Under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

President Clay, I'd like to take a roll.

Yes, please.

Commissioner Techie is excused.

Commissioner Scott?

Here.

Commissioner Liang.

Here.

Commissioner Yi is in route.

Commissioner Lyas.

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto.

Present.

President Clay, you have a quorum.

Also with us tonight.

Our interim chief of police, Paul Yepp 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 uh October 8th meeting of the police commission at this time.

Sergeant, you want to begin?

Line item one weekly officer recognition certificate.

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

Officer Joseph Majeski, star number 2105 from Central Station.

There we go.

All right.

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

My name is Chris Del Gandio.

I am the very proud uh commanding officer of Central Station.

Tonight I have the distinct honor and pleasure of uh honoring Officer Majeski standing here to my right.

Officer Majeski has been a uh officer with the San Francisco Police Department for 10 years.

I first met him at Richmond Station when you're on probation.

And he's worked his way through Northern Station, Baby Station, and now Central Station, where I've had the opportunity to supervise him twice as once as a lieutenant and and now as the captain.

Prior to joining the San Francisco Police Department, Officer Majewski worked for animal care and control for four years.

Officer Majeski, utilizing his animal care and control experience, he's developed a comprehensive training plan for the use of a catch pole for officers that we hope to employ sometime in the near future uh that they can use as a de-escalation tool and to call public safety when there's threats involving canines, uh, especially with the new general order, which I helped work on for dog complaints.

So that would be very useful.

Uh Officer Majeski currently works as a North Beach Footbeat uh in the central district.

He's a fixture uh in the central district where people know they can always come to him for help.

He knows everyone there.

When I go on walks with him, everyone says hello to Joe, and uh he's just he's just great uh in that neighborhood.

Uh most recently, as many of you have probably heard.

Uh he was instrumental in the initial and crucial investigation, which led to the identification and apprehension of a prolific bank robber who robbed three banks in the central district.

Uh, he helped uh identify them, and we found out where the gentleman lived, and we got him into custody uh in a very short amount of time, uh, thanks to his work.

His diligence and dedication to the central district and to the city and county of San Francisco should be should be commended.

So, congratulations, Officer Majeski.

Officer Majeski, congratulations.

Thank you very much, a job well done.

And you know, the community policing, walking the beats, getting to know people, really serves what the community wants in San Francisco.

We went through these community meetings as we were going through our search and talking about what they want in a police chief in the police department, and that was one of the major things they wanted to see the officers walking around the streets being able to talk and engage and engage with each other and providing information.

So, congratulations to a job well done.

Thank you.

I appreciate that, and I agree.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, President Clay.

Officer Majeski, just wanted to echo President Clay's sentiments.

Um, thank you so much for contributing to community.

There's a book called Street Corner Politician.

I don't want to nerd out too much, but I think it sort of describes the whole community policing process, and it seems like oops, you have embodied it all perfectly.

So thank you for your help and conversation.

Commissioner Scott.

Congratulations, Officer Majevsky, for your 10 years of community service.

Wow, and you also served in my neighborhood, Norton Station.

So, yes, you have, and I remember that.

So, um, and your friendliness and talking to everybody in the community, um, and your duties at some of the things you did at the McDonald's.

Um, so and and on Juneteenth.

So, um, I'm just really honored that you are here to um be honored for all the great work that you've done in the last 10 years and helping to keep our communities safe and bank robber, too.

All right, that's what I'm talking about.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you for your words.

Just want to know that we appreciate your services and congratulations and continue the great work.

Yes, and what we want.

Community policing at his best, so thank you.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you, President Clay.

Congratulations, officer, um, on your great work.

I've heard really tremendous things about the Central Station footbeats.

I plan to uh accompany you.

So hopefully I'll all get to see all you all soon to uh see those, but I know the community is huge advocates of those and wants more of those uh throughout the city.

Um, and you know, for the work with the prolific bank robber, I think it's a great reminder to members of the public that you know um really complex investigations are handled, you know, obviously in investigations as well, but also by officers in the station.

So thank you so much for contributing to that and for your work.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Chief, yeah.

Oh, yep.

Uh, congratulations to you for uh a great, you know, great work and a great career, and you have team central behind you, so congratulations to the whole team.

Uh, I do have a story.

When I was at the captain, and I don't know if you remember this, but when I was at when I was the captain of Richmond Station, um I decided to go on a call.

There was a trespasser in the avenues, he remembers.

Uh, there I was working with a supervisor, um, and uh uh we were gonna dismiss the call, but I said no.

We climbed the fence.

I said let's go.

And certainly there was a trespasser there, and this is when I was active.

We made an arrest, but there was a wild and vicious dog, and I had no clue what to do with that dog.

And it was kind of scary.

So uh Officer Majeski came to the scene and fearlessly and courageously just took the dog without any incident.

I I never told you this.

I was completely amazed.

I said, holy smokes, how did you do that?

But anyway, I still remember that story, so thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, congratulations.

Yes, sir.

Commissioner Elias.

Thank you, Chief, for sharing that story.

But uh I wanted to congratulate you, and I also wanted to acknowledge that it speaks volumes that uh not only that you've been recognized, but the fact that your colleagues are here to support you.

Um, because I think that um it just really is a testament to the effectiveness and collegiality of your unit, but also to um I think that it's a beautiful thing when your colleagues come and support you because you know we spend most of our time at work in our lives.

Um so it's great to have a good environment to come to when you go to work.

So thank you all of the fellow uh colleagues for coming to support and congratulations again, and also thank you to your family for allowing us to utilize you day and night um here in the city and county of San Francisco.

So, congratulations.

Thank you.

Would you like to say a few words?

Uh sure.

Um, you know, footbeat officers.

Uh, I I feel strongly about them and how we really do need them.

And whether we're aware of it or not, we always have eyes on us.

And it's the small things that we think is just not too big, but it's very big to other people, and they'll remember it.

And so that's really the point of us being out here on our feet, out there shaking hands and doing what we do.

And uh as a patrolman, we don't seek any awards or anything like that, but very appreciative.

They have any recognition, so thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Please do.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item one, 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 to 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 sfgub.org.

Our 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.

Good evening, police commission.

So for the record, my name is Chris Quartklein.

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

And I finally got some documents that were put back online that will explain the equipment on the library, and we can move forward with getting the appropriate training concerning that equipment.

So CNIC, CENIC, California Research and Education Network, Calren, is a multi-tiered advanced network service fabric serving the majority majority of research and educational institutions in the state.

Basically, it provides Wi-Fi, energy, and a network, and it just happens to be connected at the main library.

What that means is there's three-tiered networks constantly running over San Francisco.

So anyone that has access to those networks would have access to that equipment that's turned on, and that equipment should not be turned on because of that.

That equipment could cause a dog, a dog to act violently, and probably is what happened with the Chiefs story.

It's connected to the University of California system, California State Universities, California Community Colleges, California K-12.

That would explain the unified school districts' money missing, public libraries, tribal nations, etc.

There's much more.

But I just found this today and I did forward it to Chief Yup and Sheriff Miyamoto plus some senior commanders within your command.

This should lead to the Commerce Department, Department of Justice, and Department of Defense giving final guidance on that equipment and appropriate training for the police department and the police commission.

Thank you.

It's too complicated, which is that early.

We don't know what to do with it.

Chris.

Okay, good evening.

I don't know if I should be here, but I'm here.

The end goal is not to be distracted by anything anymore from this fake and criminal governments, mainly in Washington, DC.

But it's all over the place, controlling you.

Okay, so you don't get distracted.

We're gonna take this government down because it's run by pedophiles.

It is extremely disturbing to hear again, but that's your goal.

You call out step by step the pedophiles.

You don't let go.

At least in your mind, it's clear because pedophilia is just the tip of the iceberg.

Obviously, it involves child trafficking, torturing, raping.

It's institutionalized now.

It's not only in the USA, which by the way, where is the name of the country?

I never really understood.

But okay.

So you do what you can for now.

Keep the money given by this fake and criminal government run by pedophiles under black mail or not.

We don't care.

Remembering something.

We don't, I mean, it doesn't matter where who you are, where you are from.

What matters is what you do.

That's it.

These are the rules of existence.

So you do your best, male or female, and that's it.

The rest is a freak show.

Enough.

We protect the keys, one, and the woman first.

So after that, the petty criminals in the city, yes, you have to take there of them as well, obviously.

Don't lose the target.

The pedophiles, once we target them, it's over for them.

Good night.

Good evening.

My name is Paul Allen.

I'm here yet again to urge the police commission to immediately go on record by adopting a robust statement, opposing the introduction of an uninvited military force, a police force into San Francisco.

At last week's meeting, I was led to believe that there might be some progress on that internally, but to date I have heard nothing.

Time marches on, and the National Guard marches in, although, frankly, and hope and thankfully not to San Francisco.

I want to read to you uh briefly from an excerpt that appeared in the Economist magazine two days ago regarding an event on September 30 at 7500 South Shore Drive in Chicago, Illinois.

Quote: At around 1 a.m., at least 300 masked federal agents, mostly from the Border Patrol, some repelling from helicopters, others using breaching ladders, stormed into the building.

They flew fra they threw flashbang grenades into the corridors, smashed indoors, and then marched everyone, including children, into the streets in their pajamas.

Now I have no doubt that if such an event uh were to occur in an apartment building in the mission, or Chinatown, or the tenderloin, this commission would say something, and indeed I suspect the city would be up in arms figuratively.

We don't need to wait for that.

This is the perfect body in the city to already go on record.

Um, there's no time to waste.

Silence is not going to save us.

Being supine is not going to save us.

Obeying in advance is not going to save us.

There are right ways and wrong ways to promote and enhance public safety, which indeed is goal number one of this police commission and the department.

And it is incumbent on the police commission to step forward now to prepare such a statement for public comment and then do issue it promptly.

Thank you.

Um I was just here to talk on this uh legislation that passed, and about ways to pay tips to homicide fund.

I know last time when we were here, we were talking about making a flyer and things for the for this uh to get out to the public, and I have yet to hear from anybody at all.

And you know, I I feel disappointed by that.

And um I think it's something should happen.

You know, I'm coming here every week since this pass to talk about this homicide reward fund.

And only persons hearing about it is us, the choir, you know, the media, the the world don't know about this.

How are our cases to get solved if no one knows about this legislation?

About this artness, about ways to pay tips to come forth to uh to um tell about what's happening on our streets and in our community.

Our children are still dying on the streets to senseless violence and not just gun violence, uh domestic violence, child abuse, uh, uh fitnaw, all of that.

It's all caused trauma.

And I believe um the perpetrators that murdered my child.

If this get out to everyone that maybe my case will get solved, our cases would get solved.

We definitely need your support to come forth with these flyer or something.

I'm gonna keep talking about it.

I'm gonna keep bringing it up.

So please um please hear me.

I'm I I'm I'm here all the time.

Yes, I am tired of saying the same thing over and again and again, but I will.

Thank you.

Any member of the public has any information regarding the murder of Abre Aberkassa, you can call the anonymous 24-7 tip line at 415-575-4444.

And that is the end of public comment.

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

Serious Incident Review Board, third quarter 2025, police commission report of Disciplinary Actions, third quarter, 2025, and SAPD and DPAs, SB 1421 and SB16 monthly reports for September 2025.

Is there a motion?

Motion to receive and file.

Second.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item three.

Please approach the podium.

There's no public comment.

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

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Leo?

Yes.

Commissioner Leoung is yes.

Commissioner Lyas.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes.

And President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes, you have five yeses.

Line item four.

Adoption of minutes.

Action for the meetings of September 3rd, 10th, and 17th, 2025.

Motion to adopt the minutes for September 3rd, 10th, and 17th.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item four.

Please approach the podium.

There's no public comment.

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

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Leo?

Yes.

Commissioner Leoung is yes.

Commissioner Lyas.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes.

And President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have five yeses.

Line item five.

Chief's report.

Discussion.

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.

Interim Chief Yep.

Thank you, Sergeant.

Good evening, President.

Commission President Clay, Vice President Benedito.

Police Commissioners, Director Henderson, members of the general public.

First, I'd like to request a moment of silence in remembrance of Officer Jason Gallagher, who we held services for today at St.

Cecilia's Church.

Thank you, everyone.

First, I'd like to provide a follow-up.

Actually, for Miss Paulette Brown.

I did speak to our media unit, strategic communications.

We spoke we mainly spoke about a social media post that we would put together.

But uh hearing you today, I remember that we did talk about developing a flyer, so that's something we'll we'll um add to the conversation and work on as soon as possible.

So keep reminding us and we'll move forward.

So thank you for that.

Okay, I'm gonna go over the weekly crime trends.

This is for the week ending October 5th of this year.

Overall part one crimes are down 26 for the for the year year to date compared to 2024.

Total violent crimes are down eighteen percent for the year, homicides there are 19 homicides to date, a 21 percent decrease from last year, gun violence, gun violence is down 20 percent, rapes are down fourteen percent, assaults are down 13 percent, robberies are down 24%, human trafficking incidents are up 100%, total property crimes are down 28%, burglaries are down 28%, larceny or theft is down 23%, which includes auto burglaries, which is uh 23% on top of 43% decrease from the year prior, so over two years, quite a significant change.

There was one reported homicide during this reporting week.

I did touch on that.

Um in my report last week.

That was a shooting that occurred on September 26th at 441 p.m.

on the 100 block of Larkin, which is the main library.

The suspect was arrested.

Um I won't go into further because that's been made public, and there's been media stories about that case.

There were five shooting incidents resulting in injuries to five victims this week.

There was a shooting on September 30th, 2025 at 1019 a.m.

at 16th, and San Bruno in the mission, no arrest in that case.

There's a shooting on 9 30 25, same date, 8 35 p.m.

On the 1900 block of mission, there has been no arrest in that case.

There's a shooting on September 30th at 10:17 p.m., unknown location.

The victim drove or I don't know, drove, came into San Francisco for treatment for a gunshot um wound.

We are unclear at this time where that shooting occurred.

There is reason to believe that that shooting occurred in the East Bay.

There's a shooting on October 1st at 11:33 p.m.

on the unit block of Maxwell.

There's no arrest in that case.

A shooting on October 4th at 9:10 p.m.

on the thousand block of mission in the Southern, no arrest in that case.

However, there are many notable operational efforts and arrests that occurred during this week.

It's actually quite a busy week.

In the interest of time, I'm just going to read a sampling of those cases.

One case that I'll talk about is an arrest of a suspect in an attempted murder case.

This incident occurred on September 21st at 1 15 a.m.

A shooting occurred in the area of 24th Street and York Streets.

The victim sustained life-threatening injuries during a verbal altercation that turned physical, with the suspect shooting multiple rounds at the victim.

The investigation identified a suspect, and on October 3rd, the suspect was arrested at his residence in Oakland.

The suspect was booked on attempted murder, assault with a firearm.

Carrying a concealed firearm, possession of a loaded firearm, and possession of a firearm by a violent felon.

There was a case that made the media recover uh regarding recovery of stolen property on May 18th.

Uh the Richmond station uh unit along with our investigations unit made a substantial arrest involving drugs and stolen vehicles.

There was another arrest resulting from a narcotics unit investigation on October 1st.

I'll just highlight 180 grams of fentanyl, 57 grams of methane amphetamine, 16 grams of cocaine were seized as well as 25,000, a fentanyl press and scales and unceralized firearm known as a ghost gun.

Um I won't get it much further into that.

Uh okay.

And here's just kind of one that you know doesn't have drugs or but just kind of shows the the type of police work that's happening across the city, not just drugs, just not just shootings.

So this happened to the park district.

It's an operational effort.

Uh park district is now led by Captain Angela Wilhelm.

The park district saw a surge of garage burglaries in recent months, and the loss of was typically bicycles, e-bikes, and scooters.

Under the guidance of Lieutenant Adrian Payne and Sergeant Josh Nazal park station ran a bait bike operation on Thursday, October 2nd.

The result of the operation ended four felony arrests in three locations within the park district.

During one bait operation, an e-scooter was placed on Fulton and Masonic with surveillance officers nearby.

A van pulled up next to the e-scooter.

A subject exited the passenger side and attempted to place the e-scooter in the van.

As the vehicle attempted to leave, multiple marked units arrived and took the two occupants into custody.

So that's just an example of work that's being done that we really don't highlight, but I know because I see those reports that occurred.

Another incident note, and I'll stop there just because there's so many.

Officers from the Tenderloin station responded to the 300 block of Turk Street to assist with the resident in the apartment who started a fire.

The subject had blocked the door to prevent emergency responders from entering.

Once fire personnel were inside, the subject began to violently fight with them.

SFPD personnel entered the room without respirators due to the physical violent altercation with our firefighters.

Officers were able to handcuff the suspect who continued to violently fight with them.

The subject was transported for burns.

Multiple officers were treated on the scene for smoke inhalation, and two of the officers were transported for additional medical treatment based on that case.

So okay, there's other arrests of a shooting suspect.

There was a stabbing, homicide, uh attempted homicide incident on October 5th.

I believe that yeah, that occurred on a Muni LBR line at Fourth and Channel in the Southern District.

An arrest was made in that case.

It was a horrific stabbing case.

A critical incident, domestic violence incident on October 2nd, 9:19 p.m.

on the 200 block of Eddie.

I'm not gonna get into the details, but just it's been a busy week of police work.

A couple of traffic collisions of note, a fatal hit and run on October 4th at 21 a.m.

at Cortland and Anderson.

I know that we held a community meeting yesterday evening with the supervisor and the district captain station, Commander McCray, uh Jerry Becky's the station captain, and our investigator, the sergeant that led the investigation of TCIU, which is our traffic investigations unit.

There was a hit and run with serious injuries on October 3rd, 915 p.m.

at hate and lion in the park district, no arrest in that case.

Oh, and there uh I do want to mention some large-scale events that are also in addition to everything else that occurred in San Francisco that we deal with on a weekly basis.

Um there was the hardly strictly bluegrass festival Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

This past weekend, it was the 25th um annual version of this festival.

There were no arrests and no significant incidents related.

And this was a free event held in Golden Gate Park, all staff and volunteers did a fantastic job.

Uh coming or actually already activated this week is Fleet Week, um, Sunday, October 5th through the 13th.

The Italian Heritage Festival and Parade is on Sunday, October 12th.

Uh we are the parade begins at 12:30 at Jefferson and Powell.

Commissioners, I invite you to join the police contingent if you are available and willing.

Um there is a dream force event or the dream force event is coming starting Monday, October 13th.

Uh, runs through Thursday, October 16th.

Uh, this event next week is held primarily at the Moscone Center, which is uh and along with various other locations in San Francisco, uh, Oracle Park Chase Center and the Transpay Transit Center.

We will be staffing this event.

It's a large-scale event.

Um I would avoid the area unless you need to be there or you're a participant, or you know, oh, I wouldn't avoid anything, but expect heavy traffic and a large police presence.

Um I'll end my report there.

Thank you, Commissioners.

Thank you, Chief.

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

Um I like to use the overhead.

I'm talking here about my son Arboria, who was murdered August 14th, 2006, shot with a semi-ometic gun, 30 rounds of bullets.

My son died saving people's lives.

I miss him, and I continue to fight for him.

Not only do I fight for my son, but other mothers and fathers out there that are suffering in silence, like myself.

I just met with a mother today about her son, and she was talking about facial recognition.

So we were both at a healing circle.

Tony Heinz healing circle.

So mind me, mothers are still hurting.

She's really angry.

And so I bring these pictures to say that all the unsolved homicides are not being solved.

I bring these names of all the perpetrators who were there who murdered my son.

One of them is deceased.

The resort or two main persons, Parent Moffin and Thomas Hannibal, are the two main persons that were involved who murdered my son.

I bring this because I need people to see what I'm going through.

I can talk about it all the time.

But if you don't see it, then you don't understand me.

This is what the perpetrators left me: a lifeless body of my son.

I grieve for him every day, every time I wake up in the morning.

That's why I come here.

I am still a strong mother.

I fought for him in life, and I'm fighting for him in death.

So I need things like this legislation to come forth.

Here's other onslaught homicides.

Imagine how many mothers are out there suffering in silence.

We need this flyer to be made.

We need that legislation to be put out there further than what it is.

And like I said, I will keep reminding you.

It hurts though.

It really hurts every time I talk about it.

Thank you.

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.

Hello?

Okay.

So we still have a complaint this year.

Still a higher volume of complaints than we had from last year.

It's 152 cases more in 2025 year to date than in 2024.

That's a 27% increase.

This time last year we're at 10% higher, which is about 21 more cases, actually compared to this same time last year in the year.

The most common allegation that came in of complaints this week involved allegations about officers driving in reckless manner on the streets.

Again, these are allegations and not the results from the investigations or the results of sustained cases.

These are merely the allegations coming that are being uh brought for intake.

We're continuing to work hard and to keep pace.

This year we've opened up 719 cases year to date.

Again, that's still a hundred percent in compliance with our 3304 deadlines.

As of Friday, October 3rd, there are 13 cases that are over the 270-day uh review of investigations.

And of those all 13 are told cases.

There are no cases that are not told whose investigations are gone over 270 days currently.

Uh we're bringing in four new interns this week, so we're excited about having them join the work that we have and the various departments.

Uh they'll be joining us at least one day a week in the office and working remotely during uh their semesters uh at their various schools.

Uh we are finishing up our surveys, which I will be turning over to the commissioners themselves uh early next month.

Uh and uh currently we are working on our audit.

We've sent the draft of the use of force audit to the controller's office for independent review, which is one of the final steps before we send over uh the final form to the department.

We hope to have that back after its review for and after the next couple of weeks.

Uh if there are questions uh in the audience from today's meeting.

I have a senior investigator that is here joining me today, and people can also contact uh us here us at sfgov.org forward slash DPA or contact us directly at 415 241711.

That concludes my report for the day.

Thank you, Director.

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

There is no public comment.

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

Commission and presidents report, commissioners' reports, and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting.

President has been away, so I have no report.

Uh, yes, just a report.

Um we report on this last week by any real wave that uh Commissioner Scott and I attended the general body meeting of the NAACP uh San Francisco chapter and received uh very enthusiastic and helpful feedback from the community and look forward to incorporating that uh going forward.

Um I will be uh traveling this weekend, so I I will break my parade streak uh Chief Yep, but um I'll be the next one.

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

There is no public comment.

Line item eight report from Ralph Anderson and Associates on community meetings, surveys, and emails regarding ideal police chief candidate attributes discussion.

Good evening, President Clay and Commissioners.

My name is Daniel Hahn.

I'm part of the team with Ralph Anderson and Associates that's assisting you in finding your next police chief.

Um, so tonight uh we wanted to give you an update on the recruitment, specifically concluding a major portion of this recruitment, which is getting feedback from your community on what they would like in a police chief, what they think the priorities are for the police chief, the next police chief and the police department.

Um so um we will get started.

Uh uh.

So uh there's really three avenues that the public was able to weigh in on what they wanted as a police chief, and really there was four because many of you held various functions outside of what we're talking about tonight to also gather input.

I think Vice President Benedicto just referred to one of those.

So there was many ways for your uh the public here in San Francisco to weigh in on this recruitment.

But the three ways that we were involved in was one we we held community meetings, as you know.

Last recruitment with uh Chief Scott, there was five community meetings.

You all decided we needed more than that.

So then we went to eight.

We actually ended up with nine uh with a uh with President Clay and a community organization uh uh facilitat not facilitating but hosting another community meeting, and then we actually ended up with 10 uh because commission also held uh a community meeting in the visitation valley area, which is included in the results because those notes were provided.

I might also add in the report that you received, all the notes from all the community meetings are included in that, including all the surveys and all the emails that we received.

So we ended up uh I facilitated nine community meetings, and then there was a tenth one facilitated by commissioners, and then several other uh meetings and functions where you also obtained input.

The second way was surveys, both hard copy surveys, and uh the public could also fill out surveys online, and both were utilized in this, and all of that information is in the report.

Every single response is included in there.

And then the public could also send an email with a narrative, and we did receive emails also.

Uh one organization sent us an email with uh probably 50 or 60 page PowerPoint where they collected numerous uh uh community members' input and put it in that PowerPoint.

So all three of those uh um were utilized to obtain uh information from your community.

So these are the uh community meetings that we hosted uh um all the way from August 19th through September 12th from Noe Valley, Ocean View, Richmond, North Beach, Golden Gate, the main library, Chinatown, Visitation Valley, Bayview, and Mission.

I would also like to thank DHR because they helped secure the locations for these meetings, and they also helped in each meeting uh the facilitation with the note taking and all that.

And I might also add there was multiple commissioners at every single one of these uh of these meetings.

And as all of you know, the public was very appreciative of you being there.

They were very happy to see you out in the neighborhood.

So um there were translators at uh a lot of these meetings, and I might add, and in especially in a couple of these meetings, the translators were very busy.

Uh people were not shy about providing their input.

So that's a good thing that in this city they provide trans you provide translation services so people can feel comfortable sharing their um information and their their thoughts and ideas and the language they feel most comfortable.

So I wanted to just give a kind of a high-level overview uh with all three avenues combined.

What were the themes that were existing in all three avenues specific to the police chief?

And so those would be the attributes and leadership qualities of the police chief that were prevalent in all through three ways that the public could weigh in were a strong presence and leadership in the police chief, innovative problem solver, and somebody that ensures accountability.

And there was a lot of other things that they said that you can see in your report, but these were the three most prevalent that were throughout all three avenues.

Qualifications or you could say background of the next police chief.

Some of the most prevalent things were from San Francisco PD, or having a good understanding of San Francisco PD and the city of San Francisco.

Many of the common background behind that recommendation is that San Francisco is a unique city.

And it would take somebody that's from here, has some sort of understanding of the city for them to be able to be effective, especially immediately.

Secondly, experience in a large, diverse city, if not from San Francisco, some other large and diverse city because San Francisco is very diverse.

And a knowledge and track record of technology was prevalent throughout all of those.

And a lot of that pertained to responsibly using technology, being transparent about technology, open with the community of what it's used for, all those sort of things.

So specific to the community meeting themes, just the one avenue of the community meetings, which all of you are at various community meetings, so these will probably sound very familiar to you.

Have a strong presence, stand up for San Francisco values, and there is a lot of background behind that.

An innovative problem solver, someone that ensures accountability, a good communicator, a good collaborator, someone that has courage and ensures transparency.

So I think you'll hear that theme of transparency through every one of these.

And again, this is the person's background.

Again, this is this is actually by far the most common theme that was stated at every single community meeting.

Someone from the San Francisco Police Department or someone that has a good understanding of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department.

Again, experience working in a large diverse city.

Someone that, even if they're not from San Francisco, they have a history of respect from the rank and file officers, and there was a lot of talk around morale.

A history of understanding behavioral health, and there was a lot of talk about drug issues, homelessness issues, things like that that could involve behavioral health and partnerships.

And then lastly, a knowledge and track record of utilizing technology in a responsible manner.

So then they were also asked what do they think they feel should be the priorities of the next police chief?

Like on day one when they come in, what what should be those priorities?

So the most common themes throughout all the community meetings was they should have conversations in every community within San Francisco.

One neighborhood literally said on day one, don't walk to our neighborhood, but run to our neighborhood and then walk the neighborhood with community members to get to know people and to understand the needs and the challenges of that neighborhood.

Create a strong relationship with the district attorney, community partners, neighborhoods, and other departments, both city departments and other departments throughout the larger community.

Staffing and recruitment came up repeatedly.

Crime reduction came up and proactive policing.

A lot of people brought up address little things like graffiti and break-ins and traffic and commitment to the reforms from the Department of Justice.

So the committee members were also asked at the meetings, what do they feel the priorities for the department as a whole should be, and some of those are similar to the police chief, but some of them are not.

Also additional patrol and presence in neighborhoods, and I see you honored somebody that walks a footbeat this morning.

Footbeats came up a lot in many of the meetings that we that this city needs more footbeats.

Understanding communities in San Francisco and partnerships, both understanding the politics, but also the other departments, what other departments do, and what community-based organizations do so they can partner together to have a holistic solution to some of these issues.

Addiction and mental health routinely came up as a priority for the police department.

And the efficient use of officers and staff, and what a lot of people were talking about is officers don't.

If you have other people that can respond to lower level things that don't require officer, that would free officers up to respond to the higher priority.

Safety came up a lot, and uh I think people in many of the meetings people said that we just want to feel safe, and that should be a priority of the police department.

And then staffing and recruitment, as you've heard already a few times, uh routinely came up.

So next I want to talk a little bit about the surveys, and again, you have all the surveys in the report, but these are the uh the most common themes.

So when it comes to asking the community about top attributes and leadership qualities of their next police chief, the most common themes were integrity, accountability, a strong leader.

I think you heard that also in the community meetings, commitment to justice, and a problem solver.

Um also in the surveys, uh qualifications, and again, this is more to the background of your next police chief.

Uh, should be somebody with a track record of reducing crime, someone with experience in crisis management, experience managing change, and someone that embraces technology.

And then there was also talk uh in the community meetings regarding technology about how to facilitate technology in San Francisco.

So also in the community surveys when asked what should be the priorities of the police chief.

Um the most common themes throughout all the surveys were connect with San Francisco PD employees, improve training, review effectiveness of department of current department programs, community partnerships, and again continuing to implement and the the reforms.

And then lastly, on the uh on the community surveys, the priorities for the department as a whole.

The most common themes were responding to emergency calls for service, crime prevention, maintaining public order, and then drug and alcohol enforcement uh that they see in some of the neighborhoods.

So I'll close in saying that there was a lot of feedback and in a lot of the meetings.

The people uh your community members were not shy about sharing their opinion, as I'm sure all of you have seen when you were at those meetings.

Um, and uh safety and an interest in who your next police chief was very prevalent uh both in the surveys and in the community meetings.

And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have.

So, chief, what were the total numbers of responses to the surveys as well as those attending the community meetings?

Do you know what the total numbers were?

Yeah, the total surveys were 227 in the formal survey that was provided, both online and hard copies.

But again, there was a PowerPoint that had uh it was like 50 pages long with numerous responses from community members, so the total number would be above that, but the formal surveys was 227.

Um in the community meetings, the early ones we had one or two people.

Now we had translators there, so we many of the translators lived in San Francisco, so we we just used them as the public, and so they they shared many of their opinions.

Um but a lot of the later community meetings were were crowded with 30, 20, 30, upwards to 40 people in them.

Uh thank you very much there, Dear President.

Um Clay.

Also, uh you said 227th survey.

Is that uh I guess the re that attended the meetings?

No, those are people that either filled it out online or the hard copies.

Yes.

And then what what did you get on the numbers of um I guess response in all the meetings that you held?

Do you have a count of how many people made comments?

I don't, but all their comments are in the report, but I haven't actually counted them up.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah.

Got it.

There was a lot of them.

The notes for each meeting are 20 to 30 pages long.

Thank you.

And you also mentioned about the online surveys.

What was the number of that?

The total surveys, both online and hard copy was 227.

Most of them were online.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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 and possible action to approve revised department general order 6.16 sexual assaults for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law.

Discussion and possible action.

Good evening, Commissioners.

I'm acting Captain Gordon with the special victims unit.

Captain Alexa O'Brien was the assigned subject matter expert during the policy revision.

But I'm here today joined by acting Lieutenant Antonio Flores to present to you today.

DJO 6.16 sexual assaults was last updated in 2008.

This was on the 2024 revision list and was assigned to a community working group by the police by the police commission per resolution 24-68.

The working group included Commissioner Benedicto, community members, representatives from the mayor's Office of Victim Rights, Family Violence Council, UCSF Trauma Recovery Center, the Department of Public Health, Case Arc, San Francisco Women Against Rape, Child Protective Services, the Department of Police Accountability, and the District Attorney's Office.

We received 34 comments during the public review process, which warranted multiple changes to the draft with the goal of creating clear guidelines for patrol.

The following are some highlights of the major changes and updates to DGO 6.16.

The policy now focused on focuses on the initial response by patrol officers and gives them a clear, repeatable outline to follow.

This policy prioritizes supporting victims, both physically and emotionally, while giving our officers the guidance and resources they need to effectively respond to these crimes.

We updated considerations for victim privacy and emphasized victim well-being.

These changes came directly from the stakeholders and our working group.

The policy now includes hyperlinks to legal references, giving officers quicker access to the information they need while in the field.

The policy addresses the unique challenges involving child victims and is guided by California Posts best practices.

We added new procedures for DNA collection.

The penile swab guidelines have not been codified in department policy before this.

Working with our partners at San Francisco General Hospital, we've outlined clear procedures for requesting exams and the proper handling of evidence.

The policy now incorporates the legal changes to Penal Code Section 679.04, aligning our procedures with current state requirements.

We've updated SFPD Forum 540.

Know your rights as a victim of sexual assault, and we'll issue it once this policy goes into effect.

As an overview, the working group inspired the inclusion of procedures relating to privacy, victim-centered approaches, minimal facts, interview for children, victim advocates and support person, sexual assault response team exams, and clarification on the courtesy ride for victims.

The overall goal is to have a policy that balances our operational efficiency and the need to tailor our approach to the victim's emotional and physical state.

I'm happy to take any questions you may have.

All right, Commissioner Benedict.

As the uh Captain Ted, I was the commissioner on this working group.

Uh, this was a real privilege to work with this working group in particular.

Uh I want to thank uh Bev Upton, the various uh domestic violence and women against rape groups who were really instrumental uh in fostering a lot of the substantive changes here.

Uh I'm glad to see that a lot of the recommendations for the working group uh remained in place through the concurrence process.

Um, and uh I'm very pleased with the way this DGO turned out.

So I want to thank all the members of the working group who I know were alerted to this uh commission hearings, hopefully are are watching uh either in person or online and to the special victims unit and um Captain O'Brien as well for for the tremendous help.

Thank you, Mr Scott.

Yes, I just wanted to um commend you on this work that you're doing for sexual assault victims.

Um we work a lot with those uh individuals in our community, and I just wanted to say adding more value to it to and to improve um the work that you've already done and are doing.

I just wanted to commend you both and everybody that worked on this so that um the victims and the survivors of sexual assault can be assured to get the right treatment and the right services that they deserve to go on with uh a better and safer life.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Spott.

Yes, I'll make a motion to approve revised department general order 6.16 for the department to use and meeting and conferring with the effect of bargaining units pursuant to our labor relations.

Oh, and I second it.

I just have a question.

Um, you know, sexual assault is physical.

Can it be also online sexual assault?

There are predators that are out there that do solicit that type of act to draw somebody from there, and that's where I work the human trafficking portion also besides the sexual assault.

So we're constantly keeping our eye on there, we're constantly doing enforcement regarding recognizing those individuals.

Because now it's uh everything's uh now set of physical, it's uh online, and uh you're gonna have assault.

Uh meaning to have somebody send your picture or whatever it is online stuff like that.

That's my thoughts.

Thank you.

There's a motion and there's a second.

Commissioner Scott.

I second it.

I second it.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item nine, DGO 6.16.

Please approach the podium.

And there is no public comment.

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

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Leong?

Yes.

Commissioner Leong is yes, Commissioner Yee?

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes, Commissioner Lyas?

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas is yes, Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes, you have six yeses.

Line item 10.

Public.

On all matters pertaining to item 12 below closed session, including public comment on item 11, a vote whether to hold item 12 in closed session.

And public comment on item 13, a vote whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 12 held in closed session.

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

There is no public comment.

Line item 11, a vote on whether to hold item 12 in closed session pursuant to government code section 54957B in San Francisco administrative code sections 67.10B and D.

Action.

Motion to go into closed session.

Second.

On the motion, Commissioner Scott.

How do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Leo?

Yes.

Commissioner Leo is yes.

Commissioner Yi?

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes, Commissioner Lyas.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes.

And President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have six yeses.

We are going into close.

San Francisco Government Television.

Oh, I was playing a lot of the other.

I'll have to find out.

I know.

But I don't know if I'm fairly well.

I don't know.

Do you think it's a good idea?

San Francisco Government Television.

San Francisco government television.

Commissioners, we are back in open session on line item thirteen.

Vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item twelve held in close session.

San Francisco administrative code section sixty-seven point one two eight action.

Right on the motion, Commissioner Scott.

How do you vote?

Commissioner Scott is yes, Commissioner Leong.

Yes.

Commissioner Leo is yes.

Commissioner Yee?

Yes.

Commissioner Yee is yes, Commissioner Lyas.

Vice President Benedicto.

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes, you have six yeses.