Which is one nation under God, individual liberty, and justice for all.

President Clay, like to take role.

Yes, please.

Commissioner Techie?

Yeah.

Commissioner Scott, I believe, is in route.

Commissioner Leon.

Here.

Commissioner Yi.

Here.

Commissioner Lyas is in route.

Uh Vice President Benedicto.

President Clay, you have a quorum also with us tonight.

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

All right.

Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the October, the November 5th, police commission meeting.

We'll have uh Sergeant.

Can you begin the meeting?

Line item one, weekly officers recognition certificate.

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

Officer Tariq Shahid, star number 400, Southern Station.

Good evening.

Hello, Commissioners.

Chief Yep.

Justice a little bit.

Sorry.

Um my name is Sergeant Matthew Cloud from Southern Station, and I am honored and privileged to be here tonight to recognize Officer Tariq Shaheed, star number 400.

Officer Shahid is currently assigned to the midnight watch at Southern Station.

Officer Shahid has served at Ingleside Central and is now currently assigned at Southern Station where he's been at for the past five years.

Officer Shaheed shines daily as a field training officer and exemplifies the values of the San Francisco Police Department.

He has an enhanced focus on empathy, understanding, mutual respect, and collaborative problem solving.

Officer Shahid is dependable during a time where staffing constraints can distract from a comprehensive training experience.

Officer Shaheed not only provides new recruits and lateral officers with the necessary training and experiences and exposure, but he does so with a positive attitude and minimal direction.

Recently, Officer Shahid has volunteered to come in before his shifts on midnights to participate in numerous organized retail theft operations.

During those operations, Officer Shahid has made himself and has also been involved in numerous retail theft arrests.

Officer Shahid raises the bar for not only the next generation of San Francisco police officer, but for his peers who patrol alongside with him.

We get a few words from you, Officer Shaheed.

Uh sure.

Put you on the spot here.

I am honored to be acknowledged and to receive this recognition.

It's been said in several different ways, but for my attempts to paraphrase uh what Helen Keller once communicated.

Uh greatness is the sum total of many small things that are done as if they are great and noble.

And I am simply one small piece of the great puzzle that is the San Francisco Police Department.

So I accept this uh honor simply as a representation of all the officers that I work with every night on my watch and supervisors and the excellent guidance that they should uh provide us.

We show up every single night just to play a small part in serving the people of this great city and county, and we do it with pride and honor.

So thank you.

Thank you.

So don't know what officer G is we want to say we appreciate all that you do, you and your fellow officers.

And it takes a village, as they say, and it's a village of you all to do what you do every day for our community, and so every time we get to see an officer here, we know everybody works hard and everything, everybody's special, and there's sometimes just that extra thing that you've done that people here are honoring you.

And so what we want to say is continue to do what you do, and we're always here for you because that's what our job is to make sure that we do the best we can to give you the opportunities to do your job as best as you can.

So thank you very much for all that you've done.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you very much, President Clay.

Congratulations, officer.

Uh, it really is uh real highlight that we're able to recognize officers for going above and beyond and for being uh doing that that extra work because the community is so grateful and recognizes it, and I'm so glad that this happened on an evening where we had a number of uh of members from the community here who can join in our celebration uh annual recognition.

You know, I think that one of the main roles of of this commission is accountability, and I'm a firm believer in it.

And I think uh a big part of accountability is um being sure that we're recognizing when things are going well as as and not only when things aren't going well.

And so it's it's a tremendous honor to recognize you.

Thank you for your work and keep it up.

Thank you.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, President Clay.

Officer Shahid, thank you so much for your contributions and for your efforts in maintaining public safety.

I think it's telling that in your acceptance speech, you thanked the rest of your team.

So it speaks volumes about your attitude and about your willingness to think about everyone else before yourself.

Southern Station is doing something right.

Thank you.

Commissioner Yee.

Thank you very much, sir, President uh Clay.

Uh I also like to thank you to uh Officer Shahi for all you've done and being a leader in your team and making sure that the public safety is paramount.

So you're a road model for all officers here, and we're looking forward for more and better things to come from you.

And congratulations again to you, your family, and to your team here and Southern Station.

So continue your good work.

Thank you.

Commissioner Techie.

I just want to take this opportunity to thank you for all your work and congratulations.

Thank you.

Chief, Chief Yep.

Thank you.

Thank you, Sergeant Cloud, for bringing uh the great work of Officer She to our attention.

Uh on behalf of the police department and the command staff, and for me, thank you very much for your work uh that you do every night.

Uh you work at Tough Shift.

Not only do we have a shortage of police officers, but we also have a shortage of trainers.

So what you do is super important.

Uh it sounds like you have a very bright future, so keep uh make sure you take tests, uh, take advantage of all the opportunities that this police department offers to you and uh keep up the good work.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hold on there.

Hold on, Officer Sheed.

We got some order.

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

Okay.

Hi, my name is Daniel Reed.

If I speak loudly, it's because I'm passionate.

I am here to advise your commission about a settlement offer on the table with the city attorney's office.

With the departure of the former police chief, I can make phone calls for the first time.

I stopped your time for a second.

This is not general public comment.

This is only regarding line item one, the officer.

Oh, yeah, I was here for the second part.

All right.

Thank you.

All right, and there is no public comment for line item one.

Line item two, general public comment.

At this time, the public is now welcome.

Line item one.

Um I'm very glad to see that this week you are honoring a Southern Station officer.

Because Southern Station is understaffed.

All right.

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 SAPD.commission at SFgov.org.

A 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 police.

Go ahead.

Hey, how's it going?

Sorry about that.

My name is Daniel Reed.

And with the departure of the prior police uh chief, I'm able to make phone calls for the first time in four years.

I am very grateful that I did most of my dental work before I reported.

Racketeering and child sex trafficking to the former police department and the district attorney's office.

I am humble that I was on the same list of over 100 high-profile individuals that were targeted by the city and county of San Francisco to support the Billionaire Boys Club to include the former public defender as well as the open AI whistleblower.

There is a settlement offer on the table, and easy two.

This will go to my children and the mother of my children.

Otherwise, the existing unlimited civil recall lawsuit against the San Francisco Police Department, already in the Northern California Superior Court, will be expanded to a civil recall against the city and county of San Francisco with the support of federal investigators.

I ask that you kindly consider this offer.

It is on the city attorney's office right now.

Thank you very much for your time, and I would seriously consider this fully.

Once again, sorry for being so loud.

I'm just very passionate about all this, and I appreciate your support regarding this incredibly difficult matter.

And you know, I was shot by a person allegedly with the San Francisco Police Department, the bullet ricocheted off the back of my head.

You've seen the pictures.

Thank you so much.

Okay, so good evening.

I'm gonna just repeat what I said to the Board of Supervisors yesterday.

It's a preview of what's going to be circulating all over the city by the thousands in houses, everything.

So it's a circular.

Okay.

So the header is break the silence over institutionalized child trafficking.

From the roots on.

Join the San Francisco Bay's Civil First Coalition to put an end to the very crime leading to no future.

The whole governmentally and mediatically institutionalized, maintained defending silence, evidencing by itself longtime organized worldwide operations of child trafficking, systematically, including the raping, torturing, organ harvesting, ritual sacrificing, and this murdering of one too many children every day, if in the US alone only.

Sorry, makes your voice and presence a duty to call out the pedophilia crings at the base of this worst of the worst ideas and sickening human activity by from the so-called leaders at large and their black mailers, depraved handlers.

To better show up united and in great number at SF City Hall any Tuesday for a starts ahead of the Board of Supervisors meetings.

Use the present header to create your own display signs with the future in your hands from this point on no further excuse a load for no hope.

At your service, Thierry Phil.

Get ready.

His birthday is going to be coming up.

Um I just wanted to bring the awareness that his case is still unsolved, and I come here concerning not just my child but other unsolved homicides here, and all the names of the perpetrators that were involved who murdered my son, Hannibal, Thomas Hannibal, Paris Moffat, Andrew Vadou, Jason Thomas, Anthony Hunter, Marcus Carter.

One of these are deceased.

I bring these pictures with me to let people know this is what I go through every day.

This is what I have to remember for the rest of my life.

Me watching my son's uh carcass in a casket.

And what happened to his beautiful face and his beautiful body when they shot him 30 times with a semi-matted automatic gun for saving someone else's life.

I bring these pictures because I bring this because a parent should never have to bury their child.

It's not designed for the human heart.

The holidays are coming, and I'm hurting.

These are other unsolved homicides.

This is the last graduation picture for my son.

The last graduation picture that I have to remember.

He was full of life.

And I want justice for my only son who was murdered by senseless gun violence.

I need justice.

I will continue to come here for the rest of my life.

I know you hear me, and I'm glad that you're you're here on this to listen to me each time.

And I know that you protect your own children if you have them.

Tell them you love them every day because you never know.

In a twinkling of an eye, they're gone.

So yes, my son was full of life.

And they left the corcus for me to remember.

Hello.

Good evening, uh, President Clay, Director Henderson, Chief Yep, and Commissioners.

My name is Fiona Yim, and I'm with Walk San Francisco.

WACASF advocates on behalf of all pedestrians in a city where an average of three people are hit every day while walking.

I'm here today to ensure that the Street Safety Act passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors is top of mind for all of you.

The police department plays an unquestionably crucial role in public safety, and this includes traffic safety.

Police are on the front lines with serious traffic crashes, and officers know how horrific and heartbreaking these can be.

That's why we are looking to the police department to deliver on its parts of the Street Safety Act, because if it does, it will save lives.

The Street Safety Act is a blueprint for major leap of progress for traffic safety.

It builds on the workings on the work and learnings of the first decade of Vision Zero.

It's focused on what can make the biggest difference the fastest.

But the Street Safety Act will only succeed if agencies quickly operationalize and deliver their parts of the Street Safety Act.

The actions the police department is tasked with in the Street Safety Act are crucial.

This includes developing a plan of action to increase enforcement of the most dangerous driving behaviors by the end of 2026 and conducting high visibility enforcement of dangerous speeding on high injury streets.

You don't need me to tell you how much more common aggressive and reckless drivers are these days, and this threatens all of us.

SFPD is also tasked with including statistics on traffic citations and severe and fatal crashes in monthly crime reports and providing timely crash crash reports to partner agencies after every fatal traffic crashes.

This data and transparency are central for the city to understand trends and tackle traffic safety systematically.

In recent months, PD has been heading in the right direction in terms of an uptake and focus on the five enforcement and more strategic speed enforcement.

This needs to continue, and delivering on what's in the Street Safety Act is a big part of this.

We are looking to you as commissioners to hold SFD accountable and delivering on what's in the Street Safety Act.

Thank you.

Oh shit.

Hello, my name is Glenis Fowler.

I live in Mission Bay, and I am also here because I support the Street Safety Act.

And I was at my window when the toddler was hit in a stroller back in August of 2023.

I have a degree in forensic psychology, so I understand very well all of this stress and pressures that go both into the criminal behavior and all of the excellent work that you guys do.

Thank you so much.

Um, but beyond that, I just want to make sure that you guys are using this opportunity to not just make the streets safer for us, but your but the police force as well, because violence in traffic situations is absolutely a problem, not just for us, but you guys as well.

So I appreciate you guys helping us, and we can help you in the same way.

So thank you so much for your time and all of your hard work.

Have a wonderful day.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Betina Cohen.

From 2018 to 2020, I sat where you are sitting now as a member of the pedestrian safety advisory committee, PSAC, representing district six.

I'm here to urge you to support the street safety act.

In my 20s, I saw a person get hit by a car.

I do not know for sure, but probably that person did not survive.

Then, three weeks after I moved to Post and Leavenworth in 2004, I witnessed a pedestrian fatality right outside the front door of my building.

Prior to joining PSAC, I was a vision zero skeptic from what I learned about the value of better street engineering from hearing presentations on specific projects.

I became fully convinced that in the absence of vision zero, the carnage on our streets would be far worse than it is.

What the statistics don't show is impossible to measure.

The collisions and the traffic deaths that have been prevented by Vision Zero.

But we must increase traffic enforcement of the most dangerous driving behaviors.

I now live in Mission Bay.

A neighbor told me of five hit and run collisions that occurred recently near a new public elementary school that's preparing to open in August of 2026.

I've seen the tire marks from doughnuts burned into the pavement in the intersection of fourth and channel and elsewhere on our neighborhood streets.

In short, there's lawless driving behavior in Mission Bay that's making pedestrians of all ages unsafe.

Please take the actions recommended by WAC SF to ensure the Street Safety Act is successful in improving traffic safety.

Thank you.

That is the end of public comment.

Line item three, consent calendar.

SFPD and DPA's document protocol report, third quarter 2025, Family Code 628 quarterly report, third quarter 2025, SFPD and DPA's Sparks Report, third quarter 2025, IAD quarterly reports second and third quarter 2025, and a grant in the amount of 654,609 dollars from the Board of State and Community Corrections for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Grant Equipment and Training Program.

Is there a motion?

Yes, um at this time I am going to request that the San Francisco PDs and DPA Sparks reports for quarter three, twenty twenty-five and IAD quarter reports second and third quarter 2025 be removed from the consent calendar and added to regular agenda items for to be agendized.

And then with that I will make a motion for the rest to be filed and received.

I will second the motion to receive and file the consent items with the exception of the Sparks report and the ID quarterly report.

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

There is no public comment.

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

Aye.

Commissioner Techie is yes, Commissioner Scott?

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Leoung.

Commissioner Leoung is yes.

Commissioner Yi?

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes.

Commissioner Elias?

Yes.

Mr.

Elias is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have seven yes.

Line item four, adoption of minutes action for the meetings of October 1st, 8th, and 14th through the 15th, 2025.

Is there a motion that relates to this matter?

Motion to adopt the minutes.

Second.

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

And there is no public comment.

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

I Commissioner Tech is yes.

Commissioner Scott?

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Leoung?

Yes.

Commissioner Leoung is yes.

Commissioner Yi.

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes.

Commissioner Lias?

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

Vice President Benedict?

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have seven yeses.

Line item five.

Chief's report discussion.

Weekly crime trends and public safety concerns.

Chief, yeah.

Thank you, Sergeant.

Good evening, Commissioner President Clay, Vice President Benedito.

Police Commissioners, Director Henderson, members of the public.

I am interim chief.

Oh, yep.

And here's my chief's report.

I'll start with an update regarding the homicide reward ordinance that was requested by uh community member uh Paulette Brown and I know that commit commissioner vice president uh Benedito and Commissioner uh Scott had also requested some action from the police department.

So our CD CED unit, our community engagement division, and our strategic communications unit were in contact.

They created a flyer and a media campaign.

They did send out through social media the uh messaging yesterday.

Uh flyers were created.

The campaign is called You Can Help 2.

It's both online and using other social media platforms.

Uh we have a flyer that can be distributed at events with communities.

Uh a press release was uh issued announcing uh the ordinance update that we spoke to, uh the major changes of the ordinance and how individuals can submit new information on code case homicides.

The goal was to spread word about the changes in the law and to continue to encourage witnesses to come forward to help bring justice to grieving families.

So that is an update that I wanted to provide.

Crime trends.

So for this reporting week, overall part one crimes are down 26% year to date compared to 2024.

Total violent crimes are down 18% for the year.

Homicides in this reporting period are 22 homicides uh compared to 30 in 2024, representing a 27% decrease.

Uh there actually was one homicide outside of this reporting week, and so that number is actually 23 homicides.

Looking into gun violence, which is defined by the number of people injured in a shooting incident, added to the number of persons killed by a farm, we are down 16%, rapes are down 16%, assaults for the year are down 14%, robberies are down 23%, human trafficking incidents are up 110%.

We've had discussions on why we believe that number is up in the past, so I won't um get into that for unless uh further questions are asked.

Total property crime is down 28%, burglaries are down 29%.

I will point out an anomaly for the week, and that is robberies, robberies are up 104% from 23 to 47 this week, so 47 incidents.

I have tasked my investigations bureau and operations bureau to delve into what why that is and what what the pattern is.

I do know that a majority of those the uptick, are strong arm robberies, and those are our robberies by force, not through weapons.

So we will delve into uh if there's a pattern, and we will adjust our operations and investigations to deal with that issue.

So I just wanted to make sure that I acknowledge that.

But having said that, overall robberies are still down 23 percent for the year.

So this is uh aberration of our regular statistics.

Or from our regular statistics, okay.

Significant incidents, I will acknowledge a few.

Uh there was one shooting incident uh that resulted in injury to one victim during this reporting period that occurred on Halloween evening.

Friday, October 31st at 11.40 p.m.

This victim was walking in the area of Van Es in California in the Northern District.

Uh the victim observed two groups in a physical altercation when he heard shots fired.

The victim sustained gunshot wounds and was transported in stable condition.

There is no arrest in this case at this time.

There was an arrest in the field this week of a fatal hit and run, which occurred on October 4th at 2 10 a.m.

A fatal hit and run uh collision occurred at the intersection of Cortland and Anderson, killing a pedestrian who was crossing the street.

The vehicle was captured on video, traveling at a high rate of speed in the area just prior to the collision.

A similar vehicle was captured on flock at Bay Shore and Industrial a short time after.

Footage of the vehicle was shared with officers, and the vehicle was located on October 11th, and the individual was arrested.

Arrest of a sexual battery and kidnapping of a juvenile, which occurred on October 23rd.

Uh there was quite a bit of media coverage covering this incident, so I won't recap details of this incident unless uh any of the commissioners request more.

I want to acknowledge a Stonestown operation that resulted in numerous arrests.

On October 30th, a multi-agency large-scale retail theft operation was conducted at Stonestown Mall and the Walgreens at West Portal.

Participating in this effort were members from the fugitive recovery enforcement team, drug market agency coordination center, Terrabell Police Station, as well as outside agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, Retail Crime Unit, and the San Francisco Sheriff's Department.

Several retail outlets and their security teams work closely with the department on this coordinated effort.

So it's a great public-private partnership effort.

Stonestown Mall effort, this uh this effort yielded eight reports, including three warrant arrests, six misdemeanor violations, and one felony charge of 666 with an enhancement for repeated.

There are quite a few incidents of note, but I'm gonna refrain from taking too long.

Uh just kind of want to acknowledge that after action for Halloween.

Uh, I did uh speak to the one shooting that occurred, but overall uh the city was really free of incidents.

There was an activation in the castro or a reactivation.

Uh we did staff well, and um uh by all uh metrics.

Uh Halloween outside of that one shooting did go well for the city of San Francisco.

An upcoming event will be the Veterans Day Parade.

Uh, the annual Veterans Day Parade is this coming Sunday, November 9th.

It's at 11 a.m.

at Fisherman's Wharf.

Uh, our department, along with other city agencies, participating in support of our country's military veterans.

I want to thank Commission President Clay for participating in the chief's advisory form this week.

It was a robust discussion with many questions.

Um we happily stayed to answer all questions, and uh there was a lot of thanks and praise for your participation.

So thank you, President Clay.

Um, thank you, Commissioner Leong, for participating in today's captains and lieutenants promotional ceremony, which occurred at the Scottish Reich Center.

Uh thank you for your inspirational words.

Um they were very uh impactful and um meaningful for our department.

So thank you for that.

Thank you, Commissioner Benedito, for your participation, uh, more than your participation for your it looked like you were helping organize the Filipino heritage events at City Hall this week.

Um, so uh those were very fun and successful events.

So thank you for that.

And welcome back, uh, Commissioner Techie from your trip.

That's the end of my report.

Thank you.

Commissioner Villa Hector.

Thank you for that report, Chief.

Yeah, I don't have much, I just want to confirm this.

Actually, the uh I know we discussed this offline as well.

This is I think our first commission meeting since we had the the No Kings protests on October 18th.

Could you provide uh a report on um on how that went?

Uh I as I understand that there were no arrests uh made or uses of force.

Yes, that's correct.

There were no arrests uh to my knowledge, no uses of force.

Uh I think estimates were up in the 50,000 range potentially for San Francisco.

Uh so it things uh by most metrics went very well also on that day.

So thank you for asking.

It was good to see.

Thank you very much.

Commissioner Scott.

Thank you, Chief.

Yeah, for this report.

Um, glad to see that our homicide rate is going down significantly, um, even though one homicide is one too many, but um the work that we're doing here in San Francisco is commendable to compare it to other places.

So just want to commend our police department and every on all of our law enforcement agencies for a job well done, and also for getting this word out about the bring justice to families for homicide.

Um, for getting this report out and uh putting it all over.

I seen the the I seen it on the website and I've seen it on a couple other um social media pages, so thank you for that.

Thank you.

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

Yes, I'd like to use the overhead again.

Um, it's finishing talking about my son, Arbor Casa, who was murdered.

And like Matty Scatt, one murder is too much.

I do see this and I thank everyone for implementing this poster.

I do need to know that this can be not just on the website, but for everyone to know, not just stop right here.

Um that um and I was asking, I I want to thank Lisa Artez.

She has been helping me a lot.

I give her kudos because the things that I don't understand, I asked her because I was concerned about number one information.

A information leads to the fouling of criminal charges, but she helped me to understand it's not a conviction.

There's three boxes, the arrests, the criminal charge, and I thought number one made a conviction, but it's not a conviction, and I like the fact that the the tipsters were remaining anonymous because they want to help their families.

They think about their families to being retaliated against, and the fact that now people that have been arrested and convicted of crimes can testify because before that wasn't happening.

I had this 250,000 reward, and no one was coming forth, and no money had been pained out for a decade.

And I also want to say my son's case number is 060 82 862 038.

I want us to continue to keep this out and put it on the news.

I don't know if it was on the news, and if it was, could you send me the clipping and make this a digital so that I can send it to mothers and fathers that are waiting for this as well?

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 415-5754.

That is the end of public comment.

Line item six, DPA director's report, discussion, a report on recent DPA activities and announcements.

Executive Director Henderson.

Thank you.

Good evening.

We're still uh experiencing an increase in the volume of complaints this year.

It's remained relatively constant.

Uh, and so far, just by comparison, it's sixty-seventy-six more cases opened uh so far this year than uh last year.

That's a 22% increase for the agency in terms of the work that we're doing.

Uh the most common complaint this week involved allegations for uh officers behaving or speaking inappropriately with the public.

Again, these are allegations that are coming in.

Uh we're still working hard to maintain uh our stable caseload uh and remain 100% in compliance with our 3304 deadlines.

Uh, as of Friday, October 31st.

There are 11 cases whose investigations have taken uh over 270 days, and for clarification, every single one of those cases uh are cases that are being told are being told.

Uh we have a few projects that I just want to raise here at Commission.

Uh the first of which is an update to our website.

We are working to comply with digital accessibility and inclusion standards.

Uh, and so that's in partnership with the Americans with Disability Act.

That includes about 400 documents that are linked to our website.

Uh so that process will guarantee that they meet all of the accessibility standards for folks trying to access information through our website.

Uh, and the second project is the DPA case file digital digitalization.

Uh, this is a project that I've been talking about for a while now.

Uh DPA has thousands of records going back into the early 80s that are stored at off-site locations, and with 1421 requests and public records requests and all sorts of other requests that we're getting and other departments get, particularly in public safety, uh, we are digitalizing those case files so that they can be searchable.

Uh, that project will result in a couple of things.

One, both and as having substantial savings and the physical storage costs, uh, but then it'll also ease up the uh searches that we continue to participate in.

Uh, in terms of our uh report reenvisioning project, which I've talked about, that report is ready to go, and you uh the commissioners will receive the report from us uh within the next 24 hours, certainly in the next uh 48 hours, but it's all done and ready.

We're just proofreading it now.

Uh and that's a digital survey that will take you about 10 minutes to complete.

Of course, it's optional, but we'd like for you guys to give us your feedback uh before the end of the month.

Uh and this new format is to improve our data usability and accessibility to make sure that we're soliciting feedback from the commission.

Chief, you're gonna get it as well just for these for commission meetings to make sure that we're giving you accurate uh and the most helpful information.

Uh and finally, our use of force audit.

Uh we had our exit conference with SFPD uh on October 30th.

Uh Steve Flaherty is finalizing the final draft report uh and expects to provide that to SFPD for formal response uh for the week of November 10th.

We just give them a heads up to show them what's in the report ahead of time so they can start thinking about things, ask questions if they want any final inclusions for the audit report comes, but uh that report is coming shortly, and you should all have it soon that will be available to the public soon as well.

Uh current tonight, if there are issues uh related uh to DPA that people in the public want to or in the audience want to speak to.

Uh senior investigator Chris Chisnall is here.

Also here in the audience is our director of policy, Jermaine Jones.

Uh, if folks want to get in contact with the organization, you can find us at our website, sfgov.org.

The phone number is 415-241-7711, and that completes my report for the week.

If any member of the public has 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 president's report, commissioners's reports, and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration in a future commission meeting.

As you heard, I last week uh Chief Yep and I I attended the community forum that the chief has put on if it's quarterly meeting uh was a robust group of individuals who have been appointed on that committee.

And they uh it's a two-hour meeting that went about two almost two and a half hours, and uh there was not a word of mince that was not said by those those members of the community, as well as questions they had.

One of the things that came out of it, they are really uh really want this commission to be active in the community as we did with our forums as we did the uh the search for the chief.

They were really really appreciated coming out.

One of the things we've talked about, and it's been in our bylaws, that we normally there was there was a time where we had a meeting in the community itself.

So I hope as we go forward in 2026 that we will set up these community meetings uh and go with if it's not us there as a meeting ourselves, but actually just the forum.

And and I think the the young the gentleman who uh commissioner Techie from the the um meeting we went out there was is yeah, was one of the um members of that committee.

He said people came out.

We had about 50 people, and normally the the members of the community there, they don't go out.

And because we came out to talk with them, they were all there.

And at the end of the day, and after we finished up, they said, you know, we really really thank you for coming, and will you come back?

And so the idea is hopefully coming 200 uh 20th 26th, we'll do that.

We'll just figure it out, we'll do that because they expect that from us and they want to hear from us.

So um so that's my report.

That's terms we've besides the fact that we're getting ourselves ready for our next next steps here in the commission.

So, Commissioner Yee.

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

I just want to also um thank uh Chief uh Yip and also Mayor Lurry for hosting the officer of the month award ceremony last Wednesday.

It's great to see six officers received those awards along with the family members.

You know, it was a great uh you can see the joy and the officers and also some of the other fellow officers that joined the event.

And I also want to thank the sponsors that uh have been doing this throughout the years.

Uh so congratulations to the officers and thanks to sponsors, continued support for the officer.

Uh that's all I have to report.

Thank you very much.

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, presentation and discussion on update of SAPD's district boundaries, discussion and possible action.

Uh good evening, uh President Clay, uh Chief Yep, uh Director Henderson, Commissioners.

Uh, my name is Jason Cunningham.

I'm a program manager with the business analysis team uh here with the San Francisco Police Department.

Uh thank you for the opportunity to come and update you uh on our commission requested district boundary update.

So just by way of a little bit of background, uh SFPD is required uh through the administrative code to take a look at our boundaries and conduct an analysis once every 10 years uh after the results of the federal decennial census are released.

Uh back in 2024, we conducted a very uh exhaustive analysis, uh, of which we have published uh on the web, and provided that to the police commission at the end of 2024.

Uh that was posted publicly by the commission in February of 2025.

Uh in June of this year, we received additional uh requests from the commission to come take a look at some different uh requests that had come uh before you uh so that the department could do some analysis and come back with a set of recommendations.

So as a reminder, here's the timeline.

Just doing a whole lot of work all the way back to the beginning of 2024.

Thank you to Commissioner Benedicto for being along for the ride for the entirety of this project.

So as you may recall, at the end of 2024, the proposed map was presented to the commission.

I'm sorry, it was handed to the commission at the end of 2024, presented at the very beginning of 2025.

That proposed map that we worked on on page four of your presentation came back with five changes labeled on the map A through E.

Of those changes, changes E, B, and C are actually mostly minimal and technical in nature.

Essentially changes to boundaries to ensure that officers in the appropriately assigned districts actually can get to those locations.

For whatever reason, for A, B, and E and C.

Bollards went in, changes to street structures went in, making access to those areas challenging for the districts that were previously assigned them.

Some quick facts and constraints about both the capacity or lack thereof at our current set of stations and the number of events that occurred by district back in 2023.

So on page six, we have the commissioner-requested analysis map.

Listed are seven changes that affect the southern, northern, central, tenderloin, mission, and park station districts.

You'll note current station boundaries are in red, proposed boundaries are in black.

Areas of the map that are shaded are areas that would change from one boundary to the other.

So I will try not to get too deep into the math.

This is a little bit of an eye chart, so I apologize.

But the analysis we did on the map and the boundaries that were given to us is the same methodology that we used back in 2024 when we did our first proposed map.

So what we did for these changes is we took a look at both calls for service and we looked at incidents in the districts in which the boundary change would occur.

We then drew the proposed lines that the commission gave us, and we then looked at the number of either calls for service or incident reports that fell in that shaded area.

If you take a look at your previous slide, and what that gives you is uh the chart that you see in front of you.

So for example, taking a look at change number one on your previous slide, slide number six, flip it back for everybody.

Uh you'll notice that change number one is the movement of Central Station's western boundary out to Van S Avenue.

So if we keep that mental picture in mind and we take a look at the chart on the next page, you'll notice uh top line of the chart, central station, number one, central extends to Van S.

The current number of calls, and by current we mean in 2023, uh central would have had no calls in that area because it was not assigned that area.

That area was actually assigned to Northern.

If we use the commission boundary as proposed, which is moving that boundary westward to Van S, Central Station would pick up roughly 4,392 calls for service, which breaks down to roughly 50 additional calls per officer using the average number of officers assigned to Central Station.

We do that for all of the changes.

You'll also notice if you take a look at Northern Station, a couple of rows down, there will be a paired row of data, also labeled number one, central extend of NS, except in this case, in the current section of the table, it notes, hey, Central Station in 2023 had 4,392 calls, roughly 53 calls per officer's worth of calls.

But in the commission version of the map, they have zero.

So we do that over and over again for all seven changes, both for the gaining station and the losing station.

We do a little bit of percentage math, and we come out with uh the percentage swings in calls for service for the four stations that are mostly affected.

I don't do the math for park station.

Their change is very insignificant.

It's about two square blocks.

Um so it would just be a row that says basically zero.

Um percentage wise significant swings occur to Southern Station and Northern Station, with Southern seeing a 24, almost 25% uptick in calls for service.

Again, assuming the number of calls for service that occurred in 2023 continue to occur into the future.

And similarly, similarly, Northern sees a reduction in calls for service of roughly 15 and a half, 16%.

Utilizing a similar methodology, we look at incidents that occurred across the affected districts.

Numbers are lower because we see.

Numbers are lower because we see effectively fewer incidents as compared to calls for service.

However, we do the same version of the math across all seven changes, both for the gaining and losing uh stations.

And you see again a fairly significant percentage swing for southern, looking at roughly a 28% increase in incidents, with uh northern and tenderloin seeing roughly between 9% for tenderloin and almost 12% for northern reduction and incidents based on how that ground moves around for who it's assigned to.

So getting to our recommendation, sir.

Did you know?

Could I hand it to you for the recommendation section?

Sure.

So I've had numerous meetings, discussions with the leadership of the department, including the station captains, uh considered feedback from our officers.

Uh so uh there this will be an impactful change, but we feel confident that we support the border changes as proposed, and we will make staffing adjustments as necessary.

I think there's enough time before the changes take effect where we can gradually move over staffing to uh cover the data that uh our analyst uh Jason Cunningham's kind of gone over and charted for you in this proposal.

So that's my comment.

Thanks, sir.

Um so to kind of roll that all together, the recommendation uh that is before you is uh the acceptance of the seven changes that were brought to the department by the commission, along with the acceptance of three of the five changes that the department brought to the commission back in 2024, changes C D and E, those smaller technical changes for uh, I'm sorry, for C and E smaller technical changes, and then for D, slightly larger but operationally acceptable by the department.

So going on to next steps, uh like the chief says, um, there are staffing uh and equipment uh allocation review and actions that need to take be that need to take place.

We need to look at all of our data systems, both here and at the Department of Emergency Management to make sure mapping programs and profiles are updated, that we're dispatching the right station to the right locations on the right day, uh full retraining of the department to make sure everybody is aware of what changes occur.

Same for our dispatchers and friends at the Department of Emergency Management.

Um at the commission, there is both uh I believe a resolution that comes out of this conversation.

Uh DGO 1.02, right now is written as a um uh boundaries general order that we can have a conversation about that uh later on, um, and then of course, uh public outreach notification, talking to the board of supervisors, um, making sure this isn't something that is happening quietly.

This is going to affect some number of people that we want to make sure they're aware it's occurring.

Uh and with that, uh, that's my presentation.

I'll stand by for questions.

If you have something to say, yeah, I just wanted to add that um we are not just considering moving the boundaries without shifting personnel to make sure that there's sufficient coverage as we do that.

And I know Southern is significantly impacted by the boundary change.

But I do want to also point out that.

I mean, this is not going to be easy, but this is a task that we'll take on, and you know, where there's a commitment to make sure that staffing levels meet the calls for service for the area.

And we do already saturate uh the tenderloin and southern, uh with our drug market agency coordination center, and we have staffing plans in place to address these issues.

So I just wanted to reiterate that.

So thank you.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you so much, President Clay.

I have uh a couple of questions from Mr.

Cunningham, uh, and then uh a little bit of an overview of the process for my fellow commissioners before we hear uh from members of the public.

Um I know it was uh of interest to the public in terms of implementation.

What is the approximate timeline?

You know, if the commission votes for the implementation and redeployment phase that the would kick off.

So we'd look to do a cutover date of the beginning, the first day of either the third or fourth calendar quarter of next year, so that's July 1st or October 1st, or a date that makes good sense somewhere in between.

We're not looking to do a random Tuesday afternoon.

Sure.

Um, likely in the second half of next calendar.

It would be the second half of next year.

We do the uh the next steps are not small, and will take a good probably six months to really make all of personnel moves, equipment reassignments, cars, parking, the whole nine yards.

And I I know you mentioned read redeployment chief that are members of the public here holding um staff southern station signs to those that are captured SFGov TV.

And so I just want to reiterate.

I know I spoke to Dr.

Cunningham as well as to Commander Hart about this that Southern Station will be receiving additional staffing as part of the redeployment to take into account uh these adjusted maps, and that's a commitment that that we're making.

Is that correct?

Yeah, we will continue to look at the data.

Uh it will be data driven, but we are ready to shift personnel as needed to support the changes in the border, which means changes in calls for service uh in each of the districts are affected, not just the southern.

Of course.

There will be a redeployment of personnel.

And I think the timing is important.

It's not something that we can do overnight, but it's certainly something that we can do in a six to twelve month time period.

Yeah, so people aren't gonna wake up tomorrow to new borders.

I hope not, exactly.

Um thank you for that.

Uh thank you, uh Dr.

Cunningham.

I uh before we hear from members of the public and questions from my fellow commissioners.

I think, especially since a number of our commissioners weren't here throughout all of this process.

I would um provide a little bit of the context.

I know that we saw some bit in the presentation about the an overview about the exhaustiveness of this process.

I apologize in advance that this will be uh detailed, but I think it's important for members of the public to be reminded of the level of detail that we have here.

That this process kicked off uh in the spring of 2024.

Uh a consultant, Art Ridge Consulting was brought in to perform the quantitative piece of this analysis.

Uh they were brought on uh in May of 2024.

Uh this process throughout 2024 included focus groups, community stakeholders, public hearings, including two public hearings uh with with uh then Chief Scott and uh then Assistant chief Dave Lazar, one virtual, one in person, as many iterations of these maps have been made public.

Uh at each stage of the process, the department updated uh and posted, even before it reached the commission formally.

The department had its own website about the district boundary analysis.

So each iteration of the map was presented and was shared.

And that public outreach process took from May of 2024 to December of 2024.

I do want to acknowledge, I know I had received some questions from members of the public about what data factors went into play that Arkbridge consulting used.

The full report, which was released in December 2024, is still available on the commission website.

It's about 100 pages.

I reread it on a bumpy flight back to San Francisco this morning.

So it has all these details, but I wanted to share that the data factors included population data, including census data, data regarding non-residents, including visitors, shoppers, workers, and tourists, proposed developments and other activities that will alter population projected out to the next 10 years, natural or constructed landscape features, major streets, transit lanes, neighborhoods and community boundaries, areas with higher than average concentration of children, youth, and elderly, number, type, and frequency of policing activities, including calls for service and arrests, anticipated needs for police services, including but not limited to adequate staffing for footbeats, community policing efforts, areas uh experiencing at risk or uh risk for higher crime, areas with special needs for policing services, capacity of police resources, station facilities, uh communications, police personnel, uh neighborhood and community input, other relevant factors determined by the commission and the chief.

So that's that's over 12 data points, many of those, including many sub-data points that was used in this process.

So I want to be clear that from the beginning of this process and for the last eight months, uh looking at working closely with the department.

Uh, this has been, this wasn't something that was drawn on the back of a napkin.

Um, this was an exhaustive process.

I also want to know this was not limited just to this commission or even to this department.

Uh when this process uh was undertaken, uh, in addition to the consultant, uh, and there was uh a focus group of SFPD staff, there was community involvement, but there was also an executive steering committee that included representatives from the Department of Admin of Emergency Management, the Office of the City Administrator, the um the performance director of the controller's office, as well as uh command staff of the police department.

There was a subject matter expert working group that included captains and commanders from across the city, uh, the mid-city division, the metro division, the Golden Gate Division, I believe all the divisional heads were part of the subject matter working group, uh, as well as the incredibly talented SFPD project team that did great work on this as well, uh, then executive director McGuire, then director uh Dr.

Oliver Roche, um, Mr.

Cunningham and Maria Counten as well.

Um, and so just to provide a little bit of a zoom that view of the of how that uh piece had worked.

And uh in February 2025, uh the commission published uh the first sort of official commission version of the map, pursuant to the law.

Uh, under the charter, that public comment period could close as early as May 2025.

I made a commitment from this chair that if there was additional public comment, it would go longer.

And in uh not surprising San Francisco fashion, it went longer.

Uh, and but I think in a good way.

I think that uh even uh from that minimum public comment closing period of May 2025.

I think I've had no fewer than 20 uh meetings with members of the public, groups large and small.

I look into the crowd and see a lot of what have become very familiar faces.

Uh some have been smiling, some have been scowling over the last uh six months.

We've had this conversation, but all have been constructive and collaborative, and I think that's why I have very glad that we extended and underwent this.

Uh as Mr.

Cunningham said, the map changes in July were then released, followed by even further comment and another set of meetings with interested stakeholders to where we are with the map that was published uh and made made public last Friday.

The fact that the map was made public in last Friday is not indicative of it being just released, as I think I've just explained.

This was an iterative process that involved dozens of internal and external stakeholders across the city.

And I'm very uh pleased with the final work products.

Every map change, uh, every meeting with the public uh was uh was documented every time the consultant solicited any feedback or submissions written, that was documented and published as well.

Again, it's in the the 90-page report uh as well as in in various other staffing reports so we received um since then.

Um as interim chief Yep just said this commission and this department is committed to ensuring that deployment matches this map.

Um and for stations that are taking on more territory, it will be data driven and we'll we will move forward.

And not only has the department committed to making deployment decisions to ensure adequate staffing, it's also committed to doing so in a way that is transparent.

I know Southern District Station Amy Herbitz has uh communicated just as one example that uh there will be forums that uh through the CPABs through standalone events uh for those in that community that aren't sick of me yet, I'll be there too to make sure that we are holding ourselves accountable and adequately staffing every station in this city uh as a result of this of this boundary analysis change.

Um a couple of things that I want to uh conclude with.

Uh at our July meeting, um District Supervisor Danny Souter came and spoke in support of the July maps.

He regrets that he couldn't be here today.

I think he has child care duty, but uh I'm pleased to report that um Supervisor Sauder has uh told me that I can report that he is also in support of the SFPD map that uh interim chief Yep just announced his support of.

I can share that um my own supervisor, Supervisor Bilal Mahmood, uh, is in support of the of the map that interim chief Yep just expressed his support of.

Uh today the police commission received a letter from supervisor Matt Dorsey uh who did not express opposition to the map, but made a very clear and unambiguous demand for adequate staffing for Southern Station, uh, a commitment that, like I said, the chief chairs, uh, this commission chairs, and I think all San Franciscans share desire for adequate staffing.

And so I'm pleased to report that uh from the supervisors as well.

Um I have some concluding things, but first I do want to, even if it's exhaustive, I do have some thank yous that I would like to make for to a lot of individuals uh who worked very hard over almost two years for this project.

All the members of the executive steering committee, um Mary Ellen Keller, Mary Ellen Carroll of the Department of Emergency Management, Sophie Hayward from the Office of the City Administrator, Robert Smuts from the Department of Emergency Management, uh Natasha Mill from the Controller's Office, Katherine McGuire, then at the San Francisco Police Department, as well as then uh Pete Walsh, Dave Lazar, and Chief Scott, all the subject matter expert working group and the project team who I thanked as well.

Um, Arkbridge Consulting, uh particularly special thanks to uh Commander Jack Hart and to Dr.

Jason Cunningham who are sort of the remained with us all the way to the end.

A lot of the people as part of those uh are no uh uh moved on, but uh being with us to the end.

Uh but I think most importantly, I want to thank the members of the community who have provided their thoughtful and constructive feedback.

I think that sometimes um San Francisco politics can get a bad rap for being divisive, and that's not what I saw in this process.

I saw thoughtful uh constructive feedback.

I saw ways that we can work together to ensure that this is as uh strong as possible.

Uh I there are too many to thank, but a couple that I want to call out in particular.

I want to call out the Soma West Neighborhood Association, the South Beach Rinkin Mission Bay Neighborhood Association, ID 8 San Francisco, uh the Soma West community benefit district, the mid-market community benefit district, the Central City SRO Collaborative, UCLA SF, the Tenderloin Community Benefit District, Lower Polk Neighborhoods, Lower Polk CBD, Lavoz Latina, uh, Lower Knob Hill Neighborhood Alliance, O'Farrell Neighbors Group, the Tenderland Business Coalition, and Local Two.

Uh I also want to provide a very special thanks to my fellow commissioner, Commissioner Patiba Techie, who has been a tireless advocate for over a decade on the subject of redistrict uh boundary analysis for these maps, uh, long before she was on the commission and continued to be a tireless advocate, advocate for it on the commission.

And it's a great pleasure to be at the finish line with you here today, Commissioner Techie.

Um, so I want to thank you for that as well.

The last points I want to make, and I made these points to some of the uh SOMA groups who uh I met with uh even yesterday, down the wire, happy to have any any meetings.

I I thought there'd be a request for another one today.

Uh, is that um the first is the commitment that we've heard from the department that we've heard from this commission to adequate staffing, regardless of what the maps are.

Whether we're whether we had 500 stations of three officers each or divided the city into two stations and had two mega stations, we are committed to staffing and to public safety in the city, and that is something that um I felt very pleased to hear in terms chief Yep.

He would not have supported, and the department and the captains would not have supported this map if they didn't feel they could adequately staff and deploy it, and I'm pleased to have that support.

The second is to note how much better the department has gotten at staffing beyond just district stations, whether it's cross staffing things like DMAC, whether it's force multiplier things like the real-time investigation center, whether it's entertainment zones and holiday special zones and other efforts to allow policing across district stations.

Uh district stations work more closely together.

I think in all the times I've spent doing ride-alongs and doing station visits, I've always been impressed with how much clearer the coordination is between district station to district station, and I know that will have to continue.

Um another point that I know Supervisor Dorsey made that I'm wholly in support of is this is not congressional redistricting.

There's no rule that says we have to wait 10 years.

There's no rule that says that we if we see things in the new boundaries that are working really well, we can't double down on them in two years or three years.

Or conversely, if things that aren't, we can make a little adjustment here and there uh to fix that.

In fact, I tend to think that if we'd done that in the past, maybe there wouldn't have been such frustration.

There was 10 years of no change because then the decennial boundary analysis will just be finalizing the accumulation of minor changes that are done very carefully, as opposed to having to embark on a huge 18-month process every 10 years.

Uh I know Supervisor Dorsey is committed and has many initiatives to increase staffing.

We've graduated the largest academy classes in a decade, the last two academy classes.

We have the largest academy applicant pool than we've had in a decade.

If that leads to a sustained number of new officers, let's look at redeploying.

Let's look at what we can do with respect to Treasure Island with Chase Center with ways to be creative and do that.

And I know that that's something the department will do as well.

And that's a commitment that I know the interim chief Yep shares, and I know that it's a commitment that whoever the new uh chief of SFPD shares as well.

Uh and so I wanted to thank all those folks.

I wanted to provide that context.

I want to thank um my fellow commissioners and the department, and uh with that I look forward to hearing public comment.

Commissioner Elias.

I think that uh Vice President Benedicto forgot to mention one huge thank you piece, which is to himself, because when he was assigned this task way back uh when not only did he meet with SFPD at Nauseum, but he also met with the community at Nauseum, and he would always take meetings, uh invite himself to meetings, show up at meetings, make meetings regarding this topic.

So huge thank you because that was no easy undertaking, and I know it to consumed a lot of time, especially when the consultants were here and working with SFPD on the data gathering piece and what that looks like, and how do we present it and roll it out to the public?

So huge thank you to you, um Vice President Benedicto on your effort on this, um, and also too, I know that you reached out to several stakeholders to get buy-in, to get input to make sure that this um again was thoroughly vetted and no stone was was unturned.

So huge thank you.

Um you answered some of the question that I had for the chief, but I was hoping that you could um provide more uh insight into any the mechanism that SAPD is gonna put in place in terms of feedback.

I know that you said that the deployment's gonna be data-driven and what these new boundaries look like and what the new district stations look like, but what mechanisms are is the department going to put in place so that the community members can provide you feedback and let you know what's working, what's not working, because data is a huge piece of it, and that's great that you're gonna be looking to that in terms of how you monitor whether the deployment's working or what these new district stations are looking like, or some of the challenges they may face.

But what mechanism is gonna be in place so that these community members can reach out to the department and tell you, hey, it's not working, or hey, these are issues, or hey, this is working, to give you more real time feedback so that you can then incorporate that into your deployment making decisions, staffing decisions, uh, and and or any other decisions uh when it comes to the boundaries.

Thanks, Commissioner.

I know that uh Supervisor Dorsey has uh expressed interest in holding public meetings to have these discussions uh there's a lot of moving parts but there's many mechanisms that we have that we can move personnel uh whether it's uh volunteer transfers the movement of probationary officers deployment of officers that graduate from the police academy I also want to mention that we regularly surge resources into this I I know the Southern district is well represented today we regularly surge uh resources into the Southern district especially when there are events we know that many events do end up at the large venues in the Southern so we are hyper aware of the needs of the district I'm not saying that this is going to be easy by any extent but uh what I can say is that uh there is a commitment to make sure that our deployment is proportional with any increase in cost for service and as a whole as a department uh there's not a day that passes that I don't think about staffing because it is a crisis and by the way we are hiring um so we will continue to look at uh community feedback data um feedback from our officers uh this is not a one and done issue at all so um I confident that the police department will be flexible uh will be agile and um you know I'll just end it with this that I think that these changes uh will impact the city and the department long term not just short term it's gonna be there's gonna be growing pains and some pains up front but we're willing the leadership of the department is willing to put up with that ultimately that the city and your you know the residents other visitors and the business people benefit from your police services so I'll end there.

Thank you.

No and I appreciate that I think that's a great answer.

Um I I think I'm wondering too is like where is the community feedback piece?

So if the community where do they get to voice that to tell you hey chief this isn't working or hey chief you know even though so many officers were deployed there's still this need so where does the community go to voice those concerns so that SFPD leadership and top brass get that message like what's what's the forum like where do they go like how are you going to hear and know the community's concerns directly sure well tonight is a great example I'm sitting here and there's community members so I'm definitely going to hear from you uh directly so thank you for that uh I also encourage you to go through your district captain station because we regularly communicate with them and I was a district captain station uh they hold regular meetings already uh your district supervisor is a great resource to voice your opinion um and you know we take input from all those sources I'm like I said I'm gonna hear from you directly today but I'm not trying to give you other you know indirect routes uh but we're here to listen and we're here to make adjustments so many avenues to get to us I would also invite them to contact the the police commission uh website and email on the police commission website too as an an additional avenue to provide feedback so that we can also provide that feedback to you as well.

Absolutely thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner thank you very much there President Clay.

I just have a question for the chief regarding um I guess the commission uh request analyst map for number five where they move um I guess uh 10 alone coverage to Southern station uh as you know 10 aloins uh been doing I guess 10 station and the police been doing a pretty good job out there in the 10loy keeping it a little safer than from past years so adding the number five there you you're now talking about the South Market for 5th, 6th street, and some of the corridors there that I guess some of the people that were in the 1000 has migrated down there.

And I think I'll take additional resource.

I know you know that.

And I guess the community is probably concerned is there are enough staff.

In the Southern station, you also have major events that happen uh on a regular base.

Giants game, uh massive people are coming in and out.

Also, you have the warriors games that are played here too as well.

So the staffing is for Southern Station.

I guess my you know one of the concern is I guess the I guess how you say it, um, calls per per officer.

So I just want to see what your thoughts are, Chief Chief.

Yeah, so thank you for that question, Commissioner.

So I'll address it in two ways.

One is regular calls for service outside of special events.

That's where we just have to increase the staffing of Southern Station itself, so that any increases in and there will be increases in costs for service for that district if these are accepted, that we proportionally putting up officers at Southern Station to be able to handle those calls for service.

So you also the second part of that answer is uh about special events.

We surge resources for special events.

A lot of the event organizers pay for overtime to have officers specially staffed those events.

Uh we don't rely only on that.

We also redeploy officers.

Uh we also surge officers there for other reasons outside of those venues.

We have a hospitality zone in the area that you discuss.

Uh we have our DMAC resources will continue.

Uh we're actually not gonna speak to it now because we haven't done it, but I we already have plans to search resources there based on what issues, policing issues we're seeing there now.

So, uh this is going to be ongoing, but those uh are generally how we will staff.

So we will staff Southern uh in you know, a little more permanently with additional officers uh to handle calls for service on a day-to-day basis, and we will continue to surge resources as events, uh special events, large scale events, sporting events.

If we see any patterns in criminal activity where it's drug markets or whatever it may be, we will continue to surge resources in those areas and in all other areas in San Francisco also, not just the southern, but thank you very much, Chief.

I want to thank Vice President Benedicto as well as the chief and those all of those people you mentioned uh Vice President Benedict Benedicto.

You know, as I think talking to both you um Commissioner Benedicto and the chief, this is not the end of the process, this really is the beginning of the process.

There are a lot of moving parts that are gonna be have to put place.

You were talking this is going to be implemented hopefully within the next six to twelve weeks, twelve months.

Uh there are things that are gonna be said, things you're gonna put in this input tonight, the input that you're gonna go through the course of this movement is gonna be very important on how things are done.

The staffing is gonna be an issue until we get ourselves up to staffing levels that we we believe we should have.

But this is San Francisco.

This is not district San Francisco A, B, or C.

It's San Francisco.

Police officers will be moved as the chief has promised indicated, and there's been discussions about it, and they do it now.

They will m move the resources to where it's needed.

And so I know there's a concern.

I have the letters and read them from the Southern District folks about having the adequate staffing because of the what the calls of service and what's going on in that district.

Believe me, everybody recognizes that those things are happening, and when we get we get to that level, we're gonna have your the proper staff and we'll get there, but it's not there yet.

And so now we're moving people.

People are moving from other districts to help out, and they will continue to do that.

And it's and this is just the beginning.

So I hope you understand that.

So it's just the beginning, yes, sorry, excuse me.

I would like to make a motion for this commission to adopt the district boundary maps.

Uh the department recommended district boundary maps.

Um, yeah, that's my motion.

I think.

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

Good evening, commissioners and chief.

Uh I'm Barbara Swan from Lower Knob Hill Neighborhood Alliance.

First and foremost, I want to thank you for the thoughtful analysis over this last year.

I am proud to be part of a coalition that supports the department's recommended map, which will bring much needed resources to Lower Knob Hill, Lower Polk, and the tenderloin.

We stand together not in proximity, but not just in proximity, but in the shared concern for our difficult street conditions.

We think this is a well-rounded and positive plan for our communities without being detrimental to other neighborhoods.

Thank you.

Good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Sean.

I'm speaking on behalf of the Soma West Neighborhood Association.

We are here not to oppose realignment outright.

We are here because by your own data, the Southern District is already carrying a disproportionate share of the city's public safety workload.

This proposal makes the inequity worse.

We know we're in a citywide shortage, but your own 2025 staffing analysis here, 217 pages, shows that we have the highest community-generated call volume in the city.

Now when you adjust that for the number of patrol officers, southern officers handle 390 calls per officer.

That's almost double the workload of the park district, which is 206.

That's 390 versus 206.

And even that undercounts the true picture.

Because our responses are so delayed, our neighbors have hired neighborhood private security in Soma West that we know respond to 600 calls a week.

That's 30,000 calls a year that never even make it to your official data.

Many neighbors no longer call 911 because they don't believe help will come.

This is not efficiency.

This is triage and run policing.

Officers going call to call with no time for follow-up, problem solving or community policing, and it's unsustainable.

Yet this proposal adds nearly 25% more call volume to the district with the verbal assurances that I hear tonight from you, staffing will be adjusted.

We have heard that before.

You say that you are data driven.

We do not believe you.

I have looked at the data.

And by advancing this proposal without including the staffing change, you add an un uh an unfunded mandate to increase our call volume.

So I'm asking you do not be a rubber stamp commission, send it back, say no, say yes, we can do these boundaries, but we need the staffing plan committed to before we say yes.

Thank you.

Yes.

Hi.

Um my name is Reese.

I'm the president of the Soma West Neighborhood Association.

Appreciate uh your time.

Um I have before you all a petition of over 200 individuals and organizations, all collected within just the two last two days.

Um, impacted by Southern Stations jurisdiction, which speaks out to the public safety needs of our communities and calls for providing adequate staffing and resources.

I want to be clear, our group doesn't support addressing the public safety needs of the tenderloin.

We do.

And we have many challenges in Solma West that we share with the tenderloin.

But the city must address our district's greatly increasing needs.

These boundary changes include, as your analyst said, 25% increase in calls for surveys, 29 increase in crime incident reports in a station that is already not staffed enough.

And the crime incident reports have increased just within the first six months of this year, 50% since last year.

Beyond the fact that we need public safety for our neighborhoods.

And I will say with respect to Chief Yep, DMAC is not a substitute.

DMAC is helpful.

DMAC is dealing with the fact that we're overwhelmed by drug markets, but it is not a substitute for public safety.

We have all kinds of other crime incidents and calls for service.

It also behooves the city to focus on how the city as a whole is seen at the many entry points to our city.

We also have Caltrain, Golden Gate Transit, Sam Trans, the Salesforce Center, as well as those arriving from I-828101.

Thousands of employees and investors, Moscone Convention Goers, and Staff Social Stage.

Evening commissioners.

And I also sit on the board of the Soma West Neighborhood Association.

And while I'm sure the weight of what a 28-year-old citizen might not, you know, resonate with this commission, I came here not on just the behalf of the organizations I work for, but also the entirety of South of Market.

So you're gonna hear a lot of numbers, a lot of statistics, but I came with some hypotheticals.

You have a police captain who tells who actively tells citizens to apply for jobs in the police department.

Anywhere local government caught a small break a few weeks ago when the National Guard was at our doorstep threatening to roll down tanks on Marcus Street, and now a few weeks later, here we are talking about adding more to a police team that's already stretched thin.

And what world is that an appropriate adjustment?

When is it gonna be enough for regular ordinary citizens to look around and say, you know what?

Maybe we might need the National Guard.

Clearly, SFPD can make a difference when they want, they roll out the red carpet every year for dream sports, and when foreign leaders step in, our city is well patrolled.

But when me or my folks that live in the building are witnessing a knife fight outside between two drug addicts, the police are nowhere to be found.

I'm no fool, and I'm well aware that you guys and the powers that be have already made your decision.

All I ask is or all I suggest is that you do the right thing and submit the so-called staffing plan.

I'm all for let's go San Francisco as much as the next guy, but it's gonna be really hard to shout when we don't know where it's going.

Do the right thing, show us the plan.

Thank you.

Thank you, police commission and SFPD.

I'm Adam Hong with Soma West Neighbors.

I live right next to Sixth Street.

Um I'd like to express my appreciation for and acknowledge the difficult job that the police undertake every day.

I support and understand these redistricting efforts and recognize the TL has been historically underserved by the city.

That said, I do not want staffing and planning to be overlooked.

West Soma and Sixth Street have also been historically underserved.

The numbers from the presented report are not representative of the data from the past 12 months.

Using the data from data.sf.gov and doing a geospatial search, we get the following numbers.

Southern in the past year had under 10,600 incidents in the same time frame, the proposed addition to Southern, long market, 6200.

Sixth Street alone, just six streets, just two blocks from Mission to Market, 1,830.

That's 60% more work for Southern by the just by the incidents.

The total call volume, if you look at that, is 80%.

Even if you just limit to priority AMB, it's a 40% increase.

The 2023 staffing recommendation had Southern short 59 officers.

The report we received today from 2025 says we're short 66 of 180.

That deficit is getting bigger.

I understand that SFPD is understaffed and don't expect special treatment.

However, increasing the workload of Southern Station by even a conservative estimate of 40% should result in a total recommended 252 sworn officers, which should be included in any redistricting plan.

Realistically, with the staffing shortages, I'd expect Southern's count to rise to at least 160 just to maintain status quo.

I don't want the sheer quantity of work that will be absorbed by Southern Station to be ignored.

Southern was the only station, only district to experience a growth in property crime in the past year.

Please treat our neighborhood and its residents with the same respect that the wealthiest parts of the city receive and focus on staffing as the most important part of drawing.

Not just changing the lines.

Thank you.

Good evening, President Clay, Vice President Benedicto, and Commissioners.

My name is Bruce Agate.

For informational purposes, I'm a board member of the South Beach Rink and Mission Bay Neighborhood Association and the chair of the Mission Bay TIFF Advisory Committee.

I want to thank you all, the commissioners, our police chief, and command staff for the important work done to this point.

My comments today are to encourage the commission to ensure that any approved changes and boundaries are not implemented until complementary staffing can be approved and executed.

As we understand today, there will be additional officers brought to Southern Station.

And it's also my understanding that Southern today is disproportionately understaffed and is the only district in which crime has increased.

Based on this, the staffing plan must incorporate several considerations.

First, how many of the officers being reassigned are to cover the current disproportionate shortage, and then how many of the officers are needed to respond to the increased number of calls associated with the boundary changes.

Bottom line, what is the impact on police services as compared to today?

Is it similar?

Is it improved or degraded?

One other item important to note is a potential change to the augmented police staffing provided around Chase Center on event days.

Over the past seven years, the ordinance to support the Chase Center created a TIFF, which includes a mechanism to provide funding of approximately 2.5 million dollars a year to support 20 officers, these officers not included in Southern staffing.

This funding comes from the general fund based on a formula of revenue and taxes paid by the Golden State Warriors.

In September, the advisory committee was advised that no funding was provided for this fiscal year.

And in the case of the PD, the carryover funds will run out in December.

Based on this, there will be no augmented police resources, and any calls for service will be handled by Southern-based staffing.

Another increase in service calls.

Thank you for the opportunity to provide public comment.

Thank you.

Commissioners Randy Shaw, Director of the Chandlerline Housing Clinic.

Ten years ago, I was among 300 people who came to the Kelly Collins Center to plead with Chief Sir and the police commission, your predecessors, not to expand Tenderloin Station.

Tendoline station, let's get to history straight here.

Sixth Street was never in tenderloin station until Chiefs until 2016.

Never in Tenderloin Station.

The parts of the areas they are so upset about with the most crime.

We're always in Southern Station.

But Chief Sir had a negative view of the tenderloin, and he overloaded overwhelmed.

It didn't matter to 300 people.

That one resident or worker spoke in favor of moving the 1001 station just ninth in mission to Westfield Center, which took 18 officers.

And we predicted, and it's in my book on the tenderloin, the tenderloin sex crime and resistance in the heart of San Francisco.

I talk about how we all said there's going to be a catastrophic increase in crime in the tenure line and drug activity if you do this.

And by 2017 and 18, we already saw it, and it has not come back.

It's gotten worse.

I'm hearing a lot about calls for service.

We don't call for service in the tenderline because it's so blatantly obvious.

Go up to Hyde and Eddy, go to Jones and Ellis.

I can give you tons of intersections where they're dealing drugs all day.

So am I supposed to have one member of my staff call for service, just spend their whole day calling for service?

The police know.

It's going on a block from the police station.

So this idea of calls for service, that reflects a class bias often from people who have the luxury to make phone calls to the police and don't have to just live with it.

I'm sorry if that's unpleasant, but that's the reality.

The tenderloin has been underserved.

It needs help.

Not expand it to this vast station that does well outside the tenderloin.

And plus, it kills a tenderloin's reputation.

Every time a crime occurs in Tenderloin Station, the media reports it is a crime in the tenderloin.

So it's hard to get businesses to open because the all this crime in the tenderloin.

We need your help.

We appreciate all the work you've done, and we think you should proceed and approve the map.

Thank you.

Hi, my name is Debbie Gould.

I'm on Captain Hurwitz CPAB.

So I'm hoping to see you next week at the meeting.

So I will keep this brief.

I live in Mission Bay.

I live a block away from the police headquarters, the fire department's headquarters, and I live at the corner of Mission Bay Boulevard and Terry Francois.

So I see everything.

Uh in Mission Bay, considering the fact that the police department is right around the corner.

Um we heard about the town hall meetings this past summer.

We were not included.

Mission Bay was not included.

So and we asked to have a town hall meeting in reference to the district of the redistricting.

It never came.

We got radio silence.

So I'm asking to see the plan, and hopefully the plan will continue to include Mission Bay.

Uh that 23% increase of police officers.

Uh does that include those who are going to eventually retire?

Uh, does that include those who will be sent over to uh Treasure Island and your Buena?

Do you all have any plans to put a station over on the islands?

Those are questions that I want to have answered, and hopefully by next week, you will have those answers for me.

Thank you for your time.

Commissioners, my name is Bettina Cohen.

I'm a Southern District resident who spoke here in July asking you not to make this boundary change.

Tonight, please hear my urgent request for more officers in the Southern District.

I want to take this opportunity to thank the Soma West Neighborhood Association for the powerfully written petition they wrote, which I signed, and I understand about 200 people did.

The petition makes many excellent points that I won't reiterate.

In the absence of a plan to provide full staffing to the Southern Station, quality of life issues in my neighborhood will worsen.

Equity is not achieved by making other neighborhoods suffer as the tenderloin suffers.

It's an illusion that Mission Bay is a safe neighborhood, and a false narrative that we never see any fentanyl use taking place.

We see discarded hyperdermic needles, and we see the fentanyl folds right out in the open where I live in broad daylight.

Shifting problems from one neighborhood to my neighborhood does not solve problems.

It creates new problems.

We need more officers in the Southern District.

We need more officers, even without a boundary change that will increase the Southern District's workload by so much.

That's my request to this commission and to city leaders, including Mayor Lurie, who promised increased public safety for all.

Reassign officers from parts of the city where crime is down.

We need more officers now in the Southern District where crime is up.

Show me your plan.

You don't have one.

Thank you.

Hi, Commissioners Henry Canilla, with some President of the Year, staff of Malicard Business Association.

Not only small businesses, but also the neighbors and residents, owners, renters, homeowners who live and work within the southern station boundaries are here with one simple, urgent message.

Staff Southern Station.

Southern Station already covers some of the most vital and complex areas of San Francisco.

From the Moscone Center, Norco Park to Chase Center, Mission Bay, Rincon Hill, the Embarcadero, and even Treasure Island.

Yet today it operates with 46 fewer officers than needed, and already has the highest ratio of violent crimes to officers in the entire city.

Now, the city's proposing to expand Southern Station's boundaries to include Market Street, Sixth Street, the Theater District, and all four downtown bard stations.

Areas known for high crime and overdose rates.

This change would add 18,000 more 911 calls in just six months, a 25% jump in calls for service, and almost a 30% increase in crime incidents without any promise of more staffing or resources.

Mission-based population alone has nearly doubled.

But police resources have not kept up.

We support a dedicated Kenderloin station, but not at the expense of Surma and communities that already carry so much of a city's burdens.

We are asking you to ensure equitable staffing, dedicated food patrols, and real investment in public safety before expanding these boundaries to residents, workers, families, and visitors who make up the heart of San Francisco who deserve to feel safe in their homes and our streets.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioners.

Uh Chief Yep.

I'm Alex Ludlum.

I'm the executive director of the community benefit district of Soma West.

Uh and I haven't prepared remarks, but what you're hearing tonight is that the status quo is woefully inadequate, and we're looking at making a change to the existing framework we use.

It's important for this commission to remember that the current framework does not aspire to provide law and order to the public realm.

So long as police are driving by in full view of open drug use, the police department does not aspire to provide law and order to the public realm.

Uh and my associates in the neighborhood have run a lot of statistics, but Chief Yap says that at any time we can shift resources outside of the, you know, plan that goes with the redistricting.

If that's an option today, then it is the willful policy of the department to provide less law and order to the public realm in certain districts.

And certainly my friends in the tender line would feel the same way, that it is the active policy to police differently throughout the city.

Uh and none of us wonder why we got the short end of the stick.

Thank you.

Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

Uh my name is Josh, and I am a resident in SOMA.

I work in uh and live in San Francisco.

Uh I wanted to piggyback on what others had said uh advocating that uh, in as much as there is a proposal to shift the boundaries that that not happen in a way where it's in advance of uh a plan to staff appropriately.

Um just speaking kind of on a human level, uh where I live in the little section of uh Soma where I live uh every day.

There's burglaries, there's assaults, there's uh I can't remember the last day that we didn't have people in the doorway to the to the building where I live with other families, other residents, where we didn't have people selling and using drugs in our doorway.

I've lived there for three years.

I literally can't remember a day that didn't happen.

Um, and it creates this feeling of un of unsafety.

And as other people have said, um, the context is that we've already been understaffed.

I've gone to a number of meetings with Captain Martin and other members of the police uh in Southern Station and to an officer, everyone has communicated to to myself and to other residents that they were already understaffed.

Um I do worry that there's a potential and and I appreciate the commitment to look at staffing before these boundaries change.

Um my concern is is that we're already understaffed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

My name is David Singer, I'm a resident of SOMA.

I speak about a current staffing problem.

SOMA has grown and supported the city's housing needs by adding more housing than any other district.

The neighborhood equity data shows that it also supports the city with an overload of homeless services, particularly along 6th Street.

Already Southern Station is overburdened.

This redistricting will add to that.

Supervisor District 6, which is roughly coterminous with the southern boundaries, contributes the largest property tax income to the city.

Yet that value and income are even now not being protected by appropriate levels of policing.

The 6th Street 280 off ramp is also a major gateway to the city.

Southern's area includes two major sports venues and the convention center.

For events, other stations provide venue support, but when visitors enter the city or go to their hotels or restaurant, they experience a neighborhood and street life that are leading directly to the negative reports of San Francisco.

The Six Street corridor is rapidly degenerating into conditions that resemble the tender loin, yet it does not have the policing levels of the tenderloin.

These street conditions require foot patrols at unpredictable times and locations and homeless specialists.

There are zero from Southern at the moment, despite foot patrols being promised and indeed for a short time implemented to great effect.

It is urgent they return before redistricting adds to the burden.

Implementing redistricting without addressing staffing assignments, not promises, not plans, but actual assignments will create a problem that will be much harder to solve than to head off in the first place.

I oppose implementing this redistricting until there is a staffing assignment that addresses these current issues.

Staff Southern Station.

UC Law, Tenderloin Community Benefit District, Lower Polk Neighbors, Lavos Latina, Lower Knob Hill Neighborhood Alliance, O'Farrell Neighborhood Group, Overferral Neighbors Group, Tenderloin Business Coalition, and also Local Two.

We've submitted several letters to you over the last number of months.

We've been consistent on advocacy through when it was in the staff proposal.

We've articulated both broad uh broad advocacy and also specific advocacy on different parts of the map.

And I'm very pleased that we're uh our coalition uh is in support of this department uh recommended map uh that you've motioned uh before you today to advance, and I I thank you for that.

Uh I appreciate I I also I'm just gonna limit my comments uh specific to our advocacy.

Uh I think that's most appropriate and and for for the for the tenderloin, uh for um for Lower Polk for Lower Knob Hill.

Uh we've been consistent that this is the direction that's best for our communities, and uh I certainly uh will allow the the chief uh to speak for for department allocation of resources and stuff that he that he has and for the department, but for our needs uh and and for our community uh and I believe it's consistent with the city's needs.

Uh thank you so much for your leadership and consistency, and just a shout out to to Commissioner Benedicto Um for meeting with us and and to all the commissioners for for your uh for your leadership on this matter.

Thank you.

Good evening, honorable commissioners.

My name is Rihanna Baylard, and I'm the chief operating officer at UC Law San Francisco, and I'm here in support of the revised plan.

I just want to acknowledge all the work that's gone into this.

Commissioner Benedicto, of course, Commissioner Techie, even before she was a commissioner leading this effort as well.

I certainly understand the concerns that are being raised by others tonight, uh, and and I appreciate them.

At the same time, I absolutely need to applaud the commission, SFPD leadership, and the city as well, because truly we have been asking from the tenderloin give us a sign, give us some hope, respond to the fact that we have a community of people that are disenfranchised, people that don't have the ability to come here and give public comment, that don't have the ability to make calls for service, but please, these are families, these are businesses, these are children, and so this is a sign, and I'm grateful to all of you for the work that went into this, and I'm really hopeful about our future here, and I'm also grateful to Chief Yep that there will be time to address some of the staffing challenges that have been raised.

So thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Can you talk to the microphone, please?

What?

Can you talk?

Sorry, I just wanted to show you the picture.

So this is the Rincon Hill Dog Park.

It's located at Bryant and Beale Street.

And I'm Shelley Casnatini.

I've been living in the neighborhood for 25 years.

Rincon Hill.

And I've been managing the dog park for several years.

And um, I love our police staff, at least the ones that we had.

Alex Duran, Louie Wong, um, now he's, you know, the president.

But um, anyway, we just have had a really good relationship.

I've been able to text them anytime I've needed them.

I get faster response from them when I text them than I do when I call 911.

Um, a lot of the people that uh used to go to the park don't go there anymore because they're afraid.

There's a lot of unhoused people.

There's the navigation center issues that we deal with constantly.

Um recently I hired somebody from the GO reentry program at 11 uh Taylor Street, and I just want to show you a picture.

You know, he just got out of prison 30 years, and this is what he has to face.

Can we do that again with the picture?

So this is just last week.

This is um a snapshot of a video of people standing outside on 111 Taylor in the tenderloin doing drugs actively, and you know, nobody's doing anything about it.

They just sit there, they have dogs there, that makes me sick.

Um, but anyway, I just feel like I don't want to be lumped in with the tenderloin.

We are already short staffed.

I already have to text people, and I don't even have a new police officer to ask anymore.

I just have to go through 911, and it doesn't help me.

So thank you so much.

Good evening, Commissioners.

I'm Gloria, uh Program Manager for the Code Enforcement and Voz Latina program of the TSE.

And I'm here on behalf of the many families that we serve Latinos, Asian, Arab.

And I think this adjustment for the map boundary for the police has been, I think it's the first time the community know about it, and design it through our program different workshop, we have been able to explain what's the difference.

We noticed during our workshops that people didn't know what was this that every 10 years, so why is the importance to participate to know what's the difference?

So I think someone one of you of the commissioners asked, like how do we know that it's the community input?

Well, it's through our community-based organizations that we uh explain what's the process, what to expect, and and I think 10 years has been enough.

The tenderloin, lower pole, nob hill need uh more uh security, and I think this will enhance safe say with promote safety, uh maximize the police uh uh resources, and uh a prone response because this is something that in the tenderloin, we need to be the response needs to be faster.

We know the need, and and sometimes when we support tenants with fires or robbery or burglary, it takes sometimes.

Sometimes don't even the police is unable because it's attending other areas to go to the buildings, and we had to go take the tenants to the police session.

Thank you.

Go ahead.

So recently there was a fire at 155 height, and this building is red tape, so a lot of the tenants were relocated to temporary places or permanent uh places, so but their belongings were in the in their units.

So you have a it was approximately 133 tenants, and there was a burglary in this building.

So it was the day that it was reported, it happened on Saturday, Monday we called the tenants called the police.

I was actually I show up to 155 high to support the tenants with the translation, and unfortunately the police wasn't able to attend to show to go to the uh building and report and and take a report from the tenants.

So we took them to the session.

So this reflects the need that the tenderloin needs these new changes.

Nosotros, todos los department recommendation is gonna be beneficial for the lower pole for the tenderloin and for the Nova Hill.

Thank you.

So we called for all the residents of the TL, we called this map the map of hope.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Good evening, President Clay, Vice President Benedict, and Commissioners.

I'm Alice Rogers, President of the South Beach Rincon Mission Bay Neighborhood Association.

And I am very pleased that you've called this meeting, but I do hope it won't be the last meeting on this topic.

I want to thank you in this new proposal for not making an effort to separate Mission Bay from our neighborhood.

Neighborhood consistency is important to us.

And I especially want to thank uh Vice President Benedicto for being the poster boy for accessibility to the neighbors.

I think it's remarkable that what you're hearing here is really consensus amongst all of your constituents that we want equity and equal treatment across all of our neighborhoods, commensurate with the workload that is occasioned in each of the neighborhoods.

At its core, our request is simple.

Show us the staffing plan that will support the boundary changes before you change the boundaries.

Give us the information that we need to support your plan.

Nobody here has said no yet.

We want to say yes.

We want this to be a map of hope.

Give us the information.

Thank you so much.

Good evening.

You know when you see me it's time to be done.

So my name is Isan Looper, and I represent the Tenderloin Community Benefit District.

Therefore, you know where I stand.

So I'm gonna metaphorically take that hat off and put on another hat.

Some of you know my father was known first as the father of the tenderloin and then the grandfather of the tenderloin.

And so without giving away my age, I've been coming in and out of the Tinderloin, living in the Tinderloin or working in the Tinderloin since 1977 or 78.

And we know when we finally got a police station, it was intended to try to deal with the issues in the tenderloin.

We never got to see whether it could be successful, because we pivoted and tried something else that didn't work.

So thank you for pivoting back so we can try again.

Next, I do not have PTSD, and I am not trying to dishonor or disparage or or minimize those that do.

But when I talk to people, it reminds me of some of the symptoms of PTSD.

They're actually not feeling hopeful.

They're convinced through this process, there's gonna be a way we lose again, because that's what always happens.

Metaphorically, if I'm serving um 50 people with the money I have, I have money for 50, I'm forced to serve 100, I figure out how to serve a hundred, then you fix it and tell me you only have to serve 50, but you're gonna take half my money away, so I can't do it.

So I don't know what's gonna happen through this process.

I want to believe that it's gonna turn out all right.

We haven't seen it happen yet, so we're holding our breath, holding out for hope.

That is the end of public comment.

On the motion, Commissioner Teckey.

How do you vote?

Yes, Commissioner Techie is yes.

Commissioner Scott.

Yes, Commissioner Scott is yes, Commissioner Leo.

Yes, Commissioner Liang is yes, Commissioner Yi.

Yes, Commissioner Yi is yes, Commissioner Lyas.

Commissioner Lias is yes, Vice President Benedicto.

Yes, Vice President Benedicto is yes, and President Clay.

Yes, President Clay is yes, you have seven yeses.

Line item nine.

Discussion and possible action to approve revised department general order 5.08.

Plain closed, non-uniformed and undercover officers 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.

My name is Aja Steves.

I am the manager of the policy development division with SFPD.

I am going to keep my comments as brief as possible because this commission already received a commission, excuse me, a presentation on October 1st from Lieutenant Goff.

So this item has already been discussed in terms of all of the updates, but I do want to provide some brief update for you.

As at the October 1st meeting, there was a discussion or acknowledgement of a letter that was received by the public defender's office that was requesting additional revisions.

On October 31st, we did respond to the commission.

So you do have a copy of that letter in your packet.

I do believe that it is posted publicly as well.

So that states clearly what the department's position is on those requests.

I do want to let you know that we did capture a few edits.

Commissioner Leong had submitted an edit request at the October 1st meeting.

So we have captured that edit in the draft that you have in front of you.

It's denoted in the red font on the clean version.

We also captured an edit that was submitted in the public defender's letter, and that's just language consistency to align with DGO 803 crowd control.

And then we also had a discussion with DPA.

They gave us some concerns and we were able to capture an edit, uh, to make sure that we are uh getting their concerns met, right?

So there are a few changes that we have put up in front of you.

We're really hoping that uh this commission will consider moving this item on to meet and confer as this has been a long development process.

Uh just as a background, we did post this for public review back in January of 2024.

We received 49 comments and requests for revisions, which did result in a very substantive edit.

Uh, then we did have further discussion with leadership and ultimately submitted to this commission on September 15th.

At that point, it was publicly posted.

I believe it's been publicly posted since September 16th.

Um, and again heard by this body on October 1st.

Um, so at that, I will hand this over to President Clay and hope we can move this forward.

Commander Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you very much, uh, Ms.

Steves for uh that update.

Um I want to thank you for working with uh DPA with with the commission and incorporating that late letter which uh was sent I think on the day the commission was meeting.

I know that's not that's not regular, and uh I know that a number of uh folks at the commission have expressed um some of that um as well with the public defender, and I know hopefully we can find ways to avoid those sort of last minute things uh in the future, but I I think that the draft language and the edits uh make a lot of sense.

I'm grateful for this DGO.

I think this was last updated in 1996.

I'm happy to check yet another 1990s DGO off of our list, and with that, we'll make a motion to approve revise Department General Order 5.08 for use in meeting and conferring with the effect of bargaining units, uh pursuant to the commission's labor relations resolution.

All second all right.

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

And there's no public comment.

On the motion, Commissioner Teckey.

How do you vote?

Okay.

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, President.

I'm sorry, uh, 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 seven yeses.

Line item 10.

Public comment 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 thirteen, 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 and 54956.9A in San Francisco Administrative Code section 67.10B and D.

Action.

Commissioner Yeah is yes.

Commissioner Lyas?

Commissioner Lyus is yes, Vice President Benedicton.

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes, we will go into close session.

San Francisco government television.

Do we have to paint this?

So you don't pick it up.

Right, 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 closed session.

San Francisco Administrative Code Section Sixty Seven Point Two Action.

I'm sorry, um, no, Commissioner Yoteki, how do you vote?

Yes, Mr.

Techie is yes, Commissioner Scott.

Yes.

Commissioner Liang is yes, Commissioner Ye?

Yes.

Commissioner Yee is yes, Vice President Benedict.

Affirmative.

President Clay is yes, you have six yeses.

Line item fourteen, adjourned.