Good evening, everyone, welcome to the december 22,020th of the San Francisco food commission. Im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Can you please call roll. [roll call] you are a quorum. We have chief will jump scott frowilliam scott. Thank you. As always, i will remind the presenters, the commissioners, to keep yourselves on mute unless you would like to be heard so to reduce background nice and same things for all of the callers, make sure all background devices are turned off and you are on mute unless speaking. The numbers to call the Public Comment is 415 6550001. Access code 146 348 0406. Sergeant. Let you finish there. For members of the public, this meeting is being televised by sfgovtv and if you are interested in making Public Comment dial 415 6550001 and access code 146 348 0406. When Public Comment is announced for the line item or general line dial star 3 advising the moderator to add you to the queue. You have two minutes and this is your opportunity to provide Public Comment. When your two minutes have ended you will move out of the queue back to a participant unless i decide to disconnect. Members of the public may stay on the meeting line and in order to make Public Comment again by pressing star 3 to be added back into the queue. Thank you. Thank you, can you please call the first line item. Adoption of minutes. Action for the meeting of november 8th, 2020. Thank you, do i have a motion. So moved. My apologies, im going to ask to make a correction to the minutes. Ok. On page 2 of the minutes. It indicates that i requested that djo5. 03 be calenders on december 16th and a update on daunte king investigation and i requested to hear from mr. King directly so i would like to add that into my request. And then ill second commissioner davis motion. Can we get another motion with that amendment . So we have a clean record. Sure. So moved without amendment. Second. Second. All right. For members of the public that would like to make a Public Comment online item 1, you may press star 3 now or dial 415 6550001 and direct access 146 804 06 and this is again for line item 1. We have no Public Comment. Next item. Sorry. Please call roll for the vote. [roll call vote] clerk on the motion to accept the minutes with the amended. How do you vote [roll call vote] can i abstain since i wasnt present. Yes. You have five yeses. Great. Next line item. Line item 2, report to the commission discussion. 2a, weekly crime trends offenses occurring in San Francisco and major significant incidents. Provide a summary of planned activities and events. This will include a brief overview of unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on public safety. Commissioner discussion on unplanned events and activities will be limited whether to calender for a future Commission Meeting. Status of Department Efforts to implement proposition Staffing Levels. Ok, good evening, chief. Can i ask everyone to mute themselves. Im getting feedback. Good evening, Vice President taylor, commission, and executive director henderson. Please, to let you know, im getting feedback so if you cant hear me let me know i was getting feedback when you were talking earlier. Things are ok for me now. Great. Thank you. Ill start this weeks chiefs report with an update on the status of our crime picture, over all we are down 25 in part one crime and compared to last week were down 26 and as i have stated in several Commission Meetings, we are seeing a rise in burglar hesied although were flat this week in several of our district stations which is good news. The Biggest Issue were seeing are our garage burglaries and typically bicycles and other small hand tools and things like that are the target of property and we have made some cigarses and that regard so hopefully that will put a little bit of a dent because we leave some of the folks that were arrested were serial offenders so well work on that and work with our surrounding jurisdictions and coordinate efforts in terms of identifying serial offenders who are in the city and county of San Francisco but surrounding cities as well. One such incident was a bug larry that occurred this week in the northern district. Video suspects was obtained for garage buggies that occurred on august 18th. This particular incident, the subjects had several objects from the garage and Officers Determined that some of the items stolen were found discarded in the 2,200 block of north point. On november 11th. Our northern stations Investigation Team forwarded images of the suspects to our burglary detail who quickly identified the suspects and also determined that they had been involved in several other cases. On november 25th, one of our suspects was arrested at a location. He actually was wearing an ankle monitor when he was arrested. And he was placed under arrest for his involvement in this burglary as well as others. He is a chronic offender and we hopefully his arrest will hopefully make a difference in slowing some of this down. I want to remind everybody that is watching, please have some basic safety tips and make sure you see cure your garages and if we have bicycles, even if theres secured in your garage, its a good idea to lock them and make it a little bit more difficult for people to take them. Scooters are the same. That has been hot property as well. Scooters, skate boards and the like. If you can, keep them secured in your residents if possible and not in your garage. We want to make it hard and make ourselves as resilient as possible. On the Violent Crime front. Our homicides are above where they were total year to date last year. Were at 45 homicides year to date and that is a 32 increase from where we were this time last year. We ended 2019 with 41 homicides, which was a low, almost a 50year low, however, this 45 numbers is alarming. Its on a larger scale, you all may be aware of this but its not only San Francisco that is experiencing this problem, this is most major cities in the country are seeing increases in homicides and shootings and most of them are significantly higher than us if thats any good news. But still, we have a problem here that we want to correct and turn around. This time last year, december was a pretty difficult month in regards to homicides. We had seven for the month of december last year so we hope we can turn that tide around and slow things down. 71 of our homicides what we have 71 clearance rate year to dade so hopefully we can get closure to some of these cases for the victims and their families. We have single side going from two to eight. Tenderloin has a 38 increase going from eight last year to 11 this year and bayview has a 30 increase they went from 10 this time last year and 13 this year and out of the district stations, northern actually has a decrease, they went from four this time last year to one year to date and they had two this time last year they have one year to date and near to date, zero to zero. And they went from nine last year and nine last year and to 20 this year and tenderloin from 11 to 22 and bayview from 36 to 47, mission from 10 to 16. Southern from eight to 10. There are, however, good news. Four district stations that are below where they were this time last year in shootings, thats central and it went from nine shooting incidents to three this year. They went from twotoone and one to three to two and actually theres three out of the seven that went down. Thats where we are on shootings. Again, hopefully we can have a good month in december. We are doing everything that we can in terms of the deployment and putting our officers in the areas that have been hot with shootings. We did have a killing a couple weeks ago and it was a night of our last weeks quick. The first one was at 38th avenue at gar reand a vehicle was traveling west on gary approaching 38 when his volkswagen made contact with pedestrians and 68yearold male. A victim was just crossing the street. The driver of the vehicle remained at the scene and that investigation has currently undergoing. The male, the 68yearold male did not survive his injuries. At this point it does not appear to be a alcohol or under the influence related incident and as i said, the driver remains a scene and was cooperative with the investigation and its a really important event. Unfortunately the vehicle did not stay at the scene. The vehicle fled and persuade by witnesses to the Bayview District and the 900 block of kansas and that vehicle was abandoned and the vehicles fled on foot. Our investigators are following up and we have good needs including the vehicle so we hope to bring that specification to closure and a resolution. Sadly our victim did not survive his injuries and he was also pronounced deceased on that incident. It was a bad night yesterday in terms of fatal traffic collisions. Another update as many of you are probably aware our director of health, dr. Grand coal fax announced and due to a rise in covid in our city and county and throughout the state. The city moved into the most restrictive tier based on the state guidelines for reopening and as a result beginning on sunday, november 29th, which was this past sunday for any counties in the purple tier and this means indoor worship, indoor movie theaters, indoor gyms and Fitness Centers and indoor operations at museums, aquariums and zoos are to close. Retail stores have to limit their capacity to 25 and outdoor dinning will continue in our city and county. For anyone interested in a complete list of Operational Impact and Health Orders they can be found on the Citys Department of publichealth website and in addition to the roll back that will take place in our city, San Francisco will implement, as i stated, the state at home order that requires non essential businesses to close and prohibits members of different households to gather indoors or outdoors between 10 00 p. M. And 5 00 a. M. And this will be in effect until december 21st. And many of us ask what is the role of the Police Department in this and city has done a really good job of being very prudent about enforcement efforts. Many other city entities involved in the educational process and including warnings when warnings are appropriate for those incidents that are malicious or grossly the ordinance and the Health Orders, then the Police Department may be asked to step in and enforce and weve been prudent about that and as you all know, i regularly reported on our enforcement efforts back in the spring when we first started going on the cold Covid Response and well take that City Partners and education is still the key as these orders change wash your hands and be informed with these changes. It is on the publichealth website. The last issue in my report, i just want to give an update on the november 18th Commission Meeting, the commission asked for an update on the proposition e proposal that was passed and amended city charter section 4. 1 to 7. And this was we were asked to provide an update on our role in this and if there are questions about their clarity. At this time, i just want to give you background on what went into this and our staffing and deployment in improving our menthol gees and our ability to have systems in place to really be accurate and timely and our staffing and deployment has been a process thats been going on for really about three years and 2018, we introduced a staffing and deployment unit. We created a brand new unit which is centralized and was responsible to be basically the staffing and deployment tracking and the personnel assignments of tracking throughout the department. With this unit, we included sworn in and non sworn members including an analyst who we were very fortunate to have join our department from the Controllers Office and this unit has completely automated our personnel tracking system and created a current and historical record of employees, the positions they work within in the department so its very helpful and having that Historical Context in order to make future predictions about our staffing needs. With this new process in place, we also decided that the unit would be tasks with overseeing the development of the tools needed to determine adequate Staffing Levels which in this case, unit staff will be delayed on to metrics consulting who gave a presentation in front of the commission about their staffing analysis of the San FranciscoPolice Department and i guess as a further reminder, matrix was a Consulting Group that was with the rp process to conduct a staffing analysis and this was an Initiative Led by board of supervisors president norman yee, it came before the commission several years ago and it did get Commission Support and the Department Support so that led to a Staffing Task force. To really drill down on our staffing needs and give us a comprehensive staffing analysis. What is important to note here, is out of this process, matrix will help develop an interactive tool that will enable us, the Police Department, to comprehensively determine our staffing needs to every position and within the department on a dynamic and on going basis and thats the information based on that tool that will be brought before the Police Commission on the odd number of years and in terms of our staffing recommendations. So, theres still work to be done in terms of that staffing analysis tool and we hope to have that work completed during the First Quarter hopefully in 2021 and i think were on task and scheduled to do that and then we will have the ability to do a lot of the staffing analysis on an ongoing basis from this point forward or from that point forward. So, that is really the update for proposition e and if theres any questions on this part of my report or any other part of my report, im happy to answer them. Chief, earlier you mentioned an uptick in you used the term hot prowl. Can you explain what tha explais for the members of the public. Hot prowl burglaries are burglaries committed when the resident is inside the structure of the house so if you are in your bed sleeping, even if its your garage, you are in the dwelling while the burglary is taking place. And they are more dangerous because they can lead to confrontations and the like and violence and so those we take very seriously. So those have suffered an increase and its something that were very concerned with. Hopefully we can identify some of the more prolific offenders and get them and solve some of these cases and we hope it slows us down some. Commissioner cohen. All right. Good evening, everyone. Can you hear me . Chief, thank you very much for your report. I have a couple questions, really, im interested in knowing, i see what the data is telling me as it relates to shooting year to date by month. Comparing 2019 to 2020. I was wondering if you could add some if you could quantify it but maybe you can qualify it. I guess i making asking you to speculate but could you add some context why these numbers are increasing . Is there a connection to the pandemic . Is there a connection to sheltering in place. I just want to understand a little bit more about, for example, the month of october and i want to understand those numbers on a deeper level. Thank you, commissioner cohen. Its a really good question and im glad you asked it. One thing we can say for sure. I will get to the speculation of the pandemic. Theres some speculation from, well, this part is not speculation. A lot of the Mental Health professionals as cross the country including here think that theres been psychological impacts regarding the pandemic. And those have led to depression and weve seen we havent really seen the uptick in Domestic Violence that we were anticipating and thats a good thing. There have been definitely psychological impacts. Now how that impacted shootings and aggravated and assaults and those type of issues, i cannot make that connection i can only say that we know from our experts, our psychologists and psychiatrists and people who do this for a living, theyve been impacted on the mind based on the pandemic. Now theres a lot of speculation across the country including here. Whether thats adding to this increase of violence crimes because many cities are experiencing this and many cities to a much worse degree than us. One thing i can say, with our shootings, is that in some areas of the city, they have been group involved in games or groups and bayview, inkel tied e and we know theyre tied to previous homicides or homicides that happen in other cities and this is a phase of retaliation sometimes that retaliation has been laid and that is not uncommon. An incident may happen and you may have a retaliation a year later. Thats not uncommon at all. The other thing, in certain districts like in the tenderlo tenderloin, the degree of our shootings are by narcotics activity. Weve had narcotics re