Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 3117 20170305 : vima

The republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Commissioner president turman id like to call roll please do so. Commissioner president turman commissioner mazzuco commissioner marshall commissioner dejesus commissioner melara commissioner hing commissioner president turman we have quorum and also with us is the police chief chief of Police William scott and the director of the police of accountability. Thank you sergeant killshaw members of the public welcome to the wednesday, march 1, 2017, meeting the San Francisco Police Commission first of all, i want to make an announcement from city hall please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, contractors will be testing tonight you will hear the fire alarms communitybased off between 6 between 5 and 9 it is only a test we dont have to leave the building hopefully it will not be disruptive but make pa call thank you if you have any questions call 415 about city hall testing to that effect. Okay sergeant killshaw next item. To be. First of all, im going to be taking items 2 b offline the Deputy Director is with us the Deputy Director is ill and not be able to attend with that, thats the only item on the agenda i see as needing any announcement about rescheduling or reprioritizing sergeant killshaw item one consent calendar request the chief of police to accept 200 plus from the hilton financial district so for the Central Station request of the chief of police to accept the gifts for the observation ed marched wong from the nob hill for the San Francisco Planning Commission and other charitable organizations valued as 1,500 and request for the chief of police to accept the koomgs of 200 329 alamo womens club if fed rated for the Departments Community fund. Okay. Colleagues in your inpatient are separate memos on these requests to accept those donations are there any questions or issues regarding them. No. I move to accept. Okay. Public comment any Public Comment on item the the consent calendar . Hearing none, Public Comment is closed. The matters there is a motion that has been seconded and sergeant killshaw can i have a vote by a showing of hands all in favor, say i. Opposed . Thank you unanimously approved next item, please. Reports to the Commission Discussions chiefs report on recent Police Department activists with crime trends and promotions and overview of first thirty days of chief of police and report on traffic saturation and investigation. All right. Good evening chief good evening commissioner president turman and commissioner mazzuco and board commissioners id like to start today with the kind of a breakdown of my first right of refusal thirty days as chief of police for the San Francisco Police Department give you some highlights of the first thirty days here and ill start with the most significant event forensic and for the most part starting with my second day in the position we began a reorganization of the departments structure and the thought process in the requirement behind the reorganization to support and create an infrastructure that would give us the best possibility of implementation and sustainability for the doj for other Blue Ribbon Panel suggestions with the president 21st Century Policing and we believe our structure is now in place that will give us a very, very good that framework to work with those objectives that included reactivating the assistant chiefs position that has existed formally within the San Francisco Police Department so we activated it position and had two chiefs and Toney Chaplin and assistant chief hector and we also restructured and reorganized actually took away one deputy chief but added some commander positions mainly one of the commander positions a commander position that was failed the test with commander David Lazzaro there were many recommendations in the doj report that talked about the need to have a Cohesive Strategy with the Community Relations and to institutionalize many of the things to commander lazzaro will be tasked with Public Health department that together and taking that to an organization that does a lot of good things but can get better and institutionalize our community it transcends the snernld in my opinion a very, very important part of the structure that we note to maintain those efforts commander lazzaro has begun to formulate from the Community Engagement our strategic project well continue until we have to done with that, part of the Strategic Plan process another department of Human Services dr recommendations to have are Community Input so we have have begun that process to identify Community Members will be a part of the process and our Community Meetings and outreach were actually putting the invitation out and will then a short time decide what those work and those focus groups are look like in terms of the community bureaucrat u input great under the purview of commander lazzaro with my point of view and the command staff i meet e met with a number of communicated organizations in the first thirty days spent a lot of time and getting out in the community and meeting with the associations and business members in the chinese and Africanamerican Community and Jewish Community the latino that community and business Community Members and have a whole list of folks ive met with given me a very good feel of where we need to go as an organization to address the concerns Public Safety and collaborative concerns those groups have a really good education for me coming from los angeles being in San Francisco has been great for me and the people ive met with including hosted by commissioner president turman with the Lgbtq Community really, really have met some really welcoming people that are lou gehrig willing to work with me to make the city a better city other significant events on february 1st, were suspecting the participation with the joint services and task force that was a big decision i want to emphasize your intention and purposes to keep the city safe we have an outstanding working relationship with the federal partner but were going to look at the policies and adhere to the processes before we begin discussions on go where well move forward on is jttf this week with commander lazzaro a maid a number of promotions promote the following individuals michael to deputy chief and the policing bureau and promoted commander roberto deputy chief hell be in charge the administrative bureaucracy and promoted captain dan guerrero to commander and ill be in operations still and also promoted captain yee from the Training Division to commander and will be assuming a commander position in the administrative bureaucracy we have accomplished a couple of things one of the things in an executive is concerned about the sustainability of the department we believe we promoted people with capacity on connection to assume higher degrees of responsibility if it opportunity arise or selected by me or others we put ourselves in positions that was part of the progress and part of the plan in terms of the structure one of the things that i looked at in terms of the some of the people that were selected theyre very, very passionate about the change we the transformation that doj Blue Ribbon Panel of the 21st Century Policing initiatives and the recommendations implemented theyre passionate about that and we think we have the leadership to get it done im proud to make those announcements and promotes we have a good team in place what we need to move forward and get those things done and lastly in terms of Public Safety it depends on other city departments and elected officials and a spent a lot of time meeting with elected officials and Department Heads an individual basis to get Common Ground on vision and to work with those individuals and those departments to make our city safer and deliver services that is take advantage of the many great things this city has to over there is a lot of vision in terms of off how weigh tackle the homeless issue the Police Department is not the end all we have to understand or think how we fit in the bigger scheme of things to sit down with the Department Heads in terms of my role as the chief of police and push to the members to really push down through every level of the organizations we understand how we work with other departments to police this city ive spent a lot of time during the first thirty days sitting down with the elected officials and others on where we go working together and those are the highlights of my first thirty days i will end where we are in crime in terms of the first month of january january of 2015 i want to share the comparison where we are this year where we were last year with the Crime Statistics by we are that up in homicides had a bad month in homicide june of this year 6 this year calendar to one last year we are significantly up and turned the tide somewhat and slowed down things we put the strategies to focus on the individuals in the areas where the crimes are occurring we have 10 up to date compared to 6 last year at the end of january down 26 percent in rates we had 50 next year january 31st of this year compared to 37 down 6 percent percent in robberies 200 and 456 and 241 this year aggregated assaults up in jangle 2016 compared to january of 2015 up robberies and in Human Trafficking were down to zero first month in january where we had 10 this time last year and this is not to say those crimes are not existing those cases we identified are zero so we continue to put focus on those cases to make sure we bring those folks involved in that Human Trafficking traffickers to bring them to justice in terms of property crime were overall down 8 percent from last year as of january 31st burglaries were down for must 50 and auto thefts it is 401 for a net of 164 arson down one from two million last year from january 31st of this year area permanent and other thefts we down significantly 8 percent but that number representatives from 3000 plus this year and 3000 one and 3 sorry last year 337 last year and 3307 this year thats significant over three hundred crimes down that includes the burglaries and automobile thefts we will continue to focus on but we believe that we are focus in the right place on the right people so the people that commit those crimes we believe that makes a difference that concludes my report. Right. Thank you chief questions for the chief commissioner. Commissioner dejesus. Thank you chief i have to say i saw those promotions and have to ask you questions i dont mean to be disrespect for the 6 promotions 14 members on the command staff two i understand you made 6 promotions theyre all men im going by the names confrontations it for me, i remember reading in one the studies which one talking about the leadership reflecting the general population of the department and so some of the questions i have are you want you to answer in a broad sense were there any women in the running and if not what does that is a about the department you talk about developing leadership it is important to develop the women as well as the men and wondering about the command staff it looks like an aligning and latino offenders from the promotion that was another thing the ratio of our department of leadership i have the same questions were women in the running if not how do we develop and get more of a ratio that looks like the department as a whole. Yes, maam let me address and do the comparisons with the command staff first of all, the command staff includes the sooivenz those numbers include civilian directors 3 that have the equivalent of a director one of the things we have to utility the talent of the civilian as command staff to be just that we have 3 command staff Staff Members that are services two are women and one man overall numbers as follows with the command staff we are ti percent male and 91 female our department numbers in terms of men and women i have it right here lets see are 84. 9 male and 50 percent female were a little bit higher with the female numbers in the command staff than the department the demographics are 14 percent black and 110 hispanic and 16 asian and two percent filipino the numbers reflective of the entire department are 050 percent white, 9 point plus black, 16 plus hispanic and 16. 23 percent asian so our numbers are very closely reflective of the breaks down of the ethnicity of this department with that said, to answer our second question everyone is in the running at the end of the day the positions are based on who we think can get the job done and putting the right people in the right places and discussions how we need to get better in terms of the pools that feed into working to a command staff position we have 32 current lists adopted a lieutenant and captain list there are women and the numbers are actually pretty close reflective of the numbers i read to you definitely take into consideration when we make the next round of promotions a number of captains positions same thing with the lieutenant we have to look at who are in the pools and those factors will be take into consideration but i want to emphasize in terms of the comparison where we are compared to the department is Atlantic Beach exactly conditional equal. So the two women out of 21 regardless if their sifkdz that represents he 15 percent of the department. No, no there are more than two dont forget to include the sivenz. Okay. Im looking at the command staff i was promoted e provided and asking who are the civilians. So the question the folks that are promoted no women in this round of promotes the overall numbers are reflective of the entire command staff. Right. Right including the civilians i saudi this as Police Officers i have the 21 that are Department Heads and only 2 women so make sure that percentage your including other women they dont say ranges im talking about financial gains so were talking about women within the range and file that are promoted only 2. We have two women and with the command and deputy chief there are captains that are being developed two were promoted to captain the conversation goes beyond what is in the command staff it goes to have we putting ourselves in a position to have a pool we can draw from we have some work to do to make sure that pool is there. Right. To make sure we can put the people in position bans the merit but effective of the diversity so in my opinion a conversation that the proemgsdz i made i assure you that is on the forefront. I agree when you look at where the budget and promotions with the financial gain and all the ranges and the minority but when you look at the budget and look where youre putting the money and make sure we develop women and minority and value them thank you. Great, thank you. Commissioner melara. Yeah. You mentioned that captain was promoted to the commander. Yes, maam. Have you thought who will take his place. Not ready to releases the names a number of captains to put people in different places rather and that goes back to your question giving everybody the opportunity to work the assignments that are deemed the premium assignments running a station is a premium assignment a huge responsibility you can do a lot for youre career and for separately. Not ready to release the names were having discussions who those people will be and shortly be ready to make that public. Commissioner marshall. Chief is there a report 0 i dont want to add to it i think that should be included in there your preceding over the first slrm and in your remarks especially i think wellreceived by everyone in attendance particularly the range and file and for it televised you should put that on your list and i did in the mel valor my first metal of valor and the stories that were shared they were really made me proud to be a member of this organization a lot of what we want our officers to be able to exhibit and some of the incidents and they appropriately received an award and also my first graduation so my First Academy graduation we had a couple of nights after the metal of valor and again my honor to bring in in any First Academy grace class in addition part of it i didnt mention part of what ive been doing from 0 day one even before i got here with the district stations and specializing in meeting with the officers and talking with the officers that continues the only station i have not invited will offsite was the Central Station but visited all the others gotten many of the lineups see including the hall of justice and really that is very informative and meet the officers and talk with the officers hear what they had to say as well. Any other questions for the chief. Thank you, chief thank you. Next line item. Commissioners and president s report. The matters i wa