President Clay, like to take roll?

Yes, please.

Commissioner Techie.

Commissioner Scott is excused.

Commissioner Leong.

President.

Commissioner Yi.

Here.

Commissioner Lyas is in route.

And Commissioner Benedicto is I'm sorry, Vice President.

Okay.

Right behind you.

Commissioner Lyas is here.

Vice President Benedicto is possibly in route.

President Clay, you have a quorum.

Also with us tonight, our Chief Lou from the San Francisco Police Department and Executive Director Henderson from the Department of Police Accountability.

All right.

All right.

Welcome everyone to our April 8th Commission meeting.

Sergeant Younglock.

Line item one, weekly officer recognition certificate.

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

Officer Mark Rojas, star number 1723, Tenderloin Station.

Wait, are these those nasty ass things?

They're nasty, but they work.

Hello, uh, I'm uh Lieutenant Greg Scow from Tenderloin Station.

I'm uh I'm here to present the award of officer of the week to Officer Mark Rojas.

And uh just a couple of quick words.

Uh when I was given the task of uh deciding which one of our officers to nominate as officer of the week, we had lots of good options.

Uh but the couple things I thought of were you know which one of our officers sort of presents uh what we want the public to look at as SFPD as an example of SFPD.

And also number two uh being that we're we're at Tenderloin, it's one of the busiest stations, maybe the busiest station in the city.

We have a lot of recruits, I think more than any other station.

Um so I also thought of like which one of our officers do I want our brand new recruit officers to look up to as an example.

And myself and the other lieutenants and the captain, we thought of Officer Mark Rojas.

And uh just a couple examples.

Um there's others that I could cite.

Uh Officer Rojas and his partner recently uh were called to uh call for service just down the street, actually, on uh Hyde and McAllister for a person with a gun, and they uh uh responded quickly and expertly and were able to in the middle of the day amongst a lot of people, the public, everything, were able to locate the suspect, uh safely coordinate with other officers, take him into custody, find a gun, and then they continued even after that and conducted a great um investigation without a lot of help from some of the the people that called 911 and uh they made a great arrest.

And then just one other one.

Again, they were responding to a call for service for a of a guy with a person with a gun uh who was inside a store this time, and same thing.

Uh they using teamwork and the you know they've developed and officer Rojas developed with our other officers at Tenderloin.

They took that person into custody.

It turned out in this particular case he didn't have a gun, but he was a registered sex offender out of compliance, and they arrested him for that.

And for those reasons and uh among many other things, we uh we decided to name Officer Mark Rojas as our officer of the week.

Officer Roas, you got the mic there.

Yeah, um I think I owe a lot of things to uh everyone behind the scenes.

Uh you know, this is police work is just impossible if if uh with with a single officer alone, of course there's uh it all begins at the academy with with the training and tenderloin station.

I truly think it's the the greatest place on earth to work.

Uh many people may not see it that way, but with uh the the team there, I I I really think anything is possible.

Um so I'd like to extend uh a big thank you to uh everyone here from uh Tenderloin Station and from the department um wide who showed up here and uh gave their support to me as well.

Well, congratulations and it's great to see your crew with you because you know I've been into Tenderloin, I've got to do the tour, be around, meet people.

And that's one of the most well it is the most busiest station here.

I mean uh the activity that goes on day in, day out.

You guys are always on your toes for something that's happening, and to be the person chosen for this award amongst all your colleagues who also do those special events is very special.

So congratulations and keep the work up.

Thank you for being here.

All right, all right.

Thank you very much, sir.

Commissioner Techie.

Thank you, President Clay.

I I don't know what to say because I'm really uh very, very happy to be here.

And um I I was looking forward to somebody from Tenderloin all these months, and I'm finally happy to see somebody from Tenrun.

Officer Macaroas, thank you very much for all your work.

I know you're just beginning in the in the Tenderland station, and you're absolutely right.

Tenderloin is a very beautiful neighborhood.

Not many people know about it, and we have some amazing officers, and I know some of you who are there.

Thank you, and hello for all your work too.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Leong.

Thank you, President Clay.

Officer Rojas, congratulations, and thank you for all your work in the tenderloin, which is one of the more challenging environments in the city.

But thanks to the efforts of you and your colleagues, I hope we can uh improve it for everybody.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Yi.

Uh thank you very much, President uh Clay.

Again, uh congratulations being the uh uh officer of the week uh recognition.

Uh continue to keep me thank you again for keeping us safe.

Uh I know it's uh at times challenging and um and then also keeping us uh the community safe as well.

Thank your team here for you know your partnership and uh coming through and thank you for all your hard work.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I want to congratulate you.

Um I've actually had the opportunity to do a couple right-alongs in Tenderwell, so I understand and was able to see some of the challenges that you have in that very short, small square footage that you all cover.

Um I was actually stuck in traffic, which is why I was late, but I saw your crew zoom by in the bus lane uh in an accelerated fashion uh to get here to support you, which I commend on the one hand, but it would also remind you of the DGOs pertaining to police officers uh in vehicles driving.

So, with that, congratulations to you and your team.

Thank you.

Mark just wanted to say congratulations for the recognition.

I want to thank Lieutenant Scow for taking the time to recognize Mark.

Um, and then thank you, Tener Station, for supporting your colleague.

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

And there is no public comment.

Line item two, general public comment.

At this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission.

Under police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither police or DPA personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions to the public, but may provide a brief response.

Alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways.

Email the Secretary of the Police Commission at SFPD.commission at sfgov.org.

Or written comments may be sent via U.S.

Postal Service to the public safety building located at 1245 Third Street, San Francisco, California at 94158.

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

I'd like to use the overhead.

Here's a picture of Lisa Artis.

And she is the liaison for us mothers who've lost our children to homicide.

I'm finding out that she is no longer going to be with us.

And now we don't have nobody.

I depended on her, and I de sent mothers to this woman.

And I don't understand who are we going to count on now.

Who's going to help us?

She's a mother as well.

It's hard for us to trust people as it is.

And I begin, we talk about bridging the gap between law enforcement and can the community.

And when you take it from us, people that we depend on.

I have begun to trust in most of you up here.

And now who's going to help me with the visual this year?

Who's going to help me set it up?

I'm dependent on this woman to help.

Give her her job back so that she can help us.

Why is she gone?

I don't understand that.

Every time we give somebody that helps us helps us, they're gone.

And then I'm having to start all over again.

Who am I gonna talk to now?

Who's gonna be our liaison now in the homicide?

I would prefer a woman than a man.

I'm not having any against thing thing against a man.

But I would prefer a woman that has children that I can relate to.

Maybe she didn't lose a child.

But she has been a big help to us mothers.

Could someone tell me who do I count on now?

Who's gonna help me now?

Chief Lee, could you tell me who's gonna help us now?

That is the end of public comment.

Line item three, consent calendar.

Receive and file action.

The Crisis Intervention Team 2025 annual report and the quarterly activity and data report, the QAR fourth quarter 2025 per chapter 96A.

Is there a motion?

Move to receive and file the CIT 2025 annual report as well as the QAR fourth quarter 2025 report.

Second.

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 Techie, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Techie is yes.

Commissioner Le Young?

Yes.

Commissioner Leoung is yes.

Commissioner Yi?

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes.

Commissioner Lyas?

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

And President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

Commissioner No, no.

And you have five yeses.

So for the public, we're going to have an actual presentation from the crisis intervention team later on in the year.

Not later on in the year, but in the next couple of months, is that correct, Sergeant?

Yes.

It is scheduled currently for May 13th.

Okay.

All right.

Next next month.

Yes.

Thank you.

All right.

Line item four, adoption of minutes, actions for the meeting of February 18th, 2026.

Move to adopt the minutes from February 18th, 2026.

Second.

I can't go right now.

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

There is no public comment.

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

Yes.

Commissioner Techie is yes.

Commissioner Leong?

Yes.

Commissioner Liang is yes.

Commissioner Yi?

Commissioner Yi is yes.

Commissioner Lyas?

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

And President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have five yeses.

Line item five, Chiefs report.

Chief Luke.

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

I'll start with the weekly crime trends.

Overall part one crimes are down 27% year to date compared to 2025.

Total violent crimes are down 16 percent for the year.

Specifically addressing homicides as of 4 or 526, there are 14 homicides year to date in 2026 compared to four in 2025.

Looking at gun violence, which is defined as the number of people injured in a shooting incident added to the number of persons killed by a firearm, we are up 6% compared to 2025.

Incidents of reported rapes, which include attempted and forcible rapes are down 12 percent.

Assaults for the year are down 8% with a decrease of 27% in assaults by firearms.

Robberies are down 29%, with robberies using a firearm declining by 15%.

Human trafficking incidents are down 13%.

Total property crime is down 29%.

Burglaries are down 32 percent.

Motor vehicle theft down 34 percent.

Larceny theft, which includes vehicle burglaries are down 28 percent overall.

Moving significant incidents.

There were zero homicides reported uh this week.

There are 14 homicides year to date, as I mentioned earlier, with nine resulting from a firearm.

There were two non-fatal shootings reported this week.

I'll go into uh some summaries regarding those incidents.

In the Southern District on April 4th at approximately 8:30 p.m., officers responded to 6th and Mina, where they located a victim of an apparent gun uh with an apparent gunshot wound.

Um they rendered aid and the victim was transported uh to the hospital with non-life threatening injury.

No arrest has been has been made.

It's uh currently an open investigation.

In the Terrible District, specifically in the Park Merced on April 4th, 2026 at approximately 11.54 a.m.

Officers responded to Cambon and Cardinas.

Officers arrived and located a victim suffering from a gunshot wound.

Officers rendered aid and medics transported the victim to the hospital for non-life-threatening injury.

This is an ongoing investigation.

No arrest has been made.

Moving to notable operational efforts and arrests.

A couple of arrests to mention.

One in particular that really highlighted a lot of teamwork and coordination in conjunction with the Arctic.

Officers arrested four suspects in a robbery as well as an autoburglary series.

So on April 1st, citywide plainclosed team was conducting a robbery, auto-burglary abatement operation.

Those officers learned that a robbery had occurred in the Terrible District near the 2200 block of Irving.

Officers on scene were advised that the victim was waiting at the bus stop when two suspects approached her.

One of the suspects then grabbed the victim's purse and fled towards a waiting vehicle that fled towards Judah Street.

The victim suffered non-life-threatening injury.

With the assistance of Arctic, the real-time investigation center, officers attempted to locate the vehicle and learned it was also involved in an additional two auto-burglary incidents near the Legion of Honor in our northern district.

I'm sorry, the Richmond district.

Eventually, the vehicle is located near the Palace of Fine Arts by our drone operators, and the occupants of the suspect vehicle were observed casing multiple vehicles and committing two additional autoburglaries.

Officers developed an apprehension plan to safely take the suspects into custody near the area of Van S in Lombard.

They were then taken into custody, and the robbery victim, along with three autoburglary victims, were reunited with uh reunited with the recovered stolen property.

On April 7th, at approximately 7.14 a.m.

Officers observed a male committing a traffic violation at Hyde and Eddy.

The officers stopped and detained the subject.

During this contact, officers discovered the subject had eight outstanding warrants for his arrest.

They also discovered that the subject was in possession of a destructive or explosive device.

Members of our EOD explosive ordinance disposal team were summoned and arrived on scene and they rendered the device safe.

That suspect was booked for the multitude of warrants as well as the uh possession of uh destructive device.

And then lastly, just ending well, let uh ending with a few events.

Um the Cherry Blossom Festival starts this Saturday.

Um it goes on for two weekends.

Um we will be walking the parade route next Sunday, April 19th, so just wanted to invite the commission.

And then lastly, I just wanted to thank all of you for attending the graduation last week.

It was uh really great night for us.

Forty-one uh officers joining our department uh at a much needed time, and it was uh great to have you there.

So much much appreciated.

And that concludes my report.

Commissioner Scott Thank you for that report, Chief Lou.

And um so excited about the graduation class.

Very, very um very good because we definitely need officers.

Um and I just wanted to add comment on behalf of um of mothers who've lost children to gun violence.

Um I can concur with uh Miss Ms.

Um Paulette regarding um the let go of Miss Lisa Ortiz, who have been diligently working with us over the years.

Um a lot of mothers, I got a lot of phone calls from a lot of folks asking what happened and what's going on.

I said, I don't know, I will find out, but a lot of uh folks are concerned about that, particularly with the homicide rate and the shootings that have gone up.

She has just been tremendous in um her support and outreach to mothers and to victims and part of the um you know community engagement piece that she plays a role in as well.

Um that helped to pull crime down and keep violence down.

Um she's been very instrumental and um making sure that um victims and survivors uh maintain a healthy and much needed relationship with SFPD and their cases and all of that.

And so um I just wanted to bring that to your attention.

Um it's a lot of folks are really troubled by it.

Her letting go.

I know it was part of the budget cuts of them, you know, that just happened.

And um, but I'm just wanted to speak on her behalf and um and how important her position and her role is.

It's it goes bigger and bigger than you can ever imagine what she has done to pull um victims and survivors together and to have them continue to work with SFPD and and understanding and building those relationships that are key to finding and um and solving some of the cases.

So I just wanted to bring that to your attention and everyone else's attention that um uh we hope that there will be something that could take place that help bring our position back because it is definitely needed for um and fathers and young people as well, because it's not just for us mothers, it's for anybody that lost anyone to uh stabbing or shooting or anything, suicide.

She covers a wide variety of territory, and uh I've worked with her over the years.

Um, and like I said, we have definitely made uh impact and building that relationship that's needed, that trust relationship that's needed so badly that people don't have.

She's been very instrumental in that.

Um so I'm just you know, I told um everyone I would definitely bring that up because everybody's concerned.

So and I'm just uh, you know, with the homicide rate the way it is right now, and you know, getting people to come forward is very key, very important to do that.

And so, you know, people are uh are we we have folks now thanks to her and um and her work and with the DA's office and others, not just SFPD, but the DA's office as well, and um other city organizations that we partner with that um have helped to help us keep our homicide rate out, and hopefully we will get it back down again.

Um but I know she plays a major role in that, so I just wanted to say that.

Um and we're looking forward to the um March that was planned by um Miss Lisa uh that's on the 20th for survivors and and uh survivors and victims of of uh violence and homicide.

Um we're looking forward to that event with you and and the mayor and others on um Monday the 20th because this is uh victims of violent crime month for those of you who don't know that.

So it's a key month for us as well.

So but thank you for your report, Chief Lou, and looking forward to continuing the great work with you.

Thanks, Commissioner.

I just want to address like as you said, the entire city was impacted by the budget constraints, and you know, we were um impacted as well.

But um to your point, it that work is extremely important to us, so we're gonna make sure that it continues.

Thank you.

Commissioner Yay.

Uh thank you very much, um President Clay.

Uh first off, I want to thank uh the officers responding to uh the shootings and uh ministering to first aid and also the fire department um medics that came medical response team on the fire department.

Um rendering uh aids to the two uh shooting victims.

Uh could I know it could have been two more on the additional of the homicide, but uh the good thing is they're they're now safe and uh hopefully we can uh find justice with them.

Uh also want to know how many drones do we have total now?

Do you have an idea about uh you know what I can I can okay talk to you all fine about that?

Yeah.

And then um I guess more drones seems like it's better.

It's it's working.

Um I saw the uh the video of the um I guess the person that uh I guess uh robbery on the or the purse snatch on 20th and terror rail and then the car break in and seeing the drone following and the pursuit.

Um that's like a de-escalation tactic where you just come up on them and they're not really sh, you know, you don't have to chase them through the city on hot pursuits.

So I like to see that um you know being used more in it apprehending the subject on in a plan uh that you guys have.

So uh kudos to uh the Arctic again.

And um hope to see the home site rate continue to uh stay zero for the next week.

Thank you very much, Chief.

Thank you very much.

Chief, as it relates to uh your report, uh in the 14 now of the homicides that we have.

Uh what's the solve rate on those 14?

13 have been solved.

Thank you, Chief.

Welcome.

13 solved.

Solved.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item five, the Chief's report, please approach the podium.

I know you said that homicides have been solved, but I mean the 14, but it is there any convictions from it yet?

We don't know that.

I brought this up because this is the thing that you guys at Lisa Ortiz is gonna orchestrate it as well as with you, Chief Lee.

Is she gonna be there?

I don't know.

I would love to have her there.

Please give her her job back.

I just had a birthday for my son on August I mean April 6.

So it's really hard for me.

She's the one that I call and tell her, look, I'm going through it today.

And now, who give her her job back so that she can help us.

Look at look at the mothers.

Look at Miss Maddie.

We both lost a child and we're both talking for her.

I bring this of my son.

Aubrey Abercassa.

He just had a birthday.

Not only that, all the unsolved homicides.

All the unsolved homicides.

We're trying to drink get this out there more so that people can talk.

You said that you arrested these that the those things were solved, but are they convictions?

I don't know, solve a conviction.

Look at the all the unsolved homicides.

Look what the perpetrators leave us to do.

These are things that Lisa Ortiz helps us with.

Look what the perpetrators left me with.

You have children.

You don't want to be in my shoes.

When we have someone that's helping us, let them continue to help us.

How many DAs and how many mayors and how many police chiefs are we gonna go through?

How many?

This hurts.

I'm set back now.

Because I was so in harmed to hear this that Lisa Artiz is gone.

Bring her back.

Please.

Bring her back.

We need her.

Thank you, Ms.

Brown.

Please bring her back.

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

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

Director Henderson.

Good evening.

DPA is continuing to do our outreach with the city, informing uh the public about our work.

Uh these are some of the community meetings that we've been to since our last meeting here.

We met with the uh mission station uh community meeting where we made presentation about DPA and another presentation as well was made at the Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association public safety meeting.

Um we're continuing uh with our audit, our secondary confirmation uh with the 31 recommendations that were made to SFPD, that's with the controller's office.

Uh the commission will receive a copy of that secondary confirmation and their evaluation of it when we get it.

Uh we have the dates now that uh we anticipate that that work should be finished by them and presented to us and to you as well uh by July of this year.

Uh in terms of uh the stats, we have uh opened up 19 new cases, uh, and we have closed 21 cases.

Uh so far this year we've opened 293 cases.

Our current caseload is 210 cases that are currently under investigation at DPA.

Uh so far this year, we have sustained seven cases and we've mediated four cases.

Uh for the cases that are whose investigations have taken over 270 days.

For the cases that are whose investigations has taken over 270 days, there are currently eight of those cases.

Seven of those cases are told.

The remaining case is being closed out this week.

Again, this is still a historically low number that we've had over at least the past seven or eight years for DPA.

I'm sure it's longer than that, but it's a historic low still, though, for our in terms of our cases efficiency.

In terms of our cases that are pending a final adjudication, there's 49 cases sustained by DPA that are still pending with SAPD.

Again, this is a historical low for those numbers.

That number was in the triple digits back when I first came here.

And so and that number continues to go down, and there are three cases that are pending with the police commission.

The full uh stats in case uh people want to see the comparison.

Comparison more, it was filed, so people can look on the website if they want uh the bigger picture of all of these stats that I am giving right now, or to compare them to what was going on at this time last year.

We have uh I will reserve the remaining comments.

We have something on Agenda 9 where we'll be presenting uh and present in tonight's commission.

Uh there's uh senior investigator uh here, uh Helen uh and one of our lawyers from the senior trial attorney, Stephanie Wargo-Wilson and Jamal Anderson, our policy director is here to be making a presentation as well later on in the evening.

Uh I mentioned this last week that we have an open investigation for the incident uh at uh the airport.

Uh we received numerous complaints uh and as part of our investigations, we're continuing to seek witnesses, actual witnesses to the incident, uh, or anyone with information uh beyond what's already appeared in news reports or social media.

Uh if folks want to get in contact with our agency directly, they can contact us at 415-241-7711.

Our email is SFDPA at SFgov forward slash org.

Uh folks can also come to our office in person.

We are open during business hours at 1 South NS on the eighth floor.

That concludes my report for the week.

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

There is no public comment.

Line item seven, commission reports, discussion and possible action, Commission President's report, commissioners' reports, and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meeting.

I just want to piggyback on the Chief's report as it relates to the graduation ceremony last week.

There were 41 graduates out of our class, plus one from Berkeley, UC Berkeley.

And the graduation itself was like a rock concert.

I mean, you this the whole was packed.

I don't know how many thousands uh it holds, but every seat was full.

There were people in the aisles, there was babies crying, babies laughing, people screaming at each of the candidates as as words came out of the mouth of the speakers.

It was absolutely electrifying.

I saw command staff, they were next to me and they were like, oh my God, we can't believe this is happening.

But the joy that people had of seeing that graduation, hearing about the recruits, it was amazing to see what was happening.

When I came on this commission in 2024 June, I saw my first graduation was probably, I think in August or maybe end of July, and there were only about 12 graduates, and there was a very few people in that room in that in the hall.

What's the hall called, Chief again?

Let's see.

Scottish Rights.

Scottish Rights.

And so then you forward here almost a year and a half later, and you've got a packed crowd, every seat full, people outside in the aisles, and everybody's cheering and happy and feeling good about what is happening.

So it was very it was just heartwarming to see that to see where we were we were when I first came.

To see where we were now.

Uh and the the graduating class was the Rainbow Coalition.

I mean, we had there were nine women in that class.

There were people from all different backgrounds and walks of life from employment that they had before they went into the Academy.

Um their ages, there was a differential in the actual ages from there was a couple of older candidates, I mean older, you know, I'm dating myself.

Uh but at any of them.

And I think there were seven, maybe candidates whose parents or somebody in their family actually were had been police officers who were there depend on their star.

And interestingly enough, I think maybe one was from our San Francisco police department, but all the other officers with their child, and there was a young man, young woman, they had them.

San Francisco is the place to be.

Uh PD officer who had been in my courtroom and remember his trauma there when he was there, saying, talked to me and said there was no other place I'd said my son to come but here in San Francisco.

So that was heartening to see that.

And I follow up just to say that the mood of how people feel about what were what's being done out there, the way the police officers are conducting themselves.

And I say this because this was this the actual graduation.

There was some of a film that was on a it was part of a uh channel, I don't know, channel four, five, MBC, and they did a thing on it, and they did a story on it, and they showed people coming across the stage.

And I ran into last Saturday, and a person introduced his daughter, who's a big contributor, a lot of causes in this city and in the country.

And she'd been in the business for a couple of years in that unit.

She wanted to be there, and she said she saw the presentation and was so thrilled to see that what was happening because in her daily work, they get a lot of times because it's trauma.

They get they've had for the first years she were there, the decorum from the police officers when she first came to now to the younger officers that she's now seeing, the newer, it was totally different.

And she said, in the sense that you could see there was a transitioning of how officers were dealing with people who are experiencing events and trauma and mental health issues, and how they would talk themselves down.

And she described how she meant it was uh I think it was last week, uh, one of the young officers, somebody who, a homeless person who was who had gotten hurt, was there, didn't want to be there, and was kind of going off.

And the officer is trying to talk to him, and he was getting kind of, but he she said he stopped and he took a breath.

She watched him.

I mean, she they watched that conduct.

They go in, and he took a breath and he slowed down, and then he talked to the person.

And it's like the you know, crisis intervention team.

He and the person calmed down.

And she said, every the nurses there, everybody there was, they had said, you know, this is so different.

And he says, this is this is what we can get behind in the sense that they're seeing how people are treating each other.

And he said, you know, they've seen times where their officers there and they're being what they do, and they're just saying, you know, get in, do this, but they've seen such a change, and it makes them feel better and their jobs and how they can will correspond and how they were interact.

And it comes back to the issue of how we got 13 homicides that have been solved out of 14.

That's community participation, people coming forward giving information, which they didn't do.

They didn't feel comfortable because they didn't feel what was being done to them by the officers that they were disrespected, but now they feel that.

And that's great.

So there was a really great to hear that, and knowing when we look at the we go to the trauma intervention team last year and seeing that, it's amazing.

But so congratulations to the department and what they're doing with the recruiting folks, congratulations to what they're teaching the folks as they continue to be officers.

So I think it bodes well for the department.

And I think your recruitment is going to go nothing but sky high again, Chief.

I mean, we had 800 in February or so applications.

I mean, that's that's incredible.

People, they can only give you an 800 and five years.

I mean, people that's so this is great.

It's great to hear.

I said I wanted to let you know that.

And that being said, um, I wanted to also say to our our two a lot of people have inquired to a lot of the commissioners, there's been a lot of writing and things of that sort.

You know, under the charter, um, the chief of police and the uh director of the department of police accountability, um it's our charge, the this commission uh is responsible for supervision and review.

The commission last week, all of us here, there were all the six of us reviewed and talked about the history and the fact that it's very important uh that we do our job and review and supervise our chief of police and our director of the department of police accountability that we have to do what we're charged to do.

We have been informed there has not been a there has not been a review by this commission of the employment of our police, chief of police, or our Department of Police Accountability, except on a couple occasions where there is going to be a firing, something, some internal meeting like we do, close session, but there's not been an annual review.

It's uh there's been no personal annual review.

I have been on at four commissions, I've been on boards, committees, uh, nonprofits.

I have never been on a on any of those agencies that we have not had an annual view of executive director or the person who runs it.

I don't even understand it.

I quite frankly thought this happened yearly, and normally the chair would do that, and historically, apparently that has never happened.

It hasn't happened.

But the time is right.

I think circumstances would you what we have to do, we've got to do that.

We gotta do our job.

And the Commission is going to go in, and we talked about this, and we're gonna set up a process uh to of review of both our police chief and our department uh uh our chief or director of police accountability.

Um but we have to do first, we're gonna have to establish some criteria of review, and we're gonna reach out to the uh DHR and the community, like we did the chief, the chief and get some input, ask what they want to see, what what are the metrics they like to do and get give them some input, and any other agencies that we can find, and we'll we'll find it, we'll be able to do that to help us fashion some comprehensive review for the personnel reviews of our chief and our uh director of the Department of Police Accountability.

We're gonna put together the tools to conduct this comprehensive personnel annual review, and we're gonna do it as soon as we can, but we're gonna take this process, we're not gonna rush to anything, but we're gonna set up that process, and we're gonna keep we will keep you informed as we move forward, and once we get to the point where we're gonna get to that, and we'll share it with you.

But what we need to do, we're gonna do our jobs, what the public demands of us, and we are going to do uh annual reviews of our our our our department heads, our our chief, as well as the um the director of police accountability uh once we set it up.

But that's what we decided, and that's what we uh we will look forward to.

But knowing I wanted to let you, the public know that we are going to do it.

We hear you.

It's not something that's acceptable, and we're gonna do what's right, and that's what we will do.

All right.

Commissioner Yi.

Uh thank you.

Thank you very much, sir, President Clay.

Um totally agree with you.

Uh long overdue, and so uh I'm looking forward to that.

I just want to go back to the graduating class of 287.

Um as I was sitting next to uh tech commissioner thank you.

We're where is this the first four, or is it the first three awards?

All women.

Wow, that's great.

I mean, they're they're really stepping up.

And uh it's great to see you.

I think it was the fourth one, too.

So good to see uh them doing well in in the um in their you know, the classes, and so great we welcome all the recruiters, I mean uh the 41 graduating from the recruit class out here, and we're looking forward to working with them too as well, and congratulations him.

Commissioner Scott.

Yes, I was just excited to hear that number, to hear that number, um, and to hear you report uh President Clay the excitement that was in that room.

Um I was not able to attend due to a medical appointment.

However, I heard all the good feedback from um the graduation, and I want to say congratulations to you, Chief Liu, to the Commission, the police commission, and especially to you, our partners out there who are recruiting that does that wants to see our streets safer, United Players, Brothers Against Guns, okay, um Brady, all of those wonderful organizations, we've all been out there and recruiting young people to get involved with SFPD.

Everybody wants to see our streets safer, our community safer.

Um we've had the last year, we had the lowest rate of just about everything the last couple of years here in the city.

Um, and so we want to continue to see that.

Um Rudy Corpus who does the gun buyback.

Um do a lot of recruitment during that time with SFPD, the the uh school district, all of them, everybody in the community at large.

Um, thank you too.

Because of your um leadership and your tenacity and your care about this city of San Francisco to make our city safer and our streets safer.

Um thank you for cooperating and working diligently and encouraging young people to join SFPD.

What an impressive number to hear um about three women get those award and more women joining the force.

We need that.

We need that.

So let's continue to do the the work.

Um everybody because it's about all of us and none of us, and at the end of the day, we want to go everybody, we want everybody to go home safe.

So thank you.

Thank you for the graduation and congratulations to the graduation class with 41.

41.

My goodness, that's impressive.

Let's give 51 next time.

All right, thank you.

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

Yes, I also wanted to uh to think about all the women that are being um that graduated that day, although I wasn't there, but I usually come to the I went to the Valor every year when I can come, I do come.

But I wish I was there this time to see that more women are joining the force.

And um as well as you know, I would love to have seen that, and thank you too, Chief Lee.

But um still sad.

We need more women.

I know men are there, but I don't think they feel I know most of those women that graduated are mothers as well, and maybe mothers are begonna be map mothers, and and I'm glad to hear that with um Clay said that um they're talking to us and not uh listening to us, you know, because trauma is real.

Mental health is real, and we can't just throw it behind us so we can teach these officers to meet us where we are when we lose our children.

It would help a whole lot.

From all of you, we need that.

So I was hoping that when you do your training, do some sensitivity training on for people of color, the the community, and you know, um so I'm glad again to hear that there were more women graduations graduating that day.

Um again, I say bring Lisa Artiz back, please.

Thank you.

That is the end of public comment.

Line item eight presentation on the fourth quarter 2025 serious incident review board discussion.

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

As you guys know, uh my name is Lieutenant Lisa Springer, and I am the officer in charge of the Internal Affairs Division.

And my first presentation tonight is um the fourth quarter 2025 serious incident review board, and we just have one OIS to cover, which is OIS 23-003.

This incident occurred on July 26th in 2023 at approximately 2 30 p.m.

Three plainclothes officers were conducting a fugitive recovery enforcement team operation in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.

The officers observed a group of five pedestrians on a walkway at the end of Kashmir and Hudson.

The officers recognized the subject who had an active felony warrant uh for their arrest, and they placed the subject under arrest.

The officers escorted the person in custody to the corner of Fairfax and Catalina.

And the remaining four people from the group and an unknown bystander also followed the officers to the corner.

The officers requested a unit to respond to do a prisoner transport.

And less than two minutes later, the officers asked for an expedited response on the prisoner transport and an additional unit to assist them as the subject in custody had become increasingly agitated, yelled profanities and refused refused to go into the unmarked uh department vehicle.

Uniformed patrol officers assigned to Bayview started their response to Fairfee Fairfax and Catalina.

While the officers were waiting for a backup, a subject unrelated to the warrant arrest confronted the officers and began yelling profanities at them.

An officer advised the subject that the individual in handcuffs had an active warrant, but the subjects continued to scream multiple profanities and demanded multiple times for the officers to let the person in custody go.

The officers then notified dispatch that the group had formed, a group had formed at their location, and five Bayview officers or units went to go help.

The subject was adamant that the person in custody was not going with the police.

Two uniformed officers from Bayview Station were the first to arrive at the intersection in a marked patrol vehicle.

At this point, the subject was in the middle of the intersection.

The officers confirmed over the radio that the subject in front of the patrol vehicle was the person with the handgun.

Both of the uniformed officers got out of their patrol vehicle.

Officer number one deployed their department-issued patrol rifle, and officer number two number two drew their department-issued handgun.

The officers ordered the subject to put their hands up while giving numerous uh warnings that failing to comply with these commands could lead to lethal force.

For a period of one minute and seven seconds, officer number one ordered the subject about 20 times to put their hands up and/or get down, and officer number two at the same time ordered the subject about 27 times to put their hands up or get on the ground.

The subject, still with the right hand on the waistband, walked from the middle of the intersection towards the southwest corner.

The subject continued to shout at the officers while keeping their hand gripped on the handgun.

The subject raised their left hand to display the middle finger towards the officer.

Seconds later, the subject looked towards the patrol officers with their right hand removed the handgun from their waistband and held it at their side.

The subject then immediately raised their right arm into an extended position and pointed the handgun uh at the officers.

An officer involved shooting occurred with uh officer number one discharging the department issued patrol rifle and officer number two uh discharged their department-issued handgun.

The officer-involved shooting took place one minute and thirty-nine seconds after the officers first arrived and saw the subject's handgun, uh a subject's handgun in the waistband.

And about one minute and four seconds uh after officers one and two arrived on scene.

Officers advanced towards the subject to render aid and secured the handgun.

And within 49 seconds of the um OIS officers approached, assessed them for injuries, and initiated CPR until relieved by the paramedics.

Uh the subject was transported to a hospital where they were later pronounced deceased.

These were the policies that were looked at in regards to this officer-involved shooting.

As you can see, majority of them obviously have to do with the use of force and treatment, de-escalation, all that.

And officer number one was found to be in policy and proper conduct as well as officer number two.

Are there any questions?

Okay.

Thank you.

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

There's no public comment.

Line item nine, presentation on the fourth quarter 2025 disciplinary review board discussion.

PowerPoints back up.

I must have X'd out of it.

I got rid of it.

In the folder called PC.

Oh.

Okay, on to the next presentation, the disciplinary review board and standing in for Sharon Moo, we have Jamal Anderson.

I'm sorry, I don't know your title.

It's okay.

Uh good evening, Jamal Anderson, Director of Policy at DPA, playing the role of Sharon Wu tonight, who is out this week.

The aggregate trends identified by IAD for the fourth quarter.

The number one allegation was conduct unbecoming at about 37%, followed by neglective duty about 22% and unnecessary force 17% or almost 18%.

And in quarter four of 2025, uh DPA opened 47 cases involving 92 allegations and 81 employees, uh similar to SFPD's internal affairs division.

Uh our two most common allegation categories were general neglect of duty and conduct uncoming.

Uh our third more common category was neglective duty related specifically to body worn camera activation.

And I did take a look to see if there was any like one specific thing that would stand out, and there was not anything.

It was a large variety of cases.

There were three um IAD cases that resulted in a policy failure and four IAD cases that resulted in a training failure, which we'll talk about later on.

And in quarter four DPA issued one policy failure finding and one training failure finding.

Per policy, when a member makes a query into this database, the member must put a reason for the search in the box labeled reference.

This is a require required field by accurate and per department policy states that members must use a CAD number, case number, or other department approved reason.

At the time, Department Bulletin 18-162 had expired on 9520, and the first query made by the member was the following month.

The second policy failure case involved a member involved collision that occurred on December 29th, 2023.

And this was the regarding the member's failure to wear their receipt belt.

The member had to be prepared to exit the vehicle quickly.

And also, due to the way the vehicles constructed, the amount of equipment that the member was wearing, um it just wasn't, they weren't able to use their seatbelt.

At the time, the policy did not allow for an officer to keep their seatbelt off for any reason, even as they're like approaching a scene.

No recommendation was made because the gap in the seatbelt policy was revolved in the updated uh DGO 9.04, which went into effect in 2024.

Um and it now states in preparation for taking police action, such as arriving for a call for service, making a vehicle traffic stop, or actively searching for an individual, officers may remove their seatbelt for a quick exit prior to stopping the vehicle.

The third policy failure case involved personal leave.

Um the department received notification of a possible violation of personal leave by a member.

And in the process of gathering in the process of gathering information for a report on all employees who had uh applied for personal leave.

HR discovered that the member was listed among those who had recently applied for personal leave.

Upon reviewing the information, HR noted that the members leave had expired in March of 2024.

Although the leave had expired, the member remained in contact with their home station, who kept putting them like sick leave without pay.

Um in fact, since their leave wasn't approved, they should have been put um AWOL if they didn't show up to work the first day.

I'll talk about the recommendations uh in a little bit.

Um the first training failure case was regarding a member involved domestic disturbance that occurred um in July of 2023.

Uh the training failure involved one of the responding officers that was uh it was a recruit officer or a trainee that was on the sergeant right along.

He was in the second phase of field training.

Um, and the investigation revealed that it would be unreasonable for the trainee officer to complete the investigation without any guidance.

Uh so there were sustained allegations on the sergeant, um, but for the recruit, it was deemed training failure because of they were in training.

Um there are no recommendations as the purpose of the field training program is to teach and need lead new officers to be able to assume full responsibilities of a you know solo patrol officer.

Um the three other training failures, they're all the same.

Uh then they regard they were regarding failure to appear at the range.

Um they were all laterals.

I think we talked about this a little bit last time.

Uh so they had recently qualified when they were in the academy, um, but when their month came up, like the next month, they thought that the qualification that they completed while they were in the academy counted.

So when in fact it did not.

Go to yours.

Thank you.

Um so this training failure involved, as the slide indicates, uh restraining order violation at a place of worship.

The complainant reported making eye contact with the restrained party from a few pews away, which caused the complainant to leave out of fear.

The officers on scene did not treat this as a restraining order violation and did not complete an incident report.

Uh they did, however, issue uh a CAD number.

The investigation showed that the officers lacked sufficient understanding at that point of how restraining orders apply, uh, especially in shared residences, common areas, uh, and public spaces, as was present here.

Uh they were also unaware of department manuals that provided guidance on these particular situations.

With regard to uh the next slide, the policy failure finding.

Um, this policy failure involved an assault on a muni bus.

Uh after the assault, the complainant called 911, uh, reported what happened, and even provided a photo of the suspect.

In this instance, the reporting officer requested bus surveillance footage and then transferred the case to an investigative unit.

Um, however, the case was never assigned for investigation.

There were four recommendations that came out of this uh disciplinary review board, uh, and the first was regarding personal leave.

Um the recommendation was that the department needs to set clearer procedures for tracking, notifying, and communicating with members on leave as well as their chain of command.

The second recommendation, uh, the department needs to ensure that it is made clear to lateral officers joining the department that they must qualify at their range during their assigned month based on their star number, even if that means they're qualifying twice in a six-month period.

Uh recommendation three.

Recommendation number three with regard to uh the Muni incident that I referred to a moment ago is to provide additional training on restraining order violations, including concrete examples and guidance for responding to these common calls.

And with regard to recommendation number four, uh update policies related to assigning cases for investigation and ensure victims are notified about the status of their cases.

But did not include guidance for informing victims when a case is not assigned.

However, there is a new department notice 26-019, which was published on February 11th, 2026, which addresses investigation case assignments.

It does not yet appear on the publicly posted list of 2026 department notices, but that is a change that has been made.

And regarding victim notification about case assignments, um we have a meeting later this month with uh DC Martin and the investigations bureau to talk about possible ways that that can happen.

The Office of Equity and Inclusion reviewed uh all the cases, and there were um no findings in indicated any negative trends towards bias disparities or inequities in the discipl discipline imposed on officers.

Uh first quarter um DRB has yet to be scheduled, and um OEI will take a look at those findings as well.

Any questions?

Thank you.

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

Please approach the podium.

I had a sorry, I had a quick question.

Apologies.

That's Commissioner Elias for the record.

I was um on page three.

So I guess my my question is the aggregate trends identified by IAD and DPA have been pretty consistent since I've been on this commission in terms of the c conduct unbecoming and negligent uh duty or neglected duty.

Uh and I guess I'm just wondering that why these are these two offenses are still at the top of the list and seem to you know compile a significant portion of complaints against police officers when we're now currently in an a time where uh crime is down, San Francisco is on the rise, public safety is the number one priority.

Um so why are we still getting these type of complaints for these two categories consistently?

It doesn't seem to be like they're also declining or stopping.

I I I think we have a only a few categories to actually choose from.

So those are there's a lot of vague uh allegations that go into those categories.

Um I think DPA is the same one.

So it's the it is just so broad of what the it can include, you know, conduct unbecoming could be anywhere, anything from using profanity to even more serious allegations of like being arrested.

So I think because it's so broad, uh, so that's why like neglective duty like the body cam went down, and we got auto tagging, so I I don't know if you have a different answer or I'm happy to take a look and do a a bit of digging into the data uh as I come to the end of my first month here.

Uh but I think it's a perfect.

What's happening?

I think it's a good idea.

I think it's a good question.

I think in in looking at some of the data that I've seen just this month as we sort of prepare these reports, um, as was noted a moment ago, there is a broad cross-section of particular types of conduct.

Uh and so it could be the case that there is similar conduct that has to go into these particular buckets, but there's no actual through line.

Um, or it could be the case that there is a very particular type of conduct that keeps reoccurring.

Uh I think those are good questions to ask, and I'm happy to look into it and report back.

So two things.

One is I think that that your um goal of looking into it is great, but I know that um DPA director um broke down the categories of what this large bucket entails.

But even putting aside you know, your response of, well, it's a broad bucket, there are different violations that um go into this bucket.

Theoretically, if crime is down and um certain things are in place, wouldn't the number of complaints in this category, whether it be whatever, you know, it's in this bucket, even if it's body worn camera, cursing, or whatever the violation wouldn't that also be decreasing as well?

Wouldn't that also be decreasing as well?

Wouldn't there be a correlation uh to the decrease in complaints against officers?

So this is just like the percentage of all of the complaints, so it doesn't necessarily mean that like com complaints are higher.

It's just of the complaints that we do receive, those were the highest uh Right, right.

No, I get that.

But what I'm saying is when you look at it over the long period of time, the the percentage of complaints you receive is still essentially the same.

That hasn't decreased is my is my point, right?

The answer may be that there's not a direct correlation to the folks that are complaining in their experiences on the street engaging with law enforcement, as is the crime rate.

I think that's I don't know that, but I would imagine that we're not seeing a direct correlation when crime goes up and down, that the interaction is different from the complainants, and maybe that's a deeper, deeper dive of not just the type of complaints that come in, but the folks that are complaining or the a further breakdown of precincts, neighborhoods, and communities that are involved.

I would imagine that that's probably closer to the answer that I think you're looking for.

Well, I think that's what I think that's something that we should look at.

But I I think we should also examine why the number of you know the the number, the total number of complaints isn't also decreasing if we're seeing a decrease in crime and decrease in all these other areas supposedly.

I will say I am not an analyst.

Yeah.

I am merely the lieutenant at IA, but I think not merely.

And talking to our analyst Stephanie Swallow a little bit about this, it was kind of based on uh Commissioner Benedictos.

Um We asked a similar question with respect to IA complaints a couple of weeks ago.

Right.

So I asked her like what do you think it has to do with with um not there's not only like crime going down, but like our arrests are going up too, right?

And like the number of officers are like, yeah, it was lower during COVID because everybody was in their house.

So and her look into it was like it's hard too because every case is so unique in and of itself.

So it's it's really hard to see if there's an actual trend, especially in if you're only looking at a quarter and not she said you have to look at like seven years worth of the data.

So that'll be good.

I think that'll be good to look into and and report back because I think as you said, you know, isolation, it doesn't make sense, but that's why we have the aggregated trends portion, and that's why we created this type of um the compilation of data this way so that we can see what it looks like over a period of time because of what you exactly describe.

I would say that it probably will be helpful just in given what you just said if there's a direct correlation, so we're looking at the same things and the cases that come to DPA aren't necessarily the same cases that go to IAD.

But if we're talking about the categories of offense, we should be on the same page about what we're looking for, so you're not getting two separate answers and it's apples to oranges about what we're looking at.

I think it's going to be different though.

Well, I mean, yeah, because I think you you yours are compla uh citizen.

Citizen driven from the public, and their IAD is all it you know internal to my fellow officers or other um agencies.

Which isn't necessarily mutually exclusive, but in some cases they are, and that might change the data too.

But the question is who determines what these things are, there's subjective determinations and there's objective determinations.

Is there a list of people look at that come to these conclusions on how you get there?

Because that terms in terms of the variables, you gotta know that in order to put those things in buckets in order to do this analysis.

Yeah.

Yeah, we have analysis.

You're not announced.

Uh yeah.

So you want yeah.

Our analyst for um internal affairs, like she's just looking at the raw numbers, right?

But we do have analysts otherwise, other places in the department that Chief, did you want to weigh in?

Yeah, I mean, I was just gonna say, I mean, uh it's an interesting point that you bring up as far as the correlation with crime rates and complaints.

Um I very much, you know, as I'm thinking through it, you know, obviously arrests have gone up quite a bit, contacts are still there.

We still answer uh a significant amount of of calls for service.

So it comes down to volume and contacts.

If there are any trends, we obviously try to deal with them um as they come up, like BWC and whatnot.

But I don't know.

I would be curious myself.

I don't know that there's a correlation in my mind, it just like trying to logic through it that a lower crime rate equates to lower complaints because we're still making a lot of contacts.

We're increasing arrests, which clearly is I mean, sometimes it's just an adversarial thing.

Um, but you know, it's something that we would be happy to look into.

And you mentioned a good point, I think, because I think in past uh years, there's been a switch to try and isolate what the department responds to, meaning things that they you can't control or are really not within your jurisdiction, or things that you don't necessarily have the equipment or the should be responding to, like you know, landlord tenant disputes or things like that that are more civil or three one one in nature.

I think that they've tried to separate it out so that the department can respond to priority A, B, and sort of some C calls, right?

Right.

I mean, that's an interesting point in itself.

It's like what types of calls are these, but it's a significant undertaking.

Um, that's what we got you here for.

And I've only noticed like the trends that I can notice are like that the FTA ranges when we are getting a lot of those, and then we think of ideas of like, oh, well, let's have somebody at the range if they don't if they fail to appear, maybe the give them a week grace period and reach out, or you know, like the body cam tagging.

And then when now we have auto tagging, so that's what I found helpful, but as far as like long term, it's another story.

Commissioner Young.

Thank you, President Clay.

I I have nothing constructive to add.

Oh, I want to note is that oftentimes.

I just want some mic time, and also some of some complaints may arise from the failure to act as well.

So there's not necessarily a correlation between, say, encounters and and and complaint rates.

So for instance, one of the examples that you studied that you cited as a training example was failure to say enforce a restraining order.

And so that uh adds complexity to the inquiry, and I don't envy the person tasked with analyzing the raw data.

Sound like you volunteered.

Definitely not.

I mean, we get those.

DPA gets us probably more than the department gets them from folks that are saying like we called and nothing happened, or we saw something and that nothing happened, or those related things.

Again, that probably skews the comparison, unless we're talking about the same things or the same incidents, which still happens.

Thank you for your presentation.

Thank you.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment?

Please approach the podium.

I hate to leave these things floating if it's helpful.

I will look into it and get back to you on what I think we can do.

I know we didn't.

I just don't like to leave it.

I'm waiting for 60 days.

It's going to be a good question.

Are we in public comment?

Yes, there's no public comment.

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

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

All right, and there is no public comment.

Line item 11.

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Vote on whether to hold item 12 in closed session, pursuant to California Government Code Section 54957 B1 in San Francisco Administrative Code Section 67.10B action.

Motion to go into closed session.

Second.

All right, on the motion, Commissioner Techie, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Leong?

Yes.

Commissioner Le Young is yes.

Commissioner Yi?

No.

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes.

Commissioner Lyas?

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes.

And President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have six yeses.

We are going into closed session.

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