President Clay would like to take role.

Commissioner Techke.

Here.

Commissioner Scott?

Here.

Commissioner Leong.

Here.

Commissioner Ye.

Here.

Commissioner Elias is in route.

Vice President Benedicto.

Present.

Commissioner President Clay, you have a quorum also with us tonight, our Chief Yep from the San Francisco Police Department and Executive Director Paul Henderson from the Department of Police Accountability.

All right.

Thank you, Sergeant.

Welcome everyone to the September 3rd Commission meeting.

At this time, uh Sergeant, will you please call the uh the order of Line item one, weekly officer recognition certificate.

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

Officer Dennis O'Connor, star number 4350 from the Fugitive Recovery Enforcement Team.

No?

There we go.

Good evening, President Clay, Commissioners, Police Chief, Yep, Director Henderson, and members of the public.

I'm Captain Jim Ahern, and I supervise the DMAC unit, which FRET is a part of.

The Fugitive Recovery Enforcement Team, or FRET, is a specialized unit dedicated to locating and apprehending individuals with outstanding arrest warrants.

While the mission may appear straightforward, it plays a vital role in enhancing public safety and maintaining order across the city.

Among the units standout members is Officer Dennis O'Connor.

Officer O'Connor is one of the hardest working people I know.

He shows up early and he never complains about the job.

He goes after some of the most dangerous criminals in our city, the people who put others at risk.

He doesn't do it for recognition, headlines, or awards.

He does it because as a proud San Francisco native, he believes in protecting San Francisco.

I'll highlight two recent cases that exemplify Officer O'Connor's dedication, tenacity, and investigative skills.

In the first case, Officer O'Connor led the effort to locate a suspect wanderer for a shooting in San Francisco.

As he attempted to track down the suspect, he identified a friend of the suspect who was on active probation with a search condition and prohibited from possessing firearms.

Officer O'Connor located and arrested the shooting suspect on the attempted homicide warrant.

That alone would be a great job, but he took it one step further.

Officer O'Connor tracked down the friend and conducted a probation search.

The search of the associate's resident resulted in the seizure of an AR-style rifle and ammunition.

The shooting investigation not only led to the arrest of a violent felon, but also removed an illegal firearm from our streets.

In the second incident, Officer O'Connor was contacted by our SFPD homicide investigators regarding a wanted murderer.

The case was time sensitive because the investigators were worried about the loss of critical evidence.

Relying on Officer O'Connor's expertise, they entrusted him with the task of locating the suspect.

Within two hours, Officer O'Connor had identified the suspect's vehicle, determined a likely location, and established connections to associates.

His uh efforts led to a swift and safe apprehension of the homicide suspect.

And as a result, the case was successfully presented to the San Francisco District Attorney's Office for prosecution.

These examples are just a glimpse into Officer O'Connor's tireless commitment to public safety.

He has been a leader within the FRET unit since its inception and continues to serve as a role model for his peers.

I would like to also mention that Officer O'Connor is a veteran member of the specialist team.

And for those on the commission and the public unfamiliar with the specialist team, they're a collateral assignment and they work closely with our SWAT team.

They're the first ones responding to critical incidents, and they helped the SWAT team on high-risk search warrants.

Officer O'Connor's efforts have made a meaningful impact on the safety and well-being of San Francisco residents.

For his unwavering commitment, exemplary leadership, and continued service to the San Francisco Police Department, Officer Dennis O'Connor is proudly recognized as Officer of the Week.

And obviously, he's got uh some fellow fellow teammates here, his family and his children.

Come on.

How about it?

Commissioners, Chief, members of our department, command staff.

Thank you for this award.

I don't feel totally deserving of something like this.

Um the men and women of our department do incredible things every day to keep the city safe.

I think the recognition is more a reflection on the people that I work with day-to-day that do the job, not for the recognition.

I want to say thank you to my mom and dad for coming.

My three kids, I'm proud to be your dad, and my beautiful wife, love you.

Thank you.

Hold on, hold on.

Hold on.

Hold on, don't go anywhere.

Don't go anywhere.

First of all, we want to thank you.

I want to thank you for your service.

Also, keeping in mind listening to your captain explain the nature and the examples of what you have had done.

And I know there's always more to it.

The doing it.

You and your colleagues, your team, your people with you, the fact that the risk that you take on behalf of the community to make these communities safe, as well as to safeguard all the things that this Constitution provides us.

And you're you're an example of what we believe a San Francisco police officer is, and what everybody doesn't understand the quality of what you do, the work you do, the colleagues you have with you, surrounding you, supporting you.

And that's why in this forum here, and on my as I see my colleagues here, the tremendous support that we know we want to give you each and every day to help you do the job that you do each night.

So thank you so much.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, Commissioner.

All right.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you very much, President Clay.

Congratulations, Officer O'Connor.

Um I know you said you don't feel like you deserve it, but I I promise you do.

Uh this process, you know, you were selected by your superiors and your peers, and so thank you for your tremendous work.

I also really want to thank and recognize uh your colleagues who showed up here to support you and your family who showed up to support you.

I think that no one uh accomplished anything anything by themselves, and it's thanks to uh the support of uh your family and the sacrifices that they have had to make to allow you to perform these acts of service for our community that you are able to do that.

And so it's really a reflection of your unit and your team, the department and your family that you are receiving this honor today, and uh congratulations again.

Thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Yes, Officer O'Connor.

It's just a pleasure and an honor to meet you and your family and your colleagues.

Um your work is truly commended, and uh you deserved to get the recognition that you are getting today.

Um hold your head up and receive it with honor.

We appreciate the the men in blue every day who goes out every day to make sure that our streets are safe and that we're safe, you know.

Um so my hats off to your parents for a wonderful job.

Thanks, parents.

Um looking forward to having more officers come on board like you and join our police force to make our streets safe.

So thank you again and congratulations on this honor.

You deserve it.

Thank you.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, President Clay.

Just wanted to thank you, Officer O'Connor, and to thank your parents for raising their son in San Francisco, a true native-born San Franciscan.

Um I think what speaks volumes is the humility with which you have received this recognition.

You deflected the credit to your teammates and to your parents, and I think that speaks well of you and the team on which you serve.

So thank you and keep doing the good and hard work that you have been doing.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Commissioner Yee?

Uh thank you very much, there, President uh Clay.

Um Officer O'Connell, congratulations.

Uh also to the family uh for their support and your team.

Um it's been uh I guess as the captain says uh your leadership and excellent uh work and keeping us safe day in and day out.

So congratulations to everyone in your team and continuous test and stay safe out there.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Commissioner Techie.

Congratulations, Officer.

And I have to say, as a community organizer, you being very humble about this, about accepting this says speaks volume about your character, and I appreciate what you do.

I I was part of DMAC.

I was working very closely.

I used to hear all the stories, so really appreciate what you have done, and please take the moment in is what I would say.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Chief, yep.

Thank you.

So uh as interim police chief, on behalf of the department, just want to say thank you also.

Uh proud of the work that you and your team do.

Uh I get to hear about it weekly.

Uh so I know that you and your team are doing your part to keep the city safe, so thank you very much.

Um also your unit does not get a lot of the credit that it deserves.

Uh it doesn't get talked about much, uh, but I hear it.

Uh the leadership hears it.

I'm glad you are here today to be recognized.

Um thank you to your family, um, to your parents, to your beautiful family that's with you.

Um you guys stay safe as you keep the city safe.

So very proud of you once again, and just thank you for all the work that you do.

Thank you, Chief.

All right.

Sergeant Youngblood.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item one, please approach the podium.

Hi.

Okay, so thank you.

Congratulations.

I guess as long as you don't forget that safety is about woman and children first.

That's it.

Children.

So basically, uh no, you know, diversion.

You protect the children first.

That is you stop working for the pedophiles that to cover the government.

And you call them out.

More later, because children are yourself.

And that is the end of public comment.

For line item one.

It's just the general public comment.

That's next.

That's gonna be next.

That's not now.

It's gonna be 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 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.

Alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways.

Email the Secretary of the Police Commission and SFPD.commission at SFgov.org.

Or written comments may be sent via U.S.

Postal Service to the public safety building located at 1245 Third Street, San Francisco, California, 94158.

If you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium.

So uh yes, uh good evening again.

I'm glad the children left like this.

I can address the problem.

Basically, I'm gonna repeat what I said to the Board of Supervisors yesterday as the last speaker of the public comments.

Okay, you need to stop working for the pedophiles, that clearly enough, not to cover the government under blackmail or not, it's clear, uh so the it's exposed.

It's going to be exposed.

If you don't call them out, you become a pedophile.

You see, that's the big problem.

So now there are tactics to do.

You don't quit your job.

Use the money the government you know gives you as a tool to transform this ugliness, which is shy trafficking, of course, as well.

It's not only pedophilia, uh shy trafficking, shy torturing, sacrifice.

I mean, it's insane, uh so beyond closed doors, uh pedophiles are not in the streets.

So you use this money, you don't quit again, to basically disobey anything that looks suspicious to you.

Use your common sense, act accordingly, protect the children and the woman first.

They are the most vulnerable.

That's it.

Then step by step, you you convert all this towards to beauty, you know.

Beauty.

No more of this.

There is no room for pedophiles in any societies, let alone government.

It's been going on for a long time, uh, but it's not a reason.

You see, now it's a time to act.

Otherwise, you're done.

Because once you are a pedophile, you are against what 99% of any decent human being thinks they are all against TIT.

Right line.

Once you pass up, that's it, you're done.

So I'll be here for you.

Uh I try to protect you if ever you take the step intelligently.

Of course, you can listen, uh.

Okay, you do the same.

Stop working for pedophiles.

And for that, you call them outlightly.

Have a good night.

Good evening to my esteemed commissioners and my special commissioner, Commissioner Scott, all of you guys especially and I've San Franciscans, and to our chief, who I tell you I'm so happy to have you come out of retirement.

The Holmes family wanted you to come out of retirement.

Thank you.

And then to the police accountability director and chief, everything.

That is one who was able to have peace, bring peace to the mayor's office.

So I want to tell you who I am.

My name is Shirlita Holmes Box, a proud native San Franciscan and a policy advocate.

I've witnessed my share of negative experiences with the San Francisco Police Department over the years.

But today, I'm happy to say that I'm here to offer sincere commendation, specifically to the motorcycle division.

I wanted to bring my own certificates, but I will in the future.

It will take me hours to recount the incredible work I've personally seen from these officers.

But I'll highlight two moments that truly stay with me.

First, Officer Kevin Bowers.

We watched him pull over a driver who was clearly in the wrong.

But instead of escalating the situation, he stood in hot sun and turned it into a calm educational moment.

Next, Officer Rodney Lane.

Last year, I don't want to get into because I'll still cry.

We a woman was fatally struck by a box truck across from uh Glenn Park Bard station.

And upon us exiting it, we unfortunately saw you know this.

Good evening, police commission.

For the record, my name is Chris Gorklein.

I also go by Sergeant Klein of the United States Marine Corps.

I wanted to start by reading a quote from James Baldwin.

History is not the past, it is the present.

We carry our history with us.

We are our history.

You all should have a report that was sent to each of you detailing human rights violations.

By law, I'm required to give you a hard copy of this tonight, and I will.

Two people on that report will be indicted.

The other, we're asking him and other people to sign a declaration against anti-Fizz or Phausm.

It's a very trying time, and hopefully this will be my last time coming to this meeting.

But um the reason the current mayor is put on as a suspect is 1925 or 2025.

We went through this before.

However, the Levi family took a stand back in 1925, and we are asking Daniel LaRay to take a stand today, assign something very similar in 1925.

If not, history repeating itself does not look good.

That's where we're at.

Here's your copy.

But do your due diligence, but that's where we're at.

Thank you for the time that you gave me to speak here.

Thank you for all your hard work.

I know a lot of this is volunteer.

My name is Captain Maggie Hallahan, and I've been uh teaching aquatic sports and boating along the northern shore of San Francisco for over 40 years.

I am here to talk about a very important issue, which is emergency services rescue with fuel in San Francisco.

So traditionally, this has been a port city, and we've had many fuel systems.

About 10 years ago, the Port of San Francisco closed their diesel fuel system, which is right next to the San Francisco Police Department uh facility, the maritime facility, which is a fantastic facility.

I don't know if you could get down there and take a visit.

Um, and they do a lot of the rescues in Aquatic Park and all along to the Golden Gate Bridge and help keep our homeland security safe.

SF Reckham Park wants to close the only other fuel dock, which is at something called Gas House Cove, which is on the other side of Black Point, just on the other side of Aquatic Park, closer to the Golden Gate Bridge.

That facility was built in the 60s by the state of California with a public trust.

Um this public trust charter has been um not maintained by SF Reckham Park, and SF Reckham Park claims that the channel going to the fuel dock needs to be filled.

But actually, we've talked to the California Water Board about the PG ⁇ E cleanup, and they say that the fuel dock can stay.

I'm asking the commission to do a research independently with the California State Water Board and with the California State Lands Commission about this urgent issue of maintaining a fuel dock for our emergency responders.

Thank you.

Good evening.

I want to talk about the policy that passed about the legislation on ways to pay Tipsters to come forth.

That that be even though uh Stephen Betts came to the event.

And also I want to thank you those of you that came to August 14 event.

Thank you.

It it went well.

Um just thank you for that.

Thank you.

Um to keep it going on, you know, it was just on the news.

So we want to let the world know that this is this that this legislation has passed, because only me and a few other people know it.

So how else can we get it out there for the public to know?

Um other ways for the public to know that um of the ways to pay Tipsters to come forth, since there's a new way to do it now, and and people that are been criminals and been in jail before are allowed to testify now.

But how do we get it out there?

Even though it's passed, is still um what do we do?

And I'd like to, you know, figure out if if some of you can help me find a way to get it out there even more, publicize it so that other people will know that this new law has passed and signed by the mayor.

I did get a call from the mayor today.

I didn't I was driving, so I couldn't actually talk to him about uh this legislation, but my intentions is to call him back.

But I was wondering is there ways that we can get it out there even more so that the public will know and other people will know about this new legislation of ways to pay TIPers to come forward for unsolved homicides and homicides themselves.

So um I know you can't answer me, but uh I will be saying this again.

I will if you just show me, open a door for me, I know how to walk through it, and I'll do it.

Tell me what to do.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Noel Witwal, and good evening.

I'm a professor at UCSF in neuroscience, but I'm here in my personal capacity tonight.

I'm um here before you because I'm very concerned about um what I've seen on the streets in ICE demonstrations.

And um, what I've seen and what I've what I've witnessed through video is really concerning.

I spoke last night with a disabled 18-year-old college student who was at the demonstration as a medic.

She was there to help provide um band-aids and stuff.

And she was with the protesters and the SFPD officers that were there, told the protesters to disperse.

They obeyed.

They went down in the direction that the officers pointed them to go to, which was straight into a police line.

The police surrounded them.

They got they asked who were minors, they put the miners in a van, they shooed the bystanders away, and after about an hour of standing around, they flew at them with their batons.

They cracked this woman, this young girl, actually, she's 18 over the head so many times that they gave her a concussion.

They broke five teeth in five teeth in her mouth, they dislocated her arms and her legs.

And this is was completely unprovoked.

They had no arms on them, and this is truly shocking.

So uh I feel terrible that my tax dollars are going towards the police department that seems not to be reined in when they need to be reined in with protesters.

So I would make two asks.

One is that there would be an independent person sent out with each of the when the police are deployed to a protest, and that person would have the authority and power to help mediate, as I heard before, one of the police officers that were commended before, we're able to mediate and bring down and escalate the situation so that the police tempers don't fly too far.

The other is I would love to have released to the public all of the data on people who are injured, protesters that are injured when the police are involved.

Thank you so much.

That is the end of public comment.

Line item three, consent calendar, receive and file action.

SAPD and DPA's Sparks Report, second quarter 2025, Safe Streets for All, Second Quarter 2025, SAPD Family Code 6228 quarterly report update, second quarter 2025, SAPD's annual limited English Proficiency Report 2024, SAPD and DPA's document protocol report for second quarter 2025, second quarter 2025 audit of electronic communication devices for bias, and a resolution urging the Board of Supervisors to retroactively authorize the Chief of Police to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 63,254 dollars, and finally SAPD and DPA's SB 1421 and SB16 reports for July 2025.

Is there any discussion?

Motion receive and file.

Second.

Second.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item three, consent calendar, please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

On the motion, Commissioner Techie, how do you vote?

Commissioner Techie is yes.

Commissioner Scott.

Yes.

Yes.

Commissioner Liang is yes.

Commissioner Yi?

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes.

President Commissioner Elias?

Yes.

Commissioner Elias is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes.

And President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have seven yeses.

Line item four, adoption of minutes, action for the meetings of July 9th, 16th, and August 13, 2025.

Is there a motion?

Motion to adopt the minutes for July 9, 60, and August 13.

Thank you.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item four, the adoption of minutes, please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

On the motion, Commissioner Tech, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Techie is yes.

Commissioner Scott?

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Leong?

Yes.

Commissioner Leung is yes.

Commissioner Yee?

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes.

Commissioner Lyas?

Commissioner Laias is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes.

And President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have seven yeses.

Line item five, Chiefs report.

Weekly crime trends and public safety concerns.

Provide an overview of offenses.

Incidents or events occurring in San Francisco having an impact on public safety.

Chief, yeah.

Thank you, Sergeant.

Good evening, President Clay, Commissioners, Members of the General Public.

Director Henderson, good evening.

Let me start my report by reporting on some previous questions asked from the Commission.

Commissioner Elias, there was a question regarding position eliminations, and I can speak to what we know as of today.

So I did speak to our HR department.

As of January 2025, there were three position eliminations.

One is the 0954 executive director.

The other is a 0923 ombudsman and an 8177 attorney.

So those are the three positions that were eliminated in our department.

Commissioner Yi had a question regarding drone operators.

Commissioner, you requested the number of officers certified as drone operators.

The SFPD currently has 58 trained and certified drone operators.

Additionally, the department is currently coordinating efforts to train and certify more officers.

The aim is to have another 20 officers trained and certified in the near future.

Commissioners Benedito and Elias.

There is an information regarding our response to federal immigration or federal enforcement in San Francisco.

Specifically responding to Supervisor Chen's non-binding resolution on protocols.

And Commissioner Benedito requested our direction to the Department on these issues.

And I could speak to that in the future, but that has been disseminated to the Department.

And I want to thank the SFPD leadership and the City Attorney's Office for assisting with that.

Department notice.

So to provide guidance for our department members when they are either called to or encounter potential federal enforcement in San Francisco.

Okay.

So I will move forward with discussing crime trends.

I reviewed.

So we've been, we haven't been here for approximately one month.

So I'm actually just going to read to you this week's crime trends because the last three weeks are almost identical.

So this is a steady pattern that's held for this month.

Overall crime is down 27% this year.

Violent crime is down 19%.

Property crime is down 28%.

Aggravated assaults are down 14%.

Burglaries are down 28%.

Larceny or thefts are down 23%.

Auto burglaries are down 44 percent.

Overall robberies are down 24 percent.

Firearm crimes are down 47 percent.

And retail theft is down 7 percent, and that's year to date from 2024.

So those are our current crime trends.

So I did bring with me the last three weeks of data.

They are, like I said, almost identical.

Just want to address violent crimes a little more.

Homicides are down 32 percent.

There are in my notes, there are 15 homicides in 2025.

The overall clearance rate is 147 percent.

Unfortunately, there was a homicide this morning.

The locations actually still to be determined, so that number could be 16 for the year.

Gun violence is also down 26 percent in general.

Okay.

I am going to speak to a summary of incidents that I have highlighted, and there's over three works, three weeks worth of incidents that I could highlight, so I'm just going to really just kind of give you a sampling of some of the incidents that have occurred, some have been media-worthy.

I want to speak to that homicide, and I'm gonna go from most recent to the past.

So let's start with this morning.

So there's not much I can tell you other than what I'm going to tell you about the homicide this morning.

It occurred uh September 3rd, 3.25 a.m.

approximately on the unit block of Golden Gate Avenue.

That's in the tender line.

The victim was located with a gunshot wound to the head and transported in critical condition, transported for medical assistance.

The victim did succumb to his injuries at the hospital.

So that's what we have from this morning.

Additionally, this reporting week, with the week ending August 31st, there were three nonfatal shooting incidents that caused injuries to three victims.

One was in the Baby District on Tuesday, August 26th at 5:30 a.m.

There's no arrest associated with that incident.

Another one was in the Northern District on August 27th at 8:30 p.m.

It occurred in the area of Willow, which is an alley between Van Esse and Polk.

That's in the Northern District.

No arrest also for that incident.

And then on August 29th at 7.36 p.m., there was a shooting incident on the unit block of Colton, which is in the Southern District.

Also during this reporting week.

I want to point out that the individual, the suspect involved, was wanted for a felony, no bail warrant for robbery from Los Angeles regarding that incident on August 26th at approximately 12.45 p.m.

So in the afternoon.

In the area of Market and Jones, tenderloin footbeat officers observed that subject, and they knew that he was wanted for a violent felony out of Southern California.

There was some social media content regarding that incident.

The suspect.

And then he was taken into custody and charged with assault with a deadly weapon, felony hit and run, felony reckless evading, reckless driving, resisting arrests, possession of brewery tools, running red lights, and driving on the sidewalk.

Just additionally, the suspect did abandon his vehicle on the embarkero, and he did flee on foot until he jumped in the water and then was finally rescued by the Marine Unit.

There was a First Amendment demonstration on the 300 block of Bush that occurred on August 27th at 2.05 p.m.

There was from that demonstration, there were 137 arrests.

I'm sorry.

There were 138 arrests.

137 were sighted and transported.

One was sighted and arrested at the scene.

So on August 27th this year, 2.05 p.m.

officers responded to the 300 block of Bush Street regarding multiple protesters inside of a building.

There were no, or not citizens, but for the arrestees.

There were no reported injuries as a result of the incident.

As I said earlier, 137 were transported to San Francisco County jail and sighted.

One suspect was sighted and released at the scene.

They were arrested following an admonishment to disperse.

Some participants chose to leave.

The others chose to stay.

Another incident I want to highlight is uh shots fired, theft from a person evading a police officer that occurred in the terrabbell on the 600 block of John Mayer Drive.

This was on August 30th at 7.44 p.m.

Officers responded to a shots fired called and observed a vehicle fleeing the area as officers attempted to stop the vehicle.

It fled, and a pursuit was initiated.

The pursuit was terminated in the area of Alamany near uh northbound 280, the freeway.

It was determined that a verbal altercation between the victim and the suspect resulted in the suspect shooting at the victim.

The victim was not struck.

The suspect fled with another suspect, and which resulted in the pursuit.

So on Monday, September 1st, CJIC officers located the vehicle and followed it across the Bay Bridge, where it was lost near Oakland.

The Oakland police department located the vehicle, so thank you, Oakland PD.

They were able to disable the vehicle.

CJC and officers responded and made an arrest for that incident and arrested the subject.

There was a domestic violence incident that resulted in an injury to an officer that occurred on August 31st this year at 11.54 p.m.

on the 1200 block of Cassada that's on in the Bayview District.

The victim was allegedly assaulted by her boyfriend while they were driving.

The suspect fled on foot when officers located the subject.

Two subjects interfered with the officers' attempt to detain that subject, in which a struggle occurred.

The suspect and one of the others, the suspect and one of the other subjects who intervened, were arrested.

There is one outstanding suspect in this case.

Several officers sustained minor injuries.

I remember looking at the recap, I believe three in there were three officers that sustained minor injuries during this incident.

So an arrest was made.

Multiple SFPD units arrived, contacted campus security, searched the building, determined that there was no merit to this call.

We labeled it a swatting call.

So the investigation is ongoing.

And there were at least I know of at least one other incident that occurred in very recent.

Okay, very recently.

Also during this week, there was a stunt driving incident, side show on August 30th at 4.47 p.m.

in the Terravel, 42nd in Judah.

Several vehicles were doing donuts.

There were 30 to 40 spectators.

Our units responded and the vehicles left the area.

There was a dirt bike gathering with reckless behavior on August 31st at 4 p.m.

And the mission, Valencia and 17th.

Officers approached a group of 40 dirt bikes traveling south gone on Valencia.

The group was running red lights, riding on the sidewalk, nearly striking pedestrians.

Units trailed the group.

So SFPD trailed the group as they dispersed towards 23rd in Valencia.

They went southbound on 24th and they eventually just left the area.

Okay.

On the week that ended on August 24th, there were no homicides.

There were three shooting, non-fatal incidents, causing injuries to four victims.

There was an incident on August 18th at 2.57 p.m.

on the 1900 block of mission in the mission district.

On August 19th at 208 a.m.

on 9th admission, which is the tenderline district, there were gunshots, no arrest in either one of these incidents.

And on August 21st at 2.19 a.m.

on the 2200 block of Mission Street, there was also a shooting, no arrest.

We did uh with the um help of our deputy chief of special operations, our deputy chief of operations.

We did saturate the unit the mission district because of these incidents of violence along with other incidents.

Um the plan was just to saturate the area during uh swing watch hours, roughly afternoon, early evening in response to an uptick in violence in the mission.

During this week on August 18th, there was a battery and hate crime incident that occurred on 8th and Folstone, which is in the Southern District.

Victim was walking when an unknown suspect threw an object striking the victim in the arm.

The suspect shouted a racial slur towards the victim.

The victim refused medical attention.

There was no arrest in this incident so far.

There was a robbery with a firearm on August 23rd at 1205 p.m.

in the Crocker Amazon area, Ingleside.

The victims' juveniles were walking through the park when approached by two suspects who we also believe are juveniles.

Uh the suspects pointed a firearm and demanded the victim's property.

The victims complied.

The victims fled.

There were no injuries.

Uh so far, no arrests in that incident.

There was one homicide incident occurring on the week ending August 17th, so for the reporting week that ends August 17th.

On August 11th, 2025, at 10:30 p.m.

on the 200 block of Harbor in the Baby District.

Two victims were located in a vehicle on the 2200 block of Cesar Chavez.

Both victims were transported with life-threatening injuries.

One victim, the passenger, succumbed to those injuries.

I do not have an update, and so far there are no arrests in this homicide.

I do know that the investigation is ongoing.

Also, for this reporting period.

No arrest in that incident.

This is also related to the saturation that we did in the mission because of these shooting incidents.

There was also a shots fired called with no injuries on August 16th at 8 18 p.m.

on the 1200 block of Fillmore in the Northern District.

In that incident, officers responded to shots fired at Turk and Fillmore.

We were advised there had been a shooting between two subjects and a third subject.

The two subjects fled in a vehicle.

The third subject fled in a different vehicle in a different direction.

No injuries were reported.

There was damage to a building that was documented.

Investigations ongoing, no arrest in this incident.

Also, the during this reporting period, there was an aggravated assault on an officer and a firearm arrest in the ten loin on August 17th at 123 p.m.

on the unit block of 6th Street.

Officers responded to the report of a trespasser, possibly armed with a firearm.

During the arrest, the subject resisted arrest during the struggle.

Two officers were injured, requiring medical attention.

An arrest was made in that incident.

And it's not in the notes, but I do know that a firearm was also recovered during that incident.

There are many incidents that I can summarize for this group.

I just kind of chose some incidents that seem related.

Also, I just kind of chose incidents that occurred in different districts during the last three weeks.

But nonetheless, we are keeping track.

We are responding.

We are as you know, I use the mission as an example, but you know, as we saw several incidents in the mission, we are not taking those lightly.

We will continue to respond, we will organize, uh, we will be responsive.

At the same time, we're being proactive.

Um that's the crime trends and the crime incidents or the incidents of note that I wanted to bring to your attention.

I do uh want to thank Commissioner Benedito for his work on the Pistahan event uh that was very successful, and um you had a great presence there, so thank you for that.

And I would invite uh the general public uh and the commissioners to the 77th annual police and fire mass that's occurring this Sunday, September 7th at 9.30 a.m.

at St.

Cecilia Catholic Church, which is at 2555 171.

And that's occurring this Sunday.

So that's the end of my report.

Thank you very much.

Chief, I have a question for you.

I mean, we see that we know that crime is down in the city in all areas.

And I guess the question is, is that being said, what are you finding in terms of the solve rate in terms of people coming out from the community having a better sense and feeling about what's going on, assisting in providing uh help in terms of solving some of these crimes coming forward, you know, you the pulls a police officer aside, hey, so and so lives here.

I mean, are you getting people who are now cooperating with the police to try to help their community and try to rid themselves of this type of conduct that's going on?

I would say this.

Thanks for the question, that uh I encourage people to come to the police uh to report crimes, first of all.

Uh all levels of cooperation are appreciated.

We'll do our best with each case.

Uh I do find when I'm in the street, there is a sense of optimism.

Uh people do tell me about trends that they also see.

Uh I also get emails uh very similar.

Uh they are uh they speak a lot more to positive interactions with police officers.

Uh I actually get feedback from our rank and file that uh is very similar, that they also are receiving positive feedback.

People are thanking them for being in the neighborhoods being visible.

Um I know that they are working hard every day.

I see daily reports, and I think even this summary, and I think I took a little longer than I should have, but there are just many, many examples of police work.

Uh the other thing that I will bring up is uh the implementation implementation of technology technology.

I think that is also uh a game changer, our Arctic.

Uh so it's a combination of things.

It's cooperation from the public reporting, uh, real-time reporting, cooperation from not only citizens but merchants, business districts with the uh I think these are force multipliers, in addition to Arctic.

I do believe that the assault rates, I don't have the data or that particular number.

But certainly anecdotally, I feel our assault rates are improving and they are constantly improving.

Uh there's a lot of success with our drone program.

Um I think an example is the wanted subject from Los Angeles.

Uh there was help from citizens in pointing out or helping the police during that incident, and then the officers smartly used technology to assist, and ultimately, and ironically, we actually rescued that subject from the bay.

I don't know how well he would have done without the use of technology and locating him in the bay and having a Marine unit to rescue him.

That yeah.

Thank you.

So it's a combination of many things.

Thank you very much.

Thanks.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you very much.

Uh President Clay, thank you for that uh report.

Uh Chief Yap.

Chief Yep.

I will be at the police and fire mass, so looking forward to seeing you there.

Just a couple of questions from me this week.

One, uh, you'd mentioned Artic.

Has it made its move to its new location?

Is that is that move complete or is that still pending?

They have moved to their new location, but the installation of technology is not done.

So are they still operating out of the Hall of Justice for now, since that's where the technology is or they have moved to the new location with the technology that they have, but there are additional phases of implementation.

So what the main body of the Arctic group has, in fact, moved to the new location.

They do have enough current technology that enables that move.

But I am telling you that there's more to come.

Okay, so yeah.

Um then I had a couple of questions about um the Board of Supervisors resolution, which I know you addressed, uh, and that is Board of Supervisors resolution uh 357-25, which was, as you said, introduced by supervisors, was actually co-sponsored by supervisors Chen Fielder, Mahmood, Walton, Melgar, Chan, Sader and Mandelman, and passed unanimously by the Board.

I know that passed just before we went on our recess.

Uh you had mentioned that um Department Notice 25-089, which was issued uh last week.

Was that our I have it in front of me?

It's August 26th.

Okay.

Um a couple of questions.

I've looked at Department Notice 25-089.

So, in your opinion, um, this department notice uh is what is is responsive to that Board of Supervisors resolution.

We will respond to the Board of Supervisors with a comprehensive answer.

I am saying that this department notice is one step.

Okay.

Do you expect that there will be I guess what I meant by that question is so the Board of Supervisor Resolution resolved that the Board urges the police department and Sheriff's Department to develop and implement clear operational protocols and training related to interactions with ICE.

So Department Notice 25-089 is that are those protocols and trainings.

It's one step.

And you know, I'm going to say that as we as we encounter Federal enforcement in San Francisco, there is an evolution.

Um it may continue to evolve.

Uh this department notice serves as guidance for our officers at the street level.

Um, so that they have some guidance from leadership on what the expectations are.

And we have trained outside of this notice based on incidents that have occurred that with the information that we have, we will continue to evolve as situations evolve in San Francisco.

But I do feel very strongly that this department notice serves an important as an important guide moving forward.

I think that makes a lot of sense.

Um the next thing I wanted to bring up is I know that I think it makes a lot of sense for this to be in a department notice for the reasons you discussed that you want to have that flexibility as things evolve to be able to update or issue additional guidance uh as needed.

I know that one of the goals of the Board of Supervisors resolution was to ensure that the department, the especially street level officers, were up to date, but also to ensure that the police department, I am quoting from the resolution here, communicate to community members uh the same process.

And then from the department notice itself, there's a section on communication with the public that says members should provide clear communication with the public, reassuring them that SFPD does not participate in civil immigration enforcement and that our presence is solely to maintain public safety.

I know that um one issue that has come up with department notices in the past is that usually not as accessible to members of the public as something like a DGO.

And I know that the Commission and the Chief, when there have been department notices that were of interest to the public have made those public.

Uh is that something the department is considering doing for this department notice?

Uh you know, I've been not specific to this notice, but I've been very open to the public regarding our positions as a sanctuary city, expectations for the police department, expectations on our response.

So they were able to view this department notice.

I know it's published on our website.

But I agree with you and I'm really happy you brought that up.

I do think that the more outreach we can do, the better, because part of this notice is meant for the public also, that they know what our policies are and what the expectations of the officers and when they call for police assistance.

And the piece on communication to the public was very deliberately put in this notice because that also serves not only in training but notice from police leadership to the rank and file that when you encounter these situations when you have time and information and the ability that you communicate with the public about what we know about that incident.

Um as part of I I would say that's our duty and you know, as part of de-escalation and really just getting the best information we can to the public.

So thank you.

Yes, I would uh welcome uh you know the public's I I do think the public for transparency well, for many reasons should be made aware of this department notice.

I also know that uh uh one of the media outlets did publish an article about this, a very major newspaper.

That's great.

Yeah, I think that that's great.

I think it would be helpful.

I know that sometimes department notices are a little bit harder to find on the website, so I think it would be helpful if it were posted in in a prominent place, and maybe if provided to Commission staff could be also posted to the Commission uh website as supporting materials to this meeting or future meetings.

Yeah, it was also suggested to me by a community member to publish this in different languages awesome.

I think that's a fantastic idea.

Okay.

That's a fantastic idea.

Okay.

I'll uh make a note and thank you for that.

Thank you very much, Chief.

That's all for me.

All right.

Commissioner Scott.

Thank you, President Clay.

Um thank you.

Chief, yep, that was very uh a very thorough report.

Um I'm I just wanted to ask um, is there public follow-up with the community um like uh a crime alert?

Um we had, if you remember, um if there was a shooting in my area, I would know it because it would get an alert on my phone.

I would get an alert immediate on my phone.

And I'm I'm speaking for particular um for districts like the TL and the Bayview and the film, which have, you know, uh a majority of these shootings happen in the mission as well.

But um, is that public uh shooter alert still available within SFPD?

And if it is, um do we have it um so that the people will can access that information um and be notified if there's a shooting in the area.

I know it it existed some time ago.

I um I believe I don't know if it still exists now, but I used to get the text alert on my phone that it was just a shooting and it would show me what the shooting took place.

Is that technology still available within SFPD?

Commissioner, I'm not aware that we have that service right now, but I'm gonna tell you that I love that idea that the technology obviously exists.

And I think that would be a service to the community.

Uh I know that I get San Francisco alerts regarding hazards and warnings through a tech system.

So uh I would love to come do some research to come back to you with some ideas about how we can implement that.

And I also know that I got three really loud alerts on my cell phone from outside the SFPD about missing persons, yeah.

Yeah, I think that will be helpful for the police and the community, um especially in neighborhoods like the TL and uh the Bayview on the FIDMO, which gets uh which happens more f frequently with rob with robberies and things like that.

Um I think it would definitely benefit uh the the community and the police, and it will show uh the community and the police department working together hand in hand.

Um so that technology that's a technology that I would like to see within a department, and I'm really impressed with the drones, how you you said the drones showed up and help you to arrest someone.

And um I think uh the public is getting more um information on that.

Um I would like to see more uses of the drones in areas like the TITALON and maybe Hundreds Point area and help them with some of these cases.

I'm really concerned about the shootings that are taking place.

Thank God a lot of them was non-fatal, but they still occur.

And so I'm concerned about the number of weapons that we're having on the street and so many people having access to guns.

And that's what we're, you know, uh work so hard with um former Chief Scott on ghost guns and things of that nature.

Um but definitely utilizing that technology would definitely help us.

So whatever I find out about it, I would definitely keep you posted and likewise, but um I just want to know was there any type of follow-up with the community about um what's happening in their areas?

Um like for instance, the TL um the uh a lot happens in the T the TL and a lot happens in the Bayview.

But what type of information are we feeding and getting back from the community when those incidents happen?

You know, um is there an alert that goes out to the community or something that goes out to the community to say that we are aware there was an incident in your area.

Please get back to us, report to us.

Here's a number to call.

Um, you know, there's an anonymous tip line that you can contact, you know, get that information.

Is there something that goes out um on the regular basis for um communicating with the communities that are impacted highly with with with the crimes and the robberies?

Yeah, currently there really is a reliance on the station captains to get to know community leaders and to disseminate information that way.

Uh I really am thankful for your suggestion regarding the texting.

Uh I think that's potentially a very straightforward solution uh for getting information out more immediately and so that community members are alerted to those situations.

So we will definitely follow up with you, uh whether it's a text or some other alert system that would make sense for us.

So uh I really appreciate that.

So yeah, we'll definitely continue to look.

Yeah, I mean, I think it's so obvious I find it hard to believe that we're talking about it, but yeah, I mean, in my mind, let's just let's just get there.

Yeah.

Let's do it.

Okay.

Thank you.

Yes, Commissioner Scott.

Oh, and then as far as um kind of, you know, you alluded to as we see trends, even micro trends.

I'll tell you that even this morning we are seeing a trend in another neighborhood.

I'm not gonna disclose it at this moment, but you actually mentioned it.

Uh we are I I think our department is communicating very well with each other, all our different um, you know, from special operations to field operations in internally that we are leveraging all our resources and we are going to do another saturation plan starting immediately because we did well, I'm just gonna tell you from the shooting this morning.

That's appears to be well, we actually it's under Messi show I won't hear, but there has been other incidents in that general area.

So we had a discussion this morning, and we're ready to pivot our resources, and we're gonna get moving on, making sure that that area is as safe as can be within our power.

So those conversations are ongoing.

Uh they happen continuously, and uh I'm very focused on making this department nimble to that type of community input response, and that we're proactive but reactive when we start seeing trends.

So thank you.

Commissioner Lowis.

Thank you.

Hi, Chief.

Hi, Commissioner.

Um just wanted to ask a couple of follow-up questions.

Um first of all, thank you for um releasing and making available to the public the department notice regarding the immigration, because I think it's a very sensitive topic and one that I think that um I personally have gotten a lot of inquiries from community members about and and concerns.

Um one of the questions I had is whether the department notice coincides with the immigration DGO that we recently updated.

And the reason I ask is because the DOJ recommendations, that was one of the criticisms of the department was the use of department notices uh that either contradicted or didn't reinforce DGOs and were confusing uh to officers because it gave them mixed messages.

So I was hoping you could speak to that.

Uh was your particular conflict that you were I I don't know.

I didn't I wasn't aware that you had released the department notice, so I haven't been able to look at it.

So that's why I'm asking since you released it and authored it and whether it conflicted with our current immigration DGO.

I think we got an email.

Do we not get an email on this?

On the notice?

Oh, on this particular notice?

Well, I I did ask that the Commission was notified.

So as far as your question, I probably have to do some research, but to my knowledge, there is no conflict, to my knowledge that pop, you know, that I can think of.

Okay.

And the other question I had is whether or not the Department notice coincides with Attorney General Rob Bonta's updated notice regarding SB 54 that was initially issued in 2017, which prohibited law enforcement from working with Federal agencies.

And in January of 2025, he updated that notice to all law enforcement throughout California.

So I wanted to also ensure that the Department notice that was issued coincided with the guidance that the Attorney General had provided.

Well, I can tell you this that there is no cooperation or assistance with any Federal immigration enforcement.

So to that level, I I need to re-review Attorney General Bontes, and I'm familiar with those documents.

But I'm just going to generally tell you that this department notice reiterates that.

And as far as immigration enforcement, I don't see that just on superficially that there would be any conflict with Attorney General Bontes.

Great.

So I would welcome you and the public to view his website.

Yes.

The other question I had is also I also wanted to thank you for following up on the questions that were asked by Commissioners, because sometimes it falls off the radar.

So I appreciate you bringing it back up.

Thank you for giving us the information on the three position eliminations.

I wanted to ask you I know that there was a restructuring of of the department, and I wanted to give you the opportunity to speak to that.

And the reason that I bring it up is because I noticed that one of on tonight the community policing DGO is on, and I know that was a huge DGO and an accomplishment for the Department, especially given the DOJ recommendations.

That DGO took a huge chunk of the DOJ recommendations and made us in compliance when we accomplished the community engage or the community policing DGO and the manual and all that went with it.

So just wanted to give you an opportunity to address that.

Sure.

So uh thank you for that question.

So the DOJ recommendations from 2016.

Uh I want to thank Chief Scott and the entire San Francisco Police Department for their work years in coming to 90 whatever.

Almost 100 percent.

But you were part of that.

Yes.

You were a huge part of that.

I remember having several conversations with you and you being in meetings.

Yes, and I had uh very my desk was literally full of binders that I reviewed for years.

Yes.

Uh and there was a lot of work.

So thank you for asking.

So first I want to thank Chief Scott.

Uh really everyone, the whole department had some touch on working on those recommendations.

There I've worked on them.

They are very important to me.

Uh we will continue to make sure that we are in not only in compliance, but we're, I think, Commissioner, I'm going to say we're beyond.

I I think those beyond the 2016 recommendations that we've gained compliance.

Uh we've evolved.

We learned a lot from them.

Uh they changed our department substantially.

I'm looking at Director Henderson, who was also needs to be acknowledged for his work, and you and all the Commissioners, past and present.

So I will continue to make sure uh, even through the restructure, I actually bought the CRI component closer to the Chief's office under policy.

I have also redirected other resources, uh, including the community engagement division and our current policy director to ensure that we not only remain in compliance, but we in 2025, we have we don't have DGO recommendations, but we have a lot of work to do uh in as the environment and policing changes today.

So I'm very much focused not only in the past, but moving forward, and I would give you the perfect example of what we just talked about.

We're in unprecedented area that wasn't covered in 2016 regarding Federal immigration enforcement in our city.

So I'm saying that we're evolving with this, and there's a new set of what would be DOJ recommendations that would occur in 2025 that I'm trying to get ahead of with this department to make sure that we're on top of them.

This is just, I mean, this department notice doesn't obviously it's just a small piece of the work that we're doing.

But I want to continue uh to evolve as a police department to make sure that we are that world-class department that the city deserves.

So well, as long as I'm here.

No, and I appreciate that.

And I think it will be helpful too, because I think that one of the great things about um that the department has done is educating, like you talked about doing outreach with community and informing them and being transparent with the departments.

I think that it would be good for you to sort of break that restructuring down, because those people that don't know what each um division in the department does, I think it would be helpful and an opportunity to educate them and how the restructuring helps moving forward and what we can anticipate if a new chief comes in and what happens.

Yeah, my goal is to make sure that as you do your work to find the permanent police chief, that this police department is in the best shape it can be to receive that new chief to take off to the next level even.

So thank you.

Thank you so much, Chief.

Thank you.

Commissioner Yi.

Uh thank you very much there, President uh Clay.

Uh first of all, if I want to thank you, uh Chief for I guess the report you uh on crime going down 27 percent has reported here to date.

And I believe uh last year it went down 29 percent.

So I want to thank the officers, the command staff, and you, Chief, for all the outstanding work and keeping us safe.

I also want to recognize in August we had uh outside land event in my district in the Richmond district.

Uh it was quite a bit of people there in the city, so uh all reported pretty it went pretty well, actually great.

Um just want to know on the officers uh count that we have now and what do we see in the next three months on recruiting purpose uh thank you, Commissioner, for that question.

So, first of all, uh I am very proud of the work that the police department has done since actually since our I don't know if recess is the right word, but since our time away.

Uh there was a three-day event in Golden Gate Park called Dead and Company that brought I am just gonna say tens of thousands of visitors to San Francisco and to your neighborhood.

Uh it was a massive undertaking to keep the venue and the city safe.

Uh that venue expanded out into many neighborhoods, followed by outside lands, and then followed by a country concert.

So that really stretched our resources thin, but I'm really proud of the work that this department did.

Uh there were minimal incidents.

There were really um relevant arrests made regarding drugs during those incidents and things related to what that you know uh large venues might bring.

Uh and I yeah, particularly uh there was an inhalant issue with one of the concerts, and there was a an arrest that involved hundreds of canisters of uh well over 100 canisters of that inhalant uh substance.

So we're doing all this when we're and I'm looking at my notes right now.

We're 523 officers under the recommended 2074 baseline staffing.

So to answer your question, we are 523 officers short or under what the baseline should be.

We are doing everything we can recruit, meaning uh we are looking at new ways of recruiting.

We are looking at our hiring process as far as what duration you know it takes to get an officer hired from beginning to end.

And we are also looking at our training to make sure that it's in align with our goal of getting to full staffing.

So I think as we implement new systems, I don't think we'll see the results of those implementations for the next month or next cycle of academy classes.

But I'm optimistic because what we can't do is just keep doing business the same way, knowing that we're not ever going to get to the number we needed.

So we're taking a fresh perspective.

And I'm hoping that uh by the end of the year we see some improvement.

Uh there is a academy class graduating on September 11th.

So I invite all of you to be there for that Academy graduation.

There is another class expected to graduate, or not expected that will graduate in December of this year.

And there is a projected academy class.

I believe that should start within a month.

So we're working diligently.

I'm not satisfied with the progress so far, so we're gonna keep moving ahead and doing what we need to do to get the numbers that we need to support the ranking file that are working really hard on the street now.

So thank you.

Thank you very much, Chief.

Great, thank you.

Sergeant.

If any if any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item five, Chief's report, please approach the podium.

Good evening, everyone again.

Uh for the record, my name is Sergeant Klein with the United States Marine Corps.

Uh just wanted to brief you on some incidents that are connected to the Chief's report.

Um early Tuesday morning, 11 um people were killed by the U.S.

Navy down in the Caribbean.

They were transporting narcotics to San Francisco.

Um today just released.

I don't think the Chief had got this report yet.

Department of Justice released 25 indictments, 22 Chinese nationals, and three people living in the United States.

One lived in Dayton, Ohio, and that's where Wright Patterson's Air Force Base is, and that's how they got into our network.

So your numbers are wrong.

Um senior officials are going to be reaching out to you within the near future, probably tomorrow morning, to give you the accurate numbers, and they're going to put all the data back into the system.

So back to that report I gave you.

You can use military grade surveillance equipment to kill people.

Um that's what these people were doing.

Um you can read the Department of Justice um press release.

It was a pharmaceutical company that was transporting um fentanyl into San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, and elsewhere.

So your numbers are going to go up.

Don't be shocked.

Um people were using that to cover up the bad news.

So just prepare for that.

However, Chief Yep, I've been to many, many different cities, and I am very impressed with your leadership.

I was very impressed when you went to the American Legion um luncheon.

Keep doing what you're doing.

You got my vote to be the permanent police chief.

The other thing is I do a lot of walking throughout the day collecting evidence.

I have over 7,000 photos on my phone.

You can get a warrant or subpoena for those if you need to.

Um, but I talk to officers, and they are highly recommend you as the next police chief.

Um, but they are positive, and the community has a positive outlook.

Thank you.

That is the great segue for me.

Um, Sherlita, that's all I'm gonna say.

And then I want you to know that um, Chief Yep, thank you for that report.

As someone that has been here for all her life, 68 years in San Francisco, as a couple of people know.

And I want to tell you 27 percent to a native like me that's been in Hunter's Point, been in Sunnydale, in Fillmore, just saw the 300.

That's major to me.

You want to know about community?

I am community.

Thank you.

I rarely am up here saying thank you.

I'm always up here telling you what you did wrong and stop doing this.

So I wanted to say that, and then I wanted to finish by saying, continue what I was saying.

This is wonderful, because it then affirms why I came down here, left work early to come down here.

It was to say that I think the motor cycle cops are not we just don't give them the respect and recognition that they deserve.

They are out there daily engaging the community.

They are out there now.

Do I like them?

No, a lot of times I don't.

If I'm doing things I'm not supposed to do, of course I don't.

But for safety, yes, we love them.

They're making the city safer in combination with all of the work that the police department is doing and the officers of uh accountability holding these officers accountable.

I can tell you it is good, that report.

And I love it and thank you.

And continue the great work.

Oh, and I did vote for you as well.

Through the officers of justice.

Hello, Commissioners.

I'm really glad that I stayed.

I've known Maddie Scott for many decades, and I've taken out inner city kids from the tender line.

Our Sea Scouts, we have about eight to ten volunteers, and we have kids from all over the city.

And to see these kids, hundreds and hundreds of them a year come out to go on canoes, outrigger canoes and boats.

They have never been on anything that floats.

And I just want to say with community relations, you know, having programs where we used to have Sea Scouts where the police would come in and volunteer at our Sea Scout base, and we would get connected and closer with the inner city youth.

But but particularly the age of 11 to 14 of the youth I train.

And at 14, if they don't have like that command, like to put on a life jacket or to understand the tides and the currents, the water becomes alien to them.

And I noticed that in your report they talked about the Marine Unit being able to act quickly and help rescue someone that had jumped in the water.

Well, the bay and the water surrounds us.

It's part of us.

But our youth are getting less and less access to it.

And I would just like to say that on Saturday last week, we had a South End swimmer who was in his 30s who had an epileptic fit right close.

He wasn't supposed to swim by himself, but he ended up doing that, and he died within seconds.

And we were on the water.

We had over a hundred youth out on the water.

And uh the police department came out and talked to the literally came on to the beach and talked to everybody.

They are an essential part of San Francisco, and please keep funding them and get them the fuel, the gas and ESOL and other things that they need.

They're really important, and maybe they can connect more or anyone.

We're having an event on uh September 13th, open house, 11 to 3.

And I really invite you to come down, see our kids full.

You can get on outrigger canoes and sailboats.

So why don't you come on down?

Thank you.

I'd like to use the overhead here concerning my son Arborcaster, who was murdered August 14, 2006.

Um shot with a semi-automatic gun to this gay case isn't solved.

I come here every every Wednesday when I can to bring this up awareness of the unsolved homicides.

We talk about the the event for uh the legislation.

Here are the names of the perpetrators that murdered my son.

I don't understand why I have these names and they're down at the at the homicide detail, and no one's done anything about that.

I bring these pictures of unsolved homicides with me all the time.

So I'm concerned why this isn't being um anyway.

Here's a picture of me standing over my son's uh grave casket.

Here's a picture of what the perpetrators left me a lifeless body after the autopsy have done their thing to his body.

So I'm concerned as a mother.

Why is it these cases being solved?

You have all the names of the perpetrators.

Again, Miss Maddie was talking about uh when we want to find about who's shooting and the shootings.

I mean, that's bringing up again if you bring if you have that out there, maybe people will talk.

We'll talk about the legislation.

Maybe people will talk.

So I bring these pictures with me all the time.

And again, I want to thank you for the flowers, Chief.

They were beautiful at the event.

Um also the on the mission street, the camera is down.

So I asked them why, and they said they didn't cut it on today.

It should be on 24-7.

Please get them back on.

Um, and I also wanted to say my son was, I mean, not my son, but my brother was brutally attacked on Market Street.

And I need something done about that.

And that is the end of public comment.

Line item six, DPA Directors Report discussion report on recent DPA activities and announcements.

Executive Director Henderson.

Thank you.

Good evening.

So I too will start off with the update from the layoff notifications for the department.

Those came from the Board of Supervisors and with the mayor's office as well.

I will say, in terms of the work, and let me just let you know in advance there's a lot of stuff to cover here, but just over the past month has been a lot of work that we've been doing.

But a lot of that work too is highlighted with an increase from the complaints that the department is seeing.

So we have more cases open this year than we had at this time at this far along in the year, both in 2024 and in 2023.

So it's over a hundred more cases that we're working on.

That's a 27% increase from this time last year.

The complaints are distributed amongst uh all of the different districts in the city with the higher highest numbers from Tenderloin and Southern stations.

Uh as a results, as a result, the caseloads from uh the staff in my office uh are 20 percent higher than this time that they were from last year.

Uh my office and the staff is working hard to try and keep pace and complete the cases in nearly the same pace as is new cases that are coming in.

Uh and as a reminder, uh we are still 100 percent in compliance with all of the 3304 deadlines and have not missed any of those deadlines.

Uh as of last Friday, and I use that date as the record because that's what's in the record for the files that are presented to you and that were posted.

Uh we have 10 cases that have investigations that have gone over 270 days.

Uh all but one of those cases is told.

And just to be to clarify for the one, we try and prioritize the sustained cases and pour a lot of our efforts into them, particularly so we can give the department as much notice as possible.

Uh that one case will be closed out by the end of uh this week.

So there will be none by the end of this week.

No, no investigations that have gone over the 270 days by the end of this week, is what I mean.

Uh we've also seen uh pretty big reductions in pending cases that are waiting decisions from SFPD and with the Commission.

I will say that uh this is the lowest period in history that I think we've ever seen for these cases.

There's only one case pending with uh adjudication before the commission.

Uh the department is down to 89 cases.

That is significantly lower.

Uh it's the lowest that we've seen in the past two or three years since we started counting uh those numbers.

Um we just finished uh the NACOL Regional Conference.

So that's uh DPA and CCOA.

CCOA is the California Civilian Oversight Alliance that was started at DPA.

That's a regional alliance of all of the oversight agencies in California.

So we partnered with NACOL to co-host a regional conference here in San Francisco.

That was uh last week, uh covering a number of topics, including AI integration into law enforcement practices, using AI to enhance oversight, uh concerns about accuracy, privacy, and bias with technology, creating safeguards and policies for responsible technology and AI use, uh immigration and law enforcement at state and federal levels, uh RIPA data and audit implications and issues related to uh diminished support for civilian oversight agencies.

Uh it's a it was a big deal to have uh this conference and a big validation for the work that goes on not just in San Francisco but in California as well to have the national conference here.

Uh it was well and it was well attended by oversight professionals and leaders from all over the county.

Uh a great thing to be able to bring uh national conference here to the city.

I just wanted to thank uh President Clay for recommending Vice President Benedicto to join our panels about crafting safeguards and policies for responsible AR use and police practices and volunteering him and receiving his work with a thing.

Special thank you to you, uh Vice President Benedicto for sharing your expertise on the panel.

Uh your background and law, technology, and policy made you a perfect presenter on that.

I also want to thank uh SFPD and the chief who gave us his staff and made great presentations for the conference.

I think it made a big difference uh for the conference and it was greatly appreciated.

Uh I think it made a difference to have the department talk about some of the new technology things that are being implemented and make a presentation to see what's possible and redefining public safety when technology is used correctly and how it can be used in real time.

Uh and lastly, I want to thank my staff.

This was all volunteer work for the people that did this work to make sure.

I don't know if any of you have ever put on a national conference before, but it is a lot of work uh to put together uh and to make sure that things were executed well and they did a great job.

Um we have also uh all started the at DPA, the digital digitalization project.

We have launched a project to digitalize our case files and uploaded them into the cloud.

I mention it because there is a special grant that we were given to do this work and it's very needed at DPA consolidating these files to ensure accuracy for indexing and easy searching of the cases.

Our records go back to 1983, and many of those documents that we have to search regularly are on cassettes, they are on scraps of paper, they're not, they're written down, they're from typewriters.

So this is uh this is a big deal and is really going to help us leverage technology to make improvements and efficiencies uh in the office, particularly as 1421 continues to expand in terms of the obligations for the work.

Uh the project can involves uh over 14 1,400 boxes containing over two million documents.

So it's it's a big project.

I I will keep you guys updated, but we finally started it.

We've been planning for this and trying to get this started for a very long time.

Uh but I think it's going to make a difference in terms of how we search and share our records, both with the commission, the department, and with the public as well.

Uh in terms of our DPA reports, we're starting to examine all of the reports over our next few months in terms of how we communicate information to the commission, San Francisco leadership, and to the public.

Every year, I really try to make sure that uh our reports are becoming more efficient and readable for what people have in terms of their expectations from the from our department.

Uh we're using available technology to report our more our work more comprehensively and efficiently uh while focusing on the data paint data points that are important to our stakeholders.

Uh what I plan on doing, and the reason I'm mentioning it is is because we're going to reach out to all of you commissioners specifically to hear directly from you about the kind of information and data that matters to you most.

So within this month, you'll be receiving information and hopefully everyone will fill out the information about the data points that you want to see in our future reporting.

Um, as I said, to make the data more accessible, clear, usable, and easier to navigate.

We're uncovering a number of issues just as we've started this process, specifically with some of the data sharing uh even with the department, where information is obsolete, unnecessary, in the wrong forms, and doesn't speak to the systems that they have set up, and now is a great time to be having those.

Uh now is a great time to fix that, uh, particularly while we're implementing new technology in both of our systems.

Uh our phone message system uh just went live in seven different languages, uh, ensuring all community members can access our services and information.

Uh the reason this is important, uh, those of you that have been here a long time may recall that once we fixed our uh language access systems uh several years ago, it resulted in an increase of almost 53 percent more cases coming into the office.

Uh we're hoping that this new system with language through the phones will allow more people to access us and access the agency more easily.

Uh the initiative removes language barriers and provides equitable access to police accountability and resources for our diverse communities in San Francisco, and that's kind of the point.

Uh the program specifically will allow information to be shared with non-English speaking residents.

Um I'll give you, I'll keep you updated as that project unfolds and see what it yields for us.

I will reserve my comments.

A lot of the uh policy updates are in the Sparks report.

That's on the concurrent calendar.

So the information is in there.

I don't want to reread what's already been accepted and what I presume everyone has already reviewed.

Uh I will reserve my comments for subsequent agenda items, uh, but I also want to acknowledge and recognize we have uh one of the seniors from one of the senior investigators uh here at today's uh meeting that has already been working with folks in the audience uh on behalf of the agency.

Uh and I am available in case anyone has any further questions.

So just as you open, so you were able to rescind all the termination notices and everybody came back.

That is correct.

That was not easy.

Commissioner Techie.

So I thank you for the report and thank you for most table.

I forgot that part.

Well, what the information is It was a lot to lot to digest in that particular meeting.

But my question is um I'm looking at your um looking at the case received in seven weeks and last reporting.

I'm a little disturbed by tenderloin being the highest 24.

Uh I'm assuming the case when you say cases, you mean one officer can have two?

Two two, I mean there could be two complaints against one officer, right?

That is correct.

It doesn't reflect the number of officers per se.

That is correct.

The numbers are oftentimes hard to read, particularly when you have, let's say there's an incident or uh uh protest or gathering or whatever.

You we will frequently have any number of complaints that come in about the same thing, and many of those complaints could and sometimes do include the same officers or the same actors and what it is.

It's really hard to read these numbers in this way, which is why I kind of summarize them with the So I mean, would you say that um maybe folks who interact with Tenderland Station are much more aware to call DPA?

Is that the reason?

That could be one reason.

They they feel that they they feel you know empowered to call.

I'd like to think that that is the reason because uh there are areas that feel like they understand what to do and how to do it in relationship to the agency, but it's hard to gauge until we do a post analysis, and usually that comes out in the annual report from how people find out about our information and why.

Because sometimes also the that information in those complaints come from third-party agencies.

So they will come uh from ACOU from the public defender's office, from sometimes the neighborhood associations uh will do that.

And our information is also at the uh captain's meetings.

So sometimes we get complaints and cases that come out of those as well because people want to talk about what's going on.

We try to be everywhere so people can access us easily.

Just the other question I I mean we already paused in the consent calendar, but I had a question regarding um, you know, there was in the report this we already passed was uh regarding a where it says that there were a couple of cases that was basically said, you know what, this case cannot be dealt by us, it has to be dealt by another department.

So my two questions I have is like what could be the example of the other department?

Absolutely.

So oftentimes we will get calls, uh, and this happens very frequently.

Um we will get calls about a stop on the highway and it's CHP.

It's not SFPD.

Uh more frequently we will get calls about actions that have taken place on the street and it's a federal agency, DEA, ICE, uh, FDA, you know, any number of other agencies.

Uh but the staff now is trained and we have a whole book of agencies where complaints can go.

Uh I will say just the third category, this is very significant.

We will get calls from other county as well.

Part of the value of the C COA is that we're all now linked together and we can say when someone is stopped in Berkeley, but they live in San Francisco, here's the agency that you need to talk to.

So that happens very regularly.

And do you I mean, d do do your staff follow up with those lines or uh you know complaints saying that, hey, did you get in touch with them?

Did or not typically because it's you've got to not typically, but sometimes they call back because they got the information wrong or they didn't get the right number or they didn't write it down or they want it again, so that will happen.

Like if they couldn't get in contact with them, they'll call back and say, is there anyone else?

The good news is with CCOA, we have a whole directory for the entire state.

And that includes state resources and federal resources as well, depending on what the agency is.

And so that level of efficiency makes people call back.

Uh, but we don't circle back once we've made referrals typically.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Commissioner Scott.

Thank you so much.

Um Paul for that um report.

Um I wanted to know what uh how do we uh DPA communicates with the community and feedback about different incidents?

Is there something in place for that?

Um so the community will know what action items you are taking on and that you're aware of certain incidents that have occurred in the community.

My our goal is to to connect um the community with law enforcement and different areas like your your area, and to provide information for the public and the communities that we're doing all that we can to make sure our streets are safe and these incidents are being handled.

Part of that's kind of what I was talking about with the reporting, part of the reporting um is forward-facing in terms of what outreach is, let's just call it that the outreach, because I think in my mind, the outreach is the stuff that goes directly to the community.

Uh a big part of what we do and how we present the information is it's 24 hours available separate from the weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual kind of reporting that we do that's online where people can track all of these numbers is the engagement with communities and beyond just uh participating in like the conferences that we put up put out, we want to launch and we do participate in these things.

Uh we go to captains meetings, we go to the national night out, we do events with the Board of Supervisors, we do events with commission, as you know, we go to things as well.

Uh but we're trying to relaunch that in very specific ways that are targeted.

Uh we really want to make sure that we are efficient.

We're a very small department, and we don't have the volume of folks that we had in the past.

We used to have uh a dedicated outreach coordinator that did this uh full time coordinating events for staff to attend and coordinating things to come from.

We no longer have that position.

So we're trying to be as strategic as we can to get the most bang for our buck to make sure that when we have our specific presence, people know about it and are aware.

And that is going to initially start with some of the departments.

The folks that are calling for the presentation that uh that all the commissioners get when they first come in and the presentation that you guys got that we generally reference as DPA 101.

Here's how it works, here's what's available, here's how to access us, here's what we do, here's a chart of all that stuff.

We want to have that available to some of the new departments that have evolved and some of the new leaders in departments that are asking for that information, like the language access departments that we have, emergency services, um I had a whole list.

There's a whole list of those, and we're hoping that things like that uh allow people to see more of our work and to be able to call and contact us.

Here's also our information and those flyers that talk about DPA and the overall presentation are available in every single police department as well.

So when people come in to any department in any of the precincts that available is there as well, and we keep that stocked as well.

And I just wanted to add um because of the shortage, we know there's a shortage, you know, as Chief Yep uh indicated there's a shortage in your department as well.

And because of these shortages in law enforcement, you know, we we know criminals are get a hold of this information and the crime goes up.

Um but I wanted to add uh have you all considered using the technology as well, um, as I mentioned uh earlier to Chief Chief Jeff about the um the text messaging and things of that nature, since most people today everything is done by text, just about and so I'm just thinking of you know uh hearing from young people that and other people that I speak with up all the time about crime and violence say, well, you they're not utilizing the tech system enough.

We get alerts for everything.

How come we're not getting alerts about this or that?

One of the police department and the DA's office and everybody use these, they'll get more information quicker and faster.

So that's why I'm bringing this up so that we can sort of utilizing that because young people and and other folks that that's that's the new system now.

And uh, I just wanted to know have you guys considered using any of that kind of information regarding um some of the incidents that have happened.

So, for instance, if there's an officer involved shooting or something like that, the neighborhood, you know, there should be an alert that go out to everybody that we're on it, we got it, you know, and this kind of helps calm tension down and let people know the law enforcement is working on it, we know what's going on, and it helps bring the adrenaline down in communities and prevent more harm.

So that's why I'm bringing this up to see if you guys have um we've all we have already started doing some of those things, and with us, once you contact us, some of the things that we're now doing are automating our responses.

So immediately, once you put the information in, even if you didn't initiate it with an email, you can be recontacted in email when someone talks to you in person or does it on phone, and then rather than having to wait, that information is automated and sent back to you with a summary with an assigned number.

This is what I was talking about when I was talking about the revisioning of DPA reporting.

It's includes what you were just talking about.

What we have found in looking at that is some of the arduous reports that are created on a daily basis are now obsolete because of technology, and we're still spending a lot of time sending that information back and forth with the department, and it's going either to the wrong person or it's not needed anymore.

So we're trying to make sure we it's a small department.

We don't have time to be wasted doing things that are irrelevant or can be taken over or done more efficiently through technology, and that's part of exactly what we're doing.

And I will say uh the commission will play a big role in it, which is why we're going to speak with everyone directly about identifying which data points you want to be reported, both here in the commission and part of what's going to be outward facing as well.

Many of the things that were being reported are things we're still reporting on things that were asked for from decades ago that may not be as relevant anymore.

And even though they don't get discussed here in the regular meetings, they're produced and presented either to you and or to the bar to the department in ways that are no longer valuable or can be found easily online through some of our other records that are presented in a regular basis.

But that's exactly the point.

That's exactly what we're trying to do.

We don't have text messages to text people back like that, uh, but the online accountability for people to be able to log in in real time and to follow and track the complaints that they've come in and to contact them immediately once they filed a complaint with us with a summary, giving them information is I think that's the kind of efficiency that you're talking about.

Thank you, thank you so much.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item six, please approach the podium.

I'm gonna take all the opportunity I can tonight.

Um I want to thank your department, and of course, uh you know, regardless of how long I've known you or Commissioner Scott or even yet, if you're not doing right, we're gonna make sure, like we did uh Chief Sir.

You know, we went did a major campaign, and I was very fond of him.

So I want to thank you.

But we did a campaign to get him to resign, because we didn't feel his philosophy aligned with the community.

So I'm I had to give you them that backstory because you know it, but to say thank you.

We know that the police accountability department is doing what it's supposed to do.

Because you haven't seen me, a lot of them have not seen me here.

Now you know when I come, I usually come deep.

I haven't had to do that.

So that is an indicator that you guys are doing what the department was set out, which was created.

Just like when I work for the mayor's office of gang prevention, they don't know nothing about that because it wasn't here, you know.

It's the same thing.

Once we do what we're supposed to do, then we move on to the next problem that we have.

So this department is doing what it's supposed to do.

And we are watching, as you know.

But I want the commissioners to know, as Maddie knows, and and the chief knows, we are watching everyone.

So the fact that we're not here is a blessing.

And I want to thank each and every one of you because it takes a team to make the dream work.

Thank you all.

That is the end of public comment.

Line item seven, Commission reports, discussion and possible action.

Commission president's report, Commissioner's reports, and Commissioner announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting.

All right.

Thank you.

First of all, as Commissioner Benedicto and I, we both went out and see Ms.

Brown.

We went out to her the dedication there together or met there.

I've had spent some time thanking our sergeants for getting me the department manual on GDOs.

Should probably go through that.

That book in and itself, those are the rules of engagement.

And although you can see from there all the all the times of updates for each of those GDOs, I think it's very important that we get a good understanding of that.

And whenever we have a question of the manual that we should go to our sergeant, and the sergeant can get someone through the department, and he's talking to the chief to get the information.

But the all the GDOs, they have a lot to offer all of us, but in tuition together and what they have in store to let us operate, it's very important that you know them.

So take an opportunity if you can.

It's it's a lot of reading, but it's it's I think it'll you'll get the knowledge I think you want and some of the questions we've all asked is there.

The answer is there in one form or the other.

Also, most of this time, as we asked our last meeting in August, spent a lot of time with the Anderson people, just making sure that we got the setup uh is correct.

I've I've been to Noe Valley meeting myself, um, Commissioner Techie and I.

I've been the Ocean View, Commissioner Benedicto, and our commissioners themselves have been engaged in organizing uh trying to, and and we have now uh organized outside of the eight meetings that we we increase from five to eight, but we've got other meetings now have been set up in the community.

I got Commissioner Yee.

Tomorrow night I'll be in the sunset.

We'll be out there with the large group.

And I've got an Anderson, I've talked to Anderson numerous occasions, and they're going to come out, even though they're not under that contract, they will come out uh and be um the leads for the presentation, uh, and we get to be able to do what we've done on the other meetings.

Commissioner Scott has gone out the NAACP and the the head of that organization is to put together uh either the September, there's a September date, and Commissioner Benedicto has agreed to come out and um try to set up a community meeting forum just like the other meetings.

So she has been very active in that.

Commissioner Techie has been very active.

She's now set up a visitation valley meeting that I will go next week.

So next week I'll be uh in Tinderloin Vith Valley, and so and I'll also be tomorrow night at sunset.

So I'll I'll make at least five of them.

And but uh this is being very important, and really Anderson and we have had lots of questions.

I feel lots of questions as we gone in terms of the process and getting resources, and they've been very good in helping us along the way in terms of our interpreters.

There's been there's been a void in certain types of interpreters that we have been noticing.

They've gone out that get out the HR department who gets out and signs out the interpreters, they're trying to make arrangements and have made arrangements to get the other interpreters if they can, if they are available, to attend these these forums so they can help people who need that that help in terms of the language issue.

They've also translation, they've been pointed out.

I think Commissioner Techie and others had uh got information that some of the translations were improper and they needed in terms of the dialect, they've gone out and sought out to do that.

So they're moving, they're doing a very good job of trying to do what we want them to do to get this process uh I'd say in a good place uh for us getting the information that we're gonna need eventually when we go forward uh to make our decisions on uh selecting the chief with all the data and information we'll get.

So uh that being said, I think that's enough for me uh in terms of myself.

So I'm going to turn to Commissioner Scott.

Thank you, President Clay.

I just wanted to say that it was an honor for Commissioner Benedicto Chief Yep and many others, city leaders to attend um Aubrey Abacasa's anniversary with Ms.

Paulette Brown and to see so many people come out and support it and support the legislation as she so eloquently spoke on and the Board of Supervisors approved.

And as we move forward, we had a lot of mothers out there as well and it was very well attended and a great honor to be there with you, Ms.

Brown and your family on honoring Aubrey's life.

And it was well attended and we look forward to continuing our work and to get these unsolved homicide cases resolved and to help us to stop the killing and start the healing.

Also it was an honor to, as you mentioned President Clay, to attend the North Beach community engagement with um Vice President Commissioner Benedicto and Yee, Commissioner Yi, it was very well attended and um the Anderson and Anderson group are doing such a great job and educating the public and it was quite interesting to hear the questions that were asked and very engaging.

So I'm looking forward to attending the other ones and Baby Hunters Point and uh you know and trying to attend the the others as well as we um conduct um our search for new police chief here in San Francisco.

And as you mentioned we've been invited by Dr.

Jonathan Butler, President of the NAACP and Dr.

Amos Brown to attend um the NAACP meeting coming up and I believe it's going to be in October.

That's October October the third the third Sunday in October at Third Baptist Church at three o'clock and it is we invite you all to attend um the public will be there to ask questions um on um the new hiring of our new police chief and we'll make sure that we're there when Anderson and Anderson to give that information.

The community is looking forward to that and um so are we um commission tech and I had the pleasure thank you Paul Henderson the executive director over uh DPA.

It was an honor and an inspiration to come into your department to meet all your staff who were so attentive and very um informational and uh providing a lot of resources and educational materials that I was not even aware of.

I learned so much and I'm sure you did too it was very heartfelt and very um supported um to get that information to learn more and to help us to do more as we work together with SFPD and um your department as well and making our city better and safer.

So thank you for that.

And um that concludes my report.

Thank you.

Commissioner Benedicto Thank you very much President Clay a number of items from my report like a lot of us were coming back from recess so there's a backlog of items to update on I also wanted to start as Commissioner Scott did by saying that I was honored to attend uh as I try to do every year the commemoration of Aubrey Abercasis um you know it's in my neighborhood I walk over from from home to to be with Ms.

Brown for that event and it's really um it was great to see the community show up for that event to see fellow members of the Commission and civic leaders.

I think this was the first year that the event was held after the street renaming so this year it was held uh under Aubrey Abacasa's name under that street so that really was uh an honor um uh as Ms.

Brown said the laws now changed in San Francisco thanks to the work of our Board of Supervisors to broaden the universe of tips.

Uh Ms.

Brown I'm happy to connect with you on how we can publicize that and you asked about that earlier in general public comment so let's let's be in touch and figure out ways that we can we can promote that more broadly.

I also want to note uh that uh as interim chief Yep said uh San Francisco celebrated Pistahan which is the Filipino American Heritage Parade it's the largest Filipino American uh cultural celebration in the United States and one of the largest in the world it's the same weekend as outside land so it's a huge lift for the department uh but it was uh uh a very successful event and I'm very grateful to the many officers who helped ensure that event was a success as well.

I think the potential for artificial intelligence to transform the way public safety and law enforcement operates is huge, but as is the responsibility to make sure that's done effectively.

And I think there were a lot of great ideas at that panel, and I really want to be thankful to my co-panelists and to all the organizers of that event as well.

Um as uh multiple commissioners have said, there have been a number of public uh listening sessions for the Chief Search.

I think we've all attended one or another at this point.

I want to thank Chief Hahn and Ms.

Rentschler and Ralph Anderson and Associates for uh their professionalism in handling these.

I think I've attended three or four now in addition to a number that were uh separate from the official ones, and I think all the commissioners are uh really doing everything we can to hear from as much of the community as possible.

Uh to members of the public, there are uh four more listening sessions that are posted on the commission website.

The online survey is online.

So if you can't make it to one of the sessions, you can fill out the survey.

Um you can come to commission and speak at public comment, but we want to solicit as much input as possible.

Um one thing that uh for my fellow commissioners if uh that are doing events that are not Ralph Anderson events, I've done a couple.

Be sure that any written materials there are compiled and sent to the commission staff so they can be included in the bundle of materials.

I did an event with uh a few community groups and they did their own surveys and stuff during the event, and they're gonna bundle those up and send those so they can be incorporated into our written materials as well.

Um the chief listing sessions, as members of the public are aware, we're in the final stages of the boundary analysis project.

So I've taken uh I've extended an open invitation that has been taken up by a number of community groups to meet on that topic as well.

I've done a couple of meetings in SOMA in the tenderloin, have a couple more scheduled.

So uh if you want to meet with me to talk about the boundary analysis projects, I am open to doing that.

Uh finally, um we talked a little bit earlier uh with interim chief Yap about uh San Francisco Sanctuary City Ordinance and the department notice.

Uh as I've been doing since we've unfortunately been under these heightened immigration.

I'm gonna repeat the same statement I've been doing at every uh commission meeting, which is to remind the members of the public that it's long-standing SFPD policy and uh local law to not participate in federal immigration enforcement efforts.

The sanctuary ordinance in San Francisco, which is the law, pro generally prohibits city employees from using city funds or resources to assist immigration and customs enforcement in the enforcement of federal immigration law unless such assistance is required by federal or state law.

And that concludes my report.

Commissioner Yi thank you very much, sir uh President uh Clay.

Uh I just want to report today, uh 10 at uh Chinatown Night Out.

Um this was uh created eleven years ago by uh a community leader, Rose Pac, in regards to the regular national police out.

And in Chinatown, it's a little different from all the other community.

Um there is a lot of residents in the SROs.

And in the SROs, there are families of uh say one room can have four uh people living there.

So for them to come out and go across town sometime or go across a few uh in the communities is is a difficult task.

Whereas in the uh Chinatown night out, it's right there in Portsmouth Square.

I was there also.

The first speaker was uh our chief uh Paul Yep, which was uh where he was uh captain over at Central Station.

So I was uh I remember that vividly where Rosepot has captain um David Lazar to do this, do it for the people, and they did it.

And they continue to do that.

I want to thank the CYC and the chamber, Chinese chambers, for continuing as outreach into the community as such and building relationship with the police and the community.

It just goes uh big volumes.

So thanks out uh for the Chinatown Night Out.

Also 10 at uh as uh Vice President Kevin Benaldicta, and also um Manny Scott, Commissioner Matty Scott.

We went to the North Beach um, I guess uh for the chief um input from the community.

It's something I greatly appreciate it.

Um you get to hear how the community spoke and what their uh issues are.

So I'm looking forward to tomorrow's event.

Although in the sunset is called a San Francisco Fair Building, County Fair Building.

So don't know what to expect.

Uh just go out there and see what see and listen to the people input and thank you thank uh President Clay for stepping up to putting this forward.

Also in August, August 5th, which was a National Police Night Out, I was able to attend the Norton Station, Central Station, and the Richmond Station night out.

Well, my community leader from the Central Station, CPAC, Charles Chow.

Great event.

Good to see all the community people out.

Beautiful weather.

So I think that's all I have to report.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

And I just want to remind the public.

The locations where these forums are held are posted on the website for the commission, and everyone is welcome to go anywhere to those forums.

Wherever we are at, you're you're welcome.

You don't have to be from that that that neighborhood or that district.

You can come.

So they're open to everyone.

So please, if you want to go, go down to come to the uh the commission's website and you can get the locations.

Also, there are also questionnaires that are available for you also on the website for you to complete, and those will go directly to to the Anderson company who is uh commanding our search, who is leading the search, and and further uh as it relates to to that, you can write an email and express uh what your wants, what your needs, what you believe that you would like to see the police commissioner be for the city, and you can send them an email and they're gonna record that.

And and when you're there at those meetings, they are recorded.

The person who is speaking gets the mic, everything is recorded, they're taking that down, and they're gonna have a transcript of that.

So you will have we will have evidence of what person a person has said, and their name is given.

So it's not like someone's there and just listen and say you said it, but if you are actually getting a microphone and all that information is recorded, and there will be a record of it.

So you know if you have an opportunity, there's still a number of the meetings left.

Please take that opportunity and come to the different neighborhoods.

You are welcome.

Okay.

That being said, I'm concerned.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item seven, commission reports, please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

Line item eight, discussion and possible action to adopt revised Department General Order 1.08, community policing, discussion and possible action.

Commissioner Benedicto?

All right.

Uh just as a heads up for my fellow commissioners, all of our uh for items uh uh eight through eleven, there's no presenter since these were all already presented on.

They're just coming back for final passage.

Commission staff handed out uh what we we're calling cheat sheets, which summarize the changes.

Um I'd like to thank Commission staff for doing this.

It is a new addition, and it is incredibly helpful.

Um the Commission staff does a number of wonderful things, this might be my favorite thing they have done all year, uh, which is a high bar.

Uh so for agenda item eight, DJO 1.08, there were no changes uh in meet and confer.

I want to thank the POA for moving this quickly through Meet and Confer.

Um I will move to finally adopt DGO 1.08 with a 90-day implementation time frame requested by the Department.

All right.

Is there a second?

Second.

Boy, wait, wait.

Um I guess we will just get second in a discussion.

Okay.

Yeah, I just want to make the motion at the front and then we can have our discussion.

Uh we just want to make uh I guess uh add uh additional wording in uh 1.08 and with residents and I like to add merchants as well.

Uh that's on uh 1.0801 and that is on line one, two, three, four, five.

Right after residents.

I would like to add merchants.

The re reason why is uh many of the meetings that happen in uh well for Chinatown my sakes, many of the merchants do tend these uh community forum or community uh meetings.

So uh I know they have you know they like to be added into what you see.

Well, is that what this is?

First page.

So you want to uh so just so I understand so on 1.0801 under purpose you would like it to read.

Edition of uh merchants.

Okay.

It does say organizations under the current draft.

Um merchant organization is different.

Yeah, you can have organization, but merchants may or may not belong to it.

Individual merchants uh that talk about maybe the violence they have passed, you know, they're experiencing this this.

Individual merchants um they talk about maybe the violence they're passed, you know, they're experiencing this this sorry I didn't bring it up.

So uh so it w it would say promoting public safety and addressing community issues collaboratively with residents, comma merchants, comma, and organizations.

Yes.

Whatever I don't think it's the most I I I I I am somewhat concerned that open that there are a lot of like we we it's trying to be as general as possible.

There are a lot of groups other than merchants that obviously we want to work with as well.

Again, they're community-based organizations or like but um well they are different, but I think every any business is necessarily an organization.

But I don't have a huge My question is would you consider merchants part of your community?

Yes, and it is yes.

So I like to see them the wording added in there.

That's my thoughts.

So it would be well defined that the merchant is part of the community, so the merchants would there would be no doubt that they're included.

Yeah, you may say it's part of the community, but they're saying that without that, they don't feel that they're being included because somebody would exclude them.

Is that what you're saying, Commissioner Yee?

Was that again?

Is that what you're saying?

That they have in terms of making them included that they feel without without that.

Yeah.

I don't know if it's it's in the purpose section, it's not operative.

So I don't have it.

Okay.

Did Commissioner Tucky want to be?

Commissioner Checky, I'm sorry.

I mean it's point of order, like in the sense like do you want a second and then a discussion?

Because I know that this has already been discussed, but I have a lot to talk about.

Okay.

But I know that it is probably I mean it would be just my statement.

But if if we want to do point of order, I'm let's let's get it going to the second and then there is a request or motion for an amendment.

Is that what this is?

Well, I think yeah, you need to make the amendment.

Yeah, we can make that.

I mean w I I I think rather than make serial motions for amendment, if Commissioner Tucky wants to make her points and if there's one motion, we can revise the motion at the end of that as as a matter of parliamentary.

Are there other revisions you you would like to do?

I mean, not revisions.

I know that I came in extremely late, and this is something that I'm very close to.

Of course, and I have seen it how it works in the neighborhood.

Okay, so hold on, let's do this.

So I just want to point over.

So let's let's have a motion to amend to include merchants, and then that's a if we have a f a motion and a second, and then let's have a discussion, Commissioner Tech.

You can tell everything you can say it.

Okay.

All right.

So I can I I I will amend my motion to adopt one point oh eight with the addition of merchants to the purpose section.

All right.

Second to that?

Okay.

Okay with all right, discussion then?

So I'll add, I mean the the questions I have some questions, clarification, and maybe it it's not nothing to add to it because in the sense like this has already been done.

So I just wanted to it's probably clarification in detail is what it is.

Um I did have the business one, which um Commissioner Y already said that.

Uh the other thing was um there was in the detail, not the two-page uh short, but in detail of this um general order.

One of the in under procedure, they there is a mention of community liaison officer.

And my question, I mean, this is for implementation, right?

Because at some point this will be implemented, and I want to make sure that I understand it.

So there is a committee liaison of officer mentioned in it, and I was wondering if I mean we are all we all know that the SFPD is short staffed.

If we were fully staffed, it would be amazing to have a committee liaison officer, but at this moment I don't know if there is any plan until then who would be the community liaison officer because there is no mention or is it under the discretion of the captain of the station, which is fine.

Then it should say that the captain of the station will probably it says that uh will decide who is the liaison and but also there is no definition of what the role of the liaison will be, who will be training the who will be giving the orientation to the liaison, what is expected of them and all that stuff is not clearly written in the detailed document.

That was one.

Um the second thing was about the survey, because I love that there was a survey in the um in the ordin in the general order saying that uh the department has to do a survey of the community members, I'm assuming, whether this is working, not working, this community policing is working, not working.

If that is the case, who is developing them, how does a community member participate in it?

That is not clearly mentioned.

I don't know if it this could be, I mean, I I'm rattling off all this because I don't know if it is part of the implementation part of it and it doesn't have to go to go in DGO, I don't know.

I don't know.

So I'm asking these questions.

So I don't know who worked on it from the commission side.

But then is this so the other thing that that was mentioned was there is a uh the department has to come with uh with the overall plan of community policing.

So my question is like is what is I have not seen one if it existed already, but um if there is, what is it and how how does it how what is the outlined of the plan?

And then about train under training 1.0805.

Um there is no mention of any community member being part of the training.

So I don't know how who's training our community police officers or whoever responsible for it to how to do this without having a community members or member present or being part of the training.

And the training manual basically is there the training manual of the community policing, I'm assuming has to be community has to be part of it.

It cannot be just the um the folks who are developing this general order, like the staff is not the only person in it.

So there has to be I don't know if this is all discussed, then No, no, no.

I I think it was Commissioner Yanyez who is um handling the community policing DGO.

But I think uh Chief Yep can answer these questions or or okay you have the if you have somebody here available to answer the questions for her, that way she can get the answers.

Um these are serious functional questions on how this is implementation.

And so to you, I mean you these are something that you feel that are not being answered in the DGO itself, and you'd like to have you would like to have an opportunity to have that.

I mean, answered, correct.

Yes.

Uh I actually reached out to Rafa, I think if I'm not mistaken, her name.

Um of your staff person who does policy, and we discussed this a bit.

So that's what my thought is.

We should table this for further discussion.

Okay, that's why I that's why I asked.

I I don't know how that's I I I'll withdraw the motion.

Um so there's not actively a motion on the table.

Um so that this can be given for their discussion.

And maybe we can have a department presenter come in and have it for a future.

I know that um Sergeant Daniel Lee presented when this was here in May.

I don't know if he that's still the SME, but um we can schedule it for a future discussion.

All right, we'll do that.

Okay.

Next.

Thank you.

Next um sorry, before well, I guess we can have Sergeant Call the item.

Next time it's the main.

Oh, sorry.

Sergeant, you want to call the next item which is related or public comment for public comment for if any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item eight, please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

Line item nine, discussion impossible action to adopt revised community policing and problem solving manual, discussion and possible action.

Commissioner Grenader.

Yeah, I just want to confirm, Chief, uh, if we're not doing final adoption of 1.08 tonight, would you rather we also pull the manual since they're hand like I don't want them to get out of sync?

Yes.

Okay, I think that I'll propose that no motion be made on this and this item be tabled.

Okay.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item nine, please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

Line item 10, discussion and possible action to adopt, revised Department General Order 10.11, body one camera discussion impossible action.

Mr.

Minus Benedictov.

All right, Commissioners, we are all very familiar with VGO 10.11.

We've dealt with it in both open and closed session.

Uh it went through a working group back in 20 uh 13.

It was presented to the commission and sent to meet and confer in February of 2025.

Um there were some changes that were made uh at meeting confer that are highlighted in your cheat sheets.

That are consistent with what the commission has accepted.

So with that, I will make a motion to adopt revised Department General Order 10.11 with a 45-day implementation time frame as requested by the Department.

Commissioner Scott?

Discussion.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 10.

Please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

On the motion, Commissioner Techie, how do you vote?

Yes, Mr.

Tucky is yes, Commissioner Scott.

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes, Commissioner Leong?

Yes.

Commissioner Leo is yes.

Commissioner Ye?

Yes.

Commissioner Yee is yes.

Commissioner Lyas.

Commissioner Lyas?

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have seven yeses.

Line item eleven, discussion and possible action to adopt revised department general order eleven point zero two.

Secondary employment.

Yes.

Commissioner Yee is yes.

Commissioner Lyus?

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have seven yeses.

Line item twelve.

Public comment in all matters pertaining to item 14 below closed session, including public comment and item 13.

A vote whether to hold item 14 in closed session.

If you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium.

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Motion to not disclose closed session, with the exception of factual updates on fourteen A, which will be provided in the minutes.

Commissioner Scott.