One nation under all individual liberty justice.

And there are no minutes that are on the paper.

Where are the minute?

May I call Rose, sir?

Commissioner Lowe?

Here.

Commissioner Lowe present.

Commissioner Scott.

Commissioner Scott present.

Commissioner Leong?

Here.

Commissioner Leon present.

Commissioner Benedicto?

Here.

Commissioner Elias is in route.

Vice President Techie.

Here.

Vice President Techie present and Commissioner Clay is present.

Also with us tonight, we have Director of DPA, Paul Henderson, as well as Chief of Police, Derek Liu.

All right.

Thank you, Sergeant.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

Here we are to the July 8th meeting, Commission meeting.

We're going to begin with the first matter of order.

Line item one, weekly officer recognition certificate.

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

Officer Gerald Bernal, star number 2060 of the San Francisco Airport Bureau.

I know some of you have come down to the airport, so I know you guys are coming around, so please come and see us at the airport.

Based on his outstanding service to a member of the public at the San Francisco International Airport on May 31st, 2026.

On that day, a traveler arriving from an international flight discovered that her, that she had accidentally left the bag containing approximately $400 worth of essential medication at another terminal.

Having been awake for more than 31 hours and facing an eminent connection.

She was understandably overwhelmed, frustrated, and concerned that the medication will be lost.

After contacting the airport police through the courtesy phone, Officer Bernal promptly responded and calmly listened to the traveler concerns.

Using the limited information provided, Officer Bernal quickly assessed the situation, determined the likely location of the mission medication, and immediately took action.

Despite the time constraint, excuse me, despite the time constraints and the complexity of navigating multiple terminals.

Officer Burnell personally responded to the area, located the mission medication, and returned it to the traveler before the departure of her connecting flight.

His efforts not only recovered valuable medication but also revealed significant stress, relief, significant stress and anxiety for the traveler and her family.

The traveler later submitted a letter of commendation describing Officer Bernal's professionalism, kind, patient, and compassionate.

She expressed immense gratitude for his determination and dedication, noting that she had all but given up hope of recovering the medication before Officer Burnell arrived with their recovered property in hand.

One interaction at a time.

Officer Bernal's action reflects the highest standards of the San Francisco Police Department.

His commitment to public service, problem solving, ability, ingenuity concern for the well-being of others, exemplifies the professionalism and compassion we strive to provide to all who visit San Francisco and the San Francisco International Airport.

It is my honor to recognize Officer Bernal as this week officer of the week.

Officer Bernal, I know earlier you say, you know, this is what we do every single day, and he's right.

That's what officers, not only at the airport, San Francisco.

We do it every single day.

Unfortunately, you know, no reports done, we just go on to our next call and it's assignment.

But that's pretty much the benchmark while our officers.

And then we talk to them, and it goes, Cat, what are you talking about?

That's what we do every single day.

And it's true.

That's what our officers do every single day.

So congratulations on your excellent work.

Thank you, Kat.

Officer Brunell, go ahead, please.

Hello.

Hello.

Well, thank you for the recognition.

Um appreciate your time.

I mean, this really is what we do, what I try to do on a daily basis, and um that's all I can say.

Just try to do my best.

I'm glad my best worked out for her at this time.

So thank you.

Well, wait a minute.

I think I want to thank you for your service there out there in the airport.

I've been out there, I spent about three hours out there learning the mazes of the airport, all the different things that happened to the airport, where you go, the nips and crannies, the private areas, and that's a big place to be.

There's a lot of things happening people don't know about.

And to at this time, when you in this particular incident, what you did, being able to maneuver and find the medication for a person who was going to be in need to get on a plane.

I mean, I'm amazed how you were able to find it, because even everybody who's been out there, if you're talking about all the different airports you could be in and all the different people running back and forth, but the idea is you did that, you did it from your heart, you did because that's what you do, and you didn't come here for praise, but we want to make sure you understand we appreciate and praise the work you do.

So thank you very much, officer.

Thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Yes, I see your humility and um, you know, your compassion and the way that you feel that this is something that you do every day.

You come to work to do it every day and to do your job.

But I just wanted to say you're to be commended and appreciated.

Um, and I commend you, we commend you here as commissioners for a job well done.

Medications is really really crucial and vital to people's lives, and for you to have found them and not housekeeping or someone else, thank God you found them.

Thank God they didn't wind up in the trash.

So I just want to say thank you for your service.

It is highly commendable to do what you do every day.

It is appreciated, and not many people tell you that.

Um, as an officer working at the airport or in any field in San Francisco, but it's just amazing um that you took the time out to do what you did because a life was saved and appreciated.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Benedict.

Thank you so much, President Clay.

Um, thank you so much for your work, officer.

We often hear um this is one of those great examples of that ordinary extraordinary behavior that we see in officers going the extra mile.

Um, and so thank you for your service and for your work resolving this incident.

Chief Lou.

Uh first off, Carlos, thanks for taking the time to nominate Gerald.

Uh Gerald just wanted to say thank you.

Um, usually we're here recognizing you know the typical uh crime fighting type type uh stuff, and so to hear a story where you know you kind of went above and beyond to you know uh relieve someone of of some serious stress with medications and whatnot, and uh that's really cool.

So thanks for going above and beyond on that.

Appreciate it.

Commissioner Techie.

Thank you, officer.

I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for your work in the airport, and also like all of my colleagues who mentioned it seems very ordinary, but it was very helpful for the passengers.

So thank you for your work.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for being here.

Alrighty.

Thank you.

Any public comment on this item?

If you would like to make public comment regarding line item one, yes, line items.

Please approach the podium.

Just the moment.

I do believe I get three minutes for public comment.

Two minutes for public comment.

Well, this says one minute.

If you could correct that, I will begin.

Hello.

My name is Michael Petrellis, and I'm a um gay person committed to police accountability.

And I want to say, which I have said previously to this commission, that whatever amount of time you are going to devote at the top of your meeting to salute police officers, I want the same amount of time devoted to unsolved crimes.

I want you to put out images from the public information department of the police department.

Show us who you are looking for.

Show us a list of the unsolved crimes that you need the public's help with.

It's fine that you're gonna salute the police officers at the beginning of every meeting, you're gonna take photos for propaganda purposes, you're going to allow applause.

When you generally don't allow us to applaud during public comment, and we want to applaud someone saying something uh during public comment from the community.

What crimes haven't been solved that need the public's assistance?

You should be using SFGov TV at the start of every meeting to say person X is wanted for this crime, person Y is wanted for that crime.

Tell us the information you have.

If you have photo or video of this suspect that you are looking for, put it up on the television.

It is not okay that you use this time only to salute yourselves.

The time should also be used to um engage the public to solve crimes.

Thank you.

Hi.

My name is Leah.

I am a transgender resident of San Francisco.

Um, currently in this country, it is a scary time to be trans.

Um, there is a this is for line item one.

Okay.

I don't understand.

We'll get another opportunity to get rid of public.

Thank you.

Okay.

That concludes public comment for line item one.

Line item two.

General public comment.

The public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission commission.

There you go.

Speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole, and not to individual commissioners or department or DPA personnel.

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

Individual commissioners and police and DPA personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment.

So if you would like to make public comment, please line up, and you have two minutes per person.

Thank you.

I apologize for that.

Anyways, my name is Leah.

I am a transgender resident of San Francisco.

Um it is a scary time right now to be trans in this country.

There is a study last year by Plume that showed that 28% of people have moved out of their state or their city in order to find a safe haven somewhere else because of hostility and laws against us.

And San Francisco is supposed to be one of those safe havens.

This is a place that people pride themselves as being a place where trans people can feel safe.

However, during Pride Weekend, on Friday during the trans march, and also the following day during an alleyway party, that has happened every year for a while, without issue.

There was a lot of police violence against the trans community, specifically at these two events.

There are people who were shoved, people were handled aggressively.

I saw people with bruises afterwards.

There's somebody who reported getting a concussion and other injuries.

There were over 20 arrests.

And there's members of the community facing serious felony charges.

And afterwards, it was the trans community that stepped in and raised funds and did mutual aid to keep each other safe.

But that does not absolve the city of San Francisco from our safety.

And I want there to be accountability.

I want there to be the full examination of what happened.

I want concrete changes.

If trans people cannot feel safe in this city in San Francisco, what message does that send to the rest of the country?

If we can't be safe here, we can't be safe anywhere.

Thank you.

Hello.

Similarly, I am here to express my disappointment and my anger regarding the unacceptable conduct of the San Francisco police department during Pride Weekend last month.

We had two days in a row, June 26th and 27th, the Trans March in Stud Alley, where we saw the SFPD fail to conduct themselves appropriately and peacefully in the presence of unarmed transgenders.

And I want to address what happened and demand that you take action because there is no reasonable world where armed police officers should be allowed to instigate violence by charging into an unarmed crowd of thousands, physically assaulting bystanders with batons, guns, and pepper spray, and acting like their responsibility in that moment was to maximize the amount of harm they could deal.

I have similar concerns regarding Stud Alley, but in the interest of time, I'm going to skip that.

And is this on the screen?

Okay.

And reading something like this is kind of an extra slap in the face because from my perspective and that of my peers, it was the police that posed the greatest danger to the queer community during Pride Weekend.

And this comes during a time when we're witnessing a pattern of rising anti-transgender sentiment on both a state and federal level.

We are in California, San Francisco, a transgender sanctuary state and city respectively, but that has not protected us from violence.

And this Pride Weekend was a one example in our world.

Thank you.

Okay.

Can I?

Okay.

No, you're dead.

Thank you.

Oh.

I'm here to express myself about the actions that took place on the Friday of the Trans March.

I moved to San Francisco because it's a safe haven for trans people.

I saw the city as a place where I could thrive, where I could prosper and flourish and be myself finally, without fear of oppression by the government because of who I am.

Events during the Pride March, a city-sanctioned event, however, an event that should be celebrating diversity, showed me that those hopes might not have been false.

I experienced firsthand what I have seen so many times back in Russia.

I have seen police people, policemen, people in uniforms, people who have been sanctioned by the state to protect us, attack us, same as I saw in Russia in so many times.

I saw policemen, police people walk away like so giddy, like there were some proud boys who just got to hurt the minority.

And I live here.

I work here.

I pay my taxes in the city.

And SFPD's action during that Friday were not acceptable.

And department should focus on actually protecting the people and serving the people instead of dressing people up to oppress minorities like us, trans people.

Would you like to comment?

Or do we decline?

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Dahlia, and I'm a proud member, I'm a proud resident of San Francisco and of the Soma neighborhood.

This pat the weekend of pride was quite troubling for our entire community.

Safety is one of those really funny words.

Um and it feels like it's escaping a lot of us as we're seeing a rapid rise in legal trans discrimination, hate crimes, especially towards those of trans women of color.

And day by day, states are implementing devastating laws and trying to eliminate trans people from public life.

And we're even seeing states like Tennessee and the Department of Justice putting together a registry of trans people.

So the crackdown by law enforcement and the crackdown of surveillance is really troubling to us because we can see where this leads, as history has shown.

And that's actually why we started celebrating pride in the first place.

It was a protest against law enforcement, uh all those decades ago at Stonewall.

And we see that echo throughout history.

And it's quite shameful that it happened at the exact place of the Compton's cafeteria riots again this year.

We keep each other safe.

It's our community.

Why were officers pointing rifles at a peaceful legal gathering?

There were children there after all.

Why are we having such a large militarized response to peaceful gatherings?

Why does our law enforcement resemble a militia?

As a SOMA resident, walking outside of my house Saturday evening and seeing drones overhead was extremely unnerving, and it's quite the imagery has stayed with me.

That combined with LPRs, the flock cameras, it has been the realities of living in surveillance state and the worries and anxieties that come along with that have been coming to the forefront, especially with federal action.

And we've seen with flock safety, ICE has ICE and immigration authorities have already started to access this data through other agencies.

And so there are serious concerns with employing these technologies and with the responses.

And in a fiscal crisis, after all, why are we funding harm?

In these incidents, how much was paid in soft overtime?

Why are we cutting services?

Are we these priorities really making our community safer?

For our community, the trans community, the answer is clear.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Millie.

I was here on the Trans March during the 26th of June, and I saw an extreme and excessive amount of force that was displayed towards our community.

All across this country, we are seeing laws put into effect to take our rights away.

And ultimately, we came not only to create a peaceful protest, but to look for a place of joy.

And what we received from the people that are supposed to protect us as well as the people who are supposed to allow us to enjoy this area was a militarized response.

Weapons drawn, rifles drawn, forcing their way through the streets, forcing us to the side, creating fear in a response that was completely unnecessary.

There was absolutely no need for this, and there was absolutely no need for the presence that was there during that trans march.

It was an unacceptable display.

I grew up in this state believing that this was better, believing that we deserved better, believing that we had ultimately more respect than what a lot of the other parts of my community in this country are unfortunately being given.

That showed me that this is not the case.

We were not being shown any amount of respect from the city during that display, and that was unacceptable.

I cannot fathom why there were weapons drawn, why there was such an unnecessary need to push us to the side, why people were assaulted, white people were hit, stamped uh, trampled upon, and ultimately disenfranchised.

This is not the San Francisco I grew up with, and this is not the San Francisco I want going forward.

I implore you to please consider why this was necessary or why more beyond that, why this was unnecessary, and to ask why this happened.

Thank you.

Oh, hello, my name is Kendall.

I'm a proud resident of the Tenderloin, which is the first globally recognized transgender district.

Also the uh setting of the Compton cafeteria riots where our trans ancestors were brutally harassed and assaulted by police officers.

And over Pride Weekend, we participated in a peaceful trans march that was met with aggressive police officers.

Um it was despicable behavior.

And as I stand before a commission of people of color who've also historically been brutalized by police, I encourage you all to empathize with the queer and trans community that has faced similar atrocities.

And um I encourage you all to consider more peaceful ways to control crowds and ensure that we have a safe pride and understand that this city was built um with the intent of creating a safe haven for ostracized and marginalized communities, and that's why we're all here today.

And I appreciate all of the people that are here to speak out against that.

And once again, um I am calling on the board to provide a comment as far as what you got all can do to create a safe environment for the trans and queer community.

Hi.

Um I, like many others, are here to speak about the events that happened on uh June 26th and 27th with the Trans March and Study Alley.

Um I guess my first question is just why was this all that's necessary?

I mean, what is the point of the escalation here?

On Trans March and on Pride of all weekends, all we want is an ability to celebrate ourselves on those weekends.

All of that is that's really all we're asking for.

And you can't even allow us that.

So I guess just like sorry, I kept my notes on my phone.

I mean, you you come out there, riot cops come in on Stud Alley, militarized police come in at Trans March and abuse my community, and then you all wonder why you ain't welcome at Pride.

Y'all wonder why we boo you when you come down the street and why there was like I mean, I remember a few years ago when there was such a controversy when you all tried to come in and because you were banned from Pride that year, and then you came in and you raised such a fuss, and now you're back in there.

But you wonder why that happened in the first place is because of shit like this.

So what I would like to ask for here is some accountability from the all uh from the police department.

Um, and I would like to see an action plan as to how this is not going to happen again.

Thank you.

I'm here for the same reason as many others.

Um, and I just wanted to say that if you're gonna appropriately fulfill the responsibility as members of the police commission, you must hold your police apart department accountable for the excessive and utterly unreasonable use of force against participants in trans and march and stud alley.

The SFPD must acknowledge the unacceptable behavior of its officers, and especially the people who authorize the deployment of those officers.

And the Department of Police Accountability must conduct a serious investigation into the use of excessive force against both trans marchers and pride celebrants at Stud Alley.

Make sure this never happens again.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Adelaide.

I am a resident of the mission district, and we've heard a lot of people speak tonight about their own personal stories, about how they feel the lack of trust and safety that they feel from a department whose role is nominally speaking to keep the city safe.

And I don't have much more to add to the rest of that.

There's a lot of feelings and emotions.

There's a great sense of insecurity.

If they're going to continue this track record of abusing and brutalizing minoritized communities, this happened at Pride.

We also saw similar things happen this past weekend over the 4th of July as well.

And I think there is a substantial amount of investigation that should be done, a substantial amount of reflection.

At this point, I would appreciate, I think we would all appreciate either a response, you have the opportunity for a brief response, or your silence can go on the record as it has for the past half dozen or so speakers before me.

Thank you.

First of all, I would just like to say shame on SFPD.

And actions speak louder than words.

So as much as we want a response from you all, we more want to see how things can change, how SFPD can be held accountable.

I also just wanted to share, I work as an educator, and last year I had many students who expressed to me wanting to go to the Trans March.

But that they really wanted to go the next year.

And after this year, hearing from my students how scared they were and how frightened they were to come back to even go to any other events all weekend, is so heartbreaking.

And yeah, shame on you all.

And you have the power to make some changes, so we'd really appreciate if you could listen to us.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Francis.

I would like to take a moment to thank all of the trans people behind me for so bravely speaking up as we have had to do for so much of history while you all stay silent.

Shame on all of you.

I wanted to go and celebrate a weekend, celebrating identity and joy.

And it was ruined.

It was ruined for so many of us as we saw our community brutalized and assaulted by the people who swear to protect us.

I find it very funny today that while we're saluting officers for their good work of earning community trust, you so shamelessly just turn a blind eye on us, on other marginalized groups.

I'm looking at a board of people of color, and I am hoping that you can empathize with that point of view.

Thank you so very much.

Hi, Michael Patrellus again.

So first of all, shame on all of you.

You didn't agendize the um trans march.

It's not on your agenda today.

Shame, shame, shame on you for not agendizing what happened at the trans march.

We are reminded that Stonewall was about standing up to police protect police harassment.

We are still protesting police harassment.

There has to be an item put on your agenda about what went wrong at the trans march and what you're gonna do about it to make sure it doesn't happen again.

When cops show up, trouble starts.

That is the lesson I take away from what happened.

We need to discuss police free pride, cops out of pride.

No more of you guys coming to the Pride March on Pride Sunday, and you're paid.

You're paid to march.

That needs to stop.

And you know why?

Because your budget is way too big.

$840 million for this department.

Cut the budget.

Cut the police budget.

You know, put the money into immigrant services, into trans services, into HIV services.

Finally, the silence of Matt Dorsey and Raphael Mandelman must be deplored.

Who cares that they're gay men?

They are supervisors who have said nothing about the police brutality.

And finally, I want to single out Jackie Fielder for calling for an investigation.

Thank you, Jackie Fielder.

I'll go ahead.

Good evening, Chief Lou.

President of the Commissioner, Don Clay, and all the other commissioners.

I'm here to say that on last month we had the Juneteenth celebration.

And I'm always still I'm a retired police officer.

Uh, been in the city all my life, 78 years, and I've seen the bad of the police department, I've seen the good.

But on these days, we had nothing but a good experience.

Uh Chief Lou came out and he marched with us.

Um, Benedicto and I had such a great time.

He even wore officers for justice t-shirt, and we had such a beautiful celebration.

And I can I can I can understand what you're going through and what might have happened, but I wasn't there, so I couldn't really speak on that.

But they do need to be have some some kind of accountability to have children there and guns drawn and whatever.

So I don't know exactly what went down, but I want to say that we had a beautiful celebration.

And you have to do something, you have to come and celebrate the community.

I think you need to be in different community events so the children can see how we can act.

And I know how we can act because I was a police officer for 26 years, and I participated in all the things that we should have been there.

You know what I'm saying?

So I don't think you should ban the police because the children need to know that there are good police officers.

The majority of us are good.

So thank you very much again.

That was a good one.

Oh gosh.

Good evening, everyone.

Um, I'm here concerning my son.

Um, I'd like to use the overhead.

Um, this year, I've stopped counting.

Um, this will be, I don't know, maybe the 20th year of his murder.

As well, as I come here, you guys know I come every Wednesday to bring awareness to unsolve homicides.

My son's case isn't solved.

I bring all of these other pictures of unsolved homicide.

Here one of the Mitch commissioners, Maddie Scott's son, is right up here.

And these are all unsolved homicides.

What do we do?

This year, I bring these pictures of a mother standing over her son of a lifeless body.

I bring this picture of what the perpetrators left me of a lifeless body.

Look at these pictures versus the picture of his smiling face right here.

This is what I will never see again.

This is the last graduation picture I will see of my son.

August 14th of next month will be the anniversary, and I'm asking for the commissioners to come out and support me.

I'm writing a letter to Gavin Newsom, the mayor, and see if I know this is their vacation month on August, but if this if they can come out and support mothers and fathers like myself, that'll show that there's some hope for us.

We need you, and I do thank you for the years that you have come out.

It's really been a big support to us mothers, and we still need you.

I've been through many uh DAs, many police uh chiefs, many of you, many of you that have not been up here anymore.

I'm I've been through them.

I still need your support.

This month is really um stressful for me.

Thank you.

Hello, good evening.

My name is Noya Antonio Berrios.

I'm Rich I'm president of the Richmond.

I came here to support a friend.

I didn't intend on speaking today.

I'm uh here to talk about what happened about the transmarch, but I'm a cis straight guy.

I honestly, if I wanted to, I could say nothing and go about my day, but I can't sit in this skin and not say something.

See, I'm the son of a Haitian immigrant and a Puerto Rican father.

Haiti, we taught the world what it meant to steal your freedom from those who oppress you.

I carry that my entire life, that narrative.

And I cannot stand idly by and watch my community members be assaulted by police when they're celebrating living.

As other folks here said, this board is full of people of color.

I'll tell you, now you'll hear it again from a black fellow.

We see your faces.

You know the community, you know what we've been through.

How can we put them through that?

It's incomprehensible.

I haven't had anything prepared, so I apologize if I'm a bit uneloquent.

But I mean, a report, something.

Something that we can say, okay, this is a tangible study of what happened.

Here's what we're gonna do about it.

But we cannot stand idly by as San Franciscans, as Californians, as Americans, as human beings.

We know black faces on the board, Latino faces on the board, Asian faces, we know what it's like to see our community members being beaten by police from the Bronx from the Bardios of the Bronx to Soma.

We've seen that.

Now you have a chance to do something about it.

Do something about it.

That's why you're paid.

And that concludes public comment for line item two.

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

SFPD Sparks Report, Quarter 1, 2026, quarterly activity and data report, first quarter 2026, in compliance with admin code, Charter 96A, SFPDs and DPAs, SB 1421, and SB 16 monthly reports.

Is there a motion?

Move file and receive the Sparks Report for Q1 2026, the querial activity and data report for first quarter 2026 and the SFPDs and DPAs, SB 1421 and SB16 monthly reports.

I would ask to uh here you go.

Thank you, Mr.

Prowls.

I appreciate that.

Good to see you again, by the way.

Um I am going to ask to modify my colleagues' request uh and ask that the quarterly activity report and the 1421s and SB 16 reports be um received and filed.

However, the SFPD Sparks report for quarter one uh be agendized at a future meeting.

On the motion, I think Commissioner Leon needs to confirm he's amending his motion.

Yeah, I'll I'll amend my motion.

So on the motion, Commissioner Lowe, how do you vote?

Aye.

Commissioner Lowe, aye.

Commissioner Scott?

Aye.

Commissioner Scott, aye.

Commissioner Leong?

Yes.

Commissioner Leong, yes.

Commissioner Benedicto?

Yes.

Commissioner.

Commissioner Benedicto, yes.

Commissioner Elias.

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas, yes.

Vice President Techie.

Yes.

Vice President Techie, yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay, yes.

Motion passes.

My apologies.

If you would like to make public comment on line item three, please approach the podium.

Hi, Michael Petralis again.

So line item three for the consent calendar.

Um earlier in this meeting, I asked as a point of information, where were your minutes from the last meeting?

Your minutes are not here from the last meeting.

You don't even have the minutes from your last meeting on your agenda.

And the reason why I'm bringing this up now on item three, the consent calendar, is because I wanted to compare your last meeting's consent calendar item with this week's consent calendar item.

It is vital that you make a commitment to have printed minutes at your meetings, and that you put it on your agenda so that we can compare consent agendas from the previous meeting with what is being discussed at the current meeting.

Thank you.

And that concludes public comment.

Line item four, chief's report discussion.

Weekly crime trends and public safety concerns.

Provide an overview of offenses, incidents, or events occurring in San Francisco, having an impact on public safety.

Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting.

Chief Liu.

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

I'll start off with the weekly crime trends.

As of July 5th, 2026, part one crimes overall are down 23% year to date compared to 2025.

Total violent crimes are down 9% for the year.

Specifically addressing homicides.

Actually, I got a call this morning saying that one of the homicides is going to be reclassified by the medical examiner's office to a um to accidental.

So that's going to be changed to 16 year to date versus 12 last year.

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're down 18% compared to last year.

Incidents of reported rapes are down 14%.

Assaults for the year are down 1% with a decrease of 29% in assaults by firearms.

Robberies are down 20%, with robberies using a firearm declining by 27%.

Human trafficking incidents are down 7%.

Total property crimes down 25%.

Burglaries down 26%.

Motor vehicle theft down 27%.

Larceny theft, which includes vehicle burglaries down 25% overall, and specifically auto burglaries, they're down 43% versus 2025.

Moving to significant incidents, there were zero homicides reported during this reporting period.

There was one non-fatal shooting incident causing injuries to two victims on June 30th, 2026, at approximately 2100 hours.

600 block of Mission Bay at a FIFA watch party.

Two victims were located suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.

There were non-life threatening injuries.

Currently there are no arrests, and it is an open investigation.

And then I'll move to large events.

So I do want to take some time to walk through a few large scale events as it relates to SFPD.

I think it's worthy to talk through some of these as these events have garnered significant media interest and significant community concern.

Additionally, some of these events, in particular, the trans march and unpermitted block party related to stud alley and our related response led to District 9 Supervisor Fielder submitting a letter of inquiry to the mayor, controller Wagner, and me.

We're currently in the process of responding to that LOI.

Starting with the TransMarch on 626, and actually, just before I get into the details, so I want to clear up a couple of narratives that I've either perceived or that I've heard directly.

First, I want to be clear that the 2026 San Francisco Police Department supports the LGBTQ community full stop.

The arrests at the Trans March were not targeted at the transgender community.

They were targeted at a few people amongst thousands of peaceful participants who chose to break the law, which I'll get into in more detail.

And just to be super clear, this conduct would have resulted in arrests at any event, whether it was the Trans March, Fourth of July, Warriors Parade, etc.

We've made great strides over the last 60 years and have worked hard at building our relationship with LGBTQ community.

This includes DGO 5.22, which establishes a procedure for interacting with transgender persons.

We have transgender officers in our own department.

I'm also sensitive to the proximity of the arrest to a culturally significant location, Compton's cafeteria at Turk and Taylor.

The location of the arrest was not selected to demean, offend or disrespect, but was where officers encountered the individuals identified as being suspects in criminal activity.

Secondly, there's been some discussion or misunderstanding that this was simply a graffiti or vandalism incident.

Simply wasn't the case.

There was significant vandalism throughout the march.

Officers utilized Arctic resources, including drones, to identify specific suspects before attempting arrests.

What began as targeted enforcement of a few individuals evolved into a crowd management situation after officers encountered interference during the arrests?

I'll note now go into some of the details starting off with the trans march.

So on the 26th, SFPD officers were deployed to facilitate the annual Pride Week Trans March.

The march began to Dolores Park with several thousand participants in attendance within the mission police district.

The pre-planned route was to start at Dolores Park, head northbound on Dolores, then eastbound market, and then terminate over at Turk and Taylor.

In the range of seven o'clock, as the planned march progressed through the city, officers observed several individuals using super soaker style water guns filled with paint to spray paint on buildings, vehicles, and security cameras.

An SFPD drone was deployed and assisted with monitoring two vandalism suspects in the area of Turk and Taylor streets.

The drone captured footage of the individuals placing their water guns into a paper bag, discarding the bag on the sidewalk, and removing their outer clothing and face coverings in an attempt, apparent attempt to blend back in with the law-abiding participants.

When officers moved in to detain the suspects, a crowd immediately approached SFPD uniformed personnel.

Some linked arms, chanted, let them go, and threw glass bottles.

The crowd was estimated to be approximately 300 people.

Officers detained two of the vandalism suspects and attempted to place them into a patrol car for transport out of the area.

As the crowd surrounded the responding officers, one individual jumped onto the roof of the transport vehicle and it was subsequently pulled down by officers.

Another individual forcibly opened the rear driver's side door of the police car to attempt to free the detained suspects, while others pushed officers away.

Due to the size and temperature of the crowd, backup officers were called, and a line between the crowd and arresting officers was formed.

So this the detentions happened around 7.40 or so.

By 802, the scene was stabilized, which allowed the primary march to safely continue its path.

Okay, so just a few of the uh facts in terms of the aftermath.

Uh there were six arrests that were made during the during the entirety of the incident.

Some of the charges, not on all the subjects, but just in totality, felony vandalism, hate crime enhancement, conspiracy, resisting or delaying a peace officer, releasing prisoner from custody, resisting an executive officer, and battery on a peace officer.

As far as the overall vandalism, so just looking at this map that I have on the overhead, there are numerous acts of vandalism to include over 20 incidents.

So if you just kind of look at the map there, you can tell where with the green dot that starts at number one, that's roughly in the area of Dolores Park, where the march then just goes northbound Dolores and then makes the turn onto market, heading in eastbound direction, and then the blue dots all depict vandalism specifically to security cameras.

So again, over 20 incidents of vandalism to security cameras, a couple to flock cameras, and then a vandalized motorcycle, so on and so forth.

In terms of evidence recovered.

There were paint-filled water pistols, plastic paint bottles, gloves.

In total, the incident lasted approximately an hour and eight minutes from the time of the march to where when the arrests were conducted.

So that's the TransMarch overview.

You can take down the overview or the map.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And then I'll just quickly walk through the stud alley event as well that has been discussed here by the community.

So this incident occurred on June 27th.

It occurred at first on the Hunter block of Kisling Street in the Southern Soma District.

Approximately 9 o'clock.

Officers assigned to Southern Pride Command noticed about 20 people gathered on the 100 block of Kissling Street.

Several individuals were wearing full face coverings and standing near spray painting supplies and fire extinguishers.

The crowd rapidly grew to over 100 people, effectively taking over the roadway and shutting down all vehicular traffic.

A white U-all van unloaded DJ equipment and began playing loud amplified sound.

Attendees actively blocked the street using medium to large size boulders.

When SFPD supervisors attempted to negotiate with event organizers, they were met with a group of approximately 10 individuals who refused to cooperate and responded with verbal aggression.

Approximately an hour later, a patrol lieutenant responded and declared an unlawful assembly.

Officers established a skirmish line as multiple dispersal multiple dispersal orders were given via PA systems.

A majority of the crowd complied, reducing the active crowd size to approximately 30 to 60 individuals.

As the police line moved forward to disperse the crowd, officers arrested two individuals who refused repeated orders to leave and pushed back against the advancing line.

Both were sighted at the scene and released.

As the crowd was forced out of the area, a group of people surrounded two passing Waymo vehicles and slashed all four of their tires.

Both vehicles were left inoperable.

Shortly thereafter, the crowd moved off of Kissling, and members of the same group, including the DJ and same U-Hall van, attempted to take over Washburn Street between Mission and Howard.

This drew a crowd of about 150 to 200 people.

The crowd built defensive perimeters across the alleyway using objects such as wooden planks, construction equipment, traffic cones, and ceramic plumbing pipes.

As officers redeployed to this location, multiple individuals began vandalizing nearby structures, spray painting anti-police, and politically related graffiti across the exterior walls of commercial buildings and nearby vehicles.

Officers reestablished a line and made dispersal announcements.

As officers dispersed the remaining crowd, a small group refused to leave the area, and 18 people were arrested.

All 18 individuals were transported to County Jail 1, where they processed and cited out, where they were processed and cited out for the unlawful assembly and resisting slash delaying a peace officer.

They were then released.

Two officers were treated and released from the scene with minor injuries during the incident.

Again, two at Kisling, 18 at Washburn, with charges of unlawful assembly and resisting or delaying a peace officer.

In terms of damaged property, again, two Waymo vehicles, four buildings spray painted on Washburn Street.

In this incident, there was one 911 caller on Kissling, and nine separate 911 callers regarding Washburn Street.

This incident lasted a little less than four hours, beginning at 8 58 p.m., ending a little before 1 a.m.

And that concludes my remarks.

Hold on.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Chief, thank you very much for that report.

Um more to say during my commission report, but I I did want to start by thinking and acknowledging the members of the community that are here and the courage that it takes you to be here and that this will that we're um you know taking these incidents seriously.

Uh Chief, you you mentioned the the response to the letter of inquiry from Supervisor Fielder is forthcoming.

Do you have an estimated date you can provide to the commissioner and the public on when you expect to respond to Supervisor Fielder's letter of inquiry?

If I'm remembering correctly, there's a due date of July 16.

So we'll comply with that.

Okay.

Um you listed the number of arrests and provided the summary.

Do you have the numbers of how many uses of force there were of the incidents?

I do.

Okay.

So still uh let's start with the Trans March incident uh first.

There were eight.

Eight uses of force.

Can you describe which what use of force of those eight were?

I don't have the details.

Okay.

Do you know if um any if any of them involved um I guess it I think it would be helpful if if um perhaps in in material to come to the commission, it would be helpful to know what types of use of force they were, whether they were personal body weapons or whether or not OC spray was used or um you know ERIWs or whatever the case might be.

Yep, I'll get that information for you.

And what about at the the block party?

There was one.

And that's across both both of the streets.

There was just one you uh when you're correct.

The entire incident has there been um, you know, as we're seeing tonight, there's it's provoked a very strong reaction from the community uh uh at a time when many of our communities feel very unsafe.

I know the department has become very effective at uh, for example, when uh there are um often involved shootings of conducting town halls that provide things like video detail and breakdown and are often able to provide information that can dispel uh and provide sort of details to the public.

Has there been any consideration the department about conducting a town hall for this set of incidents as a set of incidents that are of particular public note?

Um I mean, in terms of a town hall, we haven't spoken about that, and that's why I came to this forum, considering that you are the police commission and you oversee the, you know, department and how we operate.

Um, so I wanted to come here and and make this report.

Thank you.

Uh I believe those are all my questions at this time.

Commissioner Elias.

Commissioner Benedicto asked um several of my questions.

One of the things I would ask is that when the your response to Supervisor Fielder's um letter of inquiry is provided, if we can also get a copy and have that posted on the 30-day correspondence for the police commission website so that the public can see what the police department's response is uh to her letter of inquiry.

Also, I would ask that her letter of inquiry that was forwarded to us also be posted on the 30-day correspondence on the police commission's website so that the public has access to that.

Um I also will be asking to agendize uh the department's responses to the letter of inquiry so that we have an opportunity to have that open dialogue and discussion, and the community has a space to come and provide feedback.

Um, unless there, I I guess my question is similar to Commissioner Benedictos, but is there a way for the department to create space to have conversation with community about these incidents, maybe with you or someone in your leadership?

Um I don't know what that looks like, but is there a way to create a path for that?

Because I think that if there's direct communication with you or your leadership and the community, that goes a long way, and I think it goes a long way to making sure that the correct information is out there and that there's an opportunity to be heard and some sort of healing or path forward can be navigated or created.

So perhaps you can provide some guidance on that.

Sure.

Yeah, no, and I agree with you.

I think that this um, you know, to the point of a lot of the conversation that that has been going on here today, um, as well as uh from the incident on forward, there's a lot of misinformation and lack of understanding of how we do things and why we do things, and I think that even at ground level as a participant of the march, it's hard to understand what things are happening in real time.

Um, so but to answer your question, I have been in talk with um supervised uh different supervisors within the city who are interested in doing some sort of a talk.

So this is something that we were that uh I'm thinking about and talking to other supervisors about doing.

So and maybe when we agendize it here at the commission, your responses to the LOI, maybe that's the springboard or that creates also a path for you.

I know we've done it in the past for the hill bomb and having the community come and engage uh with the chief.

I thought that was really helpful, and it did go a long way with making sure information is exchanged both ways.

Sure.

Um the other question that I had um regarding the homicides.

Uh I was looking at the breakdown, and it indicates that Southern Station had six homicides or has had six homicides in 2026, which is a sort of a significant increase.

And I was wondering if you had any more um information to uh provide with respect to sort of that high number, because typically I don't think that's an area that um has a lot of homicides, because I was looking at it in comparison to Bayview, which tip like historically has had a higher number of homicides, but it seems that Bayview is actually decreasing, which is great, obviously.

So I'm wondering if there's certain strategies that are being used in Bayview that maybe could be utilized in Southern Station to decrease the number of homicides.

Um yeah, I I don't think that um in terms of stra strategies, there I don't like I think that's gonna be difficult to kind of talk through in this space.

Um I think there's two it's two separate things in terms of what we deal with in the Bayview versus in the Southern.

Um I can just say that in the Southern, um those incidents are one-off in nature and not related.

So but in the Bay View, they I I guess I'm I'm confused.

What do you mean?

So I guess my point is is that in the Bayview, we have violence that is often connected, right?

That that is retaliatory in nature, um, and so that's generally what we see.

We've we have a specific strategy that we've been employing in in that area, but that's not the same sort of violence that we have that we've seen in in the southern.

So that's so I think that in terms of dealing with the southern, you know, it's a little bit more difficult because they are more one-off in nature.

So there's no pattern to this sort of the six homicides or the increase that we're seeing in Southern.

It's just okay.

Okay, Commissioner Scott.

Thank you, Chief Lou for that report.

Um, um I too um heard the community loud and clear.

Um we are very supportive of LGBT, we all participated in it and marched in it as we do every year.

And um my um concern is prevention, and the best way to handle um these large areas of wonderful events that we always have in San Francisco as um Officer Arlene uh equated on Juneteenth was a success, and I believe that's also because of the prevention mechanisms that we use prior to Juneteenth with the community, educating the community about what's going to take place and get them prepared and working with SFPD as well.

And I just wanted to um offer if is there something in prevention that we can do to educate the LGBT community in the future and the prevention mechanism that we use in the Juneteenth meeting with the LGBT community and everyone involved in um prior, because we know it's one of the largest and best events in San Francisco that we take pride and pleasure in every year, all of us.

So I'll let that be known and noted.

Um we love pride and we look forward to it every year.

Um I'm just thinking that um a town hall would be great, I think, to discuss with the community.

Um and hearing a community, hearing from the community um ways that we could even make it better.

Um we do need officers present for everyone's safety because that's their job.

So we don't want to take that away from them.

We our police department is very important.

Um I know personally how important that is because I lost the son of homicide and violence at my community, as Ms.

Paulette equated to earlier.

So I'm thinking of prevention and a better way of handling this is hearing your voice, um, with a town hall meeting with our chief and others and um the supervisors uh on our board as well as our mayor, um, and learning ways and productive ways and hearing you and hearing from the police how we can work together to make pride safe for everybody and better.

Um, equipping you, equipping others to hopefully have ambassadors like we had at Juneteenth.

We had ambassadors from the community who knew people in the community to make sure that they can recognize those who would who were going to possibly be perpetrators of violence or anything like that.

So I would just recommend that put look at that something like that, Chief, that would help us in the future with um pride and other uh other events that we have here in San Francisco to put a prevention plan in place with the community prior to these events and and engage the public, engage with our police department because we have to work together.

If we're gonna be successful, we have to work together.

We need our police.

We do.

Because there's always gonna be those out there that's gonna cause trouble.

The people that come there deliberately, I know personally to be troublemakers.

They're there, they're gonna be there.

So to prevent that from happening, um, we should have a plan in place with our police chief and our police department and the community um to talk about these issues and get a plan together prior to these large events that we have is particularly pride, because pride is very important, very huge.

People come from all over.

We all celebrate it.

Um I celebrated with what Brady, you know, to disarm hate from the Pulse Night Club.

So yeah, we want to make it successful, and as Chit Chief said, um our police department is full of LGBT participants and officers that care about this um community and want the best for all of us.

So that would be my recommendation that we put something in place like this to so that we can bring cohesiveness and unity and come out with a safer, safer prior celebration every year.

Chief, I thank you.

Chief, I know you're gonna respond to Supervisor Fielder's letter of inquiry.

I think it'd be very helpful to hearing the dialogue and uh everyone talking here that you showed us an area on a map, which I don't know how long where incidences were occurring, so it appears to be a long path.

I don't know how long the trail was all these things started.

And you said in those in that path, it appears to be a bunch of cameras, and I'm not sure they're business cameras, police cameras, but people are visual, so to the extent you have the videos to help show people what was happening, to support whatever you have, whatever you had to do, or whatever wasn't done, both at the uh the march itself as well as the event in the Southern District would be very helpful, and I'm not certain you've got captured the cameras and the video stuff out of that.

If you could put together, that would be real nice to have that to show everyone what was happening and why it was happening, and maybe some responses, and also have the issue of forums coming forth, whatever you do to respond to Supervisor Fielder's act would be very helpful, okay?

I think.

Yeah, no, I agree, sir.

I think that a couple things.

It's a it's a it's a very um voluminous case because of the length and you know the damage and just the length of the incident in general, so our investigators are still pouring through it.

The only other thing that I am concerned with is it is still an open case um making its way through the court system.

So um I'll anything that I do, I'll I'll I'll check with the DA.

I understand there's some limits because there are criminal cases pinning, but to the extent you can't at some point, if you could put that material together, I think that'd be very helpful for all the people in the community.

And it may have to be after the DA does whatever they do, they may not release it, but to the extent I think it'd be very helpful to people to see what you're referring to, what was going on, and then at those moments of all these things that were happening.

Agreed.

All right.

Thank you, Chief.

If you would like to make public comment regarding the chief's report, please approach the podium.

Uh hey all.

Hi, Dakota.

I'm from uh the live in the mission district.

Um, also uh member of the trans community.

Um, and I think like a lot of the people here have already said it pretty well, like what we're looking for and what we expect.

I think the one thing that stood out to me about the report, uh, particularly about the trans march, is the fact that there was uh identification of the individuals uh who had been supposedly allegedly committing crimes, right?

Um, and that y'all had an idea of who they were.

Uh so I ask, like, why uh was it necessary to go in and arrest them at the moment that it was, right?

If they're already identified when there's a large crowd of people who uh, as I think the previous public comments have shown have a little bit of trepidation around like systems of authority right now, uh police in general, um, particularly when you have people coming in from out of town, uh a lot of trans people coming in from out of town for this experience, and they're coming from a place where they're not allowed to be who they are, right?

Here we have a lot more freedom to do that.

But I ask you to imagine the fear of coming here thinking that you're in a safe place and then uh seeing rifles drawn and people pushed uh for the purposes of getting a couple people who vandalized.

So uh I just ask you to consider that when it comes to enforcement.

Um, and thank you for your time.

Hello again.

First, I would like to thank everybody for the responses that were given.

That was greatly appreciated, and I would like to focus in specifically on what Chief Liu had said that with regards to the events of the trans march, quote, the targeted arrest evolved into crowd control.

I'd like to ask specifically, given the advanced technological surveillance capabilities, which as an aside, we categorically object to and question the fiscal use of them.

We would like to ask, given that we were or alleged suspects were identified, were able to be tracked for the duration of the march, why it was necessary to proceed to attempt apprehension at the march, who made the call to arrest these alleged suspects, who made that decision, knowing that there were thousands of people present, knowing that they would be drawn in.

Who made that decision, knowing the risk of injury to innocent bystanders, and above all, who put property over human life and health?

Because as much as we wanted to act like this was a crowd control situation where things escalated out of hand, this outcome was all but unforeseeable.

You have thousands of people here with a historically poor reputation with the police, back and forth outside of Compton's cafeteria, and the decision was made to have police wade into the crowd.

Who made that call?

Where is the accountability?

And who was it who is going to be held responsible for this and the escalation that was incited by the police?

I appreciate district supervisor Fielder's letter of inquiry, and I think we all look forward to these questions being answered when that's released by July 16th.

Thank you very much.

And it the usage of the statistics there don't exactly line up with the amount of injuries and the harm that was inflicted upon individuals in the who participated in those events.

So I encourage the Department of Police Accountability or anyone else with the means to take measures to confirm or ascertain the number of incidents.

And that includes I highly I do highly recommend and would love to see footage of the event provided to your greatest ability.

Because regardless, even if I take the report at face value, this still represents the failure of the SFBD to minimize harm and serve the public, because like our previous uh speaker said, this was incredibly avoidable.

And as a final statement, commissioners, I appreciate your concern and insight.

I support the idea of a town hall fielding discussion regarding the incident and how to um facilitate between these two communities.

And I my personal recommendation recommendation is keeping the police presence minimal at Pride, keeping and the usage of de-escalation strategies instead of violent instigation.

Thank you.

Hello again.

So on the topic of footage and for videos to provide clarity as to what was happening at the Trans March and at Pride, I implore you to just open up any social media app in accordance to that weekend where you can see the trans people themselves being shoved, getting the batons pulled out, approached.

The violence that ensued was so completely unnecessary, and it is laughable to hear you say that they had super soakers.

That was it.

You pulled out rifles because they had super soakers.

Are you joking?

Are you actually kidding me?

An entire crowd of unarmed people, and you had to pull out rifles and use brute force because they had super soakers of paint.

I would just like you to sit with that.

Thank you.

Hello, I'm Karen Fleshman, D5 resident mom, and I identify as a friend and ally to the trans people, trans community, and I've marched in past trans marches.

I was also part of the Justice for Mario Woods coalition that fought tooth and nail for the use of forced policy and the implementation of the 272 Department of Justice recommendations.

I was horrified by the brutality of the arrests at the Trans March.

Paint is not a weapon.

Chris Larson, one person, a crypto billionaire, has spent millions of dollars installing security cameras all over the city, and the feed goes into his office.

The people of San Francisco don't want a surveillance state.

Cameras don't keep us safe.

Jobs, affordable housing, health care, we keep us safe.

And it's your job to keep us safe.

Hi again.

Yeah, I mean, just kind of following up on what some of my um fellow trans community have said.

Uh yeah, if such advanced tracking capability was deployed uh to track to alleged suspects, why wait into the middle of a crowd to pull them out?

Um I understand I I don't see any possible reason of doing that.

If you if you know who they are, right?

You know, I mean, isn't this why we banned high speech chases, right?

You know, you just you go afterwards because you don't want to injure innocent people and you don't want to uh escalate a situation unnecessarily, which is exactly what happened.

Um I mean, also I'm just would am curious as to when and why joint drone deployment was deemed necessary, considering that again, all we're talking about here is alleged use of uh super soaker filled with paint.

Um and I also just want to kind of close in on why are flock cameras so widespread in SF.

I mean, you pulled out dozens of those little blue dots, each one indicating an alleged uh vandalism incident um of a flock camera.

It is known that flock cameras have been uh had their data shared improperly and illegally out of state um to federal and to especially red states who use this uh use this data to track um people that they don't particularly like, including a woman who was tracked last year using license plate reader technology when she sought an abortion out of state.

Um are we really okay with that?

Um I also want to uh point out that uh there have been multiple known uh instances of officers using flock data to stalk their exes or other victims.

Um and these cameras are so flawed in a security sense that pretty much anyone can just walk by and hack these things.

I mean, this is this has been documented.

Like it's not even difficult.

Um I also want to ask what is a definition of the use of force, and I would like to support a town hall.

Thank you for your comments.

I want to underscore the severity of the situation for every trans person you see showed up here right now.

There are at least a dozen more for every one of us that are feeling the collective pain in our collective psyche.

We had not a nonviolent, alleged nonviolent incident take place and it alleged to violence, and I seriously implore a deeper look into the escalation policies that led into that, um, especially surrounding the the sensitivity around where this event occurred, and also, again, in a large crowd situation like that, especially if this has been going on for a while, and that that choice to escalate right there in the way that went down.

I think there needs to be a serious look into um escalating nonviolent things into violent things.

Um I also have serious concerns about the silence about this event right after and turn until Supervisor Fielder's letter of inquiry.

Um the fear is that without that letter of inquiry, we would have gotten no transparency whatsoever.

I'm afraid that there still will be a lack of transparency into some of the events that went down.

For example, I have some questions of my own.

Were flock cameras used in either of these law enforcement activities, including facial recognition?

How were drones used in these activities?

How is our personal biometrics being being used?

Um I'm very concerned about surveillance, especially as a resident of Soma.

I was in a that Saturday night, I was in a completely different area, and I heard a low-felt flying drone overhead.

Am I being surveilled?

Is my images and data in a police database?

What is your attention on that?

There are so many different questions, and I'm afraid that the scope of the letter of interest will not be able to address all of it.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Addy.

I'm a resident of the mission district.

Um I thought that Commissioner Scott made an excellent point before about prevention and what we can do.

And I think the members of my community, the trans community, have made um it very clear that the flock cameras are a big problem as a part of this whole uh incidence of of vandalism as well.

And I want you to ask yourself why this might be.

Why the trans community in particular might have sensitivity to these flock cameras being utilized at any point, especially since this is an event where people travel from out of town to come here from counties that are not safe, from counties that do have a greater desire to track us and to uh make it so that we're not able to have as much rights.

Um this is a very dangerous time, and I'm I'm very lucky.

I'm very grateful to live in a city where I can go to a trans march and be surrounded by families and be surrounded by children, be surrounded by people who are celebrating this.

And the fact that eight uses of force was using that event where I can see people take their children, shocks and disgust me.

Um I don't think it matches the nature of the crime as well.

It's paint, it's it's not something where you need to take out batons where you're not you need to suppress people violently in that way.

Um, so I absolutely support the idea of a town hall um for this community that has clearly expressed our distrust of the police as the institution that they are today.

Um, and yeah, thank you.

Hello again.

Um, in regard to uh Commissioner Benedito's question to Chief Officer Lou, um, he did inquire what types of physical force were used against the public in the incident regarding the Transmarts, and you were not able to speak on that, which I think, as chief officer, it's your responsibility to know.

And all of us here in the public know because we have video documentation of officers aggressively confronting innocent bystanders, wielding their batons.

One person uh was aggressively thrown to the ground by an officer, um, and as other speakers have mentioned, that is an inequitable and uh excessive reaction to public property defacement.

Um, and as a taxpayer, I would personally rather our tax money go to repairing property damage than um using it against innocent civilians.

Um, and in regard to stud alley, I have been a participant in previous years and have observed officers providing a comfortable distance while still managing the crowd and allowing people to express their queer joy.

And this year was different.

I don't understand why this year incited so much violence, but I think that the SFPD's reaction to our public demonstration was a like direct cause to all of these incidents that resulted in people getting arrested and that resulted in officers uh can being confronted by the by the public.

So, how has this decline happened so rapidly in you know just a year is beyond me, but I implore you, Chief Officer, to uh hold your team accountable and make sure that it's a safe environment for us to be able to demonstrate this queer joy.

Thank you.

Hello, chief of police and commissioners.

Um I wanted to come here today to share a briefly my own personal testimony.

Um I was at the trans march watching the celebration around me, moving to maybe go get some food at the edge of the crowd when I looked up and I saw at least a half dozen officers with their batons out running in my direction.

And in this moment, I felt so afraid.

I thought that I may get beaten in that moment, just like the people at Compton's cafeteria years ago.

Um, as I turned to run, I saw the girl next to me.

Um, the officer raised his hands and made contact with their torso, and next thing I knew, she was on the ground afterwards.

I also encountered another older woman who had been pushed.

Her jeans were torn.

She was bleeding slightly.

In that moment, the energy went from celebration to one of fear.

And so I just wanted to say that I'm looking forward to a town hall, and I hope an investigation into the use of force, including just the two that I witnessed directly next to me.

And I agree with what others have said that the people of San Francisco do not want a surveillance state, and we definitely do not want cops with batons at pride.

Hello.

I would like to thank the commission for their concerns and the comments they have raised.

Most of what I'm going to say is already been said by people before me.

The San Francisco Trans March is a large, unarmed, peaceful gathering and celebration of a marginalized community.

The arrest of suspects, the arrest of suspects right in the middle of a large big, somewhat raucous event was unnecessary and provocative.

I was there and I witnessed officers at the end of the march stalking towards the middle of the march with their batons out, groups of them, fours and sixes.

So I became scared.

I thought that something violent was happening.

So I walked, so I walked away and I left the celebration that was excited to be at, disappointed.

And then as I was leaving, I just I got separated from my friends and didn't want to go back because of what I was seeing.

And then I witnessed countless police cars.

I counted at least 12 San Francisco Police Department, SF sheriff racing toward racing towards the scene.

I smelled the scent of burnt rubber and saw smoke coming off the roadway as cars sped by.

A friend of mine said that they felt they were nearly hit.

The this was terrifying.

It scared me and others that was supposed to be a moment of celebration.

I worried that violence had broken out, that there had been a shooting, that there had been a brawl.

It disappointed me to learn that the police were the ones who initiated the violence.

The situation was handled in an escalatory manner.

The aggressor response was not justified by suspicions of minor vandalism.

And it also meant that the entire event was overshadowed by the police response.

Thank you.

Hi.

Everyone has kind of already said this, but it bears repeating.

I think one thing of note is you've clearly and carefully meticulously tracked, for example, instances of vandalism at the trans march.

But it's extremely troubling that you can't seem to cite even one in eight instances where force was deemed necessary.

Um seen more than eight of these alleged instances where force was necessary, just like on Instagram.

Yeah, just to drive the point home, I would like SFPD to be held accountable on providing more detail on these eight instances at the upcoming town hall, and I'm looking forward to it.

Thanks.

Hi, I think the thing that I'm most concerned about as a resident of the mission district is that I come here today to listen to y'all's side of the story and what you thought happened that night.

And I keep hearing that there was a lot of misinformation around that night.

But just from what you have said today, what the board has said, um, what occurred, um, from what I understand, there were super soakers filled with paint, and that somehow led to rifles drawn.

And I do not understand how the police department does not want to hold itself accountable or responsible, uh responsible and tries to hold the trans community responsible for getting rifles drawn at it.

Uh, I don't see how this will build more security in the community.

I don't see how this is gonna make pride feel any safer next year to have police there next year.

Um I do not understand how the implications of building the surveillance state in the eyes of making the community safer when it clearly the way it was enacted this last couple of weeks didn't in fact make the community safer.

It made things actually much worse.

Um so I would love to hear from the SFPD more about their own responsibility in the escalation of this incident and what they could have done themselves from preventing superstokers to getting two rifles drawn at the vandals.

I don't know.

None of this really seems to follow.

Um I think similarly, it just seems an unnecessarily use like unnecessary use of force and escalation drawn.

I do not see how any of this was seen as not predictable.

Um I think this is gonna have been handled much, much better and much cleaner.

Thank you.

Hi, Michael Patrellus again.

Um, Chief, you've really disrespected the community.

You uh have showed up without anything in writing.

You had a written report that you were reading from, and you had a printed um co uh printed map, and yet we're at a disadvantage because of your disrespect.

You couldn't spend a few bucks out of eight hundred forty million dollars to print your report, put it in advance on the agenda so that people would know you were gonna discuss in minute detail what happened at the trans march.

That is disrespect on your part.

And now you come here and say, oh, a town hall meeting, huh?

By my watch, it's about two weeks since this all went down, and you haven't announced a town hall meeting.

Hmm, that's disrespect.

That is not okay.

You said that there was a conversation taking place here.

You know why the conversation is taking place?

Because we all showed up, even though you didn't have the respect, and neither did the commission to agendize this.

What were you waiting for?

Your meeting last week was canceled.

How much more time did you need to print something up to share that map with us?

And to say when you're gonna have that town hall meeting.

No, the conversation is not because of you.

It is because of the people behind me who cared enough to show up and use public comment.

You have got to start respecting us and printing your report on paper so that it's here and that it is also online, and I don't have to file a public records request.

Respect us, Chief.

Respect.

You gotta hear myself.

Okay.

Um I bring this paper with me because we had this policy was approved by the Daniel Lori about ways to pay tipsters for for an unsolved homicides.

And before, when um criminals couldn't testify, um, if you were convicted, you can testify now, they can testify.

And they were remained anonymous.

And to this day, I mean, I'm still waiting for more publishing of this information to the public for for loved ones like myself.

I bring these names because of all the perpetrators that were there that murdered my son, one of these boys are deceased.

The perpetrators, the main perpetrators is Paris Moffat and Hannibal Thomas.

And they're still walking the street to murder again.

I bring this other paper with me because uh Gavin Newsom said, former Gavin Newsom said, I know who killed her child.

The DA knows who killed their child, the police know he can they can name names and have addresses.

And if you know all of this, why am I still fighting?

This is a picture that I've supported with Gavin Nilson when my children were seven and eight years old, and this was in 2003.

Three years later, my son was murdered.

He wrote a letter, he wrote this letter that this article I was telling you about, and he when I walked across the state to receive his diploma, he wrote a letter to the school.

And I'm just asking for his support again since he's the governor, and maybe he's running for president, that he can come out and support and bring this up again what he wrote.

You know, if he's, you know, I'm I'm here.

I bring these other pictures of me with him because I've been in several places with him.

So we need the support.

Thank you.

And that concludes public comment for the chief's report.

Line item five.

DPA director's report discussion.

Report on recent DPA activities and announcements.

Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting.

Director Henderson.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Last week, uh DPA welcomed uh Commissioner Lowe to meet with our staff to the office to discuss uh priorities and policies and collaborations.

Uh we also uh are continuing our audit of SFPD's use of surveillance and automated license plate readers that is still in progress.

Uh DPA initiated this audit on August on April of 2026, and it's currently in its planning phases.

We will gather information from SFDP SFPD to continuing developing our audit plan.

Uh our interns uh coordinated uh with the mayor's office, and we're also participants, participants throughout the entire week of pride at various events, as well as participating with the opportunities for all kickoff tabling and providing information for the community about both the department and the services provided at the agency.

Uh, we are participating this week in the one city day, the first ever citywide day of service.

Uh and information also went out, not just about the community engagement, but about updates with the agency to various community groups, including an overview of the budget summation uh and the audit announcements that I just uh presented.

In terms of the cases and the work that DPA is doing internally.

Uh we had a large spike in cases that came in from related to the pride event and the study event that's been discussed tonight.

Uh and those cases are now represent open investigations with the agencies that are taking place as we speak during this past three-week period and summation of not just that spike in those cases.

We've opened 61 new cases, uh, and we have closed 52 cases.

Uh, the majority of the allegations, the majority of those uh allegations from the reporting period has varied.

The most common singular allegation uh involved allegations that officers were behaving badly and speaking inappropriately with members of the public.

Uh I have a full breakdown of those allegations and the cases that have come in that are filed in the weekly reports and are also available online at SFDPA at uh sfgov.org forward slash DPA.

Um we have present in tonight's commission.

Uh senior investigator.

I would encourage people that are here in the commission that have information about complaints that have been made, particularly with percipient uh observations about incidents that may have happened to speak to our senior investigator who is here and has spoken with some people already in the commission this evening.

Brent Bajan, who is standing in the rear uh of tonight's commission.

Also present in tonight's commission uh is Nicole Armstrong, our CFO, uh Jamal Anderson, our chief of policy, and Marshall Kine, our chief of staff.

Uh for those folks that want to get in contact with DPA, can contact us directly at the website at sfgov.org forward slash DPA.

They can also contact us directly on the phone at 415 241 7711.

Uh and you can leave and you can also leave messages after business hours for investigators to call back.

Just as a reminder, we can receive anonymous calls and information as well.

And this will conclude my remarks for the week.

If you would like to make public comment regarding the DPA director's report, please approach the podium.

Well, I guess I'm back yet again.

Thank you so much, Director Henderson.

We appreciate knowing that there have been a number of cases opened, and we appreciate the offer to get in contact with people who can help us follow up in seeking accountability.

Thank you for that.

I think I speak for a lot of us who do have concerns.

We heard that there was allegedly eight eight instances of force directed towards individuals over Pride Weekend.

And I know that there is a lot of footage and a lot of videos that directly contradict this that show dozens of people being the victims of police brutality.

My question on behalf of the trans community is how we can ensure that if we reach out with footage or testimony otherwise that we can protect ourselves and make sure that we won't find ourselves being targeted and by the police and have any sort of trumped up charges thrown against our community for oh well they were asking for it because clearly they did this and therefore this brutality was justified.

How can we ensure that our community is kept safe while we seek accountability?

And that concludes public comment.

Line item six commission reports, discussion and possible action.

Commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements.

Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting.

Commission president's report, commissioner's report, commission announcements, and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings.

Well, since we've been in recess, we know there are a couple of events the Juneteenth and the Gate Pride Parade, and I know a number of our commissioners are there.

They may report on that.

However, what I want to make sure is now that we are now a full commission, we've got Commissioner Lowe on board.

I want the commissioners to review all the historical materials collected and provided to them by staff in order to aid us in establishing an annual performance review process of the DPA director as well as the uh police of uh police chief position.

It's my intent, based upon our discussions uh months ago, is to place the subject matter on the our agenda in September to uh begin this process of uh putting together uh this type of uh process for for this investigation uh after we come back uh from our August recess.

So I think what we need to do, you've got a lot of material given to you.

We're gonna be in recess in August.

I want everyone to make sure let's let's get through that, and then we can agendize this and start this process of setting forth a um performance review process for annual reviews for the for the chief as well as the DPA director.

And that's my report.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you.

Thank you, President Clay.

Um I'd like to start by reporting on um some other events, and then I'll I'll return to what we're what the topic that we're in the room today.

But first, yes, as uh the representative from officers for justice said, I was privileged to uh march with officers for justice for the Juneteenth parade.

Uh and it was an excellent showing for the community, and it's great to see that uh celebration continue to grow year over year, both with attendance and with public participation, and hope to continue to see the Juneteenth parade uh and and our city's celebration of Juneteenth continue to grow.

Uh today, myself, uh commissioners, as well as Commissioner Lowe and Vice President Techie attended the Chiefs API forum along with the chief.

Um for those that are not aware, um, in the wake of the 272 Department of Justice reforms, there were, I believe it was 10 chiefs forums that were organized by then Chief Scott for various communities.

Uh there are I believe four still active, one being the LGBT community chiefs forum uh and uh one being the API forum.

So it was uh a privilege to spend the afternoon with um members of the community to speak to that.

Um and I know we'll be speaking about some of the issues that were raised there with some of the DJOs we're discussing later today.

Um finally, I'd like to continue what I started with with the chief support and address the members of the trans community and allies, both in the room and not in the room.

Uh I want to start by saying what I said at the outset, which is to thank you for your courage for being here.

None of this is easy.

Um, none of this uh is fair that it's your responsibility to do this, and I know as activists you're you have to take on so much more of a burden than is fair to be asked of you.

And know that, like the chief said, like the commission said, this commission, the city does aspire to be a place where your community, where all communities can be safe and can feel like they're free to be themselves and loved.

And talk is cheap, and it's easier for us to say things like that here.

And I'm hoping that we'll be able to back it up with action.

This is the first but not the last time we talk about solutions and ways to build trust um between our communities, uh, between um because trust is something that is earned, and that is something that this commission um and all of us need to recognize.

Uh as Commissioner Elias said in hers, and I think as as Commissioner Scott said, uh, I would like to request that this uh a more fulsome report.

I I'm glad that this was this was our first meeting since uh prior.

So thank you, Chief, for providing that report, even before you're able to respond to the letter.

Um I would also like to ask, once you know coordinate with the DA, once we're able to figure out exactly what makes sense for a more fulsome presentation that breaks down the use of force so people can see what what it means, what it looks like that can be shown with video.

Yeah, like as again, like I said, the department has become very good at doing these presentations for the town halls.

Whether that forum makes sense to be agendized here or it's a standalone town hall, I um I I'm agnostic as to the exact format, but I think that this needs to be uh because as Mr.

Patrol's pointed out, this isn't fully on the agenda, so this needs to be uh full uh be placed on the agenda for floor discussion presentation.

I think it's important.

This commission has a responsibility to ensure accountability uh and to protect public safety, and we take both those duties very seriously and uh we'll continue to do that.

Um I think the most important thing is to as something that Commissioner Scott said, but just to look towards solutions.

Uh one commitment I've made since being on the commission is being very solutions oriented, and it's we need to we need to ensure accountability, we need to have a town hall, we need to all of these things.

But how do we make sure that incidents like this don't happen again?

How can we make sure there are protocols and procedures in place?

What are things the commission can do where there are policies that are standing in the way of things getting better?

Let's work towards solutions.

Let's have this be the first of multiple conversations to make this uh to be solutions-oriented here.

Um I also want to address something that uh Director Henderson said, which is the DPA is here.

Uh for those that the that saw something, that witnessed something that were experienced something, take advantage of the DPA resources.

There are DPA individuals in the room that they can raise their hands back there, and the they will take your report.

You can do so anonymously.

All DPA reports are investigated, they are investigated by uh an incredibly skilled team of DPA investigators that are.

I know there was a question about retaliation.

DPA investigators are independent from SFPD.

Um there are uh statutory requirements or law requirements that for their independence, and all of their all DPA complaints are investigated.

You know, uh so people ask for DPA to investigate this.

The only way DPA is empowered by charter to investigate something is when they receive a complaint.

Uh the commission does not have the authority to order DPA to investigate an incident.

Incidents are investigated by DPA in response to complaints.

So and if you so if you witnessed something, if you experience something, make that complaint.

If it ends up being duplicative of someone else's, DPA on the back end can consolidate incidents, they can do what they need to, but you should, if you think that you have a complaint, uh, that is the process by which to do that, and that and that is the process by which it gets adjudicated in a way that is in accordance with the laws and what this commission has.

One thing that I know President Clay has emphasized a lot during his tenure as our commission president is process is important and systems are important.

There's a process for citizen complaints, there's a process for commission accountability.

None of those processes are perfect, all those processes can be improved, but all of them are good processes, they're the product of a lot of work, and they do get results and they are taken seriously.

Another thing to remember, and I talk to people a lot about this when it comes to DPA complaints.

Even if a DPA complaint does not resolve in a specific disciplinary action against a specific officer, because maybe there wasn't any.

Maybe it was within policy, maybe they find known proper conduct that happens a lot.

DPA, once a quarter, they actually just did it our last June meeting, they present to the commission recommendations based on the complaints they get, and those include what are called policy failures and training failures.

So those sometimes DPA will come and say, okay, there was no misconduct in this case, but we think training should be improved on crowd control, let's say.

Or we believe there was misconduct in this case, but not in this case, but this policy needs to be changed.

The only way the commission hears about those policy changes, about those training changes, and the only way the DPA knows to bring them to us is when there are complaints that can then get processed through that through that system.

So I think skepticism is important, but I think that cynicism is dangerous.

Trust that these systems are in place and while imperfect are in place and have benefits.

So uh do take advantage of those systems.

Um I hope that we see more of the people here again, because like I said, I hope this is the first and not the last time that we discuss this.

Um the trans community, the LGBT community has faced unprecedented attacks, and you deserve to be safe and supported.

And San Francisco is a place that you deserve to be safe and supported everywhere, is a place you deserve to be safe and supported, but uh, and also to feel safe and supported.

And where that has fallen down, that's something we have to fix.

And where relations need to be amended, that's something we have to fix, and I'm committed to making sure we do that.

Thank you all for coming today.

Commissioner, you'll have.

Um I wanted to uh outline a few agendas uh requests to for future meetings to agendize.

We don't have our purple folder, so I can't write it down.

But uh my understanding is that SFPD is transitioning to a um online dashboard for the quarterly activity and data report, the QDAR report.

So I'm gonna ask that we agendize that so that we can um learn more about these uh online dashboards.

Um this information is important because it's pursuant to the 96A report, which shows uses of force, particularly on communities of color uh and different parts of the city uh and uh each demographic.

So I think that information is really important to get full pictures.

So uh I am requesting that we agendize that so that we can learn what info will be included in these online dashboards, how the community can access these online dashboards and how they interpret and read the online dashboards, what the data is gonna look like and and how user-friendly will it be.

The other issue or the other part of that is that the QDAR will now include four benchmarks, four additional benchmarks.

So it would be good for the department to explain to the commission and the community what those benchmarks are, why they were selected and what the purpose of those benchmarks are to so that we are educated as to why those were selected and how that information will benefit the community.

Additionally, the report, SFPD's report indicates that they're in addition to the four benchmarks, there will be three additional benchmarks to their regular reporting of this information.

So again, I think explaining or highlighting how those additional benchmarks were selected and what information that will provide to the public will be very beneficial because I think that the benchmarks are important as well as my understanding is that SFPD will be changing how it reports their per capita data.

And I know that was a huge issue when it came to reporting uses of force and how those numbers are configured in comparison to the general population in San Francisco, because we have seen trends where people of color are subjected to use of force and searches and seizures at a particularly higher rate than uh non-people of color.

So that was something that the 96A report was set uh designed to address, and so I think that having that information and having these new benchmarks would be beneficial for the commission and the community to understand Commissioner Scott.

Thank you, um, Commissioners Elias and Benedicta for um alluding to uh those important matters and details as all of it is part of prevention and thank you the community for having the courage to come out and speak on these issues because as I always say, it's about all of us or none of us, and it's very important to work together to build trust in our community, to point out those who are the perpetrators of incidents so that they can be properly handled so that we can go on with our festivities without any further trouble and not have to leave.

Like many of you left.

I felt so sad hearing that you left and did not come back for such a wonderful uh pride event that we all share deeply and love deeply here in our city.

Um as we always say, if you see something, say something.

If you see something, say something.

Don't hold it in and don't wait until there's a commission meeting.

You know, bring it to the police department, bring it to your board of supervisors, bring it to those who who can do something about it, so that a plan can be put in place, you know, a plan of action because this is about action and not taking sides.

We don't take sides, we take action.

That's what this commission is about.

Um also uh if you have footage, many of you said you have footage.

We know that um I was part of the Mario Woods coalition, and also uh work closely with Oscar Grant's family and others.

Um, you know, and because I believe in violence prevention and I believe that we all share part of that, and we all need to be a part of that and take part of it before it happens.

And so I'm so glad to hear that everybody's on board with the town hall meeting because that's very important that we talk about this so that we can prevent it and at the same time share information with one another about our city.

We have people come from all over the world to this event to San Francisco City, because this is the city of San Francisco.

This is the city that made it all happen before any other city did.

So I'm very proud of that, of what we do here in San Francisco, and I want to keep that.

And so does everybody up here on this commission, including our chief and our mayor, because that's what San Francisco represents.

Um, as I said, if you see something, say so say something, and I would encourage us to use ambassadors.

Use your ambassadors, employ your ambassadors from the LGBT community who can get training and support on recognizing certain things to help the police help us all be safe.

So that there's a role played on both sides.

That's what we do for the Juneteenth.

That's what we do in the filmmore community, and that's why crime and violence has significantly dropped in our communities.

You know, when my son was killed in 96, it was 96 homicides.

96 homicides that year.

He was number 53.

And because of the work that we did over the years, it didn't happen overnight.

It happened to three through three mayors and maybe four or five police chiefs that we got here.

And so I have faith that we can do this.

Um the unity and strengthen and to make pride even safer in the coming years because we want to continue that.

Not just doing pride, but every day here in San Francisco, it is our duty to do that, to look out for one another.

Okay, because um at the end of the day, I want you to go home safe.

I want my grandchildren to go home safe, and I want the police officers to go home safe to their families as well, because this is about all of us and none of us.

So together we can make this happen.

So let's put on our thinking hats, prepare the community for what's coming, prepare them with their questions and what they want to see happen, um, engage them for the upcoming town hall meeting, and let's make it happen.

We can do this because San Francisco is a special city and all of us, all of us here are special, all of us are neighbors.

This is our city, and we can make it happen.

So safety, public safety, as the mayor says, his number one priority, and always have been one of my major priorities, not just for my community, but for all communities.

So thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Scott.

Commissioner Lowe.

My uh fellow commissioners, my fellow commissioners who have uh been on the sitting on this board much longer than I have, have uh well articulated, I think the sentiment um of all of us.

Uh and that is one gratitude to you for for coming here and to speak to us.

Um I uh vowed as I it's my fourth meeting.

Uh I vowed uh when I when I joined the commission that I was going to work on the partnership between the police and the communities.

Uh partnership means there's got to be trust.

Partnership means that there has to be a dialogue, partnership means that there has to be communication.

And so your coming out and speaking to us is I thank you.

I thank you for doing it.

Um I thank you for doing it, and I encourage you to do as uh Commissioner Scott and uh Benedicto have syndicated to work with us to try to find solutions, work with us to try to find ways to build that trust and to have a dialogue and a communication and relationship, frankly, that is one that uh where we can exchange ideas uh in a rational basis.

I'm sad to hear about your feelings.

I'm sad to hear about the events um uh and uh it's not something that uh that that that is ignored uh and does need to be dealt with, but I hope that you will join us in trying to find ways uh to make sure that I'm not sure we can promise that it won't happen again, but I can help whether we can promise each other we will work together to make sure that if it does that we will have ways of communicating in a manner that uh uh results in a positive result.

Thank you.

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

Hi.

Michael Patrellus again.

Um thank you for your comments.

Yeah.

Let's move this forward, you know.

You know, um, it really would have been great to show up here and to know that you had agendized what happened at the trans March, that you also had um uh uh a date set when you're going to have the town hall.

It really um should have been decided by now.

And my fear is that um uh this um incidents over Pride Weekend are gonna fade into the woodwork.

Why?

Because look what happened at July 4th.

There is always some big new thing overtaking the news.

You know, who's accused of a sexual crime here in San Francisco taking over the front page of the chronicle?

So it is imperative that um in the future when there is something such as the um uh police overdoing um uh their their supposed protection at the trans march that it's not two weeks later and we show up, you haven't agendized it, and you haven't planned the town hall meeting.

You've gotta do it faster.

Thank you.

Uh I appreciate that the board is moving towards solutions uh at preventing this in the future.

I appreciate a lot what Commissioner Benedicto said of how we can use the current avenues to uh pursue accountability for the SSPD.

Um I do think in the commentary I heard of see something say something.

The problem with that is that there's currently so much distrust between the trans community and with the police that it is almost unreasonable to expect us to give up our own to you and trust them with you and trust that things will not be escalated.

I trust that the transgressions of our community will not be met with increasing escalation, increasing violence and that yeah, they'll they'll be handled appropriately.

I think you're asking for more trust than has been earned, and I think that's something that needs to be considered in the future.

I think also when it comes to see something say something, I think that applies to the SFPD as well.

I think whenever more videos come out, if you guys do wish to look at the media that the community will probably submit.

Um, hopefully you will see your fellow officers and hopefully you'll call the all your fellow officers on the transgressions they have committed and apply the same tactic you're telling us.

If see something say something, call out your own.

Thank you.

And that concludes public comment.

Line item seven, discussion and possible action to approve revised general order 10.11 body worn camera for the department to use in meeting and conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law.

Discussion and possible action.

Good evening, commissioners.

Aja Steves, the director of the policy development division, here to briefly update you on DGO 1011 body worn camera, the expedited uh development process for that.

So this was initiated in April, so April 28th, the official initiation notification went out.

Uh DGO 301 provides a 30 business day update for expedited um policies.

I believe the chief of police provided a verbal update to the commission on why it was expedited as required by per 301.

There are several items in your packet um that I do want to just highlight.

You have the clean version, the red line version, uh, there's a draft unit order for RMO and also a draft uh bureau order for the airport.

Now, while these aren't here for your approval, they are here for your discussion because they supplement the DGO update.

Um, and there's also the survey results.

So PDD put out a survey for department members because we were actually several members were coming to our offices and sending us emails about pain points in the policy that had been updated last in 2024.

Um so we just put out a survey back in December asking members if they had uh recommendations for language or if they had additional pain points that they wanted to make us aware of.

So that that survey and the um excuse me, the results of that survey, the grid is in your packet too.

So there's over a hundred and twenty comments from members in the department.

I do want to take a moment to thank the members for taking time out to provide us with that feedback because it does help us improve our policies.

Um, and also for the first time, we've provided you uh a briefing, just a cover sheet that highlights the big changes, and then a more specific summary that goes over the specific changes with the proposed and the current.

I'm hoping that that's a helpful document.

And if it is, if the commission would like us to provide that going forward, we can do that with other DGOs.

Um so the big changes, right, were just the structural change with the activation section.

So that's been completely reformatted, and we've made that um, we've put two columns now together so you can see when we're expecting activation as well.

That was a pain point for officers, not knowing exactly when to activate and why.

So we clarified a lot of the language in the activation section.

Uh we have simplified the definitions.

We have also clarified the exceptions, especially as it relates to EOD.

So we have members that have to uh detect bombs, and there's transmission issues with the BWC, and the way it was put in there, the language initially wasn't that clear.

So we just wanted to clarify because it also does apply to patrol that is uh responding, not just our EOD members.

We also updated some language with auto tagging because that's the system that we use now.

Um, and obviously we put in the airport bureau.

Uh, that was the actual initial point, but we use that opportunity to also update the pain points.

So I don't have to get into it in depth because you have a lot of information in front of you.

So I'm happy to take specific questions or any concerns that you might have about this particular update.

So what I want to say is how you integrated the comments from the users, that's the most important thing I can say in terms of these officers out in the field, which have to engage in activating these cameras and hearing them what they were saying along the way.

I'm doing this.

How am I supposed to do it?

And that really clarified that for them.

So I think you did a good job on that.

So I applaud you all efforts for going back and figuring that out and making the ease of the review of this whole DGO itself for them to read and be intelligent.

So good job on that.

Thank you.

I wish we could get to everything, but we only had 30 business days, so it was a pretty quick turnaround.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you very much, President Clay.

Uh, thank you for uh this report.

Uh first, I think in response to your comment, I thought that the the summary document was very helpful.

Okay.

And so I think particularly for um DGOs where there are a lot of changes, I think it would be very helpful for PD to develop that.

I mean, that's to be quite frank, developing something like that is usually something I do in advance of commission.

So having that um, I think is very helpful.

Um I had an administrative question.

I know that uh one of the consolidations was taking the list of activation scenarios into that table format.

I know you know we've worked on a number of working groups together.

There's often there was there's often a lot of debate as to whether that format was I think everyone agreed it was cleaner, but it wasn't sort of consistent with how DGOs were done at a time.

Should we expect that that sort of simplified sort of table format is gonna start to become the norm as other DGOs get developed under or is that?

I couldn't say as a standard um going forward because all of our DGOs are have such different topics, um, some are lengthy, some are brief.

So I couldn't really say whether that's something that we will do as a standard, but I can say that um PDD's primary function is to make sure that our policies are clear to pretty much anyone who picks it up.

So going forward with the updates that are under our control, we'll hope to if a table is the cleatest way, then we'd we'd like to do that.

Um I'd like to ask about the the unit order and the bureau order to make sure I I know there's been a lot of discussion on this commission in the last year, or frankly, in the last 10 years about the property role of bureau and unit orders uh and to to ensure you know to comply with the DOJ reforms that they're not that they are being used for their correct purpose, which is to say they're forced to specifically bureau.

So can you let me know uh who the unit order uh applied to?

Is it just so the unit order in this packet is specific to RMO members?

So the risk management office.

Okay, so you'll have the DGO that applies to department Y and then the unit order for RMO and then the Bureau Order ISU.

Well, it still complies with the DGO.

So RMO has to comply with the DGO.

All members do.

Uh, but because there was specific administrative tasks that were in the DGO, the current version, we're proposing that those administrative tasks, because they don't have a department wide impact, it's very specific to RMO activities, live in the unit order that only speaks to RMO members.

And then the Bureau Order, I assume that's the airport bureau.

It's for the airport members, yeah.

Okay, that's very helpful.

I also want to echo something that President Clay said, which I think what was what uh what I really took as a as one positive from this process is we made the changes in 2024.

I was in the working group alongside you.

Uh and then, you know, in the subsequent time, uh, there were changes that were identified, and rather than waiting another decade to see them when they come back, we did the expedited, we identified those changes, and now we're we're back here in a relatively short amount of time.

I think that's the model of how you want it to look.

I think something I want to be aware of is making sure we're continuing to do that going forward.

And so I would love to see in a year or in 18 months uh another round of maybe feedback of okay, based on the 2026 revisions, what's working well and what doesn't, hopefully by then the new 3.01 will be implemented, which I know is streamlined some of these processes.

Uh and I think similarly I'd like to see that from DPA because I know that body one camera activation, archiving recording is one of the top uh complaints that DPA handles to see, okay, based on 18 months of the 2026 policy, we think these are the changes that need to be made.

Because I I think, and I know that we've talked about this so much that we agree on that it's much easier to modify a DGO a little bit when you're getting feedback as opposed to waiting a very long time and then trying to make these wholesale changes when people have gotten used to them.

So I think that if there's one thing to take, you know, I think that overall the changes look good to me.

Some of them I'm a little unsure of how they're gonna work when the rubber meets the road, but that what hardens me is that we saw that in 2024.

You came back to us in early 2026 with these changes, and hopefully we can see that again going forward.

So I'd like to see uh a similar sort of how's this DGO doing um from the department and from DPA, probably in a little bit over a year after implementation, particularly because I think this DGO, to me at least, and maybe this is unfair because it's the DGO that I've worked on tiles before on the commission, but I consider this one of the real core, along with 5.01 on use of force.

I think given the importance and centrality of body one cameras uh to make sure that this DGO never gets stale.

So I'd like to see that continue update.

Well, actually, very timely that you're saying that.

Um we're PDD is putting out our uh proposal to build up an implementation unit specifically.

Um so we're looking at we have current staff that works for the department that actually does this work, um potentially moving them over so that they can track the implementation of policies with data and research and actually create the metrics for how it should be measured before the policy is implemented and then track it afterwards to give PDD real information, real data, real research to see how the efficacy of these policies are are working, and if they are at all.

Um so not to really depend on gut feelings or um you know the feelings of of officers that are impacted, but really taking a systemic systematic approach at reviewing the implementation plan.

So that is in the PDD feature, and it looks like you're aligned with that.

So I appreciate that.

Absolutely.

Please keep us posted on that.

And uh those are all my questions.

Commissioner Lowe.

Well, the process must be working because I really don't have I just have one sort of structural question for you.

Um, thank you for all those materials.

It was very helpful to get through this, but uh I also thought that the uh the draft uh outlined a very practical approach to things.

I guess my only question was in the exceptions uh section, uh 10 11 04, and particularly F with respect to uh um body camera that's not working.

Did you really intend for that to be a true exception that somebody uh can go out and patrol can go out uh on on uh on a route and not have a camera as because it didn't work?

Patrol members are not uh part of this exception.

Um I guess I'm just want to be clear on the question.

The exceptions are really just for these five categories.

So it's either when you're in a class A or double A.

Um, so when you are responding to these suspicious packages, so it's just during that incident.

When engaged in training.

So that would be you're not on patrol at that moment.

Um, and when you're you know so I have in PDD, we have uniform members, but their primary duty is administrative in nature.

So they're at a desk all day, they're not in patrol or patrol functions at all.

So they're not going to wear a BWC while they're at their computers.

I guess I'm reading um uh on page two of the marked copy, uh 10114 um F that that is an exception to uh an officer wearing uh a body camera.

Yes, so it if they meet those five criteria, so if a sworn member is in, so F one through five, if they meet any of those circumstances in one through five, there they don't have to wear the body one camera.

Otherwise, everybody else is wearing one.

Okay.

I guess I I um I thought it looked like an exception to to wearing a body camera if it didn't work, um if you will.

Oh, I see.

Uh if it doesn't work, yeah.

Uh when a member discovers a re uh BWC is broken damage.

There's a reporting process, which I understand if I understood for the comment.

I'm sorry, I can you repeat the section that that's in?

Because I have a I'm sorry is 101104 F is the exceptions.

Yes.

And then is it one of those?

One of the I'm seeing that if it's not working, there's a process for reporting it, but I'm not seeing that I also am seeing that it is tracking and maintenance.

Is that where we are?

Yes.

Okay.

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

It's F on the on the mark copy.

So that doesn't fall under exceptions.

That's just uh member responsibilities, that they must get it fixed essentially.

So I s I uh let me just uh refer to 1011 5B, where it says that except as described in 1011 4F, which I think is this exceptions relating to uh broken uh camera, all members dispatched will be wearing their body or camera in these in the uh uh situations that are outlined in the chart.

Is it maybe the red line maybe is confusing?

The because the clean version F specifically ties to the exceptions, right?

So you're people who are not wearing them during their scheduled uh shift, right?

E is the section that you are discussing.

Um members are still wearing them, but they're responsible for fixing them.

The right line is a break.

The clean is just easier to go through, yeah.

The lettering, I guess.

I must be confused by the by the red line.

So, yeah, it's the exceptions.

Okay, all right.

Thank you.

That's good catch.

All right.

So they're a motion, I will move to approve general order 10.11 uh for use in meeting confer, pursuant to the commission's labor relations resolution.

Second, you would like to make public comment regarding the BWC, please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

Oh, um, well, just in regard to the activation of these uh body cameras, as far as I'm concerned, the way that uh the general public is subjected to 24-7 surveillance through flock cameras or even our own digital devices.

I think that the police officers more than anybody should be under uh you know that constant surveillance as well, and their body cameras, as far as I'm concerned, should be on from the moment they start their shift to the time that they end their shift.

Um that's to ensure that there's no um question about the types of activities that they conduct uh during their their time on taxpayer dollars.

Uh and it's to ensure that there's transparency around um the integrity of SFPD.

Thank you.

There is no further public comment.

So on the motion for the body worn camera, Commissioner Lowe, how do you vote?

Aye.

Commissioner Lowe, I.

Commissioner Scott?

Yes.

Commissioner Scott, aye.

Commissioner Leong?

Yes.

Commissioner Liang, aye.

Commissioner Benedicto?

Yes.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Aye.

Commissioner Lyas?

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas.

I.

Vice President Techie.

Aye.

Techie, aye.

President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay, aye.

The motion passes.

Line item eight.

Discussion and possible action to adopt revised department general order 5.20 language access services.

Discussion and possible action.

You guys are stuck with me for our two more agenda items, so I will again try to keep it brief.

So DGO 520, the Commission sent this item to meet and confer back in April.

Because of the expansion of the language in the proposal, the impacted bargaining units went beyond the POA.

So it was also the SCIU, 1021, Local 21, and I believe MEA.

So meet and confer concluded, and the bargaining units had no additional edits for the commission to consider.

I do want to note that PDD did meet with members of CAA, OSIA, the community youth center, and Chinatown Community Development Center back in May, May 20th, to discuss the training module.

So they actually provided very healthy um feedback on the scripts.

We're still gonna stay in contact with them because we are still developing the script for the training video, and also the training plan.

So as it stands right now, it's mostly recruits, but because this proposal is moving to every two years, it lines up with AO.

So we can actually incorporate the language access service training into AO, which is great, and recruits, and we're trying to do a video so there's an easy thing in power DMS that can be done regularly.

And we're also developing um something for our PSAs and our front desk staff because they are dressed like police officers and can easily be confused for sworn.

Um and that has turned out to be a pain point.

So we just need to do some additional training for them.

So again, that's being developed, but we are asking for a 30-day 30 business day implementation.

So the effective date would be August 19th.

We'd like to get this rolled out.

Um so those are the only comments I have.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you very much, President Clay.

Thank you for that, Steve.

To thank the bargaining units for uh pushing this through uh fairly quickly.

This is an important DGO.

Um, so you were asking for a 30 business day implementation, which brings us to August 19th.

Um, do you expect that by implementation you'll have that training video finalized?

We're working on it now.

Oh, yes.

So the the goal is to have the the training materials also up at August 19th.

Absolutely.

Good to know.

And then I'm glad to hear that you um the PD has been working with those community groups on work on the training materials, and just to confirm what I understood is you're gonna continue to work with them through the implementation period.

We'd like to get a little further on the modules and then pull them back in to get more of their feedback.

Okay, um, and then as you work to incorporate things into AO, um, you know, down the line.

Do you expect you you'd be engaged with those organizations to see if they have any input for if there's any new materials that are being prepared for the AO side?

We're always open to working with community when it comes to training.

Okay, right.

Those are all my questions.

Thank you.

Is there a motion?

I will move to adopt revised department general order 5.20 with a 30 business day implementation time.

Second.

If you would like to make public comment regarding DGO 5.20 language access, please approach the podium.

Hello, President Cray and Commissioner.

Uh good afternoon, good not good evening.

Sorry, and um, you know, TPA collects uh and Chief Liu.

Uh my name is Jose and I serve on the immigrant rights commission as a commissioner as well.

Uh and I also work at Chinese Foreign Faction CAA as the immigrant rights senior program manager.

Today I'm speaking on behalf of CAA.

Uh first of all, we would like to fend the Commission again um for your commitment to updating the DGR 520 on language access for your community informed process, including working, you know, with the community along the way.

Um we really appreciate your, you know, uh direct SAPD to meet with us, the community for server time where we participate in and provide constructive feedback.

Um, this conversation we saw in strong care policy recommendation based on the best practices, community and officer input.

While the current version includes some many critical additions, including the restriction from using family members, neighbors, friends, volunteers, bystanders, and children as an interpreters, the policy can be further improved.

Nonetheless, the work ahead would require timely and robust implementation of the 520 DGO language access so that all San Francisco residents, regardless of what language that they speak, can access public safety uh in the way that in a respectful and equitable manner.

We encourage um the commission again uh to require ongoing um community consultation and collaboration with community to ensure SFPD have a successful implementation of the DGO 520, uh, because we believe robust implementation of SFPD's language access policy should send a clear message to the community in San Francisco, the immigrant community, that you can safely report crimes and you can get served with back and without any confusion.

Thank you for your public comment.

Thank you.

Good evening.

Good evening, commissioners.

Uh, my name is Annie.

This DJO process has been quite turbulent for community members, but we do appreciate the commissioners for hearing our concerns and working with the community community to meaningfully update DGO 520 to serve and support the immigrant community.

These include train all SFPD employees serving community members every two years instead of three to properly identify limited English proficiency individuals, provide certified bilingual members for both criminal and non-criminal incidents, and restrictions from using family members, neighbors, friends, volunteers, bystanders, and or children as interpreters.

With the proper instructions from above, police can identify and assist people with limited English proficiency in order to obtain correct information, avoid danger, and also protect community residents, residents and the police themselves.

Especially given the current confusion between local law enforcement and uh federal enforcement agencies like ICE, language services are crucial to ensure public safety.

We encourage the commission to require ongoing community consultation and collaboration to ensure successful implementation of DGO 520, including partnership with organizations like CAA and the Language Access Network of San Francisco.

Thank you.

That was translation.

So okay.

First and foremost, I just want to applaud the wonderful and brave trans community and ILIs that are here today.

Anyway, um, but good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Crystal Van, and I'm the Civic Engagement Senior Program Manager at Chinese for Affirmative Action.

And we are also part of the language access network of San Francisco.

We'd like to thank the Commissioner and the Commission, all the commissioners on the Commission for your leadership on language access and for prioritizing policy amendments that would improve how immigrants and limited English proficiency residents access public services through SFPD.

Requiring that all SFPD members are trained every two years will increase awareness and understanding among SFPD employees of their legal obligations to provide language access.

We also like to thank the commission for recognizing the importance of community feedback in the policy making process.

By consulting with language rights experts and advocates, the current version now includes proper restrictions, stronger reporting requirements, and detailed protocols on how to identify and engage with limited English proficient individuals.

The work continues, and we encourage the commission to require ongoing community consultation and collaboration to ensure successful implementation of DGO 520, including partnership with CAA and the language access network of San Francisco.

Thank you.

And that concludes public comment on the motion regarding DGO 5.20.

Commissioner Lowe, how do you vote?

Aye.

Commissioner Lowe, aye.

Commissioner Scott?

Yes.

Commissioner Scott, yes.

Commissioner Leong?

Yes.

Commissioner Leong, yes.

Commissioner Benedicto?

Yes.

Commissioner Benedicto, yes.

Commissioner Elias?

Yes.

Commissioner Lias, yes.

Vice President Deckey?

Yes.

Vice President Techie, yes.

President Clay?

Yes.

President Clay, yes.

Motion passes.

Line item.

Nine.

Discussion and possible action to adopt.

Revised Department General Order 5.23, deaf and hard of hearing, discussion and possible action.

Last one.

DGO 523, deaf and hard of hearing.

The Commission sent this proposal to meet and confer back in June.

I do want to say that PDD SFPD co-presented with the Office of Disability and Accessibility at the NAG conference that happened last week in the city.

And we were able to discuss our policy update that also includes the website update.

Also the policy update itself and the visor card.

So that there were other people, it's a national event, so there were individuals from all over the country that asked if we would work with their law enforcement agency as well to provide the template for the visor card.

So we are going to.

And so it's exciting.

It was an exciting event.

I'm very happy to be a part of it.

And again, the office, I want to thank the Office of Disability and Access for Accessibility for letting us join them.

This same same thing sent to meet and confer.

The bargaining units have no additional edits to ask the commission to consider.

So we are asking that you adopt and give us a 30 business day implementation, making the effective date August 19th to align with 520.

So we have both of our big language access going out at the same day to members.

Is there a motion?

I'll move to adopt this DGO with a 30 business day implementation, DGO 5.23.

Regarding DGO 5.23, if you'd like to make public comment, please approach approach the podium.

Hi.

Michael Patrellus again.

So when I take these hearing aids out, you really have to shout at me.

These are the latest models of um OctoCon.

Um hearing devices.

And they really saved my gay marriage, you know, and I finally uh got these hearing aids.

Um the point I want to make is that when they malfunction, when they have not been um fully recharged and they're not working, um I basically have to ask people to shout.

Um so when you're dealing with um deaf and hard of hearing uh folks such as myself, um, remember that even when we have these devices, um they're not always fully functional.

And I see here on um page two um that you are looking at any emerging technology.

Um, yeah.

Uh what I have um can um be used for telephone reasons, whatever the Bluetooth thing is, it can do blue Bluetooth things.

Um I really only use them for um uh hearing purposes.

I don't need to tune in a radio.

Um I imagine that one day they'll be able to um uh translate from Spanish or German, you know.

Um and uh I'm just asking you to um bear in mind that these new devices can do a lot.

And um when a person such as myself doesn't have the device fully charged, you have an item here about communication methods of hand gestures.

That's really important, and also um I'm pretty good at reading lips.

So uh just bear that in mind, please when dealing with us.

Thank you.

Um, hello.

I am a child of a deaf adult, and uh my mother has been in circumstances in which she has uh interacted with police officers, and it has been increasingly difficult for her to get her message across due to the lack of resources in terms of uh interpretation.

Um she's fortunate to have me around to interpret.

However, as far as some helpful um resources to ensure that there's clear and effective communication uh between uh deaf and hard of hearing people and police officers.

Um I could suggest video phone relay service.

Um and I also think it would be very helpful um in general if officers knew basic signs.

Uh I think it's fundamental to uh ensure that the person uh that they are speaking with understands that um the officer is aware that they have a hearing impairment and um that they are working to uh find resources to ensure that the communication is clear and heard.

Thank you, and that concludes public comment regarding DGO five point two three, Commissioner Lowe.

How do you vote?

Aye.

Commissioner Lowe, aye.

Commissioner Scott.

Commissioner Scott, aye.

Commissioner Leong?

Aye.

Commissioner Leong, aye.

Commissioner Benedicto?

I Commissioner Benedicto, aye.

Commissioner Elias?

Commissioner Elias, yes.

Vice President Techie?

Yes, Vice President Techie, yes.

President Clay?

Yes.

President Clay, yes, the motion passes.

Presentation and update by DPA on DPA's 2025 annual statistical report.

Discussion, I think you want to get a test.

I don't think that's on the work.

Is that right now?

Okay.

If I go to that one, then I just look short.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, no, no, you're all right.

I'm already short enough.

All right.

Good evening, commissioners.

My name is Nicole Armstrong.

I am with the Department of Place Accountability.

I am the CFO, COO, whatever title for tonight, we'll go with COOslash CFO.

Here I'm today I'm uh here to present to you on the annual statistical report.

Um I just want to thank you for this opportunity to present this report.

Um it was a lot of hard work that we actually put into this, and so I'm really excited to be here.

Um I want to go and talk about how this report reflects a significant uh operational improvements expanded in community engagement and continued commitment to independent oversight.

Um but first I'd like to thank the team that actually worked on this.

Um this was not just done in a bubble, I didn't do this by myself, this was done with Sarah Monder, with Steve Flaherty, with Eric Ho, and Marshall Kine in the back who's here to support me.

Um, and also just the DPA staff in general.

This is all of their accumulative hard work over the years that they've been doing.

Um, and so I'm really appreciative of all the work they have done over the years.

All right, so what you're looking at right now is a 2025 at a glance.

So it's 125 was a year of meaningful growth for DPA and improved performance.

We received a total of 899 complaints, a 22% increase over twenty over 2024.

This growth signals greater visibility of accessibility of DPA's services, um not necessarily more uh misconduct, but more community trust in the oversight process.

We also closed 938 cases surpassing last year's volume.

Uh most notably our average case processing time dropped to 93 days, down from 191 days.

So on this slide, we're showing how the complaints have uh increased by 22 percent and also our closures.

Um you can see the two-year differences.

Uh so we have 22 increase of complaints.

As I said, it's a clear communication, it reflects our clear communication channels and improved access uh by the community using digital formats.

Um our current number one way that people reach out to DPA is through our online portal and via phone.

But despite our increased volume of that of keep of getting new cases, we're also closing more cases this year's, so we're actually having a good turnover.

We're not letting things become stagnant.

We're continuing to work on things as time goes on.

Our investigators handled more than two thousand allegations across the SFPD cases, illustrating both the workload and productivity.

The one other thing I want to make a note of, and this recently just came up when I was talking to some of the investigators to show that not only are we having these cases from 2025, but we're also seeing the increase of this year, is you know, usually our intake cases have, you know, we'll get to one to five cases a day, you know, at DPA during intake, but now we're seeing closer to 10 cases a day, showing an increased volume of cases continuing to come in.

Um we're still trying to meet all of our you know major statutory compliances, but you know, it's it's a lot more for our our our small office to be able to do these work.

So it we wanted to make sure to thank the MBO uh for our budget right now to where we're gonna be able to hire two new investigators to be able to help us work on this new workload as these keep cases keep increasing.

All right, this slide shows you the average processing time.

Um, and as you can see, it's been roughly cut by half.

So our investigators are focusing um on making sure our cases are getting closed in a good processing time, and that allows the processing to be able to go to SFPD for discipline if those cases reach discipline.

Um we've done this by modernizing our workflows, improving our evidence processing, and streamlining our internal review, uh, and that's allowed us to reduce our average processing time from the 191 to 93 days.

These improvements are operational, not shortcuts.

These investigations remain thorough and evidence-driven.

Um, and this progress progress places DPA well ahead of our internal target of 180 days and well before the nine-month timeline described in the charter.

Alright, so this slide shows you where the cases came from.

Um, and I just wanted to be able to highlight, you know, just just how we're where our case where our cases are coming from.

As you see, uh tenderloin is the highest, southern and central.

I did do a recent study because I want I wanted to know something that I'm sure many of you would like think of as is there a correlation or a causation of DPA complaints to calls of service.

And there's not.

There is not.

Tenderloin actually receives less calls of service.

So I've looked at that data.

I try to see if there was a something that connected it, but there is not at this time.

One of the things I'm going to be looking at in the future, though, is to see if the crisis response team, the street teams that are going out, if there's a correlation in us receiving a higher number of complaints from based on that team and those certain fields.

Because I suspect there's some numbers in there that we might actually see an uptick with it.

So that's something you could look forward to that we're going to be looking at in the future.

Now at DPA, we keep we treat every allegation exactly the same.

Last year we resolved 2,012 SFPD allegations, and these are all based on facts.

As you can see on the slide, the vast majority of our resulted in proper conduct.

We treat proper conduct cases the exact same way we could treat a sustained case.

We are very thorough at DPA.

We want to make sure that everything follows along the line as we do every investigative step.

We have a small percentage that resulted in mediate in training and policy.

Our distribution is consistent with the national oversight averages and underscores the role of the independent review, verifying where the conduct aligns and identifying where it should not.

Every DP, I just want to highlight this.

Every DPA case is thoroughly investigated and impartially evaluated under the applicable legal standards using best practice to ensure we find these are grounded in evidence.

Our investigators are amazing.

So what got sustained last year?

So we had 79 sustained allegations in 2025, and of those allegations, neglective duty was by far the most common.

Those, as you guys are well aware, neglect of duty could be failure to comply with a D with a DGO, so like failure to comply with DGO 10.11 as an example, or failure to comply with any of those DGOs.

Neglective duty is also a failure to activate body worn camera, failure to properly investigate, those are the kind of things that fall into neglective duty.

The next is conduct on becoming an officer, and that's making rude comments, is a big one.

Then use of force and unwarranted action.

So I want to give you some highlights about our divisions.

As you guys know, we have received four Alga and Knighton awards for our audit team.

We have disclosed 54,086 pages for our SB 1421 team.

And I just want to show let you guys know that our team is three people, and they all have other jobs.

So they are redacting by hand.

We're not using AI to redact, we're not doing this, but this team is pretty amazing to have released this many records.

They've reviewed 1,153 cases, and they're still going strong.

I'm gonna give myself a little pat on the back based on our digitized digitization project we're working on.

I think they're gonna be able to go through them even faster, and then DPA is gonna be really streamlined with our data, and hopefully then we'll be able to even actually look up more data because we're gonna have it all in one resource, so who knows what we can look at over the years at DPA in the future.

And for our policy team, uh, 10 out of the 11 DGO recommendations passed here at the police commission.

So I'm just gonna give a little bit of highlighting for the audit.

Um, as you guys know, Steve Flarity is outstanding.

Uh, he's worked on multiple audits, he has this new one.

Um, in May, he received his third consecutive nighton award, which is outstanding for a stop data with RIPA, and you know, I expect we'll be getting another one eventually with his next audit because everything he does is fantastic.

Um this year we had a national conversation on AI and oversight with NACOL.

That's the National Association for Oversight.

Uh, we partnered with NACOL to co-host a two-day regional conference about AI and oversight.

Um we had uh Commissioner Kevin Benedicto joined us there.

Um we got to learn about the policies, the oversight, oversight with uh how they're using technology, as well as SAP's real-time information center.

Um we actually got to see a drone in in progress.

It was a it was really fascinating, and we brought in over a hundred oversight agencies from across the country to be able to learn.

Um, it was one of the first AI conferences that NACOL had really had, so it was a real it was a real introduction because government agencies were a lot of times we're still in the 90s or early 2000s, and so seeing where technology is moving and how quickly it's going is you know really good.

Um, our internship, as you guys know, we have uh our interns are in-house right now.

I think some of you spoke to our interns, they came here for the police commission.

But last year we had 30 interns across our semesters.

We had nine HBCU students, seven law clerks, and eight city agencies.

Um they work on doing policy projects.

Um they're helping me out with some of the data research I'm doing right now, and we have a really good group of people right now.

I highly recommend if you guys haven't met the interns to be able to sit down with them.

They are, I think, one of the best cohorts we have.

Uh so what makes this report different?

Um, so besides all the data points and numbers, this report itself is designed in HTML code.

It's not actually done on Canvas, it's not actually done on any other program.

Uh, we did it on uh HTML code in order to make it a print style to PDF, be able to integrate the um the languages to be able to use Google Translate in it.

We want to make the static tables and charts, and we want it to be able to move to be able to see it on your screen so you can look at it on your phone, and you can look at all the different records in a more accessible way.

Um, it's also has a increase accessibility to anybody that has digital accessibility and inclusion standards.

Um, what another additional thing that we've added to our report is we're starting to do comparisons of our cases with SFPD as well as our cases with SFSO.

Um so that way you can see how some of our data is starting to correlate, or not correlate really, but really to see how much work DPA is doing.

So in addition to our current caseload, we're also doing 40 SFSO cases.

We've closed 41, and that's a limited number of cases based on the LOA that we use.

All right, and finally, this new format.

What does it really deliver to you?

Um, really, anyone can access this from any device.

You can print it, you can look at it online, you can see it.

I love the new design of it.

I'm saying that because I built it, but I like how clean it is.

I like the fact that I can shrink it and I can look at it on my phone when I'm like, oh, wait, that number might not be right, but I love it because it's also an ongoing project to be able to add and change and do things, and I don't have to sit there on a document and have to be able to print pages out and add accessibility things to it each level I go.

I'm able to build the accessibility into the code itself so that way when I put the information in, I'm able to produce it at a much faster pace.

But currently, we're already working on the quarter uh the new quarter report, and we should have that to you soon.

Whereas before it would be us doing something taking a lot of time to do it, whereas now I already have the code and the structure, so it's just updating the data that goes into it.

Um so I'm hoping to get that to you guys much faster.

Um so it's also more efficiency.

As I said, DPA is very small and you guys are well aware of it.

Our tech team is me and one other individual.

Uh so we do all of this stuff in house.

We are not spending money on consultants.

We are not asking people to assist us with these things.

We are literally building all of this in our house, and we're trying to do this so it saves money, it saves time, and it's more efficient for us, so that way we can get everybody the information they need, but also not add too much workload onto us.

So, and I really want to give a shout out one more to Eric Ho, because he's also the tech master with this, and I I'm great at creating things and breaking it, and he fixes everything.

So, just wanted to give him another shout out.

Um, and then the last thing is we really want to make sure this is transparent.

This is still a work and project.

I I want to ask the commissioners, you have data that you think is interesting that you would like to see.

I would love to be able to find out what information you would like to be in the report.

What information don't you think needs to be in the report?

We did previously send a um a survey out to the commission to see what you would like in these reports, but I'd really like this to be an ongoing conversation.

So I can change this to be what you may need in the future or what you may not need in the future.

Um, the data is there for us to use, and this is just the first step in what I hope to be a fascinating and a brilliant project that we can all work together on.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Elias.

I wanted to thank DPA for their efforts.

It's always um so refreshing to see you take our feedback, and you always go back, um, and make it better, make it uh more digestible and easier for people to understand the data.

So I think that's really helpful.

One of the questions I had is the annual statistics report and your reporting, I know that you provide it to the commission so that we can see this, but do you also provide it to the Board of Supervisors or the Mayor's Office so that they also see some of the work and the data that's out there?

Yeah, it gets emailed out.

Okay, yeah.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Adjournment.

Action.

Do we need a motion for that?

No, let's do it.

No, no, because I don't know.