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Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240712

I wanted to ask a question on that. Is that the one where they are resigning or quitting for septembers report that we read . Is that the same report . [indiscernible] [indiscernible] if this was on the consent calendar, why wasnt it a separate item, i guess . Can you put it up on the screen . Is that a option . I think it is the report where they were talking about the discipline cases and the outcomes. Three out of four the outcomes [indiscernible] i want to know what we are doing about that. Im not sure it should be on the consent calendar. [indiscernible] i am assuming this report comes before the commission. I wanted to make sure that what we are doing about this. Did we talk about how to flag it these charges will still follow them if they move. We talked about how we have the ability to remand to the chief and the chief pursues the investigation to make a finding. And that is all we can do, right . That is all we can do. At this point we are waiting on to schedule for when the chief can come back and report on these findings. We did not want a significant loss, which is we dont even though these are no longer within our jurisdiction, the chief coming back and reporting the findings so the public understands what happened what is happening [indiscernible]. I agree. Go ahead. John made a motion. Thank you, commissioner. Yeah,. I want to make sure this is just on for our acknowledgement. We are not doing anything with this. Can you explain what the purpose is for putting this on the agenda . Its a consent item. All we do is agree or disagree. This is why it should be a separate item so we can have these discussions and have the ability to follow up. We made it clear to the chief that we cant influence a decision one way or the other, but we would want followup on these cases and how the investigation is going. We wont get that information on a consent calendar. Thats all i mean. Lets put it as a separate item so we can follow up on it. Can we put it on the agenda when it comes up for january or december and that will give the chief enough time . And he can give us a status on it. Chief, we can talk about i agree that we need to get this back on calendar. I dont know where the chief is in any of these investigations. We can certainly put it back on the agenda depending on the status of the resignation. Absolutely. Okay. I think we have a motion and a second. Yes. Lets call the vote. [roll call] we need to have Public Comment before the vote. For members who would like to comment on line item one on the calendar, please call the number [indiscernible] commissioner, there is no Public Comment. Next. Im sorry. Im wondering if miss cabrera can give guidance if what happens if a consent item doesnt pass since the commissioner has voted no. Sure. It is the methodism to have items on the agenda. Anyone commissioner can act on this. You can take it apart for the consent agenda. It is just to have something. Usually its something you have already given us. If you want to take it out, you can definitely do that and have a separate discussion about it. Okay. The trend is kind of broken down here. Everyone can put their name in. If you could mute your microphone, please. I am not entirely sure of the purpose to have this on the consent calendar and what that does. What will we be voting on here . It is only meant for items that are routine. Something that will not garner a lot at all. It is a mechanism used by most commissions to give something back. However, if it is an item that one commissioner would like to take off the consent calendar because they would like to have a discussion about it, you can do that without waiting for the next agenda. You can take it out of the consent calendar and fully discuss it. I think that makes the most sense. These are issues that i think we all want followup on. There are things that show up on the agenda and this is one of them. Im not even sure what it is or what the purpose is. It makes sense to have a more full discussion once investigation is over. You can always put this on as you are needed, which is on a future agenda calendar. There is nothing stopping that from happening. Great. Lets do that. Okay. Call the next line item. Line a temp two. Report for the diminished commission discussion. [laughter]. We need the chat. We need to go to the chat. I thought we had already dealt with that. We are ready decided we would calendar this for january. Is that right . We have moved it from the agenda. Next line item. You have passed to accept the donation of the funds, correct . Yes. Call the next item. Item two a, case report. Provide an overview of offences recall happening in San Francisco. This will include a brief overview of any un [indiscernible] occurring in San Francisco and having an impact on Public Safety. [indiscernible] it will be limited to determining whether to calendar for future weeks. The presentation Monthly Update and the presentation of the collaborative reform initiative. [indiscernible] chief of staff hawkins is on the call. Good evening. I want to start todays presentation with crime trends and then i will go into significant events. We will present the presentation for the month and i will present the Monthly Update last to close out the chiefs presentation. Crime wise we are, for the week, down 30 . Yeartodate, we are down 24 . Let me start with the Violent Crime. We have had a very busy week with shootings and Violent Crime we are down for the week. We had a very busy weekend at a very busy week with shootings and a couple of homicides on friday. When comparing to 2019, we are down 21 . As i said, we had two homicides last week. It is equivalent of a 37 overall increase in homicides. We have we ended last year with 41 homicides which is a 50 year low and we are about to eclipse that this year. We have 41 homicides this year and 21 of them have been cleared i want to go into more detail about the gun violence over the past week. Friday we had two homicides. In total, there were eight shooting incidences last week which caused injury or death to nine victims. The district with the largest increase in gun violence are equals i, which is double there gun related incidents this year. Tenderloin, and the bayview. The bayview has nine more shooting incidences and the equivalent of a 29 increase compared to this time last year. The mission had six additional incidences. On the positive side, central has central has a 72 decrease. They only had two incidences this year compared to seven last year. Northern district at a 40 district. Ten last year and six this year. Seven last year versus six this year. The taradale also had a slight decrease. Specifically with this fridays incident, there were a couple of shootings that were very concerning an problematic. The first was a multiple victim shooting on the 200 block of Williams Street and ingleside district. A vehicle drove northbound and went past a passenger fired numerous rounds at the victims who were in the garage. They were having a cookout outside of their garage area. Officers were in the area and flagged down by witnesses. Four victims in that shooting received if anyone has any information, please call our tip line. It was 30 minutes before the one i talked about. The victim was standing near a vehicle when he was shot one time and hit the torso. Officers responded and located the victim. The victim did not survive his injuries and was pronounced dead at San Francisco hospital. In addition to that shooting, there was a block in the ingleside district were several people were hit. A victim was flagged down by a vehicle. They transported the victim to the hospital. Two other shootings were gangrelated. That is still under investigation and we are not, at this time, we dont have any suspects, although we did have leads that we are pursuing. In addition to that, there were there was a shooting in the tenderloin area. This one was a robbery gone bad related to narcotics, we believe the suspect approached the victim who was in the act of selling narcotics. The suspect robbed the victim of his narcotics, pistol whipped him, then shot him in the torso. That victim will survive or is expected to survive. He was transported to the hospital. This occurred on grove street in the tenderloin. It was at eighth and market. We had not made an arrest on that. It was a very busy week. Our Immediate Response was putting resources in the area, particularly where the homicides occurred in the bayview and ingleside. We called in officers on an overtime basis throughout the weekend to supplement our patrol resources. The captains were involved in the coordination of resources and it did appear to have an impact and after friday we did not have shootings in those areas. We will continue to deploy, but the longer term strategy is to do outreach to the community and get the community mobilized. We need to pursue and identify the individuals who are getting guns on the streets. Our deployment has been very robust since friday. We will try to sustain that as much as possible, but it is a very resource and overtime extensive endeavour. Its worth it if we are going to save a few lives and keep people from getting shot. We will keep that going as long as we need to. In terms of property crime, our issue is still burglary. We are significantly up and burglaries. We have made impact arrests. A few of those individuals are still in custody and some have been released. Its a matter of identifying the prolific individuals that we believe are involved in these crimes and to keep that strategy going and we can hopefully make a dent in reducing the burglaries. All other property crimes are down significantly, including car breakins which are down significantly from last year and the year before. Other major events, and this one that we are about to report on happened on saturday. We werent able to get it on the agenda. I will be very brief. It was a newsworthy incident. On saturday, october 17th, they had a freespeech rally that began at the u. N. Plaza. Individuals attended who were speaking on freespeech. The topic they were supposedly speaking on within minutes of the rally beginning, a group through glass bottles, eggs, plastic bottles at the permitted presenters and it quickly turned to violence. One freespeech rally was assaulted. At the time, at that time, the rally was being made a Public Safety hazard. They shut down the event due to the violence that was occurring. And as the participants left the area, several were aggressively attacked. Several people sustained non lifethreatening injuries, including one individual had a broken kneecap. There was also an officer assaulted in that an caustic clump chemicals were thrown at some of the participants and some of the officers were exposed to those chemicals as well. The officers were not seriously injured, thank goodness. It was a very tense situation. There was a man arrested in the city of oakland. Hate crime enhancement was also filed against this particular individual based on evidence uncovered in the investigation. That, thankfully ended up, other nobody else got seriously injured. It was a very tense and volatile situation. One other thing i want to address is that they are supporting the presenters and the people who are granted to permit on this particular event and it is a misrepresentation of what happened. What happened was you had people who were under attack and whose lives were in danger and our officers were keep people there to keep people safe and keep people in a position that is safe so they can extract individuals away from the situation and keep them from being harmed. I want to make sure that that information the record is set straight. Our department is there to protect everybody and it doesnt matter what the political affiliations or ideology are. We are there to keep everybody safe. That is exactly what our officer did. The post caused post caused quite a bit of a. Its totally misleading. With that, that is all for this portion of the report. Thank you. We have time for questions. The rally that you are talking about,. [indiscernible] everyone is familiar with them. Can you give us a sense, chief, because obviously i hear that the boards are coming to our city. That will be concerning to most citizens. This is not a group that advocates for peaceful nonviolence. They have a very inflammatory rhetoric about violence. So, can you explain what the standard is for folks like that getting a permit and if theres anything we can do my understanding is that, especially through the election, the plan is for these folks to show up in cities all across the country and intimidate folks to prevent folks from voting. There are reports of people, you know, with guns at polling sights. This is a group that has a very specific image, for lack of a better word. They are not your grandma and grandpa hanging around the park. If you can explain for us what the process is and how this stuff works . Yes. First and foremost, this event was a permitted event, so where individuals want to hold these activities, and if they do it the way that it is recommended to be done, they will request from the city and county of San Francisco a permit. Particularly in a public space such as United Nations plaza. That permit was granted. There is no, you know, what they believe in or whatever their ideology or philosophy is. That is not factored in. We dont make that decision. I do know about the process. It is First Amendment. Its freespeech. [please stand by] that usually leads to violence. All these things are put into motion. It even even on saturday, there was still a violence confrontation, so at that point, we need to make a determination if it was an unlawful gathering and shut it down to keep people safe. On saturday, even after people were extracted, there was efforts to keep it peaceful. Those situations are very volatile, but i think the main thing is, First Amendment activity is protected in this city. People have a right to express themselves and it, you know, what we dont tolerate is violence and people getting hurt, and well never tolerate that. So if people have an idea of having an event to have those things occur, were going to put them down, and were going to do our jobs in terms of keeping everybody safe and try to identify those that are violent and deal with them accordingly. Arrest them if we can catch them in the act, and if we cant, do our followup investigation in this case and arrest them at that time. Taylor thank you. Commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner hamasaki yes. I think that commissioner taylor mostly covered my concerns. I saw a number of posts from proud boys about coming to San Francisco to revenge what happened last week or over the weekend, so i think its been an ongoing concern of this commission is these weird groups affiliated with White Supremacists and the Trump Administration that do pose a real clear and present danger, i think, to our city and our county and the people that live here. So i appreciate that you folks are keeping an eye on them, and hope that were equally prepared if they do decide to return and seek their revenge. Thank you, commissioner. We are we plan to be prepared for whatever whatever happens. Commissioner hamasaki thank you. Vice president taylor thank you. Next item or if youre done. I assume youre finished, chief. Yes. Commander osullivan will present the 1421 Monthly Update. Vice president taylor commander. Hi. Can you hear me . Vice president taylor yes. Okay. So good evening, Vice President taylor, commissioners, and chief of staff sarah hawk. I am here to present the 1421 update. As we usually do, we will begin with some background. Officer involved shootings s records relating to the reports, investigations, or findings related to an officers discharge of a firearm at a person. Number two, Great Bodily Injury. Records relating to the report, investigation, and or findings regarding an officers use of force that result in death or Great Bodily Injury of a person, Sexual Assault, records relating to a sustained finding that an officer engaged in Sexual Assault involving a member of the public or dishonesty. Records relating to a sustained finding that an officer was dishonest directly relating to the reporting, investigation, or prosecution of a crime or directly relating to the reporting of or misconduct by another officer, including, but not limited to, any sustained finding of percentage, filing false reports, destruction, falsefying or concealing evidence. So with that said, since january 1, 2019, when the senate bill went into effect, the department has received 198 Public Record requests. For the period september 1 through september 30, which is our most recent reporting period, the department received five additional Public Records requests. The department produced 105 new released, and a release is defined as a production of records and or a determination letter that indicates to the requester that the department has or has not responded to a disclosure of one or more items to a specific officer. Two matters were closed, and one additional request was released. I believe that was the mario woods shooting. We have released 37,727 officer related shooting pages. And this concludes my update. Vice president taylor thank you. Next oh, commissioner elias . Commissioner elias thank you for the report, commander osullivan. Can you also just give a brief update where we are on the online portal for the 1421 . Yeah. So we have posted i was there most recently this afternoon. We have posted some items there, Great Bodily Injury items. We have also posted officer involved shooting related material. Commissioner elias thank you. Youre welcome. Vice president taylor thank you. Next item . Thank you, Vice President taylor, and thank you, commander osullivan. Next is the presentation of the monthly collaborative reform initiatives or c. R. I. Updates, and i will put that on the screen. And while were getting it on screen, i will mention to the commission, yesterday, the department was asked to give an update to the board of supervisors on collaborative reform, so myself an

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