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To the flag of the United States of America,
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to the republic for which it stands,
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one nation, under God, indivisible,
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with liberty and justice for all.
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President Clay, would I take a roll?
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Commissioner Elias is en route.
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Vice President Benedicto?
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President Clay, you have a quorum.
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Also with us tonight, our Chief Liu from the San Francisco Police Department and Executive Director Paul Henderson from the Department of Police Accountability.
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Well, thank you, everyone, for being here for 2026.
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It's a pleasure to have you, Chief Liu.
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Congratulations, and thank you for being here tonight.
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We look forward to working with you over the course of your years here on the service while we serve on this commission.
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So thank you so much for taking the job.
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Thank you very much. Likewise.
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All right. All right.
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All right, line item one, general public comment.
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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,
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but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission.
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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,
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but may provide a brief response.
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Alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways.
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email the secretary of the police commission at sfpd.commission at sfgov.org
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or written comments may be sent via U.S. Postal Service to the Public Safety Building
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located at 1245 3rd Street, San Francisco, California, 94158.
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If you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium.
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Happy New Year's, everyone.
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I just wanted to make a statement that I was looking at the news
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our Instagram one of those where the mayor had said that he's going to be hiring new people
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for homicides for the unsolved homicides I was going to bring the video and play it
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but uh and also I haven't heard from my investigator I don't know if it's still Scott
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Warrinke um is he still here I don't know but I'd like to hear from him and if I have a new
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investigator I'd like to know who that is so that I can get acquainted with this new investigators
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about my son's case.
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Also, I was wondering, Chief Lude,
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that you can check all the stations
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to make sure that the digital cameras
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are still up of all the unsolved homicides.
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At each station, at 10 district stations,
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there are digital cameras of homicides.
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I know in the Fillmore, I always look at that one,
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or when I'm going to my doctor's appointment
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But could you please check on that?
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And if the mayor is allegating new retired police
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to come back and solve these cases,
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please make sure that my son is one of them.
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I am still waiting for justice for my child.
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This holidays, this Christmas, this new year
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was very hard for me and other mothers too.
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And I'm glad to see you're here.
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Thank you for being here.
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So we'll be getting acquainted.
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I'm here every Wednesday when they're here.
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That is the end of public comment.
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Line item two, consent calendar, receive and file, action.
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Police Commission Report of Disciplinary Actions, Fourth Quarter 2025, Police Commission Annual Report 2025, Third Quarter 2025, Audit of Electronic Communication Devices for Bias, an in-kind donation from Michael Siebel for recruitment purposes valued at $500,000, and two Civic Bridge Agreements with Scott Chong and George Parker Toms, as well as extending the existing agreement with Jonathan Hills valued at a total of $283,360.
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SAPD and DPA's SB 1421
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and SB 16 monthly reports for
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Is there a motion? Motion
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to receive and file. Second.
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of the public would like to make public comment regarding line
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item 2. Please approach the podium.
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public comment on the motion. Commissioner Tecky, how do
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you vote? Yes. Commissioner Tecky is yes.
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Commissioner Scott? Yes. Commissioner Scott
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is yes. Commissioner Leung? Yes. Commissioner Leung
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is yes. Commissioner Yee? Yes.
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Commissioner Yee is yes. Vice President Benedicto? Yes. Vice President Benedicto is yes. And President Clay? Yes. President Clay is yes. You have six yeses. Line item three, adoption of minutes, actions for the meetings of November 5th, 12th, and 19th, 2025. Do we have a motion? Motion to adopt the minutes? Second. Second.
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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 Tecky, how do you vote?
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Commissioner Tecky is yes.
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Commissioner Scott is yes.
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Commissioner Leung is yes.
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Commissioner Yee is yes.
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Vice President Benedicto?
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Vice President Benedicto is yes.
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President Clay is yes.
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Line item four, Chief's Report.
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Weekly crime trends and public safety concerns.
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Provide an overview of offenses, incidents, or events occurring in San Francisco having an impact on public safety.
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Good evening, President Clay, Vice President Benedicto, commissioners, Director Henderson,
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members of the public.
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Before I get into the crime trends, I'd just like to say that it's an absolute honor to
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be sitting in this seat in this role, and I very much look forward to working with you
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So this being the first commission meeting right after the new year, I figured we'd go
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with a year-end report.
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So I'll talk a little bit about overall crime.
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So overall crime is down in every meaningful category.
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There was a 25% decrease in crime, including an 18% decrease in violent crime and a 27%
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decrease in property crime for 2025.
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to violent crimes, looking specifically at homicides, we closed the year with 28 homicides,
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which is a decrease of 20% over 2024, which had 35 and is the lowest since 1954 when there
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The homicide unit had a 125% clearance rate, clearing 34 homicides either by arrest or
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other means, which is more cases solved than occurred. It was the result of hard
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work from our officers along with our law enforcement and city partnerships.
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Can't necessarily celebrate this given the subject matter, but I believe this
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is a real trickle-down effect that increases community participation and
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and increases trust with the community that we are acting on their information.
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We want to prevent homicides, but when they do happen, we are holding offenders accountable,
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which in the end prevents future homicides and retaliation.
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For overall gun violence, we saw a 14% decrease in the number of victims of gun violence.
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Violent crimes were down across the board with the exception of human trafficking.
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There was a 24% decrease in robberies, which included a 45% decrease in robberies with a firearm.
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Assaults were down 12%, with assaults involving a firearm decreasing 19%.
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Rapes were down 17%.
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Human trafficking was up 18%, with 24 incidents reported in 2025 compared to 13 in 2024.
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As was mentioned at meetings earlier in the year, just to reiterate, this increase in
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the number of reported incidents does not necessarily reflect an uptick in the occurrence
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Rather, staffing levels in the human trafficking unit has increased to five full-time sworn
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members, which had not been fully staffed since 2019.
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This enabled a more proactive approach, which includes at least two operations conducted
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a month targeting human trafficking. They've also been able to investigate more incidents
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and follow up on more leads seeking out human trafficking suspects and victims, which has
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led to more incident reports and we've seen an increase in arrests related to human trafficking.
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Moving on to property crimes. Property crimes were down in all categories as well. There
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was a 28% decrease in burglaries, a 44% decrease in motor vehicle thefts, a 9% decrease in arsons.
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So just looking closely at larcenies, there was a 22% decrease in overall larceny,
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which includes retail theft and car break-ins. There was a 42% decrease in car break-ins,
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notably, closing the year with approximately 5,369 or so. There's some late reporting here
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that needs to be tallied, but that number is 5,369.
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This represents the lowest number of car break-ins we have seen
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since we began collecting the data in our current crime data warehouse system in 2011.
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There were 6,063 in 2011, but our system doesn't go back any further than that.
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And just for reference and context,
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In 2017, the city had a high of 31,412 reported incidents of car break-ins, so significant progress there.
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Just to go over some additional efforts, officers recovered 1,017 firearms.
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Officers made 6,683 arrests related to the drug markets.
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officers seized over 56 pounds of fentanyl
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and then moving on to our uh the the staffing issues we're obviously short staffed by around
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690 sworn staff below the recommended baseline we are making that up with overtime
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but our officers are are getting a lot of results as these statistics speak to
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We need to hire, as you've heard repeatedly, anywhere from 500 to 700 officers, but we did have the first net positive increase in staffing in 2025 since the pandemic.
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So this continues to be a top priority for our department.
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And then technology has played an important role in giving our officers the tools they need to succeed.
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And I would just say that our real-time crime strategies are really paying dividends for us.
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Moving on to significant incidents.
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There were zero reported homicides this week.
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There were two reported shootings, one in the Bayview.
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On December 30th at 6 p.m. in the area of Toland Place in McKinnon, there was one victim
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This is a non-fatal incident.
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There was no arrest and it's currently an active investigation.
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The second incident was in the Ingleside.
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That occurred on New Year's Eve, December 31st at 10.42 p.m. in the area of Alamany
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Officers responded there and they did locate a crime scene.
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Later on, two victims with gunshot wounds were discovered to have self-transported to
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It's an active investigation.
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In terms of notable arrests, there was a carjacking in the Central District on New Year's Day
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at 6.40 p.m. in the area of O'Farrell and Stockton.
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The vehicle that was carjacked was located later on in Sunnydale and Hawn area.
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The ARTIC was instrumental in making this arrest.
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So again, there was an arrest in that case.
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No notable traffic collisions, which was very nice considering the weather that we've been
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Okay moving on to major events.
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So I did want to go on to some of the larger events.
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I don't know that we normally talk about it, but it's just something that I think is worthy
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of mention because it often doesn't make its way into kind of crime stats, but it's a major
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responsibility for us.
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So I'll just start with First Amendment activities.
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This past week on Saturday, January 3rd, we had approximately 100 people gathered.
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in Powell regarding opposition to federal action taken in Venezuela.
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There were no issues.
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We facilitated a walk from Market and Powell over to Fulton Plaza.
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In terms of large events, so overview of 2025, we supported, in addition to overall investigative
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patrol functions, 911 calls and such. We also supported over 70 major events, many of which
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span several districts such as New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, Pride, Fleet Week, Cinco de Mayo,
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Chinese New Year, Santa Con, Carnival, Fleet Week. So again, these require a lot of scheduling.
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It's not the traditional 911 type work that our patrol officers do,
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but I mention these because it's a large resource that goes to these events to add to public safety.
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We've supported the JPMorgan Chase Healthcare Conference, which is going to happen again next week.
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It was especially a big deal last year because it was on the heels of the Luigi incident.
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Mayor's inauguration, NBA All-Star Dreamforce, which by the way this year was touted as one
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of the safest and most successful Dreamforce deployments in history.
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This does not include the multitude of events that are held in individual districts practically
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every single week that require some sort of police presence such as Sunday streets, midnight
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basketball and other neighborhood block parties.
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And then just a reminder, we also do service two major sporting venues, Chase Center, Oracle
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Park with regular season games scheduled for Warriors, Giants, and Valkyries.
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In addition, there were many First Amendment activities, both planned and unplanned, that
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required staff to be available for facilitation. 2025 saw the inauguration of a new president.
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There were several major demonstrations including No Kings event that drew over 75,000 people.
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So coming up in 2026 we'll be host to several major events including the Super Bowl,
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the Pro Bowl, FIFA games, Dreamforce, JPMorgan, Chase, and then, of course, the events that we
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do on a regular basis every single year that have already been mentioned. And then just for note,
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coming up, JPMorgan Healthcare Conference, as I mentioned, January 12th through the 15th,
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There will be events throughout Union Square, draw a lot of people.
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Super Bowl planning, which has been ongoing for essentially the past year.
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It's obviously going to be a very robust public safety plan in partnership with all our city partners, state partners, federal partners.
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MLK Walk taking place on January 19th.
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So we will be facilitating that with our folks, and we'll also be participating in the parade.
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So open invite to any of you that would like to attend.
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That's on the 19th, and then Walk for Life January 24th.
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And that concludes my report.
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Chief, thank you for that report.
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These numbers, end of year numbers are tremendous.
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The numbers, current numbers are tremendous.
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We're moving in the right direction.
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and will continue this momentum coming in 2026 and the years to come.
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Keep up your troop, everyone there.
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Keep up the hard work for this city.
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Commissioner Scott?
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Well, welcome, and thank you so much, Chief Liu, for your report.
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You mentioned we recovered 1,017 firearms.
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Those that were, were they from individual incidents or were they from, you know, a large swoop of, you know,
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finding guns in a store place?
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I wanted to know the difference.
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So typically the recoveries or seizures, it really spans all sorts of different incidents.
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It could be off of a person.
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It could be off of a DV incident.
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So it really spans all sorts of incidents.
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Some incidents would result in the recovery of a single firearm,
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and others could result in the recovery of multiples.
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And I asked because I was interested, because I noticed a lot of gun trafficking,
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going on. So I wanted to know if some of those firearms was related to that. Was any recovered
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from any gun trafficking? So I don't have specific cases to refer to, but I can say that just from
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my experience running the Crime Gun Investigation Center or gun unit, that would be gun trafficking
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would be one of the initiatives that they would participate in. Yeah. I just wanted to know,
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But I commend the department for recovering that amount of firearms.
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That is just incredible because we just had the gun buyback that we do annually with Rudy Corpus and all our organizations, Brady and everybody,
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and recovered quite a few assault weapons every year.
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So I just wanted to commend you and the whole department for continuing to help keep our cities safe and free of guns and weapons out of the wrong hands.
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So, yeah, I just want to commend the whole police department and your being on board with helping us keep our cities safe.
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Thank you, Commissioner.
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If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 4, the Chief's report, please approach the podium.
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Yes, I'd like to use the overhead.
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I'm here concerning my son, Aubrey Abricasa, who was murdered August 14, 2006.
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Still today, his case isn't solved.
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I bring pictures of other family members, not family members, but unsolved homicides with me all the time.
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And I stand with these mothers.
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These are the names of the perpetrators that murdered my child.
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Thompson Hannibal, Paris Moffat, Andrew Badu, Jason Thomas, Anthony Hunter, and Marcus Carter.
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one of these guys are deceased. I'm not sure which one it is. I will never see
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another graduation picture of my son. This is the last graduation picture of
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him and this is something I have to remember for the rest of my life. I bring
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these pictures with me to let mothers and you know how I feel. I can talk, but if I don't
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show you won't know how I feel and what I go through every day. I have daughters left.
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I have no son. He was my only son. This is what the perpetrators left me, a lifeless
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body. I'm not ashamed to show these pictures because this is what happened to me. I need
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justice for my child so that I can heal.
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This year, I believe it'll be 20 years, two decades.
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Those of you out there that murdered my child,
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Any member of the public has any information regarding
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the murder of Aubrey Abra Casa, you
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You can call the anonymous 24-7 tip line at 415-575-4444.
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There is no more public comment.
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Line item 5, DPA director's report discussion, a report on recent DPA activities and announcements.
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Executive Director Henderson.
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Since our last commission meeting, DPA has now opened 87 more cases, and we've closed 99 cases.
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The most common allegation was that for an officer failure to take a required action.
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Again, these are the allegations, not the investigations or the sustained cases.
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We currently have 13 cases whose investigations has taken over 270 days,
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and all of those cases are tolling, cases that are told.
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We remain 100% in compliance with our 3304 timelines.
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We currently have 75 sustained DPA cases that are pending with SFPD and I want to highlight that we have just two cases that are pending with the Commission.
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and you know we just finished a big case that will be heard on February 6th but
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multiple staff from DPA have expressed wanted me to express a thank you to all
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of you that have been working even during the holidays to set these
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schedules and have a timely resolution of the cases it's had a measurable impact
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on the workflow and with the legal and the investigative team for the cases and getting these numbers down and cases resolved.
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We've also issued our audit report this year, and the report from our audit is the opportunities that still exist to strengthen our use of force oversight.
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We're scheduled to present the report here at the Police Commission on February 4th.
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And so I look forward to that presentation.
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We have our DPA working group, which was informed in part by the
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inquiries that were presented to all of the commissioners.
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So thank you very much for your compliance and responsive for that.
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I think the new reports and the quarterly reports, all of which have been filed.
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There are no delays in any of the reports.
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every quarter has been filed.
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And the new reports, I think you'll find,
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are clearer and more efficient.
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They are now, every quarterly report now
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is aligned with the mayor's new reporting guidelines
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and are also fully compliant with our new digital accessibility
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ability and inclusion standards.
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So for those, if you go back and look at them,
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some of the things that are new that did not exist before
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are now all of the quarterly reports are in 13 different languages as well.
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So more communities can review them.
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They're none of that stuff was translated before.
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It was only one language.
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Also, all of the reports now, as well as annual reports and forthcoming reports
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from the agencies are all ADA compliant.
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There's a new federal rule that by April 2026,
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all reporting has to be accessible in this way.
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and we're ahead of that deadline, but these quarterly reports are also reflective
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of those new standards for people to be able to receive and review those reports.
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Also now, there's a seamless scrolling and accessibility on all digital devices.
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You no longer have to log into a computer just to have access to get the information.
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You can do it on your phone, even if you have an Android.
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I'm an Apple person.
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Anyway, again, thank you guys so much for the feedback because your concerns expressed in the surveys that we submitted were taken into these quarterly reports.
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So you will see the suggestions that you made to us already incorporated into these reports in these new formats.
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Just wanted to also mention a couple of other things.
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THE DPA STAFF AND INVESTIGATORS, THE LAWYERS AND INVESTIGATORS ATTENDED THE TABLE TOP EXERCISE WITH SFPD
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ADDRESSING CONTAINMENT TACTICS FOR ARMED SUSPECTS THAT WAS HOSTED BY FIELD TACTICS AND FORCE OPTIONS UNIT AT THE ACADEMY.
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THANK YOU, CHIEF, FOR ALLOWING THAT TO HAPPEN.
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THE TRAINING INCLUDED WATCHING HIGH-PROFILE INCIDENCE OF ARMED SUBJECTS, BREAKING CONTAINENT, AND DISCUSSION OF FORCE AND TACTIC OPTIONS
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with a focus on how public safety risks change during scenarios.
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The more our investigators and lawyers
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understand the training and the tactics,
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the easier they can be helpful in determining
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both policy recommendations as well as the accountability
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A special thank you to Sergeant Bugaran
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for conducting the training.
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There's a couple of things that are also new in the quarterly reports that you'll be able to find now,
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that there is an analysis of the quarterly reports so that you will be able to see and track trends
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and can interact with the information that is there rather than having to guess.
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Some of the highlights from that, and I won't be doing this in every meeting,
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but just so you know what's in there now, as you can see that the complaint volume just from 2025,
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the complaint volume is up 40% year over year.
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In these reports, you can see that summary
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and see those numbers and where you're seeing them.
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Our average case processing time,
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which is another new fact that hasn't been in there,
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but I think it's important rather than looking at the end of cases
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that take a long time to have an accurate assessment
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of how long the average investigation takes,
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and that is 94 days at DPA.
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That's well below the 180 or 270 day reporting that comes from this hearing.
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But we've never had a clear understanding or been able to show that to the public in this way until now.
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And third, the other thing that I think stands out, I'm not going to go through everything that's different and that you can see in there,
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but these are just some of the highlights that I think are relevant for many of the inquiries that we get both at commission and from the public,
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is that the digital engagement has surged.
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And that has gone up at DPA for folks engaging with our services and trying to talk to us and filing complaints over 45% over the past nine months.
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So there's a big shift in how people are engaging with our office and contacting us.
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Anyway, so that's just the new report design.
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And again, a lot of this has also come from the commission and things that many of you have asked for.
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So you will all see it there.
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Present with me tonight in case there are issues for the public to be addressed,
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I have a senior investigator here in the audience.
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And for folks that would like to contact us that are watching this or listening to this,
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The website is sfgov.org forward slash DPA.
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The phone number where we are always available to receive messages is 415-241-7711.
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And that concludes my reporting and update since our last meeting.
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If any member of the public would like to make public comment, please approach the podium.
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There is no public comment.
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Line item six, commission reports, discussion and possible action.
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Commission President's report, including a report on closed session roll call vote for the mayor's appointee of police chief Derek Liu.
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Commissioner's reports and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting.
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First of all, keeping with our mission for undertaking the review.
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review and updating of our DGOs.
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The department has provided us with a group of DGOs,
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which some go back in the 90s,
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that they're going to undertake to take a look at.
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So we're going to, at this year, hopefully we'll get to those
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and we'll be reviewing, undertaking that review
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and determining what's good to,
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whether or not we're going to update them,
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whether or not they're going to no longer be viable
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based upon this 2026.
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So that's one of our projects.
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Secondly, we have no discipline cases pending in our office, which is a good thing.
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And so that is clear.
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And then finally, as it relates to a report, as required by the charter, with our closed session,
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we're required to disclose to the public, and I have, Sergeant, can you please disclose the vote for our closed session
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as it relates to the election of the chief?
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So on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, in closed session, the following commissioners voted yes to forward Derek Liu's name to Mayor Lurie, President Clay, Commissioner Yee, Commissioner Leung, and Commissioner Teke.
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And the following commissioners voted no, Vice President Benedicto, Commissioner Elias, and Commissioner Scott.
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Thank you. Commissioner reports?
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Any commission reports from anyone? Okay.
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Yes, Commissioner Gee.
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Yeah, thank you very much there, President Clay.
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I just want to report on December the 3rd,
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we had the Medal of Valor Awards honoring, I guess,
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all the officers that put their lives on the line every day.
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I want to thank them for the courage and stuff.
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And I thank President Clay for working to get these
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through our committee.
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Also on December 4th, there was a press release.
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Congratulations, I guess, announcement
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of the new chief, Derek Liu, by the mayor.
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And then on December 16th, we had the recruitment class, 286.
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I believe it's the most we had in how many years?
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Three, four, five years thereabouts.
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So we had over 30 some graduating recruits.
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So congratulations to, I guess, the chief, command staff,
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and the members, and also keeping our crime down in 2025,
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from the previous year as well.
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And wish you continuous success in 2026.
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Thank you very much there, Chief.
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And thank you very much, President.
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Vice President Benedicto.
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Thank you very much, President Clay.
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I'd like to echo what Commissioner Yee said.
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It was a privilege to have the entire commission in attendance at the Medal of Valor Awards
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and to really congratulate the tremendous number, I think it was the most Medal of Valor recipients we've had,
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and really all for really some incredible incidents.
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So to all those who received the Medal of Valor, congratulations on those events
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and for having soon followed by that very large recruit class that we saw to congratulate that as well.
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A number of commissioners were present at the Hall of Justice for the official announcement of Chief Liu.
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And so I wanted to echo what President Clay said and welcome you, Chief Liu,
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and look forward to working collaboratively with you to ensure that we keep the momentum
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and the legacy and the progress the department has made on so many fronts ongoing
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and keeping that forward momentum going forward.
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So congratulations.
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I'm looking forward to it again.
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I know since Chief Liu officially took office,
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he also named his assistant chief, named Nicole Jones,
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as the new assistant chief of the department,
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who is president of this today.
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So I also wanted to congratulate Assistant Chief Jones.
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I've worked with Chief Liu and Assistant Chief Jones
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for a number of years and look forward to continuing
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to work with you in this new capacity.
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Yes, likewise, I just wanted to acknowledge the Men of Valor.
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That was a wonderful event to attend and to see so many officers be promoted for their fine work
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and the work that they do to help keep us safe.
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So congratulations to all of you, and thank you for doing a tremendous job
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in helping to keep all San Francisco communities safe.
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At the same time, I wanted to thank those officers who helped with our gun buyback, our annual gun buyback,
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with Rudy Corpus and United Players and Brady and all of the other folks.
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We got over 274 assault weapons off the street and quite a few other guns, handguns off the street as well.
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It was a well-attended event.
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and then also working with the community, with us, for us, Damien and the other officers,
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and going into those homes where there is a weapon and you contact that organization
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and they will make sure with SFPD to come to your house to remove the weapon safely.
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We have a lot of elderly people whose husbands have passed away that were collectors.
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We have some mothers that are afraid of finding a gun in their home from a teenager that they didn't know anything about.
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They've called on us to have those guns removed.
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And so let's keep up the good work with that so that our communities can be safe.
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If you do have a firearm in your home and you want to get rid of it, please contact SFPD to have that firearm removed from your child's room or anywhere in the house.
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We have a lot of mothers out there that are stepping up to the plate now because they're finding that their youngster may have a weapon in the home.
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And so now they feel comfortable working with SFPD, United Players, and all of our organizations against gun violence.
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And this is something that you don't hear about, but it's happening in our city.
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And it's responsible, a huge responsibility that has helped keep our community safe from firearms.
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And with the 1,017 firearms that you all have collected, it's just tremendous and commendable
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because it helps keep our community safe and keep guns out of the wrong hands.
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So thank you so much for that.
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If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 6, commission reports,
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please approach the podium.
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Yes, I also want to congratulate those police officers.
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I was also at the Valor, and I took a picture with you, Chief.
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And I usually come often when I see it on the, and I'm glad that you promote it for the public to come.
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and yeah it wasn't easy seeing the videos
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but you know things have to happen and people have to be safe
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and also I just don't want you know we're talking about saving
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our city and saving what's going on in our streets
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but we still need to think about the unsolved homicides
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You know, we're still waiting, even though some cases are getting solved.
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And that's a good thing.
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People are coming forth.
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But we as mothers who don't have that justice, we're still waiting.
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And again, I'd like to know if I have a new homicide inspector.
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please let me know.
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And again, please check and see if those digital cameras are up at all 10 district stations and on and operating,
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because it was a lot of work getting that done, too.
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So again, congratulations and a happy new year to everyone.
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And I'll see everyone.
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And there's no more public comment.
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Item 7, Department General orders to be rescinded.
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Discussion and possible action.
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DGO 3.15, personal property claims.
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4.102, accepting bail.
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5.12, search warrants related to drug and alcohol abuse rehabilitation.
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6.01, crime scene log.
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A correction on 6.117, that is, taxi cab regulations.
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10.04 800 megahertz portable radios, 10.05 weapons and protective equipment inspection,
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10.07 use of cellular telephones, 1101 personnel compensation, 1103 jury duty,
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and 1105 qualifications for specific units. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners.
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My name is Aja Steves. I am the Policy Development Division Manager at SFPD.
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I'll keep it as brief as possible.
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We did already submit to this commission the 11 DGOs that we are proposing along with their
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We do this on an annual basis now.
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We're reviewing all of the DGOs to determine whether it needs to be updated, whether there's
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an opportunity to create a new DGO, or whether some need to be rescinded.
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So we came up with this list of 11, nine of which are from the 90s, and all of which fall
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under a few different categories.
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The categories are either the information from the DGO is already captured in another DGO.
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SFPD no longer does that work.
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It's no longer under their purview.
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Or it's covered in a bargaining unit MOU.
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So we're giving you a very simple list.
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We did submit this list to DPA.
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And they have no objections to us bringing this forward.
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They agree with this list.
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I think there is an opportunity for us to bring another list to you at a future meeting, possibly in Q2.
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but we want to do that with DPA's agreement.
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And so this is our first round of asking for you to consider.
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And with that, I'll bring it back to the commission
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for your consideration.
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Motion or questions?
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Motion to rescind the list of general orders.
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I'm sorry, I did not hear the second.
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If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 7, please approach the podium.
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There is no public comment.
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On the motion, Commissioner Teke, how do you vote?
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Commissioner Teke is yes.
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Commissioner Scott?
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Commissioner Scott is yes.
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Commissioner Leung?
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Commissioner Leung is yes.
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Commissioner Yee is yes.
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Commissioner Elias?
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Commissioner Elias is yes.
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Vice President Benedicto?
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Vice President Benedicto is yes.
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And President Clay?
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President Clay is yes.
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You have seven yeses.
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Line item 8, public comment on all matters pertaining to item 10 below.
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closed session including public comment on item 9 a vote whether to hold item 10
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in closed session and public comment on item 11 a vote whether to disclose any
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or all discussion item 10 held in closed session if you'd like to make public
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comment please approach the podium there is no public comment line item 9 a
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vote on whether to hold item 10 in closed session pursuant to government
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code section 54957 B and San Francisco administrative code section 67.10 B and
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action. Second. All right on the motion Commissioner Tecky how do you vote? Yes.
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Mr. Tecky is yes. Commissioner Scott? Yes. Mr. Scott is yes. Commissioner Leung? Yes.
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Commissioner Leung is yes. Commissioner Yi? Yes. Commissioner Yi is yes. Commissioner Elias? Yes.
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Commissioner Elias is yes. Vice President Benedicto? Yes. Vice President Benedicto is yes.
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And President Clay? Yes. President Clay is yes. You have seven yeses. We are going into closed session.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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This is a very good way to work with the
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Motion to not disclose with the exception of nonprivileged details that will be provided in the minutes regarding item 10B.
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If any member of the public has...
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Sorry, we don't have to do that.
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On the motion, Commissioner Tecky, how do you vote?
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Commissioner Tecky is yes.
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Commissioner Scott?
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Commissioner Scott is yes.
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Commissioner Leung?
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Commissioner Leung is yes.
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Commissioner Yee?
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Commissioner Yee is yes.
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Commissioner Laius?
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Mr. Elias is yes.
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Vice President Benedicto?
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Vice President Benedicto is yes.
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And President Clay?
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President Clay is yes.
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You have seven yeses.