For which stands one nation under DARA, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Vice President Benedict, I'd like to take roll.

Please go ahead.

Commissioner Tecke.

Here.

Commissioner Scott.

Here.

Commissioner Leong.

Here.

Commissioner Yi.

Here.

Commissioner Elias is excused, as well as President Clay.

Vice President Benedicto, you have a quorum also with us tonight.

We have interim chief Paul Yep from the San Francisco Police Department and Executive Director Paul Henderson from the Department of Police Accountability.

Thank you, Sergeant.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to our the police commission meeting of September 17th, 2025.

Sergeant, if you would please call the first item.

Line item one, weekly officer recognition certificate.

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

Officer Jeffrey Fortuno, number 2000, acting sergeant and team leader for tactical.

Welcome.

Welcome.

Wait till everyone gets in here.

One second, we got a big crew coming here.

We have the department.

We love to see it.

Why wouldn't we?

Yeah.

We love to see it.

I'll go off script a little bit before I start here.

Chief knows us well.

Great.

Good evening.

I'm Lieutenant Mason.

I'm the commanding officer of the tactical company.

It's my honor and privilege to present acting Sergeant Fortuna, and I'll be reading a few nice facts about him.

I think we're all going to enjoy.

Especially the tactical team, which is here in support.

The SF tactical team has a very different job description.

The descriptions of tactical team members that are not in any announcement in the SFPD include the following items.

You have to volunteer, long hours, 16 to 20 hour days are common.

Today's been a 23-hour day for our team.

Away from the family constantly, training in the rain, the bay, mountains, airplanes, all over the city and county of San Francisco.

Arresting the worst of the worst.

Murderers, child molesters, robbers, and rapists, and finally putting the city of San Francisco first.

That job description is not for everyone in the police department.

But this job description is for Sergeant Fortuno.

Nine years ago, Fortuna volunteered for SFD TAC.

He passed a vigorous physical and written test for entrance and then passed a three-month intense basic tactical course.

In those nine years, Fortuno has risen through the ranks to become a tactical team leader and an acting sergeant.

In addition to numerous awards he has received throughout his career, Fortuno earned a bronze medal of valor and a police commission commendation while on the TAC team.

We honor Fortuna today specifically for the following reasons.

The leadership he has shown in planning, supervising, and executing over 100 high-risk search warrants and critical incidents in the city and county of San Francisco.

Transformed himself from a tactical team member making sacrifices to a tactical team leader making bigger sacrifices.

Pioneering the use of drone technology and tactical operations, which has saved the lives of officers, suspects, and members of the public.

Fortuno is one of the finest officers the department has in its ranks.

The city of San Francisco is fortunate to have Fortuno protecting its citizens.

Officer of the week, Officer Jeffrey Fortuna Star 2000.

Yes, Acting Sergeant.

Would that say a few words?

First and foremost, uh thank you.

Um I'd like to thank my team members, uh, everyone who came out and supported me today, and most importantly, uh their significant others, because without their support, I wouldn't have made it to where I am today.

So uh I'd like to show appreciation for them as well.

Thank you so much.

Um, I'm sorry, we keep going, please.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Congratulations, acting sergeant uh Fortuna.

Thank you, Lieutenant Mason, for um bringing this award to our attention, and thank you to all the members of the tactical team that uh came out here in support.

Um, for members of the public who don't know, like Lieutenant Mason said that the tactical team handles the hardest problems that face uh our officers and uh really are an elite uh team within SFPD.

Um I'm so glad to see that the level of support because while we're recognizing um acting Sergeant Fortuna, we're also recognizing all the work of the tactical team and the tremendous work that they do.

Uh I also want to echo what Lieutenant Mason said and recognizing all your significant others and your families.

Uh we say this at every graduation and promotional ceremony that the families are an integral part to allowing our SFPD officers to do what they do, and that's doubly true when it comes to the tactical team.

Um the tactical team's also really on the cutting edge of all that SFPD does.

Uh, you know, has been working with drones, you know, and has led the way even before the broader drone program in the department has been rolled out, and so it's really great to recognize it.

Um I had the pleasure of uh attending the Critical Mindset coordinated response training with the tactical team a couple of years ago, only got shot by paintballs collaterally a little bit, so uh, but really what I took away from that was seeing the incredible professionalism and training uh and the response to these incredibly difficult scenarios.

Uh and it was a real privilege to spend a day with the tactical team when I did that, and um thank you for allowing me to do that.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, Vice President Benedicto.

Officer Fortuna, thank you for your sacrifices.

And I think what's telling about your character is that when you came up here and got your award, you thanked your teammates instead.

And I think that speaks volumes about who you are as a person and about the people with whom you work.

So thank you for your sacrifice and for your contributions to the city.

Thank you.

Commissioner Taki.

Good evening, and thank you, Sergeant Fortunately.

And I have to say um thank you for all your services for the for the city.

And um I want to say special thanks to Tactical Team because we at Tenderloin Station got a very good captain, Captain Matt Sullivan.

We are very excited.

It they came he came from your team.

I hear I you all speak highly of him, and so it's a PD.

So he's got an immense pressure on him to perform better with us.

So I I really appreciate all your work and um and hopefully congratulations.

Thank you.

Commissioner Yi.

Uh, thank you very much, sir, Vice President uh Kevin Ben on TikTok.

Uh Acting Sergeant uh Jeffrey Fortino and your team.

Thank you very much.

Uh, you're the one that comes in at the end where you have to you're the closer.

You know, there's difficult cases that you guys face, and you guys do do the right thing.

Uh, just want to also thank you on your apprehension of the suspect that did the stabbing of it, um suspect, and uh over in um I guess uh Commodore Slope.

Uh you went there and apprehended suspect has cleaned this uh everybody got out safely, and I just want to congratulate you all and wish you guys continued success and stay safe, everybody.

Thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Yes.

First of all, congratulations on the services that you all provide and for your services and your dedication.

Um, I too want to commend you all um for the apprehension of the suspect, um, and the stabbing death of um Alger brother um and with his son being present there.

Um I understand the drones were used and everything was used to apprehend the suspect.

So all that you do is very vital to our community, and I was very proud to ride the elevator up here with you all.

You know, I knew you guys were special.

And um I just want to say thank you, thank you, um, for the services that you do in our community.

It means a lot.

It means a lot to me.

Um, and a lot of our mothers who live in a community who are impacted daily with so many things, and it's just good to know that we have you out there serving our community, serving us and serving our city to keep us safe.

So thank you and congratulations.

Chief, yep.

Thank you.

So also my congratulations to you, acting sergeant Fortuna.

You and your team don't always get the public recognition that you should.

So I'm glad to see all of you here today getting the recognition that you deserve.

You guys have a long history of tradition and teamwork in the SFPD.

You are the elite.

You hold us to you hold yourselves to the highest standards, and you're crime fighters.

So I'm proud of the work that you do.

I'm proud of your leadership.

You make San Francisco safer.

I have personally seen you at events, never complaining, but I always feel better when I see you guys around.

So thank you from the bottom of my heart.

And um congratulations.

Get some rest, guys.

All right.

Thank you, Chief.

Good to see you.

Before we do our photo, I'd like to embarrass the whole tactical team and have them come up to the front, please, so they can be recognized.

So if you could stand behind uh acting sergeant for Fortuneau.

Come to the front.

We can't be scared in the situations you all face every day.

All right, so have a round of applause for the SFP tax defense.

You can stand here and do it.

Sure, yeah.

We can do a photo.

Let's try.

See where you are, we'll stand up.

You guys want to go?

I don't know.

Yeah, go ahead.

Oh, cheap.

You gotta get in the middle with you.

Challenge coin.

Inicians, I'll be on this side.

Okay.

Mason will be on that.

Now nobody can see anybody.

We got Madden front.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Welcome to the journey.

Thanks for everything.

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

And there is no public comment.

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 at 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 would like to make public comment, please approach the podium.

Good evening, police commissioner.

For the record, my name is Chris Workline.

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

I'll be brief today.

Earlier today, I was doing a little bit of research and I was looking at mass shootings, which were four or more shootings that injure a person or kill a person.

So far this year, San Francisco has three.

That's the most they've had since 2018 when they had three as well.

Those numbers start ticking up.

You want to start looking obviously at what's going on, the thin blue line issue, uh turf war.

But three, that's right in line where we've been for the last seven years.

So that's a good job.

It's a really good job.

The other thing I wanted to talk about is to kind of follow up on everything that I've been speaking about and kind of wrapping it up where the communication equipment within public health and public safety.

May 21st, 1979.

That was when Dan White was sentenced, and um, or found guilty, and it led to the riots.

I did not know this until the day, but that day also was the defense of 15 people from Washington, including a sheriff, that um was indicted.

And basically what was happening is all these people had access to your public health and public safety systems.

And that was the main contributing cause of the riots, is because they wanted to create confusion, hysteria, to impact the district attorney's office.

So go Google that May 21st, there was 15 people indicted in Washington, including a sheriff.

The rest of my time I'd like to have a moment of silence for the three officers that were fatally shot in York County, Pennsylvania, and the two others that were seriously wounded.

Thank you.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Chief.

Um my name is Paul Allen.

Three days ago I sent a letter to all of you pleading for the immediate docketing of a commission motion to adopt a formal statement opposing the introduction of an uninvited military force, such as the National Guard onto the streets of San Francisco.

I also included a draft statement.

Enhancing public safety and the quality of life is the very first principle and goal of this commission, pursuant to your own statement of purpose.

The introduction of an uninvited militarist force onto the streets would imperil public safety, to the detriment of all of us and undoubtedly foment community opposition.

Some may and this is a reason alone that you should act.

Some may ask, should we wait for something like this uh to occur before we oppose it?

I think not.

We have Los Angeles, we have Washington, D.C., we have Chicago, which has resisted, and apparently now the troops are going to be going into some other cities.

Given the 50% reduction in this city's crime rate since the president's first term, we know that crime reduction as a rationale is simply a sham.

It's gaslighting, it is pretext.

San Francisco will almost certainly have to confront this issue, and I respectfully suggest that it is better that we proactively confront it, particularly by a body that is charged with enhancing public safety.

This is the time to take a stand.

This is the time for this agency whose goal is public safety to declare firm opposition.

This is the time to do the right thing, and one that the community at large would support.

And for that reason, I am respectfully requesting that you uh put this on the agenda that you take either my draft or someone else's draft, someone else's draft, entertain uh public comment, and expeditiously move forward with this, because I think it's evident to all of us that we are uh at peril.

Thank you very much.

Okay, good evening, sorry.

Uh basically I'm gonna repeat what I said yesterday at the BOS meeting.

It's at 52 minutes, 10 seconds precisely that I start saying because I was in the middle of the public comment section, and uh it's important to know okay.

What I said I'll skip the sorry, there is no safety with spedophiles, and it's not possible.

So, no matter what, it's the first thing to address, but let's keep that as I did yesterday.

The reason why you can't fake beauty is because you can't fake anything intelligence in the first place.

So now I'm gonna go straight to the point.

So you work for beauty if you want to be happy, die happy, therefore, justify your reason for being, because you know what?

Your soul will survive and you'll be back.

No, if you keep working for ugliness, it's the opposite.

You work for darkness, unintelligence.

When you die, that's it.

You're never back.

What do you prefer?

Okay, so now I'm gonna make an allusion.

Sorry for the uh no, let's be an allusion from what happened recently about a certain shooting.

If you are cops, guys, oh you know, you should know that no one in reality dies with closed eyes, huh?

No one.

You are on to life until the very last seconds.

Now, when something hits you by surprise, such as a bullet, the first thing you do is this.

Oh, or any surprise.

So, especially when you eyes when you add your eyes closed.

So now you see the allusion I'm making, you go back to it, check it out, and decide for yourself if it's a fake something, or not.

Because if it is, and I think 100% that it is, it's big trouble.

Again, no one dies.

We closed eyes, including the bad actors, like I said yesterday in Hollywood or anywhere else.

No one.

Have a good night.

Um good evening.

Um, I was just here to talk concerning the legislation again.

Um about um finding ways to pay tipsers to come forth.

I am glad we're having this meeting.

This uh the on the 25th on City Hall stairs that we will be bringing this to the awareness of the people in the city and um working with um Kevin Benedict doing Matty Scott to bring this so that we can, you know, for mothers like myself can heal and um letting the media know and letting the um I don't know clear.

We always talked about clear channel before uh when we were before this legislation, but letting everyone know about this legislation of ways to pay tipsters.

Um my plan is to see if I can get um Sergeant Pedmar or Lisa Artez to make me some copies of the legislation.

I was looking for it on my tablet, but it's the signed copy from the mayor, so that um hopefully the mayor can um bring awareness to this on that day, the 25th, and the public safety uh Steve Betts.

He was there at the event on the 14th, and he brought it up as well as no well Matt Darcy, that we can, you know, not just that day on the 25th, that we just keep this going so that more and more and more people will know about uh this legislation because there's been a lot of the legislation happening, but no one knows about it.

And I think I've been going for the last 20 years, almost 20 years, seeking justice for not just my son, but other mothers and fathers.

And I think this will help, you know, bring people forth for 20 for murders that have been 20, 30 years ago.

People still know what happened.

People still know.

Thank you.

That is the end of public comment.

Line item three, Chief's report discussion.

Weekly crime trends, weekly crime trends and public safety concerns.

Interim chief, yeah.

Thank you, Sergeant.

Good evening, Commissioner Vice President Benedicto, Commissioners, Executive Director Henderson and members of the general public.

I am going to start my chief summary with a thank you from uh Vice President Benedito, uh Commissioner Liang and Commissioner Techie for joining us on our celebration for a command staff promotional ceremony that happened this afternoon.

Thank you for being there.

It means a lot.

I'll start also by uh addressing some follow-up issues from the previous commission meeting.

Uh uh address that we had in OIS or office involved shooting town hall.

We held or the department held the town hall meeting on September 12th to provide information related to the OIS that occurred on September 4th in the Ingleside District information, including body worn camera footage, a recording of the overall presentation, and the talking points using during the program, were presented to the public.

The department has created a department notice regarding face masks.

It's in relation to SB 627, which was passed.

Uh, where the governor signed the bill.

Uh government government code seven two eight nine and penal code one eight five point five related to wearing masks.

So our policy meets the requirements under this bill.

Though we are we have not posted our department notice on the website, it's going through its standard review process, should take about three days, and it will be available on our website.

There has been a request for a recruitment presentation or a recruitment presentation that will occur on November 17th.

We will go over our recruitment and hiring process, and the appropriate staff has been notified and they're working on the presentation.

I also want to let the commission and the public know that regarding ALPRs, which have been a topic of conversation through the media and in this meeting, that we have gone ahead and uh launched our flock transparency portal.

So I will ask our investigations deputy chief to provide that link to the commission so that you can view the portal.

On that portal, we will disclose it's already actually active.

As far as ALPRs, what's detected, what's not detected, our acceptable use policy, uh prohibited uses.

These are just topics that will be covered in this portal.

Uh the access policy, it will address data retention, number of cameras we own or use, external organizations with access.

So those will be our California agencies that we have given permission to use our ALPR information.

So in addition, it will host or have a link to our ALPR policy.

Okay, I'm gonna move on to weekly crime trends.

This is as of September 14th of this year.

Overall, part one crimes are down 27% year to date.

I'm gonna go through these stats very quickly because they are very similar to past reports.

Total violent crimes are down 19% for the year.

Regarding homicides, there are a total of 17 homicides this year compared to 24 in 2024, representing a 29% decrease.

Assaults for the year are down 14%.

Human trafficking incidents are up 80% with 18 reported incidents this year compared to 10 last year.

It's one sergeant, an acting lieutenant, three sergeants, and one officer.

That the human trafficking unit has not been staffed at level since 2019.

So it's uh this staffing has enabled the unit to take on more proactive approach.

The team is currently conducting two operations a month to target human trafficking.

Staff is also able to investigate more incidents and follow up on more leads seeking out human trafficking suspects and victims, which has led to more incident reports.

There has also been an increase in arrests related to human trafficking.

Some recent efforts include the unit conducting search warrants and arrests on August 4th at Norega on Norgier Street and California Street, so two separate events, and recently on September 12th in San Mateo related to a shooting.

14 forearms were seized during that search warrant.

So it's just a more active unit.

That does not seem to be case the case based on the information that was provided to me.

But more than happy to follow up.

Total property crime is down 28%.

Burglaries specifically are down also 28%.

There was one homicide during this week.

Commissioner Yi touched on it on September 10th at 4:38 p.m.

or approximately 4 38 p.m.

at Juniper Serrat Ocean in the Terrabell district.

There was a homicide that Wednesday afternoon in Terra Bell by Commodore near Commodore Slote Elementary School.

The victim was crossing the street after picking up his child from the school and became involved in a brief altercation with an unknown subject during which the victim was stabbed as the suspect walked away from the scene.

During the investigation by the homicide detail, the suspect was identified on September 12th.

The suspect was located in Tuamalee County by SFPD investigative teams.

It was quite a large effort by the police department with a lot of teamwork in separate specialized units working together to make sure that we were able to arrest the suspect who was taken into custody and booked with murder charges.

And we did hold a press conference to discuss that case.

Two additional shootings occurred this week.

One on Saturday, September 13th.

It was self-inflicted.

It was uh we believe a suicide.

On September 14th at 6 47 p.m.

on the 100 block of Leavenworth, which is in the Ten Line district.

It was the fourth shooting incident, which occurred on September 14th.

I just gave you the date.

Um, and location officers were dispatched to shooting and located a victim with a gunshot wound using cameras.

Arctic followed a potential suspect who was on foot headed towards BART.

The suspect was detained by BART PD at the West Oakland station and a firearm was recovered.

The victim was transported and is in critical condition.

Although an arrest was made in this shooting, the investigation is continuing.

Uh so it's an arrest.

And I'm just gonna read the titles of some notable arrests that occurred this week, give you the date and location, but I won't go into details.

But if you request more details, I'm happy to go get into it.

On September 9th at 2 p.m., a possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and narcotics arrest in the Ingleside district.

On September 8th at 9 40, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and narcotics arrest in the mission district.

On September 11th at 3 p.m., possession of a firearm by convicted felon with illegal high capacity bullet magazine in the mission district.

Possession of a firearm by a prohibited person felony evasion and warrant arrest in the northern district on September 9th.

That investigation was actually it's worth noting.

It was investigation from our CJIC officers, investigating subject for an outstanding kidnapping and felony evasion warrant.

So that was I won't get into further details.

There was a bank robbery series in the central uh in the North Beach area on September 10th this year at 11 55 a.m.

Uh there were three victim banks, a Wells Fargo Bank, a BMO bank, and a Bank of America.

So suspect apprehended for that series of bank robberies.

Robbery with a firearm in the central on September 10th, 4:30 p.m.

Rust was made possession of an assault rifle in the northern district on September 16th at 3 p.m., which is out of this reporting period, but you know, speak to it anyway.

Two more general crimes or significant incidents.

There was an assault with possible uh TBI traumatic brain injury on September 13th at 10:35 p.m.

on the 100 block of King, which is the Southern District.

At least 12 subjects were involved in a physical altercation having haven't been asked to leave a bar.

Victim was located with injuries consistent with the physical assault.

Uh we retrieved video footage, and we have identified the attackers or the primary attacker.

Uh no arrests has been made in this incident.

There was a threats and hate crime incident on September 13th, uh, 8 12 p.m., 400 block of Crescent, which is in the Ingle side.

The Islamic Center received a call from an unknown suspect asking where he could buy some C4 explosives.

The suspect then threatened to blow up the mosque.

During the call, the suspect used anti-Muslim racial slurs.

Message was recorded in Ford's Special Investigations Division for investigation, no arrests yet on this case.

Then I'll just go over some major events that are either occurring or or we're are preparing for uh in San Francisco.

We have a tennis event called the Labor Cup taking place this week.

Uh Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at the Chase Center.

It's a three-day tennis competition.

Kind of the streets on Saturday, September 20th at 10 a.m.

on Mission Street between 17th and Cesar Chavez.

It's an annual event.

I might be king of the streets.

This event celebrates Latino culture, heritage, and community pride, and it's a collaboration with the city and the Mission Merchants Association and Calais 24 Latino Cultural District.

Portola Music Festival, a two-day music festival taking place Saturday and Sunday beginning at 1 p.m.

at Pier 80 in the Baby District.

There's a leather walk scheduled for Sunday, September 21st, beginning at 10 a.m.

at City Hall.

The group will hold a short rally and then march to Eagle Plaza.

And that ends my crime trends report and update for this.

Thank you so much for that report, Chief.

Uh just a few quick things I wanted to note before I turn over to my fellow commissioners.

Uh thank you for that update on that uh tragic terrible homicide.

I really commend the uh quick and coordinated action to apprehend that suspect uh in such short order.

So congratulations and thank you to the officers who conducted that.

Uh that was helpful to know about the department notice on facial coverings.

Uh it sounds like you said it'll be posted usually within a number of days.

So I assume it'll be posted by the time we uh are back in session in October, but if you could just confirm that it's been posted once we're back in October.

And I'll turn over to any of my fellow commissioners if they have any questions for the chief.

Commissioner Scott.

Yes, um Chief, thank you for that report.

Um I'm looking at the human trafficking.

You mentioned that there were two officers assigned to um to human trafficking.

There wasn't any before.

Yeah, five total, one sergeant who is an acting.

Uh three additional sergeants and one officer.

And I asked that because I see it's increased.

Um we up 80 percent with uh human track.

Is that correct?

We are up 80 percent of reported incidents.

Incidents, yeah.

And then I don't know the previous staffing levels for human trafficking.

I I'll find out.

Yes, because I'm uh the community is very has reported that it uh these incidents have increased all over the city and various neighborhoods.

Um people are taking note of of that and I have encouraged them to if they see anything, if they see something, say something and contact um SFPD, but they wanted to also know was anybody assigned, so I'm glad that you told me there's one sergeant you said, and there's a total of five or yeah.

What one acting lieutenant, three sergeants, and one officer.

Okay, the sergeants in the investigator bureau, uh they're essentially investigators.

Okay.

Commissioner Yee.

Uh thank you very much.

Uh Vice President Umadicto.

Uh just want to thank um again for uh your command staff and the officers of uh bringing down total crime rate in the city to 27% year to date.

Uh, it's very substantial, and I'm I'm glad that uh the officers are using all the technologies that are available to them, whether it's CAMA, uh license readers, uh drones, and then the Arctic coming in to help uh track uh people that do commit crimes in San Francisco.

Um yeah, just looking at also the missions district is uh shooting is down.

Um I'd say about uh twenty-five percent thereabout here to date.

Uh good good to see officers get uh high capacity um I guess uh guns out the street too because uh they're the one that does the most damage out there.

So congratulations to all the officers that are working to keep us safe.

Also, want to say all the moon festival in Chinatown is September 27th through 28th.

It's one of the biggest in the I think the biggest in the country.

Uh thank you again, Chief.

Thank you, Commissioner.

I do want to give full credit to the ranking file for the work they're doing every day.

Uh more and more I read summaries that reference the real-time investigation center.

So technology is also very much helping drive the crime stats down.

So I just want to thank you for acknowledging that, and I do want to thank uh everyone in the department for their hard work.

Absolutely, but as they say the books stop at at the highest level.

Thank you for you.

All right, sergeant.

At this time, the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item three, the chief support.

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

Sorry.

I'm looking for that article.

Oh, I just had it.

Okay, well, I'm here to talk about my son Arbury Abasakasa, who was murdered August 14, 2006, shot with a semi-automatic gun, 30 rounds of bullets, left that gun into my son.

To this day, his case isn't solved.

I come here every week with the picture, which I like to use the overhead, um, concerning my child, Arborasa.

He was only 17 years old when they took his life.

I bring these pictures because I want the world to know what I have to go through for the rest of my life without my son, my only son.

I bring these pictures to let other mothers know this is something I didn't want to do, stand over a casket, looking at my son's lifeless body.

This is what the perpetrators left me.

I wanted to show this.

We talked about the legislation, and the legislation is here.

This is the ordinance, and here is the part where the mayor's signature.

So it's signed, and it was signed on the 6th, the 20 uh June 6th, the 27th of 2025.

So it's there, and these are the copies that I want to be making for everyone on that day.

So he did sign it, and um uh David Chuce also signed it too.

And I think there's a couple of other signings, but it's a long one, but we still have the information there.

So I want to send that.

I think I send it to you, Benedicto, and I can send it to whoever else needed.

Again, we want to bring awareness to this unsolved homicides.

Thank you.

If any member of the public has any information regarding the murder of Aubrey Abercassa, you can call the anonymous 24-7 tip line at 415-575-444.

And that is the end of public comment.

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

Executive Director Henderson.

Thank you.

Uh I will be brief.

I know we have a presentation, uh, and I don't want to repeat all of the stats that have been previously passed out, uh, but I want to address some of the couple of the issues that were raised from last week.

Uh we are continuing to see a rise in complaints, which has led to significantly more cases open this year.

Uh, that's currently at 140 more uh than this same time last year.

That's a 27% increase.

Uh Commissioner uh Elias asked us uh to drill down to try to determine the actual causation for the increase.

And earlier this year, we worked with DEM's 311 administration to implement more streamlined and integrated referral system for the complaints.

But the most common complaint this week came in were for allegations for an officer speaking and behaving inappropriately.

Again, these are allegations, and we follow up with these very specific stats of which ones culminate into actual investigations and actual uh sustained cases as well, and the reports that the commission gets and the public uh gets that's also all available on our website.

We're continuing to work hard to keep pace.

Uh we have opened 668 cases so far this year.

Uh and we are still 100% in compliance with our 3304 uh restrictions and timelines.

As of September 5th, I just pick a date for us to look at these things because it changes daily.

On September 5th, we had 11 cases that were over 270 days.

Uh meaning the investigation was taking that long to conclude those cases.

All but one of those cases were told.

Uh and the uh remaining untold case will be closed shortly.

Uh in terms of highlights, uh, today you're going to hear a presentation.

Uh the interns from around the country collaborated and created the recommendations for uh SFPD's General Orders 8.10, known as guidelines for First Amendment activities.

I'll save my comments for when we reintroduce those, but I just wanted to thank the commissioners and those of you that spent time with the interns providing feedback.

It was an invaluable learning experience for them.

And I think you'll enjoy the presentation.

Uh, also present in tonight's uh tonight's commission.

Uh senior investigator Steve Ball is here in the audience in case we have issues that come up where DPA can be helpful.

If anyone needs to contact the agency directly, we are at SFGov.org forward slash DPA, and our phone number is 415 241 7711.

Uh that will conclude my report, and I will reserve my comments for the presentation that we have shortly for the commission.

Thank you, Director Henderson.

Seeing no commissioners in the queue, we can go to public comment.

This time the public is now welcome to make public comment regarding line item four, DPA director's report.

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

There's no public comment.

Line item five commission reports, discussion impossible action, commission president's report, commissioner's reports, and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting.

Thank you.

I'll begin with my report before passing it over to my fellow commissioners.

One thing I just wanted we spoke about the um department notice about incidents involving federal civil immigration enforcement, and uh I've been informed that uh as we discussed a few commission meetings ago, that's now been translated to Spanish, Chinese, Russian, and Tagalog and posted um to uh I'm sure it's on the department website as well, but it's also on the police commission announcements page.

So I'm glad to to see that that translation of that accessibility for that very important department notice.

Uh a couple of things uh for me to report uh myself um as well as um Commissioner Clay, um and uh I believe it was Commissioner Tucky's.

Well, command uh attended the uh Academy graduation for the 285th uh recruit class.

There were 31 graduates, uh recruit officers that are now in-field training.

That's the largest uh academy class since 2019.

And uh I've been told from uh interim chief Yep that we have even even brighter days on the horizon, so glad to see that size in the graduate in class and that the total number of applicants to the SFPD Academy is expected to be the largest number this year uh again since uh in many years.

So we're very excited uh to see that.

Um, an update on the chief search, we concluded uh the commission and uh Ralph Anderson uh listening sessions with a with the session the Bayview and the mission.

Uh so thank you to the commissioners who attended uh all of the eight listening sessions and to Ralph Anderson and Associates for their excellent facilitation of those.

As a reminder to members of the public, the survey which is available on the police commission website is still open.

So if you did not attend one of the listening sessions, your voice can still be heard by completing that survey.

Uh it'll be open till September 24th.

Uh in addition to the official listening sessions, and uh the commissioners that they can share in their reports have been doing their own outreach into the community.

Last week I attended an in-person event with um the connected SF Institute and one earlier this week with Blueprint SF.

I know that uh Commissioners uh Clay, Scott, and I will be meeting with the NAACP chapter shortly as well.

Um I also met with South Bay Rink and Mission Bay Neighborhood Association on the boundary analysis maps.

I want to thank Alice Rogers, who's the president of that association for convening that meeting and sharing their thoughts on the district analysis uh boundary analysis map.

And as interim chief Yep said today, um, we uh commissioners Liang Tech and myself had the privilege of attending the command staff promotion ceremony right here at City Hall.

Uh also in attendance was our mayor Daniel Lurry, Supervisors Mandelman, Chen, Chan, and Cheryl.

Uh but I think uh for me at least most importantly was to see the incredible families of the command staff getting promoted um to see their their proud faces and to to see them get to uh pin their family members with their with their new stars.

So congratulations to all the promotees.

That concludes my report.

Commissioner Scott.

Thank you, Vice President Benedict.

Um I just wanted to report on the uh wonderful uh event that we attended.

Um Commissioner Techie and myself, and also Commissioner Elias attended as well at the Bayview Library.

Um, and the community's input and the search of our new uh police chief.

It was a very crowded uh space.

Um lot of community members were present and it was well attended.

And uh Commissioner Techie, myself, and Commissioner Lyers really um enjoyed every bit of it from the community standpoint from it.

And um I'm looking forward to the rest of the events that we're having um as we continue to search for a new chief um here in San Francisco.

And uh this uh third next Thursday on the 25th, we are hosting with the mayor Lurie and um Senator Scott Weiner, uh SFPD uh team and you all commissioners and all who have lost loved ones to censeless violence in our city on the Congressional National Day of Remembrance.

We will it will be held on next Thursday on the steps of City Hall from 2 to 4 p.m.

Everyone is welcome to stand with our families who've been impacted by violence here in the city.

Um we appreciate everyone's support.

We're asking that people bring a photo of their loved ones that that was lost to census violence, and to know that your families are cared about and that we are here to make our streets and our communities safer, and that we stand with everyone um doing this National Congressional Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims.

That completes my report, and thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Scott, and thank you for your decades-long and tireless advocacy for the cause of uh victims of gun violence.

It's uh your work is is an inspiration to us all.

Commissioner Yeap.

Uh thank you very much, uh Vice President uh Carter, I mean Kevin Penoteco.

Uh I just want to congratulate the promotion of the command staff.

Wasn't able to make it uh today because I had other commitments, so congratulations to all the newly promotion, uh command staff, and wish them the best.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sergeant.

I will know we have one of the promotees in our audience today, so congratulations, Commander Jack Hart.

And technically it was also uh served as the promotion for interim chief yeah, so congratulations to interim chief yep as well.

Sergeant.

At this time, the public is now welcome to address.

I'm sorry.

Um at this time the public is welcome to make public comment regarding line item five, Commissioner Ports.

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

And there is no public comment.

Line item six presentation by DPA's internship cohort on recommendation for SFD's Department General Order 810, guidelines for First Amendment Activities.

Discussion.

Welcome, Ms.

Thompson.

Good evening, Vice President Benedicto, and good evening, police commissioners, Chief Yep, Executive Director Henderson, Sergeants Youngblood and Reynolds, Ms.

Singh, Miss Brown, members of the public here, and watching on SFGov TV.

A little shameless plug.

My name is Taneta Thompson, and I am the director of recruitment at DPA.

I'm here today to present our summer intern program and to express our deep gratitude to the many partners who made this program a tremendous success.

First, I want to thank Executive Director Maoli Togbeno of the Human Rights Commission, Deltree Boyd and Jamisha Threat of B2SF, and Shay Steinberg and Kamisha Johnson of OFA for your unwavering support.

Your partnership is in it is instrumental in creating these meaningful opportunities for our interns.

I want to thank and acknowledge Executive Director Paul David Henderson, Audit Director Steve Flaherty, Marshall Kine, Natalie Garcia, and all the mentors at DPA, along with our entire staff who supported our summer program.

Your involvement and care for these interns has been immeasurable, and your dedication to their growth and development has made all the difference.

To the police commissioners, thank you for your continued support for our program and for taking the time to speak with these young people.

We know your time is precious, and yet you continue to give us the time and space to nurture the next generation of civic leaders.

The success of this program reflects the collaborative spirit of our city and our shared commitment to investing in young talent and bringing that diversity pipeline back to San Francisco.

Today I'm excited to share with you the impact of this partnership and the remarkable achievements of our interns.

And to my interns that are watching across the nation right now, thank you, and thank you to those that are present today.

Good evening, Commissioners.

It's great to see you all again.

Um my name is Adrian Sanchez Alvarez.

I'm a 2L student over at UC Law San Francisco, and I'm excited for us to be able to give you this presentation tonight.

Our team worked put a lot of effort into it, and it was a we whole summer long experience, and it's great to finally see where it's going.

I'd like to introduce our next person.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Natalie Costello.

I'm a 2L at University of San Francisco Law.

And I'm really excited today for you guys to see our final presentation and to see all the work come together.

We want to thank our generous sponsors, opportunities for all, Black to San Francisco, Japanese community evening.

We are the summer 2025 DPA interns, and we are here to present our policy recommendations for reforming SFPD's DGO 810, which outlines guidelines for investigations involving First Amendment activities.

First of all, we want to thank our generous sponsors, Opportunities for All, Black to San Francisco, Japanese Community Youth Council, and the Department for Police Accountability.

We would also like to thank the DPA leadership for everything that they've done for us.

Paul Henderson, our executive director, Teneto Thompson, our director of recruitment, and Natalie Garcia, our internship coordinator.

This year's internship core has been incredibly diverse.

In particular, more than 80% of the cohort identify as female, more than half are black or African American, more than half attend HBCUs, and two-thirds of interns are from out of state.

We were able to have so many amazing experiences both inside and outside the DPA office.

We took the ferry to Angel Island, cheered on the Giants and the Valkyries, and toured Google and Chase Center, among many other activities.

At the beginning of the internship, we each read bias by Dr.

Jennifer Aberhart and it created presentations about our findings.

BIAS greatly informed our policy proposal for DGO 8.10 by prompting us to consider how implicit bias can inadvertently affect law enforcement pertaining to First Amendment activities, even when it's unintentional.

Thus, many of our recommendations for DGO 8.10 were developed with the intent of minimizing the effects of implicit bias.

DGO 810 is 30 years old.

Last updated in 2008, it focuses on paper records and internal processes with little on digital evidence or public transparency.

Its outdated approach and vague standards make it less effective today.

Updating it would help address modern surveillance, protect civil liberties, and clarify its role within the SFPD.

DGO 8.10 recommendations.

For reviewing DGO 8.10, conducting research on policies in other jurisdictions, and deliberating with subject matter experts, we developed the following five recommendations for refining the policy.

All in all, we recommend further defining key terms in the policy, providing guidelines for the use of modern surveillance technologies, establishing an oversight unit to monitor compliance with DGO 8.10, expanding DGO 8.10 training to all SFPD officers, and adding an option to incident reports to mark incidents as involving First Amendment activities.

To promote clarity and avoid misunderstandings that can impact the applicability of DGO 8.10, it's essential to define terms that are unclear in the policy.

Our group studied our research by looking at previous reports such as the San Francisco Police Department still needs to improve policies and practices around investigations involving First Amendment activities.

For example, the term criminal investigation currently lacks a definition, leading to inconsistencies where SFPD and members of the public may have differing visions of what constitutes a criminal investigation.

We suggest clearly defining a criminal investigation by referencing New York's handshoe guideline for guidance, which provides a free-turd approach for classifying investigations based off the range of investigative procedures that can be used.

Secondly, within the context of First Amendment activities, the term involves should also be defined because the term's current ambiguity can make it difficult for officers to identify whether investigations are related to First Amendment activity.

In addition to defining the term involves, we recommend looking including examples of what investigations involving First Amendment activities could look like.

Clarifying these definitions is vital for protecting civil liberties and ensuring that investigations are conducted with appropriate oversight and transparency, which would ultimately enhance the accountability of DGO 8.10.

While the city already has a process for approving surveillance technologies, DGO A 10 does not clearly reference or align with these broader surveillance technology laws.

This creates a disconnect between department level policy and citywide standards.

To ensure accountability and consistency, we recommend explicitly referencing the city surveillance technology ordinance within DGO A 10.

The growing use of drones by SFPD highlights a policy gap.

DGO A10 currently provides no guidance on their deployment.

Officers lack clear instruction on when and where drones may be used, increasing the potential for misuse or public concern.

We propose referencing the existing drone policy technical unit order within DGO A10 to establish transparency and reinforce oversight.

Modernizing DGO 810 to reference existing laws and policies ensures officers have clear consistent guidance.

It also strengthens public trust by aligning department practices with current surveillance oversight structures and reducing risks caused by ambiguity in policy.

Third recommendation would be to establish an oversight unit for monitoring the SFPD's response to First Amendment activities, such as protests.

The unit would include one police commissioner to act as a liaison, one DPA member to conduct policy review and address potential violations, and one SFPD officer to provide departmental insights.

The oversight unit's key responsibilities would include auditing SFPD's responses to protests, reinforcing laws and policies, recommending best practices for protecting First Amendment activities, analyzing and transparently reporting data surrounding First Amendment related investigations, and conducting training seminars for officers.

We took inspiration for our for this initiative from successful programs such as New York City's protest response oversight, New Orleans Epic program, and Chicago's Directive GO2-02, which all prioritize accountability and transparency.

Well, SFPD has expressed concern for this additional oversight committee.

Ultimately, this collaborative model promotes accountability and builds public trust and strippens constitutional protections.

Our group identified the need to expand and improve First Amendment train rights training for all officers within the department.

Currently, only members of the special investigations division are required to watch SFPD's DGO 8.10 roll call training video when they first join the unit.

However, officers across all divisions are likely to encounter situations involving individuals exercising their first amendment rights, and officers must be prepared to recognize and appropriately handle constitutionally protected activity.

Making this training mandatory for all officers will reinforce the department's responsibility to safeguard civil liberties while ensuring a consistent standard of conduct throughout the department.

Regular exposure to this content will serve as an important reminder of officers' constitutional obligations and support a more thoughtful interaction with the public.

Notably, such trainings are already conducted during roll call when officers are made aware of upcoming First Amendment activities.

So this proposal will formalize an existing practice rather than adding new costs or logistical burden.

Expanding the scope of this training will ultimately strengthen public trust and help ensure that the officers act in a manner consistent with the department policy.

Our group focused on strengthening DGO 8.10 through the implementation of structured mechanisms for tracking, reporting, and documenting encounters related to First Amendment activity.

There is little useful data on how DGO 8.10 is being applied or if it's being complied with at all.

SFPD's current policy gives officers wide discretion in how they document encounters involving First Amendment activity.

This makes it hard to assess whether enforcement actions are constitutionally justified.

When looking at other jurisdictions, Baltimore, under their federal consent decree, requires officers to document all such encounters, even if no arrest or citation occurs.

This creates an auditable paper trail.

Thus, one of our recommendations is to require a specific searchable tag like a checkbox for incidents involving protests, public filming, or political expression.

Incorporating this functionality into SFPD incident reports will make it easier to analyze these incidents later, improving internal accountability and public transparency.

Finally, we want to express our gratitude to our host sites, sponsors, and guest speakers for tirelessly supporting our work, providing us with eye-opening opportunities, and sharing so many insights.

Thank you, Commissioners, for taking the time to listen to our presentation today.

We hope you'll consider implementing our recommendations, so please let us know if you have any questions or feedback for us.

We would love to partner with you in any way possible to make our recommendations for DGO 8.10 a reality.

We are the summer 2025 DPA interns.

Thank you so much for that presentation, you guys.

Um, before I open it up to my fellow commissioners for any questions, I wanted to uh raise a couple of things.

First, I wanted to recommend uh to members of the public and my fellow commissioners.

That was you know, a whole summer's worth of research into about a nine-minute presentation.

If you look at your written materials, you'll see the full uh I think it's like 104 pages, it includes uh the most recent DPA audit report, includes links to more resources, so I I do advise you to look at it.

Um, I think it would make sense.

I um Chief Yep to agendize sometime later in the year a response to at least the the specific recommendations in those slides, and you know, in the same way we do when DPA does an audit where you know you know it's partially achievable or it's achievable or it's on track for each of those uh five issue areas.

They recommended, like the training or um all those pieces.

So I'll make a request in my purple folder, and maybe we can have that on probably sometime when we're back in maybe October, November, or whatever timing makes sense.

Once I imagine it would be like policy development, has had a chance to take a look at it.

Does that make sense?

Yes, thanks, Commissioner.

I do believe that the SFPD has also provided comments along the way, but um, and I'll take this opportunity to thank you for your work and research and um very much appreciate that you've taken this on.

Thank you so much.

You all have been a major help as well.

Absolutely, thank you.

I've heard that yeah, you provided subject matter experts and made themselves made them available, and so thank you for that.

I think um, whenever that response gets agendized, we can definitely let uh director Henderson and Ms.

Thompson know so you can tell the interns to tune back in to see the the official response because I would expect that from seeing that some of those things are already underway and just need to be formalized.

Some might be feasible, some might not be feasible.

So I think it'd be good to see that sort of comprehensive response.

Um Director Henderson.

I was just gonna say that I thank you for that for uh jumping in on the follow-up.

Uh and I I there will they're not likely to be a lot of surprises here because a lot of this was with uh SFPD at the table.

Thank you again uh for participating in that.

I just think part of what makes the presentation and the work stand out uh for me that I think is really well done is the incorporation of best practices, uh constitutional guidelines, and then the interpretation of uh the bias book as well to come up with these recommendations, both for the public and for the department to have.

So they did a really good job.

Uh these are volunteers.

I mean, I guess they're paid too, but not paid a whole lot.

We appreciated uh so much of the work.

And I also really wanted to thank uh my staff and especially the staff that's here that the work to put this program together is going on right now, even for next year.

And it's a lot of work beyond just giving an assignment and having it come out magically at the end like this.

Um so I just want to thank you guys for taking the time and your own personal time, as so much of you do.

I know how much of it it is.

Uh, and it's very well appreciated.

So that's what I want to say.

And now I can read the 104 pages of people.

I had a heart attack when I downloaded that presentation.

Yeah, I knew.

That's what I brought snacks.

Uh but absolutely I want to echo the recognition staff, Ms.

Thompson, Ms.

Garcia, do such an amazing job putting together the program.

And for the interns that are here and who are tuning in, uh, you can take some confidence in the fact that every DPA presentation for the last number of years has led to concrete uh actions by the department to change their policy.

Sometimes the drafting of a DGO, sometimes the amending of DGO, but you know, this isn't just like uh an academic presentation.

You will have had an effect on policing in the city and county of San Francisco thanks to your work.

Thank you.

Commissioner Yeet.

Uh thank you very much again, uh Vice President uh Kevin Panel take to us.

Thank you again, uh executive director Paul Henderson, yeah, but uh excellent team out here.

Ms.

Henderson, uh Natalie, and then all four all the intern.

It's great to see you out here again, new uh new and young, and hope to see more of them out here throughout the Bay Area.

Hopefully in San Francisco they can find new employment.

I'm not saying anything else here.

But we can tell you, uh it's great for them to come out because um we're in uh in I guess in an era of new new technologies.

These are uh uncharted times, too, as we you probably know.

So the drone um 8 point 10 is definitely need to be looked at.

And so thanks again for all the hard work and uh I guess enjoyed their continued studies in their university, wherever they are, and the best of luck.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Scott.

Thank you, Vice President Benedictal, and thank you, Paul, for your great work in your department and the whole uh department in you as well and the interns.

Um I just want to commend you on your great work, especially with the guidelines for the First Amendment activities, which a lot of people, you know, are not educated on, and it's just good to see this information for our police department to help us better understand and work together collectively, knowing the guidelines on both sides.

You know, and so I just want to commend you for a job well done.

And um, you know, for those that are coming behind you and future interns.

This is just phenomenal.

And uh just want to congratulate you on it, and um the presentation was awesome.

Um and I see why we're here as commissioners, um, working with um you executive director Henderson and Chief.

Yeah, and our whole law enforcement community here in San Francisco.

We you know become better when we do better.

And this is really uh sends a message to that.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Sergeant, any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item six.

Please approach the podium.

And there is no public comment.

Line item seven, discussion and possible action to adopt, revised department general order 5.18 persons in custody and transportation.

Discussion and possible action.

Commissioners, this is back from meeting confer.

There's no presenter.

The commission approved this on December 4th, and sent it to meet and confer, which it concluded with no changes.

The department has requested a 45 day 45 business day implementation time frame for this general order.

Can I get a motion?

Motion to accept.

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

There's no public comment.

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

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes, Commissioner Leon?

Yes.

Commissioner Leong is yes, Commissioner Yi.

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes, and Vice President Benedict.

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes, you have five yeses.

Line item eight, discussion and possible action to adopt revised department general order 9.06 vehicle toes.

Discussion and possible action.

And fellow commissioners, likewise, this one does not have a presenter.

The commission adopted it on approved it to send to meet and confer on June 18th.

It concluded with no changes to the version this commission has approved.

They have similarly requested a 45 business day implementation for final adoption of this DGO.

If there's no discussion, can I get a motion?

Second.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item eight?

Please approach the podium.

There's no public comment on the motion.

Commissioner Techie, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Techie is yes, Commissioner Scott.

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Le Young.

Yes.

Commissioner Li Young is yes.

Commissioner Yee?

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes.

And Vice President Benedict.

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes.

You have five yeses.

Next item.

Line item nine.

Public comment on all matters pertaining to item 11 below, close session, including public comment on item 10, a vote whether to hold item 11 in closed session.

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

And there is no public comment.

Line item 10.

A vote on whether to hold item 11 in closed session.

San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10 D action.

Motion to close it going into closed session.

Second.

All right, on the motion to go into closed session.

Commissioner Techie, how do you vote?

Commissioner Techie is yes.

Commissioner Scott?

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Leong.

Yes.

Commissioner Liang is yes.

Commissioner Yi?

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes.

And Vice President Benedicto.

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes.

You have five yeses.

We are going into close session.

Thank you.

Do you want to get a motion?

Motion not to uh disclose.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item twelve?

Please approach the podium.

Seeing none on the motion, Commissioner Techie, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Techie is yes.

Commissioner Scott?

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Leon?

Yes.

Commissioner Leong is yes.

Commissioner Yee?

Yes.

Commissioner Ye is yes.

And Vice President Benedict.

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes.

You have five yeses.