Ask you to mute yourselves as well until and unless you are giving comments, that theres not feedback or background noise. Before we begin, im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart and well do the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. Now at the end of this meeting im going to be asking that we adjourn in honor of a firefighter who lost his life today, jason cortez, who spent 13 years with the San Francisco fire department, married, two young children, dad was a firefighter as well, and its such a terrible loss for our city, for our community, and we want to thank him and all of those who serve, who try to help us in the community at great expense to themselves. So i will ask to adjourn in his honor and in honor of all those who serve. We will be giving two minutes for Public Comment, and with that, ill ask you to call roll. We should give the number to call is 415655001. The access code is 1469845033. Thank you, commissioner. Commissioner [roll call]. You have a quorum. Also with us tonight is director Paul Henderson from the department of [indiscernible]. Thank you very much. Can you call the first line item . Line item one, reports to the commission, discussion. Providing overview of offences occurring in San Francisco. Provide a summary of planned activities and events. This will include a brief overview of any activities having an impact on public safety. The determining whether the calendar for a future [indiscernible]. Chief . Good evening, commissioners, vicepresident taylor and executive director henderson. Ill start off this week with our crime trend since our last meeting, and ill start with the not good news. We are up in homicides ten over this time last year, which is a 34 increase. We did have two homicides throughout the week which i will discuss in detail. Right at the end we were up. We had [indiscernible] this time last year. And there is a lot of work to be done there, a lot of work to be done. It is a national trend. In talking to other chiefs of Police Across the country, this is a trend thats really nationwide, and theres a lot of anecdotal information that the mental health, due to the pandemic [indiscernible] no proof of that, but thats some of the discussion thats happening. Nonetheless, we will do what we can in our city to try to make this situation better. Overall, Violent Crimes is down from this time last year, 23 , and again, thats led by a reduction in aggravated assaults and a reduction in robberies, but we are up in homicides, and actually were up in shooting victims as well by 10 , 111 compared to 100 at this time last year. Property crime, a little bit better, down overall. However, the bad news there is that we are up significantly in robberies im sorry, not robberies. In burglaries, and also in car thefts. The good news is that we are down significantly in car breakins, 43 from this time last year, and approximately 50 from 2017. So thats much better news, and thats really whats driving our overall decrease in property crimes here today. Our yeartodate total property crime numbers is a 21 [indiscernible] year to date. So were going to continue to focus on the [indiscernible] as we continue to open up our economy and more people are out, we can keep that going in the right direction. And we are employing strategies to address the burglaries, including increasing patrols. We made some pretty significant arrests on burglaries, and we have identified some chronic offenders. Were working with the District Attorneys Office on that. Also we participated in a retail task force, and we had a role in that. San mateo county is actually the lead county on that, along with the california highway patrol, made some significant arrests and recovery of millions of dollars of property, so our retail detail was involved in that. They had a significant role in that in terms of identifying suspects that were also a problem in San Francisco, so thats going really well, but that was good news as well in terms of trying to turn this around. As to our shootings, i mentioned that were up 10 with shooting victims yeartodate. 10 over last year, and the breakdown per station, six of the ten stations were up in shootings, and by districts, the stations that are up are bayview, mission, park, eagleside, airville and tenderloin. Of those, tenderloin and bayview have the most significant increases. Bayview had 38 shooting incidents last year i mean 30 last year compared to 38 this year. Tenderloin 18 shooting incidents last this year compared to 8 last year. So definitely thats not the victim. Thats the incidents. So the victim counts are different from the incidents. Some of the changes are very, very small in number. Park, richmond, very small numbers. Terville, very small number, but again, the focus is on bayview, mission and tenderloin. Those are the three biggest increases in terms of shootings over this time last year. Okay, as far as significant incidents, i mentioned there were two homicides this past week. The first one occurred on thursday, october 1, and unfortunately this was the result of a robbery gone bad. Several suspects approached our robbery victim. They were armed with handguns, and a struggle resulted with the victim struggled with one of the armed suspects. The victim actually grabbed hold of a gun and ended up shooting the robbery suspect and the robbery suspect died from his injuries. The other two suspects got away. We do have significant evidence and leads on this case, so we are working to identify and bring the other suspects into custody, so we do think we will be successful in doing that. Really unfortunate situation all around, but the bigger issue is that it was a robbery gone bad and the victim luckily was not injured and did not lose his life as well. The second homicide occurred and that actually happened in the Central District in the union square area. The second homicide was on sunday, october 4, at 4 30 in the morning. That was in the mission. Our officers responded to a person that had been struck in the head, and they found the victim lying on the sidewalk with a large laceration to his head. The victim was unconscious but still alive when the officers arrived. He was transported to the hospital as our officers tried to render aid, and unfortunately and sadly he succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. The witness statements and video from the area shows that the victim was walking in the area when two individuals began to basically drive up on him, one individual in the vehicle basically struck our victim in the head, and that is what we believe was the fatal injury. The suspect exited and begins [indiscernible] numerous times, and then the suspect returned to the vehicle and left the area. We do have Video Evidence. We have photos from those videos, from surveillance cameras that were in the area, privately owned, and we are looking to identify our suspect in that case, so if anyone has any information, please call our tip line 4155754444, and you can remain anonymous. Couple of other highlights of significant arrests this week and significant incidents, there was a shooting at gilman and ingels in bayview district. 13 rifle rounds were recovered from the location. Two vehicles involved, and one of the victims were ended up transporting themselves to the hospital, and we found out that the victim was shot at that location. It was we believe a gunfight with shooting back and forth and nobody in custody at this point, so that is an ongoing investigation. Again, anybody with any information that might help solve that, please call our tip line. Second incident was at montgomery and market in central. This was on october 2. Two victims were walking down Market Street when the suspects began to follow them. An altercation ensued, subject grabbed one of the victims, produced a gun and shot at the victim as the victim tried to run away. We did make an arrest on that case, so that subject was taken into custody. We had a couple of other arrests of note that id like to mention tonight. On september 30 our tenderloin officers arrested an aggravated assault suspect, and this particular suspect had actually attacked two elderly victims in the tenderloin. One victim was a 78yearold female. As far as we know, these were unprovoked attacks. This person struck the victim in the head, caused her to lose consciousness, and she also suffered a broken hip during the fall. The second victim was a 71yearold female, and as far as we can tell, that was also an unprovoked attack. This victim was also struck by the suspect and found unconscious on the ground. We were able to identify a suspect in this case, and that suspect was arrested and is still in custody. And the last incident of note, there was an assault of a victim in a wheelchair. This occurred on september 15 at 11 48 in the evening at 16th and mission. Our victim was an employee of a local restaurant in the area and had just served the suspect food when he went outside he saw the suspects outside. They demanded more food. They became boisterous and they followed the victim and actually retrieved a handgun and shot at the victim. Video evidence was confirmed, and we were able to follow up on that Video Evidence and actually made an arrest on that case on september 30. So that suspect is also still in custody and our investigators and officers did a really good job, and this is where knowing your area, knowing whos hanging out in your area really matters, and the officers did a really good job there. A couple of other things of note, moving on, during the last couple weeks supervisor introduced legislation to curb some of what were seeing in the city in terms of the stunt driving, also known as side shows. As you all know, these events are really problematic, really dangerous. Weve had numerous complaints from Community Members about these things, which typically happen late at night, and the supervisors legislation will put a little bit more teeth and hopefully traction into the ability to impound and hold cars when people are involved in these events, and also we have really worked internally to create a better response, a more effective response, so we created lots of training. We now have a we believe a very sound plan that has actually for the last couple of weeks has been employed and has worked in terms of disrupting these shows. We have impounded at least a couple cars and issued citations and word has gotten out that our response is more effective than it has been in the past, so thats good news, we feel. Always try to refine, were working with the other agencies in surrounding areas who also have this problem. Its a bay area problem, and its not going away any time soon, so were going to do everything we can to train, to make sure we use the laws that we do have effectively and work with the supervisor with his legislation to see if we can put a little bit more teeth into the local ordinances to give us a little bit more tools in our arsenal to deal with this issue. And i will keep the commission informed on that. October is pink patch month, and we on october 1st we kicked off our Breast Cancer awareness month, and as the pink patches were approved by the commission a couple of years ago, we are, again, wearing pink patches during the month, and also those patches, if anybody wants to donate to help cancer research, Breast Cancer research, those are also available for donation, and we have had money go to the bay area Cancer Foundation to help with research, so definitely we appreciate the public support on that in the past two years, and were looking forward to making a difference this year as well. This month is also Domestic Violence months, and october is Domestic Violence month, and city hall, if you havent seen it already, is lit in purple to remind everyone about Domestic Violence and to be vigilant and aware to try to reduce and stop Domestic Violence from occurring. So that everybodys aware of it. And the last thing that i will report, there has been news both national and local about Homeland Security, specifically ice, doing enforcement operations, Immigration Enforcement operations in the bay area. So i reached out to the Homeland Security special agent in charge today to see exactly what has happened in our city because the way its been portrayed on the news is that they were gonna do this work in San Francisco. So it is a bay area San Francisco bay area initiative. What i was informed today is there was one arrest on september 29 for an individual who had previously been deported several times and was in the country illegally. He was arrested, and that was the only arrest in the city of San Francisco. I just want to remind the public that the sprisk Police Department does not participate in those, we do not engage in any type of Immigration Enforcement. That has been the case and will continue to be the case and were not involved in that in any form or fashion. So if there is any other information that comes of this, i will let the commission know what we find out, but as i said, so far there was one arrest and that was announced a couple of weeks ago by the federal government. Thats it for my portion of the report if the commission has any questions. Thank you, chief. Yes, first and foremost i want to say thank you, chief, for providing the stations who are seeing the uptick in violence. I know i asked for that a couple of months ago. So i appreciate that. I wanted to share my frustration along with the frustration of the Community Just around this increase in homicides. I mean, if you think about just a year ago, a year and a half ago, we adopted the vision zero on homicides, and the fact that we have a pandemic, were beginning to reenter back into the city or reopen the city, theres an increase in homicides, i just just are we i want to know if the homicides themselves, are they linked . Is it turf issues . You did express one was a robbery that was gone bad, but as a member of the public, are there things that folks should be doing and looking out for, you know, during this time . I mean, with so much going on and it was also frustrating to see that out of the six stations, you know, bayview and eagleside are in the same district. We know whats going on in the tl. We know whats going on in the mission, and already those communities that have been hit hard by the pandemic now on top of the pandemic and all the trauma that are going on in these communities, were seeing an uptick in the violence. We know we have the gun buyback programs. What are some of the things that, you know, that the department is doing and also what are some things that we as members of the public, you know, can do to really assist with this and with whats going on . If thank you for that question, and the ones that we believe to be linked to either some type of turf dispute or gangrelated, weve actually had pretty good success in terms of identifying those and taking people and guns into custody. There have been a number of these, like the two that i mentioned that happened this past week, totally random violence. I mean, robbery gone bad. The second one we believe people didnt know each other. It was a we believe that just got out of control, and that one was not a firearm, but the person had something in his hands that would allow him to kill, take somebodys life. There have been a number of those too. There have been a number where its just random violence. We had one a couple of weeks ago. It happened during the course of the side show. Probably in terms of rival or anything that would cause retaliation that we know of, but again, we got a bunch of people together and tempers flare and somebody has a gun and then it goes bad. So there have been a number of those. We have had a couple of homicides that where we really dont know. People found in their houses and that type of thing. Not that many, though. Only a few of those. But the ones that are the all of them are concerning, but the ones that are i think the most problematic are the ones where theres a high likelihood of retaliation, and those are the ones where weve done a fairly good job i think in identifying which ones are in those categories and identifying the people involved. One thats really, you know, problematic that we are working too hard to solve is the death of the 6yearold kid, jace. You know, were working as hard as we can to solve that. Theres evidence that we have that hopefully will materialize into something that amounts to a prosecutable case, but theres still a lot of work to be done on that case. You know, 12 hours after that there was a second homicide that we believe was probably some rival gangrelated issues going on, and we have identified that person, so they are all problematic, but the ones that are rival gangrelated or those ones usually spark additional violence, and those that we really try to focus on and identify. We focus on all, but definitely we want to stop the next shooting from occurring, so thats working with the community, working with svip, strt for the Wraparound Services to the family, all the things that we believe will prevent future homicides from occurring. I know director sutton presented some of the strategies that weve employed. We are also working with california partnerships as director sutton said in her presentation, that we believe will help us in our processes in terms of reviewing shootings and getting everybody on the same page and working with the other cities where there is connectivity between our shootings and homicides and there are a lot of those where they are connected to either people with San Francisco roots that live now in other cities and theres violence there and theres violence here and its going back and forth, so thats going to take some collaboration, and we are doing that, but theres always room to get better, but definitely its disturbing and something were working hard to turn around. Yeah, no, absolutely. I appreciate that, chief. I said just frustrating to go from a vision zero to again an uptick in shooting victi