor thats a great idea. Im going to calendar that for a future meeting. Commissioner brookter . Commissioner brookter yeah, and thanks again, chief, for acknowledging what i brought up in the last meeting. But i do want to make sure, from what i was hearing, it sounds like ingleside, tenderloin, the bayview, and mission, homicide was up, and thats a problem. Thats a problem. So i want to make sure that as we do these reportouts, and were looking at the data, and were looking at the information thats in front of us, that we are looking at a plan to make reductions in these areas and have the staff that we need in order to see a decrease in these areas. I think that was extremely, extremely alarming. Were looking at a 100 increase in ingleside, so i wanted to make sure we pointed that out and make sure thats on our radar, chief, and were planning how were going to see a decrease in homicides in the city. Yes, sir. I may have spoke, but the shootings are whats up in inglesides, which is just as problematic. Commissioner brookter no, point well taken. Vice president taylor commissioner brookter actually stole my thought because, you know, when we look at this, it just says yeartodate incidents. It is bayview, mission, ingleside, and tenderloin pretty much where the black and brown people live. So what im going to do for a future meeting, chief, and i told you this would be coming up, but kind of more pressing now, what is the department doing in terms of the bayview. When i look at everything is down but the four areas where minorities tend to live, these incidents, i just want to know what the department is doing to reach out to the community thats clearly struggling here, so im going to ask you to present on that at a future meeting, chief. Thank you for that, Vice President taylor. We will definitely put together a presentation on that. Vice president taylor thank you. Commissioner dejesus . Commissioner dejesus so chief, im looking at the data that you gave from 2016, 70 pointing guns down to 44 . Thats good. Thats a 26 reduction, but i guess for the public to understand, the pointing of the begun, gun, is it still pointed at black and african americans, besides the training, what else can we do to bring it down because its still quite high, i mean, close to 50 . Yes, commissioner. It has been reduced in terms of the first of all, let me back up. Youre correct. Theres still disparities in that particular demographic, and definitely, its less of a disparity than it was four years ago, but we still have work to do on that. So part of this, with training as the cncr and other training that were doing is helping greatly in that regard, b