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, justice for all.

Good evening, everyone.

Thank you for appearing here.

This is our July 16th meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission.

Sergeant.

Take roll.

Commissioner Techie.

Techie present.

Commissioner Scott.

Here.

Scott present.

Commissioner Leong.

Here.

Leong present.

Commissioner Yi.

Here.

Commissioner Yee present.

Commissioner Elias.

Is in route.

Vice President Benedict.

Present.

Benedicto present.

President Clay, you have a quorum.

Thank you.

All right, we're doing ready to call the agenda.

Sergeant?

Okay.

Line item one.

Weekly officer recognition certificate.

Presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties.

Sergeant Kimberly Lopez, star 321 of the special victims unit.

Hi.

Hi everybody.

Good evening.

I'm Lieutenant Dan Silver.

I'm the acting captain of the special victims unit.

And we'll see if we can get this to cooperate.

Alright, whatever.

Anyways, I'm a 28-year San Francisco resident.

I'm her boss.

And those two things combined make me especially grateful for the work that she does.

I love the city and I'm glad that she's one of the people taking care of it.

So today we honor Sergeant Kim Lopez, a 12-year SFPD veteran who hails from an SFPD family.

And she's continued her SFPD family history with her husband, Sergeant Sergio Lopez, who you may recognize from a previous meeting.

He's back there with Lopez Jr., and occasionally you'll see him running around frantically trying to keep up with the mayor.

Kim and the rest of the human trafficking team at the special victims unit, excepting their lieutenant who's been here forever, are fairly new SDU members, but they've made a significant impact already.

Worth mentioned she's the driving force behind the soft interview room that you may have heard as a line item in recent history, which for anybody who doesn't know is an interview room that's not intimidating.

It's meant for victims and witnesses and those who might uh need a bit of a softer environment to feel comfortable in.

She also has some sort of hookup that we don't want to get too deep into.

It sees candy.

We don't know where it comes from, but it shows up at the office, and we love it.

It's always in an unmarked round box, but she's good to have around for that.

And she also makes cookies on the rig.

So come on by if you ever want to have some of the delicious treats she provides.

So switching gears a bit, uh, one of the reasons we're gonna honor Kim today is her lead on an incident that I'm about to describe.

And I'm just gonna mention to everybody here it's it deals with human trafficking, it deals with a minor, and it is disturbing.

So if anybody doesn't want to hear this stuff, it's totally okay.

I can wait.

And there's no shame in not wanting to get triggered by uh pretty heinous stuff.

Okay.

See none, here we go.

Our human trafficking unit is a team, and the SAP is a family.

And so I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Terrible Stations, patrol officers, the real-time investigation center, our SWAT team, our specialist team, and our counterparts in the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department and Stockton PDE, who also deserve absolutely honorable recognition by SVU and our earnest thanks.

On February 28th, the victim, a 16-year-old girl, walked out of a residential placement home in the Central Valley.

She was picked up by a 31-year-old suspect who she'd met in January online.

The suspect soon became the victim's pimp, and she was trafficked both locally and across the Pacific Northwest by the suspect.

On March 6th, the suspect violently beat the victim and frightened 10,000 from her family family to Stockton PD.

And the San Joaquin County authorities uh immediately recognized this was an out-risk missing person and started tracking her phone data.

Uh the phone data, the GPS location matched up with the listed address of a possible suspect they had already identified.

And it came back to the 200 block of Brighton Avenue in the Lakeview.

So at 3 15 p.m.

on the 6th, uh Sergeant Lopez was sitting on her, sitting at her desk working on one of her many cases when she took a call from the San Joaquin authorities informing her of the incident and the victim's cell location.

She immediately recognized the nature of the emergency, notified terrible station to begin a response.

And due to the suspect's history of violence and firearms offenses, contacted our tactical team to respond as well.

The officers responded to the multi-unit building where the suspect lives, surrounded it, and were able to track down that he'd moved to a different unit within the same building.

But they located it, knocked on the door, made entry to the unit, detained the man, and located the victim and an adult female who was a witness to some of the crimes alleged.

Sergeants Lopez and Alliance interviewed the victim who described being repeatedly brutalized and sexually violated by the suspect.

She felt she could not leave as she believed the suspect would kill her family.

On the same afternoon of her rescue, she told the suspect in resignation, if you're gonna kill me, just kill me.

And luckily, that didn't happen because Sergeant Lopez had the wherewithal to answer the phone and to take action to recognize the seriousness of the situation to not sit on this information, to call Terrible Station to call the SWAT team and to posse up with the human trafficking team and run out there, with Lieutenant Flores, Sergeant Robert Glenn, and Sergeant Megan Lyons.

Sergeant Lopez's investigative report is 14 pages long.

So obviously a lot more detective work went into this case on the back end to ensure successful prosecution.

And I'm quite pleased to report that the DA's office has charged the suspect with as many felonies as there are pages in Kim's report.

So thank you, Terrible Station, thank you, Special Operations Group.

Thank you, Arctic.

Thank you, Stockton PD and San Joaquin Sheriff's Department.

And thank you to our human drafting team who does this stuff.

And while this situation luckily does not happen all the time, they do this fairly regularly, and they will continue doing it to protect our vulnerable population and keep people from trafficking our most vulnerable people.

So God bless the human trafficking team, Acting Lieutenant Flores, Sergeant Glenn, Sergeant Lyons, Officer Kevin Stukey, our newest member, and our honoree, Sergeant Kim Lopez.

Thank you and congrats, Kim.

Officer of the week, in recognition of your dedication and professionalism demonstrated through outstanding community policing practices and inspiring greatness by exemplifying the ideals of police officers such as guardians of our community.

Such an example of dedication is worthy of the highest esteem by the City and County of San Francisco and the SFPD presented on this day, July 16, 2025, by y'all.

Well, good afternoon, Sergeant Lopez.

Thank you for a job well done.

Those are hard cases.

As a trial judge, I've tried probably 10 of those cases and probably handled over 100 of those cases.

And getting people to cooperate, the back work that you did to get there, that's the work.

Because people don't realize it just doesn't happen.

And the fact that somebody has confidence to talk to you, allow you to take the next step.

It's amazing how these things get done by great people doing great things.

So continue to do the hard work that you do for the city.

Everyone appreciates that, and we know the city's in good hands in that area with people like yourself doing the work.

So congratulations and thank you so much for your hard work.

Alright.

Chief, yep.

Thank you, President Clay.

Just a uh congratulations on this recognition from me.

Um as the chief of police, I'm very proud of you and the work that you've done and the work of your team also.

So thank you for that.

Um, just proud to have you as a member of this police department.

Thank you for keeping our community safe, especially the vulnerable, as the president said.

And um, you know, I see uh this is a great moment for you, your family, and uh really for the department and your reflection upon this department.

So thank you so much.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, President Clay.

I just wanted to again thank you and echo the compliments that President Clay uh just uttered because I think these cases are challenging, and I can't think of any other type of case that embodies the purpose of police officers, better than the one that you just solved.

So thank you.

Sorry about that.

Commissioner Benedicta.

Thank you very much uh for uh sharing that and congratulations, Sergeant.

Uh, you know, gratulations to your family.

Our first uh back-to-back officer of the week recognition that stayed in one family.

But um, you know, I worked on the uh I was the commissioner on the working group for the sexual assaults CGO and got to meet some of the wonderful people uh and dedicated people at at the special victims unit, and it's truly a tremendous team, and it's particularly gratifying to hear all the different teams you worked with within the city as well as beyond the city because it's that cooperation that allows things uh allows these things to really get done.

And so thank you for your tremendous work uh in really one of the most difficult uh teams that we have in the department for your service.

Congratulations.

Commissioner Scott.

Congratulations, Sergeant Kimberly, um for the work that you've done and and to all of the San Francisco departments that help you to work collaboratively for a successful outcome for saving this young woman's life, is very important, and our community knows the the work behind the scenes that go into this and how important it is.

And um I've worked closely with um Coletta Jackson Lane and human trafficking in our neighborhood of District 10, um, which was filled with a lot of that, and uh so I know the details that go into that, and so I just wanted to congratulate you and everyone that was involved in this, it's a hard job, it's not easy, and to make people aware of it, how important it is and the urgency for it, and because of your work and your your efforts with working with our other law enforcement communities, a life was saved.

A life was saved, and that's tremendous.

And uh so thank you and congratulations on receiving this award.

Job well done, Commissioner Yee.

Thank you very much there, President uh Clay.

I also want to thank you, too, as well as your team and making sure that their family, I mean uh I'm sure that family is um, yeah, I guess uh reaching out to you and saying thank you, thank you very much for saving their, you know, uh the lives of the victim and also the team, the teamwork that goes in and making sure that we all come together and solving these crimes and congratulations again on this uh weekly uh recognizing uh certificate award.

So congratulations and continue your good work out there.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Techie.

Congratulations and thank you for all your hard work.

Thank you.

Would you like to say a few words for us, please?

I would.

Great.

Good evening, everyone.

Uh I came prepared because I was here last week when my husband Sergio Lopez was awarded Officer of the Week.

So I got a little head start and was able to prepare a speech.

Uh I will make it quick because I'm sure you have a long meeting ahead of you.

I've condensed my speech from 20 pages to 10.

I'm kidding.

Good job, good job.

Let me first start by saying I am truly honored to receive this officer of the week award.

To be recognized in this way means a great deal to me, especially when I'm surrounded by such a hardworking and dedicated team.

This recognition isn't just about me, it reflects the efforts of the entire human trafficking unit.

Every day we show up for one another and we show up for the community we serve.

Uh, I wanted to mention the human trafficking team real quick, uh, starting with acting lieutenant Flores.

With his 43 years in the department, he has a wealth of knowledge, but what I respect the most is his ability to stay calm under pressure and keep our team focused.

Sergeant Robert Glenn, who gives a hundred and ten percent in all that he does, but will drop everything he is doing to help his fellow officer in need.

Sergeant Megan Lyons, who I appreciate for her steady presence and commitment to our team.

And finally, Officer Kevin Stukey, who is willing to look through hours and hours of evidence or assist in a assist in an arrest uh without question.

You might be wondering where my team is right now.

We are currently in the middle of an operation right now, so as soon as this is over, I'll be heading back to the operation that we are working on tonight.

Uh next, I must thank my family, whether it's long shifts, missed dinners, missed celebrations, or late night calls, they've stood by me without hesitation.

My mother Cynthia, who is my best friend, but she also is a retired SFPD officer.

And I am honored to not only wear her star, 321, but it was also her father's star, my grandfather, uh Bob Donley's.

So we've kind of kept 321 in the family for about 50 years now.

Uh so that's very special to us.

Uh, my father John, who is uh dedicated most of his career in the SFPD as a motorcycle officer.

I thought I would inherit his ability and love for traffic collision reports, but sadly it must have skipped a generation because I find them quite difficult and not as easy as he made them appear.

My sister Karen for always reminding us that life isn't always about work and to make sure we enjoy life outside of work as well.

Uh my extended family, uh, my in-laws.

They have all welcomed me into their family with open arms and I thank them for that.

My husband Sergio, uh, thank you for your patience, your love, and your strength.

I am quite lucky that throughout my career uh Sergio has been by my side.

He has 25 years in the department, and I can always call him 24-7, and he will answer my questions and guide me.

Uh, but don't worry, I've been able to teach him a thing or two along the way.

And lastly, I wanted to share that at the end of the day I am most proud of being a mama to my son, our son, Roman.

Uh Sergio and I strive to work each day to make the world a little better and safer for him to grow up and live in as well.

Thank you again for this recognition.

I will continue to serve with integrity, humility, and respect for our team, our community, and my family.

Thank you.

If you would like to make public comment regarding line item one, please step to the podium.

I also want to say congratulations to her.

A lot of our children get sexually uh trans uh what you call it.

Um get taken off the streets and treated wrongly in our and at least this little girl made it back home.

You know, some of our children don't make it back home, and the family for being courageous and calling the police and her to go and rescue their children.

So I I appreciate that, you know.

Um, keep doing the good work, just stay safe.

Thank you.

Okay.

And that concludes public comment for line item one.

Need to make an announcement.

Um we are going to be taking a couple of items out of order.

After the chief's report, we will be going to line item seven, which is the boundaries presentation.

I'm sorry, six.

We'll be taking line item six, which is the Ralph Anderson report, and then we'll take line item seven, the boundary report, and then proceed with the agenda as posted.

All righty.

Next, line item two, general public comment.

At this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission.

Under under police commission rules of order during public comment, neither police or DPA personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response.

And you will have two minutes for your public comments.

You can begin public comment.

You know, I did a hand out to each one of y't sleep, you know.

Um, I come stand in front of y'all because I lost my son 10 months hard for me.

It's it's hard.

My son was very young, you know, and fortunately, um, the police haven't got him because what I stated on the letter, um, they don't have it in San Francisco, and you know, it's just, you know, it's not hard, it's not easy for me day by day.

You know, this person is out there, you know, saying he's out there, you know, and I I just feel that San Francisco do not have this, and by they don't have this, it's not allowing them to get this person, you know.

And how many other moms is out there?

You know, this need to be approved.

You know, it needs to be approved.

That's all I have to say.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Um I am here concerning my son Arboria Casa, who was murdered August 14, 2006.

I like to use the overhead, and uh to bring awareness to all the unsolved homicides.

Next month will be the anniversary of my son's murder.

Um, we will be having a visual, like to use the overhead.

Um, you uh can you fix my time because I'm at yeah, so um, well, next month would be the can you fix my time because that's not it.

Well, I will.

Next month will be the anniversary of his death.

Maybe you can fix my time because I can't I talk with my pictures.

Um it's not there.

You're gonna start me over.

If you give me just a moment, okay.

Why are you doing that?

Yeah, next month will be the anniversary, August 14th.

Um, so I am getting in touch with the media, the police department to come out.

I've contact Paul Yep and uh Robert Rureca, and um Evansy, and sorry, um, to uh do something about um to have the media out there there that day and to uh also invite the mayor, the DA, and the police chief.

And so we're making a flyer flyer for that to happen and so that I can put your names on there so people can show up and other mothers can come out there and meet their meet their uh DA and meet their um and meet their police chief and then um and all of the people that are gonna be out there today.

And I'm asking that uh everyone here show up and support us mothers, um, and to bring awareness.

You weren't able to do the the thing, the monitor.

No, it's not coming up.

Oh gosh.

So, how I'm gonna do it then.

I still have a so I'd like to use the overhead.

Unfortunately, I can't turn the overhead on for you.

So can I still show my pictures?

Do I have time?

Okay, so anyway, I bring these pictures with me to show a mother standing there over her lifeless son's body, and the corpse that they left me with.

This is what I have to deal with every day.

I bring this, I talk with my pictures because if I come here without it, then you'll never know who I what I'm talking about.

So I have to show it.

I bring these other homicide pictures too of other homicides that cases aren't solved.

So I'm just here, it's not working.

No, it isn't.

And allow her to continue for for comments.

So, yeah.

So I'm just praying that everyone will show up on that day.

It's already um established that it's gonna happen.

So please come out.

And Maddie, I know you're gonna be there, right?

And let other mothers know that are suffering in silence, too.

At least I hope you can.

If you're not with your mom.

Thank you, Ms.

Brown.

Okay, thank you.

Maybe next.

Oh, see, now there it is.

Thank you, Ms.

Brown.

Gosh, I want to show my pictures.

That's not okay.

I'll go out to get up when the police chief does his.

Good evening.

My name is Jennifer J.

Deb Wagner.

I'm here from the League of Women Voters of San Francisco.

And in April, our president, Alison Goh sent an email to uh then Chief Scott to the Commission and to Executive Director Henderson, asking for an update on GGO 9.07, pretext stop data analysis and discussion.

Fortunately, DPA got back to us and we had an interesting conversation with them, but we didn't hear back from the commission or from SFPD.

I know there's been a lot of turnover, there have been a lot of changes.

So on Monday, we sent another email asking the new interim chief, asking the new commissioners that we would love to have an update on this.

And I know you're about to go on break, but it'd be really helpful for the many community groups that participated in the public meetings that have been following these discussions, to have a clear update and to have that scheduled in a rolling way so that the community can anticipate when they should come to these meetings.

You know, when we can hear back from you.

We'd really appreciate that.

I know that was one of the best practices that was discussed over time that scheduling regular updates really helps people follow what's happening.

Thank you.

Go ahead, Chief.

I think the leading.

Would you like to make public comment?

Please approach the podium.

Sorry, Chief.

Yep.

Good afternoon to the audience and everyone here.

I would just like to talk with you a little bit and express some opinions and ask for your assistance.

I should start with a quote here from uh Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Lawlessness is lawlessness, anarchy is anarchy.

It's anarchy, neither race nor color nor frustration is an excuse for either lawlessness or anarchy.

I'm calling in particular today to talk with you a little bit about the Lower Polk Street area, which for over seven years has been a lawless area of rampant drug use, which is currently controlled, not by the citizens or the police of San Francisco, but by the illegal drug activity.

Harm is being caused by all, including the residents, including the businesses, the nonprofits, and the drug addicts.

I have seen them being kicked by drug addicts, I mean drug dealers to wake them up to force them to buy drugs.

This is not acceptable.

And I'm begging all of you to please, whatever it takes, we need both services but law enforcement.

Unfortunately, addiction is a very serious disease, but no disrespect, but we've really exhausted all options for three mayors from Mr.

Lee, Mayor Breed, and now Mr.

Lurry.

We've been asking for assistance.

We've had three supervisors.

I've met with countless police captains over the years.

The only effective police captain to date was a Captain Joe Engler, who was at the Northern Station.

I don't know if you've met him, he was a very kind gentleman, and he was very very appreciative and helpful.

Way back when the hospital opened on Sutter, they said there would be some assistance, but we need your assistance no matter what's gonna go on here in the future in terms of revision of the tenderloin and Northern Station.

The police department has been a complete fail in this area, and I would appreciate all of your help.

And I would recommend that we open up a police station on Lord Polk, which I believe existed many years ago.

We need a physical presence to deter the crime and help out the harm caused.

Thank you so much for listening to me.

Is there any further public comment?

Line item three, Chief's report.

Chief, yep.

Thank you, Sergeant Reynolds.

Thank you.

Good evening, President Clay, Commissioners, Director Henderson, members of the general public.

Let me go ahead and update this group and the public with some department updates.

So last week we promoted 13 captains from Lieutenant.

Those captains are in orientation this week at the police academy, which started on the 14th.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Yeah, that began one week on the 14th.

Um they will be starting their new assignments on July 19th, and there will be a movement of captains throughout the department at that time.

Let me go ahead and talk about crime.

Overall crime is down 28%.

Violent crime is down 19% this year, property crime down 29%.

Theft is down 20% 26% overall, with auto burglaries down 46%.

Robberies overall are down 25%.

Organized real retail theft crime is down 11%.

This is all year to date compared to last year.

The drug market activity coordination center, they had uh, so this is reporting for the week of uh July 7th to July 16th.

They had 117 arrests, which resulted in a seizure of narcotics of 811 grams.

I want to talk about our staffing.

Baseline staffing right now is 1,555 officers, which is 511 lower than the recommended 2074.

I bring up the staffing because with this crime tread down.

I really want to thank the rank and file of the police department for the work that they do.

Uh, even 511 officers below the recommended amount of officers of 2074, they are still working hard and crime is on the right trajectory going down in San Francisco.

Okay, I'm gonna talk about some significant events uh for this particular week.

There were no homicide incidents occurring this week, ending 7 or July 13th.

Although there were no homicide incidents occurring the week uh ending this week or ending July 13th, the victim of a shooting incident that occurred on July 3rd at 225 a.m.

at Vanderwater and Powell, that victim succumbed to their injuries on July 8th of this year.

In that incident, the victim was found by building security with a gunshot wound to the head.

Multiple casings in a farm were found near the scene.

Investigation is ongoing.

There is no arrest at this time.

Conversely, the police department made an arrest in the park district of a homicide suspect during this week.

On May 6th this year, officers met with paramedics in the Unabok of Laguna Street on a report of a deceased person.

The victim was pronounced at the scene, and the medical examiners determined to death was suspicious.

Investigators identified the suspect and developed probable cause to obtain a search and arrest warrants for the suspect on July 10th this year.

The suspect was located in the East Bay, and we placed that subject under arrest and booked for the warrant and the violation of 187 A PC for the homicide for murder.

I also wanted to speak to an off-duty officer's arrest.

This officer took swift action, which le led to the immediate arrest of a robbery suspect.

On June 6th, at approximately 6 47 p.m.

Uh our officers responded to a business located on the 2,000 block of San Jose Avenue regarding a robbery suspect being detained by an off-duty San Francisco police officer.

Officers arrived on scene and they saw a male being detained by an off-duty officer and place the suspect under arrest without further incident.

Through the course of the investigation, officers discovered that a male entered the business and stole merchandise.

As a suspect exited the store, an employee attempted to stop the male subject, and a physical alteration altercation ensued outside of the business.

During the incident, the off-duty officer, after identifying himself, intervened and detained the male as the employee called for the police.

The suspect, 21-year-old male.

This suspect was found to be in possession of a firearm during this incident, which was recovered and seized at the scene.

There were no reported injuries during this incident.

The officers' bravery and quick actions led to the immediate arrest of this suspect.

The last incident this week that I'll bring to your attention is the apprehension of an auto theft suspect without a pursuit due to drone, Arctic, and ground unit coordination.

On July 7th this year at 1145 a.m., a report of a stolen vehicle was called to dispatch.

The victim stated that his work van was stolen from a hotel parking area at the area of Mission and Stewart Streets, which is in the Southern Police District.

The suspect crashed the stolen vehicle into two other parked vehicles and through the parking lot fence before fleeing into the street.

Description was broadcast of the vehicle, which was located occupied and traveling on Third Street and Market Street, 11 minutes later.

Officers attempted a traffic stop, but the driver fled at a high rate of speed and in a felonious manner.

Central and southern units never initiated a pursuit as the SFPD drone was overhead, was deployed.

As RTIC broadcast the updated location of the suspect, officers proceeded in a non-emergency manner on indirect routes not immediately behind the suspect to ensure that the suspect was not provoked or prompted by the police to continue to drive in any reckless manner.

For seven minutes unbeknownst to the suspect, hello.

The drone followed the stolen vehicle for 1.2 miles.

When the suspect parked and abandoned the vehicle, he fled on foot and was immediately taken into custody by ground units as directed by the real-time investigation center.

21-year-old male subject was booked into county jail and was rebooked and charged by the district attorney's office for three felony charges and one misdemeanor charge.

I want to talk about sideshow events.

CHP reported 200 cars traveling from Milpitas towards San Francisco.

Units and the CHP responded to the Bay Bridge.

Unfortunately, I'll talk about a traffic collision.

It's a Muni-related injury on July 12th, 5 30 p.m.

in the area of Embarkadero and Broadway.

The injured was a passenger on an LRV boat leaning against the rear door.

The door opened and the victim fell on the street.

The victim was transported in critical condition.

So we won't be in session, but that's another large-scale event that the police department will be planning with for.

And that concludes my report.

Commissioner Scott.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief Yep, for that report.

I just wanted to commend you and our police department.

What the safety involving apprehending that sucks, but with the drone technology that we're utilizing now in our city, which is proven fact that it's helps to save lives and to keep our streets safe while pursuing the suspect.

That just really I'm very much for the drones being utilized to help our department.

And I just pray that we continue to use it to apprehend suspects and to prevent chases like we've had in the past that um had injuries involved and you know was was the uh not safe for our communities.

So I just want to commend a department and commend you for us utilizing the drones to help apprehend suspects and and and to get an arrest.

So um I appreciate that and um we're looking forward to more safety reports like this.

That helps that's helping us to uh get the criminals off the street and the best and safest uh solution that we have with the drone.

So thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you, President Clay.

Thank you for that report, Chief.

I want to echo what Commissioner Scott had just said.

I think when this commission was was talking about changes to vehicle pursuit policy and talking about things like Arctic and the drone program, we talked about ways in which pursuits could be entirely sort of sidestepped, and I'm glad to see that we're starting to see instances where that can happen since vehicle pursuits do present such an inherent danger uh to officers to suspects and to members of the public.

So I'm glad to hear about that incident.

Um the next topic I want to cover was I know that we had uh Ms.

Wagner here from the League of Women Voters, and we we all received the letter from uh Ms.

Goh.

Um I know they had some specific questions about um the progress in data reporting since the 9.07 implementation.

Uh do you think the department would be in a position to provide an update to the commission and specifically addressing some of the questions they'd asked when we returned from our recess in the fall?

I commissioner, thanks for the question.

I'm happy to meet with the team and gather that data for us to report back in public.

Thank you.

Perfect.

Yeah, I think that uh as Ms.

Wagner said, I think we can we don't have to target like right when we return to then we want to give uh notice to members of the public to the over 50 community groups that participated in the uh ending pretext ops coalition, but I think it would be helpful to two of that update, and so I'll be filling out a purple folder to ask for that to be agendized.

Um, the next set of my questions uh all relate to some of the recent incidents in San Francisco uh involving ICE and protesters and things like that.

I won't uh want to repeat a lot of the things that have been said other places.

So I'll just want to say I know there was a letter of inquiry received from supervisor Fielder that asked a lot of the questions that I think myself and some commissioners are gonna ask.

I'd ask the department copy the commission on any response it provides to Supervisor Fielder on her questions, and that way you can save us all a little bit of time here.

Additionally, I know earlier this week there was a board of supervisors resolution uh calling on the uh SFPD among others to develop a policy related to um masked agents and they providing the LAPD policy announced by Chief McDonnell as as one template.

I know that just happened.

I want to see for a moment if you had a response to I know the last public response was that the department was studying the resolution.

Is that still where the department is, or uh did you have anything new to say on that that resolution?

Yes, we are actively discussing that topic.

Okay, great.

Um, I think that if there's anything the commission can do to help uh with the call from that board of supervisor resolution, I think there would definitely be uh an interest in making sure that this you know we we talk every week about um you know our sanctuary ordinance.

I think we want to make sure that the people in the community, particularly in our inmigrant communities who are so shaken right now, feel like San Francisco is complying with the spirit of the sanctuary ordinance because a fear that that's not happening is tantamount to it not happening because you're gonna solve the same negative effects that our ordinance was meant to prevent, you know, in terms of people coming forward and being cooperative.

So I think we want to make sure that wherever we can, we're being communicative with the public and the department is being proactive to uh on this front.

I think that uh I think Supervisor Chan who introduced the resolution, um Supervisor Chan, excuse me, uh, you know, correctly called it a modest but important step when dealing with mass agents.

So I'd ask the department to look at that.

Um then the last ICE-related topic I wanted to ask is to see if you had any response to the reporting regarding uh the Oakland PD's flock camera system and whether or not um that was accessed by SFPD on behalf of uh of ICER, if you had a comment on on that story.

Well, first I want to take the opportunity to reiterate that public safety is our number one priority in the San Francisco Police Department, and I want to say that that is for all communities.

That is the work that we do.

Um it's public safety and it's enforcing laws.

So I also want to encourage all communities in San Francisco to report any crimes to the police department from any community, regardless of immigration status, uh we do not do any immigration enforcement.

So if anyone in San Francisco has any public safety needs, please, please please come to the police department.

Um so thank you for the opportunity to state that.

Uh in relation to the question about the ALPR, um, I can tell you this that uh a city our city attorney and our department are looking at the state law and our department policy.

Our investigations depart or bureau is uh reviewing uh our data currently and um any involvement with any agencies with that data.

So although very preliminary, I can say with confidence that um we have not shared any data that has anything to do with immigration uh to we're in compliance with General Order 5.15.

Um if I if we find otherwise or just as our information develops, I'm happy to report back.

Thank you very much uh Chief Yep for those responses and for that statement to the community.

Uh and thank you for addressing.

I know a lot of these have been very recently breaking, you know, but with some developments, you know, as recent as yesterday.

So thank you for being uh being responsive on this.

Thank you.

That's all.

Thank you.

Um I wanted to follow up on you just I'm gonna go backwards, but um you said that the uh you can say with confidence that the department doesn't share any immigration data um with the federal government.

Um does that include the personal identifying information of individuals, could or what do you mean by immigrate doesn't share immigration data?

Uh thanks for the chance to clarify.

So we don't share data, any data, with uh homeland security or ICE, and we are not in the business of immigration enforcement, and we actually don't have immigration related.

Well, I mean, it doesn't matter because we don't that's not anything that we look we it's not in our business to do any kind of immigration enforcement or even to cooperate with any federal agency regarding immigration enforcement.

And has there been any guidance provided to the officers with respect to the uh federal administration's new practice of deputizing local law enforcement um in order to participate in immigration raids?

I am not aware of any incidents or uh that occurrence in San Francisco at all.

Right.

It it and it may not happen in San Francisco, but it's happening in other jurisdictions.

So my question is is has the department has SFPD provided its officers guidance because while the department is indicating that it's not providing information to ICE or DHS, we also want to make sure that also it's clear to officers that this information isn't provided to deputized law enforcement that are serving federal purposes.

Meaning they're going around deputizing local law enforcement to conduct federal immigration federal raids.

So, well, I think our sanctuary city policies are very clear.

Um intention of complying as we always do.

I say always as far as I know, with sanctuary city our sanctuary city, our sanctuary city policy, meaning the departments and the city's sanctuary city policy.

I think it would be good to also just look into this practice that's being conducted in other jurisdictions, so that you can better prepare our officers so that there isn't any mistake that they mistakenly provide information to deputized individuals or this information goes to the federal government, would be my suggestion.

The other thing that I wanted to ask you, you um indicated that the SAPD doesn't do immigration enforcement and encourages uh communities that I think are um rightly afraid of law enforcement right now given what's happening to report crimes.

Is there anything SFPD is doing proactively to ease the community's concerns so that people who are victims of crimes and are of certain communities that are being targeted will come forward?

You know, um we have continually gone and reached out to community stakeholders uh at community meetings internally within the city.

I've worked with uh we've had discussions with most, if not all city departments to help us, you know, because we have limited capacity to reach you know it's just San Francisco, although small is very vast, so we've leveraged our city partners in other departments and had these same discussions because they have different contacts with different community members.

So, yes, we've done um consistent outreach and uh will continue to do so.

Um I was gonna give a number of meetings that I went to this week, but I I can tell you it's multiple meetings with community stakeholders leaders on this very toping, reassuring them of the things that I'm telling you today, which is public safety is our top priority, and it's for everyone in San Francisco.

And um my other question is whether or not you think that you mentioned a little bit of it of whether or not we need to review the immigration DGO that we recently updated so that it comports with the um California Values Act and the Truth Act uh and the laws that have been passed by our ledge our California legislature limiting law enforcement participation in immigration uh enforcement.

Well, as with most of our policies, and to me I really mean all, it's just a matter of getting to them, yeah.

Absolutely, um, once we worked in partnership with this commission and community stakeholders on on those policies.

Right, but I guess my question is do you think we need to review it and revise it given sort of the current administration, federal administration and what's happening?

I can definitely review it internally with a fresh set of ice.

Uh and then my other uh my second question or second set of area of questions was um we had asked last week regarding um staffing, and I appreciate the staffing that you provide or the staffing update you provided with respect to sworn um officers in the department, but given the budgetary challenges that DPA was facing in all of the departments throughout the city, um, we had asked for um any information with respect to layoffs in the department and SFPD of civilian positions, and I didn't hear that update.

Was what are have there been any um eliminations of civilian positions and is the department facing budgetary um challenges regarding positions that aren't related to sworn officers?

Sure, the update is that the budget is not approved, so I really cannot speak to um any finalization and physicians until that budget is approved.

Has um the department been asked to eliminate non-sworn positions?

Because I know that when we had the budget um before us, the the that the department presented the two budgetary um presentations, um there wasn't any indication of any um cuts to civilian um or non-sworn members of the department.

And so I know that going through rounds of budget um usually you come back and say, okay, the the this is what the tentative um outlook looks like.

Um and so I'm wondering what that is when it with respect to non-sworn members.

My update at this time is that I do not think it's appropriate to talk about budget cuts before the budget's been finalized.

Uh once the budget has been finalized, I'd be happy to revisit this topic with you and provide you with the update.

Well, I ask is because um in the event that you know we can support the department and in helping it so that there aren't um non-sworn positions that are eliminated as we have been doing with DPA.

Um how how would we go about providing that assistance then?

Well, I I you know I'm never gonna turn down support for the department, so um I think in the regular channels that you would support by making it known to the people that are ultimately making the decisions on on the budget finally, which is clearly that's you that's part that's you partly because it's your budget.

So I I'm saying like how do we so how do we support something we don't know is my qu I guess my question.

Uh well once again I I can't speak to budget cuts that have not been finalized.

Are there anti- well what are the anticipated cuts to the non-sworn positions?

Uh you know, it's been an ongoing conversation and a moving target, and that's why I really just can't uh and it's not final.

I you know the answer is I know the board of supervisors may then the mayor, they're still negotiating the budget that's been presented.

They're they are still in the acts.

That's what they've said.

No, we understand that.

I mean it's all in the press, and there's articles about sort of you know budget this department's facing this many budget cuts in terms of percentage and what it means in terms of positions.

I mean, we've heard it from you know DPA, we've heard it from uh other departments, DPH, other departments and stuff like that.

So I guess that's just my question is what the anticipated is.

I don't think it's a secret.

So that was my question.

Is the answer you don't know at this time or you don't have the number?

Well I don't know.

Okay.

Thank you.

No further questions.

Commissioner.

Uh thank you again uh President Um Clay.

Uh just looking at the crime report.

Uh, it's down again uh 28 percent year to date.

Uh I want to thank the um uh thank you chief staff and then uh the officers and keeping crime down.

Uh I guess we also want to thank the officers of uh I guess we'll the stunt uh drive m move along to another dist to another district, another city that didn't make it into the city.

Thank you thank the officers.

Also outland uh hows I land is coming in August uh 8th through the 10th.

Um this scene that uh you say you were short on staff or you have enough officers to cover that event in.

We're we're confident that even being over 500 officers short that we are going to have a very safe event and have enough officers to maintain the safety for the event.

Thank you very much, Chief.

Also on the drone, I think uh Commissioner uh Scott said uh very appreciative of having a drone to reduce the violence in and make an arrest.

Um is there a target number of drone that you're looking at in the department?

I don't know that there's a um finite number that we're looking at.

We are looking at different ways to expand the program geographically in San Francisco and then to obtain the appropriate number of drones to be able to deploy to the rest of the city in a more efficient way and um and use them you know to their maximum efficiency.

Do you have uh I guess a number for officers that are currently certified drone operators?

Oh, you can probably give me back next time.

I can definitely get back to you.

It's it's actually a growing number.

So I don't have a number for you today.

Okay, thank you very much, Chief.

Chief, so going back to the deputization of officers to participate in these immigration raids.

So I had this conversation with Chief Scott.

We had a long conversation, having worked in the federal system, having dealt with some of these agencies, and then we are sanctuary city.

To that extent, the position of this city has been that we're not cooperating with any of this immigration issues for these departments, these federal departments.

The question of whether or not deputizing our officers, in order for them to do that, they would have to get the permission from Washington to do this, and they'd have to come to you and make that request that you have your one of our officers deputized, and it's been our position, we would not allow that, we would refuse that.

So it's is that still in play?

Is that the still policy of our department is we are not going to participate in this immigration raids or detentions, and that in fact if they're requested us, a federal agency to participate, we're gonna deny that, and our officers are going to be working for us because that's what they do.

If they want to leave, that's a whole different issue.

But as long as you're a San Francisco officer, you're not participating in immigration raids on behalf of the federal government.

Yeah, thank you, President Clay.

I just want to be clear that and I appreciate that that uh that that request has not been made to this department.

But in the instance that that potentially could happen, I am only interested in fully complying with our sanctuary city laws and our sanctuary city policy, which in that case does sound like it's just going to be denied.

And just to clarify, my question wasn't regarding that situation.

The I think the concern is that if other jurisdictions have officers who have been deputized and those officers reach out to SFPD as is common, where law enforcement exchange information with other jurisdictions.

Are there safeguards in place so that our officers don't unknowingly or unwillingly give information to an outside jurisdiction that they're thinking it's a local law enforcement, but it's not.

They in fact have been deputized and are acting in a federal agent capacity.

I believe you're asking me a hypothetical, and I can tell you that the answer is that we will be in compliance with DGO 5.15 and the city's sanctuary city and our department's sanctuary city policies.

Scott Commissioner Scott.

Thank you.

Um Chief, yep.

I just wanted to commend the department on the homicide rate that has um dropped significantly in our city, however, as you can see, we still have um mothers that come here um to talk about the homicides of their children.

Um I know for me personally it would be 17 excuse me, 29 years tomorrow, that my son was murdered and the case remains unsolved.

And so um I'm just um asking that we look at the um the letter that was given to us, and will the police department, you know, be on board with this of using the facial uh recognition technology um for law enforcement here, that we take a good look at that because right now it's not being done, and so as on behalf of um not just um myself but all the mothers who've lost children of gun violence or violence, period, um, that we you know hopefully requests um that this technology uh facial recognition would be utilized um here in San Francisco.

Uh I I appreciate that, and um certainly I I know that, you know, I'm just stating the obvious that technology evolves really quickly.

I think it's our duty to look into technology as it evolves and how it can help solve crimes such as murders.

Um and then when we run across technology, I I assure you that uh we will be looking at it responsibly and as it fits within policy of the city and the department.

So thank you.

Yeah.

If you would like to make public comment regarding the chief's report, please approach the podium.

I'll stand to y'all, um Chief.

I this is for your for you.

Um did you have a time to look at the letter?

Because she just taught Miss Maddie just talked about it, but I uh, you know, I I sit here in this chair right here.

You know, I don't live in San Francisco no more.

Coming back to San Francisco knowing I can't call my son on the phone.

My son was only 32 years old, you know, he was my baby, you know.

I can't call my son, you know.

My days did not be good.

You know, this person need to be caught.

You know, and if we don't have facial recognition, what uh, you know, how what what y'all gonna do, you know?

You know, and how many other moms is out there with the same position that I'm going through?

You know, I just ask you, you know, the whole all y'all, you know, just you know, come on.

This has been going on too long.

Thank you.

So, as you listen to us mothers, you see how we're still suffering.

You know, I just have to give her a nap because she's sitting here and we and we and we feel like nothing's been done for us throughout the years.

On August 14, it will be 19 years, 19 or 20 years for me.

I stopped counting because it's hard.

But I do thank you for coming out and and doing the visuals for me every every um time.

I just gave her um a little snipter of what's gonna be happening uh on the 14th.

That's that's from last year, but this is something they're gonna put out again.

Um, you know, and like I said, all of the digital cameras at the all 10 district stations are up.

So I'm glad that you checked on those, and that, you know, because I helped spearhead that as well.

So I want those to continue to be up.

I like to use the overhead.

So, you know, to bring awareness, because I didn't get to use it last time, so I know it's working now, and um to bring awareness to all the unsolved homicides.

There's my son.

Um I bring these of other unsolved homicides.

Here is, and here's Maddie's son.

She just got talked about his anniversary as tomorrow.

Here's all the unsolved homicide.

Former mayor Gavin Newsom, now governor said he I know who killed their son.

The DA know who killed her, and the police know who killed their son.

This is him saying this concerning my son.

There is his name.

He put this in the paper.

So it felt like a slap in the face to me.

These are all the names of the perpetrators that murdered my son.

All of them.

They're down at the police station.

This is what they left me, a lifeless body.

And my body, his son, like that.

This is what I have to deal with.

Thank you, Commissioners.

Randy Shaw, director of the 101 housing clinic.

I just want to bring one fact to your attention about crime statistics.

You know, they don't include drug activity.

And it's not anything that's new to this administration, but it's kind of weird that one of the biggest problems we have in San Francisco is out is uh drug-filled sidewalks, and yet they're not included in our crime stats.

I mean, we had a mirror or election, one of the biggest uh issues was why do we have so many open air drug markets?

But they're not in our crime statistics.

And I so I think we get a very misleading, it's great to see the decline in auto burglaries and all that, but if you wonder why so many people are here tonight, it's because we're not making progress on drug-filled sidewalks.

And we needed maybe uh the commission could vote to encourage that statistic.

And it's also mentioned like we see drug dealers, I see, you know, hundreds every day in the tenderline, hundreds.

I don't call the police to report those numbers, but if everyone in this room was reporting the numbers of drug act drug users they saw, which are all crimes, we would see crime skyrocketing in San Francisco.

So let's think about maybe including the most relevant statistic in our computations.

Thank you.

Is there any further public comment?

That concludes public comment.

So for the next line item, we will be going out of order to line item six.

Just as a note, the materials for the following presentation were not posted alongside the agenda as they were created after posting and were not available to the police commission.

We will post the presentation on our commission website.

So for line item six, search and selection process for chief of police.

Presentation by Ralph Anderson and Associates.

Discussion and possible action.

President Clay, members of the Commission, my name is Carol Eisen.

I'm your Human Resources Director.

Thank you for having us back again this week.

As promised, the um executive recruitment firm that uh the Department of Human Resources has retained to assist this commission uh with identifying uh candidates for the um San Francisco, the next San Francisco police chief is present today.

Uh Ralph Anderson and Associates President Heather Renchler will has prepared a brief presentation for you to talk with you about the process that the firm will use, the schedule that we hope to keep to, and request of this commission uh a process by which we can get authorization to post the job and to continue on with the process as we go.

She is accompanying and part of her team is retired City of Sacramento police chief Daniel Hahn, who is also present with us today, and I'm gonna turn this over to Ms.

Renchler uh for her presentation.

Thank you.

Good evening, Commission Heather Renchler with Ralph Anderson Associates, and will we be able to have the PowerPoint up?

Thank you very much.

Let me just introduce myself to you again, Heather Renschler, and I'm president and CEO of Ralph Anderson Associates, and I've been with the firm since 1985, and I've been working on and off for the city and county of San Francisco over a number of years since 1995, and so I'm very pleased to be selected uh to work with you.

And I I just want to make sure that I acknowledge to everyone uh Chief Daniel Hahn, Chief, if you can just there you go.

Um he is going to be working very closely with me on the search process.

So I'd like to just walk you through the process um very quickly this evening.

I know you have a full agenda.

Next slide, please.

Um I wanted to let you know, as a retained search firm, we work for you as the agency as the commission.

So we do not represent any candidates.

We work for you.

Chief Hahn and I are your staff on this assignment.

And we hope to uh walk you through a process over the next couple of months that's a very fair and unbiased process that will look at candidates that are both internal to the organization and external.

Next slide.

This will be a California focused search.

Uh, we're going to really zero in on the Bay Area.

We we know the importance of knowing the region.

We will certainly get candidates on a national level.

We will be mirroring the search that we did in 2016.

Our firm did that search.

And so what I wanted to explain to you is that we'll be uh very quickly launching the brochure and getting the search open while at the same time we will be doing some community meetings to solicit information.

We will also have a community survey.

The last time we did the survey, we did have it done in five languages.

We will be standing up that same survey.

That way we'll also be able to give you some comparisons.

Next slide, please.

One of the things that's very important is for us to solicit input from the commission.

And we will be scheduling with each of you individually on a telephone or a video meeting to get your input on the characteristics and input of the next chief and what you believe are the priorities.

So we'll use that to develop the brochure.

So we will be contacting you beginning next week, and we would like to take that information so we can release and launch the brochure by Friday, August 1st.

And then during the month of August, we'll be doing the community meetings.

And our plan is to give a schedule of the community meetings by Monday, August 4th, that you, as a commission and the community in general, knows the meetings that will be scheduled.

And last time we did five, and we're certainly open to discussing the number of meetings and the appropriateness.

So during the month of August, we'll be doing the outreach, we'll be soliciting input, and again, both internal to the department and externally.

During September, we will be evaluating the resumes that come in.

So we hope everyone submits their material prior to Monday, September 8th.

That's kind of our soft closing date that we'd like to receive all the applications.

We, meaning Chief Han and I will review those resumes and begin our screening, and we'll be having periodic updates to the commission in executive session because we'll be talking about names and applicants.

As a commission, you'll be doing those interviews with candidates during October.

Is to be at the point that you have made your selection of the top three candidates to forward to the mayor's office.

And that would be hopefully by your first meeting in November.

And if we're moving through this quickly, maybe we'll be doing that at the end of October.

But we don't want to rush, we want to make sure we have a good process and it's fair and impartial.

The mayor would make the final selection in November.

Next slide, please.

As it relates to the public process, again, I just want to re-emphasize that we will be doing community meetings and a survey, and again, that'll be in different languages.

We'll be using those same questions from last year in the last time, which is in 2016 when the search was done.

We are also going to open up an email for open comments that people could go ahead and submit to us.

So we'll make sure that that email is made available.

Next slide.

During the 2016 recruitment, we did do five community meetings.

And I just wanted to give you an idea of the location of those meetings and at that time, the locations, the facilities that they were held in.

We'll be working with the Department of Human Resources and certainly getting input from the Commission to schedule those meetings appropriately.

And that's just for information purposes, what was done the last time.

Next slide.

Just as an example of some of the key data that comes up, and this would be information that will be given back to the commission during the month of September, is we'll identify any themes and trends that we see and the comments that we're getting on leadership qualities and the community priorities.

Next slide.

And we will be giving you some breakdowns, and this is just a quick example.

In 2016, some of the themes that were brought to our attention by the community.

And although we expect many of these to be similar, we do think that there'll be some additional themes that come up that we'll bring to your attention.

Next slide.

So that concludes my presentation.

And again, we're delighted to be selected.

I'm here to answer any questions you may have.

And I do believe we want to just reaffirm the process with you.

And at this point, Carol may want to come back up if we have any questions on that process from a city standpoint.

So it is as it is now, you are shaping the application that you hope to send out for the candidates to complete for the commission.

Yes, that's correct.

But we would like your input, and we will be contacting each of you to schedule at your convenience, hopefully over the next week and a half, so that we may incorporate your thoughts into the brochure so that we can get that posted so individuals then will know the timing, they'll know the particulars that the commission wants to see in this person, both in terms of their personal attributes and also their philosophical approach to public safety.

Okay.

Commissioner Scott.

Okay.

It's not if I don't have it.

It doesn't work.

Okay.

Well, yeah, Matty can go first and then I'll go second.

Thank you for that report.

Um, I just wanted to ask um will you be outreaching to the community um organizations like the NWCP, the Mission Cultural Center, different neighborhoods that does very crucial in this process.

Um and will you be holding those community meetings at a convenient time like weekends, um like the NAACP meeting is held on the third Sunday at 4 p.m.

Um, you know, just the good questions.

Yeah, very, very important.

The community has to be involved in this process, and so I urge you to look at the calendars or get information because we want the community to be to be involved in this, um, particularly our youth and and um everybody that works with um at risk youth across the board, you know, the LGBT community, all of those.

So most of those uh meetings are held normally on the weekends when it's convenient where everybody can attend, and so I will urge you to look into doing those community meetings doing those times when everybody's able to attend, because this process is really crucial to the community, and we want their participation to be 100%, so please look into the county.

I think that's certainly very very germane to this uh project.

Uh we did the last time make sure that we did evening meetings for folks, and we also encouraged many of the groups and many of the individuals to give us comments electronically, and so the survey allows for not only multiple choice, but there is an open-ended question, and then the email communication that is private to our office allows someone to make unlimited comments that we would review and again include in our executive summary.

But we'll make sure in speaking with the Department of Human Resources that those uh groups that are very fundamental to the region and San Francisco will be invited to share and input their concerns, their comments, and and also to offer up any subject areas or design any questions that they may want the commission to ask as part of the process.

So we want to be as open as we can.

And again, if we launch the dates of the community meeting as well as the survey and give them at least a month to be able to input, I think that will again generate the interest and we'll make sure that they're on our distribution list, of course.

Thank you.

Because I I really want the community to be involved and be well informed.

I want them to say, oh, we didn't know about that, you know, or we should have been included in that.

You know, and I also recommend that we do uh one meeting here at City Hall, you know, perhaps doing the Board of Supervisors meeting.

I think that would be crucial when a lot of community members do show up and and uh so I I would suggest that as well.

So thank you.

Pressure, Lyas.

Thank you.

Um, so I I'm congratulations, first of all, because I think that your firm is well respected, and obviously you hit it out of the park with Chief Scott uh in 2016.

Um I do have to say I was a little disappointed we didn't receive the PowerPoint because I think that those visuals are really important to the commission as you present, as well as the community.

As you can see, we have active and robust uh community participation, uh, not to mention like we have an online portal or online site specifically dedicated to this purpose.

So in the future, if you can get the PowerPoints to us beforehand, it's really helpful not only to us but to the community.

Um, I wanted to follow up, I had a couple questions on the shaping of the applications for the candidates and uh you indicated that you would be incorporating the thoughts of the commission so that it would be in the brochure.

What's the deadline for that?

We would like to start contacting you as early as later this week, but uh really the the focus would be the week of the 21st and then the first three days of the following week, so that we can have a couple of days to uh assimilate what we've heard and then with your authority, and I think that's where we would like to be able to uh have the ability to route that brochure back to perhaps pre President Clay to uh with delegated authority so that we could post to get the application period going.

Let me say that's what I would like to do, and I've talked talk talked this out in my head, and I think it's important that all of our commissioners be involved in the issue of putting together this brochure.

I understand what I like to see what you're doing individually, talk to everyone, and then we have come back together after you've collected all that information and have a meeting here in August, we can meet with you in August.

Although it's the commission is down.

We will we will be able to schedule a meeting in August to come here.

You give us get us the brochure so we can kind of take a look at it, what you got there, and then they're gonna be questioning and answers in that session to sort of you can finalize or the product that we think we would like to have.

Any problems with that?

In terms of timing, I believe your first meeting in August then would be August 6.

We can schedule that meeting.

Oh, you can schedule it or not right now.

Okay, okay.

So we could do a special meeting, Carol?

Yes.

Yeah, we'd have to notice as a special meeting.

Exactly.

Again, we've we've set as a target date August 1st to post the uh job announcement.

And can we do it the last week of July?

Because she said, we don't have to post the first of July August.

We can do it the second, we can do the next week.

We could, but it's going to continue to roll back.

It's not going to roll back that much.

We're moving right ahead, okay?

We we went from where we were at, now we're here.

So I think the following week, we can do it that following week.

I think that would be sufficient.

It gives an extra week for everybody to get an opportunity to review the material and synthesize it, and then we can get a good product out.

So how about that following week?

On the second week of August, you mean?

Yes.

Yeah, that'd be good.

Yes.

We just second week of August.

How about that?

That what you want to keep it on a Wednesday?

Let's keep it on a Wednesday.

Everybody's used to a Wednesday.

How's that?

So you think August.

How about August 6th?

August.

I thought you meant the second week of August because she's doing it getting all the feedback until the the 5th, because she's or the So you want to do the 13th?

13th.

Can you do 13th of August?

The 6th is not possible.

13th?

You're going to stop talking to people the first in the hope.

And there may be some issue.

The 13th.

The 13th of August.

Can we do that?

13th of August.

Let's do that.

Everyone, is that okay?

13th to give you all time to synthesize.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

Let's do that.

Okay.

And then for members of the public, the commission will post a special notice of that special meeting uh within the required, I think it's 10-day, but yeah.

You're going to do it tomorrow or Friday.

Yeah, I'm just making sure that everyone knows.

Yeah.

And President Clay, would you like us to uh include a draft announcement in your packet for the meeting so that it is generally available?

We we're responsible for posting that similar to the They can give it to us in the weeds by the post it out.

Oh, okay, sure.

Okay.

Commissioner Elias had just raised the point about the PowerPoint, which is why I asked the question.

Because the PowerPoint that we just got, it will be posted after the fact.

So we won't be able to comment on it.

But I think that my request would be is that when you do post it, you have solidified dates, because I noticed in this PowerPoint there aren't solidified dates, so maybe we can even put in time frames so the public um knows.

So let's let's yeah, let's do this the thirteenth.

And whatever we need to do here, Sergeant from the department from our office and get the special notice done to the extent you guys can post notice with the information, put that out, get it to our us to get it posted out, and whatever HR does with that.

And so we can start that process, and when we get back here on the 13th, we will have a draft of what you've gotten from all the information, and we will give you the go that night to do what you need to do, and then the schedule will go accordingly.

The schedule is going to be flexible because it may happen quickly or much quicker than we think.

So let's but let's get to this point.

This is a this is an important point, okay?

Thank you, President Clay.

The only reason why, and this is fine, we'll we'll be back on the 13th, but just so the Commission knows our thought about this, which is that once it was known out in the police community that the police chief position is open, we've had a lot of interest already, and so we want to move quickly to make sure that those candidates out there know that this commission is moving forward and expeditiously and give them some sense of what our schedule is.

Well, I know it's travel because I had some people in New York ask me about it.

You're gonna be a very popular president for the next few months.

Well, according to her thing, they may not be considered since this is gonna be a California focused search.

Well, I just get that.

I mean, the fact is a lot of people know about this.

I mean, if they know it in New York, all of this.

We'll be doing the I understood uh Ms.

Rensler to say we we will be doing a national search.

Uh we recognize the importance of of your next chief being very comfortable in this environment in the Bay Area and in California, which is a unique place to be a police chief, I think.

I would just think a whole lot of people are real interested in this job.

Yes, all over.

Yes.

They are interested.

And that's a that's a good thing.

That's a good thing.

And Director Eisen just walked me into the second question.

Can we put back up your PowerPoint?

I had a few other questions.

We don't want to leave the line.

Well, if they're that committed to being the chief, they wouldn't lose interest in a week, right?

Can we go to page uh the one that had the criteria for the search?

I don't know if it's page two because I don't have a printed copy, so it's on the PC next to you.

There we go.

Key points of the process.

Okay.

Um my question is if maybe you can explain, I think Director Eisen did just very briefly, but I think it's helpful to understand what you mean by California focused.

Uh and you made a reference to someone that's uh familiar with the Bay Area.

So can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

Sure.

Um certainly we are a national search firm, so the minute we are retained, we will get interest that comes from all across the United States.

But we do realize, especially in law enforcement, that knowledge and post-certification, post-training is very important within the police chief ranks.

And knowledge of the Bay Area and California laws, regulations, and also kind of the philosophical approach oftentimes comes into play in that regard.

So we will, as we look at candidates, we want to find the best match for you.

But as we start to narrow down that group, we may put more weight on someone who has had experience as a deputy chief or a chief within California, but we're not restricted from looking on a national basis.

Okay.

And um the other thing that I wanted to um ask you about on page um can you go to the next page for me, please?

Thank you.

Um, so if you're going to get the brochure out in August sometime, now yeah, now it'll be mid-August, so everything will push a little further back.

Well, let me ask you this.

The community meetings, what is the purpose of the community meetings?

Uh that is to inform you as commissioners to assist you in your final selection.

It is not to uh prepare the brochure for circulation, it's to assimilate as much community information so that you'll receive a summary report that you'll be able to uh review, and it will inform you to make good choices as we go through the interview stage.

Will there be an opportunity for the community input uh before that?

Meaning um, you know, in 2016 when you came, it was a very different department.

We were on the verge of uh uh over federal oversight.

Now we are now the model across the nation in terms of reform and what that looks like, and having undergone uh very vigorous, I think, reform efforts that have placed us at the top.

Um we're a very different department now, so obviously the criteria and the things that worked in 2016 aren't gonna work now, right?

So I guess my question is is that is there an opportunity or what mechanism do you have to build in community input for the actual criteria um for the brochure and the application?

Meaning, is there a way for the community to say, hey, we think it's important that our chief has this uh expertise or this uh trait or this skill, so that you can then incorporate it in the search uh and the application process.

Based on our timeline, the answer to that is the information from the community will come to you for the selection phase.

You as commissioners are representing the beliefs of the community now, and we're going to be getting your input on the one-on-ones, and then putting that into the final text of the brochure.

So the community community input is happening, we're running a dual track.

So that brochure is coming with your input, and at the same time we want to give the community enough time to attend the meeting, to fill out the survey if they choose to do that, even if they attend the meeting, or to send us emails.

That information will be given to you for your final decision.

It is not time-wise able to be incorporated into the brochure.

It would truncate the time for the community to give us that input because that would mean we would have to get it two weeks before your schedule to meet with us, and so we would only have two weeks to get community input, and we would feel we're short changing the community by holding it in a much more condensed time frame.

Well, yes, but I think the community input is also important for the job qualifications of the next chief as well to be considered, and that doesn't sort of give us enough time.

Is there a mechanism or way?

Can you hit the next slide?

Because I think there were three things that you were hitting, which was the survey, the online, and then the community input.

Is there a way to set up a system either through the email input or the survey to allow the community to provide input prior to the brochure being distributed so that the community can put in, you know.

I mean, we as the commissioners obviously talk to our community and get their feedback, but within this short period of time that you're giving us to talk to you one-on-one, that doesn't give us a lot of time to reach out to community and really hear their concerns and be thoughtful about it.

Well, let me just say that the email is currently live, and I can make sure we circulate that, but my only concern is that that is not going to be widely distributed in time for us to develop that brochure.

But we don't have a time frame on when we will kind of cut that off.

And if I were given direction to open that survey, or I'm sorry, open the email input earlier, uh, I can certainly do that, and we will monitor that, but that may only get a small segment of the community that's knowledgeable about that.

But I do think with your input, and we're speaking with each of you individually, you're going to inform myself and Chief Han about some of those particulars, and we want to try and incorporate that.

We do want to be able to launch I'd say uh having as much information as we can so that the final selection will give you a better picture if we give the community more time to respond.

Okay.

Um I think it would be helpful to open up the email early, right?

To get you can open the email.

Okay.

We'll be happy to do that.

Um, the other thing that you indicated on the survey piece, you said that you were going to use the same survey as 2016.

Can you explain what the survey covers?

Sure.

Um it's pretty general questions.

For example, it is uh a listing of multiple choice.

Please rank the uh priorities you believe are important to the community.

Please uh rank what are the personal attributes that you believe are important.

What are the qualifications that you believe a chief needs to have coming?

And there's a listing.

The reason I'd like to use that same, and again, we realize it's a different time and a different place, but in those surveys, they're somewhat generic in the questions.

There is also an open-ended statement at the end, so someone can just give a uh a very open response.

But that will also allow us to compare the answers from previous search to this search, which I think might be of interest to us.

So the survey wouldn't have any questions pertaining to or allow the individual to highlight their experience with reform given the 272 rec DOJ recommendations and the reform efforts of the department.

This is the community survey.

Okay.

So the community is just saying what the community member wants.

Okay, okay.

And so as a candidate, when they apply, we encourage them to give us a detailed, a compelling cover letter that they put together to complement their resume.

And so that information will be shared with you in an executive session.

So you will have that.

Our job is to get the applicants to submit their material.

If we want to dig further, once we have mutual interest in that person, we will do that.

And then um maybe you can also talk about the community input meetings and what those are what those are, how they're structured to give the community a preview of what to expect at these meetings.

Yes.

Well, Chief Han will be facilitating these, and Chief, I don't know if there's anything you want to add, but you're welcome to come up if you'd like to.

But he will be uh asking many of those same questions.

What are the issues you feel that the city is facing?

What are the attributes that you want to see in the new chief?

So he's going to invite the uh people in attendance to verbally give him responses, very similar if they did a survey.

And so that information, we will have a staff person from Department of Human Resources taking down those notes, and we would invite the commissioners to attend those.

You have to limit how many are in at each meeting.

But we will then summarize that information, and again, that will come back to you in an executive summary.

So if you do not attend those meetings, you will have the summation from the meetings, you will have survey information, and you will also have the unlimited information that we'll gather from the email.

So, and then what's the ability to um if needed, or what's the process if we need more community meetings?

And the reason I ask that is because as we um have experience with the border analysis in terms of the the department and district stations, there's been a lot of community feedback, a lot of community, and we had to extend our community meetings with respect to that topic.

So, what's the process?

Uh, well, do you know we don't have a process in place yet?

And we we've got a package of all the stuff that you did last time with all the questionnaires, all the answers, all the messages you sent.

So we have that information.

The question is we need to get going, doing what's necessary to get this out.

We're gonna have to make decisions in the reviews of these applications and what we talk when we interview these candidates.

Right now, with this AI stuff, you can put all those stuff in the world.

These people can change, they can make their application fit what you say.

That's why it's boots on the ground in person.

I think I've done probably 15-20 of these hires.

Yes.

And using your type of people search good, you have to do that yourself.

Right.

You can't rely on the surveys are the surveys, but at the end of the day, we're all together, we're gonna be in that room, and we're gonna go through that, have gone through that material, and we're gonna have those set questions and we're gonna know what they say.

We're gonna know what kind of answers we're looking for, because everybody's gonna get the same question because that's what you have to do as a matter of law.

And we're gonna make sure we pick the best three people and send it on.

But we're gonna follow the procedure in the process.

It's a process, and we will shapen that as we go along.

As we go along.

It is a journey that we take together, and as we go, we will have more items that we need to determine and resolve as we go forward.

And we're here to guide you as your staff to help you.

And I get yeah, and I agree, that's why community input is so vital, and I think that's why you I'm glad to hear that you're open to more than holding more than five meetings if necessary.

Yes, and and again, we we will work with Department of Human Resources, we'll work with your schedule.

They need to look at the facilities.

We want to be able to move this along and capture as much input as we can.

I hope we get much more input than we got in twenty sixteen.

So I have a feeling you will.

So, we look forward to it.

Commissioner Benedict.

Thank you, President Clay.

Uh, thank you, President Wyas for those clarifying questions.

Uh, former President Less.

Commissioner Lyas.

Uh, just a couple of uh short things from me.

I think uh thank you for being uh nimble as we sort of change the timeline on you right here.

It's uh already a sign of being able to adapt.

I would ask that when you come back on the 13th, uh maybe you could provide an updated of your high level timeline of after everything's now been adjusted by two or three weeks.

I think that would be helpful for us to see that.

Uh additionally, I want to address something that um Commissioner Scott said about existing community groups and community meetings.

You know, I encourage DHR and you to look into that.

I'll also say to my fellow commissioners that it's it's on us to do that.

You know, I plan to spend a chunk of my August in the words of the Jonzo, capturing as much input as I can.

Going to uh community groups.

Uh I I plan to attend uh a few of the CPABs at district stations.

Uh I was gonna reach out to Chief Yep to see if I could go to some lineups to hear what staff has to say.

I spoke at a really fruitful conversation with former president Susie Loftus, who ran the search from uh President Clay's chair in 2016, and she went to lineups across the city, she did community outreach, and so for you know, that's also on us.

So I encourage my fellow commissioners, every single commissioner up here is uh a respected and valid leader of a community, has connections to well over a dozen community groups.

Reach out to them, bring that feedback in in there with you, reach out to each other as long as we don't break warm.

If it turns out you're going to Third Baptist, I'd be happy to join with you.

If I'm going to an event, like we we should stay in touch because it's our job fundamentally as commissioners to solicit that input.

So I look forward to taking that time to do that.

I know there are some folks out boundary analysis who can speak to my commitment to going out to do these, and so uh uh I the the meetings that um will be facilitated by Ralph Anderson are valuable, but to complete the rest of the picture, it's on us as representatives of our community to do that.

So that's the second thing.

And then the third thing, I know we've talked about the survey from 2016, we talked about the brochure from 2016.

I think it would be helpful for members of the public to see those too.

I know they are available if you look far back and up in the commission archives.

I wonder if I could ask you to provide the survey questions in the 2016 brochure to our commission staff so that it might be posted on the central hub that our commission staff has been maintaining for the chief search so that way members of the public can see what the survey questions look like last time and can see what the brochure looked like last time.

I I would be able to give you the executive summary from last time that I think will have the questions and the responses.

And I think it would be ideal.

I'll make sure I get that.

I think we actually got it, and it's in the office, the commission's office.

So you can we we got an email with it on some time ago.

Perfect.

Then I'll ask the commission staff post uh those prime materials as soon as okay, very good.

Thank you.

That's all.

Commissioner Yee?

Uh thank you for the question.

Thank you very much there, there uh President Clay.

Uh, just got questions on the timeline for the community input.

I know there's locations.

If you can put it back on the map, uh there was like five or six locations.

Uh, at the end.

The map.

Yeah, I think it's the last slide.

Okay, so you got one, two, three, four, five.

Five locations that you you had the previous time it took two days.

The previous time.

I noticed on the west side, you only have one on the lower side.

Yeah, and I'm not sure the uh rationale for that if it was just available facilities, but we're open to whatever recommendations you would like to offer up to us.

Yeah, well uh we'll we'll maybe adjust that as as we go forward.

And on the timeline of for the community input, is there a certain timeline that you have in mind now?

Or do is it our decisions to decide that?

Because August is next month.

We're gonna readjust, she said once we get to the question.

We will readjust that.

And so I would like to keep the survey open for at least 30 days, and also to make sure we have enough enough time to announce the dates of the uh meetings and the locations and to make sure we've got all that covered.

So even if that runs a little bit beyond the 30 days, again, remember we're doing two tracks.

So that can continue to we'll have to have some cutoff, but if we need an extra week, we can be flexible to do that.

So, yeah, my question is when does the track start running?

Right?

And then I gotta make sure everybody in the communities that are interested or want input into this uh know the timeline as well.

Right.

Uh initially we wanted to open the survey as of Monday, August 4th.

Um, if we're using the same questions, we there's no reason to hold that up, and we could uh launch that early and keep it up from August 4th until um maybe early September as well.

Um but we're happy to do that.

We're we're ready to go in that regard.

That's something we can do unless there's objections.

We can get these things moving forward.

Okay.

Also asked about translations.

Uh some of the monolingual communities do not have translation.

I mean, I'm just asking to will you have translation available?

Um the last time we did it, um, it was done in five languages.

And so uh we would use those same languages that were uh done previously.

We we also will have hard copies that we could arrange at certain locations.

So, like in certain uh district and like maybe in the mission and eight uh Spanish translation in the chat.

At the meeting, would you be referring to it?

In the communities, will you have that available?

I would have to work with uh city staff to see if they could have a translator there, but I'm sure if they've done it on other meetings, we would have to coordinate that.

Well, we'll talk about it.

Thank you very much.

Commissioner Lyons.

Yeah, I just had one follow up question um following up on Commissioner Scott's and Commissioner Yee's question about uh getting the information to the um community.

Do you um I what are your do you have social media, blasts or different mechanisms in order to inform the community of the group of the meetings?

We'd be using the city uh the Department of Human Resources would help push that information out through your normal channels.

Okay, and so we would rely heavily on that because it's used already.

Commissioner Scott.

Would that also include the newspapers?

We could probably do that, but I I don't know that that would be as fruitful as your other sources, but we can certainly talk about that and be open to that.

I'm sure it will be picked up by the media, and so it will be publicized.

I'm sorry, sure.

Yes, I was just thinking of uh the Sunday paper, since a lot of people do read that one.

That's the biggest paper, uh, one of the biggest uh uh public medias that people utilize, especially seniors, so just want to make sure we outreach to everybody and uh also what are the five languages that you uh plan to do them in.

I knew you would ask that.

Oh yes, I have to know.

Yes.

Um so this was what was done previously, so we did Spanish, Russian, uh Vietnamese, Chinese, and Tagnolog.

I took all of that.

I'm afraid I know how to say that.

So those are the five languages.

If there are others, um that would be again we would rely on city staff to assist us in that regard.

So yeah, I asked because I know we have a large population of Ethiopian Citrian, uh, the Trian community.

So I'm just wanting to.

Yeah, I would have to work with AHR.

Uh previously what they did, they took the questions and they got those translated.

And then we know it's question number one, we know what that response is.

But we're happy to add whatever uh needs to be added in that.

Thank you so much.

Well, thank you very much for being here tonight.

We look forward to working with you.

See you on the thirteenth.

Thank you very much, appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right.

If you would like to make public comment regarding light item six, search and selection process for chief of police.

Please come to the podium.

I'd like to make one comment on the selection process.

I I've just heard tonight a lot of talk about the value of community input.

We've had a dozen Latino families in the tender line who couldn't stay here much longer because it's already 7 30, you know, after 7.

And I mean, I think the hope the commission is considered if you want community input, you need to organize your schedules to ask those kind of questions after the community that came here as spoken.

Because you're talking community input and depriving people who you've seen them leaving of community input.

Think about that when you do your next meetings.

And not just you, it happens with other bodies, but I mean hearing so much emphasis on trying to get community input while the private in the process when they're all gonna meet with you individually, and so many had to leave.

It's it's it's nice.

They have kids, they have families.

The women the women of the tenderloin who want to talk about why we need to change the boundaries of the district, can't be here to do so because you've gone on and on and on around a process that's way in the future.

So think about community and put the real version of it.

Thank you.

I echo his sentiments too.

Um I'm hoping that the next police chief will be as sin as sensitive as Chief Scott was to us mothers who've lost our children to homicide.

We need that too, because we're gonna continue to be coming through this police commission.

We uh we have been through different uh police chiefs.

I know I have been to different police chiefs throughout the years.

And so I'm hoping that this next police chief.

Um I'm I'm not sure why you're not gonna be police chief, Paul yep, but that's okay.

Um so and I also wanna uh recognize uh uh London's Breeze mother.

Our condolences to her mother.

She passed away.

But um so I'm hoping that we do get this uh new police chief and and um that he do write by the community and we do see that most of the community was here today, and most of them have left.

I do echo what Maddie Commissioner Scott said that we need to have this at the NAACP, uh uh each uh at here and bring them here again in the rotonda, wherever, so that people like myself and others can comment as well.

So get the publicity out there, like she said in the Sunday newspapers, um uh the media, you know, so that will help.

That will help out.

So thank you.

Sorry.

That concludes public comment.

Line item seven, discussion and possible action to adopt SFPD's revised district boundaries map.

Discussion and possible action.

Okay.

Mr.

Cunningham, go ahead.

All right.

Uh good after or good evening, uh, President Clay, uh, interim chief, yep, uh, executive director Henderson, uh, and commissioners.

My name is Jason Cunningham.

I am a program manager from the Strategic Management Bureau of the San Francisco Police Department.

Uh I'm here this evening to just present a brief update on the boundary analysis map.

Uh my team has been working this project since roughly March of last year.

Um, and I am just here to present a quick update based on a request we received from the commission about a month and a half ago.

So if we want to go to the slides.

Awesome.

And uh next one.

Or if I need to click, let me.

I gotta click.

Okay.

Um so just a brief uh review of the timeline.

So the uh boundary analysis kicked off in March of 2024, and we spent uh almost all of 2024 working with stakeholders, running analyses with an external contractor, uh, and coming to the police commission uh at the end of the year, submitting a final proposal from the SFPD, and then presenting on that proposal on the 19th of February to all of or to some of you uh here at the police commission uh again earlier this year in February.

So that final proposed map had five changes on it, uh labeled here A through E.

Uh, some are relatively small, some are a little bit big.

Uh for a full description and discussion on those changes, uh, we would recommend uh taking a look at the presentation we made on the nineteenth of February to this body.

Uh we also have a 94-page report on SFPD boundary analysis.com, which is a lot, but all one word.

Uh and that also goes through kind of step by step how we arrived at this point.

So roughly uh a month and a half ago, uh we received a request from the commission to take a look at some additional changes, uh, and to map those out.

So I have that uh presented here for you, uh, numbered one through four.

Um my team is currently going through a similar process that we went through uh when we developed the prior map.

Um so we're looking at the quantitative analysis for these particular changes.

So how many calls for service fall inside of these changes, how many fall outside of these changes.

Um, and we'll continue to do that over the next 30 days or so.

So the next steps for us uh are to continue to collect internal feedback uh from the SFPD, so uh from our uh command staff from our captains, uh bring them our quantitative analysis around what the numbers look like based on where these potential shifts occur.

Uh doing that review of the data and those uh internal discussions, uh we'll return to you again in September uh with final proposals and then look to the commission for any decision they make at that time or at a time of the commission's choosing uh for department implementation.

Uh I would flag uh the admin code does have an 18-month shot clock that started in February.

So there is a little bit of a timeline here.

So towards about this time next year, a boundary will have to go into a boundary change if there is a boundary change, will have to go into effect.

Um from an implementation standpoint, uh giving the department some time to make sure that we are able to train all of our folks, get all of our mapping systems up to date, get all get all of our data systems up to date, get the Department of Emergency Management, which dispatches our folks up to date.

Happy to answer any questions.

Very quick update.

Thank you.

Commissioner Benedict.

Thank you so much, Mr.

Cunningham, for that updates.

I'll keep my uh responses short and open up to my fellow commissioners.

So we do want to hear from the community.

I want to thank the department for making these additional changes.

These came, I had the privilege of serving as the commissioner that was primarily tasked with the boundary analysis projects.

I see a lot of familiar faces in this room of folks I've met with over these last years.

And I think that there was a lot of community feedback around there being more changes than were in the initial final proposed map.

I'm pleased to see that a number of the these have been distilled into the four changes currently present in the commissioner requested analysis map.

And I think that a number of these changes uh I definitely support.

I'd also like to thank in addition to the community groups here, um District East Supervisor Danny Soder, I know, is here tonight, uh, who has been very active in working with me closely on this process and as well as fielding comments from his own constituents.

And uh as I understand it, I'm sure he'll clarify that this map has uh Commissioner Sader's support as well, the support of uh Commissioner Sherrill uh and Commissioner Mahmoud, and so that's uh gratifying to see as well.

Um, and um with that I uh I look forward to hearing community feedback uh both tonight and over the coming uh weeks.

Look forward to my fellow commissioners reaching out, and the plan is to have this for a final vote uh in uh soon after at your return in September, so we can give the department as much implementation time as they can.

And with that uh that concludes my comments.

I'll see if anyone, any of my fellow commissioners have comments.

If not, I'm eager to hear from the community.

Hear from the community.

Oh, I do also want to acknowledge Commissioner Techie, who, before being on the commission, uh has always been an active uh participant in this process and is one of the many tremendous, hosted one of the community meetings, attended Lone Housing Clinic uh many months ago.

So thank you, Commissioner.

Community's way too long enough.

Let's come let's get them there.

Come on, come on.

If you would like to make public comment, please come to the podium.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, you're gonna get our microphone.

Yeah, do we have the mic?

We have a there's a lower mic, there's a lower mic.

I'm with CCSROC, to the SRO collaborative as a disaster preparedness coordinator.

Tonight I'm here to talk about boundaries.

2005, 2015, 2025.

All three 30 years, same thing comes out of all of one accomplishment is what we hope to get.

Balance the workload, improving response times, and addressing staffing needs.

One solution and only one solution.

We got to hire more people.

We do.

It doesn't matter what about what the boundaries look like.

I ran my numbers last night within the boundaries.

You want to talk about response time?

You have a computer system there that allows people to input reports online.

Fifty-seven fifty-seven percent of the reports for 2025, we're done online, but they're counted in the calls for service.

How?

That's like double dipping.

You can't say that you need to change boundaries.

But we're getting nothing for it.

We gave you a proposed map for the TOs.

That's what the TOs need.

People left here tonight because they had to go home.

They don't feel safe getting back home.

That's why we want our boundaries back.

We don't need to be.

Let us do this.

Let us help you.

That's what we're there for.

We don't need to be the last ones that you come to seek out every time.

Thank you.

Oh, one more thing.

Sorry, 60 signatures of residents from our community that supports our proposed map.

60.

I got more at the office.

Thank you for your public comment.

Can we collect those and put those on our website as well?

Good evening, commissioners.

My name is Kathy Vaughn.

I'm a nine-year resident of the Tenderloin.

I am also on the safety committee for the Central City Collaborative.

I am here tonight to ask that you would consider the map that we submitted.

This neighborhood has lacked a police presence for a very long time.

This neighborhood has been plagued with so many issues for such a long time.

I was afraid to leave my apartment to go to the store or even to walk my dog.

It seems like it was getting better, but now I'm seeing the same issues popping up.

As the current map shows, our tenderloin police are having to handle calls from areas outside of their district, leaving us with little or no police presence.

We are asking that that the police be in the tenderloin be able to police our district.

And once again allow the Tenderloin police station to patrol the Tenderloin.

Thank you.

My name is William Martin.

I've lived in San Francisco all my life.

I'm 71 years old.

For 22 years, I lived at the corner of Gary and Larkin.

Response time on a non-emergency situation from Northern Station is very slow.

People in the hotel where I live have to take two buses to get to Northern Station.

If they have a non-violent complaint, you know, they want to talk to the police department.

A lot of things have been said here today, and um about other issues, and I don't really understand it, but I think your new chief is within the department.

Thank you.

Good evening, uh commissioners.

My name is Clifford Gilmore.

Uh, I'm a program manager for the Center City SR Collaborative, which is the organizing department of Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and um I just want to highlight our involvement on this issue.

We started in 2015, uh, when the current map that's expiring, we work very closely.

We did extensive outreach with businesses in the tenderloin as well as residents, and so as we approach this new next decade, we want to make sure that we're we're looking for it, but at the same time, there's some there's some critical challenges that have occurred since the pandemic in the tender line, and one of those are open air drug markets as well as other safety issues, and the tenderloin has the highest percentage of children in the district.

I think some 30,000 children.

So the two demographic groups of children and seniors are the most vulnerable that are end up being victims or exposed to these challenges.

So the voice of this community in terms of the mapping, as Greg mentioned, we want you to really strongly consider and support the map that we have provided for you that changes the boundaries.

We have small business support, we have other elected official support, and it's just really time that the Tenderloin actually gets elevated on this issue of public safety by really valuing the input of those who have businesses here, who have put stakes down here, and the families and people who work in this community every single day.

We no longer need to have the resources of our officers be assigned or moved around where the tenderline needs them the most to elevate the quality of life for residents in this community.

So thank you so much.

We're looking for your support.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Charles Rathbone.

As a Southern District resident, I am of course concerned about reduced police services for residents if officers are deployed to Market Street.

But I have another concern, and it is public safety at and around the three major large venues in the Southern District.

Forty-plus years in the taxi business have impressed on me the great importance of the city's to the city's economy of the convention center, the ballpark, and the chase center.

I believe that diverting uh scarce police resources to Market Street uh will lengthen response times if and when uh problems arise at these enormously important uh venues.

So please uh keep the economic health of the entire city in mind as you proceed and please adopt uh the southern district boundaries as described in the final proposed map.

Thank you.

Good evening, commissioners.

My name is Bettina Cohen.

I live in the Southern District.

Please keep the Southern district boundaries as drawn on the final map.

Commissioners, my letter on this topic is lumped in with a bunch of letters on your website's 30-day correspondence page that have subject lines asking to keep Southern's border boundaries as drawn.

So, in a glance at the public record, one cannot see all the subject lines supporting the Southern District boundaries.

While crimes down citywide, Southern has experienced a 41.2% increase in crime since the beginning of the year.

Counter to the tenderloin's 27.6% reduction in crime.

With 104 officers, Southern is 46 officers short of capacity.

A lot of folks forget that Southern also covers Treasure Island.

Our densely populated and growing district sees tens of thousands of visitors per event to three event venues that are going to be vital to the city's economic recovery.

Commissioners, I'm worried we'll lose the neighborhood safe way at Forth and King due to repeated acts of vandalism.

If that safe way closes, it'll leave me and thousands of low-income neighbors who don't own a car in the lurch and leave a big empty commercial space.

We need more officers in Southern actively patrolling the entire district, not up on Market Street.

For these reasons and more, I respectfully ask you to rely on the logic of the final report and support the final map as it relates to the Southern District boundaries.

Thank you.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Chief.

My name is Danny Sauter, and I have the pleasure of serving as the District 3 supervisor.

Um, I'm here this evening to ask that you uh take a look at the September 2024 recommended map and make further changes that are more in line with that and more in line with the map that has been circulated by nearly a dozen community groups across the tenure loin and lower knobhill.

In particular, uh, two requested changes that I think are, you know, are really important that I want to call out.

The first is moving Central Station's boundaries west to Van Ness.

Um, I have heard Van Ness uh be described as uh a grand canyon of sorts, a barrier, uh, where officers from Northern will not cross Van Ness as often as they probably should.

Uh, and as a result, the many, many businesses on Polk Street are losing out.

We also have, of course, a number of turn restrictions on Van Ness.

So again, acts as a barrier, and all of the businesses along Polk Street are impacted.

Additionally, I want to advocate for extending tender line station north to Sutter Street.

I believe that the calls for services that we're seeing in Lower Knob Hill are really more emblematic of the work and the expertise that rely or that exist within tenderline station.

I think that uh change makes all the sense in the world.

My request here, I think, as you'll hear this evening, is shared by a number of community benefit districts in the area, a number of incredible nonprofits and neighborhood associations.

This particular change was described in a publication as the single most important thing that San Francisco can do today to take action on our drug crisis.

And it is, as you know, a 10-year opportunity.

And I understand you have a lot of other things going on, but I think, especially with the shortage, we have to be creative about the things that we can control in this immediate near term, and this is one of them.

I ask for your support on these changes.

Thank you.

Good evening, commissioners.

I'm Alice Rogers.

I'm a 32-year resident in Southern District, and I'm here as president for the South Beach Rincon Mission Bay Neighborhood Association.

Our neighborhood has participated in this process throughout at all of the public touch points, and we support, and with each new map that has been floated, we've discussed it with our captain so that we could understand the implications of the different maps.

We support the process, and the proposed map is put forward in the final report, according to the data included in the report and the valuation of the command staff.

The map is the best effort to treat all districts equitably, leaving no district in worse condition than currently exists.

That is not to say that any district is substantially improved.

Current staffing levels leave us all disadvantaged.

According to the recent crime data report, as reported earlier, and as Patina said, um, throughout the all of the districts, including the tender line, um crime is down 28%, except when you go to the report and click on only Southern, it's up 42%.

So with Southern's 104 officers uh covering a district that's close to or more than four times the tender line, it's not really a surprise.

The recommended map that is being widely supported in letters has been reviewed already against the data and police operating criteria by the command staff and has been rejected.

Southern staff um could not meet its obligations and it would divide our neighborhood into two districts, which is anesthetical to keeping communities together.

But it seems that the process has now shifted away from performance metrics and into the political.

As a longtime admirer of Thank you for your public comment.

As a long time admirer of the tender line and its community leaders.

Thank you for your public comment.

Good evening, commissioners.

My name is Adam Sydenham, and I'm the general manager at the San Francisco Proper Hotel.

Um I'm here to offer off full support in the proposed boundaries and the new proposed map.

Uh we operate at the intersection of Mark and Jones, a corner that has become emblematic of San Francisco's most visual urban failures.

Open air drug markets operate in plain sight.

At Market and 7th, fencing operations thrive in broad daylight.

These are not occasional flare-ups.

They are daily realities that have created a corridor of lawlessness, drawing repeat offenders and fueling what has become criminal tourism into the tenderline.

We also believe that the conditions we are seeing are not inevitable.

They are driven by opportunity and enabled by inaction.

The fencing operations at Market and Seventh are not just symptoms.

They are engines.

They create a direct incentive for theft, drug activity, and organized crime behaviour that flows in and out of this corridor daily.

When those revenue streams are disrupted, the behavior begins to disappear.

It is not about enforcement, it is about eliminating the economic ecosystem that allows this cycle to persist.

What this area needs most is the sustained presence of beast officers, officers who are accountable to a smaller footprint who know the individuals on the block and who can disrupt the patterns that have taken root.

Visibility matters, so does familiarity.

It is one of the few proven methods to counter and counter deep entrenched street level crime and the sense of impunity that defines this area of the city.

While I recognize and understand the challenges that we have from a staffing standpoint, I do truly believe that there are other areas of the city that aren't representing the challenges that we have.

I would really like to encourage us to look at redeploying some of these uh resources so we can impact change in our area just a few blocks away from where we're currently meeting.

I was really saddened to learn that the Phoenix Hotel has decided to close its doors at the end of this year, unless we can't for your public comment there.

Sorry.

Thank you for your public comment.

Thank you.

Can I start this?

Good evening, Commissioners and Chief.

I'm Gloria, program manager for Tenderloin Housing Clinic in La Vos Latina.

I'll be assisting with the translation.

And let's pido que me proposte Nasoma for Nostakitando.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Didima.

I'm a resident of the tenderloin in a participant for La Voice Latina.

I'm here requesting to please review the proposal of the new map, and to please remove Soma from the jurisdiction of Tenderloin, because it's taking away a lot of the resources that the tenderloin needs.

And every day I had to figure out how to work the sidewalks with my daughters, how when I take them to school, for favor for Missijas, he for Thomas.

And please we want to see those changes.

Thank you for listening.

Every night that I get up from work at midnight, there's always uh user sellers on the street, and it's very unsafe.

I had two others, and that's the reason I'm here.

The streets are in terrible condition, and they're getting worse.

We need to have resources, we need to have the police.

Uh uh, we need to have the TL police uh ready to uh respond to our needs.

Okay, so I think these are all the comments from uh we have more residents from the TL.

I think uh please uh review uh the map is 10 years.

This is the opportunity.

Uh the city has changed ever since the pandemic, so and we need to I think the uh what the new proposal aligns with the community needs, and I believe that Soma will be great if we can have more attention to DTL.

We know that there is a great need in the neighborhood.

Thank you for your time.

Good evening, my name is Rosa Alvarado, and I'm a resident of the tenderloin for more than 30 years.

And it was really bad when I came, and now it's looking to me worse, and I'm gonna translate for Miriam.

But necessitamos in nuestra community.

Las calles are completamente llena de gente drogada, gente borracha, y nuestros niños, nuestros ancianos andos no podemos vivir in esta situation.

Pero si tenemos la pollo de la policía, porque solamente trabajamos con dos policias y abarcamos muchas skinas trabajando.

Gracias.

Okay, her name is uh Miriam, and she lives uh she lives in Soma, but she works uh for more than 16 years.

Uh she has been working with uh La Voz Latina and also she works for TLCBD and the Safe Passage program.

You know, a lot of things around uh the streets, a lot of people not, I mean, do drugs, sell drugs, and it's not safe, especially when she's in the corners crossing the kids.

Um, it's not safe for the families and for the kids.

Uh please consider this uh this uh opportunity uh to change things in the tenderloin.

Tenderloin is a very beautiful community full of seniors, full of families, children.

Please consider this.

Thank you.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Uh Chris Schulman, Lower Polk Community Benefit District.

Uh I'm one of the uh my organization is one of the organizations that signed on to a letter that you received, and I'm proud to stand with Central City SRO, UC Law, Tenderloin CBD, Lower Polk Neighbors, LaVoz Latina, Lower Polk, pardon me, Lower Knob Hill, Neighborhood Alliance, O'Farrell Neighbor Group, and Tenderloin Business Coalition.

We all signed a letter that you received, and we provided a map that we all supported, but I do want to acknowledge that that map is really in line uh with the commissioner uh recommend uh commissioner map that you uh put forward, and and I'm I'm I my organization is very supportive of that map that you're now analyzing and that you're looking at and hopefully we'll move forward with.

The tenderloin uh needs to be heard, should be heard.

I'm proud to live in the tenderloin uh and work in the tenderloin.

And um, I'm also proud and thankful that our politicians are with us.

I don't think it's a political pro I don't think it's been politicized, uh, but I am proud that they're with us.

They listen to us, uh, and I'm very hopeful uh that that you all will continue to hear our voices.

I I I I think you have, and I hope you continue to uh as this continues in the police department analyzes uh changes change and moving things around and and uh adjusting deployments of officers is difficult and it takes it takes work and it takes effort, uh but for this community it's worth it, it's worth it for us, and it's gonna be worth it for the city.

So thank you so much, hi good evening.

My name is Maria Sanabria.

I work for uh Tedro Housing Clinic and La Voz uh Latina program.

So I'm here today as both as a tenderloin resident and someone who works in the community, speaking on behalf of this uh uh tenderloin residents who call this neighborhood home.

The tenderloin is made up of families, children, seniors, and hardworking individuals, including many who were night chiefs and go home late at night.

The tenderloins face real and ongoing safety issues, and we need a strong visible police uh presence to protect our community.

So we deserve a safety plan that uh truly reflects our needs.

I also want to say clearly uh SOMA should be removed from the tenderloin uh police station's coverage area.

The tenderloin already has many challenges, and our station needs to stay focused on our neighborhood.

We ask you to prioritize safety in the tenderloin.

So we live here, we work here, and we care about this community.

Thank you.

My name is Johanna Ramirez, a leader de la voz Latina y the Tenderlook Housing Clinic, and resident the uh beautiful neighbor.

Presentamos un mapa de seguridad, construido a partir de nuestras experiencias diarias.

Proponemos que este mapa staya considerado como una herramienta para fortalecer la securidad mediante la participación vecindal y la recopilación de datos precisos.

Este mapa representa nuestro compromiso con el bienestar collectivo.

Eso apoyará las necessidades actuales de nuestro vecindario.

Okay.

As a resident and organization, as a resident and organizer in the tenderloin community, including the I'm I'm including the Latino voice at the tenderloin housing clinic.

At the present and safety map built in our daily experience.

And I'm requesting to please uh remove uh the SOMA, the SOMA, under the TL uh police station.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello again.

Can you hear me?

Yes, my name is Dr.

Miller.

I'm a long-time resident here in San Francisco, having worked for 35 years.

Thank you.

I don't want to have a neck injury.

Thank you.

Yes.

Yes.

My name is Dr.

Miller.

I've been a longtime resident.

I'm here at San Francisco for 35 years, taking care of more patients and police officers in all conditions.

San Francisco General Hospital when they come in for whatever condition, no judgment, it's a privilege to have them taken care of the thousands of patients, and that is our duty and obligation.

However, everyone who is a public, I shouldn't say servant, but maybe I should say servant like myself, including all of you and police officers have a duty to do no harm and help everyone in this city, and that includes following the law.

And unfortunately, we have seen only a deterioration in the safety and the well-being of everyone in this community, including the police officers who have dedicated their lives and been putting harms away to take care of people.

And we owe it to everyone to respect and do everything we can to help and support them.

I support the redistricting of the area in the tender line, but I have only seen a deterioration and a worsening of crime in the area.

I think redistricting is one important aspect, but it's not a cure all.

Because that is a current division, the police officer will come from the tender line and say, Oh, we cannot help on that side of the street because that's not our district.

You need to call the police station.

I see we have an open crime going on here.

You need to call for the police department.

So this is a concern for me.

The other thing is that we can't let district limit us that police officers in their line of duty need to help us.

Yes, sir.

I just like to finish up quickly and say also that we have to look at the resources.

Thank you, sir, for your public comment.

I really respect an increased number of police officers in that area.

This is going way too long here, and we all need help.

Thank you for hearing the help.

Thank you, sir.

Good evening, commissioners.

My name is Rihanna Baylard, and I'm the chief operating officer from UC Law San Francisco.

Uh, and I'm here in support of the revised map, and I want to acknowledge and appreciate the work of the commissioners in responding to the concerns of the tenor loin community, in particular, Vice President President Benedicto, and the time that you've spent with the community.

I will share that I think that it is specifically because we have such limited resources and staffing right now, why these changes are so critically important.

We have limited staff and so we need to deploy them effectively, and having the TL station be able to focus on the tenderloin is key to doing that.

The other thing I would say is you all obviously, as discussed earlier, have a really critically important decision to make with respect to the incoming chief of police.

That said, this decision has that level of criticality as well for the neighborhoods, particularly because this is going to be our only opportunity for the next 10 years.

So thank you so much for your consideration and all the work that's been done.

Hello, my name is Ian Cole McCatron.

I'd first like to acknowledge my gratitude for the opportunity to speak my mind in this beautiful building in front of you all.

You've all been very kind in taking public comments, and I think that's very important.

I'm very grateful for that.

Um I own and operate Nerding Incorporated and Golden Gate Molders, both located in Soma.

Um we design and build advanced medical devices, robots, and then I are also the largest injection molding company in San Francisco.

We're also the only injection molding company in San Francisco.

Um so um I'm here to speak.

I think that a couple things um we've been talking about the redistricting about the lines, and I think that's a red herring.

I don't think that matters at all.

Everybody here is not advocating about lines on a draw on a map.

They're here to advocate for safety in their neighborhood, and that's what they want to see change with.

I think that we need to tear down the lines and remove the lines and work to advocate, figure out ways where other districts can help.

Because I don't think it's a geography problem.

I think it's a time problem.

When you see um big events in in Soma at the Chase Center at Oracle Park, those are time-related, right?

And so maybe at during those times we have other police officers from all around the city flexing into this area.

Maybe there's some other times in the tenderloin where it's really bad, 2 a.m.

Saturday night, something like that.

And maybe we bring other officers, other resources from the rest of the city and flex over there.

And I think that's the conversation that we should be having.

And rather than put all the time, energy and effort into talking about lines on a map, I think we should put time, energy, and effort into figuring out how to get police officers in the right place at the right time.

Um I have a personal anecdote.

Unfortunately, I had to call the local police office uh police department three times this last weekend in the southern district.

And uh one time I called midnight on Saturday night, and it's not that it took a long time for an officer to respond, an officer never came.

They never came out, they never called back.

I waited up all night and I woke up in the morning and I called 911 again, and then an officer came out that day.

And so it's not it.

Thank you so much.

Have a good night, everybody.

Yeah, Randy Shaw again, Tenderloinhouse and kind of probably tired of hearing me by this point, but uh I want to just make a couple points, which is that first, some of the speakers say we ought to keep Southern Station together.

Well, our proposal keeps it together.

Right now, Southern Station is divided.

When you see Trinity Plaza, the building at Trinity Plaza, which is front sun market and goes down.

Why is that part of that?

I think once it gets to mission, it's in Southern Station, but the other most of the building becomes in tenderloin station.

The current blinds are illogical because Market Street is not an easy division.

So South of Market and Mission should be on the same network.

This it doesn't make any sense.

And I think if you look at Henry Carnillis's Carnolitz is the head of Samba, his letter, the South and Market Business Association, he explains that it the current boundaries are more confusing for Southern Station because it missions on one side and half and around the corner is a different one.

I also want to remind the commission why is there a tenderloin station?

Why did Mayor Agnos feel under pressure from the community to create a tenderloin station in 1989?

Because the tender one had a high crime rate, and we were relying on Central Station and Northern Station, which were nowhere near the tenderloin.

So we created a station and we bought a building at Eddie and Jones precisely so we have a micro focus on the tenderloin.

And then Greg Sir, Chief Sir in 2015 says, Well, you know, I don't care.

I don't think tenderloin, we're gonna create a new station, we're gonna take the tenderloin station down to Mission Street and Third Street and 9th in mission.

That made no sense.

We turned out 300 people opposing it.

The community was unified.

He didn't care.

And now we have our first time chance in 10 years to rectify that terrible error which has depleted the tenderline of its necessary police force.

So please approve the map that you're on the track, keep the tenderline together and keep us have our officers keeping people safe.

Thank you.

Hello, Commissioners.

My name is Billy Allen.

I live and work in the tenderloin.

I echo what Randy says.

And I joined O'Farrell Neighbors Group a year ago and decided that I wanted to walk through my neighborhood, and I wanted to be a part of my neighborhood.

And it makes no sense to me that Geary Street, for example, one side, the south side is one is tenderloin, and then the north side is something else.

A22 Geary is the Crestwood uh center that's supposed to help people, whereas now the 700 block of Ferrell is completely overrun by drug sales.

And there's not a presence there to to take care of that.

So it's just disruption that happens.

And that's all that happens.

So these pockets of open air drug use just get moved around.

Dodge Alley is a perfect example of something that's happened that's good for the tenderloin, but yet it's just somewhere else now.

So I think giving the tenderloin the resources it needs and not diluting it by making them go down to Westfield or Powell and Market to take care of something that's happening.

I mean, I think we need to be fluid, but we also need to be strategic about what needs to happen in the tenderloin.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Happy to be here.

Good to see you, acting chief, Director Henderson, Commissioners.

Hopefully, I can talk about something that hasn't been talked about.

You can see by my garb that I represent TLCBD, you know where we stand.

Randy took some of my thunder, because I wanted to make sure that you didn't forget 15 10 years ago what we were promised.

And what I would say that we're dealing with is next time.

This happens to the Tinderloin all the time.

Next time we'll take care of you.

We got you next time.

We're gonna build this thing here, and then we're gonna build it somewhere else.

And then it never happens.

Commissioner Benedicto listened to the community, and one of the things that stood out there that hopefully he's already brought up to you that came up is that what we're missing in the process is a back and forth.

We know that Southern has an issue.

That's D6.

That's we're that's part of our DNA, right?

D5, right?

Tenderloin, we know that there are issues there.

There needs to be a back and forth about how we deal with the issue.

The other thing I'll point out, and I brought this up at the focus group that was organized by the um the outside uh folks, and I had some issues with the data.

When we're looking at data to make a decision about you make this change, it's gonna cause this issue over here.

So if we're looking at 2019 to 2023, oh my gosh, is that really telling us the right story?

I know we got to choose somewhere, and I know it's going to be hard.

So, what I'm really encouraging is this back and forth to figure out how we deal with this issue.

We know a station that's all the way near Chase Center can't get up to mission, but you already heard Tinderloin will lose again.

Till next time.

That concludes public comment.

All right, Sergeant, next member on the agenda, line item four.

Oh, you want to say hold on.

Sorry.

Commissioner Techie would like to speak, she didn't push the pressure button.

Go ahead, please.

I actually wanted to thank all the community members who showed up from Tenderloin, uh Lower Knob Hill and also from Lower Polk.

Um I concur with a lot of what you all said.

Um I was in this position 10 years ago, 2015.

I remember very clearly Susie Loftus was the then the president.

We did turn out 300 people.

We're very unified as to what we wanted for our neighborhood, but we did not.

I understand I'm I'm in the commission here, I have to represent the whole city, but I do think Tenderloin needs to get its fair share, and I really appreciate Commissioner Benedicto basically heard several community members in several meetings, and you put put forward this pro there's a commissioner-assisted map, which definitely represents the need of the community.

And I hope our fellow commissioners, my fellow colleagues, will understand and hear the concerns and will do us the justice that we deserved 10 years ago, because I'm looking forward to next 10 years, and hopefully we won't be crying like this the next year.

So I hope and I hope to get your support in this.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Yes, I too want to thank the community for coming out in full force about this issue.

It is serious, and we hear you loud and clear, and thank you, Commissioner Benedicto, for all that you've done, and you also, Commissioner Techie, for um addressing these issues.

Um I uh resident of the Fillmore community.

We had the same problem um in the female community with Northern Station, which we were under uh park station, and because of our efforts like you, we got the problem resolved.

So I'm very hopeful and very grateful that we have uh city leaders like ourselves and others that hear you loud and clear um about this issue about safety, because safety is our number one priority for the whole city, for the police department, for us, and for our city leaders.

Um it's been that way for a long time.

Yes, crime has gone down, but crime is uh still up in some areas, and I my heart goes out to you, mothers.

I know uh we had the same problem in the Fillmore, um, you know, doing the drug epidemic with the crack cocaine era.

Um I lost my youngest son to the violence, and a lot of the mothers did too.

So my heart goes out to each and every one of you, and uh we're here to listen at you and uh you're for the best solutions, and thank you for the map and all the work and efforts that you put into this and continue to do what you do.

Your voice is powerful, and we need that.

We want our cities to be safe, we want our children to be safe.

So we hear you loud and clear, and thank you all for coming, and let's continue to keep up the good work and work together as a community shared.

Thank you.

Commissioner Yee.

Thank you very much there, President uh Clay.

I just want to also thank the community for coming out advocating for this map and what you want.

I truly believe that I work in the city for 40 years and work in and out at the 10 loins.

I seen it, been probably in your homes there and about working the service side.

So it's a struggle uh day in, day out there.

Uh I want to thank uh Vice President Um Commissioner uh Kevin Penoteco for putting forward this map, meeting with the community and uh Commissioner Techie for all your hard work in the community.

So in saying that I'll be supporting this uh map.

Thank you very much.

I want to thank you all for coming out here tonight.

Everything you said is very important, and it's it's being heard.

And the idea that uh you've waited this long, and the same promises have been made to some of you, and no one has ever acted on those promises, that's not right.

So we got to look at these things.

We gotta look at it sharply.

Look at what's important, the mere fact that you have the largest number of children in the city and concentrate in that area.

That's very important.

So it's not over.

We're gonna look at it, we're doing analysis, but I can guarantee you we are going to look at this problem and make it right.

Okay.

Thank you for being here tonight.

Sergeant line item four, DPA director's report.

All right, uh good evening.

I know we have a long uh presentation with the public presentation as well as part of my presentation, so I will abbreviate uh my standard report.

I'm only abbreviating the summary, all of the records and statistics are still contained in the publicly notified documents that uh are already in the record.

Uh our complaints increased.

Uh this week, we received 16 new cases.

Uh our year-to-date total is still significantly higher right now than it was this time last year.

Um the complaints that we've received uh this week from last week are spread around amongst all of the districts, and there don't appear to be any singular incident in a specific district.

The top allegation this week was for conduct unbecoming or for behavior regarding speaking inappropriately.

In terms of the highlights for the week, in terms of what the agency has also been doing, our staff presented a DPA 101 with a focus on limited English proficiency and the language access network.20 that's going into concurrence, just to connect the dots on it.

We have the interns are here, and you're about to hear from them, so I will wrap this up.

But we have no items in closed session, and there are obviously a number of people that are here already lined up from the agency to introduce themselves to you.

Also, our senior investigator Brent Vajan is here, and my chief of staff, Sharon Wu, is here for subsequent uh agenda items.

That concludes my report.

Well, I'm turning it over to the second part of the report for the internship program.

Do you want me to just continue?

Or do we take public record after that?

Can you hear you?

Should I just continue to do public record afterwards?

I couldn't hear what you're saying.

I got it, I got it.

Uh all right.

So at this time, I was just asking when I should do the public comment, but I'll continue with this, and then we can do the public comment because this is part of my presentation.

The public comment is part of your piece of no the interns as part of the report.

Correct.

That's not public comment.

Sorry, I thought he said.

So, are you turning it over to Ms.

Thompson?

Yes.

Ms.

Thompson.

Yes.

Uh good evening.

Uh President Clay, Vice President Benedicto, Commissioners.

My name is Tanetta Rocky Moore Thompson.

I am the senior trial attorney and director of recruitment and racial equity, and as well as good evening, Chief Yep and Executive Director Paul Henderson, as well as Sergeant Reynolds and Ms.

Singh.

I'm going to give everyone their introductions, and I'm going to make this quick.

Right here, I'm so pleased to announce our 2025 Law and Social Justice cohort.

And I want to thank everyone that's joining us in the community as well as virtually as well.

I just want to first say thank you to the police commission for supporting us over the years with our with our intern cohort.

Uh last week, actually, Vice President uh Benedicto spoke to our interns, and it they was a very lively conversation.

We do a weekly speaker series with different agencies, public and private sector, so they can see what it's like.

You know, you may have a law degree, you may come from a CBO, you know, a community-based outreach program.

We want to see where your law degree or maybe uh MSW or whatever you want to choose in life.

We're trying to open up that to professional development and diversity pipeline back into the city, which is why we have all of those agencies.

And I would also like to say that for the first time, we have two uh law clerks at the at police legal.

So this is the first time we've collaborated.

So I want to say thank you to actually Ashley Worsham, who was supervising them over there, and for our host agencies, we have eight host agencies this year, and we're continuing to strive and to instill professional development and again increase that diversity pipeline back into the city.

I'm also grateful to be part of this work through the support of our intern coordinator, Natalie Garcia, uh the Human Rights Commission through Black to SF and Opportunities for All, as these partnerships remain how we support our interns financially.

Because this is a volunteer position that we have at um there.

So we are very happy.

We couldn't do without those agencies and those host agencies, like the um like district 10, like the district attorney's office, like um PUC, environment, those are the agencies that are helping us each and every year, police legal that are helping us strive.

And so now the in the interns are going to do quick introductions, and um I'll take any questions that you may have after.

What's good, y'all?

My name is Adrian Sanchez Alvarez.

I'm a rising 2L at UC Law San Francisco, formerly UC Hastings.

I'm being hosted at DPA, and I'm just thankful for the opportunity to be here.

Hi y'all doing, my name is uh Jeremiah Johnson.

I'm placed at PUC, the Public Utilities Commission, recent graduate of Morehouse College, and a rising one uh Howard University School of Law.

Greetings, my name is Roxanne Mosley.

I'm a rising 2L at Southern University Law Center in Baton Ridge, Louisiana, and I'm currently interning with the DPA and Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure, and I'm also a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Omar Abdullah.

I'm a rising 2L at the University of San Francisco School of Law.

I am interning at DPA and the Office of Community Investment Infrastructure.

Thank you all for being here and uh letting us speak.

Good evening.

My name is Megan McKenney.

Thank you all for being here.

I'm a rising junior at Howard University, studying international affairs and education, and I'm placed at the environment department.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Israel Musa.

I am a recent graduate from Howard University, and I'm really happy to be interning in the District 10 office of the Board of Supervisors.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Sanaya Wright, and I am a rising junior at Howard University studying criminology as well as psychology, and I'm interning with the DPA as well as the Office of Cannabis.

Good evening.

My name is Le Jing Lin.

I am a rising second year at Cornell Law School, and I'm placed with Police Legal this summer.

Thank you for having us.

Good evening.

My name is Pendar Salemi.

I'm a rising 3L at UC Davis Law, and I'm interning with the San Francisco Police Department Legal.

Thank you.

Hi everyone, I'm Angela Liu.

I'm a rising sophomore at Dartmouth College, and I'm an intern at DPA.

Good evening.

My name is Lauren Kuo.

I'm a rising junior at UC Berkeley, and I'm stationed at the DPA.

Thank you for having us.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name's Nicole Evans.

I'm a rising second-year law student at the University of San Francisco School of Law, and I am currently hosted at the DPA.

Hello, my name is Madison Nance.

I'm a recent graduate of San Diego State University with degrees in political science and Africana Studies.

And I am currently working at DPA directly under Paul Henderson.

Good evening.

My name is Marquise McLeod.

I am incoming freshman at Howard University, and I plan on studying communications with a minor in political science.

And I currently intern with here at the DPA.

Thank you.

And was class validatorium.

Good evening.

I'm Vanessa Martinez.

I'm a recent graduate from Loyola Mary Mountain University with a degree in political science.

And my host site this summer is the Office of Infrastructure and Investments.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

My name is Ashley Kasmir.

I just recently graduated from Snowman College with a degree of political science, and I'm placed at Environment.

Thank you.

Good evening, everyone.

I am Desari Ware, a recent graduate of Spellman College Economics Major, Spanish Minor, and I'm placed at the Public Utilities Commission.

Oh, yeah, Public Utilities commission Center, and with the People Science and Business Partner Team.

Thank you.

Hi everyone, I'm Melinda Macaulay.

I'm a rising junior at Spellman College, majoring in sociology on the pre-law track.

And when I'm not at DPA, I'm at the environment department.

Thank you.

Good evening.

I'm Carmen Singh.

Uh, I'm a recent graduate from UCLA, and I am placed at the district attorney's office.

Thank you.

And you may notice that they're representing their different organizations or what they're proud of.

Today I'm representing Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated with mine.

Since Roxanne wanted to shout out her, so I'm going to represent mine.

So every Wednesday we have Spirit Wednesdays, and they represent their schools, the organizations, whether it be community, it would be their favorite sports team.

And you know, usually it's business casual with it, but today, because part of their professional development is the dress code.

So today it's business with spirit.

So that's why they're uh that's why you see them representing their schools and their organizations.

So thank you.

And this is really like a group effort.

This is like the biggest group project we have internally with NDPA from our exec staff, all to all the units helping and supporting, and through you all for you know, continuing in through the the city and county of San Francisco when these agencies that partner with us.

Without you all, we could not do this program every year.

We started off, we actually brought the first cohort in 2023 for HBCU cohort, and we were funded and got to stay at, you know, the first time we ever had one.

Last year they did like Black B2S F had like a bigger, more it expanded cohort, and we're glad to be a part of that again.

So just want to say thank you to everyone here today.

I think one of the things also that uh was going to uh Thompson.

Thank you.

Miss uh Thompson was going uh to represent for the interns that they are they have a project you want me to talk about.

You're talking about the project.

Oh, yeah, talk about the person you're talking about, yes.

Oh uh so the project that they are working on uh internally, the ones that are at DPA, they all have individual assignments all over the city and all of the different departments.

Especially right now with the economy and the budget shifting.

We really want to make sure that they have good experiences that will open the door for them to return back to some of our own agencies and come back to San Francisco inside DPA, they're working on uh policies and practices related to First Amendment activities that are outlined on DGO 8.10.

That's one of the policies just for the record that was last updated in 2009, uh, and the working group started meeting in July 2023.

So the project that they're working on is building on two of the prior DPA audits with the goal of developing recommendations to inform policy updates.

So uh and one we just recently thank you very much, Chief Yep, for participating in that process by giving us an assigned subject matter expert that's exactly tied to this ongoing project.

So thank you for engaging and helping with that project.

You'll hear more about the project as they wrap things up and finish, but I wanted to tell you all about it as a preview so you know the kind of real work that they're doing that's not only exposing them to our practices, but helping the commission and the department as well.

Thank you.

Well, it's great to see all you young people here this evening, all this this high energy.

It looks, you know, you youngsters are the next generation.

So we want you to have a great summer here in your projects and your programs and enjoy, enjoy the ride.

So thank you very much for coming.

Uh Commissioner Elias.

Yes, thank you.

Um DPA for presenting.

I always enjoy this part of the program, but I also want to again thank uh Ms.

Thompson for her work uh in this program because I think that one of the things she doesn't highlight and that we see and we've heard back feedback from the individuals who participate in this program is the life skills that I think that this also teaches, which is a lost form, such as what is business casual mean?

What is business attire mean?

Uh, most students don't really get that type of training or what to do in an interview, like essential life skills that I think carry them them out, and also too it's great to see you partner with the department and expose them and allow the department to benefit from from some of the free labor that you uh you have you had.

Um and I think it's really important to highlight that um in past uh classes such and also this class, I'm sure, they have contributed great amounts of knowledge and recommendations for the department, which the department has adopted.

So for those naysayers that say, Oh, you have time to do an intern program with budget cuts.

Um that's that's why this type of stuff is important.

So congratulations again.

So happy that you're here and and that these uh students get to benefit from your wisdom uh and working at DPA and other state or city agencies.

Appreciate you so much, Commissioner Crash.

I'm just filled with oh my god, to see so many young people, young women, and high numbers of color and young men.

Um you you answered my prayer tonight, just seeing you here and to hear all the um great work that you're doing.

So, hats off to you to the department.

Thank God we did it it didn't get cut.

Thank you, God, and all the HBCUs that are here.

Um that has been our prayer for a long time, to get people, young people, um, women and young men and women of color involved in law enforcement so that we can be part of the change um for better solutions in our nation.

And so seeing you all tonight, I'm just I'm I'm heart filled and and you made my my evening.

I have goosebumps all over me right now.

Just listen at each and every one of you and the colleges that you represent, Spellman, you know, Howard, um, Southern University, where my family come from.

I'm from New Orleans, so Southern University is our our school, you know, and how when my cousins all went to school, so it's just wonderful.

And anything that we can do to help you while we're here, or you know, feel free to don't to reach out to us.

And I'm just filled with gratitude and appreciate each and every one of you, um, because we need this.

We need this in our country, we need this in our nation, and we're gonna continue working hard to make sure that this program continues to go on so that we can have more people like you, and the future looks bright and wonderful seeing you all tonight.

So thank you and thank you, um, Paul, for all the work that you're doing, and everyone that's involved in this program and this process.

Thank you.

And just to be clear, it's them that do all the real work.

I thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks for that clarification.

Thank you, Commissioner Scott, for that.

That really means a lot to us.

This is our most diverse class as far as gender, sexual orientation, and underrepresented minorities.

So kudos to them for seeking us out too as well.

So, oh, yes, another another plus for San Francisco and what we do.

We set the stage for the nation show.

Thank you.

Yeah, thank you.

Commissioner Benedict.

Thank you very much, uh, President Clay.

I'll speak uh to the interns in a moment.

I just have one piece of business I wanted to uh speak to Director Henderson about from earlier in your report.

I know we talked last week, and I know it came up with in chief support about the final impact of the final budget on staffing.

Uh I know that we'll be uh I know there will be dark when the when sort of that final impact is laid out.

So if I could ask that you provide a written update to the commission staff so they could circulate it to among commissioners once you have a better sense of the final impacts uh on DPA staff.

I will, and uh not to echo the chiefs.

Yes, exactly.

I totally appreciate what you've got and ongoing.

It's still ongoing, but I assume it'll be resolved while we're in recess and but before but before we're back, and so I think I've really would appreciate a written update uh on on the impact while we're gone.

Absolutely.

Okay, thank you so much.

Uh thank you, Ms.

Thompson, for introducing us to the interns.

Uh as you said I had the privilege to spend the afternoon last Wednesday with interns is my third straight year participating in the speaker series.

It is the highlight of my summer.

I used to be a teacher as I told interns before I went to law school and getting to spend an afternoon to connect with the next generation of leaders was was truly a privilege.

Um I think this will be new to all our commissioners, but Commissioner Elias and Commissioner Yi.

Uh you will see them again virtually when they complete their presentation at the end of their summer, uh providing their DJO 8.10 recommendations.

They are always insightful and substantive, and um as I told them, no pressure, but the last two DPA intern presentations led to either DJOs being passed on disengagement or revisions onto DGOs on foot pursuit.

So hopefully we'll go three for three and get some concrete policy changes in response to their presentations.

We so look forward to that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you very much, President Clay.

Thank you, Ms.

Thompson, for bringing the interns in.

Real quick to the interns.

I don't think I need to say this, but just in case, just to be clear, don't be shy.

Commissioner Yi?

Yeah, excuse me.

Go ahead.

I don't have my thing.

It's not great.

Thank you, President Clay.

First of all, thank you for your presentation and all your work.

I want to congratulate you.

It takes a lot of courage to come up here and speak.

Uh in public and in front of this scary commission.

So job well done.

You know, finally, I love all your smiles.

Uh, I can tell that all of you are gonna have bright futures.

So thank you very much for sharing your um your names and your stories today.

So I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

We appreciate you, thank you.

Commissioner Yee.

Thank you very much, there, President uh Clay.

Again, thank you for selecting San Francisco, the great city of San Francisco.

Welcome.

And uh we wish you the best of luck here and um enjoy yourself.

Uh thank you, uh Ms.

Thompson for bringing uh such a uh great uh cast of uh leaders here and also thank you, our uh director uh Paul Henderson.

Every year you do it again, thank you.

Thank you guys uh so much for allowing us to make the presentation.

Thank you all for coming.

Uh as you can imagine, it's difficult uh for people, and sometimes people aren't so excited to make such a public presentation.

Um, but I think it helps uh in character building, and I think it helps in uh what they're learning to be able to share it and articulate it to an audience as prestigious as this.

Uh it really does make a difference, and I thank you for your time, especially on a night like tonight.

It makes me really happy that they get to see what I do every Wednesday night.

Uh but also uh I understand how precious all of your time is as well, and on a night like tonight that has a full and packed agenda that you take the time to hear from the young people as well.

It really does make a difference.

I started as an intern.

Tenetta started as an intern, and I think uh it shows in the program that we award-winning program that we were able to build.

Uh, and I appreciate all of your time.

But I also appreciate uh the folks that stayed here this evening to make the presentation.

So couldn't be prouder, and thank you.

Yes, and it goes to their professional development, them coming up there to speak, and that's what we're really trying to instill in them is their professional development, and that every person that they come in contact is another professional network that they're expanding onto in their careers.

So thank you everyone for expanding their professional networks tonight.

That extent, don't leave because Commissioner Scott wants to take a picture of all the yields together, and we're gonna take 10 minute 10 minute recess.

Okay.

Perfect.

All right.

Yeah, we need that both.

Okay, see, like, I think one.

Oh, public comment?

Oh, wait, do you want to take public comment on the item before we research?

I'm sorry.

Oh no, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Wait one moment, wait.

Thanks, public comment.

One moment to get public comment.

If you would like to make public comment regarding DPA report, please approach the podium.

I want to say congratulations to you also.

Um I wish that one of you or my children.

Uh I am a mother who've lost a child to homicide.

And, and I know your parents are very proud of you.

Who's ever taking care of you?

And I know they had a part with y'all being here also, as well as the people that are training you.

So, flourish in your lives.

I know you're young.

And and help your and and obey your mothers and fathers.

Here you go.

But uh, I just want to congratulate you myself.

I do have children left, and I am planning on my grandchildren being where you are.

So you will see me again with my grandchildren.

Okay, thank you.

Higher.

I just wanted to echo that and say it's a breath of fresh air after all of the drudgery and all of the doom and gloom that I was feeling, at least personally.

I don't think I'm alone in that, but I'll speak for myself.

I'm glad that you're here, but again, don't let the smooth taste fool you.

I'm glad you were in the trenches of this hearing.

I'm glad you heard the public comment.

I'm glad you heard the outcry.

I'm glad you know where your presence needs to be felt the most.

I am from the East Coast myself, rep in NYC, BK in the building all day.

And I came out here to school, and I have spent a lot of time in this building.

There are a lot of officials who don't want to see me waiting outside their offices.

So when you hear don't be shy, also make sure to keep your mind winning, keep your spine intact, and do not be afraid to get into good trouble.

Yes, make all the connections.

Yes, shake hands, you know, etiquette and all that and politess is nice.

But this is not a nice environment for the politics that are before you.

I'm so encouraged.

I'm old enough to be your parents now, but I'm so encouraged by your presence here, and I just really want you to be clear about the mission that you're on and how important it is that you are here right now, not just in this era, but tonight in this room.

This is the room where it happens.

Stay in those rooms and don't back down, period.

Isan Looper, Proud Mission Kid, Sacred Heart Cathedral Class of 89, Niners fan.

So uh, first of all, for uh executive director Henderson, uh you done did it again.

Um award winning, you already said it, I'll say it again, and so I am not surprised at what I'm seeing from these folks because I know that excellence attracts excellence.

So even though you deferred credit because you have somebody excellent doing excellent work, it is obviously something that that you strive for.

Um secondly, on the topic of the substance of your um uh weekly uh report.

Um I got an opportunity to meet with Jermaine Jones and Allie, whose last name I will not butcher.

They were also excellent.

They came to the CPAB meeting.

I'm also the co-chair of the Tinderloin CPAB, and one of the things that we talked about was the substance of your report.

I know it's changed over the years, and I wished that, and this is I think for the commissioners, I wish that I could learn more and understand more if there's a problem at my site.

One of the things you don't do anymore that you did do was it might be Tinderloin has 40% of the issues.

There were five bad reports.

I I can't know what's going on.

And then the other thing we talked about was when I look at the final report, it Tinderloin had the most complaints, but the most unsustainable report.

So do we have a problem?

I can't tell from listening to these meetings to know if I have a problem.

But again, until next time.

If I may, uh, those details are included in the report.

I just don't read through every single district.

If you look at what gets published in the forms, uh it's broken down literally, case by case for cases received and the last reporting period as well, and all the precincts.

I gave them my feedback because I have looked, and there were some discrepancies and some other issues when you look at the website and the other reports, but they will follow up with both of them.

Thank you.

Sorry.

Uh maybe if they could just line up here.

We'll take a 10 minutes in front of us.

So we will have a 10 minute recess.

Yeah, just like I'm sorry.

And we are back.

So we are on line item five.

Commission reports.

Thank you.

I'll keep my report brief since I know it's been a long meeting.

Just two items for me.

I know Chief Yep mentioned that in August eight through ten, we have outside lands that same weekend.

Uh, we also have the Piston Parade and Festival, which is the largest uh Filipino parade and festival uh in the United States, actually.

Um I know SFPD is registered a contingent, so I'm looking forward to having SFPD officers in it as well as the safety public safety officers provide.

Um, you know, earlier this year in Vancouver, there was that terrible attack at the Lapalapu festival in Vancouver, and I just want to make sure that SFPD is ready to, you know, that we have the the support that we usually have, which we've had for previous years.

So thank you for that.

Uh, and second is something I already mentioned to my fellow commissioners that I encourage you to take uh the time during this chief search to reach out to the community.

Uh I intend to do that during August and September, uh, and we'll keep my fellow commissioners apprised.

We're welcome to join me on uh as long as it's the right number of commissioners.

But uh, but uh I'll keep that those offers open as they come.

That's all for me.

If you would like to make public comment on line item five commissioner ports, please approach the podium.

Seeing that there is no public comment, next line item eight presentation on SFPD's disciplinary review board findings and recommendations first quarter 2025 discussion.

Good evening, uh Chief, yep, uh President Clay, Commissioners and uh Director Henderson.

Um my name is Lieutenant Lisa Springer, and I am in charge of internal affairs.

I'm here to present on the Q1 uh 2025 disciplinary review board findings with um chief of staff Sharon Wu, who I know you guys all know.

Good evening, everybody.

Nice to see you.

We're not as exciting as the interns, but we'll be quick.

Where's your pride, your spirit?

I know.

We didn't get that message, um, so the aggregate trends for Q1 for IAD, um, top one being conduct unbecoming with 24 allegations out of 28.24 percent, um, failure to appear range at 27 percent, neglect of duty general uh 21.18%.

Um there were so 67 cases open in Q1 involving 69 employees and the trends are calculated by the number of allegations, and there are 83 allegations.

Um, I know last time Commissioner Elias, you asked like what some of these were.

Um there was nothing really that stood out with them, but um, we did have our bias audit during this period, so a lot of the um conduct and becoming were from bias hits, so um in the email cell phones.

Uh there were also some with like personal personal um business off duty, um, or excuse me, personal business on duty.

Um, some of the neglect of duty had to do uh a lot of it was lost property.

We had a couple um sleeping on duty, um inappropriate email, like um replying all to everybody, uh failure to report to for duty and overtime violations.

So the uh DPA aggregate trends are generally what we see normally.

Um, uh conduct I'm becoming an officer, behavior, or spoken appropriately.

It was 12.5% of the allegations.

Uh neglect of duty, and generally that's body worn camera, failure to turn on your body worn camera.

Um, that's also 12.5%, and the failure to properly investigate cases.

So that's only 10%.

But that's generally what we see almost all the time as the trends that we that we have.

I love it.

A lot of ours uh for the neglect of duty having to do with body worn camera tagging and uploading.

Um, I believe we're going live tomorrow.

They did a pilot program at Ingleside, and I think one other station, but they're going live tomorrow with auto tagging, so that's gonna help that problem.

So there were zero IAD cases um that resulted in uh a policy or training failure this quarter.

So all the cases that you're gonna hear about tonight are um DPA cases.

So the um for quarter one, DPA had five cases that were policy failures and no training failure cases.

And I'm gonna ask um Lieutenant Springer to do the problem.

Um the first policy failures had to do, there were two cases that came in that had the exact same issue, and it had to do with burglary cases and the difference between what cases go to the burglar unit, when burglary unit does not take a case because they have a certain criteria of cases that they take.

Um, do they get they used to go to the SIT teams, the station investigations teams, but then they transfer that to general work.

Um, and there is no um connection really between a logging in process between those burglary cases to general work.

So there were several individuals who made burglary reports that could find no follow-up at all, and to see whether or not general work accepted those cases.

And so we found that to be a policy failure, that there need to be more communication between um the burglary unit and the cases that they would actually accept, and a uh process to log in cases going to general work so that they can so that individuals who filed a burglary report can determine if there's going to be any follow-up at all on their cases.

Because general work also has a criteria upon which they will actually do follow-up.

And I think that that was the failure that we saw that there just needed to be better communication and better tracking of the cases and better communications with the individuals who filed those reports.

And I believe it's currently being revised right now.

In this particular case, an individual was had an air pellet gun that was seized for safekeeping.

And there was no communication between where that air pellet gun would be kept, either property or the district station.

And so we are suggesting that the new 6.15 property processing DGO have a evidence cue on system where they can actually track where that information and the evidence is being kept, and that it's proper processing for safekeeping, not actual evidence, so that people will know where to go get their property.

This person was sent back and forth between the district station and the property room, and nobody knew where it was, and it hadn't been logged in anywhere.

So 1994 is a very long time ago.

We have the opportunity to create a better tagging system, and DPA will make some recommendations, although we haven't been specifically requested on 6.15 since it's an internal DGO.

We will make some recommendations about how to track and tag that information so that people will know where to get their property back.18, which is warrant arrests, and that also was has not been updated since 1994.

I believe it's on track to be updated.

In this case, 6.18 talks about general warrant arrests and how to serve those warrants.

This particular case was investigated by SVU, and a warrant was generated on an SVU case that was very involved, but it went to general warrant, the warrant bureau to be served rather than having some special service.

The warrant sat at CWB without the special victims unit trying to serve that warrant.

And so what we were are hoping in reviewing that DGO is that special divisions that do investigations that have special victims and or are long and involved processes, that we can get those units to actually serve those warrants.

In this case, the individual who was the neighbor learned of a warrant and fled.

He went to Texas for about six months, finally came back, the neighbors called again, and ultimately he was arrested.

But the victims in these cases were children.

So I think there needs to be we think there needs to be some special attention in the warrant service when there is a special unit that's doing the investigation, and we'll make those recommendations on guidance in 6.18 in those revisions.

And then the last one has to do with having more clarity in what a conflict of interest looks like.

In this case, and uh an officer assigned themselves a case where the victim was a friend of the family, a friend of the father's.

This officer didn't know the victim himself, but the victim was a close friend of the family.

And the complaint came out that that was a conflict and should have been reported to their supervisor, that there may be additional or special attention played in that part.

And that the officer should get better guidance, and potentially have it's better safe than sorry to give information to their supervisor if there's any connection at all between the victim and uh and the officer or the officer's family.

And that would be something that we would recommend within DGO 2.01.

So the recommendations that the board came up with for quarter one, the first one being um update department bulletin 18-027 and department bulletin 22-040, just to provide uh clear instructions to officers on how to log and track cases.

The second recommendation for DGO 6.15.

Um, as Sharon mentioned, it's currently being revised to ensure the prompt return of property for safekeeping, uh, these are the recommendations that DPA will probably add when the time comes.

Uh, provide guidance on when officers may seize and book property for safekeeping, um, also provide guidance on property booked, um, including this safekeeping and not just evidence, um, and like when it should be released to the owners, um, and also property control division identifying the members to release the property, whether it's the officers at the station or investigators, and also conform DGO 6.15 to evidence on cue as Sharon mentioned.

Recommendation three would be um to update DGO 6.18 with um the following um just provide guidance with who is in charge or responsible for serving warrants born out of SVU and provide guidance on when and how the officer serving the warrant should perform their duty.

Uh also provide guidance on what the officers should do once the warrant is served, and how and under what circumstances the victim of an offense is notified after the service of the warrant.

Um there was talk with former chief Scott, not putting all of that in the general order, but like unit order specific to the units, and some of them they do have uh unit orders already about warrant service.

Recommendation for um DPA suggests that the department publish a department notice or a bulletin to include clear guidance on what types of conflicts shall be reported again.

Um this was already mentioned.

OEI, the Office of Inclusion and Equity, they um took a look at all of the um allegations for quarter one, and they did not find um well they the only discrepancies that they did find were due to uh progressive discipline.

Um so no corrective action was recommended.

We still have to schedule quarter two DRB and then uh OEI will review all of that as well.

Is there any um questions?

Sorry.

Yes, I wanted to go back to uh where you um show the uh timeline of the information of the person who was arrested who who didn't the warrant wasn't served in time, and the person fled.

Yes.

I'm concerned about that because um, particularly we were dealing with that um in the homicide cases.

Not only that, some homicide cases, but also some sexual assault cases as well, um, where the person did not get arrested in time and were able to leave.

And um, I just wanted to know what's the time frame of that once the warrant is given or put out.

Um what's the time frame on that for issuing that warrant?

Um, I mean, you know, the person you said was able to flee.

So I'm really concerned about what what's the time frame of that once.

So if my memory serves me correctly, um there were actually two warrants issued in that case, um, two different investigators working on it, and it was uh several months uh before he fled to Texas.

Um, but some of that is just dependent upon the investigators and they have like criteria, I think, um, for when they do it.

Like it's really up to the units themselves and their caseload and information that they have, like where he is, and we all we also have uh the fret team, which the Chief Scott had brought up, they too can work on surveying warrants.

But yeah, it's really up to the investigator at the different units.

So you say it has to do with a lot of the caseload that that investigator has.

That's some of it, yes.

Okay, um, so do because I know uh a lot of issues have come up where we don't have enough investigators, and so this is one of the criteria or main reasons that we um, particularly victims, um, say that we definitely need more investigators when it comes and and particularly with serious crimes, homicide, violence, stalking, rape cases, and things like that.

That that should the time frame in that is very crucial um within you know 48 hours speaking.

So we should have enough investigators to make sure that someone that you're trying to arrest does not get away.

Uh we've had a lot of cases where that happened, and the suspect wind up harming someone else.

So that's the area that I'm really concerned about, and just wanted to hear your input on that, um, in that area.

So thank you.

They also a lot of the investigators will send the email out to like all of patrol, so um, in some cases, like when they can't find them, that that has been very helpful as well.

So they send it to all patrols so it's not just the investigators that have to try and serve warrants either.

Yeah, I'm just uh was concerned about the prioritizing the different uh cases, you know, and as I said, homicide being one of them, sexual assault, uh child abduction, things like that, uh what's the criteria or or um the time frame um in those areas to me those are very very I mean all uh crime is uh important to me, but particularly in those cases, this guy got away.

He was able to get away before, you know, and then he comes back and you know um again, and then the same neighbor had to, you know, reach out again, and that could have been another incident.

Thank God it wasn't.

Um, but I just am concerned about that.

So thank you.

Thank you guys uh both for your for that report and your patience in delivering the report.

Uh I just want to point out that these reports specifically are one of the few instances where we get to comment on and hear a lot of the details that we normally don't get to, and I think there's a lot of value in that as well, and pointing out that this is one of the areas that shows the hard work that goes into these divisions beyond just the discipline, that we get to look at some of the issues that come up and identify where there are gaps that improve the department and improve public safety with aside from just the discipline that I think is the presumptive total of all the work that we do.

So I just wanted to acknowledge that and thank you.

If you would like to make public comment regarding the presentation, please approach the podium.

Yes.

Um I was thinking about, you know, we're where they were talking about uh there's not enough homicide inspectors, and there isn't.

I'm saying that because you know, my homicide specter just got back.

But prior to him being gone, we had no one to talk to.

There was there should be someone to take their places when they leave.

Um also um there isn't enough.

Um, well, that's what I really want to say, but there's not enough homicide inspectors around, and that they need to be available for us to call, just like the uh young lady that just left here, Chem Toya.

She's worried about her perpetrator fleeing.

That's why she was asking about facial recognition.

Um, I wish she was still here to hear this, but who's to say that her perpetrator isn't fleeing now?

And she's she's worried about that.

So we need to be each other's voices.

So something needs to be done about that.

She gave you a letter.

She gave she put gave you all letters up there about that.

So she is worried about her perpetrator fleeing.

Thank you.

Vote whether to hold item eleven in closed session.

Motion to go in the closed session.

Second.

On the motion, is there any public comment regarding the vote?

On the motion, Commissioner Tekke.

How do you vote?

I.

Scott, I.

Commissioner Leong?

Yes.

Leong, yes.

Commissioner Yi.

Yes.

Yes.

Commissioner Elias.

Elias, yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Benedicto, yes.

Yes.

We are now going into closed session.

Um, I'm not sure.

SF gov cheesy.

If you need Mark Bar to someone We are back in open session and still have a quorum.

Line item twelve vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item eleven held in closed session, San Francisco administrative code section sixty seven point one two Action.

Line item thirteen adjournment.