Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay Budget Committee 21016 2016

SFGTV BOS Replay Budget Committee 21016 February 11, 2016

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So as you know our fleet has been aging for some time and we have been pushing a lot of vehicles in our department. Our real best practice would be for a fleet of our size to replace 138 vehicles per year. Thats about a 5 Million Investment every year. Currently over 370 vehicles have over 100,000 miles and a fleet of 800 are 110 years old. We have a success is of getting some vehicles in our budget. The current fund, 50 vehicles and 23 motorcycles and 20162017 budget already included in what we have received in a prior year includes 43 vehicles. We are asking for an additional 76 vehicles and motorcycles in 1617 to bring us back into a proper replacement schedule. Then the table you see here that while our cost are remaining stable is that we are reducing our fleet and we are not able to cut cost at all at this point. Which brings us to the next piece surrounding budget resource to implement policies and programs towards the goal of obamas task force on 21st Century Policing around policies and training in the department. We are not just asking for the general fund to support all of this. There is a lot of great opportunities out there. In fact there was one grant rfp announcement just last week called strengthening Law Enforcement Community Relations which we will be seeking those funds out to support the efforts that surrounding the collaborative reform review and the 21st essentially policing. Is the policing collaborative review, thats one of the recommendations that is in there gathering data. Right. I think the force made the relation to doj to providing funds. We are looking for anything web grab. But in the meantime you will see some of the things we are talking about here speak to that Data Collection and analysis issue. So, for instance, the 21st century talks about that and really starts to go towards that. So many of the things that were already trying to do in the department will help us increase that accountability and transparency. So, the doj will be making recommendations as we all know as a result of the collaborative reform review. We want to ensure there is a budget available to implement those recommendations. Well propose a placeholder for the second year of our budget cycle to do that. Then in addition to as i mentioned with respect to the 21st century, with the building effort and community engagement, we want to be able to focus on those things. Those are the pilars included in that report by a task force. Then chief suhr indicated that we need a liaison for this body and doj for implementing the Task Force Recommendation the doj recommendation and really just sphere heading the efforts in the projects that are going into doing all of this work. So, we will be including in our budget the establishment of the bureau of professional standards for principals of policing. They will also over see staff inspections. The reengineering of use of force, we are expecting to include to support that effort. Training on deescalation and crisis intervention training. A digital simulator for training officers. A lot of when not to use force and when not to shoot. Well also be including items around less lethal equipment such as shields and range such as targets that turn. Meaning an officer can assess whether or not that target is a threat or not. We will include other types of training as well including procedural justice and cultural competency and other types of training. All of that will be included in the discussions with our mayors budget and well also expand our existing program and use in community engagement, summer jobs and Safety Initiative and the Technology Solutions and to increase transparency with the report are about Body Worn Cameras is a big chunk of that and we are on the way to having those up and running. Also better collection of better Demographic Data in the warehouse to understand if and when there is disproportionate alt i want to finish with good news. For the first time we have a time line on the replacement of our crime lab and crime scene investigations facilities and the traffic company. So this facility, this new site will be at 1995 evans at toll and. Construction will start in 2017 and inauguration in 2019. This goes back to my history with the department and some of you may remember me from my work with the Controllers Office and working with the crime lab pretty intensely on a variety of things and talking about the crime scene investigations and the crime lab werent collated and transpollination of information happening between the 2 units is a bright spot for the department. So with that i will take any questions you may have. Colleagues, as you know, we received a letter from the mayor of San Francisco asking the department and the commission to weigh in on. This is our opportunity for the budget that is going to be discussed. Since we are having this conversation around reengineering the use of force. This is an opportunity to have questions about some ideas. If you have questions now is the time. Chief, specifically this is an overview, but one of the recommendations that the African American working group made for cultural competency training is like implicit training and wanted to make sure that was a recommendation of the African American working group and this budget would cover a Community Driven training around cultural competency. So if you look at no. 5, it speaks to cultural competency training, under the doj collaborative reform review. Okay. That is specifically from the African American working group . Yes. Great. Now in terms of data, i see here 21st century working group, technologies for solutions for transparency. I know a big focus of the department is Getting Better with data and figuring out where there are trends and how we can do things differential. Do you have a sense of what this will include . Is it about collecting, maintaining and analyzing stop data. So i want to make sure we are putting enough resources behind what it is to have good data . Yes. If you go to the it projects, citations to the smartphones, we will have citations. Certainly by the end of the calendar year. We are aggressively trying to get it sooner so our traffic stop data will be automatically loaded and searchable and retrieval from our warehouse and then additionally on our smartphones we are putting 849 b slips given to a person thats been detained. That will be reformatted to have demographic information and lastly field interview cards. Those will be in the citation format so when we get to that point, that information will be instantly uploaded. When its on the smart phone, that information will be and we will know it by area of the city . Yes. Does that comply with the ordinance . I just want to make sure it contemplates that. Yes. We will have this Information Way in front of both commissioner collins due date and that of the assembly bill. Just going back to the pilars. Im sorry. I will save my questions. Commissioner melara, go ahead. Are you saying in general or more specific . This is under . It says and more training . And more, that was just phrased a little awkward. There will be additional Training Like the force option training that will now be an 8hour day instead of a basically 2 hours firearm training and another training that comes across as needed. For instance, we dont have the training to use the shields as demonstrated the way they used them. So, we have yet to find that training. So we have to find that training to demonstrate how we can do that. We are looking at whatever trainings we can find. For instance, as we talked about the procedural justice implicit biased training, we want to have an in Service Training that officers take every year and contracting with chr to find an event with an Online Training that the officers would take on the odd years. But they get annual procedural bias and procedural justice and implicit bias training annually in person and online. Because of the implementation, because this is a 2year budget, what is the target . We want to get the entire department trained once by the end of this calendar year and get on the schedule starting next year whoever has in Service Training schedule they will get it in person and the other online and that will flop every year after that. Because of that im assuming that includes parts that the Human Resources provides for. Is that included in there . Yes, commissioner any resources provided by the department is provided by the department. The reason i ask is we have the committee that hr seems to be very limited in terms of the services they can provide certification of officers and the recertification of officers has not happened. Apparently weve certified officers when they come into the force, but we dont recertify them so we are paying officers that supposedly can speak a second language but we dont know if they do after speaking a language for several years. Im bringing up here one of the things that i wanted to bring up at some point is working with hr and i dont know if thats going to cost more money to ensure that hr has the services to recertify Police Officers, and plus training to English Police officers to identify limited speaking english people and how to work with them. I can talk with you off line and perhaps figure out how to make a piece of this ask from the commission. I also want to remind that with the commissioner dejesus, you were asking about how use of force gets tracked. We have a main Computer System that facilitates the program and updated to collect to inquire data for use of force information for that legislation that is pending on use of force. I agree thats the type of issue to bring up. Its exactly the issues we deal with that came up on the fruff for those issues that were there on the Public Health issue. I think its to Police Interaction but to the extent we are seeing other issues. This is the opportunity. Any information that you can get will include information that its raised to the mayor and other departments. Commissioner turman, vicepresident , rather. One of the recommends by the African Americans group was recruitment and how to allocate funds and taking on new initiatives to recruit a more Diverse Group of officers both i think both at the training level as well as the more advanced officers. I have seen and weve also had heard several of the board of supervisors talk about the number of need to increase officers and more officers to do this work. Are we taking into consideration in our budget monies to be allocated toward recruiting more diverse officers . Again, yes, we are aggressively recruiting in communities of color. In fact our most recent Academy Class will probably demonstrate that as much as any. One of the things thats been dramatically improving our diversity is the fact that we now have all of our testing online. So there is no longer the 2week finite window where people could apply. Its 24 7, 365. We can discuss this initiative. I think we can take a step further. For you specifically as an individual able to identify some of the diverse officer candidates who you brought into the department. I think we need to identify more individuals and find other ways to work with people whose business is recruiting to bring in more officers. Thats what i want to get to make sure that some of our hiring dollars are allocated. I agree. Great. Even if we are paying them too much. We do want to buildup that akkadary. Its important that it goes in. I would like to answer that question. I have to ask. Let me approach this. Elliot louis, representing the method working group. We have a monthly meeting the second wednesday. We met today. We are very much concerned about this issue because of the great increase of trainings from about four per year to 4 per year. Weve actually been working with our existing faculty based to have them nominate other faculty members. We have a vetting process. If you have other faculty suggestions can you please give it to our working group. Actually we need all the help we can get. As we quadruple the amount of trainings, it is a tax on resources. We need help. We need resources. Send it our way. Thanks. Thank you, mr. Louis. That was one of my questions. Beefing up cit because that was one of the meetings we had because ironically and the question was what do you all need. Those were included, correct . Yes. I know its to the extent whether this budget included research on the wellness side on the identification side and its something that came over again as its early and intervene in recollection recognition that is a tough job that it has a whole section on officer wellness and safety and they specifically talk about identifying officers earlier in getting them help. What in this budget does that or is there improvement to make there. Certainly there is what we were talking about. But as well the bureau of professional standards and principals of policing as i stated in my earlier comments to behavioral science would be in that organizational structure and the pilar is on wellness, well be discussing that and that conversation will take place. I said before that moving forward since it has come up and it should come up as engineering is new in this department. We should look at the system. We dont know what we need until we look at what weve got. We should do it while this thing is going out. Chief, one other suggestions is, there is a couple of other suggestions that have come up. One is is to the point that many people made around the engineering use of force. Does this budget contemplate or can it contemplate funds for an evaluation of the impact of this reengineering use of force. One of the things that a number of the departments are doing is partnering with the organization and evaluating. One thing to build trust is bring in and fund an evaluation of what we are doing and being able to actually share that with the public to the extent that we start to do things differently and there is a different result. That is likely the benefit through that and my question is whether this budget contemplates for that . I think the door is is open. I think there is room for everything to be considered and im writing it down. You questions or thoughts on budget for the chief . Okay. One last thing that has come up, i know i have talked to commissioner hwang about it. Given the amount of policy work that this commission does and has been doing, we have a staff of the secretary, the sergeant, and teresa tong who is heroic. I want to inquire of the commission if we can request a policy analyst. With the candidates and Controllers Office and when we finally select somebody, first of all they got better offers and we didnt have enough to fill that position. I think its a great idea. Its great to have a policy. We just the didnt get enough funding. We need to be realistic to get an idea how much to retain in the city. Especially if we are closer to what we had and everyone rejected. If we at first dont succeed, try again. Also talking about this. One other issue that came up at the Community Forum to have what we do as a commission and we are all web driven. I got us on twitter and proud of that sfpd commission handled. But the reality is that people get their information online. Another part that i will be advocating and that we get our website is in need of a revamp and that all the initiatives and good work we do should be available in a digital platform for policing recommendation. In everyone is good on that. We should have a link to sf. Gov rather than have to go through the citys website. I have to say that at this moment and this conversation is an opportunity to make sure that we are able to do the work thats before us. So i appreciate everyones consideration and well continue as we put this forward to the mayor and to the board of supervisors to ask to fund this effort. I think chief, its you that said it reflects these values. Somebody said that first. Considering all the work you are doing, should be on the table and consider what these qualifications should be. We worked out a job description. Anything further on this matter, colleagues . Thank you, ms. Mcguire. Thank you for all your work. We look forward to continuing to work with you. Okay. I think does that conclude the chiefs report. That concludes my report. I have a question. Just a question about the matter that was in the paper about that person that got arrested after reporting his car being stolen at the Southern Police station . A gentlemen had his car stolen. He went to southern station to recover it. Per protocol, they run a query on the subject and the car. The person came up with a Homeland Security warrant. In that back and forth

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