The San Francisco Police Commission met on October 1, 2025, with several commissioners absent. The meeting included public comments on crime, policy transparency, and militarization, received a crime trends report showing overall decreases but a rise in human trafficking, and approved several revised Department General Orders. The commission also directed staff to collaborate on publicizing a tipster ordinance and to draft a resolution concerning National Guard deployment.
Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of the American Republican justice as well. Vice President Benedict, I'd like to take roll. Please. Uh Commissioner Techie is excused. Commissioner Scott. Commissioner Liang. Commissioner Yi. Here. Commissioner Elias is excused. And President Clay is excused. Vice President Benedict, you have a quorum. Also with us tonight, our interim chief Paul Yepp from the San Francisco Police Department and Executive Director Paul Henderson from the Department of Police Accountability. Thank you, Sergeant. Welcome to members of the public to our October 1st meeting of the police commission. We are uh shorthanded, but we'll soldier on nonetheless. Sergeant, please call the first item. Line item one, 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 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 sapd.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 at 94158. If you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium. Good evening, police commission, Chief Yep and Director Henderson. For the record, my name is Chris Ward Klein, and I also go by Sergeant Klein spelled KLINE of the United States Marine Corps. And we still work even if the federal government continues to shut down. Briefly, every city has a Oracle system, a cloud system that defines the cultural makeup of a city. So last night I attended the tender lane police community meeting, and I attend most about 70% of those meetings. And it was discussed in the last month that there were three homicides, three additional shootings, and two stabbings with three suspects. Those numbers are very high compared to the last several years. Um previously I talked about this equipment, and I handed a report here to the Board of Supervisors and to the police department concerning equipment on top of the Asian Art Museum and the main library. And just last week there was a shooting with a shotgun, and it's very concerning that someone thinks it okay it's okay if someone says to do your drug somewhere else to pull out a shotgun to shoot somebody. That equipment is only supposed to be turned on during declared emergencies, like an earthquake or a major fire or a riot. When that equipment is turned on, you could take your phone and walk underneath of it. You will feel anxiety. And that is what happened. That person had anxiety, he was frustrated, he got mad because someone told him what to do. Chief, yeah, if you go back to 2017, there was a serious incident at the main library, and that is when the equipment was turned on. That is a good starting point. Um there's a couple wins with the tender line. Last night they um introduced three females that are going to be community foot um foot patrols. That's a tremendous effort going forward. And tomorrow, Captain Sullivan is going to be um at a at glide Freedom Hall from 10 to 11 with coffee meeting meeting a cop introduction. I applaud those efforts. Thank you. Hello, my name is Jennifer Wagner. I'm with the League of Women Voters of San Francisco. Um I'm here to ask on behalf of the league a question that we started asking in April, and we've had several emails about it. Um we would like you to agendize on a rolling basis, which was the best practice that we've seen over several years. Pretext stop discussion.