Transcripts For SFGTV SF Police Commission 20240711 : vimars

Transcripts For SFGTV SF Police Commission 20240711

[pledge of allegiance]. Thank you, and as always, if i could ask for the commissioners to mute their microphones. If you would like to be heard, just put your name in the chat box. Members of the public who are dialing in, i would ask you to please mute any background noise so that we can hear you and there is no feedback. The dial in number is [indiscernible] 0001, access code 146424 [indiscernible]. You will have two minutes for Public Comment. Please call the roll. [roll call]. You have quorum. [indiscernibl [indiscernible]. Thank you. Im getting a lot of feedback, so im going to ask everyone again to please mute your microphones. Please call the first line item. Line item one [indiscernible] meeting of september 16 [indiscernible] of 2020. Do i have a mover . [indiscernible]. Second. Public comment [indiscernible] regarding the adoption of minutes. Please call 41565 0001, access code 1464241219, press pound, pound again and then hit star three to raise your hand. For members of the public that are already logged in, please press star 3 now if youd like to make Public Comment on line item one. There is no Public Comment. Is anyone else [indiscernibl [indiscernible]. A lot of background noise, yes. [indiscernible] and i dont know if youre able to mute people on your end, sergeant, but that might be helpful. Is that better . It sounds better to me, yes. Okay. All right. On the motion for the adoption of minutes, commissioner how do you vote. Yes. Commissioner elias. Yes. Elias yes. Commissioner . Yes. [indiscernible] how do you vote. [indiscernible] and i have not reviewed the minutes thoroughly. [indiscernible]. Yes. Commissioner, unfortunately under the charter were not allowed to recuse yourself. [indiscernible]. Commissioner cohen is aye on the adoption of the minutes. And commissioner taylor you have five yes. Okay, please call the next line item. Line item two, reports for the commission. Chiefs report. Provide an overview of events occurring in San Francisco. Major significant incidents, provide a summary of planned activities in advance. This will provide a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on Public Safety. Discussion on activities determining whether the calendar for future needs. Presentation of the fdrb findings and recommendations and investigative summaries Third Quarter 2020 and presentation of family [indiscernible] through june 30, 2020. Okay. [indiscernible]. Good evening. Hi, president taylor, commissioners. Welcome back, commissioner cohen, and congratulations. And good evening, chief of staff hawkins. Ill start the presentation with the crime trends for the week. Ill start with the not so good. We continue to see rise in burglaries year to date. We are 44 above where we were this time last year. I would like to say of note there was a significant arrest made in connection to several garage theft burglaries, which is one of our areas that we were really trying to focus on in the city. An arrest was made on october 30, and during that arrest and subsequent search warrant 18 bicycles and one scooter that had been reported stolen was recovered from this particular individuals residence. That brings a total of 15 suspects arrested over the past two months in connection with garage thefts. Our investigation [indiscernible] continues to work leads in those cases, and again, we are really trying to focus on the significant or individual that we identified because of their criminal history to be chronic offenders, and hopefully that will bring it down and make a dent in not having as many victims. I want to just remind our residents in the city please secure your garages, lock your bikes when you can, scooters, regardless of whether or not they are stored in the garage. We know how difficult it can be, and sometimes what we find is some residences are easier than others to victimize, so please secure your garages, lock your bikes, even if its in the garage. Please register your bike, and can you do that through sf safe, and if you go on their website, www. Sfsafe. Org you can register your bike online, and that really does make a difference when we recover stolen bicycles or if we come across a chop shop investigation when bicycles are registered we are able to return them to the owners. Unfortunately for the 18 that were recovered, we were fortunately for the 18 that were recovered we were able to return many to the owners. In terms of other property crime, we are continuing to add this portion to our year for burglary which was down 43 year to date in reduction of car burglaries when compared to 2018 were down 45 and when compared to 2017 when we were at our height we are down 53 . So again, same strategy, focusing on those that we believe because of their criminal history to be prolific, many of the individuals that we come in contact with are working in an organized fashion, and we are also trying to identify crews that are victimizing people in our city and addressing those crews. In terms of violate crime, we are down year to date 22 . However, as i have reported in Previous Commission meetings, we are up in homicides, and that is concerning. We have right now to date have 42 homicides which exceeds last years total. We ended the year in 2019 at 41 and we are already up to 42 with seven weeks left in the year. At this time last year we had 33 homicides. The good news is that we did not have any homicides or we have not yet had any homicides this month yet. There were five homicides in october, and of the yeartodate homicides, 22 of the 42 very cleared, which is 55 of this years homicides. Our overall clearance rate for the year is 71 , and that includes previous years homicides that have been cleared this year. Looking at this district, eagleside has the largest increase. They have gone from 2 in 2019 to 8 to yeartodate this year. Tenderloin has a 38 increase going from 8 last year to 11, and the majority of those homicides are firearmrelated homicides. In terms of gun violence, we are up 22 for the year. There have been 130 shooting incidents resulting in 135 victims of gun violence. 26 of those have been fatal, and 109 of the 135 have been nonfatal. We had five shooting incidents last week that caused injuries to five victims. In terms of the district stations, the districts with the largest increase in gun violence are tenderloin, which is a 110 , 10 last year, up to 21 this year. Eagleside is 100 increase, 8 last year and 15 year to date. Mission had 67 increase in gun violence, 9 compared to 15 this year and bayview has a 29 , 35 last year versus 45 this year. Central area and central district, Northern District and Southern District all have double digit decreases in gun violence. Central has a 53 decrease. Three this year compared to eight last year, and northern has a 40 decrease, six this year versus ten last year and southern has a 13 decrease, eight this year versus nine last year. In terms of significant events for the past week, a few things on homicide. We did make an arrest of three suspects from a 2019 homicide that occurred on december 20, 2019. In that case we had two victims in their vehicle near the Southwest Corner of leaven worth and ellis when the suspects vehicle pulled up next to them and opened fire striking the passenger who succumbed to her injuries. On october 27 our investigators served a search warrant at various locations in San Francisco and as a result three suspects were arrested. One of the suspects is booked for the murder, a gun was recovered in that with those search warrants, and that is good news in the arrest in that case. Other significant incidents this week are we made an arrest on a series that occurred in the Pacific Heights community over the past several months. On october 29 our Northern District plains clothed teams spotted the subject matching the person suspected in these crimes. A subject who approached females and then sexually battered them, touching or squeezing their buttocks and then fleeing from the scene. The officers identified a suspect who matched the description and actually made an arrest in this case after conducting a surveillance. We also used a decoy operation in order to bring this case to resolution. The officer and the decoy operation was placed out on the street in the area where the suspect had been seen or victimizing his victims. The suspect followed the decoy officer for several blocks, and when they reached the area of 3200 block of clay the suspect came up from behind and sexually battered the decoy officer. The suspect tried to flee and officers were able to apprehend him without incident and took him into custody. So that crime has been solved and hopefully we wont see other people victimized by this individual. Another arrest of note on yesterday, investigators from the San Francisco Police Department in conjunction with the oakland p. D. , the department of Homeland Security, a county and the sheriff and the unified Police Department of another area actually made an arrest on a two suspects, actually, who sexually exploited a number of students. These were internetbased crimes, and this [indiscernible] from the San Francisco Police Department with our internet crimes against children unit, also known as icac. In this investigation we determined that one of the subjects that created dozens of social media accounts across various platforms using false names and profiles. In some cases the subject pretended to be a minor engaged in chats with unsuspecting victims. Once contact was made, the victims were solicited for sexually explicit images and videos, and if the victim refused, the subject allegedly used means to extort victims, threats of physical harm, to either the victims or their families, and also to circulate photos obtained by other means at their school. By using software, the subject was able to determine the approximate location of the victims. The investigation revealed that eight minors ranging in ainge from 11 to 14 years old living in the area and utah were victims of this particular suspect. When search warrants were executed, devices and other materials were found that linked the subjects and his accomplice to these crimes. Due to the nature of the crimes and the area in which the crimes were committed, which was across state lines, the u. S. Attorneys office of the Northern District of california is lead on prosecuting this case. Again, the agencies who assisted were the San Francisco Police Department, the department of Homeland Security security, oakland Police Department and the unified Police Department of the greater salt lake area and utah. The next thing is just want to give an update on any incidents related to elections. I know there was a lot of anxiety, not only in our city, in our region, but across the country on potential unrest because of the election results. The good news is that we have not had anything in our city to date. There have been cities across the country that have had incidents, isolated incidents in several of the cities of unrest. Some violence and vandalism and the like, but we have not had any of that or experienced any of that in San Francisco. We did have one incident yesterday at a polling location that required sfpd response. In that case the subject showed up at two separate polling stations acting erratically. We were called. We actually responded at the second location, and that subject was located and actually arrested. He hasnt [indiscernible] locations and that caused some concern with many individuals. So we actually contacted him and arrested him. As far as demonstrations, there were there was one small demonstration today in front of a mission station. No incidents, no violence, not a large turnout, but it was uneventful and no problems there. At this time there are a few planned events for this weekend that we will be deployed for. We dont really know when the election will be officially called or a winner will be officially declared, so we will be deployed and staffed up until that happens, and then depending on what happens, when theres a winner declared, we will step up accordingly. So far so good. We are prepared for whatever comes our way as best we can be, and we are communicating with our local departments in the area, as well as our federal partners to make sure that that information is being communicated about whats happening elsewhere outside of San Francisco. So that is it for this portion of the report. If theres any questions from the commission . I see questions in the chat. Thank you. [indiscernible]. Next we have the activity. We have commander osullivan with the fdrv findings and recommendations, or deputy chief i cant see whos actually on. [please stand by]. Next slide please. Since the last presentation to the Police Commission, the in custody review board reviewed the following in custody death investigations. 15. 001, 16. 002, and 17001. Next slide please. In custody deaths, 15001. On april 3, 2015, bayview station officers responded to a call at 145 recording a trespasser. They contacted a male subject and placed him under arrest for an outstanding warrant. The subject was transported to bayview station and processed for booking. The subject was later transferred to the county hill number one to be subject stated, yeah, i do want to kill myself. The untake nurse was cleared by the Psychiatric Emergency Services at San Francisco again hospital. The subject became agitate and starting yelling. San francisco sheriffs deputies held down the subject and continued to resist. The subject was take on the the ground by the deputies and restrained by continued his resistance. The officers on scene requested medics to respond to sally port. The medics and officers on the scene held the resisting subject by holding him down. There was no reportedable use of force by the San Francisco Police Officer. When the medics arrived, they injected the subject with perced, a sedative. And one sfpd officer rode with the medics. While envut route, the subject stopped breathing and had no pulse. The medics began c. P. R. And there was a pulse. The subject was admitted to the intensive care unit. On april 6, the subject was pronounced deceased. At the conclusion of the investigation and the recommendation of the internal Affairs Investigation, we found that the officers acted in policy with regards to use 5. 01, the use of force, 6. 14 the psychological evaluation of adults, and 8. 12 incustody death policy. Next slide please. Incustody death 16. 002. On june 18, 2016, about 9 24 in the evening, tenderloin station officers were dispatched to 41 jones regarding a male subject with a nice attempting to force his way into the building. Upon arrival, officers conducted an investigation and subsequently arrested the subject and take on the tenderloin station for processing. That station was subject indicated to require Blood Pressure medication and therefore was not placed in a holding cell. About 1 26 in the morning on june 19, the subject was transported to the county jail number one. At the county jail the intake nurse refused to admit the subject due to the high Blood Pressure. He was transferred to San Francisco general to be medically cleared prior to booking. The subject was treated, provided a prescription for Blood Pressure medication and medically discharged. The officers later advised they did not know the medical staffed a ministered any medication to the hospital while he was at San Francisco general. While escorting the subject back to the patrol wagon, the officer was shaking and ambulatory but had some difficulty walking. The subject was transported back to county jail one about 4 5 an in the morning, upon his return to county jail one, the subject had difficulty walking and was sweating profusely and appeared confused and disoriented. The intake nurse medically refused the subject again and the worsened condition and the ambulance was requested. While waiting the ambulance, he was placed in a temporary holding cell. The subject stopped breathing and c. P. R. Was initiated. The ambulance transported the subject to San Francisco general where he was pronounced deceased at 6 19 in the morning. Based on the internal Affairs Investigation and the recommendations from the internal Affairs Investigation, it found that the officers acted in policy with regard to general order 5. 01, 6. 14, psychological evaluation of adults, 81. 12 incustody deaths. There were some policy violations that were found, but based on the investigation, those were found not to have contributed to the incustody death. Next slide please. Incustody death 17. 001. On march 11, 2017, mission station officers responded to just 2200 Market Street and restaurant. The call was regarding a male patron who was being aggressive and breaking windows and harming himself. The subject was being restrained by other patrons. The officers took over who was actively resisting and pleading from a cut to the wrist. He was still actively resisting in custody and he was kicking at the officers. The subject was placed in a position of recovery and moved to a seated position and he continued to resist the officers. The San Francisco Fire Department medics arrived on scene and administered a sedative

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