MINUTES, 06-08-12 - Public Safety Committee - Justice Hearing

Public Safety Committee Meeting

Justice Hearing

MINUTES – June 8, 2012

Hosted by the Fillmore Neighborhood Association

City Official Present:

 

·         Northern Police Station
·         Supervisor Olague’s Office
·         District Attorney’s Office

General Meeting Discussion and Q&A

1.00)        San Francisco Police Department – Question & Answer

2.00)        Supervisor Christina Olague’s Office – Judy B, Legislative Aide – Question & Answer

3.00)        District Attorney’s Office – Question & Answer 

1.00 San Francisco Police Department - Question & Answer

1.01 Question from Audience: You say clean the park because they are getting ready to build or they will take away the park. 

Answer - Captain Mannix of Northern Station: It is up to the community.

1.02 Audience Comment:  Park doesn’t stand for drinking.  For people who are homeless their needs to be a shelter that leads to SRO.  Young folks don’t have a clue.  It’s getting worse then we realize.  There is a serious housing problem. 

Reply – Captain Mannix:  Do you need service?  M.A.P. system is busy.  There must be a willingness of homeless to commit to 30 to 90 days in shelter.  The mini park is not there for people to drink, smoke and cut hair.  New life in the mini park. 

1.03 Audience Comment:  People need help a social support system.  What a person can look like in one week.  City must get behind local activities. 

1.04 Audience Comment:  Bring life to park.

1.05 Audience Comment:  There is no where for young people to hand out in the Fillmore. 

1.06 Audience Comment:  Engage community more, police can’t do it alone.  Meet with Mo’ MAGIC regularly. 

1.07: Skated in the Golden Gate Park in the 80’s. 

1.08 Audience Comment:  Brothers Against Guns (BAG) spoke with vice this morning.  Last Juneteenth had a big fight.  BAG was out there stopping fights.  They pulled me out there. 

1.09 Audience Comment:  Does the police have access to cameras to see what is going on throughout the City? 

SFPD Answer:  We have to wait for access to camera that is how it is set up.  Some homicides investigations deal with releasing the footage. 

1.10 Audience Comment:  SFPD don’t have control over cameras.  An agreement made with parties including the ACLU sitting personal and privacy issues. 

SFPD: Cameras capture everything and normal things, maybe an affair. 

1.11 SFPD – Lt.:  Sector foot patrols.  Golden Gate Park patrols.  Enforce rules.  Complaint driven quality of life.  Homeless outreach officers.  When you are older it is not healthy to live on street. 

1.12 SFPD – Lt.: Regular sector cars, Violence Reduction Foot beat, Housing Officers, Gang Task Force. 

1.13 Audience Comment:   There are identified services needed.  Services in housing authority location.  Mental health.  Job skills training. 

Mayor Lee Summer Jobs Plus.  Summer after school programs.  Young black adults have nothing to do in their own community.

1.14 Audience Comment:  I am a pile driver and bridge builder.  Workers are being brought in from a different county and no one can pressure the contractor. 

1.15 Audience Comment:  Ella Hill Hutch / Dwayne Jones

1.16 Audience Comment:  Public Hearing on OEWD. 

1.17 Audience Comment:  McDonalds is trying to fire staff.  Sensitivity training. 

Plumbing & Electrical Union.

2.0 Supervisor Christina Olague’s Office – Judy B, Legislative Aide

2.01 Audience Comment:  Justice.  Supervisors are a law maker.  We need to narrow down our focus, it is very difficult to handle everything. 

We are pushing community policing, beat patrols and cooperation between Northern and Park Police Station. 

Joint meetings among groups.

Frustrating.  Reports on reports.  Grand Jury Reports not being followed up.  Don’t know what is happening with status of reports. 

If Birds were dying there would be a major press release. 

2.02 Audience Comment:  There should be a committee under the Supervisor’s Office for the Western Addition.  One committee for the Western Addition. 

Judy B – (Supervisors Office):  Does the Supervisor appoint the people to the committee. 

Audience Comment:  Yes.

Judy B – (Supervisors Office):  Would rather be seen as a supporter instead of a gate-keeper. 

3.0 District Attorney’s Office Question & Answer

3.01 Wade (District Attorney’s Office):  Ran our Gang Unit. 

Legal definition

Organized group of three or more.

Common sign/or symbol

Common crime

Social versus Criminal

Robbery crew is not a gang.

Engage in prior criminal activity before the crime. 

Find out what is important to you guy’s and communicate back to my office.  

3.02 Audience Comment:  Parole now = PRCS.  New equivalent to community supervision.  Positive re-entry. 

5 Keys Charter School in prisons and work around GED / reduce chance of committing crime in future.  Neighborhood court does reduce. 

3.03 Audience Comment:  Gang Injunction.  Community was hoping more discussion.  City Attorney says people support Gang Injunction, but people were afraid to come out. 

City Attorney talks about numbers.  Data come from numbers; we need to see the numbers. 

Homicides are down, Gang Injunction takes the credit, but when goes back up it isn’t working. 

I submitted a report to the District Attorney’s Office.  I had to physically arrest a security guard.  I sent it to the D.A. and it sat for months. 

Share with us year by year, if it is working lets applaud. 

When it comes to implementing report it is not happening.  PERF report some have been implemented.  There needs to be a joint effort by C.A., D.A. and SFPD to look at report. 

Everything has been said. 

3.04 Wade (District Attorney’s Office):  S.F. Gang Injunction is different from anywhere.

3.05 Audience Comment:  Javon Helton was at a sports bar in the Marina, he was prevented to come to his area.  Three other people on list were family.

Can we claim success? 

Wade (District Attorney’s Office):  Fewer gang related activities. 

3.07 Audience Question/Comment: What is legal requirement?

Wade (District Attorney’s Office):  Evident / case specific. 

Build case description, victims. 

Stolen gun from home. 

3.08 Audience Question:  Do you get a lot of reports about missing guns?

Wade (District Attorney’s Office):  Prosecutors suspect guns are obtained from break ins or people losing their guns. 

We charge a lot of stolen gun cases when we trace them back. 

Straw buyers get a bunch from gun shows. 

A gun shop in the peninsula was broken into. 

3.09 Audience Comment:  Guns are coming here.  One phone call will produce a guy with a box of guns. 

Quarantine, prevent people from coming in with weapons. 

Wade (District Attorney’s Office):  We need cooperative witnesses.  Eye witnesses.  Circumstantial evidence. 

3.10 Audience Question:  What percent of murder cases are solved from an eye witness?

3.11 Audience Question:  Can we work with the people recently arrested for murder charges to help reduce the murders in the Fillmore.

Wade (District Attorney’s Office):  Do you mean shave off a few years for cooperating to help reduce violence.  I don’t think will work and have to consider the victim’s families.  A better approach would be to look into the people getting out.