President Clay, like to take roll?

Yes, please.

Commissioner Lowe.

Here.

Commissioner Techie.

Here.

Commissioner Scott.

Here.

Commissioner Leon.

Here.

Commissioner Lyas is in route.

Vice President Benedicto.

Here.

President Clay, you have a quorum.

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

Thank you, Sergeant.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you for being here for our June the third commission meeting.

And before we start our calendar, I'd like to introduce, or he has introduced our new commissioner, Mr.

Larry Lowe.

Commissioner Lowe, would you like to say a few words to the body?

Absolutely.

Uh thank you very much, President Clay.

I'm delighted to be here.

I'm looking forward very much to working with all my fellow commissioners.

I think we have a uh very unique opportunity of uh declining uh crime rates and as well as uh what appears to be a resonance in the community around public safety.

And I think that gives us a great opportunity to do something good.

So I'm looking forward to doing that.

Well, thank you.

Welcome aboard.

Thank you.

Sergeant Dunblood.

Line item one, weekly officer recognition certificate.

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

Officer Michael Mayo, star number 2308 from the violence reduction team.

SF GOP TV.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Chief Liu.

Honored to be uh standing here before you tonight, presenting the police commission officer of the week award to Officer Michael Mayo.

Uh I've known Mike for uh a good portion of my career, and uh I'm honored to stand up here and tell you a little bit about Mike and you know the work that he's doing here in San Francisco for our police department.

Uh Officer Mayo joined the San Francisco Police Department in 2008.

He served with distinction at Northern Park and Mission Stations.

Since 2012, he has worked tirelessly in the mission district, first as a patrol officer, uh, and then through hard work and dedication, he was selected to the mission housing and playing clothes team.

Uh it was here that he honed his craft as an officer and an investigator.

Officer Mayo combated crime, excuse me, violent crime, and more specifically gang crime in the Mr.

in the mission district for almost a decade in that unit.

In 2021, he was selected to be a part of the newly formed community violence reduction team, where he has become an expert in mission district gangs and a mentor to less experienced officers in the department.

As CBRT and as a CVRT team member, he has conducted numerous complex investigations here in San Francisco and across several jurisdictions that has led to severe reduction in violent crimes throughout San Francisco.

Uh first, for example, approximately two years ago, a heinous gang related homicide occurred in the mission district where the victim was murdered in front of his pregnant girlfriend.

Officer Mayo and his teammates at C VRT immediately responded to the area in search of the suspects.

Through his expertise and knowledge of the area, Officer Mayo, along with his partners, officers Barajas and Downs began searching the area of Dolores Park.

Within a short period of time, they located two of the suspects inside the park.

They were able to place him under arrest after after they violently resisted and located the suspected firearm used in the murder.

Although this is just one example of many, Officer Mayo should be commended for his fierce dedication as a police officer to this department and to the city and county of San Francisco.

And lastly, I think it's a testament to Officer Mike Mayo.

I'd like to recognize all the officers sitting here in the room today from the community violence reduction team that came here to support Mike as a teammate and as a leader on that team on our team and here in the department.

So I'd like to acknowledge all the officers here in the room as well, and thank them for all the hard work that they do day in and day out.

And so with that, I'd like to present Officer Mike Mayo of the Community Violence Reduction Team, star number two three zero eight, the officer of the week award.

Thanks, Mike.

Officer Mayo, would you like to say a few words?

Sure, yes.

Uh, thank you again.

Thank you for for this award and the recognition.

Um, thank you.

Thank you to my uh brothers and sisters who came and supports me tonight.

Um we're very passionate in our job and uh prideful in what we do.

Um it's a lot of early mornings, long days, long nights, but uh we're dedicated to keep the city safe and uh again, thank you.

Well, no, no, no, don't go, don't go yet, Officer Mayo.

No, no, no, no, no.

Well, first of all, I want to thank you for your service to the community, to those who are who are part of your team, uh, your mentorship to the other officers here.

Says a lot about you, that they're here to support you as you support them.

It takes a community, and it's great to see this and continue to do what you do.

We really appreciate it on behalf of San Francisco.

Thank you very much.

All right, could Commissioner Benedicto?

Thank you so much.

Thank you so much, President Clay.

Uh, congratulations again, Officer Mayo.

Um, the community violence reduction team does really tremendous and incredible work dealing with some of the really sensitive cases uh at as described, and the community is really lucky to have you and your work.

I definitely agree.

I think one of our favorite parts about recognizing the officer of the week is when friends, family, when other members of the unit show up because it is such a sign that what we do in this department is a is a team, and to have that support is really really valuable.

So, in addition to uh embarrassing you, I'd like the other members of the team to please stand up and be recognized as well from the violence reduction team.

So, can I ask them to stand?

Thank you.

Commissioner Leo, thank you, President Clay.

Again, I don't want to be repetitive and echo what my colleagues have said, but thank you so much for all your efforts and the efforts of your band of brothers and sisters.

I think what you do is the quintessential and most important part of policing, which is to keep people safe.

So you and the VRT should be commended.

Thank you again.

Thank you, Commissioner Techie.

Thank you, President Clay.

Um, thank you, Officer Mayo, and thank you, all the team members.

Um, I really want to thank um all the work that you've done and uh moving forward, and really appreciate because I think because of you all, our city is much safer.

Thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Officer Michael Mayo, thank you, and um all the officers that work with you.

Um, to all of you, thank you because you you can't do it, he couldn't do it alone.

And so, you know, as a collaboration of everyone on SFPD, particularly in the areas of violent crimes, you know, as the mother who lost a son to gun violence.

Um, my hats off to you and all the officers for apprehending the suspect as quickly as you did, and um it doesn't, of course, um, you know, solve the case for the mother, but you got a murderer off the street, and that's what San Francisco is all about apprehending those who are committing violent crimes to make our communities safer.

So I'm really appreciative to what you've done and what everyone else has done and the work that San Francisco is doing, um, to bring public safety, you know, to a halt.

So congratulations on your award and everything that you've done, and thank you to your family for allowing you to serve our community as an officer.

So congratulations and thank you.

Thank you.

Chief Liu.

Mike, I just wanted to thank you for your individual contributions to um VRT, and uh, I know you've been a long time long time contributor to Mission Station uh investigations.

So big thank you, Richie.

Thank you for the nomination, and for the rest of uh VRT, thank you all for what you do every single day.

Uh I think what people don't understand is how key uh all of you are to our violence reduction initiative, overall, your expertise, um, shooting review process, all of that, what we put in over the last however many years we've been doing it now.

I have no doubt has contributed to historic lows and violence, violent crime and homicide.

So keep up the great work and thank you.

Thank you, thank you for being here.

Thank you for your service.

Thank you.

One more time, huh?

The chief wanted to take some pictures with you.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding the weekly officer recognition, please approach the podium.

Yes.

Umgratulations to him also.

I wish he was around when my son was murdered.

It probably a different story, and I wouldn't be standing here.

We need more officers like him, and I hope more are recruited like him.

Thank you.

Also, Salah Haquea Chandler, abolitionist, social justice fighter for my people and for my nation, and now power of attorney for a family that was their loved ones was found hung in Bayview August 25th last year.

My son was murdered also.

And I want to uh it's worthy to see that we have those that are fighting for safety.

My son Yalani Chinyama Rende was the 19-year-old who was assassinated, the quadruple homicide.

He was the young man 19 simply trying to cash his check on this half an hour lunch break.

Myself was the one a year and a half later, made the city make the arrest.

My also made sure that the city have a trial.

Took 10 years for me to get a trial, and it was just solved and sentenced just of last year, and it happened in 2015.

Once again, congratulations.

And that is the end of 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 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, 94158.

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

Good afternoon, Commissioner.

My name is Joanne Abernathy, and my brother's name was Carl Abernathy, and he was murdered May, I mean, August 25th, 2025.

I've been asking for all kinds of help on finding who murdered my brother.

They said that he was strangled, hung from a tree.

But here I have, I've sent registered mail to the chief of police and the mayor of my statement of what happened to my brother.

This is a police report that I got from my brother's house when I went to his house.

This is a picture of a tree where the officer took a picture of a noose and some gloves at his house.

That you guys open this case and remove this killer off the streets.

So there is a letter to the chief of police with all instructions and witnesses on the letter.

And also to the mayor.

It's just that nobody done nothing about it as of today.

I ran into someone who can help me solve this issue.

So it needs to be solved because the person is walking around.

I'm looking at him every day.

Justice for Carl Ray.

I'm Carl's uncle.

I uh I'm from San Francisco.

I was born and raised here.

I've been here my entire life.

Mr.

Griggs, could you pull that mic up?

Because you're tall, so you can get it.

Yeah, there you go.

Okay, my voice ain't deep enough.

Yeah, but that's okay.

Let's say everybody put everybody back in.

Okay, it's all right.

So uh when they found him, uh when I finally did, I was able to talk to the coroner.

Uh he's bent on saying that it was a suicide.

Well, I know my nephew.

Uh like I said, I raised him.

I worked in this city my entire life.

My family's from this city.

Uh that would be, he was like the most happiest person in the world.

That would be like the farthest thing uh that could happen to him.

So somebody actually did something to him, and like my niece said, I actually believe that the person who did it is actually walking around and in our face uh quite a bit.

Uh, but he's kind of like disappeared all of a sudden.

He didn't even come to the boys' funeral, didn't even come to a service.

Uh but he was a good good guy, he wasn't a bad guy.

All he did was he would work with me all the time.

I'm a member of Rufus Local 40.

I've been in this city my entire life.

Uh I just want to seek justice for him.

We need to know what happened to him.

Uh the police gave us the wrong address in the beginning.

It didn't happen to be, I couldn't get any camera footage, nobody all of a sudden nobody knows anything.

Like she said, we can't get the 911 uh caller where they told him to cut him down.

The coroner showed me a video, uh, but all it showed was two people walking around with some in between some headlights.

And his his answer to me is just uh, well, the first thing most families don't realize is that uh you don't understand what a person does when they kill themselves.

You're in denial.

Well, I'm not in denial.

I know my nephew and I I know him.

I raised him.

Thank you, sir.

The two minutes is over.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Yes.

Hi, my name is Heather, and um Carl Ray was my fiancee.

Um we know one thing, we know that he didn't do it to himself.

That's what we do know for sure.

Um we also know that his car was auctioned off about um about a month and a half after he died, and it and the pictures that the auction took are very devastating.

Um I know that I know that Razor um's car did not look like it does in the the um in the pictures.

It wasn't beat up like it was his car was uh wrecked.

Like, but it and he his car was immaculate when that day.

Um, and but if you can see in the pictures, that's not what his car looked like at all.

And um, we know that we know that somebody took his life, and we uh just don't know what happened to him, and we need to know what happened to him.

So um I there's more I wanted to say, but I'm just I I I can't think of it now.

But um please, please, please just open up an investigation because I think that like the family said, they hear somebody's walking around in front of us every day, and it's knows what happened to Razor.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name is Mark Noddy.

I was a friend of uh Mr.

Uh, I called him Razor.

Uh I really didn't know what his first name was, but I've known him for some years.

Some people you don't know their first name.

And I just never knew this guy to be uh how they put it to where he would do something like this to himself.

I didn't know him like that.

He was always fun loving, always had something nice to say to people.

And I just feel that he just got a bad uh I think they dropped the ball on it.

They should have investigated, there's no crime scene, nothing like that from what I gather from his family members.

And I just I feel that he just it needs to be reopened because like they say, he's still walking around out there, and he shouldn't be.

He should be behind bars where he belongs.

I feel so bad for the family for Heather, but what can I do?

That's why I'm here.

Hopefully that you guys will take it into consideration and open this case up because uh he didn't do this, he did not do this in that car.

That car didn't look nothing like his car.

He took care of his car.

He's gonna show it a broken window.

He would have fixed it that day.

I just feel he got a bad, bad deal.

Wrong place, wrong time, and I hope that you guys open this up so that we can get some justice to this and and get a closure on it because it needs to be closed.

He's open, then close it.

Thank you.

Elisha, um, here support of the family, um, as you've heard, um, their hearts, and it doesn't seem right, um, without combing back over this.

Um, so I hope we are in the right place to get the support that we need to get this case reopened and it looked at as an actual crime scene and not just a and not a uh suicide.

Um, and the 911 uh request to get that information, I don't believe should have been denied, but since it was, that's a question too.

Why is that denied?

Even though it was spelled out in some language that's not layman's terms as to why it was withheld, but the family wants to know, and we deserve to know what happened in our community.

It was not stated in any newsletter or any information that we saw in the news or anything about this.

This is not acceptable.

If something like this happened in a community, we need to surround uh each other and support one another.

You know, and and as we are doing that with the family, it's not sitting right.

So that's why we're here.

So please, whatever power you have to do it, um, to make sure that this gets seen too.

Please do so and and not let us have to waste our seven dollar gas coming down here to speak on this.

Thank you so much.

Ingleside, Miss Joanne Abenathy called the Ingleside police officers to come out the night that she found out her brother was deceased.

The officers came and they found here with this bush, a noose and some gloves.

They had the body cameras on.

He has gone to with two requests for the body cameras.

Here it is.

Pass this to you.

They told her that it would be seven days, it's been 30 days.

Also, there's a witness where he lived, his next door neighbor, and uh she went to the landlord and told him that she heard two men fighting, and the next thing she knew he was dead.

Um they are also with the car.

They said that the car was found running with the keys on it at the scene of the crime.

They said that possibly someone maybe got out of the car and ran, and that this person they're speaking about was arrested.

We need to know was he arrested, and we need to know who he was.

Also, with the straps here, these straps, it is a possibility what is being said that he was being held trapped, held hostage here with these belts.

Also, we have an issue concerning that there was no newsletter to inform the Bayview community that this tragedy has happened.

We just went to the Captain Bayview Department last night.

It was not a newsletter.

It was stated that from the trickle down from the department that the information was not released to her to allow and to for us to alert Bayview that it's a possible murder there, murderers there that have committed this crime.

If they did it once, if they get away with it once, they're going to do it again.

Right now.

Good evening, distinguished police commissioners.

I'm retired Captain Yolanda Williams, President Emeritus of the OFJ, and vice president of the NAACP San Francisco branch.

I stand before you tonight with deep concerns regarding the lack of engagement by the police commissioners who have served these seats for three years or less.

It is disappointing that the majority of you have not felt a compelling desire to individually meet with the officers for justice or the NAACP to seek feedback for the working conditions of the black, brown, and female officers within this department.

Meaningful dialogue with these two groups is essential given your role of deliberating disciplinary matters influencing working conditions and delivery of services to the underserved marginalized communities.

I want to acknowledge and thank two of the commissioners, one male, one female, who have consistently maintained regular communications with the officers for justice and our membership.

Your efforts to address pressing issues do not go unnoticed, and we sincerely appreciate your dedication, especially considering that this is a volunteer position.

The expectations of the police commissioners today are far more complex than they were in the past.

At best, you one must possess the human resources, legal matters, policies and procedures, and mediations to ensure there is equity and justice.

It is your duty to ensure that the voices are heard and that you represent all of us fairly.

If you don't know our number, dial mine, 415-254-9846.

I'm available 24-7.

And also to you, Chief, I expect that you will get a call to us as well so that we can sit down and have meaningful dialogue with you.

Thank you very much.

My name is Officer Arlene Drummer, and I'm retired police officer.

Been retired 26 years.

First, I'd like to say on Monday, I was at the rules committee hearing, and I didn't get a chance to speak.

They cut me off.

I wanted to say to Maddie Scott, I am so glad you've been reappointed to this position.

I've been knowing Maddie since she was 13 years old.

Her and my sister were very close friends.

She's always been a public uh community activist, and I'm just so glad to see her being a part of this group.

Thank you.

Uh, this is the some notes that we had wrote down on lack of engagement by the commissioners, emphasizing the importance of active communication between police commissioners, commissioners and officers groups like the officers for justice, share examples of anecdotes illustrating missed opportunities for collaboration and feedback, highlight how engagement can lead to better understanding of officers' challenges and improved policy outcomes on working conditions of black, brown, and female officers.

Discuss specific concerns related to recruitment to workplace equity, such as disparity and assignments, promotional opportunities, and or support.

I want to stop here.

Off black officers.

And I think that's really sad because I think it's over 1800 police officers in the department.

And back in the day, we when I came in, we really did a office, the officers with the justice would like to participate with you, Chief, and doing some hiring.

We know how to do it.

This is how I came into the police department.

And we have asked Chief Scott before he was here to let us participate, because we know we know what to do.

And when I came in, they prepared us for the test.

And this is not being done.

You recruit, but you don't prepare them for the test or physical agility, and we would like to take, you know, be a part of that.

So we'll talk with you.

Thank you.

Hi, I just want to speak upon um Carl.

Um the day of the of the the death, the day before, he had came to my house, and he had told me that.

Well, he tried to call me at first, but his phone kept dying.

So I told him come to my house.

And he told me that he had got into an argument with his girlfriend, and that it was really bad.

And he told me that he was gonna go home.

He said, Um, can I borrow a couple dollars to get some gas?

I'm just going home.

So I said, sure, come by my house.

And so I gave him the money.

I told him, I said, when you get home, charge your phone up and call me.

And so um he never did call me.

I waited for that call.

And I told him, I said, I also need you to help me tomorrow at my mom's house to um move uh uh washing machine.

He said, Oh, yeah, okay, great, great, because I'm I really I need some need some out some work because I always have him helping me do different things, and so um in that time he didn't sound like nobody that was stressed, really stressed real bad, or nothing like that.

He didn't sound like suicidal or nothing like that.

So I really don't believe that he hung himself.

I just want to say that.

Uh good evening.

Um, welcome to the new commissioner.

Uh, my name is Reese.

I am the president of the Summer West Neighborhood Association with my neighbors throughout downtown.

I came before you many times last year.

Um nice to have you here as well regarding your decision to greatly expand the Southern Station's jurisdiction, despite um it's already lagging service support right for our residents and businesses.

I wanted to let you know.

Last week, Supervisor Dorsey held a hearing specific to Southern Station and the slow response times and its current boundaries.

Um I encourage each of you to watch the full hearing.

Um I brought copies of Supervisor Dowercy's um opening statement, um, the presentations from those of us who spoke, as well as some um uh individual comments that were written in for you all to peruse as you can.

Um Southern is already number one in nearly um every crime category citywide, including violent crime, assault, robbery, property times, burglary, and larceny theft.

You'll students see a um handout um from the current statistics that we're also number one in homicide so far this year.

Um, so this is not um, and this is all before the boundaries change.

This is all before um the increase in calls that are going.

Um it's been popular for city leaders to say that crime is down and that things are looking up for the city, but this is simply not the reality in Summer West, and with the deficient attention and resources provided to our southern station.

I have not yet seen anything in the current plans or preparations for the changes in district lines that you all approved last year.

Good evening, everyone.

I'm here to talk about my son, which will be 20 years.

I like to use the overhead, will be 20 years.

I've stopped counting, but I believe 20 years since he was murdered, shot with a semi-automatic gun.

30 rounds of bullets left those guns into my son.

To this day, his case isn't solved.

I know there's a reward change and everything's going on, and still nothing's happening.

I talk about all the unsolved homicides.

It's all of these children here, loved ones, that have been murdered, and cases aren't served.

I always say here's Maddie Scott's son because we share a bond.

And our sons being murdered.

Here are other unsolved homicides.

I go to the jails and I speak about this victim impact panels.

My son was gonna be something.

I was a no nonsense mom.

And I know if he had lived, he'd probably be sitting up there with you.

I have daughters that are graduating from school, nurses, and all of that.

And I'm proud of them.

And I would have been proud of my son if he had lived.

I've been coming here for years, but I won't stop.

We have me standing over my son.

No mother wants to do this.

No mother.

This is what they left me, a lifeless body.

And I hope that young man that was hung in justice and does it take 20 years.

SFGov TV.

San Francisco Government Television.

I'm here for Carl Ray, and I just want to say that was my son's grandfather.

That was actually a father to me since my dad passed away.

And all I could say is that he was nonviolent.

He was more of the person to want peace over um violence.

He never stood for that.

He was the type to always take my son to the store every day, no matter if it was just him picking out one thing, two things, whatever.

He was a very active person.

He's very known to his community for nothing but positive stuff.

And I know for one thing, he did not do that to himself.

He would always joke about the crazy stuff.

I just know that's not him.

He would go, he has so many family and so much support.

I know that wouldn't be him.

Um we requested so many documents.

I feel like it shouldn't take this long to get back.

We've done paid for it.

If you if I feel like if they give us a time, and especially when we put our hard work money towards you, I feel like we should get it within the time frame that we're told.

Um, and I would really just appreciate it if something more can get done.

Um, we have the the footage, we have calls, we at least just want to hear something we ourselves can put two and two together if we can hear the voice and see the names of who went to jail and whatnot.

We can't even get that because everything is hidden from us.

I know that us as a family know him very well.

If we are to get the back end story, that stuff that we can't know, the stuff that's hidden from the community, we can put something together.

Um, can we please?

I don't just I don't know what we can do.

What more?

I we could put more money forth.

I will, it doesn't matter.

We just need something, please.

I know he didn't do that to us.

He's very well loved.

My son doesn't even know what really happened, but all he knows is can we go see Papa every time we drive past his house?

Can we go see Papa and I gotta be like, son, you know, he's he's working right now.

I still don't even know how to tell him.

My son's four.

It's the only grandfather he knows.

My son passed away before he could get here.

He was an amazing man.

Um and yeah, I just hope we can figure it out and maybe get the back end story so we can as a family figure out what happened because evening, commissioners.

I am Kenisha Roach and president of the Baby Hunters Point Coronated Council here in support of the Abernathy Abernathy family, and we respectfully request a review of the unresolved case of Carl Carl Abernathy and to ask for accountability regarding its current status.

We simply want to ensure that all investigative avenues have been thoroughly examined and that his case continues to receive the attention that it deserves.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, commissioners in chief.

I'm Archbishop Greg Richardson.

The day I rise to talk about the emancipation proclamation.

The day came when slavery in Texas was abolished.

On June 19th, starting at the African American Art and Culture Complex.

We have a free breakfast for the community, the children, with the possession of why they're eating a free breakfast, which was done by the Black Panthers, which program is spread across the world, they will get the history of why we have free breakfast with prayer in Juneteenth.

We will then proceed with your help and the chief's help with the mounted patrol from 762 Fulton Street to 1330 Fillmore Street.

Where there is a program there to salute the honorees of the Wesley Johnson Award, Mayor London Breed, Willie L.

Brown Jr.

Amos Brown, and Shook.

It's very important to bring pride to a community.

It cuts the violence, it cuts the crime, and let's people know.

My condolences to you and all of you, officers, because the end of public comment.

I had a comment.

Can we comment on public comment?

I think there's a rule that says we can't do that.

Okay.

Great.

Got that.

So I wanted to start out by thanking officers for justice for showing up today.

And it's always a pleasure to have you here and sharing your stories and the hit rich history and memories that you have.

It's very helpful, especially as we have a lot of new commissioners.

So thank you for being here.

I also wanted to thank and extend my condolences.

Well, first thank the family of the um loved one that was lost for being here and sharing your story and amplifying um his name and his message and sharing that with us.

I wanted to thank you.

I know that's not difficult.

I share my condolences with you, but again, I appreciate you coming and sharing your story and giving us information on him that wouldn't otherwise be here.

So thank you for your time.

I also wanted to thank the Bayview folks for coming and uh just highlighting the amazing work that happens in District 10 as a district 10 resident.

I'm also happy.

Also wanted to thank the TL resident for coming and sharing information and setting the record straight.

We really appreciate that and providing some statistics on that because uh as we all see we there's a different narrative that happens in terms of um what things happen what things really look like and what happens in the TL.

So just wanted to say thank you and show appreciation to all of you for coming and sharing um little bits and pieces of your lives with us uh on Wednesday.

It's usually not this packed, so it's really nice to see a room full of people uh and you sharing with us.

So thank you, line item three, consent calendar, receive and file action, acceptance of an A and E in-kind gift of naloxone valued at 43,200, acceptance of a DOG cops DOJ cops hiring grant in the amount of six million two hundred and fifty thousand, acceptance of a national crime victims rights week cap grant in the amount of five thousand, IED annual report twenty twenty-five, IED fourth quarter twenty twenty-five closed cases report, IED fourth quarter twenty twenty-five sustained complaints report, ID quarterly report, quarter one, twenty twenty-six, IED's first quarter twenty twenty-six closed cases report and sustained complaints report, family code six two two eight first quarter twenty twenty-six report, DPA's annual statistical report 2025, and the safe streets for all first quarter 2026 update.

Is there a motion to receive and file?

Make a motion to receive and file uh the items except for all of the IAD annual report, the quarter reports, um, as well as DPA's annual statistics report, but the remaining I would move to um file, and I would ask that the IAD annual reports along with fourth quarter and first quarter reports um uh be agendized.

Uh my understanding is that that matter will be before us in July, so I would ask that those be tacked on to that as well, and then DPA's annual statistics report also be agendized at a later meeting.

I will second the motion to receive and file just the acceptance of AE, acceptance of DOJ cops, acceptance of national crime victims' rights, family code, and safe streets for all.

Are those the ones you want to exclude, Commissioner?

Okay, Sergeant, you're already arranging for those dates, those things to be put on the other calendar in June is it is yes, okay, thank you.

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

And there's no public comment on the motion.

Commissioner Lowe, how do you vote?

Aye.

Commissioner is aye, Commissioner Techie.

I Commissioner Techie is aye, Commissioner Scott.

Aye.

Commissioner Young is yes, Commissioner Lias?

Yes.

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes, you have seven yeses.

Line item four, adoption of minutes actions for the meeting of March 4th, March 18th, April 1st, and April 8th, 2026.

Is there a motion to approve the minutes?

Motion to adopt the minutes for March 4th and 18th, April 1st and 8th.

Second.

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

There's no public comment on the motion, Commissioner Lowe.

How do you vote?

I'm going to vote no.

Um because I was not in attendance of those meetings.

Commissioner Lowe, Commissioner Lowe is voting no.

Commissioner Techie.

Commissioner Scott is yes, Commissioner Leong.

Yes.

Commissioner Leon is yes.

Commissioner Lyas?

Yes.

Commissioner Lias is yes.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedict was yes, and President Click.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have six yeses.

Line item five, Chief's report, weekly crime trends and public safety concerns, as well as a policy update on DGO 1011, the body worn camera, a briefing regarding reasons for expediting development process under DGL 3.0104H.

Chiefs.

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

Uh I just wanted to begin with welcoming uh Commissioner Lowe.

Department looks forward to working with you and collaborating, benefiting from your leadership and experience.

Next, I'd just like to take the opportunity to invite all of you to the honorary street sign dedication ceremony for Officer Lewin Tankle tomorrow at 12 p.m.

at 301 Eddy Street.

And that is uh off for those of you that may not know, Officer Lewin Tankle was uh critically injured in the tenderloin in 2017.

Going to weekly crime trends.

Overall part one crimes down 22% year to date compared to 2025.

Total violent crimes are down 11% for the year.

Specifically addressing homicides as of 531 2026, there are 17 homicides year to date in 2026 compared to 10 in 2020 of 2025, representing a 70% increase.

Of note, 16 of those 17 homicides have been closed with arrest.

Looking at gun violence, defined as the number of people injured in a shooting incident added to the number of persons killed by a firearm.

We are down 16% compared to 2025.

Incidents of reported rapes are down 9%.

Assault for the year are down 3%, with a decrease of 27% in assaults by firearms.

Rob rates are down 21% with robberies using a firearm declining by 34%.

Never mind.

Thank you.

Thank you, uh okay.

Robberies are down 21%.

With robberies using a firearm declining by 34%.

Human trafficking incidents are down 38%, with eight incidents being reported so far this year compared to 13 last year at this time.

Total property crimes down 24%.

Burglaries are down 26%, motor vehicle theft down 27%.

Larceny theft, which includes vehicle burglaries are down 24% overall.

Looking specifically at auto burglaries, there's a 42% decrease over 2025.

I'd also like to quickly give you an update on the real-time investigations crime center.

Um there's just continued success, uh, leveraging license plate readers, drones, uh community cameras, and this is all coordinated by the uh Arctic of note.

Uh just in this one week um reporting period, total Arctic related cases 26, and um from those cases, 28 arrests uh were made.

Just to give you a sample, uh there are like I said, 2026 cases, but it just chose a couple of uh garden variety ones uh to highlight on May May 25th at 1557 hours, uh 37th Link 37th Avenue in Lincoln in the Richmond District.

An injury hit and run incident occurred in the Richmond Police District.

Arctic staff observed the CAD at a license plate for the hit and run vehicle and uh put the license plate in LPR.

Drones were uh were sent to the area.

Drones located the vehicle parked and occupied on JF Kennedy Drive.

Arctic staff notified Richmond Patrol units in the area who responded and detained the driver.

The driver was placed under arrest for the felony hit and run incident.

Another example from May 28th at 1524 hours, Geary and Leavenworth in the central district.

Dispatch received a call stating that the owner of a stolen gray Mercedes located his vehicle near Gear and Leavenworth, and it appeared to be occupied.

Arctic conducted a query of the Mercedes and confirmed it was still stolen.

The Mercedes had a different license plate affixed to it.

Artic confirmed that the license plate did not belong in the Mercedes.

A drone was launched, and citywide plane clothes conducted surveillance.

After the suspect moved the vehicle, plain clothes moved in and placed him under arrest.

And then just lastly, I wanted to uh note that RTIC and this technology led to their coordination led to arrest across numerous categories to include vehicle theft, organized retail theft, wanted persons, hit and run, auto burglary, residential burglary, evasion, robbery, aggravated assault, shots fired, narcotics, and that's it.

Thank you, Chief.

Commissioner Elias.

Oh, actually, sorry, that was just it.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

Oh, okay.

You said that was it.

Okay.

All right.

Keep going.

Keep going, please.

He missed us.

It's been a while.

Okay, just moving on to significant incidents.

No homicides reported in this period, and then no shootings reported in this period either.

I did want to just articulate that it's been an extremely tough few days for the department, as most of you have probably heard.

And there was a subsequent officer-involved shooting.

Just wanted to walk you through it really quickly.

On Sunday, 5 31 at approximately 10 30 p.m., SFPD officers were alerted to a license plate reader hit on an armed and dangerous vehicle that was associated with an armed robbery stemming from an incident in the East Bay.

Officers were advised that the occupants were armed and that the vehicle was coming across the Bay Bridge towards San Francisco.

A vehicle stop was attempted on this vehicle in the area of mission and first street.

However, the driver fled the area.

A pursuit was then conducted through city streets, and eventually the suspect vehicle crashed in the area of Bayshore and Gerald, and the vehicles ultimately disabled.

A felony stop was then conducted, and almost immediately the driver opened fire on officers.

One officer was struck multiple times.

An OIS occurred subsequently, and a passenger was struck as well.

The shooter fled on foot but captured after an exhaustive search.

Upon the suspect being apprehended, two firearms were recovered from the scene.

Both the officer and the passenger who was struck by gunfire were both sped to SFGH in an effort to save save their lives.

The officer was obviously severely injured and continues to undergo treatment at SFGH.

This was very hard on family, plus uh Southern Station officers, where they're state where this officer was from and stationed.

The department continues to investigate, take care of the family, support our officers, and uh we're continuing to prepare for an OIS town hall, which is scheduled for Tuesday, June 9th.

And then I lastly, I'll just bring up as required for um DGO 3.01.

President Clay and I did agree to initiate an expedited development of DGO 10.11, BWC, and the primary purpose of doing this was to include the airport or bureau, uh, as they are not required to wear BWC under the currently active policy, and this became a uh a pressing priority for me due to the SFO ICE incident.

Great, thank you.

Commissioner Elias.

Thank you for your report.

One of the things I I know that we talked about and it's been a minute, so um, not sure where we landed, but I thought we were gonna have a presentation on the homicide um rates and the fact that it's nearly doubled since this time last year.

Well, it's significantly higher.

So I was hoping we can get some more information and context as to why there's such a huge increase, and if you found any sort of tangible reasons or anything that can be attributed to the significantly high increase in homicides uh in our city, while I know that um it's great that the uh arrest rate in terms of the homicides is uh I still am concerned that there's significant amount of homicides happening in the city.

Um so wanted to hear your thoughts and um any insight you had as to why that number is so high and and what next steps would be.

Sure.

Yeah, so uh absolutely like we've discussed in the past, this is a um of paramount concern for the myself and the department.

Um we continue to leverage the same strategies that I believe got us to record lows.

Uh we spoke a little bit about it with violence reduction officers that are here.

Um I can just say, without speaking to specific cases, uh broadly speaking, we don't have um any specific pattern that we're seeing with the homicides that are occurring now.

Uh in fact, gun violence, uh like I uh previously uh stated in my report are down for the year, but the homicides are up.

So uh as discussed previously, for whatever reason these these homicides that are occurring are a little more precision in terms of the shooting, uh, perhaps more up close, um, but it's it is a strain strange uh statistic and anomaly that gun violence is down, but homicides are up.

So we're continuing to monitor the situation for any retaliatory violence, which is what um a big part of what our violence reduction team does.

Um that does not seem to be a big part of what we see with the overall 17 homicides.

Are you gonna convene a working group or some other analysis that can be done to look into the since you're not seeing a pattern but taking a deeper dive into why this is happening?

Because I understand, like leveraging the strategies that got us to record lows, but like should there be a new strategy to figure out why we're at a record high.

Well, I don't think we're at a record high, but we are increased versus last year.

Um I would just say that this working group is actually I mean in in function.

We we are we we discuss every single shooting, every um uh shots fired incident, and really any case where we think that there may be retaliatory violence on a weekly basis.

So there is a constant uh uh working group, if you will, uh, of experts to include many city agencies, state agencies, and even federal agencies that discuss these to make sure that uh we're not seeing anything retaliatory in nature that could continue uh a patterned type of of action.

So you're just looking at every week and there's nothing that you see, so we just continue to monitor and hope it goes down.

Well, I mean, I see what you're saying, it's not a strategy to hope, but that's not that's not what we're doing.

We we have a we have a process.

Okay, it would be um good, I think, just to maybe put take a deeper dive or agendize it um in the near future to see what else we can do or maybe the community has feedback or input to provide some additional information or or strategies or I don't know, something that that maybe could help.

That was it.

Commissioner Techie.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Thank you, President Clay.

I had um a couple of um questions or follow-up.

Um I know that we have new recruits coming through, and we have another class that's gonna graduate.

Uh it would be good to at some point to give a report on how many classes in the last one year or twelve months we have graduation and where did those officers go?

Where would they?

Which stations they go to?

I mean, I'm sure they go to one year, two years for training, but where where are they sent?

That would be good to know because I know many Southern Southern station is requesting and so is other stations requesting.

So I would like to see where where are we placing these officers.

The second thing is I know that um we were told during the um that there would be a some kind of follow-up and some kind of timeline for uh the LEP pins to be um piloted.

That was like almost a couple of months ago.

I don't know how long it takes to get a pin to be done and to be implemented something simple like that.

I feel it's simple.

Um so I would like to see if if your report can if you could report back as to when that would happen.

And also there was a request from the community members as to how the website does not capture the newsletter for every station in different languages, and I was told that they're gonna look into it, so I'm flagging for you to report back as to when that would happen.

Thanks.

Thank you, President Clay, and uh thank you for your report.

Chief Lou.

Um I noticed that um the uh incidents of uh homicide um that are happening.

I I see that uh only 10 put 10 homicides were uh um involved with with gun violence.

Yeah, and so now um and the other one with uh the other 43 victims was not gonna gun violence, so homicide is is up in that respect in other areas.

Um would that be stabbings or what would those other areas be uh what the homicide has increased.

It could be stabbings.

Um I know there was a vehicular uh homicide and then um uh assaults that led to assault.

Okay, and uh I also want to uh acknowledge um the families who were impacted who spoke t today on your loved ones.

Um I know personally how that feels and so I just wanna um thank the your you chief and the department, um, especially the officer that was just uh honored officer mail um for the increase um in response to the homicide and violence that we're having in our city.

Um at the same time, um I I wanted to uh also acknowledge OFJ, um, who I know um has helped us as parents um over the years um help us to get a better understanding of law enforcement over the years and help us with um um understanding the law and how things go and are handled.

Um so thank you, OFJ for that, your continued commitment, and all that you've done for us as uh survivors of homicide and helping us understand and uh gaining that respect uh what what uh SFPD and law enforcement period, because what if if it had not been for you and your services, I don't think we would have had what we have today.

I just want to acknowledge that because of your services with SFPD.

You have helped us tremendously as victims of of homicide and violence to understand and have a great understanding and how to navigate through the system.

So I think thank you and thank uh SFPD for that.

Um and also um Chief Lou, I know we're we're recruiting, I know we're down in officers.

Um we're looking for more officers to join the force, and I am helping, as a matter of fact, with that recruitment, and I hope that others are doing the same, you know.

Um and um um I just wanted to know.

I know we're down um when it comes to women uh women in the department.

We need more women officers, and we need more people of of color in uh and recruitment, and I just want to know um how is that uh uh happening right now on on your watch?

Uh how you're addressing that.

Um well I don't have the stats right in front of me, but generally speaking, just looking at uh our recruitment and the applications that we're getting in terms of demographics, they're holding pretty steady from the last I would say back to 2022 um across the board.

Um I don't I won't misspeak here, but just broadly speaking on the the graphs that I've been looking at, very very similar to uh pattern from 2022 uh moving forward.

Yes.

Okay.

And yeah, I just wanted you to note that we're we're recruiting um helping you and helping our department and recruitment um engaging community families and young people to hopefully join the police force.

So um I just want to know where we are uh where we are in those efforts.

So thank you for your report.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, President Clay.

First, I wanted to I I believe I speak on the commission that we offer our praising thoughts to the officer who was injured last week and wish her a speedy recovery.

Um going back to the stats, and I don't want to put you on the spot and ask you uh statistical questions that uh to which for for line data that you may not have presently, but it's it is interesting that total gun violence is down sixteen percent, robberies with firearms are down thirty-four percent.

Um how do the gun seizure numbers look to date?

Have they dropped or have they held steady?

There I have them here if you'll bear with me.

So just in I mean, just to give you some context, uh this time I'll just go back to I don't know, 2022, um this time in 2022 we'd seized 387, 2023, 442, 2024, 503, 2025 to 422, and this year year to date 406.

So we're on a pretty good pace.

Fairly similar.

Right.

So despite the increase in seizures, we still are seeing despite the increase in seizures and despite the decrease in overall gun violence, we're still seeing higher homicides.

Now, not to be too nerdy, um homicides in includes money um several different types of crimes.

Are all these homicides say murders per se, or are some of them say manslaughter?

And how did that, if you have any stats break down compared to past years?

Yeah, I don't I don't have that breakdown.

Okay.

And do you have do you feel like SAPD has enough tools right now, say um it it seems like a lot of crimes are being solved through the leveraging of technology, the the the LPRs and also the um the drones.

Are there any other tools that you think SOPD needs in a further effort to say increase gun seizures, anything like that, or it's for instance working closer with the feds and trigger locking cases?

You know, I think that's that's all helpful.

I know that one of the things that we are working on is working uh more with the feds in terms of just firearms cases, amplifying uh the that impact um in terms of deterrent deterrence factor.

Um but um I would say that technology's been a paradigm shift for us in terms of uh gun violence across across the board.

I mean, there are more examples.

I there I have an example I could read to you, but I won't I won't uh I won't do that.

That specifically involved uh shots fired and due to the technology we were able to take some people into custody.

Um I think that uh that's definitely helped us success uh uh helped us be successful with investigations and to catch people much more quickly.

Um but again our our biggest issue is just is personnel.

That's what it comes back to the number of investigators, more investigators that we have, the more cases that we can assign, um, etc.

etc.

It it's uh it's a trickle down effect.

Thanks.

Commissioner Law.

Uh Chief, um I'm new to this, so bear with me if you don't mind.

Um this may be something that you can report on uh at a later meeting.

But um my read of this report and the yearly comparisons is that we're certainly on a positive trend exception of homicides, and I think you should be proud of that.

My question is not necessarily a statistical one, but really trying to take a look at this and understand what is working.

How is it that these numbers have declined?

How is it that that the police have employed technology or other means in order to try to to um decline the uh and mitigate the the rate of crime in San Francisco?

I'd like to understand what those are because I think that if we look at those as um positive actions on the part of the police department, that if they are applied more directly, more specifically in other areas that this decline will continue as well as address what appears to be um some rates of crime that are increasing.

It'd be something that I think would be uh a useful study to try to understand what is working so that maybe we can um uh amplify on those techniques and and hopefully continue the the trend.

I mean, I won't spend a lot of time trying to trying to answer what is a I think a lengthy conversation, but you know I will go back to the fact that technology is has been a real game changer for us.

I mean, again, if you if I were to read to you or you know, discuss the other whatever 26 cases just from this week, it's incredible the speed at which we can apprehend.

Uh and I and I and I really do think that that is a hugely a huge deterrent to so many of these crimes.

Um, you know, a lot of uh the the technology piece was born of a massive uh autoboost problem, and we've been able to reduce reduce those issues drastically um because we we're we're able to uh detect and then apprehend so quickly.

Um there are just quite frankly safer places to go for suspects.

Well, just using that as an example, to the extent that a deterrent tool is now available, to the extent that it is employed and is in fact uh depressing the crime rate as well as increasing the arrest and conviction rate and justice is being served, we should be communicating that and making sure that the deterrent effect is something that is well known in the communities and that the communities know that they are being served and that their responsiveness is uh is being done.

So I I just would encourage you to try to take the positives of this and try to um find out how we can do better as well as to have the communities uh know that we are in fact touring crime.

So thank you.

Commissioner Lyes.

Commissioner uh Scott just reminded me.

Um I think it would be good if we could get an update on the 30 by 30 uh status and where we are with women in the department.

I think that um that was a great initiative.

We got a lot of positive feedback from both internal and external.

So I think um having an update on that would be really helpful.

Okay, so Chief, there's uh there's really no formula to to this.

You know, there's too many guns on the street, okay.

I mean, I probably handle 500 murder cases uh during the course of my career as a judge, probably tried about 100 murder cases.

And when you see some of the stuff when in the randomness, uh people shooting, the idea of people shooting guns, you don't always get a homicide.

Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't, but there's really sometimes the luck of the draw.

If you've seen a video, you've been in a trial where somebody shot at somebody else and they didn't shoot hit that person and hit them down the street because they really don't know how to handle the gun.

Or they hit something and ricochets and kills some little baby walking down the street or some other kid.

There's so you just don't it's unpredictable to the extent that this is actually a minimum amount when you look in the days where we would have a hundred and a quarter, hundred and fifty homicides during the year during mostly during the drug wars.

Now we don't have it, but it's still as we gone forward, this is still this a lot anytime you have one death, that's a lot.

But in the whole scheme of things, you're doing pretty good, but that doesn't mean it's okay.

And to the extent there is something that you can figure out, something that helps you to kind of understand why it's happening like this now versus last year.

What are we doing differently?

It'd be very helpful.

So thank you for your report, Chief.

All right.

Well, thank you.

Hold on, Commissioner Scott.

Oh no, I just wanted to say that.

The homicides that were not.

And homicides that were not.

Let's see.

Let me say this correctly.

There were 10 homicides with guns, and then the other some homicides were other um other types of homicide.

I was just wondering if we could acknowledge what those types of homicides are, you know, just to see where we are.

Um the stabbings, because I know stabbings is up, and then whatever else is uh areas of homicides that is happening.

If that could be noted, that would be helpful so we can know.

Just the breakdown of of those other types of non-fire.

Yes, yes, and uh uh also wanted to uh let the family know of Officer Brittany that we're thinking of them and praying for them and uh appreciate her services and uh hope that all goes well for her recovery.

Thank you, ma'am.

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

Um chief uh commissioners, David Elliott Lewis, that's Elliot is E-L-L-I-O-T-T Lewis L E W I-S.

I'm the chair of the uh San Francisco Police Department Crisis Intervention Team Mental Health Working Group, long time member of that group for about a decade, and I want to thank the chief for his report.

But I my comments are over on the overlap of technology law enforcement and the chief's report.

In specific.

So I live in the tender line.

In the tender line, there's been a lot of complaints by my residents about drones, drones hovering by by private windows, drones, and uh I can't say that this is secondhand information, just let you know, but there are a lot of drone reports in the tender line.

And I think uh you had reported, you gave some examples, Chief, in your report of how drones actually were critical in law enforcement and helping to close cases.

I think it would be helpful to add because of the emergence of this drone technology and the controversy and concern about drones to add a uh a section of your report about the use of drones, how they've helped close cases, how they're used, and we're maybe remind the public of the policies about what they can and cannot do.

I think there's a lot of missing misinformation about them, a lot of misunderstanding about them.

I find it hard to believe they're peering in the windows, but this is the reports I'm hearing from residents, and I think we need to take those reports and concerns seriously.

So I would ask you, Chief, in future reports to look into the use of drone technology and report back about how it is being applied, not not just in the successful closing of cases, but how it's being applied generally in law enforcement.

I think you may know it clearly.

Commissioners, you may know it clearly.

The general public does not need more information.

So thank you for all you do, Chief.

Uh thank you for all you do, commissioners.

Um, and I will adjourn my comments.

Thank you.

I want to piggyback on what the gentleman just said.

I am concerned specifically about the usages of flock cameras and all these drones, primarily in the underserved communities.

And we have people who are getting tickets that were issued by flock cameras, speeding tickets.

Several ministers in the Bayview have complained to me about it.

I would like for you to generate a report telling us each month how many can how many tickets are being issued by these flock cameras?

What happened to doing real police work?

When I was in the department, police officers come up and give you a ticket.

You get an opportunity to explain what was going on.

I think that we have are using technology far too much now, and we're allowing ourselves to be manipulated by these technical things which make no sense.

We still need to develop those social skills, and we're losing it all to technology.

I still would like to say that, definitely and absolutely.

What I see has happened with Carl's case, Abenaki.

It wasn't any investigation done.

All the evidence that was provided.

His sister did it.

It took her a year to do it.

It was no investigation done.

It's no cameras.

I hear you say technology is now the success.

I would like to know what are those, what is that technology?

Because what I'm seeing, it's no cameras around investigating these, the disinvent disenfranchised community.

They looked at him because of his uh behavior as far as his his drug behavior.

I'm being very transparent.

If I wasn't brought to the table, this would have been swept under the rug.

See, I don't judge a person if whatever abuse they're dealing with, medicating themselves because I understand why my people is suffering.

And this is not to you.

I met you at her event.

You're very kind.

I'm not here to attack anybody, but it's time for us to deal with these homicides in my disenfranchised community, and he's unsolved.

It's no investigation going on.

I want to speak on also Officer Gonzalez from Ingleside and Officer Kim.

When I called them and asked them to come to let them know what this was all about, we were told that we were trespassing and committing a crime.

That's unacceptable.

We was treated more like criminals than their job, Inglesai.

So we have to have a conversation sincerely, because the time has risen that I'm tired of my community suffering, and every other culture is being represented, but mine.

Good evening again.

Um I was thinking about the chief report about the 17 murders this year, and I believe you said 16 of them were arrest.

Um I was thinking about my son when those people murdered my son, and they were arrested, but they were let go.

I'm worried about that.

About these arrests, are these people gonna be convicted?

Is there gonna be a trial?

Because that makes the difference instead of saying they were arrested and then everything is over with.

My perpetrators are still walking the street today.

I like to use the overhead.

About the unsolved homicides.

Anybody checking on these guys to see what they're doing now?

If they're still murdering people, maybe they may not be in the city, but you've had these names for years about my son.

And no, maybe there weren't no cameras around.

What there were, they weren't working, but you have the names of the perpetrators who murdered my child.

Anybody talking to them?

I haven't heard from my investigator.

I I believe he's busy, but please reach out to me because it's really hard to to come meet new investigators all the time.

Every time I'm having a new investigator and a new investigator and a new investigator.

Could you tell them to reach out to me to you know to help me just get to them?

I'm not blaming anyone, but it's really hard, you know.

And I hope that the at the different 10 districts that the cameras of the of the digital cameras of the homicides are still up.

Could you please check?

Uh, yes, hello, uh, thank you.

Uh my name is Reese Isabel with the Summer West Neighborhood Association.

Um, I just wanted to uh actually thank um Chief Lou for meeting with our neighborhood um about two months ago and sitting down and talking to us about our concerns with the area.

Um and we've also had some meetings with our new captain um Carla Hurley, um, and I'm hoping that we can continue those conversations in particular around the staffing concerns that we've expressed.

Um but the um you know our ongoing work with them is based off of the ongoing conversations we had with you all last year regarding our concerns around the expanded district station and the assurances you all gave us at that time that the station would receive support and so we are going to continue to be here.

I'm one tonight, but there are many behind me, as you know, that will be back.

Um, and we will continue to have these conversations.

Um our condolences go out to Officer Um Taylor, who is one of our uh neighbors in Southern Station, and we've been supporting and surrounding uh sharing the um uh crowdfunding um information and everything.

Um a number of our neighbors knew her.

And so um, yeah, I just was that my two minutes or one.

Oh, okay, great.

Thank you.

Um, so I would actually I like to echo a little bit about what I've been hearing in the last few comments about technology.

Um I have a neighbor who um has an interesting story about technology where he's trying to call 911 and get assistance.

And our response rates for priority B calls in Soma West are an hour.

That is the end of public comment.

Line item six, DPA directors report discussion, report on recent DPA activities and announcements.

Executive Director Henderson.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Uh it's been a while, so we've been quite busy at DPA.

Uh, I'll start off just by welcoming and uh acknowledging our new Commissioner Lowe.

Thank you for being here.

Uh I've given uh Commissioner Law welcome packet.

I'll be inviting him as I have with uh all other previous commissioners into the office for a walkthrough as well at DPA.

Uh I also want to congratulate Commissioner Scott and Benedict on the reappointment to the commission.

Welcome back.

Uh there's a couple of things, there's more than a couple.

We've been very busy over the past eight weeks since we last had our meeting.

Uh DPS launched our audit of SFPD's compliance with requirements governing the use of automatic license plate readers, the ALPR uh systems.

Last week, uh our staff held an entrance conference with SFPD to review both the audit scope and its objectives uh along with the timeline to just make sure we're on the same page.

Uh, I just want to thank again Chief Lou for helping select this year's audit topic and thank the department in advance for their support and collaboration uh through this process, and I will continue to keep you updated both on this audit as it unfolds and the remaining check-in items from the previous audits that have already been filed with the commission.

Separate from the awards from the previous audits.

Uh in terms of community and department outreach, uh, we have visited the DPA department, Terravale, Northern Mission and Park Station over the last few weeks to discuss ongoing our mediation programs with both the officers and the command staff.

Uh our team also spoke with the 287th recruit class in April to discuss uh DPA's mission operational procedural accountabilities and transparencies just to make sure we're answering questions as people are coming into the department to know how the department works and how we engage with the department uh in May.

Uh DPA staff attended the SFPD crisis intervention team award ceremony supporting and recognizing the department's work uh for crisis responses.

Uh in terms of the annual report, it is uh out and already filed.

I know it was on the calendar.

We'll be discussing it and making a presentation, I presume, at some point in the future.

Uh, what I want to point out is that the annual report, now called the Annual Statistical Report, is now compliant with the digital accessibility and inclusionary standards.

So it's going to look a little bit different, and we were referencing it earlier.

But now, in addition to everything that gets filed, it can be translated in real time into all of those languages, and it's presented in a form so that people and in a manner so that people can download all of the stats that have been previously included in our annual report.

So that has been filed as well as our fourth quarter data.

The full year's data also reflects, as I've mentioned earlier, a full now, it's measured 22% increase in the complaints as compared to uh 2024 during 2025.

Despite the increase in volume, uh DPA continued to meet all of its statutory and uh charter obligations for cases and investigations, as well as reducing the average case completion times.

It just means we're becoming more efficient in terms of what we do even with the increased volume.

Uh also the first quarter of 2026 has already been filed.

Uh, we talked about it earlier on the consent calendar.

We'll be talking about it in the future as well, but it's posted online, and people can access that information now.

Uh, the early indicators just in the quick analysis of those stats will show that there is a continued increase in complaint volume as compared to last year.

I'm now talking about 2026 compared to 2025.

Uh we continue to make more improvements on the uh public reporting.

Uh the reports that you will now see, like I said, will look a little bit different from the with the first quarter and the annual statistics, and those changes uh in large part come from the enhanced digital formula that we've introduced, optimize, and you can also now view all of these reports on any device, as well as translate them into 15 different languages.

They're fully accessible and easily printable.

We've never uh had that capability in our reports until now, so that's new.

We've also incorporated uh we did the survey with all of you before we conducted these reports, so those changes are included in these reports as well.

Um, developing now uh a companion booklet to the annual report uh that will highlight, in addition to major accomplishment accomplishments from the department, an easy to read and an at-glance overview of the work.

So that booklet that we're preparing now are going to be some of the things uh in addition to the stats and data that you're used to now seeing in all of these reports, uh the overviews that includes both maps, charts, and pies that are not translatable in the digital accessibility and inclusion standards.

So we'll have that booklet available as well.

Those will be the things that have uh the historical overview of the agency, how we got to where we've been.

This is much of the information that you've seen in the past from our reporting that includes things about how cases come through the system once complaints get made, those types of things uh will be in that booklet.

Uh, as always, we continue to welcome the commission's feedback on the material so we can continue improving both transparency and usability for the public.

Uh, in terms of our interns, the 2026 intern cohort began today.

Uh, it includes undergraduates and law students from around the country.

They'll be making a presentation here to the commission.

We've assigned uh interns in DPA and coordinated additional placement through a number of partner city agencies as well, and you'll hear that make the presentation.

Uh, as in prior years, the interns will also be collaborating on a police policy project and ultimately present their findings to the commission in the fall, as they did last year as well.

I want to congratulate uh our director of mediation and senior investigator Ali Schulteis, who graduated this morning from the city's emerging city leaders program.

She's been participating in the program for months.

Uh, but it further strengths strengthens Allie's communication, conflict resolution, and problem-solving skills that greatly benefit DPA work.

Uh, she's a senior investigator that is head of our mediation program, and so uh she just graduated today.

We participated in that.

Uh last week we held another swearing-in ceremony for our three new investigators.

One of the investigators who had missed a previous ceremony and the promotion of an investigator to senior investigator, as well as our new director of policy that I've introduced already to this commission, Jamal Anderson.

We're having as a result of the increase in complaints and complainants to the office, uh, there is a a significant or measurable increase of at-risk and in-risk folks that are coming into the office.

What we are doing internally is finalizing an updated workplace security policy focused on guidance and response steps when staff encounter individuals who may pose risk to themselves, to staff, in terms of public safety.

Uh we've got a lot of feedback both from the department in the past, from the investigators themselves, our own staff, and we've now just got approval from the city attorney about the draft so that we have a protocol and how to engage with uh these folks, particularly since uh a lot of the folks have a lot of the work has expanded, particularly with some of the sheriff work that we're doing as well for people coming into the office and engaging with our staff with making uh and filing complaints.

Uh right now we are at a stage where the relevant unions for my staff are reviewing it and gathering member feedback about what those protocols will be.

But that's an ongoing project that is reaching a completion that I think everybody's going to be satisfied with.

Uh, in terms of the budget, uh the mayor's office has now submitted its budgets for his its budget proposal this week, maintaining uh DPA's current staffing levels and anticipating the need for additional positions next year, addressing uh the growing department with upcoming uh cohorts for graduation.

Uh we're cautiously optimistic that the Board of Supervisors will support these needs for DPA, which are vital for handling the increased complaints and maintaining compliance with the charter mandated status and staffing ratio relative to SFPD's growth and expected growth.

Terms of uh investigating uh investigation updates, uh during these past eight weeks since we last met, uh DPA has opened 155 new cases, and we have closed 122 older cases.

The most common allegation involved uh officers behaving or speaking inappropriately with members of the public.

Also, our on all our on-call staff, including myself responded to the scene for the officer involved shooting that the chief has just recently talked about, uh and we are still in the middle of that investigation, and we'll have updates on that as they come, as you I think the chief just mentioned.

Uh, the town hall is coming up uh later on this month.

Uh for commission this evening.

There are no closed sessions, uh, but we do have an agenda to discuss later on in the agenda, agenda item nine, specifically talking about the digital access and inclusionary standards requirement.

It does uh address the filings that we've made recently for uh the annual report and our quarterly report, but the overall practice in terms of everything that we file that is available online, increasing both availability for the public and transparency will be discussed at that.

And that again will be later on tonight in agenda item nine.

Uh, present in tonight's commission meeting is senior investigator Chris Chisnall.

Also present tonight for the presentations.

Are Eric Coe, Sandra Wilkerson, uh, and Nicole Armstrong.

Uh, for those members in the audience that wish to reach DPA directly, you can reach us through our website at SFGov.org forward slash DPA.

And the phone number to contact us is 415 241 7711.

That concludes my remarks and updates from DPA.

Thank you.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, President Clay.

Just uh a minor question.

Yeah.

Um the weekly statistics indicate that the largest category is other.

There's a footnote.

Three stars that says other includes these various types of of allegations.

I take it do is it does that mean that none of these individual categories set forth in the footnote a rise to more than five percent?

Or how how does that work?

Because the other category is a bit uh encompassing.

Is there a way to break it down further?

Uh I can give you a full you know I'm a lawyer, I don't do math in public, so I'm not gonna do these.

Uh I'm not gonna add up the numbers for you, but I can give you a full breakdown of other, but I can tell you what I think that the other is.

Uh is we get quite a lot of folks raising issues and concerns that don't have anything to do with our jurisdiction.

Okay.

Uh, but I can give you a full breakdown on all of that.

Uh next week, okay.

Yeah, and walk you through that section specifically.

I know I did when we first did this format, but I don't remember it, and I don't want to say it wrong, so I'll give it for you.

I'll have it at the at our next meeting as part of my presentation.

Thank you.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item six, DPA directors report.

Please approach the podium.

There's 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 a future commission meeting.

So we've been away from the commission meeting for a while.

We didn't have a meeting in the month of May, but on May the 27th, uh Commissioner Le Yong, uh Commissioner Techie and myself uh all attended the crisis intervention awards, which was a just an incredible uh experience.

Last year I went for the first time, and what you see in the videos, and all of you got copies were sent an email that showed you the seven ward categories or the incidences which uh were granted uh the awards for that afternoon.

They're absolutely incredible.

I think there's like 24, 25,000 actually uh uh critical uh crisis intervention team uh events that occur, but these were the special ones that were reached that level.

But it's absolutely incredible.

I invited uh uh a number of people from the community, people who ran own businesses and people who are engaged in their communities to the awards ceremony.

Uh on the 27th, and they showed up, and they were just amazed of what went on.

The team, how the coordination of all these agencies to do what they did to calm down and prevent someone from actually a deaf or some some sort because of the nature of this extensive conduct.

Uh, I asked them that uh they they had said, why isn't this more publicized?

Why don't people know more about this and what they're doing?

Because it's such a valuable service and how they operate together to deal with these crises, they're absolutely incredible.

I did tell them that you know we are in need of cars and other technical tools, and that if they wanted to put together a group of people to write those checks, we we take contributions in that area, but you have to figure that out yourselves.

But uh, they were so impressed with what happened.

They were going back to their communities, and they're part of community meetings, and I let them know about that, and hopefully next year.

They said, you know, can we invite more people?

I said, more of the merrier.

Anyway, we uh you know our last, as you know, our last uh graduation, it was capacity crowd.

There were no seats uh in the auditorium available.

People are all flooded, all the seats were uh, like I said, it was like a rock concert or something that happened, but it was great.

So uh I'm glad to hear that they were happy about it, and they're gonna spread the word because that's important uh for our community and for the department itself.

Uh and then on the 28th of May, I spent three hours, three and a half hours, somewhere like the with Officer Reynolds, Sergeant Reynolds.

I went and did the tour of the airport.

Uh the airport's a city in a city itself.

It's absolutely incredible what goes on, the intricacies of that department, the that that station, that district.

I mean, you're talking about agencies all together, different agents from different parts of the federal government, as well as our local agencies, the sheriff's department, and what we are there is I understand we're at the permission uh of the county on I don't know how that whole MOU works, Chief, but uh as we were told, when you see what they do and how it's done, and the how things are transferred.

You know, none of the cases, none of the things that happen out there in criminally, uh police-wise, that reports are made.

That's not handled by the city of San Francisco.

There's a process where those reports are doing are done by our people if they're involved, and then they have to turn them over to the county, the sheriff's department who engage in doing the next steps, or the federal agency, which may be involved, or if the federal agency takes it and they come to us and ask them to be report, but the the command center where all these people are together, all the intricacies of the airport.

And I was taken to the whole airport.

When I say airport, I was on the tarmac, I was over to our own um uh gun range, the second gun range, which is over where the private jets and all things come in and got to see that facility, how they work there, how they repair weapons, all these different things.

So it's a great opportunity, uh, commissioners, if you can, to go out there.

There's a lot of moving parts, and it's not it's not a place that they go to rest, because the energy there, you are over everywhere.

The that whole airport is covered in some fashion by our officers doing different things.

So it was a great experience, and I and I thanked uh as I told Sergeant Reynolds, I thanked her for taking me and absolutely Deputy Chief uh Jackson, who spent uh two and a half hours with me also going through uh through the operations and to those who ran the airport um uh the head of the airport, so it was a great experience.

So that's that's my report, and glad to have everybody back.

It's real good to see everyone.

All right.

Oh, sorry, so I don't have my classes.

Okay, Commissioner Benedict, I'm sorry.

No problem.

Thank you so much, President Clay.

Um, and uh a couple of things for my reports.

Uh, first, as uh Commissioner Young said, I want to extend uh all of our thoughts and prayers to the injured officer recovering from the shooting incident, and that all of our hearts go out to that officer to the family, uh, and and to the entire department for uh during this difficult time.

Uh I do want to uh as Commissioner Scott did acknowledge the family and the supporters of the family that came today uh asking for uh an update on that investigation.

I hope that some progress can be made on that.

Uh I likewise want to recognize uh the representatives today from the officers for justice who came and spoke.

Uh it's not an exaggeration to say that uh we're very proud of what the department is today and so many of the positive changes the department uh as it looks today would not have happened if not for the decades of advocacy from the uh from the police employee groups, including and especially the officers for justice.

Um, and so I'd like to thank OFJ for for coming today.

Uh in May, uh Commissioner Leo and I attended a meeting of the Chiefs LGBT advisory forum uh which was uh included a number of community groups that included uh Captain Del Gandio and Officer Um Katherine Kiernan and uh was a very uh good experience to get to engage with that advisory group and to learn a little bit more about its background and glad to see that that group that advisory group has been sort of re-energized and look forward to continuing to work with uh the Chiefs LGBT advisory forum uh which is timely because we are now in June.

So I'd like to wish a happy pride uh to all of those in our community and looking forward to that as well.

I also want to acknowledge, I think Mr.

Isabel left, but uh, and thank uh Reese Isabel who spoke on behalf of of Soma neighbors about the issues facing Southern Station.

I encourage, um I'm glad the chief you're able to attend one of their meetings.

Uh as my fellow commissioners know, I attended a lot of meetings with Mr.

Isvell and those organizations in the course of our boundary analysis project.

I encourage my fellow commissioners to to do the same, and I want to thank uh Mr.

Isbel and all of the Soma neighborhood groups as well as all the tenderloin groups for their um strong advocacy for their communities in the course of that process.

Um next week I have the privilege of speaking to the DPA interns, which is one of the highlights of my summer uh and getting to answer their questions.

Uh I had held off on scheduling it since I wasn't a commissioner for most of the month of May uh and didn't know if former commissioner would have made the cut for the very prestigious speaker series that Director Henderson runs, but happy now to to participate in that.

Uh and lastly, I know we have a presentation on the Crisis Intervention Teams 2025 annual report.

I do want to take a moment to acknowledge and thank uh the crisis intervention team working group uh and the CIT team in general.

I was out of town.

I missed my first CIT awards this year for the first time in a number of years.

I attended regularly, even before I was on the commission.

It's one of my probably my favorite department event of the year.

Um, and looking forward to the crisis intervention team's annual report.

The work that the crisis intervention team does uh saves lives.

Uh it takes so many critical incidents that could have been deadly and and changes that.

Uh, the incredible volunteer members of the CIT working group uh are some of the most hardworking community volunteers uh that I've ever seen.

It's a privilege that uh the department has them working alongside.

Uh in the month of April, I had the privilege of going to Sacramento to testify um regarding some legislation about first responders and medical aid, and one example I gave of what that partnership can look like is the co-responder model that San Francisco pioneered, and to be able to share that with legislators in Sacramento and call out the co-responder model and the CIT model was a real privilege.

So, congratulations.

Um I did look at the possibility of both flying down for the awards and flying back up for my father's birthday, but it didn't it didn't totally make sense.

But I'll be back at the CIT Awards next year.

That concludes my report.

Thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Thank you.

Thank you, President Clay.

Um, my report is that um I just want to first of all um I too um like to acknowledge the CIT.

It was my first time missing it this year, um, as I was in the middle of getting my papers ready for to be reappointed to the commission.

But um, I just want to set my hats off to the men and women of the CIT uh team.

It is uh as you said, uh Vice President Um Benedicto uh an awesome uh group of people that dedicate their lives to public safety for everyone and uh the incredible work that you do um is commendable and uh sorry I missed it this year, but I won't miss the next one.

And also um to acknowledge um our chief and um for attending our wonderful Mother's Day event that was held in Southeast um this year.

You know, Mother's Day is one of the most difficult days of the year for Mother Suffolk's children of homicide, um, and so we do that every year.

Thanks to Offices for Justice, United Players, um, the uh SFPD, the Delta Sigma Theater uh chapter of San Francisco, uh the National Council of Negro Women and Third Baptist Church and so many other great people that dedicate their time and services to make sure that we have an incredible Mother's Day event.

Um both mothers in the audience, um Sala Sequia and Um Paulette Brown were in attendance with all the other mothers, and so I just want to say thank you, Chief.

Thank you, everyone who participated in that to make our day a special day.

It was very well attended and really appreciated.

Um also um I like to thank um all those who attended on Tuesday on behalf of um Commissioner Benedicto and myself um at the Board of Supervisors to allow us to be again service to the community of San Francisco.

Thank you all for your participation and for coming in and for our new board member, um, Mr.

Liu.

Lou, welcome aboard.

It was a well um attended event on Tuesday with a lot of testimony from the various people from the community and very well received.

And so thank you again for that for your support.

That concludes my support, my report.

Commissioner Life.

I wanted to congratulate you, Commissioner Scott, on your reappointment.

I think you were such a breath of fresh air to this commission.

I think that your advocacy and the people that show up and show out because you're here and talk about all the great work you do in the committee is just phenomenal.

And so I wanted to congratulate you and I'm so glad that you are here because I again I think that you bring such a great perspective and really ground us uh in community and why advocacy is so important.

So thank you for your work.

I wanted to congratulate also uh Commissioner Benedict on your reappointment um as the second most senior uh commissioner on this dais.

I think that you have brought a lot of valuable experience and resource uh to this commission, uh not only serving as a commissioner for as long as you have, but also your work prior to joining the commission, being on the blue ribbon panel, uh participating in um improving SFPD even before you were on this commission and working with law enforcement.

So I think that your experience and your valuable perspective are also a great addition to this commission.

Uh and Commissioner Lowe, I want to welcome you and congratulate you.

I look forward to working with you, and I think that obviously it's you're gonna be a great addition as well from your perspective and experience that you bring.

So welcome.

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

Please approach the podium.

Myself, I was busy uh focusing on the family.

However, doing this work for four decades.

I just wanted to congratulate the new chief to your position.

I really had a wonderful relationship with former Chief Scott, and I wanted to also congratulate you once again, Matty Scott, for your second seat, and also for yourself, I don't know your name, but I heard how you spoke, and you sound like you are man of integrity, and that's what we need in these seats.

We need people that are sincere, and not for just the title, but who truly cares about the people because I'm very concerned what I'm seeing with this political house, and I'm talking about this whole house and also yourself.

I don't know your name, but I felt your sincerity and thank you for acknowledging the families because the reality is that those families are abandoned, and the state of the condition of Bayview is horrifying.

I'm so concerned.

I, in reality, no one cares about them.

My son, also Yalani Chinyama Rende.

I had to solve my son's case myself.

Former Chief Sir knew who murdered my son the next day, and they didn't make an arrest until a year and seven months after I had to meet with the former DA, George Casson.

I had to put pressure on the city to do it, just as Paulette.

I think this is a shame and a disgrace for her to come to this meeting every week for 20 years, former mayor.

Yes, I also want to thank um, congratulate Scott and Benedicto and our new person that can't that are that has been re-elected, uh reappointed.

Thank you.

Um, I think it's gonna be a good year, um, because we're really uh gonna get to work.

And I really appreciate what uh Salah said that uh Gavin Newsom said, I know who murdered her child.

The DA knows who murdered her child.

He has addresses, and he can name names.

And if they can say all of that, how come I'm still here?

How come I'm still fighting?

When is my day gonna come?

What day am I gonna have to come sit in that court and see the perpetrators that murdered my child?

I want that day.

I want it so badly.

It's not gonna bring my baby back.

But y'all still hurts.

It still hurts.

I miss my boy.

He was only 17 years old.

And I'm still angry.

That's why I come here every year.

I can't sit in a therapist's office for her to say your time is up, Miss Brown.

I'll see you next week.

I have to fight.

I think about Emma Till's mom, how she fought until she died.

I'm that mother.

I'm no nonsense mother.

If my son was still alive, that day I would have gotten shot too.

Because there was no way I would have watched that.

I remember the mother that lift the car off of her son or our child.

I'm that mom.

I do that for my grandchildren.

I'm not here to entertain, I'm suffering.

I'm strong.

Help me.

Uh David Elliott Lewis.

I wanted to thank the commissioners who attended our uh crisis intervention team award ceremony.

They say, you know, if you want a behavior to persist and increase, you reward that behavior.

And I think calling out these exemplary officers in these seven incidents that really did amazing de-escalation work, saved lives for people that it could have, these could have turned into critical incidents that went really badly, and he didn't.

And this is this is something that always didn't occur 10, 15 years ago when you when people had a crises like this, or if they brandished weapons before an officer, it often ended tragically.

Now these lives are often saved.

It's remarkable.

And I think, and actually, I was part of the committee that that selected these seven incidents.

We reviewed over 15 incidents, and all of the 15 incidents were remarkable.

We picked seven because you can't do 15 in award ceremony.

But uh wow, the department's doing really good work.

Uh Chief Lou, you should be proud of your officers.

Uh just amazing work.

So thank you, thank you, thank you.

And to the commissioners who just received reappointment, congratulations.

Glad you're on uh especially glad to see Commissioner Techie here.

I have you huge respect for.

So thank you for your volunteer work for this commission.

It really helps our city.

That's all for now.

Thank you.

That is the end of public comment.

Line item eight, election of commission officers, discussion and possible action.

Commissioner Benedict on glasses again.

Thank you, President Clay.

Uh, fellow commissioners, as you are uh aware, uh, according to our bylaws, um, the commission is uh supposed to schedule its election of officers as close to our meeting at the end of May uh as possible.

We've not met uh in the month of May due to some of the vacancies, but this is our first meeting uh since our last meeting in April.

Um it is my uh privilege today to make a motion to nominate uh Commissioner Patiba Techy as vice president of this police commission and Commissioner Don Clay to serve as president of this police commission.

Uh I wanted to share a little bit uh on both of these excellent individuals.

Um I don't know if Commissioner Techie knows this, and in fact, she she probably doesn't given the way the commission works, but I actually first became aware of her years before uh she stood on the commission when she wrote a letter about an officer's character that uh the for a discipline case that I was uh assigned to.

And since those assignments aren't always public, maybe you didn't know that I was assigned to it.

You just know you wrote that letter.

And I I saw even then in that letter that Commissioner Techie was a committed community leader and activist, cared deeply about the well-being of the people in the tender loin as an activist tenoral housing clinic and really all around the city.

And it was an incredibly moving and compelling uh character letter that played a significant role in the way the commission considered that situation.

A number of years later, whenever there'd be an inter uh a policy issue that affected her community, Commissioner Techie was always one that would uh reach out and provide input on policy direction or on policy initiatives.

Uh there were times where she agreed with the policy that I was proposing, and I received a letter.

There were times where she disagreed with the policy I was proposing, and I also received a letter.

Uh, and even and as with before, at each of those times they were written thoughtfully and represented an absolute commitment to the community.

Uh, and I was very always shown by that.

Uh when then Commissioner President Elias uh asked me to be the commissioner to oversee the district boundary analysis.

I had the privilege of working very closely uh with Commissioner Techie and a number of tremendous tenderloin groups, as well as with a number of groups in SOMA and across the city to embark on that project.

Uh Commissioner Techie has been an advocate for some of the changes that ended up being in those SFP district maps for more than a decade.

And it was uh again a real privilege to work alongside her before she was on the commission, and then when she was on to get a vote alongside her to adopt the final version of those maps uh that uh we continue to work towards ensuring we're implemented fairly.

And so it's a privilege to nominate Commissioner Techie as Commission Vice President.

Uh it is also my privilege to nominate uh Commissioner Clay to continue to serve as Commission president.

Uh Commissioner Clay has uh provided uh steady and experienced leadership for this commission.

Uh it might not be obvious because Commissioner Clay, but I am slightly younger than Commissioner Clay, but uh, and slightly less experienced uh and tenured as an attorney, but uh I had the privilege of having a little bit more experience uh than him and serving on the commission and experience with SFPD policies, and so in a very um freaky Friday body switch.

It was a real privilege to get to share some of my experiences uh as a more experienced commissioner with Commissioner Clay uh over the course of this last year to share that experience and to be by his side as this commission has continued uh to do a lot of the great work that that uh was started under under President Elias.

Something I shared with the Board of Supervisors when I was going through my renomination is these last four years, uh so under both uh President Elias and President Clay have been the most some of the most productive years in this commission's history.

More policies were passed uh and more Department General Orders were updated.

Uh more 1990s general orders were stricken from the books and modernized.

Uh a new chief search was conducted.

The department the 272 Department of Justice reforms were deemed completed, and that is a testament to the two excellent commission leaders and presidents we've had in those four years, being Commissioner Cindy Elias and Commissioner Don Clay.

Um, and it has been a privilege to experience that alongside uh alongside both of them.

Um, as Commissioner Clay often shares, as he did today, he's uh while new to the commission, he's not new to the law and his extensive experience as a judge, and this commission is very lucky to have someone of his tenure and stature and experience uh leading our commission.

As um Commissioner Elias mentioned when she congratulated me on my reappointment, um, somehow I'm now the second most tenured commissioner uh on this commission, and also uh before I was on the commission.

I believe I hold the record for commissioners attending commission meetings before being on the commission.

I think the number is about 50.

And in fact, I attended my first commission meeting in 2015, where I sat right next to uh Ms.

Paulette Brown.

Uh, and in a story I've told at times, uh, the very first time I went up to provide comment on behalf of the Blue Urban panel, I was so nervous my nose started bleeding, and it was Ms.

Brown that handed me a tissue and told me it was going to be okay.

And that was my first interaction with Miss Brown.

Uh so it's been it was a privilege to spend a decade sitting on that side uh and seeing the commission at work and a privilege to spend these last four years as a commissioner and this last year as commission vice president.

Um, that being said, I think no leadership should remain stagnant, and so I'm excited to continue to work with Commissioners Clay and Techie and continue to lend uh that experience that I have with all of our commissioners, including uh Commissioner Lowe, uh who's our newest commissioner, and share that.

But I look forward to continuing to work with uh Commissioners Clay and Techie who I think will make fine leaders of this commission, and so I am proud to make that motion.

I sack Commissioner Benedict.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, President Clay.

I second Commission uh Vice President Benedicto's motion, and I want to add my personal thanks and gratitude for him.

Um I have looked at him as a mentor during the past year, um, and I look forward to continuing to work with him to improve public safety in San Francisco as well as his particular quest to exercise 1990s DGOs from the earth, if not 1990s music.

Commissioner Scott.

So powerful I broke the mic.

That's okay, one of those days.

But anyway, um, thank you, Vice President uh Benedicto, and I just wanted to uh say accolades on all three because I came on the commission last year, and I must say I have learned so much from all of you, um, you um former uh President Elias and Vice President Um Benedicto and definitely you, President Clay, and my sister here, Techie.

So as it's a warm, as I told you, it's a warm welcoming uh group.

Don't have to be afraid.

They're gonna teach you everything you need to know.

As I'm still in training myself, and uh I just wanted to say that because of your leadership and your warm uh friendly character and your compassion to serve on this commission, um, as someone said it's a tireless, thankless job, that's what I was told.

Um but um I'm just grateful and honored to be here um to work among such great people like yourselves that have the compassion and give your time and commitment to this job.

It's not easy, you know.

Um people think it's a lot of money.

It isn't.

It definitely is not, but it's definitely a service that I enjoy.

But you have made it you all have made it um worthwhile and uh very um respectful and full of compassion, and um that's why I accepted the uh four years from our uh mayor, Mayor Lurie, because of what you have shown me and have given to me.

So I just want to tell you personally, thank you.

Thank you.

It means a lot to me to serve with you all and to continue to learn because I'm still learning.

So thank you.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line 908, the election of commission officers, please approach the podium.

David Elliott Lewis, I highly recommend the nominations, including Commissioner Techie, who I had worked with over a 13-year period at the Central City SRO Collaborative and had the chance to observe firsthand her leadership skills and her concern for her community.

Thank you.

Once again, congratulating everyone, and as a community representative myself for four decades, it's the blessing and a privilege to work for the people.

That's the honor.

And even though financially it might not be there, but it's the wealth and the richness of knowing that we are standing in integrity and dignity for those who don't have the ability, the power for themselves because they are carrying much weight as we see the condition of this country.

So I look at all of you, and I've been doing this for many, many decades, and for some reason I see many of you have integrity.

I can't say that for everyone that I have seen.

But I have enjoyed sitting here.

I am a Hebrew woman.

Usually I am in my Hebrew worship at this time, 7:30.

But I took the time out to be here.

I would have been here many, many other times because I enjoyed just learning just as well.

So I say welcome because I do realize that we have a mighty job to do.

And I'm going to be coming in regards to the reward homicide money.

The 250,000, I was the one who saw my son's case.

I was the one that represented, and I deserve that.

And I will be, I mention it to him, but I will be bringing it back at another time.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Yes, congratulations again.

I'm always sitting in the back, and I'm not up there, but I have learned a lot being here as well, just listening to you all through the years, and it's been 20 years with different commissioners and different.

So I I won't say I know everything, but I listen and just learn the the legal, not legal, but the I don't know how to say it, but I'm learning too.

And I'm hoping too that um I do see promise in this new, and I don't know why I feel this way, but I do feel like this is a great um selection right here, and I believe something's gonna come more of it, you know.

Um, yeah, and I do hope in August 14th that you will show up at my son's visual and help me bring awareness to the unsolved homicides that are happening and and families that are suffering still, new and old.

I need you there.

You have been helpful, and I'm thanking everyone that have shown up in the years past, and now that they're gonna show up now, and I need support.

Um, I need someone to come bring the podium and all of that too, like um uh Lisa Artez did, she helped me do that as well.

I'm really upset that she's gone, but uh someone else can do her job and help uh help us as mothers and fathers on that day because it's not just about my son, it's about all of our children.

Um it gives us hope, it really gives us hope, and I thank you, that is the end of public comment.

On the motion, Commissioner Lowe.

How do you vote?

Commissioner Lowe is aye, Commissioner Techie.

Aye, Commissioner Techie is aye, Commissioner Scott.

Aye, Commissioner Scott is aye, Commissioner Leo.

Commissioner Liang is yes, Commissioner Lyas.

No, Commissioner Lyas is no, Vice President Benedicto, yes, Vice President Benedict Do is yes, and President Clay.

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

First, I want to uh thank you all for your support and your vote.

It is a privilege and an honor to serve with you on this commission.

Each and every day that we serve as individuals, commission is all about doing the best we can for the people in our community here in the city of San Francisco.

That's what our job is.

We're doing, we set the policies, we do the discipline, but we do it the best we can to be fair to all parties who are in this city, who are visitors in the city, who live in their city, who do business in the city, we do our best, each and every one of them.

And I'm look forward to that continued mindset on how we approach doing our job for the best of the people and for the men and women serving in this department to aid them in doing their job.

Thank you so much for your your confidence and your vote and the privilege of serving.

Commissioner Techie.

Thank you, President J.

I just want to say I was um not expecting Commissioner Benedict to your comments because I'm very humbled by what you said about me, and I do remember the letter that I wrote from foreign office of many years ago.

Um I really appreciate all your comments and I I was really blown away because I generally don't I'm not the kind of person who likes to hear about myself.

That's not me.

So it was very um moving for me, and um I really um I enjoyed working.

I mean doing the I considered working, but I really appreciate having this opportunity uh to be on the commission because um I've been coming to commission meetings for a long time, and I always enjoyed being on the other side because it is a great privilege to be on the other side.

And so I I'm excited what can come, and and I'm I welcome the new commissioner and of course, Commissioner Matty here.

So I'm looking forward to doing some good things.

Um also at the same time uh holding our SFPD accountable to what they've committed to keeping us cities safe and being fair to everybody.

Thanks.

Line item nine presentation and update by DPA on the digital accessibility and inclusion standard requirements discussion.

There we go.

Thank you.

Uh I just asked for everyone to hold their applause until the end.

Good evening, uh Commissioners.

Dr.

Anderson, Chief Liu.

My name is Eric Ho.

I'm the IT analyst with the Department of Police Accountability, and tonight um I'm here with my colleague, Sandra Weberson and I will be discussing uh the digital accessibility and inclusion standard, also known as a DAIS, and how um DPS implemented it to improve access to digital services to for all users.

So in April 2024, the Department of Justice introduced a new rule requiring state and local governments to follow the 2018 web content accessibility guidelines.

This ensures that people with disabilities uh can fully access online content and services.

Um the purpose of the DAIS is to improve the online experience for people with disabilities, individuals with limited English proficiency, and those who rely on mobile devices.

It outlines what city departments must do to make their digital programs services and information accessible to everyone.

We have to comply with the United States Department of Justice web content accessibility guidelines that were put out.

We also had to comply with the city's equitable design requirements and provide vital information for the public in plain language and comply with the city's language access ordinance.

So with that, we had to first assemble a DPA DICE team, which consisted of myself, Erico, and Nicole Armstrong.

And with that, we attended trainings that DICE put on, and they were probably every week, every couple weeks for an hour and a half to two hours.

So with that, we had to deconstruct DPA's website.

So we literally had to review every link that was on our website that took it to an that took people to another link.

We had to also review every document to make sure that it was compliant and that people with disabilities not only able to read it, but they were able the colors had to be compatible so people with disabilities would be able to read it, so screen readers would be able to that were reading it with a screen would be able to read the content in addition to the different languages.

We still kept our transparency commitment.

So everything that was on our website, we kept it, we just put it into an archive so that if anyone wanted to see it, they can still go there and see it.

And if they for some reason cannot look at it or can't view it or understand it, they can always we have a number on there and an email that they can contact us.

So with that said, DPA's website is now, oh, and we did um DPA's website now meets all of DICE standards, and we completed the task a month before the original due date was April 24th, 2026, and we finished in March.

Now they extended it, but we finished it early, a month early.

So I would invite all the commissioners, Chief Lou, to go to our website and please experiment with it.

And if there is something that is not compliant or that you don't understand or doesn't work, please feel free to let us know.

But we think we're really proud of it.

So if anyone has any questions, Nicole Armstrong, we didn't want to leave her out, we'll answer any questions that anybody may have.

Technology is really, really needed, and and um it's gonna be from what I read, it's definitely gonna help the public, it's definitely gonna help um uh build more concise reports for people to understand, and I like the fact that it's even um uh uh leveled down enough for eight to ten eight to ten grader um could even um access this and and uh fill in the information that they need to fill in, um, and to bring it up down to that level where the public can have use of uh of this because it with technology that's the way we're going.

So this is gonna help tremendously for the community and the public.

Um I know for myself 20 years ago when it happened to me, I didn't know what the heck to do or how to fill out the papers they gave me, and there was no instruction.

There was, you know, you somebody put you in a room and you gave you some forms and you have to complete them.

But this here is definitely a great improvement, and um uh I'm really happy to see that we're moving forward with technology.

So are there going to be any training for the public uh for those who're gonna be needing these services to to show them uh or to give them some instruction on you know an information uh session or something like that for the public?

Um we hadn't discussed that um as far as the training, but if it's needed, then we'll definitely discuss it with um director Henderson and you know bring it to maybe the um police or to the district um stations or something, or I um or I don't know if instructions on the website would actually help, but we're open to suggestions and comments so um yeah, and the reason I ask that question is because we have um a lot of uh seniors and a lot of elderly people, um folks that are just coming home from mass incarceration, people who want to um give out reports or report something, but they don't know how.

They don't know how to do that.

So um I think that something like this would be very, very um good to perhaps um give at the town hall meetings or any type of educational um event that's coming up.

Um does Juneteenth coming up, maybe have an information booth on this.

I just think this is something that's very vital that the public should be aware of and know about, um, and the more information that is shared with them would be great, would be good for the community, and and more people will come forward and and and knowing how to report stuff.

Because nine times out of ten, people see something, we tell people see something, say something, but a lot of them don't know how to do that.

So this is definitely gonna be a great asset.

So thank you for this.

Thank you.

It's it's greatly needed.

And we haven't um we still have other methods for I know a lot of people like to go on to the computer and and do their complaint forms, but we still also have that they can we have uh that they could call in, they can come into our our office and file a complaint.

So this is in addition, I do think that you know training would be good, and but we also that's not to say that that's the only way that they can file a complaint.

Commissioner, Mr.

Director Henderson.

Thank you.

Uh just in response to the training, part of the, there's no specific training on how to read the website.

However, uh, it's one of the things, and this whole relaunch is part of this is why I've been mentioning this DAIS process.

I think this is probably the sixth or seventh time that it's I've brought it up and commissioned.

Uh, but the rules codifying what we're doing and how we're trying to do it, can be found at DOJ, the legislation outlining why it's heated and what needed to be done.

But this is a combination of federal, state, and local regulation that reinterprets everyone's website.

This is what everyone is supposed to be doing with their website.

We just focused on it because that transparency is so important to the folks that engage specifically with us and our audience.

I believe it's part of the reasons why the uh complainant numbers as well have gone up because it's so easy to understand and how to reach us to get information to the agency.

I will say uh that even though many of the rules uh demanding this standard be used has now been extended.

We really we at DPA really wanted to make sure that it got done as quickly as possible because it's part of our charter obligations and part of our mission to make sure that people can easily read our stuff.

And one of the things that we wanted to make sure, just to avoid any confusion, was after we did this entire review and revamp of all of our reports and records, and again, this was a Herculean process.

Keep in mind that our records also include uh 1421 mandates and obligations that we were able to republish or relaunch everything, in addition to keeping the past records that people may have been more familiar with in the past, so from months ago or from last year, you can still see those old records in the way that they were contained in the past as well.

You just have now a clarity in terms and a consistency in terms of where the rest of the city is going for all of these websites, are all going to at least look similar in terms of how the information is presented uh to the public.

It's easier to read, it's uh presented in a number of different agents uh languages.

Uh we still kept some of the things that were unique to DPA, like our portal tracking, so that people can kind of go through the website to track the complaint that they've made to uh the agency, and like I said, there's still the history of the information from the old website that's available as well.

You can also now see this information across all devices in the past.

You wouldn't necessarily be able to go into these records or see things on the website if you didn't have a certain type of phone, or if you were working on a different type of iPad or a different type of device, uh laptop, whatever, uh a home computer, and you can now print a lot of that information on your own as well.

The things that we tried to keep in mind when doing this project was some of the expansions of the agency now is including um iPads that are we're moving towards a project that's going to put that information inside uh our jails as well, so that people will be able to see it, and the new standards will also make the information on the website more accessible to younger audiences as well.

You heard that they moved that down so that more people can understand and see it.

I think that speaks to a lot of the juvenile issues that are also part of the work that we do at DPA as well.

So it does look a little bit different, and you will also see some of those differences already in the annual report and the quarterly report that many of you have already reviewed and seen.

And so you'll see it's the same information, you're not getting less information, it's just packaged differently so that it's more accessible to a broader audience.

That's it.

Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

Now, can you?

This was a lot of work doing all of this.

It's a small department, and it was not easy to get all of this done, but I think it's gonna make a difference, and it's it will continue to pay its rewards as more and more people find the information more accessible and helpful for them to use.

So thank you.

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

There's no public comment.

Line item 10 presentation on the crisis intervention teams 2025 annual report discussion.

Good evening, Chief Lou, President Clay, Vice President Benedicto, Commissioners, and Director Paul Henderson.

I am Lieutenant Don Anderson, and I am the officer in charge of the crisis intervention team, and I'm going to be giving a brief overview of our crisis intervention team 2025 annual report.

Before I get into the report, I just wanted to thank the commission and Director Henderson for all of the support, continued support of the CIT program.

And thank you for those that have continued to come to the CIT Awards last week.

That is to me one of the biggest events for the CIT uh group, and uh it was it was great.

And last year when we did it, I asked myself, how can we make it better?

And now I'm asking myself, well, how could we make it better next year?

So thank you very much for that.

So the areas that I'm gonna just cover uh that was in our annual report.

Uh, these are the uh four main areas of what the CIT program covers.

So we cover training, our field unit that is out on the field and uh does field visits.

Uh we also have our liaison program and then the CIT working group that we continue to work with.

I want to address train training first.

Uh so 2025 training, uh there's two main courses that we train our officers in.

We have the one-day CIT course, and then we have our four-day CIT course.

The four-day CIT course is the course that certifies our officers, and that's when they get the CIT pin over their nameplate.

They've been certified.

And so for 2025, when we look at our one-day course, we were able to complete three recruit classes and we had a total of six lateral classes, uh, hundred and forty-two members.

Uh this year so far, we've completed uh one recruit class and two lateral classes.

We now have three recruit classes that are uh scheduled for the remainder of the year.

And as far as lateral classes go, uh, we don't get those right away.

It's as they come up, then they are scheduled.

Um I would assume that we're gonna have a similar number with the lateral classes how we've been pushing them out.

When it comes to our four-day course, uh last year we completed five courses.

When we look at SFPD personnel, there were 62 SAP personnel that were certified.

Uh we had 28 from partnered agencies, so we get various agencies that come to our CAT training.

Uh SF State officers come to our training, we get Golden Gate Bridge Patrol.

Uh, we now have BART police, they have reached out, they would like to start coming to our training as well.

And so uh various ANGES agencies like the Sheriff's Department would also come.

So those are the partnered agencies that we also have in our training.

When we look forward to this year, uh we've completed three classes so far.

Uh 50 SFPD officers have been trained.

We have 20 partner agencies that we've trained.

Uh we have six scheduled classes, so that would have given us nine classes for this year.

So we've upped the number in our courses.

And when I look at these numbers here, I as you can see last year, it doesn't look like very many officers were certified.

And I think this is a little bit of the department's been working really hard and rebuilding the ranks.

And when we came into 2026, it was the first time that we've seen the uptick in our officers.

And I think when we see those numbers now rising, we're gonna see more numbers of our officers coming to training.

I'm actually really excited for this year because I think we've been kind of stagnant at about I think 70, 76, 78% of our patrol personnel, and the goal has always been let's get 100% of patrol trained.

I think that's gonna exceed 80% by the end of 2026.

So we're looking really good.

I've just looked at how many officers are registered for the future classes, and I already have about 70 officers that are registered for those classes.

So it's looking really good this year.

Now one of the other areas that the CIT unit focuses on is our partnerships.

And so our strongest partnerships are Department of Public Health, Comprehensive Crisis Services, and the Fire Department SCRT Street Crisis Response Team.

And so we have developed these relationships over the years, and they're very good where we respond out to multiple calls with those other agencies.

We have a clinician from comprehensive crisis services that works in our office two days out of the week.

And when we're planning our field visits out on the field, we like to plan those around the time that we have the clinician in the office because it's nice to have a doctor when we're going out to visit folks out on the field.

If we don't have the clinician with us, either she's on vacation or she's just not in the office, because we have the partnerships with comprehensive crisis services, we're able to call them and schedule these visits ahead of time so we can have a clinician out on the field with us.

So it's just again very nice to have a clinician out there with us when we're doing our visits.

And then with Street Crisis Response Team, I know originally when they were designed, it was an approach for a non-law enforcement approach to crisis calls, which we fully support.

Not all calls should have police officers out there, and the fire department is handling that very well.

There are some cases that they do receive where the individual may have weapons or there's a history of violence towards their personnel, and those are the times that they reach out to our unit specifically to have us go out and do field visits with them.

So these are the times that we are working together with those various units.

Now, another program that we've had for several years now is the CIT liaison program.

And if you're unfamiliar with that what that program is, there are two officers at every district station that are considered the CIT liaisons.

They are the officers that work closer to the CIT unit, and why this was designed was the officers who are working at their district stations, they know their stations, their districts better because they're out there, they're out on the field.

They knew who they're coming in contact with, they know who the officers are coming in contact with, and so we give them the tools to try to help individuals that they come across out on the field when officers at those districts are going and seeing those individuals.

Sometimes officers at the districts can't manage it because you know maybe it's generating several calls for service and they need some support.

That's when the liaison unit reaches out to the CIT unit, and we then focus our attention to help those liaisons officers.

I just want to give an example of how that worked out for us uh few months back.

We had a uh critical incident where it was mental health related, uh, individual was suspected of some crimes as well.

Um various units responded out to this critical incident.

We had the uh SWAT team, negotiators were out there.

Um eventually this individual was taken into custody for that incident.

Um, few weeks later, the individual was released and back at his home, and members of the community started to see signs of this individual where they felt something's going wrong, um, he may need a visit from somebody else.

Can we get some help?

It was the liaison officers that were paying attention, and they saw that this was happening, and they immediately reached out to the CIT unit and said, That critical incident we had a few weeks ago.

Well, we think that another one may be brewing if we don't do something now.

And so we worked with the CIT liaison officers, worked with our comprehensive crisis services, went out, visited this individual, and we were able to now get this individual resources and safely detain that individual without any use of force.

And so that's how this program works and why we still continue to push this program.

So I just wanted to give you an example of how it works for us.

Now, for years we've been working with our CIT working group, David in the back here, and there are many others that work with us.

And so I do want to personally thank the working group.

It is a voluntary job for them where they are meeting with me once a month.

And we are just looking at various ways where we could improve the CIT program, looking at policies, looking at training, and I think over the years we have a national model.

There are many agencies reaching out to San Francisco asking us what we are doing and how they can improve their CIT programs.

And so I do want to thank the working group for the time that they spend with us in making us who we are today.

And I think that is a lot from the work that we collaborate with them.

So I do want to extend that thanks to the working group.

Some of the work group members are also instructors that teach for us in our four-day course.

As you saw, if you were at the last CIT awards, our keynote speaker, Sheridan, she is one of our instructors, and so they help in various ways just like that.

So I do want to thank them.

Now going into the stats, so this just kind of gives you an idea of the number of crisis calls that we the SFPD has responded to in 2025.

So in 2025, uh just over 24,000 crisis calls.

It was not too far away from what we saw the previous year, so it's just off by a few hundred.

And then we break down the calls by the various types of calls, but we're just looking at that big number right there of the 24,000 crisis calls or what our units are uh our members are responding to.

The other thing I want to point out is how many mental health detentions uh we have placed in 2025.

And I look at these numbers and being involved with the CIT program for well over 10 years now, uh, 10 years ago, uh, that number was much higher.

We were closer to 5,000 um mental health holds a year, and now we're just under 2,000 mental health uh detentions a year.

And I think it's a lot of different things that uh have occurred over the years where we are seeing the numbers drop.

Uh, one, our officers are better trained on identifying when somebody actually needs to be placed on a mental health hold, and two, our officers are better trained in getting resources other than law enforcement placing those holds.

So I think those are the big reasons.

And then we have the other agencies that are out there like the Street Crisis Response Team that respond out to the call.

So I think all of that together is why we've seen that significant drop.

Now, when we look at uh use of force in these incidents uh in 2025, there were only 69 reports of use of force or use of force incidents, and when you actually break that down of the 24,000 calls for service, that means 99.9% of the time, officers are not using force.

That speaks volumes when I see numbers like that.

And it's not something that you typically see.

I'm like a lot of the times we typically hear when things go wrong, and I think that's uh, you know, a number that we should be really proud of, that we aren't using much force when it comes to mental health calls.

And then I further break it down to well, of the mental health detentions, this is where we are forcing somebody now to go to the hospital of those forced mental health detentions, 96% of the time we're not using force on those individuals.

That's also very huge to see a number like that.

Um I have a um he's a captain who retired from LAPD that I also work very closely with, and he worked in their CIT program, and we were discussing these numbers.

And he laughed when I said that because he says, you know, I did the same thing you did, and our numbers were the same.

So he goes, it's really interesting to see that LA and San Francisco are very similar in those numbers.

So I just want to share that with you.

Now a couple of things I just want to highlight from 2025, a couple of couple of major incidents for us.

So post came out and audited our four-day course.

And of my entire time on the CIT program, I've never seen posts audit this the four day course.

So this was the first time that we had posts come out.

And so we were a little nervous, you know, it's the first time that we're under the microscope.

And after the course was completed, it was it was all good news.

Very minor things that they suggested, and they were more administrative changes, but overall they were very happy with the program that we have here in San Francisco.

We were featured in Cal Matters.

They wanted to do an article.

Now the article was focused more of an incident that happened out of Sacramento.

The piece that they wrote on San Francisco was they wanted to come to our one day course and observe what we were training our officers in that one day course, and they highlighted uh the training that our officers are going through here and how successful that's been.

Uh we also delivered CIT training to Livingston PD.

It's the first time that we went out of San Francisco to deliver training to another agency.

Um did get their approval to do that.

And uh the agency is much smaller, it was about 30 officers that we trained in two days, so it was kind of cool to share our knowledge with another police agency and share that.

Last year we also revised DGO 614.

I came in front of the commission to talk about the changes there, and I think the big change was we wanted to um decriminalize uh mental health where we were getting rid of that stigma, and we talked more about using resources versus having officers respond to the calls if possible.

So another um big accomplishment.

Um in 2025, uh I was overseeing crisis intervention, and then I was appointed to oversee our hostage crisis negotiation team.

That's been great to have uh both units under my umbrella now because about 70% of the calls that our hostage crisis team responds to are crisis related calls.

So, what that means is when there's a critical incident and our negotiators are going out there, we now can follow up almost immediately because I already knew about the incident, and we are now following up on the case.

Most of the officers in the CIT unit are negotiators as well, so they're pretty much in the know what's going on, but I think it's really enhanced our approach on doing follow-ups on individuals out on the field.

Uh, another major accomplishment was we for the first time got to present at the 2025 International CIT conference in Anaheim.

So we discussed a case study at here in San Francisco and a little bit of what we do, and um they were very pleased with our presentation out there.

And then another big not I mean, we've been doing this for a while, but I think it's expanded a little bit more.

So we're expanding more on behavioral threat announcement and management.

And you may ask yourself, what is that?

Uh, there are some cases that we come across where an individual has not committed a crime, yet they're exhibiting signs of mental health, where potentially they can be a danger to the public.

And our unit starts to follow those individuals to see what resources that we could get that individual before they become the next tragedy.

Uh, what we want to prevent is a mass shooting, and so that's a lot of what we do with BTAM, and so the CIT unit has been doing a lot more of those cases, and uh we work very closely with our SID unit as well.

They're the ones that are usually handing it off to us saying, Hey, there's no crime here, can you guys look into it for the mental health?

So another thing that we expanded on in 2025.

And in closing, I I want to share this with you.

Um, as I look back at what CIT was and what it looks now, in 2021, that's when we really started crisis intervention training here in San Francisco, and really the focus was training.

And our focus is still training.

We want to deliver the best training to our officers.

But this is what it looks like today and what we're doing now, where we're out on the field with our team.

We're still continuing to deliver the training, and we are also consulting with members of the community.

This is where our we get that collaboration with the community, not just with the working group.

I like to think of it, this is our community engagement.

We have the zoo that just reached out, they want training for their staff because they're starting to see individuals that are a little unruly and they're like, Can you give us any tips and tricks?

And so as a way to give back to the community, our unit goes out and delivers an hour or two training on de-escalation and things that can help them out.

And then we tell them other resources that they can use as well, not just the police, but the other resources they have out there.

And so, in closing the numbers that I shared with you, I really want to think it's the officers out on the field.

You know, the CIT unit, we're we're just a small portion of the department right now, and it's really the members of our department that's doing the phenomenal work that you see up on the board, all the numbers that you see.

So I I want to thank the members of the department for the outstanding work they do.

I think the crisis intervention team awards shows that when you watch those videos.

Unfortunately, they could not come tonight.

They were at a six o'clock in the morning training today, so they're all at home right now.

Um so I just wanted to thank them for the work that they do, and I will take any questions if there are any questions.

Thank you and commend you for the amazing work that you and your unit do.

You may be small, but you are extremely mighty, and I think that that speaks volumes.

I think some of my most memorable times on the commission with going to CIT uh awards and just feeling not only seeing the amazing work you did, but just the energy in the room.

I've also been able to participate in some of the CIT working groups, which also have I think a very infectious and uh uh vibe and uh spirit to them, and it's very it's always filled with robust conversation, and I see the back and forth emails regarding the stuff that this that's discussed at the working groups and how uh the your your department incorporates those and listens to the community, so it's a really great thing.

So, wanted to come in and congratulate you and your team on that.

Uh, one of the things I had uh questions about, and I'm really also want to congratulate you on the ability to increase the 40 hour training amongst officers because I know that that was a huge struggle for the department to complete the 40 hour training given time the shortage of staffing and time constraints and taking officers away in order to participate in this very useful and instrumental training.

So great job on that.

One of the things I saw your stats on the 2025 training, and I appreciate that.

Is it am I understanding it that the training, the CIT training, you take the officers after they've come out of the academy and are um newly integrated into the patrol?

Is that the idea?

So the one-day training is delivered while they're in the academy.

So they do receive some training in the academy.

They actually get a few hours of training, they get uh an LD 37 that focuses on mental health, and then they get our one-day training.

After they've come out of the academy and they've now completed FTO, they could then go into the four-day course.

We want them to complete all the way through FTO before they go to the four-day course.

Okay, perfect.

Are there other areas in the academy training that um can you can incorporate more CIT type of training?

Have you looked at that curriculum for the academy training and are there areas that you can insert?

I will say uh the academy today is a lot different when I came in 20 years ago.

Um and so there are other units like um our uh force options field tactics unit.

Right, they incorporate a lot of de-escalation training as well, and I work very closely with their unit as well.

So it's not like we're giving two different messages.

We are giving the same message.

They're talking about de-escalation in their training.

I'm talking about use of force in our training.

So we want to make sure we're on the same page when we're dealing with so they're getting it in other areas of what as well, just not with my in it the entire time.

I want to commend and congratulate you again as well as Commissioner De Jesus, because this was her vision, and it's so great to see it come into fruition.

So congratulations.

Thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Um, I just want to commend uh the CIT team um um for all the hard work that you guys have done and and the things that you have accomplished over the years.

Um we've come a long way, a very long way, um, because I know I was one of those members out in the community at that time when the crisis hit, we were the first ones on the scene, and um and because of that and uh organizations like Brothers Against Guns with Sean Richard, um S VIP, you know, Lynn Westry and SFPDH, um SFDPH, and um others, um, is is I feel really strongly that the CIT today is what it is because of like you say, all your community partners and everybody involved.

So I just commend everything that you guys are doing.

As I said, we've come a long way.

I remember some of the incidents that took place years ago, and it was not what it is today.

Um, and so uh it's really good to see that.

And I also see that you have two trained patrol officers for each of the 10 districts.

The liaison program.

That's the liaison program.

Two?

Yes, yeah.

And I was just thinking for districts like the tender lawn and south southern station and other areas where there's a more high volume of of um, you know, um mental health issues and things of that nature.

Are you going to increase um offices in those areas?

Um, you know, for for to handle those situations, or it's just gonna be two per district.

Um, um per our policy right now, it's two per district, but it's something that we can discuss about upping the numbers if they see that the need.

Okay, thank you.

Um, and I like also that you that 99% of all the crisis-related calls is resolved without force.

Um I like the the and the 96%, uh, 96.1% of mental health uh detentions resolved without force.

That is incredible.

As I said, we've come a very long way.

That is commendable.

Um, and so I'm just happy to see that and hear that because I know in other places uh they don't have what we have here in San Francisco.

So I commend you and uh the CIT team and all the uh organizations out there that help support this to make this happen, because as I said, um 10 20 years ago this wasn't the case, it was not good, but we have come along with and have learned so much, and so thank you, and thank you to all of our partners out there and everybody um that come together to make that make this happen.

And this is why the percentage rate is what it is.

So thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you very much, Lieutenant, for that excellent report, and I'll echo everything that my fellow commissioners have said about the great success of the program.

Um first, I wanted to acknowledge something that that Mr.

Lewis had said about the recent CIT awards, and it was similar to a remark I made to then Chief Scott, the last CIT awards, where every one of those incidents, so many of them would have been uh resulting in an OIS in previous years, and the fact that we have the de-escalation.

Like I I remember just talk pulling the Chief Scott aside after one of the CIT awards, uh I think like all of these would have been OASs in previous years, and the fact that you've seen CIT work, and yeah, like I said, it really does save lives.

Um, I know in the last, I think it was two years ago, there was an issue with some the already, I mean, again, it's a small department, but mighty or a small unit, but mighty there's a lot of work, but there was some there was uh it was more shorthanded than you'd hoped, and there was some additional allocation of some staffing.

What how do you feel about how the staffing of the unit looks like looks like now, uh right now in the unit, we there's myself and then I have seven officers in the unit right now.

Um we've made a request for additional officers, but as we are having up, you know, recruits come through the academy and they're graduating, uh, that's when officers can then go to other specialized units.

So it it does come down to staffing for the department.

I believe the chief could talk more about how that works.

Um but it it is we're trying to get to a certain level for patrol.

You know, patrol is the backbone, and that's where we need to make sure that our focus is.

And once patrol is at a good place, then we could focus on the uh course.

Yeah.

But so it's no longer the case.

I know there was a period, I think it was maybe a little over two years ago, where I believe some members of the CIT working group, even uh a number of them attended to talk about the sort of dire uh situation when it came to the unit staffing.

And thankfully some of that was alleviated, is that correct?

Yeah, I think you're talking maybe about two, three years ago.

There was a point where there were only three members in the unit, and yes, uh that they needed more help at that time.

They could not do the work that we're doing today.

And um that was rectified where I I do have more staffing than the three that they had.

That's good to hear.

Um, you know, one thing that has been a uh constant goal as Commissioner Elias has pointed to is increasing that number of those who've done the four-day course.

That's been something we we've talked about for multiple years.

Uh I know it's been in that kind of 70.

I mean, I I was very glad that we're now putting consistently at 100% for the one day.

That was uh a long fight.

I'm glad to see that it's not like you said we're uh that we're making progress on the four-day.

Are there any strategies to sort of get us like what would it take to make both those numbers 100?

Which I ask every year when we get this annual report.

So right now I've been closely monitoring all the courses that we have, and so we our next four-day course is gonna be at the beginning of July.

That course is already full.

And so uh that's what I'm looking for.

And so the next course is at the end of July.

Uh it's not as full.

Uh, and as we get closer, that's when I start looking at the district stations to see who's sending personnel.

I personally then reach out to the district captains asking if they're able to send any of their personnel who has not received the training, and they have a list of those names.

Um, and it does come down to do they have the staffing.

It really does come down to that.

Is it ever uh a limiting factor on your ability?

Like in the course of a year, are your courses so full that there are a number of officers that want to do the four day, but there's just no spots, or is it just more can we pull officers off staffing wise to do the four day like where where their bottlenecks?

La last course uh I was actually quite surprised.

We were maxed out and I had at least three, four other officers wanting to get into that course, and I had to turn them down.

There are uh post limits.

I can't exceed a certain number, and so we had already got to the number that I could not exceed, and so they did go into other courses, but that was the first time that I had people wanting to get into the class, and I had to tell them no.

Yeah, that's great to hear.

I think if that happens more consistently, then we've identified, okay, that's something that needs to be resolved.

But that that's that's a good problem to have at this stage.

Uh one thing that I wanted to raise now that we've made so much progress to get to 100 on the one day and 72% last year on on the four day, is is there data showing?

Uh, and I won't put you on the spot to find this data, and maybe it's something you can look into, but this has come up in the past of sort of how long, like the average amount of time since they've taken it.

I think it's come up at times where we've had uh incidents where you know maybe there was no OIS, we looked to see which of these officers did the CIT, and like, oh, this many did, but it turns out it was 10 years ago.

Was that they were in that first class and never refreshed it.

For those of us that are attorneys on the panel, we're required to do our annual continual education.

Is there is there a way now that we've started to make a lot of progress on the the bottleneck number to start to look into all right, like what's average age, how many officers are is there is there a four-day course or one day course, you know, five years or older, and maybe want to ask if they want to do a refresher or or something like that.

Like, is that something that the unit can look into?

We are actually talking about that right now.

So our grant unit is looking into getting us a grant to deliver more training, and one of the things that we would be doing is putting together a refresher course.

So would it be a four-day class?

I think that is what uh one of the big reasons why we were having such a hard time is we're taking officers off of the street for four days, that's a whole week.

And if we get a one or two-day refresher course, we're able to fill those classes much easier.

And so we are talking about if we're able to get this grant, what this new updated course would look like.

So it we are actually talking about it right now.

That's great.

I look I look forward to hearing more about that because I think that's now that so much of the department has done that baseline.

I think the next thing is making sure that it's refreshed and that it's reflective of new developments.

I'm sure the CIT course in 2016 is different from the CIT course that is being taught today just because of the the advances and what what we've learned about behavior.

So uh thank you for that.

Those are all my questions.

Thank you.

Commissioner Techie.

Thank you, President Clay.

Um, I have to say congratulations on the award ceremony and also great presentation.

Um, as a person who works in Tenderloin, I see it all the time.

Uh, that uh we have so many incidents and I was not surprised to see a couple of the incidents that happened in Tenderloin was uh the offices were awarded, and I recognize many of the officers who were on the scene there, and some of them in the night.

Um I also want to take this opportunity to recognize David Elliott Lewis.

I know I wouldn't have known about this many years ago if not for David, who was volunteering in a program where he was working with us.

And he I want to say thank you to his uh work.

He's he's stuck with you all for a long time, seems like one of the few working group members, I'm assuming, who still continue to uh push through.

So I just wanted to recognize that, and I also want to recognize all the community partners that you have and also the working group members who are volunteering their time, which is I recognize once a month is still a lot to ask.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for your presentation.

I just want to end with the all the information you've provided and all the questions asked by our commissioners at the end of the uh presentations uh uh on uh on the 28th.

I talk with the keynote speaker, the woman from Sacramento.

And one of the things I talked about and thought about were you guys in terms of monetizing what you do, and you just talked about grant unit and that's continued education.

You guys, you that your team is the gold standard, and in some way or another, we would be the people who would give this type of training to either Northern or Southern California and to get a state grant because it's so important for policing in our state of California.

This is exactly what the legislature likes.

I know I've been up there, I've talked to those folks.

This would be a great thing for not only San Francisco does shine, but the fact that we have this expertise and they might as well pay for it in our time and do it, and we can get our own education with our other other folks.

But I I'm her and I are gonna talk again, and I'm gonna see what I can do with her, and she's really she was really interested in that discussion.

So I'll let you guys know, okay.

Thank you.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item 10, please approach the podium.

Thank you, commissioners, for having this hearing and for allowing uh Lieutenant Anderson to present in person.

Much appreciated to you all, and thank you, Commissioner Techie, for your your kind comments.

Um I'm uh as as I mentioned, I'm a been involved with the working route for 10 years.

I've done training, stand-up training in the CIT training program, but I want to talk about just one aspect of CIT that is an opportunity indeed that could even work better.

So CIT is training and it's field response.

And I want to just talk about the field response.

One of the things that really makes field response effective in some of the hardest cases is co-responding, is responding with a clinician.

Right now we have one halftime clinician who has twenty gives us twenty hours per week.

We had an allocation for up to five of Department of Public Health clinicians.

Near the end of the final years of his term, he uh asked Department of Public Health to allocate five clinical psychologists to work with the CIT program as co-responders.

Well, we never quite achieved the five.

We had three or four, I think, at one time.

It's an important goal, and it's important to make it happen.

To make this happen, though, will require support probably from the mayor's office.

It'll require support from DPH, and or of course, are from our chief, Chief Lou.

But one possible alternative solution is for the police department just to hire their own clinicians.

They could do that.

They could hire clinicians directly and not have to be dependent on another city agency to loan them or give them clinicians.

So there's a lot of moving parts to make this work, but the benefits are immense to make this work.

So I just wanted to call that out.

More to say, but my time is out.

Thank you.

I don't look at anything as an accident or by chance.

The fact that I was fighting for my community before my son Yalani, Prince Yalani Yemas Chinyama Rende from the House of Zimbabwe, Africa.

What I have experienced is as a mother of a murdered child in 2015.

To be very honest, we had no support in Bayview.

We were on our own.

All their cases is unsolved.

I am really one of the only ones that case was solved because I fought for it.

The hypocrisy of it all.

Started an organization called the Black and Browns.

No one came and helped me.

After 10 years, two weeks later, I had a stroke once I fought for the trial.

And yet, you sit on this seat.

It hurts because we hear everyone speak for us, but it's not a reality.

Vivian Ellis haven't even gotten a stone head for her job.

Thank you, but your two minutes is up.

Thank you.

Line item 11.

Public comment on all matters pertaining to item thirteen below closed session, including public comment on item 12, a vote whether to hold item thirteen in closed session, and public comment on item 14, a vote whether to disclose any or all discussion on item thirteen held in closed session.

If you'd like to make public comment regarding line item eleven, please approach the podium.

And there is no public comment.

Sergeant, before you call line item twelve, I will be recusing myself in the abundance of caution due to financial and familial ties.

As such, upon the advice of the city attorney, I will be recusing and abstaining from voting on I line items twelve, thirteen A and fourteen.

Do we need to vote to go into closed session?

Do we need a motion for that?

Yeah.

It will also let you all take a recess to maybe function a little bit.

We'll take how about ten-minute reset for you.

Vote twelve.

No, yes, call that.

Gotta call it.

All right.

Line item twelve.

A vote on whether to hold item thirteen in closed session pursuant to California government code sections five four nine five six D one and five four nine five seven B one in San Francisco administrative code section sixty seven point one zero B and sixty seven point one zero D one.

Action.

Motion to hold item twelve in closed session.

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

Aye.

Commissioner Lowe is aye.

Commissioner Techie?

I Commissioner Techie is aye.

Commissioner Scott?

Aye.

Commissioner Scott is aye.

Commissioner Leon?

Yes.

Commissioner Leung is yes.

Vice, I'm sorry, um, Commissioner Elias is recused.

Vice President Benedicto?

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have six yeses.

We will go into close session.

About a ten minute recess while we're closing.

San Francisco Government Television.

Um Alors San Francisco government television.

Well, I don't know what I'm saying.

No, no, no, I don't know.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Well, I don't know.

And TV.

San Francisco television.

San Francisco government television.

Vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item thirteen called in close session.

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

Motion to not disclose closed session.

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

There is none on the motion, Commissioner Lowe.

How do you vote?

Commissioner Lowe is aye, Commissioner Techie.

I'm sure techie is yes.