00:00:11 AND GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. THIS MEETING WILL COME TO
00:00:13 ORDER. WELCOME TO THE RESCHEDULED
00:00:16 MEETING OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BOARD OF SUPERVISORS PUBLIC
00:00:18 SAFETY AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES COMMITTEE FOR THURSDAY
00:00:21 OCTOBER EIGHTH, 2026. I'M SUPERVISOR DANNY SAUDER,
00:00:25 CHAIR OF THIS COMMITTEE JOINED TODAY BY MY FELLOW COMMITTEE
00:00:28 MEMBERS, VICE CHAIR BELAL MAHMOOD SOON TO JOIN US.
00:00:32 SUPERVISOR ALAN WONG AND GLAD TO BE JOINED TODAY BY SEVERAL
00:00:35 COLLEAGUES INCLUDING SUPERVISOR MAN WOMAN FIELDER AND DORSEY.
00:00:41 AND WE ARE GRATEFUL OF COURSE TO OUR CLERK TODAY AS WE WERE
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00:00:57 >> MADAM CLERK, DO YOU HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS?
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00:01:44 FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA NINE FOUR 102 IF YOU SUBMIT PUBLIC
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00:01:54 YOU'RE COMMENTING. FINALLY ITEMS ACTED UPON TODAY
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00:01:58 OCTOBER 20TH 2026 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED.
00:02:01 >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK WILL YOU PLEASE CALL ITEM NUMBER
00:02:05 ONE? >> YES.
00:02:06 ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A HEARING TO ASSESS CITYWIDE DRUG MARKET
00:02:08 CONDITIONS. ENTER A DEPARTMENTAL
00:02:12 COORDINATION AND RESOURCE ALLOCATION INCLUDING PROGRESS
00:02:15 MADE TO DATE WHETHER IMPROVEMENT IN SOME AREAS AREAS
00:02:16 REFLECTS LASTING CHANGE OR THE DISPLACEMENT OF DRUG ACTIVITY
00:02:20 TO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS AND WHAT ADDITIONAL RESOURCES OR
00:02:24 COORDINATION ARE NEEDED TO STABILIZE CONDITIONS CITYWIDE.
00:02:27 >> THANK YOU MADAM CLERK. THIS IS AN ISSUE OF GREAT
00:02:32 CONCERN TO ALL OF US OF COURSE, BUT IT WAS MY COLLEAGUE
00:02:35 PRESIDENT MAN WOMAN WHO CALLED FOR THIS HEARING SO I WOULD
00:02:37 TURN OVER TO PRESIDENT VENEMAN AS WELL AS SUPERVISOR FIELDER
00:02:40 TO LEAD THIS HEARING TODAY SUPERVISOR PRESIDENT GENTLEMAN
00:02:43 THANK YOU, CHAIR SLAUGHTER IT OCCURS TO ME THAT ONE OF THE
00:02:50 VERY FIRST HEARINGS THAT I HAD ON THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS WAS
00:02:51 A HEARING ON HOMELESSNESS ON OUR STREETS AND THE CHALLENGES
00:02:57 ENCAMPMENTS WERE PRESENTING FOR NEIGHBORS AT THE TIME AND OVER
00:03:01 THE EIGHT YEARS SINCE I JOINED THE BOARD, THE EXACT ELEMENTS
00:03:05 OF THE CHALLENGES FACING NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE CHANGED.
00:03:09 BUT THIS HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST CONSISTENT, PERSISTENT
00:03:12 CHALLENGES FOR THE CITY DURING THAT DURING THAT TIME THINGS
00:03:16 CERTAINLY GOT WORSE DURING COVID CLEARING OUT THE SHELTERS
00:03:20 AND ALLOWING FOR ENCAMPMENTS TO PERSIST.
00:03:25 FOR THOSE OF US WHO WERE HERE WE REMEMBER LARGE ENCAMPMENTS
00:03:28 ACROSS THE CITY INCLUDING IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HADN'T
00:03:33 HAD THEM BEFORE. A LOT OF THOSE A LOT OF THOSE
00:03:36 ENCAMPMENTS WERE ALSO PLACES WHERE A LOT OF DRUG RELATED
00:03:40 ACTIVITY HAPPENED. >> I WOULD SAY THAT AND I HEAR
00:03:47 FROM MY CONSTITUENTS AND I HEAR FROM PEOPLE WHO VISIT THE CITY
00:03:51 THAT STREET CONDITIONS RELATED TO DRUGS AND HOMELESSNESS
00:03:55 AND ENCAMPMENTS HAVE DRAMATICALLY IMPROVED SINCE
00:03:59 2022 OR 2023 AND THEY ARE AND IT IS HARD TO EXACTLY
00:04:03 PINPOINT I THINK WHAT THING OR THINGS MADE THAT CHANGE.
00:04:10 >> I THINK THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISION IN GRANTS PASS HAD
00:04:13 SOMETHING TO DO IT TO DO WITH IT.
00:04:14 THE STANDING UP OF DIMOCK IN 2023 HAD SOMETHING TO DO
00:04:20 WITH IT THE POLICE BEING ALLOWED TO USE NEW TECHNOLOGIES
00:04:24 I THINK HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT.
00:04:27 I THINK THE SIGNIFICANT EXPANSION OF TREATMENT
00:04:31 OPPORTUNITIES AND RESOURCES HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT.
00:04:32 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SOBERING CENTER OF 822 GEARY AND NOW OF
00:04:39 RESET ALL MAY HAVE PLAYED A PART AND I DO THINK A NEW
00:04:43 APPROACH AROUND PROSECUTION OF DRUG CRIME FROM THE DISTRICT
00:04:47 ATTORNEY'S OFFICE ALSO HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT.
00:04:50 >> AND SO THERE IS I THINK AN ANECDOTAL FEELING FROM A LOT OF
00:04:54 PEOPLE THAT THINGS ARE BETTER TODAY THAN THEY WERE FIVE YEARS
00:05:00 AGO. >> BUT IT IS HARD ACTUALLY FOR
00:05:04 ME AND IT CONTINUES TO BE CHALLENGING TO ME EVEN ALTHOUGH
00:05:06 WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS HEARING AND MY AND I APPRECIATE
00:05:09 THE FOLKS IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE AND IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS
00:05:13 WHO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THIS CONVERSATION.
00:05:14 IT IS HARD FOR ME TO THINK ABOUT THE MEASURES THAT WE
00:05:17 SHOULD BE USING TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE'RE DOING OVERALL ON
00:05:20 DRUGS CITYWIDE. AND THE REASON THAT BECOMES I
00:05:26 THINK ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT IS THAT THERE ARE PARTS OF THE
00:05:30 CITY WHERE CONDITIONS ON THE STREET HAVE BECOME WORSE.
00:05:32 I THINK IN THE CASTRO THINGS ARE A LITTLE BIT WORSE OR
00:05:37 SOMEDAYS A LOT WORSE THAN THEY WERE A YEAR AND A HALF OR TWO
00:05:41 YEARS AGO. I THINK I MEAN THE SUPERVISOR
00:05:44 FOR DISTRICT NINE IS HERE AND SHE CAN SPEAK FOR HERSELF
00:05:46 BUT THE EXPERIENCE OF MY CONSTITUENTS GOING DOWN TO THE
00:05:48 BART STATIONS AND OF ME WHEN I'M GOING HOME ALONG MISSION
00:05:52 STREET IS THAT CONDITIONS AT THE 16TH STREET ART PLAZA
00:05:55 CERTAINLY A FEW MONTHS AGO THE 24TH STREET BAR PLAZA AND THE
00:06:00 STRETCH OF MISSION BETWEEN THE TWO PLAZAS HAD DETERIORATED
00:06:04 SIGNIFICANTLY. >> AND SO HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT
00:06:07 WHAT IS PROGRESS AND HOW WE'RE DOING AND HOW OUR STRATEGIES
00:06:14 CHANGING TO ADDRESS NEW AREAS THAT WERE NOT THE AREAS THAT WE
00:06:18 SET UP DMCC TO ADDRESS? THAT'S THE POINT OF THIS
00:06:22 HEARING TO THINK ABOUT HOW TO THINK ABOUT THE PROGRESS WE'VE
00:06:26 MADE AND TRY TO THINK AND TRY TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE
00:06:30 ADMINISTRATION AND THE DEPARTMENTS THINK ABOUT THAT
00:06:33 PROGRESS AND TO ALSO UNDERSTAND AND THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE
00:06:37 OVER THE LAST I GUESS NOW IT'S MORE LIKE 120 DAYS PARTICULARLY
00:06:42 FOCUSING ON OR MAYBE LONGER PARTICULARLY FOCUSING ON THE
00:06:46 MISSION AND AND THEN TO THINK ABOUT WHAT ABOUT ALL OF THE
00:06:50 OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME DEGRADATION
00:06:56 FOR WHOM THE STATEMENT THAT SAN FRANCISCO IS DOING BETTER IT
00:07:00 RINGS A LITTLE HOLLOW BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE BLOCK I CARE ABOUT
00:07:01 HAS GOTTEN WORSE. AND WHAT HOW IS THE CITY
00:07:04 RESPONDING TO THAT? >> I DIDN'T EXTEND AN
00:07:08 INVITATION TO THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS
00:07:11 HEARING AS THEY HAVE BEEN WITH OTHER HEARINGS.
00:07:12 THEY DECLINED. >> I THINK THAT GETS HARD FOR
00:07:15 SOME OF THESE ISSUES OF CITYWIDE IMPORTANCE WHERE THERE
00:07:19 IS COORDINATION HAPPENING OUT OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE NOT TO
00:07:22 HAVE REPRESENTATION BUT THAT IS A CONVERSATION THAT WE CAN
00:07:26 CONTINUE OFFLINE FOR TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE HEARING FROM
00:07:30 COMMANDER BIGGS AT SFPD FROM DANIEL SY, THE DEPARTMENT OF
00:07:34 PUBLIC HEALTH AND AND TOPIA FROM THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC
00:07:38 AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. I'M GOING TO ASK THERE WILL BE
00:07:41 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS BUT ONCE WE'VE MADE OUR
00:07:44 INTRODUCTORY STATEMENTS I'M GOING TO ASK THAT WE LET THEM
00:07:46 GET THROUGH THEIR SLIDES BEFORE WE POUNCE.
00:07:48 I'M SURE WE ALL WILL HAVE OUR OWN UNIQUE ANGLES AND CONCERNS
00:07:56 BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO LET THEM GET THROUGH THEIR
00:07:57 WHOLE PRESENTATION FIRST. >> THANK YOU.
00:08:00 THANKS EVERYBODY. THANK YOU.
00:08:01 PRESIDENT MAILMAN AND VICE CHAIR MAHMOOD THANK YOU CHAIR
00:08:04 SARDAR AND THANK YOU PRESIDENT MANDELA'S PRESIDENCY'S ADVISOR
00:08:08 FIELDER FOR CALLING THIS HEARING.
00:08:09 JUST WANTED TO QUICKLY MENTION AND ECHO ONE OF THE SENTIMENTS
00:08:12 THAT THE PRESIDENT MENTIONED WHICH IS REPRESENTING THE
00:08:15 TENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD. WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THINGS ARE
00:08:16 BETTER THAN THEY WERE TWO YEARS AGO.
00:08:21 I SEE PARENTS WALKING THEIR KIDS TO SCHOOL.
00:08:22 MERCHANTS NOTICE THAT IT IS IS NIGHT AND DAY LITERALLY.
00:08:29 BUT THAT NIGHT IS ACTUALLY AS WE'VE NOTED IS A LITTLE BIT
00:08:33 WORSE AND AS SOME BLOCKS ARE GETTING BETTER, SOME THINGS ARE
00:08:36 GETTING PUSHED I KNOW TO UPPER LOWER HILL HAS VALLEY DUE TO
00:08:40 SEE DIFFERENT POLICIES AND SO LOOKING FORWARD TO DIVING
00:08:45 IN TODAY TO UNDERSTANDING HOW THESE POLICIES THAT WHAT ARE
00:08:52 THE POLICIES WE'RE TRYING DIFFERENT MAYBE UNINTENDED
00:08:53 CONSEQUENCES OF THEM HOW DO WE ADAPT AND CONTINUE TO IMPROVE
00:08:55 TO GET TO A SITUATION HOPEFULLY WE CAN EVENTUALLY CONTAINER
00:09:00 COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE DRUG MARKET.
00:09:03 >> SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
00:09:04 VICE CHAIR MAHMOOD AND SUPERVISOR DORSEY THANK YOU
00:09:07 CHAIR SAUDER AND THANK YOU PRESIDENT MAILMAN FOR
00:09:11 ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THERE ARE SOME NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THINGS
00:09:15 AREN'T GETTING BETTER AND IN SOME WAYS I WILL SAY I'M
00:09:18 HEARING FROM RESIDENTS IN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE NOT
00:09:22 PREVIOUSLY EXPERIENCED ISSUES WITH STREET CONDITIONS HAVING
00:09:26 BEEN AROUND THIS ISSUE, YOU KNOW, FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS
00:09:31 IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THEN HERE ON THE BOARD OF
00:09:34 SUPERVISORS SOMETIMES I THINK IT IS ESPECIALLY INFURIATING
00:09:38 WHEN YOU TELL PEOPLE WHO ARE REALLY NOT FEELING SAFE
00:09:42 IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WELL, STATISTICALLY YOU'RE
00:09:45 SAFER. IT'S IT'S IT IS A FURY THAT
00:09:49 THAT THAT COMES IN RESPONSE TO THAT AND I THINK I APPRECIATE
00:09:53 YOU ACKNOWLEDGING THAT IN SOME WAYS WHEN THERE WHILE THERE THE
00:09:57 FEELING MAY BE THAT WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK IN SOME REGARDS
00:10:00 IT'S JUST NOT IT'S NOT TRUE FOR EVERYONE'S EXPERIENCE I HAVE
00:10:07 EMAILS THAT I'VE GOTTEN TODAY FOR ISSUES THAT ARE GOING ON
00:10:11 RIGHT NOW ON THIS VERY TOPIC FROM NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE
00:10:15 NOT EXPERIENCED THIS AND I WILL ONLY SAY JUST BECAUSE THIS IS
00:10:17 AN ISSUE THAT I'VE BEEN KIND OF A BROKEN RECORD ON AND I MIGHT
00:10:20 AS WELL JUST CONTINUE BEING THAT IS THAT I DO THINK THAT SO
00:10:23 MANY OF THESE ISSUES COMES BACK TO POLICE STAFFING AS WE HEARD
00:10:26 IN THE LAST THE LAST HEARING THAT WAS ALSO TOUCHED ON THIS.
00:10:31 >> BUT I THINK IT'S ESPECIALLY RELEVANT IN FACT MORE RELEVANT
00:10:35 HERE WE HAVE A METHODOLOGY THAT VOTERS ADOPTED BACK IN 2020
00:10:41 THANKS TO THE LEADERSHIP OF FORMER BOARD PRESIDENT NORMAN
00:10:45 YEA TO REPLACE WHAT WAS FOR MANY YEARS A STATIC NUMBER
00:10:49 IN OUR CHARTER THAT WE SHOULD HAVE AT THAT TIME 1979 FULL
00:10:53 DUTY POLICE OFFICERS. IT NEVER MADE SENSE TO HAVE A
00:10:57 STATIC NUMBER IN OUR CHARTER OF FULL DUTY STAFFING SO NOW WE
00:11:00 HAVE A METHODOLOGY THAT WE ALL AGREED UPON AND THAT VOTERS
00:11:04 AUTHORIZE. THIS IS HOW WE NOW DO IT.
00:11:07 EVERY TWO YEARS WE REASSESS BASED ON CALLS FOR SERVICE
00:11:08 AND AS I UNDERSTAND OTHER FACTORS FOR HOW MANY COPS WE
00:11:11 NEED. THE GOOD NEWS IS WE HAVE
00:11:15 STARTED HIRING MORE COPS THAN WE'RE LOSING FOR THE FIRST TIME
00:11:17 IN SEVERAL YEARS. I DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT'S NOT
00:11:20 PROGRESS BUT WE'RE NOT NETTING NEARLY ENOUGH TO MEET THE NEED
00:11:23 AND RIGHT NOW WHEN I WAS WORKING ON CHARTER AMENDMENTS
00:11:30 ON THIS TOPIC TWO AND THREE YEARS AGO WE WERE TALKING ABOUT
00:11:34 A SHORTFALL OF 500 POLICE OFFICERS.
00:11:37 TODAY THE SHORTFALL IF WE'RE JUST GOING BY THE PROBIE NUMBER
00:11:41 IS 658 OFFICERS. >> AS A PRACTICAL MATTER, IF
00:11:44 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FULL DUTY, THAT MEANS THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE
00:11:48 AVAILABLE FOR DEPLOYMENT TO THE STREETS RIGHT NOW WE WOULD BE
00:11:51 700 AND 20 POLICE OFFICERS SHORT.
00:11:55 WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT NEARLY ONE THIRD OF THE POLICE
00:11:58 DEPARTMENT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE ISN'T THERE.
00:12:01 >> AND I THINK WHEN WE SEE THAT THE METHODOLOGY WENT UP A
00:12:03 COUPLE HUNDRED POLICE OFFICERS, THOSE NUMBERS ARE REAL
00:12:06 AND THAT'S REFLECTING CALLS THAT I'M GETTING AND EMAILS
00:12:10 THAT I'M GETTING EMAILS AND CALLS THAT I SUSPECT MY
00:12:13 COLLEAGUES ARE GETTING AND WHAT PEOPLE ARE SEEING ON OUR
00:12:15 STREETS. >> SO I THINK WE HAVE TO DO A
00:12:18 BETTER STRATEGY. BUT I YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF HOW
00:12:21 WE'RE DEPLOYING THE RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE BUT I ALSO JUST
00:12:22 WANT TO SAY WE ALSO WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO SOLVE
00:12:29 THIS SHORTFALL THAT FROM MY MEMORY I THINK THE LAST TIME WE
00:12:33 HAD SOMETHING LIKE THIS WAS 2011.
00:12:34 I THINK WHEN GREG SIR BECAME CHIEF OF POLICE WE HAD ABOUT A
00:12:38 400 POLICE OFFICER DEFICIT. THIS IS WITHOUT PRECEDENT TO MY
00:12:41 KNOWLEDGE IN SAN FRANCISCO HISTORY.
00:12:45 >> SO I THINK THIS IS THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT WE ALL HAVE TO
00:12:47 SOLVE. >> BUT BUT I THINK THERE'S
00:12:49 OTHER THINGS WE CAN DO THAT WE'LL HEAR ABOUT TODAY.
00:12:53 >> SO THANKS YOU SUPERVISOR DORSEY AND SUPERVISOR FIELDER
00:12:56 THANK YOU CHAIR SADER I DO COME AT THIS FROM A DIFFERENT
00:13:03 PERSPECTIVE THAN THE CITYWIDE MESSAGE THAT CRIME IS DOWN.
00:13:07 >> THINGS ARE GREAT. I'M NOT HEARING THAT THINGS ARE
00:13:09 BETTER THAN IT WAS FIVE YEARS AGO IN DISTRICT NINE
00:13:12 AND PARTICULARLY IN THE MISSION I'M HEARING THAT THINGS ARE
00:13:15 GETTING WORSE AND I THINK WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT CONDITIONS
00:13:19 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT OPEN DRUG USE.
00:13:20 >> THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT ENCAMPMENTS ANYMORE.
00:13:23 IT'S ALSO PEOPLE SLEEPING ON THE STREET.
00:13:26 >> AND I THINK I THINK IT'S FRANKLY UNACCEPTABLE THAT NO
00:13:30 ONE FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE IS HERE WITH ALL DUE RESPECT,
00:13:32 THERE ARE THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN THE ROOM HERE TODAY WHO WHO
00:13:34 DO THE WORK ON A DAILY BASIS BUT THE PEOPLE MAKING DECISIONS
00:13:38 ABOUT RESOURCES NAMELY THE MAYOR OR DELEGATES AND THE
00:13:42 POLICY CHIEFS ARE NOT HERE. >> I WOULD SAY EVERY DEPARTMENT
00:13:46 IS UNDERSTAFFED. WE KNOW ACCORDING TO RESEARCH
00:13:50 THAT STUDY OF RELATIONSHIPS WITH HEALTH PRACTITIONERS HELP
00:13:54 PEOPLE RECOVER FROM DRUG ADDICTION AND I HAVE QUESTIONS
00:13:57 ABOUT RETENTION AT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND YOU KNOW,
00:14:02 BUILDING OUT THE PIPELINE FOR HEALTH PRACTITIONERS THERE.
00:14:05 >> WE ALSO RECENTLY REMOVE THE PEER COUNSELORS FROM THE STREET
00:14:10 CRISIS RESPONSE TEAMS AND SO WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR TODAY IS A
00:14:14 COHERENT VISION WITH HELPFUL CONCRETE METRICS WITHOUT
00:14:21 EXCUSES AROUND DEPARTMENTS BEING UNDERSTAFFED.
00:14:25 >> I'VE CALLED FOR A SEPARATE HEARING ON CONDITIONS
00:14:26 SPECIFICALLY ON SCHOOLS BUT I AM SURE THAT THERE ARE SOME
00:14:29 PEOPLE HERE TODAY WHO ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT CONDITIONS AROUND
00:14:32 MARSHALL OR OTHER SCHOOLS THAT HAVE BEEN DECLINING BUT I THINK
00:14:36 WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT. PUBLIC DRUG USE IS UNACCEPTABLE
00:14:40 AND CERTAINLY NOT AROUND OUR SCHOOLS BUT I THINK THAT THE
00:14:45 THE THE OVERARCHING MESSAGE AROUND CRIME IS DOWN, THINGS
00:14:49 ARE BETTER IS COMING AT AN EXPENSE TO SPECIFIC
00:14:53 NEIGHBORHOODS AND I'LL SAY THAT FOR THE MISSION THANK YOU
00:14:56 IN ADVANCE TO THE DEPARTMENTS WHO ARE HERE THANK YOU FOR
00:15:00 CALLING THIS HEARING SUPERVISOR PRESIDENT MILLMAN THANK YOU TO
00:15:04 THE COMMITTEE FOR HAVING ME. >> THANK YOU SIR.
00:15:08 AS A FIELDER AND SUPERVISOR ONE THANK YOU FOR FOR CALLING THE
00:15:13 HEARING PRESIDENT MELMAN AND I THINK COMING FROM THE SUNSET
00:15:17 POINT OF VIEW THERE HAS BEEN A NOTICEABLE IMPROVEMENT OVERALL
00:15:21 FOR FOR THE CITY BUT THERE CONTINUES TO BE A LOT OF WORK
00:15:25 THAT NEEDS TO TO GET DONE AND WHEN WE HAVE DRUG MARKETS
00:15:33 IN IN PARTS OF THE CITY IT HAMPERS BUSINESS COMING INTO
00:15:37 THE CITY HAMPERS CONFIDENCE IN OUR CITY.
00:15:41 IT HAMPERS TOURISM FOR RESIDENTS IN MY DISTRICT AS I
00:15:45 TALK TO THEM, MANY OF THEM TELL ME THAT THEY AVOID GOING GOING
00:15:49 TO THE CITY CENTER BECAUSE OF THE UNSAVORY ELEMENTS OF THE
00:15:53 DRUG MARKET CONDITIONS THAT ARE PRESENT AND I AGREE WITH PART
00:16:00 OF WHAT PRESIDENT OF AND HAS SAID ABOUT THE NUMBER OF
00:16:05 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THE CITY HAS WORKED ON TO MAKE A
00:16:08 NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE IN IN THE DRUG SITUATION IN SAN
00:16:12 FRANCISCO. AND I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP ON
00:16:16 GOING AS A SUPERVISOR DORSEY MENTIONED THAT I THINK THE
00:16:19 STAFFING HAS A LOT TO DO WITH IT.
00:16:20 WITH THE SRP WE'RE FINALLY HAVING SEEING IT MORE OF AN
00:16:24 INCREASE THAN A DECREASE IN STAFFING FOR FOR ONCE AND WE
00:16:28 NEED TO CONTINUE WORKING ON THAT.
00:16:29 WE ALSO NEED TO GET PEOPLE THAT ARE AFFECTED BY DRUGS THE HELP
00:16:35 THAT THEY NEED ON ON THE STREETS AS WELL.
00:16:36 AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS THIS HEARING AND LEARNING ABOUT
00:16:40 HOW WE ALL CAN CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS ON THIS IMPORTANT
00:16:44 CITYWIDE PROBLEM THAT AFFECTS ALL OF US.
00:16:48 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SUPERVISOR WONG
00:16:49 AND I'LL NOW TURN IT BACK OVER TO PRESIDENT RANDLEMAN TO
00:16:51 PROCEED. ALL RIGHT.
00:16:52 SO I'M GOING TO INVITE COMMANDER BIGGS TO COME ON UP.
00:17:04 OKAY. GOOD AFTERNOON, CHAIR CIDER
00:17:08 PRESIDENT RANDLEMAN SUPERVISORS MY NAME IS SCOTT BIGGS.
00:17:11 I'M THE DEPUTY CHIEF OF FIELD OPERATIONS BUREAU FOR THE SAN
00:17:15 FRANCISCO POLICE DEPARTMENT. I OVERSEE THE ENTIRE PATROL
00:17:16 FORCE AS WELL AS OUR DRUG MARKET AGENCY COORDINATION
00:17:19 CENTER TODAY WILL WILL BE CO-PRESENTING WITH THE
00:17:26 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AS WELL AS THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC
00:17:30 WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. OH, ALL RIGHT.
00:17:31 I MESSED THAT UP. I THINK I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT
00:17:37 TO START OFF WITH SOME CONTEXT ON HOW THE CONDITIONS WERE
00:17:42 WE'RE CURRENTLY DEALING WITH TODAY DEVELOPED OVER MORE THAN
00:17:45 A DECADE AGO IN 2014 PROP 47 RECLASSIFIED MOST DRUG
00:17:49 POSSESSION OFFENSES AS MISDEMEANORS.
00:17:52 WHAT THAT ACTUALLY MEANT WAS IS THAT THAT TOOK THE TOOLS AWAY
00:17:56 FROM THE POLICE OFFICERS TO ACTUALLY ADDRESS POSSESSION OF
00:18:00 SIMPLE POSSESSION OF NARCOTICS AS A FELONY.
00:18:04 THE LIMITED TOOLS WE HAD TO HOLD SOMEONE ACCOUNTABLE AND TO
00:18:08 MOVE THEM INTO TREATMENT. SO BASICALLY THEY BECAME
00:18:11 MISDEMEANOR CRIMES WHICH ENDED UP BEING CITE AND RELEASE AT
00:18:15 THE SCENE AND LEAVING FOLKS OUT ON THE STREET IN THE LATE 2020S
00:18:19 FENTANYL DISPLACED HEROIN AS YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY FENTANYL IS
00:18:23 UP TO 50 TIMES MORE POTENT AND IT'S INEXPENSIVE AND VERY
00:18:28 EASY TO CONCEAL ON ONE'S PERSON WHEN WE TAKE A DEALER OFF THE
00:18:32 STREET THE SUPPLY REPLACED QUICKLY BETWEEN 2020 AND 2023
00:18:36 OUR FULL DUTY STAFFING DECLINED SIGNIFICANTLY.
00:18:40 AT THE SAME TIME DRUG MARKETS WERE GROWING, ADDICTION BECAME
00:18:44 HARDER TO INTERRUPT. REPEATED USE ALLOWED DEMAND TO
00:18:49 PERSIST EVEN THOUGH SELLERS LOCATIONS AND USERS WERE
00:18:53 DISRUPTED TODAY REPEAT OFFENDING REMAINS DIFFICULT TO
00:18:59 INTERRUPT. WE CONTINUE TO SEE REPEAT
00:19:00 OFFENDERS WITH DRUG DEALERS AS WELL AS DRUG USERS OUT ON OUR
00:19:05 STREETS. I RAISE ALL OF THIS BECAUSE IT
00:19:08 EXPLAINS WHY ENFORCEMENT ALONE WASN'T GOING TO SOLVE SAN
00:19:11 FRANCISCO'S ISSUE. >> OUR CURRENT CITYWIDE
00:19:18 STRATEGY IS TO MAKE IT HARDER TO SELL DRUGS IN SAN FRANCISCO
00:19:23 AND TO MAKE SURE PUBLIC DRUG USE HAS CONSEQUENCES WHILE
00:19:26 MAKING IT FASTER AND EASIER FOR SOMEONE TO GET INTO TREATMENT
00:19:30 WHEN THEY'RE READY. IT DOES HAVE FOUR PARTS.
00:19:34 THESE FOUR PARTS ARE PREVENTION ,DISRUPTION, TREATMENT AND A
00:19:37 CLEAR AND HOLD STRATEGY. THIS IS THE CITYWIDE STRATEGY
00:19:42 AND EACH PART DEPENDS ON ONE ANOTHER.
00:19:45 THEY DON'T WORK INDEPENDENTLY. >> I'LL GO INTO A LITTLE BIT
00:19:52 FURTHER DETAIL SO THE FOUR PARTS OF THE PREVENTION PORTION
00:19:56 REDUCES EXPOSURE VULNERABILITY AND THE CONDITIONS THAT ALLOW
00:20:00 MARKETS TO TAKE HOLD. THE DISRUPTION MAKES IT HARDER
00:20:04 TO SELL AND USE DRUGS IN PUBLIC.
00:20:07 TREATMENT REDUCES IMMEDIATE HARM AND MOVES MORE PEOPLE INTO
00:20:11 TREATMENT AND RECOVERY. THE CLEARING HOLD STRATEGY
00:20:15 RESTORES PUBLIC SPACE TO SUSTAIN LEGITIMATE NEIGHBORHOOD
00:20:19 USE. >> I'LL FOCUS ON CLEAR AND HOLD
00:20:22 FOR A MINUTE. >> WHAT WE'VE SEEN IS LARGE
00:20:26 GROUPS ARE WHERE THE RISK IS HIGHEST AND WHERE PEOPLE ARE
00:20:32 GENERALLY LEAST LIKELY TO ACCEPT SERVICES.
00:20:35 WHEN THESE GROUPS ARE SMALLER, OUTREACH HAS A BETTER CHANCE OF
00:20:40 MAKING CONNECTIONS. AS WE I BELIEVE AS PRESIDENT
00:20:44 RANDLEMAN HAD MENTIONED OR SOMEONE HAD MENTIONED THAT
00:20:48 WE'RE NOT SEEING AS MANY ENCAMPMENTS OUT ON OUR STREETS
00:20:51 CURRENTLY AS WE ONCE DID. BUT WE DO KNOW THAT ACTIVITY
00:20:55 SHIFTS. THE TENDERLOIN SHARE OF
00:20:59 CITYWIDE DRUG INCIDENTS HAS DROPPED FROM 44% TO 36% WHILE
00:21:01 THE MISSION IN SOUTHERN HAVE INCREASED.
00:21:07 OUR RESOURCES HAVE TO FOLLOW THAT SHIFT WITHOUT GIVING UP
00:21:11 PROGRESS WHERE WE'VE MADE PUBLIC WORKS AND COMMUNITY
00:21:15 AMBASSADORS ARE CRITICAL TO OUR MISSION AND KEEPING AREAS THAT
00:21:22 WE GO INTO FROM SLIPPING BACKWARDS.
00:21:25 PUBLIC WORKS HELPS MAINTAIN SPACE WITH CLEANING
00:21:29 AND AMBASSADORS HELP US HOLD THAT SPACE.
00:21:33 TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THE GOAL WE'RE WORKING TO REDUCE DRUG
00:21:37 DEALING AND PUBLIC DRUG USE REDUCE OVERDOSE IS AND CREATE
00:21:42 SAFER AND POSITIVE STREET CONDITIONS SO NEIGHBORHOODS CAN
00:21:44 STABILIZE. >> SO TO DIVE A LITTLE BIT
00:21:52 DEEPER, THE THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT AS FOUR METRICS ENFORCEMENT
00:21:58 AND TREATMENT EACH MATTER IS PART OF THIS WHOLE STRATEGY WE
00:22:03 HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER. NEITHER ONE WORKS ON ITS OWN.
00:22:06 FOR PREVENTION WE TRACK REPORTED OVERDOSES AND NALOXONE
00:22:10 REVERSALS FOR DISRUPTION. WE TRACK DEALER AND USER
00:22:14 ARRESTS, DRUG SEIZURES AND THE PRICE OF FENTANYL.
00:22:20 I'D LIKE TO POINT IN PARTICULAR TO THE PRICE OF FENTANYL.
00:22:24 CURRENTLY FENTANYL FENTANYL HAS GONE FROM ROUGHLY $20 TO $40 A
00:22:28 GRAM SINCE ITS LOW IN 2022 AND 2023.
00:22:34 WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT WE BELIEVE THAT OUR ENFORCEMENT
00:22:38 EFFORTS ARE WORKING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
00:22:41 THE INCREASE IS MAKING IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR USERS TO PURCHASE
00:22:49 FOR TREATMENT. IT LOOKS AT HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE
00:22:50 RECEIVING TREATMENT, HOW QUICKLY THEY'RE ADMITTED.
00:22:53 HOW MANY START MEDICATION FOR OPIOID USE DISORDER AND HOW
00:22:57 MANY STAY IN TREATMENT FOR CLEAR AND HOLD.
00:23:04 WE TRACKED DRUG RELATED 911 CALLS ENCAMPMENTS COUNTS 311
00:23:08 CLEANLINESS COMPLAINTS AND THE NUMBER OF COMMUNITY ACTIVATIONS
00:23:12 THAT OCCUR. I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THAT
00:23:16 ARRESTS ON THEIR OWN DON'T TELL US WHETHER CONDITIONS ARE
00:23:19 IMPROVING WHICH IS WHY WE LOOK TO ALL THE CATEGORIES AS A
00:23:24 WHOLE TO SEE HOW THINGS ARE GOING.
00:23:27 >> I'LL BRING THIS BACK ABOUT FIVE YEARS.
00:23:30 FIVE YEARS AGO WE DIDN'T HAVE THE STAFFING OR THE TOOLS TO
00:23:34 SUSTAIN OUR EFFORTS. THIS LIMITED OUR ABILITY TO
00:23:38 SUSTAIN MARKET DISRUPTION. THIS WAS NOT JUST A POLICE
00:23:42 PROBLEM AND IT WAS NOT GOING TO BE SOLVED BY THE POLICE ALONE.
00:23:48 AS A RESULT, SAN FRANCISCO CITY DEPARTMENTS CAME TOGETHER TO
00:23:52 FORMULATE A COORDINATED PLAN TO ADDRESS DRUG MARKETS IN SAN
00:23:56 FRANCISCO. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIMMOCK
00:24:03 THREE YEARS AGO I WAS TRANSFERRED INTO DIMMOCK AS A
00:24:08 CAPTAIN. I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT A
00:24:11 PERSONAL STORY. DAY ONE I PERSONALLY WALKED OUT
00:24:15 THE FRONT DOORS OF DIMOCK IN THE 1100 BLOCK OF MARKET.
00:24:16 I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING SOMETHING SO COMPLEX OPEN DRUG
00:24:23 DEALING IN FRONT OF THE POLICE ,MULTIPLE DRUG DEALERS ON ANY
00:24:26 GIVEN BLOCK THAT YOU WALKED OPEN AIR DRUG USAGE BROUGHT ON
00:24:34 CLEANLY STREETS ENCAMPMENTS WERE ON EVERY BLOCK AND ITEMS
00:24:38 OF STOLEN GOODS WERE DISPLAYED ON EVERY SIDEWALK THAT I WALKED
00:24:45 . A DEEPLY ROOTED PROBLEM THAT
00:24:46 REQUIRED A COORDINATED EFFORT SO DMARC WAS IMPLEMENTED.
00:24:54 D-MAX PROBLEM STATEMENT WAS FOUNDED ON A PERMISSIVE
00:24:58 ENVIRONMENT WHICH CREATED POSITIVE CONDITIONS FOR
00:25:01 NEGATIVE ACTORS RESULTING IN OPEN AIR DRUG MARKETS TAKING
00:25:05 HOLD IN THE TENDERLOIN AND SOUTH OF MARKET
00:25:08 NEIGHBORHOODS. FOUR FACTORS THAT DROVE THAT
00:25:12 DEALERS COULD MAKE MONEY WITH VERY LITTLE RISK.
00:25:16 FENTANYL AND METHAMPHETAMINE WERE CHEAP AND EXTREMELY
00:25:20 READILY AVAILABLE. >> THERE WAS A LACK OF OVERALL
00:25:24 CONSEQUENCE AND RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES WERE LEFT WITH
00:25:27 SOCIETAL FEAR AND UNSAFE STREET CONDITIONS CREATING ECONOMIC
00:25:31 LOSS FOR OUR CITY. >> DIMOCK IS OFTEN DESCRIBED AS
00:25:40 A POLICE OPERATION WHILE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT LEADS IT.
00:25:44 >> WE WE HEAVILY RELY ON PARTNER AGENCIES.
00:25:48 OUR ROLE IS DAILY COORDINATION ACROSS CITY, STATE AND FEDERAL
00:25:53 PARTNERS. THE WORK IS ORGANIZED INTO FOUR
00:25:56 BRANCHES. OUR DRUG SALES BRANCH OUR
00:26:00 PUBLIC DRUG USE BRANCH. UNPERMITTED VENDING
00:26:04 AND FENCING. AND NEIGHBORHOOD RECOVERY.
00:26:07 >> >> I LOOK AT DRUG SALES, DRUG USAGE AND ILLEGAL VENDING
00:26:12 AS AN ECOSYSTEM. THEY ALL FEED OFF OF ONE
00:26:16 ANOTHER. WE HAVE DRUG DEALERS COMING
00:26:17 INTO OUR CITY THAT ARE SELLING DRUGS.
00:26:20 WE HAVE DRUG USERS WHO GO TO RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS.
00:26:24 THEY STEAL BELONGINGS FROM THESE ESTABLISHMENTS, BRING
00:26:27 THEM TO THE STREET, SELL THEM ON THE STREET TO PURCHASE THESE
00:26:31 DRUGS FROM THESE DEALERS. OUR DRUG SALES BRANCH FOCUSES
00:26:35 PRIMARILY ON DRUG TRAFFICKING AND THE SUPPLY COMING INTO THE
00:26:39 CITY WITH OUR LOCAL STATE AND FEDERAL PARTNERS PRIMARILY
00:26:42 PRIMARILY A LAW ENFORCEMENT LED BRANCH.
00:26:46 DRUG USE ADDRESSES OBVIOUSLY PUBLIC DRUG USE.
00:26:53 FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S PERSPECTIVE.
00:26:54 WE HAVE VERY LIMITED RESOURCES WHEN IT COMES TO DRUG USERS OUT
00:26:58 ON OUR STREET. WE HAVE MISDEMEANOR CRIMES AT
00:27:01 BEST. THAT'S WHY IT REQUIRED
00:27:04 PARTNERSHIP WITH STREET TEAMS TO WORK IN CONJUNCTION WITH ONE
00:27:08 ANOTHER. OUR OUR UNPERMITTED VENDING
00:27:11 ADDRESSES OBVIOUSLY THE SALE OF STOLEN GOODS ON OUR SIDEWALKS.
00:27:16 LIKE I SAID, THIS IS WHAT THIS IS OFTEN HOW PEOPLE PAY FOR
00:27:20 THEIR DRUGS. >> PUBLIC WORKS INSPECTORS FROM
00:27:27 DPW LEAD THIS BRANCH AT ONE TIME UNTIL WATCHING CHARGED.
00:27:31 AND NOW WE'RE WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THEM
00:27:35 AND DOING A LOT OF WORK IN THE MISSION.
00:27:36 THE NEIGHBORHOOD RECOVERY BRANCH COVERS OUR HEALTHY
00:27:40 STREET OPERATION CENTER. IT'S A IT'S A CORE GROUP OF
00:27:41 OFFICERS THAT ARE ASSIGNED IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT THAT
00:27:44 WORK WITH DPW TO ADDRESS ENCAMPMENT ISSUES OUT ON THE
00:27:48 STREET. WE ALSO HAVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD
00:27:51 STREET TEAMS DPW CLEANING AND BASTERS IN THAT CATEGORY AS
00:27:57 WELL. >> THIS IS A SLIDE REGARDING
00:28:01 ALL OF THE PARTNERS THAT ARE AT THE TABLE.
00:28:05 OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS INCLUDE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT,
00:28:08 DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL, BART
00:28:12 PD FEDERAL PARTNERS, DEA, FBI, ATF AND THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S
00:28:16 OFFICE. THE FEDERAL PARTNERSHIP THAT WE
00:28:20 HAVE. ALLOWS US TO ADDRESS THE SUPPLY
00:28:23 CHAIN SUPPLY CHAIN SPECIFICALLY WITH HIGHER LEVEL DEALERS
00:28:27 AND STREET LEVEL SALES. AT THE BEGINNING OF DEMAK WE
00:28:34 WENT TO OUR FEDERAL PARTNERS AND ASKED THEM TO CHANGE THEIR
00:28:37 STRATEGY. HISTORICALLY THEY'RE KNOWN TO
00:28:38 DO HIGHER LEVEL CASES. WE ASKED THEM TO COME TO THE
00:28:42 STREET WITH US. I DO WANT TO NOTE THAT MOST OF
00:28:46 THE AGENCIES ON THIS SLIDE ARE NOT LAW ENFORCEMENT.
00:28:49 EFFORTS REQUIRE PARTNERSHIP WITH ALL AGENCIES BECAUSE WE
00:28:54 REALIZE THAT THERE ARE OTHER AGENCIES THAT WE NEEDED THEIR
00:28:56 ASSISTANCE WITH. >> OKAY.
00:29:04 SO AS AS WE CONTINUED OUR ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS, WE STARTED
00:29:08 TO SEE LARGE CROWDS FORMING ON MULTIPLE CORNERS.
00:29:12 AT ONE POINT IN TIME THERE WERE COULD BE HUNDREDS TO 200 PEOPLE
00:29:16 ON ANY GIVEN BLOCK IN TENDERLOIN SOUTH OF MARKET.
00:29:20 EVEN AT ONE POINT IN OUR NORTHERN DISTRICT.
00:29:26 BUT WHAT WE DID FIND WAS THAT A LOT OF THESE LARGE CROWDS
00:29:28 STARTED CONGREGATING IN FRONT OF OVERNIGHT RETAIL STORES
00:29:33 BETWEEN THE BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 5 A.M..
00:29:37 CERTAIN OPEN WELL-LIT BUSINESSES HAD BECOME GATHERING
00:29:41 POINTS FOR DRUG USE, VIOLENCE, DRUG DEALING AND SANITATION
00:29:46 PROBLEMS. WE HAD TO FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION
00:29:52 TO TRY TO BREAK UP THESE CROWDS .
00:29:56 OUR LIMIT WE HAVE LIMITED RESOURCES OVERNIGHT AS WELL AS
00:30:00 OTHER CITY AGENCIES. >> SO WORKING WITH THE
00:30:04 COMMUNITY WE CREATED A PILOT PROGRAM THE PILOT PROGRAM WAS
00:30:11 TO CLOSE ABC LICENSED BUSINESSES FROM 2 A.M. TO 5
00:30:16 A.M. IN THE MORNING AND NON ABC BUSINESSES FROM MIDNIGHT TO 5
00:30:19 A.M.. SINCE THE PILOT WAS IMPLEMENTED
00:30:23 IN THE TENDERLOIN INITIALLY WE SAW REDUCTIONS IN LATE NIGHT
00:30:27 VIOLENT CRIME AND NARCOTICS INCIDENTS ALONG WITH FEWER
00:30:30 CALLS FOR SERVICE FOR DEBRIS AND UNSANITARY CONDITIONS.
00:30:34 BASED ON THOSE RESULTS IT WAS EXPANDED EARLIER THIS YEAR INTO
00:30:39 THE SOUTH OF MARKET NEIGHBORHOOD IN BOTH TENDERLOIN
00:30:42 AND SOUTH. THE MARKET.
00:30:45 WE'VE SEEN A DECREASE IN LARGE CROWDS ALTHOUGH LARGE CROWDS
00:30:49 STILL DO REMAIN ON THE SIXTH STREET CORRIDOR.
00:30:52 AND 16TH IN MISSION BART PLAZA WHERE WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF
00:30:56 WORK TO DO. >> ANOTHER TOOL THAT RECENTLY
00:31:00 CAME ONLINE WAS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RAPID
00:31:05 ENFORCEMENT SUPPORT EVALUATION AND TRIAGE CENTER WHICH WE KNOW
00:31:12 IT AS RESET RESET IS A NEW VOLUNTEER INVOLUNTARY TOOL FOR
00:31:15 LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EXPANDED INTERVENTION AND ON PUBLIC DRUG
00:31:19 USE IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THERE WAS A POPULATION OF
00:31:24 PEOPLE OUT ON THE STREET WHERE WE HAD NO SOLUTION FOR THEM.
00:31:30 >> THE RESET ALLOWS OFFICERS TO ARREST INDIVIDUALS FOR PUBLIC
00:31:32 INTOXICATION OR BEING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A CONTROLLED
00:31:36 SUBSTANCE IF THE PERSON MEETS ELIGIBLE ALITY REQUIREMENTS 18
00:31:43 YEARS OR OLDER. NO VIOLENT BEHAVIOR AND NO
00:31:47 EMERGENCY MEDICAL NEEDS THEN THESE FOLKS MAY BE TRANSPORTED
00:31:51 TO THE RESET CENTER AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO COUNTY JAIL FROM
00:31:57 MAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER. WE MADE OVER 2300 ARRESTS FOR
00:32:01 PUBLIC DRUG INTOXICATION. MOST OF THOSE ARE CONTACTS THAT
00:32:06 PREVIOUSLY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ARRESTED.
00:32:09 DROP OFF TAKES ABOUT FIVE MINUTES SO OFFICERS CAN RETURN
00:32:13 TO THE FIELD QUICKLY AND BE BACK IN SERVICE.
00:32:17 I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR THE PURPOSE IS NOT INCARCERATION.
00:32:21 IT ADDRESSES PUBLIC DRUG USE AND GIVES PEOPLE AN ALTERNATIVE
00:32:26 PATHWAY FOR CARE. WE'LL SPEAK LATER ABOUT SOME OF
00:32:29 THOSE OUTCOMES. IN DMX FIRST YEAR WE MADE MORE
00:32:36 THAN 3000 ARRESTS AND SEIZED APPROXIMATELY 480 POUNDS OF
00:32:41 NARCOTICS IN THE TENDERLOIN AND SOMA NEIGHBORHOODS.
00:32:45 CURRENTLY TODAY WE'VE MADE OVER 16,000 ARRESTS AND HAVE SEIZED
00:32:51 OVER 1,300 POUNDS OF NARCOTICS. >> 28% OF THAT 1300 NUMBER IS
00:32:55 FENTANYL. >> 15% IS METHAMPHETAMINE.
00:33:02 >> AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE SLIDE, OVER TIME ENFORCEMENT
00:33:06 HAS INCREASED AGAINST BOTH DEALERS AND USERS IN THE DIMOCK
00:33:09 AREA. DEALER ARRESTS ROSE FROM 561
00:33:13 IN 2021 TO A PEAK OF 1041 IN 2023 AND CURRENTLY STANDS
00:33:20 TODAY AT 594. OUR EARLY ENFORCEMENT CAPTURED
00:33:24 THE MOST VISIBLE STREET LEVEL SALES.
00:33:27 THE REMAINING CASES REQUIRE LONG TERM INVESTIGATIVE WORK
00:33:32 INCLUDING SURVEILLANCE WARRANTS IN CASES AGAINST PEOPLE
00:33:35 SUPPLYING THEM. WE'VE ALSO WE'VE ALSO SEEN
00:33:38 ACTIVITY SHIFT. THERE'S BEEN A REDUCTION
00:33:42 IN DAYTIME DEALING AND MORE OF IT HAS MOVED INTO THE NIGHTTIME
00:33:49 HOURS BETWEEN 11 P.M. AND 6 A.M..
00:33:50 >> WE HAD TO SHIFT EXISTING RESOURCES TO COVER THE
00:33:53 OVERNIGHT AND EARLY MORNING HOURS.
00:33:57 >> IN RESPONSE WE ALSO HAD TO ADJUST OUR STRATEGY TO FOCUS ON
00:34:01 QUALITY OF LIFE ENFORCEMENT AND LOWER LEVEL USER ARRESTS.
00:34:07 THAT'S A PART OF WHY USER ARRESTS HAVE INCREASED FROM 187
00:34:13 IN 20 21 TO 2000 743 IN 2025 AND CURRENTLY THIS YEAR WE'RE
00:34:21 AT 2637. WITH ALL OF THIS WE HAVE TO GET
00:34:27 CREATIVE WITH OUR WITH OUR DEPLOYMENT STRATEGIES.
00:34:30 STAFFING HAS DECLINED AND SFPD ABOUT 17% FROM 2021 TO 2024.
00:34:36 >> DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE FENTANYL CRISIS, 2020 FIVE WAS
00:34:40 OUR FIRST ANNUAL INCREASE SINCE 2019 AND THAT GROWTH IS
00:34:44 CONTINUING THIS YEAR THANKS TO THE REBUILDING OF THE RANKS
00:34:49 INITIATIVE. AS STAFFING HAS INCREASED WE'VE
00:34:52 BEEN ABLE TO ADJUST STAFFING DEPLOYMENT SO THE ENFORCEMENT
00:34:56 TEAMS CAN FOCUS ON BOTH QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES AND DRUG
00:35:00 TRAFFICKING CRIMES. >> OVERALL STAFFING REMAINS
00:35:03 BELOW 2021 LEVELS AND SUSTAINING THIS WORK
00:35:07 DEPENDS ON CONTINUED HIRING. SO WHAT'S COMING NEXT?
00:35:14 WE'RE CONTINUING TO REBUILD STAFFING AND DEPLOY.
00:35:18 OFFICERS WERE DEALING AND DRUG USE ARE MOST PERSISTENT.
00:35:22 WE'RE EXPANDING NARCOTICS INVESTIGATIONS TO FOCUS ON
00:35:26 REPEAT DEALERS AND THE PEOPLE SUPPLYING THEM.
00:35:33 WE'RE LOOKING TO PARTNER WITH ACADEMIC RESEARCHERS TO
00:35:34 EVALUATE WHICH STRATEGIES ARE REDUCING DRUG MARKET ACTIVITY
00:35:38 NOT JUST INCREASING ARREST NUMBERS.
00:35:44 >> WE WILL CONTINUE OUR WORK WITH OUR LOCAL AND FEDERAL
00:35:46 PROSECUTORS TO STRENGTHEN ARREST TO CONSEQUENCE PATHWAYS.
00:35:52 WE WILL CONTINUE TO USE THE DATA TO IDENTIFY NEW HOTSPOTS
00:35:55 EARLIER. AND FINALLY WE WILL CONTINUE
00:35:56 DISRUPTING SUPPLY WHILE USING PUBLIC WHILE USING PUBLIC USE
00:36:03 ENFORCEMENT TO PROVIDE PATHWAYS TO TREATMENT.
00:36:07 >> THAT'LL CONCLUDE MY PORTION OF THE PRESENTATION AND I'LL
00:36:11 TURN IT OVER TO DAN SAFE FROM. >> THANK YOU.
00:36:18 >> THANK YOU COMMANDER BIGGS AND THANK YOU TO THE BOARD FOR
00:36:22 CONVENING THIS HEARING. MY NAME IS DANCE.
00:36:25 I'M YOUR HEALTH DIRECTOR HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO AND I WILL BE
00:36:27 I'LL OPEN UP WITH SOME THINGS FROM THE OVERALL PERSPECTIVE OF
00:36:30 THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND THEN ACTUALLY ASK AND WHO I WILL
00:36:33 INTRODUCE SHORTLY TO WALK THROUGH SOME SPECIFIC PIECES.
00:36:38 THERE ARE FEW THINGS I JUST WANT TO NOTE AT THE OUTSET.
00:36:45 >> I WAS JUST CHATTING WITH SOME OF THE TEACHERS AND STAFF
00:36:48 AND SOME STUDENTS FROM MARSHALL AND WHAT THEY DESCRIBED TO ME
00:36:56 WAS SOMETHING THAT I MANY OF US HAVE HEARD MANY TIMES OVER
00:37:00 WHICH IS AS YOU ALL NOTED EVEN AS CONDITIONS IN VARIOUS PARTS
00:37:03 OF THE CITY HAVE REALLY IMPROVED, THERE ARE AREAS THAT
00:37:07 ARE INCREDIBLY CHALLENGING AND I'M NEW TO SAN FRANCISCO I
00:37:15 A YEAR AND A HALF OUT OF THAT NEW ANYMORE.
00:37:18 BUT I THINK COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO I DEFINITELY WAS WELL
00:37:20 AWARE OF THIS VERY DEEP SEATED DEBATE THAT OUTSIDE OF SAN
00:37:26 FRANCISCO WE WOULD ALL OBSERVE AND PLAYS OUT IN OTHER PLACES
00:37:29 WHERE FOR HOW TO BEST TACKLE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH, DRUG USE,
00:37:34 HOMELESSNESS, THE INTERSECTION OF THESE THINGS FOLKS OFTEN
00:37:38 DEBATE ONE SIDE WHICH IS DON'T LEAVE DRUG USERS WHERE THEY ARE
00:37:48 OFFERED TREATMENT OFFER KINDNESS IF FOLKS ARE NOT READY
00:37:55 ,DON'T STIGMATIZE PEOPLE BY TRYING TO MOVE FOLKS ALONG
00:37:59 AND OPEN THEIR DRUG USE IS WHAT IT IS.
00:38:00 >> IT'S DON'T STIGMATIZE THAT. AND THEN ON THE OTHER HAND YOU
00:38:04 HEAR EVERY SINGLE DRUG USER SHOULD BE THROWN INTO JAIL
00:38:07 TOMORROW OR TODAY AND DON'T DESERVE X, Y OR Z AND THE
00:38:14 REALITY AND FROM MY STANDPOINT AND WHERE WE ARE FROM A HEALTH
00:38:18 DEPARTMENT STANDPOINT IS IT'S WE HAVE A DIFFERENT APPROACH
00:38:21 AND WE ARE CHARTING A DIFFERENT APPROACH FROM A HEALTH
00:38:22 STANDPOINT. WE WANT TO PROVIDE HEALTH CARE.
00:38:26 WE CARE FOR FOLKS IF EVERY ONE OF US HAD OUR SELVES FAMILY
00:38:30 MEMBERS, FRIENDS IN THE STREETS USING THE ADDICTED TO FENTANYL
00:38:34 WITH THE INCREDIBLY POTENT SUBSTANCE THAT IT IS ALL OF US
00:38:38 WOULD WANT DIGNITY, RESPECT NON-JUDGMENTAL CARE BUT ALSO
00:38:44 FORWARD MOTION INTO CARE AND TREATMENT ESPECIALLY WITH
00:38:48 THE NUMBER OF OVERDOSE DEATHS WE'VE HAD AND I THINK ALL OF US
00:38:51 CAN UNDERSTAND WE BOTH AS A HEALTH DEPARTMENT ARE
00:38:53 RESPONSIBLE FOR COMPASSIONATELY CARING FOR FOLKS WHO ARE USING
00:38:59 DRUGS AND ARE AT HIGH RISK OF NOT ONLY OVERDOSES BUT A WHOLE
00:39:03 RANGE OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH COMPLICATIONS AND ADD TO THE
00:39:08 DISCUSSION HERE KIDS AND THEIR LONG TERM HEALTH AND ECONOMIC
00:39:14 OUTCOMES AND BOTH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH THE
00:39:18 ENVIRONMENT THAT THEY'RE IN MATTERS A LOT AND I THINK AS
00:39:22 ALL THE SUPERVISORS HAVE SAID OPEN THEIR DRUG USE IS NOT A
00:39:26 GOOD THING. AND SO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT WE
00:39:27 HAVE PIVOTED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE BOTH THINKING ABOUT BEING MUCH
00:39:33 MORE PROACTIVE IN TREATMENT. WE'RE MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY
00:39:37 ARE AT BUT WE'RE NOT CONTENT ON JUST KIND OF WALKING AWAY.
00:39:42 AND SO THERE ARE SLIDES I BELIEVE, RIGHT?
00:39:46 OH, THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO THERE'S THREE
00:39:49 THINGS I WILL NOTE AND THEN I'M GOING TO ACTUALLY TURN IT TO
00:39:50 COMMENT ON DETAILS. SO ONE PRONG ABOUT OF THIS IS
00:39:56 CLEARLY WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN NEED OF TREATMENT WE NEED TO PROVIDE
00:40:01 THEM TREATMENT AND THAT INCLUDES DOING SO MUCH MORE
00:40:05 PROACTIVELY AND SYSTEMATICALLY AND PRESENT MANAGEMENT AS
00:40:09 YOU'VE PUSHED US ON THE TREATMENT ON DEMAND REPORTS,
00:40:13 IT'S NOT ENOUGH JUST TO HAVE TO SAY WE HAVE TREATMENT AVAILABLE
00:40:17 AND WE HAVE EXPANDED TREATMENT. I'LL SHOW YOU SOME SOME METRICS
00:40:20 SHORTLY. WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO ROLL OUT
00:40:23 THE RED CARPET AND REMOVE BARRIERS SO THAT WHEN SOMEONE
00:40:24 RAISES THEIR HAND FOR TREATMENT WE CAN GET THEM IN WITHOUT
00:40:27 BARRIERS. WE DO THAT WELL MUCH OF THE
00:40:28 TIME WE DO NOT DO THAT AND SOME OTHER POINTS IT'S ACTUALLY CAN
00:40:35 YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE AND THEN I'LL COME BACK.
00:40:38 WE HAVE SUCCEEDED IN DRAMATICALLY INCREASING THE
00:40:39 NUMBER OF PEOPLE ON TREATMENT 30% OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS.
00:40:45 THIS IS AN UNDERCOUNT OF A BUNCH OF WORK WE'VE DONE IN THE
00:40:49 STREETS WITH GETTING PEOPLE QUICKLY STARTED ON MEDICATIONS
00:40:54 FOR THEIR OPIOID USE BUPRENORPHINE, LONG ACTING
00:40:55 INJECTABLES, METHADONE THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE ALL OF THAT
00:40:58 PART OF WHAT HAS DRIVEN THIS IS EXPANDING 200 BEDS OF TREATMENT
00:41:03 IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE CITY OVER THE PAST SHORT PERIOD OF
00:41:06 TIME AS WELL AS GETTING WAY MORE PROACTIVE AND BEING ABLE
00:41:10 TO PROVIDE CARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHEN FOLKS ARE
00:41:13 WILLING AROUND THAT. AND AS WE HAVE NOTED IN OUR
00:41:17 RECENT TREATMENT ON DEMAND REPORT 41% OF THE TIME WHEN
00:41:20 SOMEONE RAISES THEIR HAND FOR WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT OR DETOX
00:41:24 SERVICES, THEY'RE READY TO START RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT
00:41:27 THEY CAN'T GET SAME OR NEXT DAY ACCESS THE RANGE OF BARRIERS TO
00:41:31 THAT. SOME OF THOSE ARE STATE
00:41:32 LIMITATIONS AS WELL THAT WE'VE UNCOVERED THAT WE ARE POUNDING
00:41:35 THE TABLE HARD TO TO RESOLVE AND I'M HAPPY TO TALK MORE
00:41:37 ABOUT THOSE BUT TREATMENT AND GETTING PEOPLE QUICKLY INTO
00:41:40 TREATMENT IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND GOING
00:41:43 BACK TO THE PREVIOUS PAGE BUT WE ALSO DO KNOW THAT WHEN WE'RE
00:41:47 ENGAGING WITH FOLKS ON THE STREET WHEN I'VE GONE OUT WITH
00:41:51 OUR TEAMS VERY OFTEN YOU ARM IN AND OUR TEAMS GENERALLY
00:41:57 PROBABLY LESS THAN 1 IN 10 PEOPLE AT THAT INSTANCE WHEN
00:42:01 OUR HEALTH WORKER GOES UP ARE INTERESTED IN TREATMENT AND SO
00:42:04 THAT IS A THAT IS A THAT IS A REALITY THAT WE FACE.
00:42:08 AND SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD STREET TEAMS
00:42:11 AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOME MORE DETAILS WE HAVE TWO PRONGS OF
00:42:13 THAT AS WE'VE KIND OF BROUGHT THINGS ACROSS THE CITY.
00:42:15 ONE PART WHICH YOU'LL SEE WE CALL RAPID RESPONSE IS HOW TO
00:42:19 QUICKLY GET PEOPLE CONNECTED INTO SERVICES SHELTER OR
00:42:23 TREATMENT CARE. ALSO SOME FOLKS THAT ARE
00:42:24 REALLY, REALLY SICK AND NEED HOSPITAL LEVEL CARE OR OTHER
00:42:31 CARE. 5150 IS THAT TEAM IS DOING A
00:42:32 LOT OF THOSE PIECES THE RESPONDING TO 311 CALLS THINGS
00:42:38 OF THAT SORT HOTSPOTS SECOND TEAM IS FOCUSED ON WHAT WE CALL
00:42:42 CITY TERMINOLOGY SHARED PRIORITY IT'S BASICALLY A VERY
00:42:46 COMPLEX SET OF INDIVIDUALS. WE HAVE A BY NAME LIST FOLKS
00:42:51 THAT ENGAGE MANY PARTS OF THE CITY AND WE'RE TRYING TO GET
00:42:54 THEM CONNECTED. THEY'RE UNHOUSED.
00:42:55 THEY NEED TREATMENT, THEY NEED CARE.
00:42:58 THEIR SET OF CLINICAL FOLKS REALLY WORKING TO TRY TO GET
00:43:01 THOSE FOLKS INTO CARE. SO THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT
00:43:02 PARTS OF THE STREET TEAMS RECOGNIZING THAT OFTENTIMES
00:43:05 WE'RE ENGAGING LESS THAN 1 IN 10 PEOPLE AT THIS MOMENT ARE
00:43:10 WILLING TO VOLUNTARILY ACCEPT TREATMENT AND THAT'S JUST MORE
00:43:14 OF A STATEMENT OF FACT OF THE SORT OF THINGS OUR TEAMS
00:43:18 EXPERIENCE AS THEY DO THIS WORK .
00:43:21 AND THE LAST THING I'LL NOTE IS IT IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT
00:43:25 AS MUCH AS WE WANT TREATMENT AND AS MUCH AS WE NEED OUR
00:43:26 STREET TEAMS ABLE TO HELP SUPPORT ALONGSIDE OTHER
00:43:29 AGENCIES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT, WE NEED TO BE REALLY INVESTING
00:43:33 IN PREVENTION AND SO THAT INCLUDES PREVENTION IN THE
00:43:37 CONTEXT OF OVERDOSES WHERE WE HAVE A RANGE OF TARGETED
00:43:44 INTERVENTIONS ESPECIALLY FOR VERY HIGH RISK COMMUNITIES BUT
00:43:45 IT ALSO INCLUDES A RANGE OF OTHER UPSTREAM PIECES ACCESS TO
00:43:49 MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, GETTING PEOPLE CONNECTED INTO PRIMARY
00:43:53 CARE, KEEPING PEOPLE ON HEALTH INSURANCE INSTEAD OF GOING
00:43:56 UNINSURED AND OTHER THINGS THAT WE PARTNER WITH OTHER
00:43:57 DEPARTMENTS ON WITH HOUSING AND OTHER RELATED PIECES.
00:44:01 THOSE ARE ALL REALLY IMPORTANT FACTORS IN AND SO THOSE ARE
00:44:04 DIFFERENT AREAS WHERE THE DEPARTMENT IS PUSHING MY
00:44:08 UNDERLYING PIECES. JUST TO NOTE IT IS POSSIBLE TO
00:44:12 THINK ABOUT THIS WITH DEEP COMPASSION FOR FOLKS THAT WE
00:44:13 HAVE ON THE STREET AND AS A HEALTH DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY
00:44:16 GIVEN THE MAGNITUDE OF CRISIS WE'VE HAD WE'RE AT 1.2 PEOPLE A
00:44:21 DAY DYING FROM OVERDOSES. SO WE HAVE TAKEN A MUCH MORE
00:44:24 PROACTIVE COMPASSIONATE APPROACH OF APPROACH TO HOW WE
00:44:28 APPROACH CONNECTING PEOPLE TO TREATMENT.
00:44:29 SO I'M INVITING YOU TO SPEND A FEW MINUTES GOING THROUGH SOME
00:44:34 OF THE STREET TEAM PIECES AND THEN WE'LL YIELD TO WHAT'S
00:44:41 RIGHT. OH, YOU SHOULD INTRODUCE
00:44:42 YOURSELF. SORRY.
00:44:43 YES, THANK YOU. >> GOOD AFTERNOON, SUPERVISORS.
00:44:45 I'M I'M IN LILLE. I AM THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE
00:44:49 OFFICER FOR THE STREET TEAMS AND I ALSO HAVE THE PLEASURE OF
00:44:53 LEADING PRIMARY CARE MATERNAL A CHILD JAIL HEALTH AND SHELTER
00:44:57 TEAMS AT SO TO DAN'S POINT AS WE ARE CONTINUING TO TO EVOLVE
00:45:04 IN OUR STRATEGY EVEN ALONG WITH OTHER AGENCIES HAS RECENTLY
00:45:08 IN STARTING JULY 1ST HAS TAKEN OVER THE INTEGRATED MODEL OF
00:45:11 THE STREET TEAMS OF WHO CAN PLEASE PROJECT THIS SLIDE.
00:45:15 >> WE ARE STILL THE NEIGHBORHOOD STREET TEAMS WITH
00:45:18 A DUAL MISSION DUAL MISSION REALLY FOCUSES ON BRINGING
00:45:23 PEOPLE IN CRISIS TO TREATMENT AND AT THE SAME TIME WE DO HOLD
00:45:27 A RESPONSIBILITY TO WHAT DAN JUST SHARED TO BE RESPONSIBLE
00:45:31 FOR MAKING THE PUBLIC SPACES WELCOMING FOR OUR BROADER
00:45:35 COMMUNITY IN OUR CURRENT STRUCTURE.
00:45:38 WE WILL AS WE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE WILL YOU WILL SEE WE HAVE
00:45:42 TEAM EACH SUCH AS A HOT TEAM AND ALSO THE D H TEAM
00:45:46 INTEGRATED AND THREE TEAMS ARE WORKING TOGETHER NOW IN UNDER
00:45:53 THE ONE UMBRELLA TO BE ABLE TO DELIVER ON SOME OF THE THINGS
00:45:56 THAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THE SCREEN SO THE TWO MAIN TEAMS
00:45:59 THAT ARE REALLY DELIVERING SERVICES ON EVERYDAY BASIS
00:46:03 STARTING AT SOME TIME 6:30 A.M. TO OR 7 A.M. TILL 5 P.M. ON OUR
00:46:09 STREETS IS RAPID RESPONSE TEAM AND SHARE PRIORITY TEAM WHICH
00:46:13 REALLY FOCUSES ON OUR HIGHLY COMPLEX PATIENTS AND CLIENTS
00:46:16 RAPID RESPONSE TEAM I I AS I HAVE DONE A LOT OF BRIEFINGS
00:46:21 WITH SOME OF YOU YOU KNOW MARK MASA IS LEADING THAT TEAM SO
00:46:24 HIS TEAM HAS A MIX OF URBAN ALCHEMY, THE HEART TEAM MEMBERS
00:46:29 AND ALSO THE HOT TEAM AND ALSO CLINICIANS ON HIS TEAM STARTING
00:46:32 JULY 1ST AND THEY ARE REALLY RESPONSIVE RESPONDING TO THE
00:46:39 311 AND 911 NON-EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND THOSE ARE THE
00:46:43 GOALS AND METRICS FOR THAT TEAM TO BE ABLE TO QUICKLY RESPOND
00:46:47 TO THOSE COMMUNITY CONCERNS THAT WE ARE SEEING IN THE 311
00:46:51 AND 911 NON-EMERGENCY CALLS. >> THEY'RE ALSO FOCUSING ON
00:46:55 CONNECTING FOLKS TO CARE. THAT'S WHY WE ADDED A
00:46:59 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CLINICIAN SO WE ARE NOT LEAVING PEOPLE WHERE
00:47:03 THEY ARE. IN THE PAST THEY WERE
00:47:04 CONNECTING THOSE FOLKS TO AND THEY WOULD HAVE TO CALL A
00:47:07 TEAM MEMBER, WAIT FOR THEM TO GET THERE AND BY THAT TIME WE
00:47:11 MAY HAVE LOST THE CLIENT ANYWAYS IN THIS NEW MODEL THE
00:47:14 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CLINICIAN WILL BE PART OF THAT TEAM
00:47:18 AND IS PART OF THAT TEAM AND WE ARE STARTING TO SEE CONNECTION
00:47:22 TO TREATMENT HAPPEN LIVE WHEN WE ARE ENCOUNTERING THE CLIENTS
00:47:26 WHO ARE WHO ARE WANTING AND ARE VOLUNTARILY WANTING TREATMENT
00:47:30 AND CONNECTION TO TREATMENT. THE OTHER TEAM AND THEY ARE
00:47:34 ALSO DOING SHELTER PLACEMENTS. THE OTHER TEAM WHICH WAS PART
00:47:35 OF EACH MODEL PRIOR TO THE INTEGRATION IS THE HIGHLY
00:47:38 COMPLEX CARE FOR THE SHARED PRIORITY SIDE AND THAT IS THE
00:47:45 GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS THAT WE CONTINUE TO TRACK AND THESE ARE
00:47:49 INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HIGH UTILIZERS OF OUR SYSTEM AND ARE
00:47:52 OFTEN ENCOUNTERED BY ALL OF THE OTHER AGENCIES PLUS TEAM
00:47:56 MEMBERS AND WE BASED ON THE CRITERIA FOR UNHOUSED
00:48:01 INDIVIDUALS WE ARE ADDING THEM TO THE LIST AND WE ARE TAKING
00:48:04 CARE OF THEM. SOMETIMES THEY ARE ON THAT LIST
00:48:08 FOR THREE MONTHS. SOMETIMES THEY'RE ON THE LIST
00:48:09 FOR SIX MONTHS BUT WE ARE NOT SENDING THEM BACK TO THE
00:48:12 STREETS. WE ARE ACTUALLY DOING A LOT
00:48:13 MORE WORK WITH THAT. THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND SOMETIMES
00:48:15 TAKING THEM TO OUR OTHER LOCATIONS LIKE 33 GOLF WHICH I
00:48:19 WILL TALK ABOUT IN A LITTLE BIT .
00:48:22 >> SO JUST TO GO A LITTLE BIT MORE DEEPER IN TERMS OF WHAT
00:48:26 ARE THESE TWO TEAMS DRIVING FOR RAPID RESPONSE AS I SHARED THE
00:48:30 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND THE MEDICAL CARE COMPONENT IS A NEW
00:48:34 ADDITION. MARK MESA'S TEAM WILL BE
00:48:38 CONTINUING TO SERVE ALL THE 3112911 NON-EMERGENCY RESPONSE
00:48:42 IN ADDITION TO THAT THEY WILL BE PROVIDING THE CARE TO THE TO
00:48:46 A COMMUNITY ADD THAT MOMENT WHEN THEY'RE ENCOUNTERING
00:48:50 AND ENGAGING WITH THE INDIVIDUALS FOR THE SHARE
00:48:52 PRIORITY NOW AS MARC'S TEAM FIND INDIVIDUAL THOSE WHO ARE
00:48:57 HIGHLY COMPLEX WE WILL BE DOING A DIRECT REFERRAL INTO THE
00:49:00 SYSTEM WHERE WE WILL BE ABLE TO CONNECT FOLKS TO CARE RIGHT
00:49:05 AWAY AND ALSO HAVE HOSPITAL CARE AT TIMES AVAILABLE FOR
00:49:09 THOSE INDIVIDUALS AS WE IDENTIFY THEM ON THE STREETS.
00:49:15 THIS IS THIS SLIDE KIND OF SHOWS YOU HOW THE INDIVIDUALS
00:49:19 ENCOUNTERED BY THE STREET TEAMS OR BY OTHER AGENCIES WHO CAN
00:49:23 REFER INDIVIDUALS TO US THROUGH THE STREET TEAM SYSTEM.
00:49:26 THE NEIGHBORHOOD STREET TEAM SYSTEM ENTERS OUR SYSTEM.
00:49:30 THEY CAN BE DEFINITELY A311 ON A NON-EMERGENCY CALL SELF-REFER
00:49:38 SO ANY STREET ENCOUNTERS THAT WE HAVE HOSPITAL OR SHELTER A
00:49:41 PARTNER WE ARE DOING THE TRIAGE ASSESSMENT OF WHAT THE NEED OF
00:49:45 THAT INDIVIDUAL MAY BE AND BASED ON THE NEED THEY ARE
00:49:48 HELPED BY THE RAPID RESPONSE TEAM OR BY THE SHARED PARTY
00:49:53 TEAM. THE BIGGER IMPACT FROM THIS
00:49:54 INTEGRATION THAT WE WILL HOPEFULLY CONTINUE TO SHARE
00:49:57 UPDATES ON WITH ALL OF YOU AND THE COMMUNITY IS THE
00:50:00 ECOSYSTEM OF THE D H AND MANY OTHER AGENCIES THAT WE ALREADY
00:50:04 WERE WORKING WITH BEING AVAILABLE TO THESE INDIVIDUALS
00:50:08 WHICH AS I TAKE CARE OF A LOT OF OTHER TEAMS I REALIZE THAT
00:50:15 ONE OF THE KEY THINGS THAT OUR COMMUNITY OUR CLIENTS ARE
00:50:16 REALLY STRUGGLING WITH HOW TO NAVIGATE OUR SYSTEM AS WELL
00:50:19 AND THEN HOW TO WORK ACROSS CROSS AGENCIES.
00:50:22 SO THIS WILL GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE UNDER ONE
00:50:26 UMBRELLA AND BE ABLE TO CONNECT INDIVIDUALS TO THE RIGHT
00:50:27 SERVICES THROUGH OUR TEAMS. I ALSO WANTED TO BRING US BACK
00:50:35 WE ARE ALL HERE. WE DO THIS WORK FOR THE CLIENTS
00:50:36 WHO ARE IN NEED AS WELL AS FOR THE BROADER COMMUNITY TO BE
00:50:40 WELCOMING FOR OTHER INDIVIDUALS.
00:50:44 BUT ONE STORY THAT IS TRUE STORY FROM ONE OF OUR CASTRO
00:50:49 AREA IS THIS IS NOT A REAL NAME OF THE PATIENT THE CLIENT WHO
00:50:56 WAS ENCOUNTERED BY THE RAPID RESPONSE TEAM THROUGH A ROUTINE
00:51:00 OUTREACH WAS ENCOUNTERED AND WE ACTUALLY HAD TRIAGED THE NEEDS
00:51:04 AND MOBILIZED A PLAN FOR THIS INDIVIDUAL.
00:51:08 WE WERE ABLE TO GET THEM A SHELTER AND THIS IS A LIVE
00:51:09 EXAMPLE OF HOW THE WORK HAPPENS AND WE WERE ABLE TO DO
00:51:12 EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION AND THEN HAVE THIS INDIVIDUAL
00:51:16 BECAUSE OF THEIR HIGH ACUITY HIGHLY COMPLEX CARE NEEDS WE
00:51:19 WERE ABLE TO GET THEM CONNECTED TO 33 GOLF LOCATIONS WHICH IS
00:51:23 ALSO MANAGED AND WE HAVE OUR MEDICAL STAFF THERE AND AS
00:51:29 THERE ARE 24 HOURS TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES TO
00:51:30 LISTEN TO THESE INDIVIDUALS SO WE WERE ABLE TO CONNECT THE
00:51:34 INDIVIDUAL TO THE RIGHT CARE AND IN THESE CONNECTIONS
00:51:37 INSTEAD OF LOSING THEM BACK TO THE STREET FOR THEIR DISRUPTIVE
00:51:41 BEHAVIOR COMPLAINTS I ALSO WANTED TO SHARE SOME METRICS I
00:51:48 BEFORE I GO DEEP DIVE IN ON THIS SLIDE I DO ACKNOWLEDGE
00:51:52 THAT THERE IS A LOT OF WORK WE STILL NEED TO DO TO BETTER OUR
00:51:56 STREET CONDITIONS SO I ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BUT I ALSO
00:52:00 THOUGHT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT WE ARE
00:52:03 STARTING TO TRACK METRICS TO BE ABLE TO SHARE HOW SUCCESSFUL WE
00:52:07 ARE AND TO PRESENT MANAGEMENT'S COMMENT EARLIER TO REALLY
00:52:11 RECOGNIZE WHICH EFFORT IS ACTUALLY WHICH INTERVENTION IS
00:52:16 ACTUALLY LEADING TO THE RESULTS THAT WE ARE ALL WANTING TO
00:52:19 HAVE. SO FOR SOME OF THE METRICS THAT
00:52:23 OUR TEAMS HAVE ARE REALLY GOING TO BE DRIVING UNDER THE RAPID
00:52:27 RESPONSE IS GOING TO BE HOW QUICKLY ARE WE CLOSING THE
00:52:28 TICKETS? >> HOW HOW MANY TICKETS ARE WE
00:52:31 CLOSING ON A GIVEN DAY AND WHAT ARE THE OUTCOMES FOR THESE
00:52:35 CLIENTS? AGAIN, OUR GOAL STILL REMAINS
00:52:38 TO BE ABLE TO CONNECT INDIVIDUALS TO TREATMENT TO NOT
00:52:42 JUST MOVE THEM ALONG. SO THAT IS OUR GOAL FOR
00:52:45 TREATMENT SIDE AND ALSO FOR THE SHELTER SIDE AND FOR OUR SHARED
00:52:50 PRIORITY ARE THE TEAM THAT TAKE CARES OF HIGHLY COMPLEX CLIENT
00:52:53 CARE. THESE ARE THE METRICS THAT
00:52:54 WE'VE BEEN TRACKING FOR THAT TEAM AND IT'S REMARKABLE TO SEE
00:52:58 THAT WE ARE ABLE TO AT LEAST REDUCE THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT
00:53:05 THESE INDIVIDUALS WERE VISITING THE IDS IN THE HOSPITALS AND WE
00:53:09 WERE NOT ABLE TO TAKE THAT SPACE FOR SOMEONE ELSE.
00:53:12 SO THERE HAS BEEN 70% FEWER INPATIENT HOSPITALS DAYS FOR
00:53:17 THESE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE ON OUR LIST FOR OUR SHARED
00:53:18 PRIORITY FEWER 46% FEWER E.R. VISITS AND THEN 50% MORE HIGH
00:53:23 NEED CLIENTS ARE SERVED SINCE JULY.
00:53:27 SO OUR SHARED PRIORITY CLIENT LIST IS ALSO INCREASED WITH THE
00:53:29 INTEGRATION OF INDIVIDUALS FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
00:53:35 RIGHT. AND I'M GOING TO PASS IT DOWN
00:53:36 TO NOW ALL DEPUTY. >> GOOD AFTERNOON PRESIDENT
00:53:46 RANDLEMAN AND ESTEEMED MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
00:53:49 MY NAME IS DAN TOPIA. I'M THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF
00:53:50 THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
00:53:53 IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR MAYOR LAURIE ASKED RUDY TO HELP
00:53:58 COORDINATE A MULTI-AGENCY EFFORT THAT BRINGS ENFORCEMENT
00:54:01 OUTREACH COMMUNITY ACTIVATION TOGETHER TO IMPROVE CONDITIONS
00:54:05 AROUND THE MISSION BART PLAZAS AND RESTORE SAFETY AND DIGNITY
00:54:09 TO THESE PUBLIC SPACES. I WANT TO THANK MY INCREDIBLE
00:54:12 COLLEAGUES AT ALREADY DDA DIANA, PONCE DE LEON AND RAFA
00:54:16 MARIANO FOR HELPING LEAD THIS WORK.
00:54:17 I ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE OUR PARTNERS IN THIS WORK THE
00:54:20 POLICE DEPARTMENT ESPECIALLY CAPTAIN PERDOMO AND LIEUTENANT
00:54:24 ESPINOSA, THE ADMISSION STATION, THE DEPARTMENT OF
00:54:25 PUBLIC HEALTH'S NEIGHBORHOOD STREET TEAM, THE DEPARTMENT OF
00:54:28 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT'S AMBASSADOR PROGRAM PUBLIC WORKS
00:54:32 FOR CARRYING OUT SO MUCH OF THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR STREET
00:54:35 INSPECTIONS, CODE ENFORCEMENT CLEANING AND VENDING PERMITS
00:54:39 BART THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT RECREATION AND PARKS, THE CITY
00:54:43 ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT'S STREET CRISIS
00:54:44 RESPONSE TEAM, ADULT PROBATION S.F. MTA AND THE PLANNING
00:54:47 DEPARTMENT. THESE TEAMS HAVE BEEN SHOWING
00:54:51 UP THREE TIMES A WEEK TO COORDINATE, PROBLEM SOLVE
00:54:54 AND BUILD A SHARED STRATEGY. WE ALIGNED AROUND A CLEAR SET
00:54:58 OF GOALS IMPROVING SAFETY, REDUCING UNPERMITTED BRANDING,
00:55:02 ADDRESSING OPEN DRUG ACTIVITY, STRENGTHENING CONNECTIONS FOR
00:55:06 TRANSIT RIDERS AND ULTIMATELY RECLAIMING THESE PLAZAS AS
00:55:10 WELCOMING COMMUNITY CENTERED SPACES.
00:55:13 OUR APPROACH ALSO ALIGNS WITH THE MAC STRATEGY TO DISRUPT
00:55:15 HARMFUL ACTIVITY, STABILIZE THE ENVIRONMENT AND REBUILD THESE
00:55:18 SPACES BY IDENTIFYING AND USING RESOURCES WE ALREADY HAVE.
00:55:22 >> WE RECOGNIZE THAT WE STILL HAVE PLENTY OF WORK AHEAD BUT
00:55:29 TOGETHER WE'VE ALREADY MADE MEANINGFUL PROGRESS IN THE
00:55:32 FIRST SEVERAL WEEKS. OUR FOCUS WAS ON IMPROVING
00:55:33 COMMUNICATION AND BUILDING CONSISTENCY.
00:55:36 WE REALIZED WE WEREN'T ALWAYS USING THE SAME TERMINOLOGY OR
00:55:39 OPERATING FROM THE SAME ASSUMPTIONS OR SO SO
00:55:42 ESTABLISHING COMMON LANGUAGE AND EXPECTATIONS HELPED US MOVE
00:55:46 FORWARD AS ONE TEAM. FROM THERE WE HAVE STRENGTHENED
00:55:47 COORDINATION, RAMPED UP ENFORCEMENT WHERE APPROPRIATE
00:55:51 EXPANDED SUPPORTIVE SERVICES AND ACTIVATED THE PLAZA FOR
00:55:55 RESIDENTS, FAMILIES, WORKERS AND COMMUTERS CAN ONCE AGAIN
00:55:58 FEEL SAFE AND PROUD OF THESE SPACES.
00:56:01 >> TO GIVE YOU A SENSE OF HOW FAR WE'VE COME BEFORE THIS
00:56:03 COORDINATED EFFORT WE WERE SEEING LIMITED COORDINATION
00:56:06 ACROSS DEPARTMENTS. TEAMS WERE WORKING HARD BUT
00:56:09 SCHEDULES AND SERVICES DIDN'T ALWAYS LINE UP AND IT WAS TOUGH
00:56:13 TO ADJUST AS CONDITIONS CHANGED ON THE GROUND.
00:56:14 WE HAD A MOSTLY REACTIONARY APPROACH.
00:56:17 EVERYONE WAS DOING THEIR BEST BUT WE WERE OFTEN RESPONDING TO
00:56:20 ISSUES RATHER THAN GETTING AHEAD OF THEM.
00:56:21 THE RESPONSE WAS PUBLIC SAFETY HEAVY WITH THE POLICE
00:56:25 DEPARTMENT CARRYING A LOT OF THE BURDEN EVEN WHEN THE
00:56:28 CHALLENGES WENT BEYOND WHAT THEY COULD REALISTICALLY
00:56:29 ADDRESS WITH LIMITED RESOURCES .
00:56:32 THERE WAS MINIMAL PUBLIC COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY
00:56:33 ENGAGEMENT WHICH MADE IT HARDER FOR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO
00:56:37 FEEL INFORMED OR INVOLVED. NOW WE HAVE A COORDINATED
00:56:40 STRATEGY THAT PULLS IN ALL SERVICES.
00:56:44 WE'RE USING A SHARED INTERDEPARTMENTAL SCHEDULING
00:56:47 TOOL THAT GIVES EVERY DEPARTMENT VISIBILITY INTO
00:56:48 WHO'S ON THE PLAZAS, WHAT ACTIVITY IS HAPPENING AND WHAT
00:56:52 SERVICES ARE NEEDED. SO EVERYONE HAS ALIGNED
00:56:55 AND OPERATING FROM THE SAME PLAN.
00:56:56 WE HOLD WEEKLY CROSS DEPARTMENT CHECK INS TO TRACK PROGRESS
00:57:00 AND TROUBLESHOOT ISSUES, TROUBLESHOOT ISSUES AND STAY
00:57:03 NIMBLE. WE NOW HAVE A STRUCTURE THAT
00:57:06 HELPS US SPOT SERVICE GAPS EARLY ADJUST STRATEGIES
00:57:10 AND BRING IN ADDITIONAL RESOURCES WHEN NEEDED.
00:57:11 WE HAVE STRONGER COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ACTIVATION OF
00:57:15 PUBLIC SPACE. WE CONVENE STAKEHOLDERS EVERY
00:57:18 TWO WEEKS TO SHARE UPDATES, DESIGN NEW INTERVENTIONS
00:57:22 AND GATHER REAL TIME FEEDBACK. ONE THING WE HEARD LOUD
00:57:25 AND CLEAR FROM THIS COMMUNITY IS THAT PEOPLE WANTED CLEARER
00:57:27 GUIDANCE ON WHEN TO CALL 311 VERSUS 911.
00:57:32 SO WE SHARED A TOOLKIT ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED BY DIEM
00:57:35 THAT LAYS OUT WHO TO CALL. COMMUNITY GROUPS HAVE BEEN
00:57:36 SHARING IT WITH THEIR STAFF AND YOUTH ART EXCHANGE IS NOW
00:57:40 HELPING CREATE A CUSTOMIZED PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN FOR
00:57:43 THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO GET THE WORD OUT EVEN MORE.
00:57:46 THEY ARE AIMING FOR A WINTER LAUNCH OF THAT THAT TOOL.
00:57:51 WE'RE COORDINATING MONTHLY ACTIVATIONS AT BOTH PLAZAS
00:57:52 BRINGING DEPARTMENTS TOGETHER TO SUPPORT POSITIVE COMMUNITY
00:57:55 USE OF THESE SPACES. WE'RE BUILDING OUT ADDITIONAL
00:57:59 ACTIVITIES AND DEEPER COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS TO KEEP MOMENTUM
00:58:03 GOING AT IWD. AS APPROVED IN THIS PAST YEAR'S
00:58:06 BUDGET WE WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THESE ACTIVATIONS WITH
00:58:09 A $1 MILLION CONTRIBUTION AND INVESTMENT WHICH WE WILL
00:58:10 PROCURE BEFORE THE END OF THIS MONTH.
00:58:13 WE HAVE STRONGER ALIGNMENT ALIGNMENT WITH BART AND S.F.
00:58:17 PD. WE'VE CLARIFIED AREAS OF
00:58:18 CONCURRENT JURISDICTION TO IMPROVE COORDINATION AROUND
00:58:22 ENFORCEMENT OF UNPERMITTED VENDING ON BART PROPERTY.
00:58:25 WE HAVE FULLY NEGOTIATED AN AGREEMENT WITH BART AND WE
00:58:29 ANTICIPATE AN EXECUTED EXECUTED MOU IN THE COMING DAYS THAT
00:58:32 WILL STRENGTHEN ALIGNMENT AND SUPPORT SMOOTH OPERATIONS
00:58:34 FOR PLAZA ACTIVATIONS AS BART CONTINUES TO DEPLOY ADDITIONAL
00:58:37 BART PD RESOURCES TO ADDRESS CRIME TRENDS AND QUALITY OF
00:58:41 LIFE ISSUES AND COORDINATE WITH SPEEDY IWD AND OTHER CITY
00:58:44 AGENCIES. >> BART ALSO PRIORITIZED EARLY
00:58:48 INSTALLATION OF NEXT GENERATION FARE GATES AT THE MISSION PLAZA
00:58:51 STATION. OPD AND PUBLIC WORKS CONTINUE
00:58:53 SUPPORT FOR PERMITTED VENDING. THE AUTHORIZED VENDOR PROGRAM
00:58:57 REMAINS ACTIVE AND HELPS VENDORS NAVIGATE THE PROCESS
00:59:00 WITH TECHNICAL SUPPORT. ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY REMAINS
00:59:04 WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND SFPD TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY.
00:59:08 THE STREET TEAM ALSO ADAPTED TO STRENGTHEN SUPPORTIVE SERVICES,
00:59:11 ADDED STAFF AND ADOPTED A MORE STRATEGIC APPROACH TO
00:59:15 CONNECTING PEOPLE TO DRUG TREATMENT MENTAL HEALTH CARE,
00:59:19 MEDICAL CARE, SHELTER AND HOUSING BY SEQUENCING
00:59:22 OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT. MORE PEOPLE ARE ACCEPTING
00:59:24 SERVICES AND THE TEAM IS PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION
00:59:27 AND LINKAGES WHENEVER POSSIBLE. THEIR WORK NOW BALANCES GENERAL
00:59:30 OUTREACH, COMPLEX CARE MANAGEMENT PRIORITY CLIENTS
00:59:34 AND RESPONDING TO 311 HOMELESSNESS RELATED REQUESTS
00:59:35 WHEN POSSIBLE. WE WERE RECENTLY NOTIFIED THAT
00:59:40 THE CITY WAS AWARDED $3 MILLION GRANT A $3 MILLION GRANT FROM
00:59:42 THE STATE TO SUPPORT PUBLIC SAFETY EFFORTS IN THE MISSION.
00:59:45 WE'RE STILL WORKING AND WAITING ON MORE DETAILED GUIDANCE ABOUT
00:59:49 HOW THE FUNDS CAN BE USED. BUT WE GENERALLY BUT GENERALLY
00:59:53 THIS WILL HELP US STRENGTHEN OUR WORK AROUND PUBLIC SAFETY
00:59:56 CLEANING PUBLIC REALM IMPROVEMENTS AND COMMUNITY
00:59:57 ACTIVATIONS. WE HEARD FROM COMMUNITY THAT
01:00:01 THEY WANTED CLEARER UPDATES AND DATA TO TRACK PROGRESS SO
01:00:04 LAST MONTH WE LAUNCHED A DASHBOARD ON OUR DEPUTIES
01:00:07 WEBSITE WHICH WILL BE UPDATED MONTHLY.
01:00:08 IT LETS US BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING AND IT ALSO
01:00:12 HELPS US TRACK ACTIVITY TOO AND MAKE BETTER FASTER
01:00:16 DECISIONS. >> THROUGH THIS COORDINATION WE
01:00:19 QUICKLY IDENTIFIED AREAS WHERE WE COULD ENHANCE SERVICES
01:00:20 INCLUDING IMPROVING LIGHTING AND VISIBILITY ALONG MISSION
01:00:24 STREET. WE UPGRADED THE INTERSECTION
01:00:27 LIGHTS INTERSECTION LIGHTS AT 15TH, 16TH AND 17TH WITH
01:00:30 BRIGHTER BULBS AND PUBLIC WORKS URBAN FORESTRY TEAM TRIM TREES
01:00:33 SO MORE LIGHT CAN REACH THE SIDEWALK AND STREET.
01:00:35 BART ALSO EXAMINED ITS LIGHTING AT THE PLAZAS AND UPGRADED ALL
01:00:38 FIXTURES TO BRIGHTER LED LIGHTING AT FOUR STATION PLAZAS
01:00:41 TO HELP DETER UNWANTED BEHAVIOR .
01:00:45 >> WE'VE EXPANDED CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE WORK.
01:00:48 311 REQUESTS ONLY REFLECT PART OF WHAT'S HAPPENING.
01:00:49 PUBLIC WORKS IS OUT EVERY DAY DOING PROACTIVE CLEANING
01:00:53 SWEEPING SIDEWALKS, MAINTAINING TRASHCANS, REMOVING GRAFFITI,
01:00:57 STEAM CLEANING AND SWEEPING STREETS AND BIKE LANES.
01:01:02 THE 16TH AND 24TH STREET BART PLAZAS ARE CLEANED THREE TIMES
01:01:06 A DAY. >> OTHER LOCATIONS LIKE
01:01:09 MARSHALL ELEMENTARY AND ALI AUTO MINI PARK RECEIVE
01:01:10 ADDITIONAL TARGETED CLEANING. CREWS REGULARLY STAND UP
01:01:14 TARGETED OPERATIONS FOR DEEPER CLEANING, STEAMING AND GRAFFITI
01:01:17 REMOVAL. THROUGH OUR PARTNERSHIP WITH
01:01:18 BART THEY HAVE ENHANCED STATION AND PLAZA MAINTENANCE INCLUDING
01:01:22 NIGHTLY POWER WASHING. DAMS COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS ARE
01:01:25 PROVIDING DAILY SUPPORT. THESE AMBASSADORS PROVIDE A
01:01:29 VISIBLE WELCOMING PRESENCE IN BUSY PUBLIC AREAS HELPING
01:01:33 RESIDENTS, VISITORS AND BUSINESSES NAVIGATE
01:01:37 EVERYDAY CHALLENGES. CONNECT WITH CITY SERVICES
01:01:40 AND FLAG ISSUES THAT NEED ATTENTION.
01:01:41 OUR MONTHLY COMMUNITY ACTIVATIONS ARE RECLAIMING THE
01:01:45 PLAZAS CEBALLOS GIGANTE IS A RECURRING SERIES IN A
01:01:49 PARTNERSHIP WITH MISSION LOTERIA.
01:01:51 THAT TRANSFORMS THE 16TH AND 24TH STREET BART PLAZAS
01:01:52 INTO VIBRANT SPACES FOR SMALL BUSINESSES ARTISTS, FAMILIES,
01:01:56 RESIDENTS AND VISITORS. IT BRINGS TOGETHER VENDORS,
01:02:00 PERFORMERS, CULTURAL ACTIVITIES ,GAMES, FAMILY PROGRAMING
01:02:04 AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS. DURING THE JUNE SABADO GIGANTE
01:02:07 WE SHOWCASE A NEW PUBLIC ART SCULPTURE WITH THE AMERICAN
01:02:11 INDIAN CULTURAL DISTRICT AND LOCAL BAY AREA NATIVE
01:02:12 ARTISTS. CONSISTENCY IS WHAT MATTERS.
01:02:15 THESE EVENTS CREATE A STEADY POSITIVE PRESENCE THAT PEOPLE
01:02:19 CAN COUNT ON. THE ACTIVITIES HAVE RECEIVED
01:02:23 POSITIVE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK AND THEY HAVE GIVEN US A CHANCE
01:02:25 TO ENGAGE WITH RESIDENTS AND PLAZA USERS.
01:02:27 SINCE JUNE THERE HAVE BEEN EIGHT ACTIVATION INS WITH MORE
01:02:30 THAN 1600 ATTENDEES. TOGETHER THESE IMPROVEMENTS ARE
01:02:33 SHOWING RESULTS. DRUG RELATED 911 CALLS ARE DOWN
01:02:37 78%. HOMELESSNESS RELATED 911
01:02:40 CONCERNS DOWN 42% AND SUSPICIOUS PERSONS CALLS
01:02:44 DOWN 23% SINCE DEPLOYMENT. ENCAMPMENT RELATED 311 TICKETS
01:02:48 ARE HOLDING FLAT AT 17 A MONTH .
01:02:54 WHEN THE MAYOR REQUESTED WE LAUNCH A 90 DAY OPERATION WE
01:02:57 KNEW THAT THE HIGHLY COMPLEX ISSUES WE SEE ON THE STREET
01:02:59 WOULD NOT BE FULLY RESOLVED IN THREE MONTHS.
01:03:03 HOWEVER, IT WAS NECESSARY TO IMPROVE COORDINATION
01:03:06 AND UNCOUPLE THE ISSUES SO THAT WE COULD APPROPRIATELY IDENTIFY
01:03:09 GAPS AND COME UP WITH NEW SOLUTIONS.
01:03:11 IT WAS IMPORTANT TO CHANGE OUR APPROACH FROM TACKLING
01:03:14 STANDALONE ISSUES TO DEVELOPING A SHARED STRATEGY ACTIVELY
01:03:17 LEARNING AND CHANGING OUR RESPONSE BASED ON THE REALITIES
01:03:19 WE SEE ON THE GROUND. TO GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF
01:03:22 HOW WE'VE ADOPTED A NEW SPECIAL TEAM WAS DEPLOYED UNDER CPD TO
01:03:26 WORK WITH DPW AND ADDRESS QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES ON THE
01:03:29 PLAZA AND ON MISSION STREET CORRIDOR.
01:03:33 >> UNDER A DEDICATED LT SCHEDULES WERE PREVIOUSLY NOT
01:03:37 ALIGNED AND WILL CREATE GAPS IN ENFORCEMENT OF UNPERMITTED
01:03:41 VENDING. NOW AS SFPD AND DPW MEET EVERY
01:03:42 MORNING ON THE PLAZA TO DISCUSS THE DAY'S OPERATIONS AND ENSURE
01:03:46 THERE IS A COORDINATED APPROACH.
01:03:48 WE ALSO LAUNCHED THE SAFE STREETS ACT IMPLEMENTATION
01:03:52 OPERATION WHICH ALLOWS FOR PD TO ENGAGE WITH PEOPLE SELLING
01:03:55 STOLEN GOODS AND ESCALATE PENALTIES TO EVENTUAL
01:03:57 MISDEMEANORS FROM THOSE EFFORTS.
01:04:00 WE HAVE ISSUED NOTICES VIOLATION TO MORE THAN 640
01:04:03 INDIVIDUALS FOR SELLING WITHOUT A PERMIT.
01:04:06 FIVE HAVE ESCALATED TO THE MISDEMEANOR STAGE.
01:04:08 SEEING THOSE NUMBERS HELPS US UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF
01:04:11 THIS PROBLEM AND DEMONSTRATE THE OVERLOAD ON OUR ENFORCEMENT
01:04:16 TEAMS THAT KIND OF SHARED INSIGHT DIDN'T EXIST BEFORE WE
01:04:20 STARTED THIS WORK. BECAUSE RESOURCES ARE LIMITED,
01:04:23 WE FOCUSED OUR EFFORTS ON CREATING SAFER DAYTIME
01:04:27 CONDITIONS FOR COMMUTERS AND FAMILIES.
01:04:28 HOWEVER, THAT DAYTIME EMPHASIS HAS PUSHED SOME OF THE MORE
01:04:31 SERIOUS ACTIVITY INTO THE EVENING HOURS.
01:04:35 AND WHILE POLICE AND PUBLIC WORKS STAFFING IS STILL TIGHT,
01:04:38 WE'RE NOW LAUNCHING TARGETED INVESTIGATIONS AND ARRESTS TO
01:04:42 DISRUPT THE NIGHTTIME CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
01:04:43 WE KNOW THERE'S STILL MORE WORK TO DO TO TRULY RECLAIM THESE
01:04:47 PLAZAS AS DEPENDABLE COMMUNITY SPACES, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT.
01:04:50 AND WE ARE CONTINUING TO MEET REGULARLY REGULARLY TO TACKLE
01:04:54 THESE ONGOING CHALLENGES AND WE WILL KEEP DOING THIS FOR THE
01:04:58 FORESEEABLE FUTURE. NOW I WANT TO HAND IT BACK OVER
01:05:02 TO MY COLLEAGUE AMMANN TO TALK ABOUT THE IMPACT THE STREET
01:05:05 TEAM IS HAVING IN THE MISSION UNDER THIS NEW MODEL.
01:05:06 THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT.
01:05:11 SO AS WE JUMPED INTO THE MISSION PROJECT WE AGAIN REALLY
01:05:19 FOCUSED ON BEING ABLE TO TRACK THE SUCCESS BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY
01:05:22 CONCENTRATED OUR EFFORTS AND A LOT OF RESOURCES INTO THIS
01:05:27 PROJECT. >> SO EARLY DATA THAT YOU'RE
01:05:30 SEEING ON THE SCREEN TALKS TO THE NUMBER OF ENGAGEMENTS THAT
01:05:32 WE HAVE HAD WHILE THE OUR TEAMS WERE OUT THERE ALSO SHOWING YOU
01:05:38 THE DATA FOR JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER BEING
01:05:43 THE HIGHEST ENGAGEMENT NUMBERS. IN ADDITION, WE WERE ABLE TO DO
01:05:47 160 SHELTER HOUSING CONNECTIONS AND 2456 2456 311 TICKET
01:05:53 CLOSURE. WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO.
01:05:57 WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THIS EFFORT ACTUALLY IS
01:06:00 TEACHING US RIGHT NOW A STRATEGY IN WHICH WE ARE REALLY
01:06:04 TRYING TO CONCENTRATE OUR EFFORTS WHEN WE KNOW THERE ARE
01:06:06 HOTSPOTS IN THE CITIES WHILE ALSO FOCUSING ON THE MIGRATION
01:06:11 AREAS AND DISPLACEMENT AREAS. THE NEXT SLIDE IS JUST SHOWING
01:06:15 YOU THE DETAILS OF WHERE WE ACTUALLY MADE THE DIFFERENCE
01:06:16 WITH THOSE TICKET CLOSURES ON THERE IN THE JULY, AUGUST
01:06:20 AND SEPTEMBER MONTHS. BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT
01:06:24 WE WERE ABLE TO SHOW YOU SOME DATA AS WELL IN RELATION TO
01:06:28 WHAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD STREET TEAMS WAS ABLE TO DO FOR THIS
01:06:29 PROJECT. AND WITH THAT I WILL END THE
01:06:32 PRESENTATION HERE FOR ALL OF US.
01:06:33 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.
01:06:39 I'LL START AND I CAN SEE THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAVE MANY
01:06:43 QUESTIONS I'M IMAGINING. >> I GUESS I'M GOING TO START
01:06:48 WITH CHIEF. >> I APOLOGIZE.
01:06:51 DEPUTY CHIEF BIGGS, PLEASE COME UP.
01:06:58 HAS DEMAK BEEN SUCCESSFUL WHERE IT HAS BEEN OPERATING?
01:07:05 >> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, WHERE DOES DEMAK OPERATE?
01:07:09 PRIMARILY IN THE TENDERLOIN AND SOUTH OF MARKET AREA.
01:07:10 OKAY. >> WHAT HOW DID THE LIKE HOW
01:07:14 DID HOW DOES THE LINE GET DRAWN OUT?
01:07:15 OKAY. SO WE KNOW IF SOMETHING IS
01:07:17 INDYMAC PROBLEM OR NOT INDYMAC PROBLEM.
01:07:18 >> YEAH. SO PRIMARILY DMCC OPERATES
01:07:20 IN THE TENDERLOIN AND SOUTH OF MARKET NEIGHBORHOODS.
01:07:28 HOWEVER WE DO HAVE OTHER TEAMS ASSIGNED TO TEAM TO DEMAK THAT
01:07:32 WORK IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL.
01:07:33 SO WE HAVE LIKE OUR HEALTHY STREET OPERATION CENTER WHICH
01:07:39 IS ABOUT YOU KNOW, PROBABLY ABOUT 30 OFFICERS THAT CONNECT
01:07:43 IN WITH DPW DAILY TO GO OUT INTO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS
01:07:48 PRIMARILY MISSION TENDERLOIN SOUTHERN REALLY BAYVIEW ALL
01:07:55 OVER THE CITY THAT WE'RE ABLE TO LEVERAGE AND USE THOSE TEAMS
01:07:58 TO GO OUT INTO NEIGHBORHOODS WHEN WE DO HEAVILY KIND OF DO
01:08:02 ENFORCEMENT IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT CREATE, YOU
01:08:07 KNOW, ACTIVITY SHIFT THAT I THINK I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER.
01:08:14 SO WHAT IS DEMAK DO THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM WHAT A
01:08:17 NEIGHBORHOOD PRECINCT STATION WHAT A NEIGHBORHOOD STATION
01:08:18 WOULD DO? >> SO UNDER DEMAK WE HAVE OUR
01:08:25 FUGITIVE RECOVERY UNIT WHICH IS A DEDICATED GROUP OF OFFICERS
01:08:29 THAT FOCUS ON PEOPLE WITH WARRANTS YOU KNOW, AT THE
01:08:30 DISTRICT STATION REALLY AT THE DISTRICT STATION THE THE PATROL
01:08:34 FORCE'S PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANSWERING CALLS FOR SERVICE
01:08:40 . THE OFFICERS THAT ARE ASSIGNED
01:08:41 TO DEMAK ARE SPECIFIC TO SELF-INSURE GATED ACTIVITY
01:08:48 RATHER THAN ANSWERING CALLS FOR SERVICE SO THEY'RE ABLE TO, YOU
01:08:52 KNOW, DEAL WITH DRUG DEALING, DEAL WITH DRUG USAGE, DEAL WITH
01:08:54 ILLEGAL VENDING AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, DEAL WITH ENCAMPMENTS
01:08:57 THINGS ALONG THOSE LINES. >> OKAY.
01:09:00 I WANT TO DRILL DOWN A LITTLE BIT ON HOW WE KNOW WHAT WE
01:09:04 THINK WE KNOW. >> BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, I
01:09:10 HAVE A NOTION ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN SAN FRANCISCO
01:09:11 RIGHT NOW. I WANT TO TRY IT OUT ON YOU.
01:09:17 DEMAK WAS SET UP IN 2023 AND IN 2023 AND IF YOU LOOK AT THAT
01:09:20 CHART OF WHAT WAS GOING ON, LOTS OF DRUG ARRESTS IN 2023
01:09:26 DEMAK AND WAS DRIVING MOST OF THAT AND MOST OF THAT WAS
01:09:31 HAPPENING IN SOMA AND TENDERLOIN.
01:09:34 OKAY. ONE THING I'M CURIOUS ABOUT IS
01:09:37 DEALER ARRESTS ARE BASICALLY BACK TO WHERE THEY WERE IN 2021
01:09:40 FROM DIMOCK. SO MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE
01:09:42 GOING ON. MAYBE THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF
01:09:45 DRUG ARRESTS HAPPENING SOMEWHERE ELSE.
01:09:46 BUT WE SEE CRAZY LEVELS OF DRUG ACTIVITY IN THE MISSION HIGHER
01:09:52 LEVELS OF DRUG ACTIVITY IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS.
01:09:53 >> IF WE SAW A CHART OF DRUG DEALER ARRESTS CITYWIDE, WOULD
01:09:57 THAT BE ANY DIFFERENT? >> WE CAN GO BACK TO THAT
01:10:01 QUESTION BECAUSE THE QUESTION I HAVE IS MY NOTION IS DO YOU
01:10:04 MAKE WITH SETUP TO FOCUS ON A PARTICULAR PROBLEM WHICH WAS
01:10:08 THE PROBLEM YOU DESCRIBED YOU SAW WHEN YOU WERE A CAPTAIN
01:10:11 GOING IN THERE AT MARKET STREET WAS OUT OF CONTROL OR MISSION
01:10:15 STREET IN IN SOMA WAS OUT OF CONTROL.
01:10:18 PEOPLE COULDN'T WALK DOWN SIDEWALKS IN THE TENDERLOIN.
01:10:20 INSANITY IN LOTS OF NEIGHBORHOODS.
01:10:23 INDYMAC TOOK A LAW ENFORCEMENT APPROACH ARRESTED DEALERS DID A
01:10:30 BUNCH OF OTHER THINGS, WORKED WITH THE DEPARTMENTS AND IN A
01:10:31 FOCUSED WAY CREATED CHANGE IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS NOT TO
01:10:35 WHERE SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD NEEDS THE TENDERLOIN TO BE, NOT WHERE
01:10:42 WELL, DOORS MAYBE DORSEY'S HAPPY WITH US WITH SOMA I DON'T
01:10:45 I THINK THERE'S PARTS OF SOMA WHERE DORSEY SUPERVISOR DORSEY
01:10:46 IS QUITE UNHAPPY BUT BUT THERE WAS THERE WAS REAL CHANGE FROM
01:10:52 THAT PRETTY FOCUSED ACTIVITY AND IT BUT IT SEEMS TO ME THAT
01:10:57 THAT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN ISN'T HAPPENING ISN'T CHASING OUTSIDE
01:11:00 OF THE DEMAK AREA SO WE SEE AND I'VE EVEN ASKED LIKE WHAT
01:11:05 SHOULD WE BE SETTING UP MORE D-MAX AND THE ANSWER IS WE
01:11:08 DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES TO SET UP MORE D-MAX IS D-MAX
01:11:11 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WHOLE CITY? >> WELL NO WE CAN'T HAVE D-MAX
01:11:13 RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WHOLE CITY. >> SO THEN THERE'S THIS LIKE
01:11:17 120 DAY PUSH WHICH THERE FRANKLY AREN'T.
01:11:22 I MEAN WE THANK YOU DIRECTOR TOPIA FOR GOING THROUGH
01:11:26 VERBALLY SOME OF THE METRICS BUT WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF
01:11:30 THAT IS 24TH STREET IMPROVEMENT VERSUS 16TH STREET IMPROVEMENT.
01:11:33 I SUSPECT A LOT OF IT IS 24TH STREET IMPROVEMENT 16TH STREET
01:11:36 NOT SO MUCH BUT I DON'T SEE LIKE A DEFT ABILITY TO SPOT A
01:11:45 FOUR TO SPOT PROBLEMS THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND THEN
01:11:46 SORT OF SEND RESOURCES THERE. >> AND SO WHEN YOU DESCRIBE THE
01:11:50 SORT OF CLEAR AND HOLD STRATEGY, IT FEELS TO ME LIKE
01:11:54 THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS IN THE DEMAK AREA BUT DOESN'T
01:11:56 HAPPEN IN THE REST OF THE CITY. >> IS THAT AM I HOW OFF AM I?
01:12:00 >> YEAH. SO I THINK I WILL START OFF
01:12:05 WITH IT WAS IN 2023 IT WAS ALL A CONCERTED CONCERTED EFFORT ON
01:12:14 TENDERLOIN AND SOMA WHEN WE STARTED AND AS WE'VE PROGRESSED
01:12:19 WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IS THAT ACTIVITY SHIFTS AND WHEN
01:12:25 ACTIVITY SHIFTS WE'RE NOT AS FAST AS THE ACTIVITY THAT'S
01:12:30 SHIFTING INTO OTHER AREAS. >> SO WE HAVE TO PICK A
01:12:36 LOCATION AND TRY TO DO WHAT WE CAN POSSIBLY DO AT THAT
01:12:40 LOCATION AND PRIOR TO MOVING OUT OF THAT LOCATION AND MOVING
01:12:45 ON TO ANOTHER LOCATION, WE HAVE TO KIND OF HOLD GROUND
01:12:48 AND CHANGE THE NARRATIVE OF THE STREETS IN THAT AREA.
01:12:55 WE'VE DONE WE DID THAT IN THE TENDERLOIN IN FOUR DIFFERENT
01:12:58 LOCATIONS. WE DID FIND A SHIFT BACK DOWN
01:13:02 TO MARKET STREET WHERE WE HAD TO REDEPLOY TO.
01:13:05 SO YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS SAY THAT IF WE SPREAD OUR RESOURCES TOO
01:13:12 THIN AND WE BECOME AVERAGE ACROSS THE BOARD RATHER THAN
01:13:16 BEING REALLY GOOD AT A SPECIFIC LOCATION AND FOCUSING ON THAT
01:13:17 LOCATION, YOU KNOW AS FOR CLEAR AND HOLD, THAT'S PROBABLY ONE
01:13:24 OF THE MORE CHALLENGING ISSUES THAT WE HOLD PART THE WHOLE
01:13:28 PART THE CLEAR FOR US IS PRETTY EASY BUT THE WHOLE PART IS THE
01:13:32 IS IT'S COMMUNITY ACTIVATION IS THE HARDEST PART IN MY OPINION
01:13:38 . WE'VE SEEN THAT OVER AND OVER
01:13:39 AGAIN DOWNTOWN IN THE TENDERLOIN IS THAT WE CAN
01:13:42 CLEAR, YOU KNOW, PRETTY MUCH ANYWHERE AND CONTINUE OUR WORK
01:13:46 IN NEIGHBORHOODS. BUT ACTIVITY MOVES AND WE HAVE
01:13:50 TO MOVE WITH IT SO INSTEAD OF BEING STUCK AND NOT DEALING
01:13:54 WITH IT IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS .
01:13:57 SO YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S VERY CHALLENGING URGING SPECIFICALLY
01:14:01 FOR THE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY AND YOU KNOW, I DON'T
01:14:06 LIKE TO CONTINUOUSLY GO BACK TO STAFFING BUT YOU KNOW, STAFFING
01:14:10 IS AN ISSUE FOR US AND IF WE HAD MORE STAFFING THEN WE WOULD
01:14:14 WE WOULD BE ABLE TO USE OFFICERS WOULD BE OFFICERS
01:14:18 IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE'VE GONE INTO AND TO HELP
01:14:22 SUPPORT ALL OF THE OTHER AGENCIES THAT NEED TO BE
01:14:23 IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AS WELL WHICH WOULD THEN ALLEVIATE A
01:14:26 LOT OF THE PRESSURE THAT'S PLACED ON THESE OFFICERS THAT
01:14:30 ARE OUT THERE HAVING TO DO THIS SELF-INITIATED ACTIVITY, YOU
01:14:33 KNOW, TYPE OF WORK ON A DAILY BASIS.
01:14:37 >> SO EXPLAIN THE CHART TO ME THAT SHOWS DEALER ARRESTS 2020
01:14:43 ONE DARK BAD TIMES, EVERYTHING'S TERRIBLE
01:14:44 AND THEY'RE LIKE 500 AND SOMETHING.
01:14:47 >> THEN THE SURGE HAPPENS 20 23 AND WE GET UP LIKE CLOSE TO 900
01:14:51 AND WE'RE NOW AT LIKE 500 SOMETHING.
01:14:54 SO IS THAT AN ACCURATE REFLECTION OF WHAT'S HAPPENING
01:14:58 WITH DEALERS CITY IS I MEAN IS THERE ARE THERE SIGNIFICANT
01:15:01 DEALER ARRESTS? THEY'RE NOT PART OF DEMAK THAT
01:15:04 WE'RE NOT SEEING AND THOSE NUMBERS HAVE GONE UP SO WE
01:15:05 WOULD SEE OH ACTUALLY THERE'S WE'RE STILL SURGING.
01:15:09 WE'RE JUST SURGING IN DIFFERENT PLACES AND , WE SHOULD HAVE
01:15:12 GIVEN THE SUPERVISORS THAT THINK THAT CHART BECAUSE THAT
01:15:16 WOULD SHOW THAT WE'RE SUSTAINING ACTIVITY OR LIKE
01:15:17 WHAT'S GOING ON THERE. OKAY BACK TO 2023 WHEN WE
01:15:21 STARTED I THINK I MENTIONED IN MY PRESENTATION YOU KNOW IT
01:15:27 WOULD NOT BE ON ANY GIVEN DAY YOU WOULD WALK OUT ON THE
01:15:32 STREET AND THERE WOULD BE A PACK OF 5 TO 10 DRUG DEALERS ON
01:15:35 MANY, MANY, MANY CORNERS OPEN AIR, VERY BLATANT.
01:15:42 AND WHAT HAPPENED WAS IS THAT THAT INITIAL SURGE AND THOSE
01:15:45 AND THAT LARGE AMOUNT OF THOSE ARRESTS WE FOCUSED ON DAYTIME
01:15:49 HOURS. SO ONCE WE WERE ABLE TO FOCUS
01:15:53 ON DAYTIME HOURS AND I DON'T WANT TO SAY ELIMINATE BUT
01:15:57 PRETTY MUCH IT IS VERY DIFFICULT FOR OUR TEAMS TO
01:16:01 IDENTIFY AND EVEN LOCATE A DRUG DEALER DURING THE DAY.
01:16:05 THEN OBVIOUSLY THE NUMBERS WILL SHIFT FROM DRUG DEALING STATS
01:16:09 BECAUSE THERE AREN'T ANY DRUG DEALERS DURING THE DAY ANYMORE
01:16:13 AND THE MAJORITY OF THOSE DRUG DEALERS ARE AT NIGHT SO OUR
01:16:17 RESOURCES DEPLETE AT NIGHTTIME TO WHERE WE'RE NOT ABLE TO
01:16:21 SUSTAIN THOSE LEVELS OF ARRESTS OVERNIGHT BASED OFF OF THE
01:16:27 HOURS THAT OUR OFFICERS ARE WORKING.
01:16:28 >> I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
01:16:29 I MEAN IT SOUNDS A LITTLE BIT LIKE WE MIGHT HAVE SIMILAR
01:16:32 LEVELS OF DEALERS BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE WE DON'T HAVE THE
01:16:35 OFFICERS AT THE RIGHT TIME TO GET THEM NOW THAT IS CORRECT.
01:16:38 >> OKAY. I MEAN THIS ISN'T SO GOOD FOR
01:16:42 YES, BUT THAT MEANS WE HAVE A BIG GIANT MARKET JUST AT A
01:16:46 DIFFERENT TIME OF DAY AND THEN THE AFTER THE ILL AFTER EFFECTS
01:16:51 OF YOU KNOW, THE FOLKS WAKING UP IN THE MORNING HAVING HAD A
01:16:54 PARTY THAT THE DEPARTMENT HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO DEAL WITH
01:16:58 BECAUSE THE DEPARTMENT DIDN'T HAVE STAFFING AT THE RIGHT TIME
01:16:59 TO DEAL WITH THAT IS IN ALL IN LOTS IN ALL THESE
01:17:02 NEIGHBORHOODS WE DO HAVE STAFFING ISSUES OVERNIGHT.
01:17:06 OKAY. >> HOW I MEAN HOW DOES THE
01:17:09 DEPARTMENT AND THE ADMINISTRATION THINK ABOUT
01:17:12 SHIFTING RESOURCES TO I MEAN WHEN THINGS ARE FALLING APART
01:17:16 ON ON MISSION IN THE MISSION? I MEAN THAT WENT ON FOR I DON'T
01:17:21 WANT TO STEAL SUPERVISOR FIELDER'S THUNDER AND SHE'S
01:17:25 SHE'S IN THE QUEUE BUT LIKE THAT WENT ON FOR A LONG TIME
01:17:28 BEFORE THE THE SURGE STARTED SO HOW DOES THE DEPARTMENT AND THE
01:17:32 ADMINISTRATION THINK ABOUT REDEPLOYING THINKING ABOUT NEW
01:17:36 RESOURCES, THINKING ABOUT LIKE OH MAN, WE HAVE A PROBLEM THAT
01:17:40 IS AS EMBARRASSING AS BAD AS DESTRUCTIVE OF COMMUNITY AS WE
01:17:44 HAD ON MARKET STREET OR MISSION IN SOMA.
01:17:48 AND WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT LIKE HOW DOES HOW DOES THAT
01:17:51 SHIFT HOW DOES THAT HOW DOES HOW DOES YOUR TRACKING LEAD YOU
01:17:55 TO THE POINT WHERE YOU SOUND OR YOU KNOW ABOUT ALARM AND A
01:17:58 SHIFT AND SOMETHING DIFFERENT HAPPENS?
01:17:59 >> YEAH. SO I WOULD SAY ABOUT FOUR
01:18:02 MONTHS AGO OBVIOUSLY WE DID SEE THAT SHIFT.
01:18:06 A LOT OF THE ACTIVITY DID SHIFT FROM THE TENDERLOIN INTO THE
01:18:09 MISSION ONTO THE 16TH STREET BART PLAZAS ARE DEMAK RESOURCES
01:18:18 AND I'LL KIND OF TALK ABOUT OUR NARCOTICS DIVISION, OUR
01:18:19 NARCOTICS DIVISION IS A CITYWIDE UNIT SO THEY DON'T
01:18:22 JUST ONLY DEAL WITH NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING IN YOU KNOW,
01:18:29 TENDERLOIN AND SOMA THEY DO GO OUT TO THE BABY.
01:18:30 THEY DO OUT TO THE MISSION. THEY THEY HAD GONE AND HAD
01:18:34 NUMEROUS THEY HAVE DONE NUMEROUS BUST OPERATIONS IN THE
01:18:40 MISSION AND FOCUSED ON DRUG TRAFFICKING IN THE MISSION AS
01:18:44 WELL NOT REFLECTED IN THE SLIDE FROM THE D MAC PRISON FROM THE
01:18:48 UP T MAC STATS AND YOU KNOW WE DID SHIFT ABOUT TEN OFFICERS TO
01:18:55 THE MISSION TO HELP SUPPORT MISSION STATION TO DEAL WITH
01:18:59 THE SHIFT IN ACTIVITY TO THE BART PLAZAS.
01:19:03 BUT AGAIN I GO BACK TO IF WE LEAVE ONE AREA THEN ONE AREA
01:19:09 GOES BACKWARDS AND THEN SO IT'S IT'S THIS IT'S LIKE THIS
01:19:13 DYNAMIC DEPLOYMENT GAME THAT WE PLAY WITH OUR OFFICERS TO WHERE
01:19:16 WE JUST HAVE TO EBB AND FLOW AND SHIFT WHERE THE WHERE THE
01:19:17 WHERE THE CONDITIONS SO IS THIS AS GOOD AS IT GETS WITH THE
01:19:22 CURRENT STAFFING RESOURCE AS WE HAVE?
01:19:27 I WOULDN'T SAY IT'S AS GOOD AS IT GETS BECAUSE WE'RE ALWAYS
01:19:31 ABLE TO SHIFT WHEN THE NEED IS NEEDED.
01:19:35 >> BUT AGAIN YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIG THE BIGGEST ISSUE WE HAVE
01:19:39 IS THAT WE CANNOT SHIFT OUR OFFICERS TO NIGHTTIME UNLESS
01:19:47 IT'S EVERY SIX MONTHS. SO WE GO THROUGH THE SENIORITY
01:19:48 SIGN UP PROCESS EVERY SIX MONTHS AND THEN WE CAN SHIFT
01:19:52 HOURS AND THINGS ALONG THOSE LINES.
01:19:54 SO YOU KNOW THE RESOURCES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE AND THE
01:19:58 STAFFING THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE YOU KNOW WE CAN FLUCTUATE HERE
01:20:01 AND THERE A LITTLE BIT BUT TO MAKE A GIGANTIC STAFFING CHANGE
01:20:05 AND LET'S SAY FOR EXAMPLE PUSH TEN MORE OFFICERS INTO THE
01:20:09 MISSION IS PRETTY CHALLENGING FOR US AT THIS POINT.
01:20:10 >> HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT BANG FOR OUR BUCK WITH USER ARRESTS
01:20:15 ? BECAUSE IF THERE'S I MEAN I AM
01:20:17 NOT MORALLY OPPOSED ESPECIALLY IF WE ARE LEVERAGING AN ARREST
01:20:21 INTO TREATMENT AND IF WE HAVE EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT MAN WE
01:20:25 ARE DOING THESE ARRESTS OF USERS AND WE ARE GETTING THEM
01:20:28 CONNECTED TO SERVICES AND THEIR LIVES ARE CHANGING AND INSTEAD
01:20:32 OF YOU KNOW, ROTTING ON THE SIDEWALK THEY'RE ACTUALLY LIKE
01:20:35 FINDING LIVES AND WE HAVE A WAY OF MEASURING THAT AND THAT'S A
01:20:40 SUCCESS. >> LIKE I FULLY OPEN TO THAT.
01:20:42 I MEAN I'M QUITE OPEN TO THAT NARRATIVE AND THE IDEA THAT
01:20:44 THAT COULD BE HAPPENING BUT I'M ALSO HEARING THIS IS A
01:20:47 DEPARTMENT THAT IS LACKING STAT THAT IS STRUGGLING AROUND
01:20:51 STAFFING AND WE'RE DOING A LOT OF USER ARRESTS.
01:20:54 SO CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THE ADMINISTRATION
01:20:58 AND THE DEPARTMENT ARE THINKING ABOUT THE ALLOCATION OF
01:21:02 OFFICERS TO USER ARRESTS VERSUS OTHER KINDS OF OTHER KINDS OF
01:21:09 ENFORCEMENT RELATED TO DRUGS? >> YEAH.
01:21:13 SO I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT I'LL ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT
01:21:19 USER ARRESTS FIRST I THINK IT FOR A VERY LONG TIME OUR
01:21:23 DEPARTMENT DID NOT HAVE THAT INVOLUNTARY TERRY TOOL TO
01:21:27 RAPIDLY ADDRESS OPEN AIR DRUG USAGE.
01:21:31 WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO MAKE ARRESTS UNDER 647 F AN 11 550
01:21:35 WITH PUBLIC INTOXICATION BUT THE HOLD UP WAS COUNTY JAIL.
01:21:39 SO ONCE WE GOT TO COUNTY JAIL THEN IT WAS A LONG WAIT PERIOD
01:21:43 AT COUNTY JAIL SO THAT OFFICERS WOULDN'T GET BACK ON THE
01:21:47 STREET. SO I DO THINK IT'S BENEFICIAL
01:21:50 AT THIS POINT IN TIME TO CONTINUE OUR EFFORTS ON DRUG
01:21:54 USERS. WE DO NEED TO HOLD THEM
01:21:55 ACCOUNTABLE. THEY YOU KNOW, THESE FOLKS ARE
01:21:59 OUT ON OUR STREET. THEY'RE CREATING UNSANITARY
01:22:02 CONDITIONS IN NEIGHBORHOODS NOT ARGUING JUST WE'RE CHOOSING
01:22:04 ABOUT WHERE TO PUT FINITE RESOURCES AND DO WE HAVE
01:22:09 EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT THIS IS THE INTERVENTION, THAT THE USER
01:22:13 ARRESTS ARE ACTUALLY LEADING TO GOOD THINGS?
01:22:17 >> I'M SORRY, WHAT WHAT'S WHAT DO WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE TO
01:22:21 DEMONSTRATE THAT WE'RE THAT AND I GUESS THIS POINTS TO THE
01:22:25 LARGER PROBLEM OF LIKE HOW ARE WE DOING OVERALL WHERE A CITY
01:22:26 WITH A DRUG PROBLEM IS OUR DRUG PROBLEM GETTING BETTER OR
01:22:29 WORSE? WE'RE GOING TO TRY VARIOUS
01:22:30 STRATEGIES. WE SHOULD TRY VARIOUS
01:22:33 STRATEGIES BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME SET OF MEASURES THAT SHOW
01:22:36 WELL, WE STARTED DOING THIS IN FEBRUARY AND IT'S NOW JULY
01:22:41 AND WE'VE SEEN THAT NUMBER GO DOWN AND WE'RE NOT SURE IT'S
01:22:45 RELATED TO THE THING WE'RE DOING BUT IT MIGHT BE THAT
01:22:48 AND DO WE HAVE A SET OF THINGS RELATED TO DO WE HAVE ANY
01:22:52 MEASURE COMING OUT OF OUR USER ARREST THAT LEADS US TO BELIEVE
01:22:56 THAT IT IS WORTH USING SCARCE OFFICERS FOR THAT RATHER THAN
01:22:59 SOME OF THE OTHER ACTIVITIES WE MIGHT HAVE THEM DOING.
01:23:01 >> I THINK IT'S A LITTLE EARLY ON BECAUSE RESET HAS JUST
01:23:04 OPENED SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME TO SEE IF
01:23:07 ACTUALLY ACTIVITY ON THE STREET REDUCES ON THE DRUG USER SIDE
01:23:11 OF THE HOUSE. BUT YOU KNOW WE WE DO USE OUR
01:23:15 YOU KNOW SO WE WE DO USE OUR OFFICERS TO DO DRUG DEALING
01:23:19 ARRESTS AS WELL AND TO SHIFT INTO THE LATE NIGHTS AND ASK
01:23:23 THEM TO DO OVERNIGHT OPERATIONS.
01:23:27 SO WHEN I TALK ABOUT EBB AND FLOW OF OUR RESOURCES
01:23:31 AND STAFFING, YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S JUST IT DEPENDS ON HOW THE
01:23:35 STREETS LOOK TO BE HONEST. HOW LONG HAS RESET BEEN OPEN?
01:23:41 >> IT JUST OPENED IN APRIL. IT'S NOT IT'S SIX MONTHS.
01:23:46 YES. ROUGHLY.
01:23:49 >> OKAY. WHEN HOW LONG DO WE WHEN WHEN
01:23:50 WHEN WE START FEELING LIKE IT'S TIME TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF AN
01:23:53 ASSESSMENT OF HOW IT'S WORKING. >> SO I THINK CURRENTLY I MEAN
01:23:57 THERE'S I THINK IT'S IN PROGRESS REALLY IT'S
01:24:01 IN PROGRESS. I MEAN WE'RE THE FRONT LINE OF
01:24:02 RESET. SO I THINK IT'S LIKE AS WE
01:24:06 SPOKE I THINK IT'S A COLLECTIVE EFFORT BETWEEN ALL THE
01:24:07 DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN RESET TO SEE IF RESETS
01:24:10 REALLY WORKING ON THE BACK END. I THINK DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
01:24:13 HEALTH HAD MENTIONED SOME STATS AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE
01:24:17 CONVERSION RATE FROM PEOPLE THAT WERE BRINGING TO RESET
01:24:21 AND WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE INTO TREATMENT OR THINGS ALONG THOSE
01:24:24 LINES. SO YOU KNOW YOU KNOW PART OF ME
01:24:27 FEELS LIKE WE'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
01:24:31 >> WE JUST NEED TO HOLD COURSE AND WE NEED TO JUST BUY SOME
01:24:32 MORE TIME. >> ALL RIGHT.
01:24:39 I HAVE I, I FEEL BAD CONTINUE TO ASK YOU THIS QUESTION
01:24:42 BECAUSE I REALLY DON'T THINK I'M NOT SURE OR YOU MAY WELL BE
01:24:46 THE RIGHT PERSON TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION.
01:24:47 >> I FEEL LIKE MAYBE THE CHIEF I HAVE A FEELING IT MIGHT BE
01:24:48 SOMEONE IN THE IN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
01:24:50 I AM STRUGGLING WITH SORT OF LIKE THE BASIC QUESTION NOT AS
01:25:01 COMPARED TO 20 WHEN PRIOR TO DMX STARTED BECAUSE THINGS ARE
01:25:04 BAD. I MEAN THE WORLD YOU'VE JUST
01:25:07 LIKE THIS IS THIS IS WORKED BUT IN THE SORT OF YEAR TO YEAR
01:25:11 WHEN WHEN I GO BACK TO THE CASTRO AND MY CONSTITUENTS SAY
01:25:15 THINGS ARE WORSE SUPERVISOR THEY'RE WORSE THAN THEY WERE A
01:25:16 YEAR AND A HALF AGO AND I HAVE A HARD TIME AND SUPERVISOR
01:25:23 FIELDER DEFINITELY HAS A HARD TIME POINTING TO THE THING THAT
01:25:27 IS THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED TO IT.
01:25:28 WHY NOT SPEAKING FOR HIM BUT POINTING TO THE THINGS THAT
01:25:31 HAVE HAPPENED OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS WHERE YOU CAN TRACK
01:25:34 PROGRESS IN THE CITY OVERALL AROUND DRUGS?
01:25:38 DO WE HAVE A WAY OF THINKING CITYWIDE ABOUT HOW WE'RE DOING
01:25:44 ON STREET DRUG RELATED ACTIVITY AND DO WE HAVE A WAY OF
01:25:48 THINKING NEIGHBORHOOD BY NEIGHBORHOOD THINGS ARE GETTING
01:25:52 WORSE, THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER OR IS IT ALL GOT SO THE
01:25:59 TRACKING BY NEIGHBORHOOD BY NEIGHBORHOOD YOU KNOW FROM THE
01:26:05 POLICE DEPARTMENT WE OBVIOUSLY TRACK WE CAN TRACK 311
01:26:10 COMPLAINTS ON CLEANLINESS. >> OUR OFFICERS DO WORK WITH
01:26:15 DPW ON THAT. WE DO TRACK OUR ARRESTS.
01:26:18 >> BUT IF WE'RE WORKING IN ONE NEIGHBORHOOD AND NOT IN ANOTHER
01:26:20 NEIGHBORHOOD, IT THAT THOSE THAT DATA JUST MIGHT NOT BE A
01:26:22 TRUE DEPICTION OF WHAT'S HAPPENING IN CERTAIN
01:26:26 NEIGHBORHOODS IF WE'RE NOT THERE.
01:26:27 SO YOU KNOW, A LOT OF IT IS BASED ON US SCOUTING THE
01:26:33 STREETS AND LISTENING TO COMMUNITY AND THAT REALLY KIND
01:26:38 OF GUIDES US WHERE WE GO. >> I DO FEEL THAT WITHIN THE
01:26:44 LAST YEAR A LOT OF OUR FOCUS WAS DEALING WITH THESE GIGANTIC
01:26:49 CROWDS AND ONCE THESE CROWDS HAD HAVE BEEN BROKEN UP ONLINE
01:26:53 I THINK THERE MIGHT BE 2 OR 3 LOCATIONS LEFT THAT WE'RE
01:26:57 DEALING WITH. IT'S A NATURAL PROCESS THAT
01:27:00 THESE FOLKS JUST I WOULD SAY SCATTER MOVE AND I THINK THAT'S
01:27:07 WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT OR WHAT'S HAPPENING CURRENTLY CITYWIDE
01:27:11 RIGHT NOW IS THAT THERE ARE SMALLER POCKETS IN CERTAIN
01:27:15 NEIGHBORHOODS THAT FOLKS HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
01:27:18 THERE IS A BENEFIT TO THAT IN MY OPINION BECAUSE I THINK
01:27:21 IT'S A LOT EASIER FROM A POLICE DEPARTMENT AND FROM
01:27:23 NEIGHBORHOODS STREET TEAMS TO DEAL WITH SMALLER YOU KNOW,
01:27:26 SMALLER CONGREGATIONS OF FOLKS RATHER THAN THESE LARGE CROWDS.
01:27:30 WE GET REALLY STUCK WHEN WE'RE DEALING WITH LARGE CROWDS.
01:27:35 >> OKAY. I MAY HAVE MORE QUESTIONS BUT I
01:27:38 THINK MY COLLEAGUES HAVE A LOT SO I'LL GET OUT OF THE WAY FOR
01:27:39 NOW. >> THANK YOU.
01:27:41 AND VICE CHAIR MAHMOOD THANK YOU CHAIR SARTOR THANK YOU
01:27:45 PRESENT AGAIN FOR HOSTING THIS HEARING FOR A COUPLE OF
01:27:49 QUESTIONS ABOUT BOTH THE DEALERS AND THEN SOME METRICS
01:27:53 AND THEN WE'RE ON TO USER METRICS AS WELL.
01:27:56 >> THE QUESTION OF ARE DRUG DEALING ARRESTS HAVING GONE
01:28:00 DOWN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS? MY UNDERSTANDING HAVING LOOKED
01:28:02 AT THE DATA BUT CITYWIDE AND IN THE D-MAX OWNERS CITYWIDE IT'S
01:28:05 DOWN AS WELL I THINK ANSWER PRISON MAINTENANCE QUESTION ON
01:28:12 THAT COMPONENT AND I THINK I'VE BEEN ON LIKE 3 OR 4 RIDE ALONGS
01:28:16 THAT ONE WITH YOU COMMANDER BIGGS AS WELL AND ONE OF THE
01:28:20 THINGS I NOTICED CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG IS THAT PART OF IT IS
01:28:23 AS THE PRESIDENT AND YOU MENTIONED IS THAT THE THE HOURS
01:28:25 HAVE SHIFTED LATER AT NIGHT BUT ALSO THE STRATEGIES OF THESE
01:28:28 DEALERS HAVE SHIFTED. THEY'RE NOT IN IN CROWDS.
01:28:31 >> THEY'RE DOING DROPS AND THEN THEY LEAVE.
01:28:34 >> SO WOULD YOU SAY IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT THEY THEIR
01:28:37 STRATEGIES ADOPTED IT'S HARDER TO ARREST THEM AND THAT'S WHY
01:28:39 THE ARRESTS HAVE GONE DOWN CITYWIDE.
01:28:42 YEAH, I MEAN YEAH, OF COURSE. I MEAN IF IF IF DRUG DEALING
01:28:45 ISN'T BLATANT ON THE CORNER, YOU KNOW WE ARE SEEING DRUG
01:28:49 DEALING GOING INDOORS. WE'RE SEEING IT BEING DROPPED
01:28:53 OFF TO BAG HOLDERS OUT ON THE STREET SO YOU KNOW HOW IT ONCE
01:28:57 WAS IS DEFINITELY NOT HOW IT IS RIGHT NOW THE ACTUAL DYNAMICS
01:29:01 THEMSELVES. SO YOU KNOW ALL OF THAT ADDS TO
01:29:04 MAKING IT MORE DIFFICULT TO LOCATE AND FIND AND YOU KNOW,
01:29:07 MAKE MORE ARRESTS. >> AND THEN I MEAN OTHER
01:29:09 EVIDENCE OF THAT AS YOU MENTIONED, THE PRICE OF
01:29:12 FENTANYL HAS GONE UP FROM 20 TO $40.
01:29:13 THAT'S SUPPLY AND DEMAND MEANS THAT THE SUPPLY IS LESS THERE
01:29:16 AND THAT'S WHAT'S DRIVING UP THE PRICE.
01:29:19 IF YOU'RE SAYING THAT THE STRATEGY HAS SHIFT THE TACTICS
01:29:23 OF THE DEALERS HAVE SHIFTED. HOW HAS DEMAK STRATEGIES
01:29:27 SHIFTED TO CAPTURE THOSE DEALERS WITH THEIR NEW
01:29:31 STRATEGIES? WHAT ARE YOU DOING DIFFERENTLY
01:29:32 OR DO YOU STILL NEED TO FIND NEW THINGS TO DO DIFFERENTLY?
01:29:35 >> AND THAT'S THE OPEN QUESTION.
01:29:36 YEAH. SO WE'RE CONTINUING ON DOING
01:29:39 SPECIAL OPERATIONS OVERNIGHT WORKING INTO THE OVERNIGHT
01:29:42 HOURS. WE DO NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO
01:29:46 SHIFT MORE OFFICERS TO OUR NIGHTTIME THE DAYTIME HOURS TO
01:29:54 DEAL WITH DRUG TRAFFICKING. WE DO NOT CURRENTLY HAVE A
01:29:57 NARCOTICS TO A PART OF THE NARCOTICS UNIT THAT WORKS A
01:30:01 MIDNIGHT SHIFT. WHY NOT?
01:30:05 IT'S WE HAVE WE HAVE 14 OFFICERS THAT WORK AT NARCOTICS
01:30:08 AND THEY ALSO HAVE TO DEAL WITH HIGHER LEVEL INVESTIGATIONS.
01:30:12 WE ALSO WORK WITH THE FEDERAL OUR FEDERAL PARTNERS TO DEAL
01:30:16 WITH MORE SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES .
01:30:19 ALL OF THE YOU KNOW, THE SEARCH WARRANTS, THE ARREST WARRANTS
01:30:21 ALL OF THAT WORK TAKES TIME. SO IF WE WERE TO COMPLETELY
01:30:27 REMOVE OUR NARCOTICS DIVISION TO THE MIDNIGHT HOURS, THEN WE
01:30:32 WOULD LOSE A LOT OF THAT EXTRA INVESTIGATIVE WORK THAT THEY'RE
01:30:35 DOING. >> AND SO IT A QUESTION OF
01:30:36 HIRING MORE OFFICERS TO BE THERE AND DOING TO AND CIVIL
01:30:39 SERVICE COMMISSION RULES ABOUT HOURS THEY'RE ALLOWED TO WORK
01:30:41 LIKE WHAT ARE THE CHANGES THAT NEED TO HAPPEN YEAH SO WE CAN
01:30:44 VOLUNTARILY ASK THEM TO PUSH THEIR HOURS PAST THREE HOURS
01:30:47 IN EITHER DIRECTION OF THEIR SHIFT AND YOU KNOW IT'S
01:30:55 AND IT'S ALSO HIRE THE HIRING WE NEED MORE OFFICERS IF WE HAD
01:30:56 MORE OFFICERS THAN WE COULD THEN OBVIOUSLY WE COULD, YOU
01:30:59 KNOW, DEPLOY MORE OFFICERS OR EVEN HAVE A NIGHTTIME TEAM.
01:31:02 >> I THINK A NIGHTTIME TEAM WOULD BE GREAT.
01:31:04 SO JUST TO CLARIFY, YOU DON'T HAVE A NIGHTTIME NARCOTICS
01:31:07 TEAM. >> WE DO NOT CURRENTLY WE HAVE
01:31:10 A NIGHTTIME ENFORCEMENT TEAM BUT THEY ARE NOT YOU KNOW,
01:31:11 THEY'RE THEY'RE YOUNGER OFFICERS AND WE YOU KNOW, THEY
01:31:14 WE BASICALLY USE THEM AS A MAINTENANCE TEAM TO KIND OF
01:31:18 HELP HOLD US OVER AND ADDRESS CROWDS ON CERTAIN CORNERS
01:31:21 OVERNIGHT. >> HOW MANY NIGHTTIME NARCOTICS
01:31:24 OFFICERS DO YOU THINK YOU'D NEED TO MAKE A REASONABLE TEN?
01:31:26 >> I WOULD SAY PROBABLY ANOTHER 14.
01:31:29 >> 14. OKAY.
01:31:32 AND I MUST BE CURIOUS ON THE THE THE PRICE OF FENTANYL.
01:31:34 YOU MENTIONED DOUBLED. DO YOU HAVE A HYPOTHESIS ON
01:31:37 WHAT THAT PRICE WOULD HAVE TO BE TO FUNDAMENTALLY START TO
01:31:41 SHUT DOWN SAY THE USER SIDE WHERE IT GETS TOO EXPENSIVE FOR
01:31:45 THEM TO BUY? I DO NOT OKAY NOT IT I MEAN
01:31:49 OBVIOUSLY THE LARGER I MEAN YOU KNOW, THE MORE EXPENSIVE IT IS
01:31:53 THAN THE YOU KNOW IT WOULD BE A LOT MORE DIFFICULT FOR FOLKS TO
01:31:56 PURCHASE. >> YES.
01:31:59 YOU KNOW ABOUT IT. I DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC NUMBER
01:32:01 I UNDERSTOOD AND ALSO THE DEALER THE REST A LITTLE BIT
01:32:04 AND CURIOUS HOW MANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING ARRESTED
01:32:08 HAVE BEEN ARRESTED BEFORE REPEAT OFFENDERS THAT YOU'RE
01:32:11 FINDING? UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK I MIGHT
01:32:15 HAVE IT WITH ME A SECOND HERE. YOU KNOW I DON'T HAVE IT IT'S A
01:32:29 LOT THERE ARE THERE ARE A LOT OF FOLKS BOTH ON THE DEALER
01:32:33 SIDE AND ON THE USER SIDE THAT ARE REPEAT OFFENDERS AND ARE
01:32:36 YOU OFTEN CATCHING SOME OF THOSE DEALERS?
01:32:37 >> MY UNDERSTANDING IS I THINK ONLY 10% OF DEALERS THAT ARE
01:32:41 ARRESTED IN THE BEING PROSECUTOR ACTUALLY HELD.
01:32:43 ARE YOU FINDING THAT A LOT OF THE FOLKS THAT YOU ARREST ARE
01:32:48 THE PEOPLE THAT ALREADY HAVE ACTIVE CHARGES THAT WERE NOT
01:32:49 THAT ARE PENDING PENDING PROSECUTION OR THEY WERE
01:32:52 ALREADY PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED AND LET OUT?
01:32:54 YES. WHICH ONE?
01:32:55 SORRY. OH, THE FIRST ONE I'M SORRY.
01:32:56 YOU SO THEY'RE JUST AWAITING TRIAL FOR ANOTHER.
01:32:59 >> YEAH, I CATCH THEM AGAIN. YEAH, UNDERSTOOD.
01:33:01 >> MULTIPLE CASES AND THEN SHIFTING A LITTLE BIT THEN TO
01:33:09 THE ON THE USER SIDE FOR FOR RESET CENTER THE ONCE THE RESET
01:33:16 CENTER OPENED WHAT IS THE AVERAGE DAILY OCCUPANCY BEEN
01:33:24 COMPARED TO OVERALL CAPACITY ON A TYPICAL DAY HOW MANY BEDS ARE
01:33:31 GOING UNUSED SO WE HAVE THE NUMBERS.
01:33:38 I DON'T HAVE THEM WITH ME. I CAN ALWAYS GET THOSE NUMBERS
01:33:40 FOR YOU BUT WHAT I CAN SAY IS THAT DURING DAYTIME HOURS IS A
01:33:48 LOT EASIER FOR US TO FILL RESET THAN IT IS OVERNIGHT JUST
01:33:51 BECAUSE IT'S A RESOURCE THING AND IT'S A STAFFING THING SO
01:33:53 THAT THE MAC ENFORCEMENT TEAM THAT I TALK ABOUT OVERNIGHT
01:33:56 ALSO DOES SOME RESET AS WELL. BUT YOU KNOW I THINK THE YOU
01:34:03 KNOW OUR PERCENTAGE CAPACITY RATE WAS A LITTLE BIT LOWER A
01:34:07 COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO. WE'VE READJUSTED SOME
01:34:08 DEPLOYMENT AND JUST RECENTLY I THINK WE'VE BEEN INCREASING
01:34:15 CAPACITY A DPS CONSULTANT AND TAKING THESE QUESTIONS YEAH
01:34:19 THEY MIGHT BE SIMULTANEOUS I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY'RE GOING TO
01:34:21 BE DIRECTED TO SO I KNOW I WANT TO GET MORE SPECIFIC LIKE HOW
01:34:26 MANY BAD ON AN AVERAGE DAY HOW MANY BEDS ARE ACTUALLY OCCUPIED
01:34:31 AND HOW MANY BEDS ARE NOT AND ARE THERE DAYS WHERE YOU'RE
01:34:32 AT FULL CAPACITY THE WHOLE DAY OR EVEN AT SOME POINT DURING
01:34:35 THE DAY? OKAY, SURE.
01:34:42 THIS IS DAN I DO WANT TO THE SHERIFF'S NOT TEAR THE RESET
01:34:46 CENTER IS CONTRACTED AND MANAGED THROUGH THE
01:34:47 SHERIFF'S OFFICE BUT I'M LOOKING WE WE HELP SUPPORT
01:34:50 CONNECTIONS TO CARE ON THE BACK END SO THAT THAT IS THE
01:34:54 DEPARTMENT'S ROLE AND SO WE CAN FOLLOW UP ON THE EXACT AVERAGES
01:34:58 BUT I KNOW I'M LOOKING AT IN SEPTEMBER I CAN'T SEE EVERY
01:35:05 LINE HERE BUT SOME DAILY DAILY ARRIVALS PEOPLE BEING BROUGHT
01:35:15 BETWEEN 1520 AND 3036 DAY THAT'S OUT OF 2425 BEDS.
01:35:22 PEOPLE STAY FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, SOMETIMES EIGHT, NINE
01:35:24 HOURS AND SO THAT'S WHAT I SEE IN THE DASHBOARD.
01:35:29 BUT I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON THE
01:35:33 EXACT NUMBERS AS A PERCENTAGE BASIS, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY THAT
01:35:37 IT'S FULL HALF THE TIME NEVER IT WAS A STANDARD THAT ACTUALLY
01:35:44 QUANTIFIED SOME OF THIS. >> I WANT TO DEFER TO THE
01:35:46 SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON THE EXAM. THEY WEREN'T CALLED TO THIS
01:35:48 HEARING EXACT NUMBERS WE WE THINK ABOUT THE CONNECTIONS TO
01:35:51 CARE THE MANAGEMENT OF THE SPACE IN THAT CONTRACT IS WITH
01:35:55 THE SHERIFF SO I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF.
01:35:59 >> COULD EITHER OF YOU QUALIFY AND I MEAN SAY THAT IT IS NOT
01:36:03 IS IT BEING FULLY OCCUPIED OR IS IT NOT?
01:36:06 >> I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN PROBABLY WHAT I CAN TELL
01:36:08 YOU FROM KNOWING FROM THE CLINICAL STUFF ON THE BACK END
01:36:10 THERE ARE MOMENTS OF THE DAY WHEN THE WHEN IT'S COMPLETELY
01:36:13 FILLED AND THEN THERE ARE MOMENTS OF THE DAY WHEN IT IS
01:36:15 NOT IT DEPENDS ON HOURS OF THE DAY AND SO ON.
01:36:18 BUT THAT EXACT DETAIL I REALLY WOULD HAVE TO DEFER TO THE
01:36:22 SHERIFF'S OFFICE. >> THANK YOU.
01:36:23 UNDERSTOOD. >> ONCE RESETS WE'VE HEARD A
01:36:28 LITTLE BIT ABOUT DISPLACEMENT INTO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS AND IT
01:36:33 SEEMS A LOT OF WE'VE NOTICED DISPLACEMENT INTO HIS VALLEY OR
01:36:40 NOT. WE'VE HEARD MISSION.
01:36:41 I'M CURIOUS WHETHER IN YOUR OPINION, COMMANDER, THE ARE
01:36:48 USERS ADOPTING TO THE BOUNDARIES OF RESET CENTER WE
01:36:52 TALKED A LOT ABOUT DEALER IS ADAPTING TO THE MAX ZONE DO YOU
01:36:55 FIND USERS ARE ADAPTING THEIR BEHAVIOR TO THE RESET SO I HAVE
01:36:59 HEARD FROM OFFICERS OUT ON THE STREET THAT ARE DOING THE WORK
01:37:03 THAT THEY'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH FOLKS OUTSIDE OF THE RESET
01:37:11 AREA THAT THEY DO NOT WANT TO GO TO THAT AREA BECAUSE THEY DO
01:37:15 NOT WANT TO BE ARRESTED AND GO TO RESET.
01:37:17 AND WOULD YOU SAY YOU'VE YOU'VE HEARD AN INCREASE IN THAT KIND
01:37:21 OF MIGRATION OF USERS SINCE THE RESET CENTER OPENED EFFECTIVELY
01:37:25 AND CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS? >> YEAH I MEAN YEAH IT'S LIKE
01:37:29 IT'S LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE I MEAN ACTIVITY SHIFTS WHEN YOU
01:37:30 FOCUS ON A LOT OF EFFORTS INTO ONE AREA.
01:37:33 >> SO BASED ON THAT WOULD YOU CONSIDER IT A PRUDENT DECISION
01:37:37 AND GOES FOR MAYBE AS WELL TO MAYBE HAVE A DEDICATED TEAM
01:37:43 GOING CITYWIDE TO BRING PEOPLE TO RESET IN THAT CONTEXT?
01:37:50 I MEAN FROM YOU KNOW I THINK FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S
01:37:54 POINT OF VIEW IS THAT WE THINK THAT WE THINK THAT RESET IS A
01:37:58 GREAT TOOL AND ANY TYPE OF EXPANSION TO BRING MORE PEOPLE
01:38:02 TO RESET IS WOULD BE BENEFICIAL.
01:38:05 >> WHAT WOULD THAT TAKE OPERATIONALLY WE WERE TALKING
01:38:09 ABOUT FOR DEALING ARRESTS YOU HAVE STAFFING AT 14.
01:38:12 WHAT WOULD IT TAKE EITHER FROM YOUR TEAM OR FROM HIS TEAM OR
01:38:16 THE SHERIFF'S TEAM TO MAKE THAT OPERATIONAL?
01:38:17 YEAH, I MEAN WE WOULD JUST WE WOULD WE WOULD USE CURRENT
01:38:21 EXISTING STAFFING AND LIKE OUR TEAMS THAT WE HAVE TO TO HELP
01:38:27 SUPPORT IT WOULD ALSO OPEN YOU KNOW I MEAN OBVIOUSLY IF IT WAS
01:38:31 YOU KNOW IN A LARGER GEOGRAPHICAL AREA THEN WE COULD
01:38:34 LEVERAGE MORE OF OUR PATROL FORCE AS WELL BECAUSE THEY I'M
01:38:38 SURE THESE OFFICERS ARE RUNNING IN TO PEOPLE UNDER THE
01:38:42 INFLUENCE IN OTHER DISTRICTS IN THEIR DISTRICT STATIONS THAT
01:38:46 THEY REALLY DON'T HAVE A TOOL TO DEAL WITH THESE FOLKS ON
01:38:49 WHICH I THINK WOULD GO TO ACTIVITY SHIFTING AND PEOPLE
01:38:53 MOVING AROUND AND THINGS ALONG THOSE LINES JUST TO LAST
01:38:57 QUESTION MORE OF THE KIND OF WHEN YOU GO TO FIND SOMEONE WHO
01:39:02 NEEDS TO BE TAKING THE RESET CENTER, ONE THING WE'VE OFTEN
01:39:05 HEARD IS THAT SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO TAKE SOMEONE BECAUSE
01:39:08 THEY EITHER HAVE A PET OR OTHER BELONGINGS AND RESOURCES THAT
01:39:13 ARE INTERESTING DOESN'T ALLOW PEOPLE TO COME THERE IF THEY
01:39:16 HAVE A PET OR ACTUALLY POTENTIALLY ANY FACILITY.
01:39:19 >> I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S TRUE. WHAT HAVE OFFICERS FOCUSED ON
01:39:24 PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE DOGS OR THEIR BELONGINGS TO BRING THEM
01:39:27 IN IF IF THEY'D HOW WOULD YOU THINK ABOUT MAYBE
01:39:28 ACCOMMODATIONS FOR THOSE WHO DO IN AN ADAPTATION OF THIS POLICY
01:39:34 ? YEAH, I MEAN I DON'T WANT TO
01:39:36 SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT IN THEIR
01:39:39 OPERATION HOW IT WORKS BUT I MEAN I DO KNOW THAT AT ONE
01:39:42 POINT IN TIME EARLY ON WE WERE HAVING AN ISSUE OF HOW MANY HOW
01:39:46 HOW LARGE OF SOMEONE'S BELONGINGS LIKE SO 25 POUNDS
01:39:50 WORTH OF STUFF. AND I THINK WE'VE MADE
01:39:52 ADJUSTMENTS TO THAT. SO YOU KNOW, ANYTHING THAT
01:39:53 WOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR US TO BRING SOMEBODY TO RESET WE
01:40:00 WOULD ALWAYS FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS SIDE BUT ALWAYS ARE
01:40:05 OPEN TO THOSE CONVERSATIONS. >> OKAY, UNDERSTOOD.
01:40:08 NEXT QUESTIONS ARE FOR FOR THAT ON ON TREATMENT AT THE RESEARCH
01:40:13 CENTER SPECIFICALLY IF SOMEONE WANTS BUPRENORPHINE, WHAT
01:40:19 HAPPENS NEXT ONCE THEY GET TO THE RESEARCH CENTER?
01:40:20 ARE THERE BOTTLENECKS ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE IT SEEMS LIKE A GOOD
01:40:24 DRUG TO HELP KEEP GOOD TREATMENT TO GET PEOPLE OFF OF
01:40:27 WITHDRAWAL. >> WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT STEPS
01:40:31 OR WHAT ARE THE RESTRICTIONS TO ENABLING THAT TO BE POSSIBLE?
01:40:35 >> SURE. SO I APPRECIATE THE QUESTION.
01:40:36 SO OVERALL, I MEAN ONE OF OUR STRATEGIES AND GOALS HAS BEEN
01:40:38 AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE IN THE STREETS CLINICS,
01:40:42 SHELTERS, PERMITS, SUPPORTIVE HOUSING, GETTING FOLKS
01:40:46 MEDICATION THAT'S OUT THERE BUPRENORPHINE, ESPECIALLY LONG
01:40:49 ACTING INJECTABLES WHERE WE'VE HAD A HUGE INCREASE IN THE PAST
01:40:53 6 TO 9 MONTHS AND THEN METHADONE THOSE ARE THE TWO
01:40:55 GOLD STANDARD EVIDENCE BASED MEDICATIONS FOR THAT AT RESET
01:40:59 WHEN SOMEONE EVERYONE TWO PEOPLE ARE OFFERED AND ASKED TO
01:41:04 ENGAGE, WE WILL GET THEM OVER TO A RANGE OF OUR CLINICS TO
01:41:11 PROVIDE BUPRENORPHINE. WE ARE I WOULD NOTE THERE ARE
01:41:14 SOME STATE RESTRICTIONS AT THE MOMENT THAT PREVENT US FROM
01:41:18 BEING ABLE TO STORE BUPRENORPHINE WHICH IS A DEA
01:41:23 FEDERALLY CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE EITHER AT RESET OR WE'VE ALSO
01:41:27 WANTED TO HAVE SUPPLY AVAILABLE IN SHELTER CLINICS OR
01:41:33 IN SETTINGS CLOSER TO WHERE SOME OF THE STREET TEAMS ARE.
01:41:37 WE HAVE MADE A NUMBER OF ASKS OF THE STATE FOR WAIVERS
01:41:41 AND FLEXIBILITY SO WE CONTINUE TO PURSUE THAT IN THE MEANWHILE
01:41:45 WE'RE GETTING FOLKS OVER TO EITHER 1380 HOWARD OR TO A
01:41:48 RANGE OF OTHER SITES. WE HAVE TO DIRECTLY START
01:41:51 BUPRENORPHINE AND ALSO METHADONE.
01:41:52 >> WHAT ARE SOME OF THOSE STATE RESTRICTIONS?
01:41:55 THERE ARE A RANGE OF THEM BUT BASICALLY WITHOUT GETTING INTO
01:41:59 TOO MUCH TECHNICAL DETAIL, UNLESS WE'RE RUNNING A CLINIC
01:42:05 PHARMACY AT ONE OF OUR MAJOR CLINICS WITH CERTAIN
01:42:09 REQUIREMENTS FOR THOSE WE CANNOT HAVE A STACK OF
01:42:12 MEDICATION AVAILABLE THERE. SO IF YOU WERE TO WALK IN TO
01:42:16 EITHER A SHELTER CLINIC OR THE RESET SITE AND YOU WERE TO WANT
01:42:21 BUPRENORPHINE, WE CAN'T HAVE SUPPLY THERE.
01:42:24 WE WOULD HAVE TO LIKE CALL THE PHARMACY DISPENSE THE LONG
01:42:29 ACTING INJECTABLE FROM THE LICENSED CLINIC PHARMACY, GET
01:42:33 IT OVER TO THE SITE WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL IS THERE RANGE OF
01:42:37 LIMITATIONS. ONE OF THAT INCLUDES THE
01:42:38 AVAILABILITY OF A SINK AND A MED STORAGE ROOM AND A RANGE OF
01:42:40 OTHER THINGS. BUT WE ARE PUSHING HARD WITH
01:42:44 THE STATE TO GET SOME MORE FLEXIBILITY BECAUSE IT'S COMMON
01:42:45 SENSE TO WANT TO GET MEDS CLOSER TO WHERE PEOPLE ARE WHEN
01:42:49 THEY WANT TO START THAT MEDICATION.
01:42:52 SO BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A KITCHEN SINK THE STATE WON'T
01:42:56 ALLOW YOU TO PRESCRIBE IT'S THAT IS RIGHT AND IT'S IN THE
01:42:59 CALIFORNIA BUILDING CODE. WE'VE ASKED FOR SPECIFIC
01:43:03 WAIVERS OF THAT. WE HAVE HAD THREE DISCUSSIONS
01:43:06 WITH THE STATE SO FAR ON THAT EXACT TOPIC ON THE METRICS YOU
01:43:11 MENTIONED GETTING PEOPLE TO TREATMENT OF THE PEOPLE WHO
01:43:14 COME TO THE RESET CENTER. HOW MANY ACTUALLY GET TO
01:43:18 TREATMENT START MEDICATION? >> DO YOU HAVE THOSE NUMBERS?
01:43:22 >> SURE. WE HAVE HIGH LEVEL NUMBERS
01:43:23 ROUGHLY BETWEEN DEPENDING ON THE TIME PERIOD AND THERE'S
01:43:26 SOME DATA CLEANING GOING ON BETWEEN 25 TO 35% OF FOLKS THAT
01:43:30 ARE BROUGHT TO RESET ARE ACTUALLY NOT JUST GETTING
01:43:37 OFFERED SOME SERVICES BUT ARE AGREEING TO SERVICES AND THEN
01:43:41 WITHIN THE DEEP AND SOME OF THOSE ARE REFERRED TO THINGS
01:43:45 NOT IN THE SYSTEM AND INCLUDING CERTAIN SHELTER PIECES BUT
01:43:49 WITHIN THE SERVICE SYSTEM A FAIR AMOUNT LIKE WE ARE ALSO
01:43:53 TRACKING GETTING THOSE PEOPLE DIRECTLY INTO CARE.
01:43:56 AND I WOULD SAY TWO THINGS VERY TRANSPARENTLY AGAIN OUR ROLE AT
01:44:00 THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS ON THE BACKEND CONNECTING PEOPLE INTO
01:44:04 CARE AND MAKING SURE THERE'S A WELCOMING CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT
01:44:05 TO HELP PEOPLE MOVE FORWARD. SO THAT'S THE HEALTH
01:44:08 DEPARTMENT'S ROLE IN THIS. WE HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS THAT ARE
01:44:11 GETTING INTO A RANGE OF OUR CLINICAL SETTINGS AND TREATMENT
01:44:15 SETTINGS. WE ALSO HAVE SEEN WE DO HAVE
01:44:18 TRANSPORTATION ISSUES THAT WE NEED TO RESOLVE AND WHAT MORE
01:44:22 APPROACHES TO TO LITERALLY PHYSICALLY BE ABLE TO TAKE
01:44:23 SOMEONE WHO'S READY FOR TREATMENT AT THAT MOMENT TO GET
01:44:26 THEM TO THE NEXT PHYSICAL LOCATION VERSUS A RANGE OF
01:44:30 THINGS THAT COULD HAPPEN BETWEEN WHEN THIS PERSON SAYS
01:44:31 YES, I WANT TREATMENT AND THERE'S NOT ACTUALLY
01:44:35 TRANSPORTATION TO TAKE THEM THERE.
01:44:38 LAST SET OF QUESTIONS I'LL ASK AND THE CONTEXT OF POLICY BOTH
01:44:42 FOR PD AND FOR WHAT CAN THE BOARD DO?
01:44:49 AS I'VE HEARD TODAY THAT WE NEED MORE HELP WITH MORE
01:44:53 NARCOTICS OFFICERS AS ONE STRATEGY POTENTIALLY EXPANDING
01:44:59 RESET TO CITYWIDE MAYBE SOME CHANGES TO STATE POLICY
01:45:04 AND RESPECT FOR SUPPLIES RESIDENCY I KNOW THERE MIGHT BE
01:45:07 HIS DISTRICT AND SO I'M BE IN COLLABORATION WITH THAT.
01:45:08 WERE THE RESEARCH CENTERS TODAY BUT WHAT CAN THE BOARD DO ON
01:45:11 SOME OF THESE ASSETS? SO I WOULD JUST WANT TO
01:45:15 ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE BOARD HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL
01:45:18 AND SUPPORTIVE IN THE BUDGET THAT WE WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
01:45:22 HAVE BEEN PROPOSING AND USING TO DATE.
01:45:26 WE HAVE EXPAND EXPANDED OVER 200 TREATMENT BEDS.
01:45:30 WE HAVE INCREASED A HUGE AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT IN BEING ABLE TO
01:45:34 GET MEDICATIONS TO FOLKS. THE GOAL IS GET FOLKS TREATMENT
01:45:38 AND REDUCE THE BARRIERS TO TREATMENT.
01:45:39 SO A LOT OF BUDGET INVESTMENTS INCLUDING PROP C FUNDING HAVE
01:45:42 BEEN USED TO EXPAND ACTUAL TREATMENT AND CLINICAL
01:45:46 CAPACITY. SO THAT SLIDE WE PUT UP EARLIER
01:45:50 THAT SHOWS THAT STRAIGHT LINE UP THAT IS WHAT WE WANT TO SEE
01:45:53 . IF WE SAW A FLAT LINE OF
01:45:54 TREATMENT WE'D SAY WE NEED TO RETHINK SOME OF THE THINGS.
01:45:58 I WOULD ALSO SAY AS AREAS OF CONTINUED OPPORTUNITY THE GOAL
01:46:01 IS NOT JUST TO GET PEOPLE INTO TREATMENT.
01:46:05 WE NEED TO HELP PEOPLE PROGRESS ON THAT JOURNEY AND SO STICKING
01:46:09 ON THE MEDICATIONS IS ONE AND THAT'S ALSO WHY WE'VE
01:46:12 OPENED A RANGE OF WHAT WE CALL RESIDENTIAL STEPDOWN FACILITIES
01:46:16 INCLUDING ONE IN THE MARINA WHERE PEOPLE THAT GRADUATE FROM
01:46:20 DRUG TREATMENT ACTUALLY HAVE 12, 18, 24 MONTHS OF STABILITY
01:46:24 TO CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO GET BACK ON THEIR FEET INSTEAD OF
01:46:28 FOLKS GOING RIGHT BACK TO STRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT FOR
01:46:32 ASKING THE SAME QUESTION LIKE WHAT IS THE METRICS ON PEOPLE
01:46:35 WHO COME OUT OF RESETS AND ARE GETTING TREATMENT PERMANENTLY
01:46:38 STAYING CLEAN? I MEAN THAT'S THE ULTIMATE
01:46:39 SUCCESS METRIC. DO YOU HAVE METRICS ON THE
01:46:43 SUCCESS AND HOW DO YOU MEASURE THAT OF PEOPLE PERMANENTLY
01:46:46 GETTING SO WE'D LOVE TO BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT I WILL SAY THERE
01:46:51 IS NOBODY IN THE COUNTRY AND WE HOPE TO INNOVATE AND LEAD THE
01:46:53 WAY HERE ON THAT THAT HAS ANY IN THE HEALTH CARE SPACE ANY
01:46:55 VALIDATED QUALITY MEASURE SET THAT TALKS ABOUT LONGITUDINALLY
01:47:01 THAT QUESTION OUR TEAM IS LOOKING AT THAT IN A RANGE OF
01:47:02 WAYS BUT NONE OF THE NATIONAL BODIES HAVE COME UP WITH A GOOD
01:47:06 METRIC ON THAT. THAT SAID, WE TRACK THAT BY
01:47:09 SEEING PEOPLE MOVE FROM ONE SETTING OF TREATMENT TO ANOTHER
01:47:12 AND STAY ENGAGED IN TREATMENT. SO USUALLY THAT IS OVER A 12,
01:47:15 1824 MONTH PERIOD OF TIME THAT USUALLY WHAT IS THAT RETENTION
01:47:19 RATE RIGHT NOW DO YOU KNOW AND HAS IT IMPROVED IN THE LAST
01:47:21 SIX MONTHS FROM RESET? AGAIN, THE TIME FRAME THAT YOU
01:47:26 LOOK AT THAT IS USUALLY 1218 TO 24 MONTHS OUT AND SO I THINK
01:47:30 WE'RE EARLY ON THAT PACE. WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS RECENT
01:47:33 EFFORTS WE'VE HAD TO REALLY PIONEER SOME OF THE LONG ACTING
01:47:37 INJECTABLE BUPRENORPHINE HAS REALLY INCREASED PEOPLE'S
01:47:43 ABILITY TO STAY ON THE MEDICATION INSTEAD OF HAVING TO
01:47:44 TAKE MEDICATION YOU KNOW, TAKE IT EVERY SINGLE DAY.
01:47:48 THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF A VERY SUCCESSFUL INCREASE
01:47:51 IN RETENTION THAT WE'VE SEEN AND THEN PD WHAT CAN WE DO TO
01:47:53 HELP FROM THE BOARD? YOU KNOW, I THINK LIKE DIRECTOR
01:48:01 SCI HAD ALSO MENTIONED I THINK WE'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF SUPPORT
01:48:02 FROM THE BOARD. YOU KNOW OBVIOUSLY OBVIOUSLY
01:48:05 REALLY YOU KNOW BUDGET IS REALLY A BIG DEAL FOR US AS
01:48:10 WELL. WE ARE YOU KNOW WE ARE VERY
01:48:13 SHORT ON STAFFING. WE DO HAVE OBVIOUSLY OVERTIME
01:48:16 TO HELP SUPPORT THAT AS WELL. YOU KNOW YOU KNOW REALLY I
01:48:23 THINK THERE ARE POTENTIALLY SOME THINGS LEGISLATIVELY THAT
01:48:27 CAN HAPPEN. YOU KNOW THERE ARE THINGS THAT
01:48:34 YOU KNOW, THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE CURRENTLY ALREADY IN PLACE
01:48:38 THAT ARE PILOT PROGRAMS THAT WE'RE RUNNING.
01:48:39 WE DO BELIEVE THAT THE EXTENSION OF SOME OF THESE
01:48:42 PRIVATE PILOT PROGRAMS COULD BE BENEFICIAL TO CONTINUE ON.
01:48:45 YOU KNOW, THE BUSINESS LEGISLATION IS AN EXAMPLE OF
01:48:50 ONE YOU KNOW, REALLY IT'S REALLY YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY
01:48:54 JUST BEING SUPPORTIVE IN YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO HIRE MORE COPS
01:48:58 IS REALLY WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AND YOU KNOW IF WE HIRE MORE
01:49:02 COPS WE CAN DO MORE THINGS. >> THANK YOU SO MUCH QUESTIONS
01:49:06 THANK YOU BOTH CHAIR AND SUPERVISOR DORSEY GREAT.
01:49:09 >> THANK YOU CHAIR SORTER AND THANK YOU SUPERVISOR
01:49:13 MACLEOD. >> VICE CHAIR MACLEOD FOR YOUR
01:49:16 QUESTIONS. >> I WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE
01:49:17 ASKING A BIT ABOUT THE RESEARCH CENTER AS WELL.
01:49:20 I TOOK A LOOK AT THE THE DASHBOARD THROUGH REC SO THE
01:49:24 MOST THE LATEST NUMBER IS THAT THROUGH MAY 4TH THROUGH OCTOBER
01:49:30 8TH INCLUSIVE THERE ARE 158 CALENDARED DAY IS 2345
01:49:36 ADMISSIONS IT'S ABOUT JUST UNDER 15 ADMISSIONS PER DAY.
01:49:39 >> SO IF I'M DOING THE MATH RIGHT, THE RESET CAPACITY
01:49:43 SHOULD BE ABOUT FOUR TIMES THAT NUMBER.
01:49:46 I THINK THE HIGH END WOULD BE FIVE TIMES.
01:49:47 BUT AS A PRACTICAL MATTER LET'S SAY FOUR TIMES THAT NUMBER,
01:49:53 THERE'S CLEARLY BEEN OBSTACLES TO FILLING THAT CAN I ASK YOU
01:49:56 AND I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO TALK ABOUT THE RESET CENTER AND ITS
01:49:58 OPERATIONS BUT THE PORTION THAT YOU CAN TALK ABOUT IS WHAT IS
01:50:01 THE OBSTACLE TO MAKING MORE CUSTODIAL INTERVENTIONS TO GET
01:50:04 MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE ENGAGING IN PUBLIC DRUG USE INTO THE
01:50:09 RESET CENTER STAFFING. OKAY.
01:50:15 >> OKAY. IT'S STAFFING REALLY I MEAN
01:50:17 CURRENTLY WE YOU KNOW CURRENTLY WHAT WE'RE USING IS YOU KNOW,
01:50:20 WE USE A CADRE OF DIFFERENT UNITS TO DO THE RESET WORK SO
01:50:26 WE'RE YOU KNOW, WE YOU KNOW, WE USE OUR NARCOTICS AND FORCE I
01:50:28 MEAN OUR NARCOTICS INVESTIGATIVE TEAM WE USE OUR
01:50:30 DEMARK ENFORCEMENT UNITS. WE USE OUR H.R.
01:50:34 COPS BECAUSE THESE ARE ALL OF THE FOLKS THAT WORK FOR DMCC
01:50:38 THAT COME INTO CONTACT WITH THESE FOLKS ON A DAILY BASIS.
01:50:42 SO YOU KNOW, WE'VE TRAINED SOUTHERN STATION YOU KNOW WE'VE
01:50:46 TRAINED SOUTHERN STATION OFFICERS TO DO RESET AS WELL
01:50:50 WOULD WE'D LIKE TO SEE MORE COME FROM SOUTHERN STATION.
01:50:55 YES WE WOULD BUT YOU KNOW THEY ARE BOUND TO CALLS FOR SERVICE
01:50:58 AND THERE ARE A LOT OF CALLS FOR SERVICE IN SOUTHERN SO THEY
01:51:01 DO DO WHAT THEY CAN WHEN THEY CAN DO IT.
01:51:02 BUT THE LION'S SHARE OF, YOU KNOW, RESORT RESET CONNECTIONS
01:51:09 COME FROM DEMAK. >> IS THERE ANY OTHER CAVALRY
01:51:10 TO BE HAD? IS THERE DEPUTY SHERIFFS WHO
01:51:13 COULD BE EMPOWERED TO MAKE ARRESTS UNDER 647 F FOR CADETS
01:51:17 OR YOU KNOW, I'M JUST JUST THINKING CREATIVELY WHAT WOULD
01:51:21 IT IF WE WERE TO ENDEAVOR TO MAKE MORE ARRESTS SO SHERIFF'S
01:51:30 DEPARTMENT KENNELS ALREADY DO DO THAT SO THEY CAN MAKE
01:51:35 ARRESTS FOR 647 F AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE WHICH THEY DO THEY DO
01:51:39 HAVE A SMALL TEAM OF DEPUTIES ASSIGNED TO DEMAK THAT GO OUT
01:51:45 AND DO DO SOME OF THAT WORK AS WELL.
01:51:49 I'M NOT I DON'T THINK CADETS WE COULD DO ANYTHING ON THE CADETS
01:51:52 FRONT. I MEAN OBVIOUSLY YOU'D HAVE TO
01:51:53 BE A SWORN PEACE OFFICER IN ORDER TO MAKE A YOU KNOW,
01:51:56 MAKE A YOU KNOW, PHYSICAL ARREST OF SOMEBODY.
01:52:00 >> OKAY. THIS MIGHT BE A QUESTION FOR
01:52:01 DIRECTOR CY GIVEN THAT I MEAN ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I
01:52:08 ACTUALLY ME FRAME THIS THIS WAY I'M A FAN OF THE RESET CENTER
01:52:12 AND I HAVE BEEN I THINK I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR MY
01:52:19 TIME HERE IN MY VIEW IN THE DRUG POLICY REALM WE'RE NOW
01:52:23 IN THE SYNTHETIC DRUG ERA AND I THINK THAT THE INTERVENTIONS
01:52:27 THAT MIGHT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE BACK IN THE GOOD OLD
01:52:31 HEROIN DAYS WHEN WE COULD MAKE SUPPLY SIDE INTERVENTIONS THAT
01:52:34 WOULD HAVE CONSEQUENCE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A DOSE
01:52:38 THAT'S TWO MILLIGRAMS OR LESS THAT'S A FATAL OVERDOSE.
01:52:41 >> IT'S A COMPLETELY NEW WORLD. AND I AND WHAT I HAVE HEARD
01:52:43 FROM POLICY EXPERTS THAT I'VE TALKED TO IS WE SHOULD EXPECT
01:52:46 DIMINISHING RETURNS ON AND ON THE ON THE SUPPLY SIDE
01:52:50 AND THEREFORE I THINK IT REALLY BEHOOVES US TO BE MORE
01:52:53 INTENTIONAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL ON THE DEMAND SIDE DRUG USERS
01:52:58 AND I KNOW SOMETIMES IN THE DEBATE ABOUT WHETHER WE SHOULD
01:53:01 BE ARRESTING DRUG DEALERS OR DRUG USERS I USED TO HAVE THIS
01:53:05 ARGUMENT WITH KEITH SCOTT WHEN HE WAS THERE.
01:53:06 I'D RATHER THAT WE ARE ARRESTING DRUG USERS BECAUSE IF
01:53:09 WE DO THIS RIGHT WE MIGHT SAVE THEIR LIVES.
01:53:14 SO THAT'S WHY I'M A BELIEVER IN IT.
01:53:15 ONE OTHER THING THAT ENCOURAGES ME ABOUT THIS IS WHEN WE HAD
01:53:19 THE TENDERLOIN LINKAGE CENTER I THINK WE HAD 100,000 VISITS.
01:53:22 MY RECOLLECTION OF THE NUMBER OF REFERRALS TO SERVICES AFTER
01:53:26 THAT WAS ABOUT 1%. >> WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW
01:53:30 WITH THE RESEARCH CENTER IS IT'S CLOSE IT'S CLOSING IN ON
01:53:34 40%. NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN
01:53:35 EVERYBODY'S GOING INTO DRUG TREATMENT BUT THEY'RE GOING TO
01:53:38 SOMETHING AND I THINK SOME A GOOD NUMBER OF THEM FROM WHAT I
01:53:42 UNDERSTAND ARE GOING INTO DRUG TREATMENT.
01:53:43 SO IT IS A MORE CONSEQUENTIAL AND EFFECTIVE INTERVENTION.
01:53:46 I'D LOVE TO GET THAT NUMBER UP. I THINK WE ALL WORK AND I THINK
01:53:49 THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH BUPRENORPHINE
01:53:53 AND LONG ACTING INJECTABLES BECAUSE WE'RE IN THE PILOT
01:53:57 PHASE. YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE'S SOME
01:54:01 HANG UPS BECAUSE IT'S NOT A CLINIC.
01:54:04 THERE'S SOME THINGS HANGING OUT FOR THINGS THAT WE WE CAN'T
01:54:08 DISTRIBUTE INJECTABLES THERE WOULD IT MAKES SENSE THAT WE'RE
01:54:12 GIVEN THAT WE'RE IN THE PILOT PHASE TO REIMAGINE THE RESEARCH
01:54:15 CENTER AS A KIND OF CUSTODIAL CLINIC?
01:54:19 >> CAN YOU SAY MORE ABOUT WHAT YOU MEAN BY THAT?
01:54:21 >> YEAH. SO IF IF WE WERE TO MEET THE
01:54:26 REQUIREMENTS OF THE STATE THAT WE HAVE A PLACE AND NOW WE'VE
01:54:29 GOT A WE IDENTIFY A PLACE THAT HAS A SINK AND WE MOVE THE
01:54:34 CHAIRS THERE YOU KNOW MAYBE MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S
01:54:38 CLOSER TO S.F. GENERAL RATHER THAN IT MAY IT MIGHT BE THAT
01:54:42 PROXIMITY TO S.F. GENERAL IS MORE APPROPRIATE.
01:54:45 IN FACT I THINK NUMERICALLY THERE ARE MORE FROM WHAT I
01:54:48 UNDERSTAND FROM THE RESEARCH CENTER THERE ARE MORE TRIPS
01:54:52 FROM THE RESEARCH CENTER TO GENERAL THAN THE RESEARCH
01:54:57 CENTER TO THE JAIL. SO AS WE'RE IN THE EARLY DAYS
01:55:00 OF THIS, IT MIGHT IT MIGHT BE ELEVATING THAT MAYBE WE SHOULD
01:55:06 BE THINKING ABOUT THE RESEARCH CENTER AS MORE OF A MEDICAL
01:55:07 KIND OF APPROACH BUT THAT STILL HAS THE CUSTODIAL INTERVENTION.
01:55:13 >> WE'VE STILL GOT SHERIFFS THERE NOW AT THE YOU KNOW, I'M
01:55:18 JUST I'M JUST INVITING YOU TO SORT OF THINK IS THERE A WAY TO
01:55:22 SOLVE FOR WHAT THE STATE IS DEMANDING OF US THAT THEY WANT
01:55:24 THEY HAVE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS FOR A SINK AND THINGS THAT THEY
01:55:26 NEED TO HAVE TO BE A CLINIC. >> SO I APPRECIATE I JUST WANT
01:55:30 BECAUSE IT'S NOT IT'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT ARE WE PROVIDING
01:55:34 MEDICAL SERVICES OR NOT AND AGAIN I'LL JUST WE HELP
01:55:37 SUPPORT THE TREATMENT AND ON THE BACK END THE IT IS A HIGHLY
01:55:41 MEDICALIZED ENVIRONMENT MEANING PEERS NURSES CLINICIANS
01:55:47 STAFFING THE HEALTH SIDE ON THE BACK END YOU KNOW VERSUS THE
01:55:51 CONTROL OF THE SPACE WITH THE SHERIFF'S WOULD I WOULD DEFER
01:55:56 THAT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT COLLEAGUES SO BUT I DO WANT TO
01:55:59 EMPHASIZE THAT PIECE ABOUT GETTING PEOPLE QUICKLY AT A
01:56:04 MOMENT OF RESET CONNECTED TO SERVICES, TREATMENT CARE THAT
01:56:08 IS THE FOCUS SO TO TAKE CARE OF IT WE HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF
01:56:12 DIVERSIONS TO THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT THAT IS ACTUALLY FOR
01:56:16 FOLKS AS WE'VE LOOKED INTO IT WITH OUR FIRE COLLEAGUES IT'S A
01:56:23 GOOD THING THEY ACTUALLY NEED AND ARE READY FOR DETOX
01:56:26 AND PRESENT MANAGEMENT AS WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE TREATMENT
01:56:29 ON DEMAND REPORT WITH THE NEW DATA WE HAVE WE DO PRETTY WELL
01:56:33 AT TREATMENT ON DEMAND IN THE CITY FOR MANY SERVICES WHERE WE
01:56:37 DON'T DO WELL IS WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT BECAUSE AND THAT 41%
01:56:44 OF TIME THAT WE DON'T PROVIDE SAME OR NEXT DAY TREATMENT A
01:56:48 BIG PORTION OF THAT IS FOR FOLKS THAT ARE MEDICALLY
01:56:49 COMPLEX AND NEED WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT A LOT OF THOSE
01:56:52 AND WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE THAT LEVEL OF CARE IN THE CITY
01:56:59 AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. WE'VE BEEN ASKING THE STATE
01:57:03 ALSO FOR SOME HELP AND SUPPORT .
01:57:06 MOST OF THOSE TRANSFERS TO THE HOSPITAL ARE BECAUSE SOMEONE
01:57:08 ACTUALLY NEEDS DETOX AT A MEDICALLY MANAGED LEVEL.
01:57:13 THEY OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE BEEN ON THE STREET NOT GETTING CARE.
01:57:15 THEY TRANSFERRED TO THE GENERAL BECAUSE WE ARE PROVIDING THAT
01:57:19 LEVEL OF CARE FOR DETOX AT THE GENERAL SINCE THERE'S ANOTHER
01:57:23 NOT ANOTHER PIECE. SO I JUST BUT TO YOUR OVERALL I
01:57:26 WANT TO NOTE WE ARE PROVIDING IT NOT THE FOLKS THERE WITH OUR
01:57:30 SUPPORT ARE PROVIDING IT IS A PRIMARILY A MEDICAL PEER
01:57:35 AND NURSING ORIENTED MODEL THAT IS NOT THE PIECE THAT IS THE
01:57:38 HOLD UP. THERE ARE A RANGE OF SPECIFIC
01:57:42 REGULATORY STATUTORY THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET THE
01:57:45 STATE TO PROVIDE SOME FLEXIBILITY ON.
01:57:48 THE AND ANSWER SHOULD BE THOUGH WHEN PEOPLE WANT TREATMENT
01:57:52 WHETHER IT'S IN A MOMENT OF CHANGE LIKE THIS OR WE'VE
01:57:53 ENGAGED THEM ON THE STREET AND THEY'RE READY, IT SHOULDN'T
01:57:56 BE SO HARD TO GET PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY PLUGGED IN TO
01:58:00 TREATMENT. THAT IS WHAT THE GOAL OF WHAT
01:58:02 THE DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN TRYING TO FIX AND IMPROVE ON
01:58:04 SUBSTANTIALLY. >> YEAH ANOTHER CATEGORY OF
01:58:11 QUESTIONS ABOUT THREE AND A HALF YEARS AGO I BEGAN
01:58:13 ADVOCATING FOR A DRUG MARKET INTERVENTION STRATEGY IDEALLY
01:58:16 WITH SOMEONE WHO WAS A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED EXPERT
01:58:19 LIKE DAVID KENNEDY. >> WE ACTUALLY DID DID GO
01:58:23 FORWARD WITH SOME OF THIS UNDER THE BREED ADMINISTRATION.
01:58:27 I THINK THAT KIND OF GOT SIDETRACKED BUT I ENDED UP NOT
01:58:30 MAKING PROGRESS ON IT. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T
01:58:34 KNOW, DAVID KENNEDY IS A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED
01:58:35 CRIMINOLOGIST. HE'S AN EXPERT IN DRUG MARKET
01:58:39 INTERVENTIONS. HE PLAYED A LARGE ROLE IN THE
01:58:40 OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AROUND MUCH OF THEIR POLICE REFORM
01:58:45 AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WORK. HE FOUNDED AND CHAIRS THE
01:58:46 NATIONAL NETWORK FOR SAFE COMMUNITIES.
01:58:50 >> HE'S A PROFESSOR AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
01:58:52 WHERE I DID NOT SUCCEED MY COLLEAGUE AND FRIEND SUPERVISOR
01:58:57 MAHMOOD HAS MADE GOOD PROGRESS AND I THINK IDENTIFY ACTUALLY
01:59:01 PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT FOR THIS. I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY KNOWS
01:59:03 WITH THE STATUS OF DAVID KENNEDY IS I THINK THAT MAY BE
01:59:06 A QUESTION FOR THE MAYOR AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW, THAT'S FINE.
01:59:11 BUT WHAT IF ONE QUESTION I WOULD ASK IS IS THERE ANY
01:59:13 REASON THAT WE WOULDN'T WELCOME SOMEBODY WHO IS SORT OF AN
01:59:16 OUTSIDE ACADEMIC? >> DAVID KENNEDY WAS THE ONE
01:59:21 WHO DEVELOPED THE HIGH POINT INITIATIVE THAT WAS NATIONALLY
01:59:23 RECOGNIZED AS AN EFFECTIVE DRUG MARKET INTERVENTION STRATEGY.
01:59:27 FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND THERE IS NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL AND I
01:59:31 THINK EVEN MY CONVERSATIONS WITH DAVID KENNEDY HE SAYS, YOU
01:59:35 KNOW, EVERY CITY IS DIFFERENT AND EVERY IS THERE ANY OBSTACLE
01:59:39 THAT IN TERMS OF OPERATIONALLY IF WE IF WE SOMEDAY GET THIS
01:59:40 DEAL SIGNED THAT THIS WILL BE UNNECESSARY OR INEFFECTIVE OR
01:59:47 GET IN THE WAY? IS THERE ANY REASON THAT THIS
01:59:48 WOULDN'T BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD WORK SUCCESSFULLY HERE
01:59:52 IN SAN FRANCISCO? SO TO ANSWER THE FIRST PART OF
01:59:55 THE QUESTION IS WE'RE CLOSE. OKAY.
01:59:59 WE ARE MOVING FORWARD IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION.
02:00:02 SOME CONTRACTUAL THINGS GOING ON.
02:00:05 >> WE ARE IN COMMUNICATION WITH DAVID KENNEDY.
02:00:09 I BELIEVE THE LAST COMMUNICATION WAS THIS MORNING.
02:00:11 SO THERE IS CONVERSATION. AS FOR THE ACADEMIC PIECE, I
02:00:14 THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE'VE DONE OTHER ACADEMIC WORK.
02:00:21 WHEN I WAS IN THE GUN VIOLENCE WORLD PRIOR TO DIMOCK WE WERE
02:00:25 CONNECTED IN WITH THE ACADEMIC WORLD AND IT WAS A DIFFERENT
02:00:29 VIEWPOINT. SO I DO THINK THAT IT'S
02:00:33 BENEFICIAL THAT YOU KNOW DAVID KENNEDY YOU KNOW, I'VE READ A
02:00:37 LOT OF HIS WORK LIKE YOU HAD MENTIONED EVERY CITY IS
02:00:43 DIFFERENT AND EVERY CITY IS NOT LIKE THE TENDERLOIN.
02:00:47 BUT WITH THAT SAID, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU KNOW YOU KNOW THE
02:00:52 IDEAS THAT HE COULD BRING FORWARD THAT WE SHOULD LOOK AT
02:00:55 . YEAH.
02:00:55 OKAY. THAT'S IT FOR ME.
02:00:59 THANK YOU. SUPERVISOR DORSEY
02:01:00 AND SUPERVISOR FIELDER THANK YOU CHAIR SARTOR HAVE 56
02:01:05 QUESTIONS AND I'M OBVIOUSLY NOT GOING TO GET TO ALL OF THEM
02:01:06 TODAY BUT I JUST WANT TO REPEAT I THINK IT'S UNACCEPTABLE FOR
02:01:13 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO BE ABSENT IN THESE CHAMBERS AS THEY MAKE
02:01:17 THE DECISIONS AROUND FUNDING AND RESOURCES FOR OUR
02:01:18 NEIGHBORHOODS. THERE ARE COMMUNITY MEMBERS
02:01:21 FROM MARSHALL HERE WAITING HOURS TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT
02:01:25 WHICH REMINDS ME NOT A SINGLE MAYOR'S REPRESENTATIVE WAS AT A
02:01:29 QUARTERLY MEETING WITH MARSHALL LAST WEEK.
02:01:30 I SAW THE MAYOR MET WITH TED DANSON TODAY THOUGH.
02:01:33 >> THAT'S COOL. MAYBE IF OUR RESIDENTS WERE
02:01:37 CELEBRITIES WE'D GET SOME REAL PROGRESS ON THESE ISSUES
02:01:40 ANYWAY, FIRST QUESTION I THINK I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS BUT I
02:01:44 JUST WANT IT ON THE RECORD AS OF TODAY WHICH DEPARTMENT HAS
02:01:48 BEEN DESIGNATED AS ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING
02:01:52 AND RESPONDING TO MISSION CONDITIONS AND THE CONDITIONS
02:01:55 ON SURROUNDING STREETS OF MISSION STREET WHICH I'M SORRY
02:01:59 WHICH DEPARTMENTS OR LIKE. SO OBVIOUSLY S.F. PD DOES ALL
02:02:04 OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING IN THE MISSION.
02:02:08 >> ARE YOU ASKING LIKE WHAT OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE ALSO
02:02:09 WHICH DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN DESIGNATED AS RESPONSIBLE FOR
02:02:12 MANAGING OVERSEEING, RESPONDING AND COORDINATING THE DIFFERENT
02:02:16 DEPARTMENTS THAT RESPOND TO MISSION STREET CONDITIONS?
02:02:19 >> OH WOULD THAT BE OH OKAY. THANK YOU AGAIN.
02:02:23 I KNEW THAT IT'S JUST FOR THE RECORD FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT
02:02:27 ENFORCEMENT SHOULD I DIRECT MY QUESTIONS TO TWO AS A PD RATHER
02:02:31 THAN OH OKAY SO MY OFFICE HAS RECEIVED MANY EMAILS FROM
02:02:38 CONSTITUENTS ALONG MISSION STREET ON SIDE STREETS OF
02:02:42 MISSION STREET SINCE THE 90 DAY ENFORCEMENT PUSH BEGAN IN JUNE
02:02:48 . WHAT IS DIFFERENT?
02:02:49 WHAT WAS DIFFERENT IN THIS PUSH NOW VERSUS BEFORE DEDICATED
02:03:00 OFFICERS TO THE CORRIDOR A DEDICATED LIEUTENANT TO OVERSEE
02:03:04 AND COORDINATE ALL OF THE ONE LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS ALSO TO
02:03:12 THE DP, THE DPW, A LEGAL VENTING EFFORTS AS WELL.
02:03:16 SO WE WE SHIFTED RESOURCES TO MISSION STATION AND WE PUT
02:03:20 HIGHER LEVEL OF COMMAND AS OVERSIGHT.
02:03:24 OKAY. THANK YOU.
02:03:24 AND AGAIN, I THINK I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS BUT I JUST WANT
02:03:29 AN ON RECORD IS THE 90 DAY PUSH BEING EXTENDED BEYOND 90 DAYS?
02:03:32 >> IT ALREADY HAS BEEN. YES.
02:03:33 THANK YOU. IS THE CITY TRACKING WHERE DRUG
02:03:36 ACTIVITY IS MOVING? >> IF SO, HOW SO THAT'S A VERY
02:03:42 DIFFICULT QUESTION AND THE WAY WE TRACK SHIFTING OF DRUG
02:03:50 ACTIVITY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DRUG DEALING OR DRUG USERS BUT
02:03:57 THEY BOTH GO HAND IN HAND REALLY IS THAT WE HOW WE DO IT
02:04:02 DOWN IN THE DEMAK AREA AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE
02:04:06 MISSION AS WELL IS THAT WE CONTACTED ONLY THREE TIMES A
02:04:10 DAY OR DRIVING AROUND OUT ON THE STREETS TO SEE THE ACTUAL
02:04:13 SHIFT OURSELVES. OBVIOUSLY COMMUNITY COMPLAINTS
02:04:17 911 COMPLAINTS I'M SORRY NONEMERGENCY COMPLAINTS AS WELL
02:04:21 AS YOU KNOW 311 YOU KNOW TICKETS THAT WE THAT WE LOOK AT
02:04:27 FOR ENCAMPMENTS SO IT'S A COMBINATION OF EVERYTHING I
02:04:31 MEAN I WAS GOING TO SAY THERE IS NO WAY RIGHT NOW TO REPORT
02:04:35 PUBLIC DRUG USE THROUGH THE 311 APP.
02:04:38 >> THERE IS A WAY TO REPORT ENCAMPMENTS ARE 911 REPORTS THE
02:04:42 ONLY WAY YOU ARE TRACKING DRUG ACTIVITY IN ADDITION TO DRIVING
02:04:46 AROUND YEAH SO IT'S IT'S IT'S SO YOU'RE CORRECT 311 DOES NOT
02:04:53 HAVE AN OPTION TO REPORT DRUG USAGE IN THE APP I BELIEVE
02:04:58 THEY'RE WORKING ON IT BUT I DON'T I'M NOT 100% SURE
02:05:02 AND THEN OF YOU KNOW CRIME DATA AS WELL WITH OUR ARRESTS
02:05:09 AND ALSO NON-EMERGENCY CALLS 911 CALLS AS WELL IS THERE
02:05:12 ANYONE IN THE IN THE CHAMBERS WHO CAN ANSWER IF THERE IS AN
02:05:16 EXPLORATION OF BEING ABLE TO REPORT PUBLIC DRUG USE IN 311?
02:05:23 >> YES, THERE IS. WE'VE BEEN ACTUALLY SINCE WE
02:05:26 STARTED THE MISSION WORK WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE WORKFLOWS
02:05:29 FOR 311 AND 911 NON-EMERGENCY JUST BATTERING BATTERING THEM
02:05:33 AND THIS ONE IS ON THE LIST AND JUST YESTERDAY WE SAW A
02:05:34 DEMO WHERE A POP UP WILL HAPPEN WHEN SOMEBODY WANTS TO DO A311
02:05:41 TICKET FOR A DRUG USAGE THERE WILL BE A POP UP TO CALL A
02:05:45 SPECIFIC NUMBER WHERE THIS IS GOING INTO THE BIG PULL PULL OF
02:05:49 311 AND THAT IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE ACTIVE IN THE NEXT FEW
02:05:51 WEEKS FOR TESTING. >> OKAY.
02:05:54 I'M SO GLAD TO HEAR THAT AND I KNOW TRACKING IS GOING TO BE
02:05:57 PROBABLY A PAIN POINT FOR ALL OF US BUT I THINK IT'S PRETTY
02:06:04 PARAMOUNT TO MEASURING OUR SUCCESS IN DIFFERENT
02:06:05 NEIGHBORHOODS. SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
02:06:11 THANK YOU. >> DEPUTY CHIEF BIGGS, CAN YOU
02:06:18 GO CAN WE GO BACK TO THE SLIDE THAT SHOWS THE PREVENT DISRUPT
02:06:22 CLEAR AND HOLD AND TREAT SLIDE YEAH CIRCLES THAT ONE.
02:06:37 >> THANK YOU. I THINK IT WAS ONE SLIDE BEFORE
02:06:39 THIS. >> YES.
02:06:41 WHAT DOES REDUCE EXPOSURE VULNERABILITY AND THE
02:06:48 CONDITIONS THAT ALLOW MARKETS TO TAKE HOLD WHAT DOES THAT
02:06:49 MEAN REDUCE EXPOSURE VULNERABILITY?
02:06:55 >> I MEAN I THINK I WOULD MAYBE ASK YOU TO TAKE THAT QUESTION
02:07:02 IF THERE'S PREVENTION FROM A LAW ENFORCEMENT SIDE AND THEN I
02:07:07 TOUCH ON THERE'S PREVENTION FROM A HEALTH CARE SIDE SO I
02:07:11 DON'T I'M HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT THAT HEALTH CARE PIECES OF
02:07:15 WHICH ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES TIMELY IS A BIG PIECE
02:07:23 ACCESS TO PRIMARY CARE WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH HCA AND HCA
02:07:27 AND THEN ON AT LEAST FOR THE THINGS THAT WE ARE ABLE TO
02:07:31 INFLUENCE FROM A ACCESS TO HOUSING STANDPOINT.
02:07:34 SO SOME OF THOSE FUNDAMENTAL THINGS OF STABILITY AND MAKING
02:07:37 SURE WE ARE PREVENTING FOLKS FROM FROM A CLINICAL STANDPOINT
02:07:41 GOING DOWN THAT SO THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SIDE IS YOU KNOW WE
02:07:45 CARE ABOUT UPSTREAM PREVENTION BEFORE SOMEONE IS REALLY
02:07:49 SUFFERING FROM DRUG ADDICTION INTO YOURS.
02:07:52 SO THAT'S HOW WE WOULD ANSWER FROM A HEALTH STANDPOINT THINGS
02:07:56 BEYOND HEALTH I WOULD DEFER TO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY COLLEAGUES.
02:07:59 >> THANK YOU. I THINK I THINK IT SOUNDS LIKE
02:08:01 THERE IS THE DOUBLE THE TWO MEANINGS OF PREVENTION AND I
02:08:05 JUST WANTED TO ELUCIDATE BOTH. >> SO FOR THE SECOND PART OF
02:08:12 THAT SLIDE IT ALSO SAYS MAKING DRUG MARKETS LESS CONVENIENT
02:08:15 AND MORE CONSEQUENTIAL TO OPERATE.
02:08:19 >> WHAT IS WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?
02:08:22 >> WHAT IS THE DISRUPTION TO TWO PART FOCUSING ON DRUG
02:08:25 TRAFFICKING AND AND THEN ALSO FOCUSING ON DRUG USAGE AND I
02:08:34 MEAN I GUESS IT WOULD BE THREE PART AND THEN ASSISTING DPW OF
02:08:38 AN ILLEGAL A DPW INSPECTORS ON THE ILLEGAL VENDING FRONT I
02:08:45 THINK I'D MENTIONED IT'S LIKE AN ECOSYSTEM THAT FEEDS INTO TO
02:08:48 EACH ONE. SO TO REALLY COMBAT IT ON ALL
02:08:50 FRONTS. >> OKAY.
02:08:53 THANK YOU. YOU SHARED A STORY OF STEPPING
02:08:56 OUTSIDE A POLICE STATION AND SEEING PEOPLE VENDING
02:08:57 STOLEN GOODS, SELLING DRUGS, USING DRUGS IN FRONT OF POLICE
02:09:02 OFFICERS. I WOULD SAY MY CONSTITUENTS
02:09:05 TELL ME ALL THE TIME THAT IS STILL HAPPENING.
02:09:08 >> AND I HEARD I HEARD A COUPLE OF THINGS YOU SAID PROP 47
02:09:12 PASSED YEARS AGO WHICH RECLASSIFIED CERTAIN NONVIOLENT
02:09:16 LOW LEVEL DRUG AND PROPERTY CRIMES FROM FELONIES TO
02:09:20 MISDEMEANORS WHICH HAMPERED LAW ENFORCEMENT TO BE ABLE TO
02:09:24 RESPOND TO TO PUBLIC DRUG USE. >> SO NOT NECESSARILY TO
02:09:27 RESPOND BUT PRIOR TO PROP 47 A FELONY ALLOWED US TO MAKE A
02:09:34 CUSTODIAL ARREST. PROP 47 MADE IT A MISDEMEANOR
02:09:38 SIGHT AND A RELEASE OFFENSE OUT ON THE STREET.
02:09:42 >> OKAY. AND IT IS STILL IT CURRENTLY
02:09:46 TODAY IT'S STILL ILLEGAL TO USE OR SELL DRUGS IN PUBLIC.
02:09:49 CORRECT? OKAY.
02:09:53 IN ANY CASE, ENFORCEMENT IS A SHORT TERM SOLUTION NECESSARY?
02:10:00 I WOULD SAY AND SHORT TERM TREATMENT ON THE OTHER HAND IS
02:10:08 ALSO NOT OVERNIGHT. IT'S MONTHS YEARS LONG JOURNEY
02:10:11 FOR SOMEONE TO BE IN RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION TO DAY.
02:10:15 >> I HAVE AN ACCOUNT FROM MY INBOX FROM A SOCIAL WORKER AT
02:10:17 MARSHALL TIMESTAMPED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON WITH ACCOMPANYING
02:10:19 PICTURES THAT PEOPLE WERE USING DRUGS ON THE SIDEWALK UNDER A
02:10:23 CLASSROOM WINDOW. THE SOCIAL WORKER WENT TO THE
02:10:27 OFFICER IN HIS CAR ACROSS THE STREET AND THE OFFICER DROVE
02:10:31 AWAY WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE SCENE GENUINELY LIKE GENUINELY
02:10:35 I WANT TO UNDERSTAND AND WHAT DO YOU THINK WAS GOING THROUGH
02:10:40 THE OFFICER'S MIND AND WHAT DO I TELL MY CONSTITUENTS WHEN
02:10:46 THIS HAPPENS BECAUSE IT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT THIS HAS
02:10:48 HAPPENED. YEAH.
02:10:50 SO I THINK I THINK MY RESPONSE TO THAT WOULD BE ONE I WOULD
02:10:54 PROBABLY NEED MORE INFORMATION ON THE ACTUAL SPECIFIC INCIDENT
02:10:58 TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHY THE OFFICER DIDN'T ADDRESS WHAT WAS
02:11:02 PRESENTED TO HIM OR HER. BUT I WILL FOLLOW UP SAYING
02:11:06 THAT, YOU KNOW, IT IS UNACCEPTABLE FOR OUR OFFICERS
02:11:10 NOT TO TAKE ACTION WHEN ASKED UPON AND YOU KNOW, WE INSTILL
02:11:16 THAT IN ALL OF OUR OFFICERS THAT WORK FOR US FROM, YOU
02:11:21 KNOW, RECRUIT ENTRY LEVEL INTO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
02:11:25 YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A DUTY TO SERVE AND EXCUSE ME WE HAVE A
02:11:29 DUTY TO SERVE AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK
02:11:33 LIKE I WOULD HAVE TO GET INTO THE WEEDS A LITTLE BIT OF
02:11:36 EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED DURING THAT INCIDENT.
02:11:39 YOU KNOW, WE DO RECEIVE A LOT OF YOU KNOW, WE DO RECEIVE A
02:11:43 LOT OF THESE TYPES OF COMPLAINTS.
02:11:44 SO ON THE SURFACE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS UNACCEPTABLE WITHOUT
02:11:48 HAVING MORE INFORMATION. >> OKAY.
02:11:54 >> WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE IS ARRESTED FOR DRUG USE?
02:11:58 >> ARE THEY BOOKED TO JAIL? MAYBE THIS IS ALSO A QUESTION
02:12:04 FOR DISPATCH HOW MANY OF THOSE BOOKED INTO JAIL AGREE TO MOU D
02:12:15 SO SOMEONE THAT IS ARRESTED FOR BEING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OR
02:12:23 USING NARCOTICS IN PUBLIC IS A MISDEMEANOR SIZABLE OFFENSE BUT
02:12:31 IF THEY'RE UNABLE TO CARE FOR THEMSELVES THEN IT TURNS INTO A
02:12:35 CUSTODIAL ARREST AND AT THIS POINT IN TIME WOULD BE A
02:12:39 TRANSPORT TO RESET REGARDING THE THE AND I HAVE QUESTIONS
02:12:47 ABOUT THE RESET CENTER FOR DOWN THE ROAD FOR D P H REGARDING
02:12:54 THE HOLD STRATEGY I WOULD SAY WE'RE NOT FEELING THAT IN THE
02:12:57 MISSION. >> I GENUINELY WANT TO KNOW IF
02:13:01 WE HAVE MORE OFFICERS DEDICATED TO MISSION STREET OR THE
02:13:05 MISSION WHY CAN'T WE HAVE MORE OFFICERS ON FOOT DOING
02:13:09 COMMUNITY POLICING? IT BOILS DOWN TO STAFFING.
02:13:13 WE JUST DON'T HAVE AN SO AND THE HOLD STRATEGY IN THE
02:13:20 TENDERLOIN SOMA AREA IS LEVERAGED THROUGH AMBASSADORS
02:13:24 HOLDING THE SPACE SO PRIMARILY LAW ENFORCEMENT GOES IN AND
02:13:28 CLEARS IT. DPW FOLLOWS WITH CLEANING
02:13:32 AND THEN WE OVERLAY AMBASSADORS TO KIND OF HOLD SPACE.
02:13:39 OBVIOUSLY WE WORK WITH OUR AMBASSADOR GROUPS OUT ON OUT
02:13:42 IN THE CITY AS WELL. SO IF THEY HAVE ISSUES OR
02:13:44 PROBLEMS OR THEY FEEL LIKE YOU KNOW ACTIVITIES RETURNING TO AN
02:13:50 AREA THEN WE'RE ABLE TO QUICKLY ADJUST AND PIVOT AND RESPOND
02:13:54 AND DEAL WITH SITUATIONS. >> OKAY.
02:13:55 THANK YOU. REGARDING MARKET MIGRATION
02:13:58 QUOTE THAT WAS IT WAS IN THE SLIDES WHAT IS REAL TIME
02:14:02 INTELLIGENCE AND THIS WAS IN THE CONTEXT OF LAW
02:14:09 ENFORCEMENT TRYING TO PREVENT MARKET MIGRATION I THINK I
02:14:13 THINK WHAT WAS MEANT BY THAT IS JUST REAL TIME INFORMATION FROM
02:14:21 EITHER OFFICERS ON THE STREET OR COMMUNITY MEMBERS ON THE
02:14:25 STREET LIKE REAL TIME INFORMATION ON ACTIVITY
02:14:29 SHIFTING INTO DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS.
02:14:30 >> OKAY. BUT YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO REALLY
02:14:34 FOLLOW THAT UNTIL YOU HAVE PROPER STAFFING, NOT ABLE TO BE
02:14:40 ABLE TO FOLLOW THE MARKETS. YOU'RE NOT KEEPING UP.
02:14:43 YOU SAID THAT WE'RE NOT AS FAST AS THE MARKETS THAT ARE MOVING.
02:14:47 >> YEAH I MEAN SO YES SO EXAMPLE WOULD BE WE COULD USE
02:14:51 MISSION BART PLAZAS FOR AN EXAMPLE FOR THE AFTER THE LAST
02:14:55 90 DAY PUSH OBVIOUSLY I BELIEVE THAT YOU KNOW WE'VE ALL BEEN
02:14:59 RECEIVING COMPLAINTS REGARDING SMALLER POCKETS OF INDIVIDUALS
02:15:03 IN DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS THAT PEOPLE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.
02:15:07 WHEN IT BREAKS UP LIKE THAT IT'S BENEFICIAL FOR THE STREET
02:15:12 TEAMS AND ALSO FOR THE R H SOC OFFICERS TO GO OUT AND DEAL
02:15:19 WITH SMALLER GROUPS ONE POINT BUT WHEN IT BREAKS UP IN SO
02:15:23 MANY AREAS WE CAN'T BE EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME SO WE
02:15:27 HAVE TO PICK A CERTAIN AREA AND DO WORK IN THAT AREA OVER
02:15:30 TIME. >> OKAY.
02:15:31 THANK YOU SO MUCH. THOSE ARE ALL MY QUESTIONS
02:15:34 RELATED TO ENFORCEMENT FOR NOW MY NEXT QUESTIONS ARE FOR
02:15:38 DIRECTOR CY REGARDING TREATMENT .
02:15:44 >> I DID READ THE TREATMENT ON DEMAND REPORT BUT I WE HAVE
02:15:46 ANOTHER HEARING FOR THAT. CORRECT.
02:15:49 OKAY. I'LL SAVE A LOT OF THE
02:15:50 QUESTIONS FOR THAT BUT SOME OF THIS IS RELEVANT TO THE HEARING
02:15:54 TODAY. I WANTED TO KNOW AND I THINK
02:15:55 YOU TOUCHED ON THIS BEFORE YOU CAN'T STORE BUPRENORPHINE FREE
02:16:01 AND OR METHADONE AT THE RESEARCH CENTER CORRECT?
02:16:04 >> CORRECT. OKAY.
02:16:05 YOU MENTIONED PEOPLE BEING LINKED TO TREATMENT.
02:16:12 WHAT PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE ARE LINKED TO TREATMENT AND WHAT
02:16:14 DOES LINKED TO TREATMENT MEAN SO ROUGH BETWEEN AGAIN THE
02:16:23 SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND THE PROVIDER OF LOOKING THROUGH A
02:16:24 FEW OF THE DATA POINTS BUT I WOULD SAY SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 25
02:16:29 TO 35% OF PEOPLE THAT ARE AT RISK THAT ARE NOT ONLY
02:16:33 PRESENTED WITH A RANGE OF TREATMENT AND SERVICE OPTIONS
02:16:35 BUT ACTUALLY AGREE TO ACCEPT THOSE THEN THERE BECOMES THE
02:16:41 PIECE ABOUT TRANSPORTATION FOR US IN THE H ABOUT I DON'T WANT
02:16:48 TO QUOTE AN EXACT NUMBER BECAUSE WE'RE STILL LOOKING
02:16:52 THROUGH THE DATA BUT A GOOD PORTION BUT NOT EVERYONE MAKE
02:16:56 IT TO THE FINAL SITE BECAUSE WE DO HAVE TRANSPORTATION ISSUES
02:17:00 THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO WORK TOGETHER TO SOLVE TO TO GET
02:17:03 FOLKS QUICKLY INTO SERVICES. THE MOST COMMON AREAS WHERE
02:17:08 FOLKS ARE DIRECTLY GETTING CONNECTED TO TREATMENT ARE FOR
02:17:11 A RANGE OF ACTUALLY MEDICATION BUPRENORPHINE AND OTHERS AT A
02:17:16 RANGE OF CLINICS THROUGHOUT THE CITY FOR THAT INCLUDES SOME OF
02:17:23 THE UCSF CLINICS H CLINICS WHERE PEOPLE CAN START
02:17:27 BUPRENORPHINE LONG ACTING OR NON LONG ACTING.
02:17:31 THERE'S A FAIR NUMBER OF FOLKS THAT ACTUALLY GO TO THE ALCOHOL
02:17:35 OR SCOPE THE SOBERING CENTER WE RUN WHERE THEY CAN ALSO START
02:17:42 BUPRENORPHINE THERE AND GET PLUGGED INTO TREATMENT.
02:17:45 >> THERE ARE A SET OF FOLKS THAT ARE GOING INTO WITHDRAWAL
02:17:46 MANAGEMENT AND RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT ALTHOUGH AS I NOTED,
02:17:50 ONE OF THE GAPS THAT WE HAVE IN THE TREATMENT ON DEMAND
02:17:53 PIECE WE DO HAVE BEDS STILL AVAILABLE.
02:17:54 ANY GIVEN DAY ON FOR DETOX WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT STATE
02:17:58 LICENSURE DOES NOT ALLOW ANY OF OUR CURRENT PROVIDERS IN SAN
02:18:04 FRANCISCO TO CARE FOR FOLKS THAT ARE REQUIRE A BUNCH OF
02:18:09 MEDICAL COMPLEXITY AT THE SAME TIME WE THINK THAT DOES NOT
02:18:12 MAKE SENSE BECAUSE OTHERWISE THESE FOLKS ARE NOT GETTING ANY
02:18:16 CARE AT ALL. BUT THAT IS A GAP AND SO RIGHT
02:18:18 NOW THOSE FOLKS ARE BEING TAKEN FROM RESET VIA AMBULANCE TO SAN
02:18:24 FRANCISCO GENERAL AND GETTING SOME OF THE CARE THAT THEY NEED
02:18:28 THERE FOR WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT AND DETOX.
02:18:29 MANY OF THE FOLKS COMING IN HAVE QUITE A BIT OF CLINICAL
02:18:32 CONDITIONS AND THEY'RE ABLE TO RECEIVE CARE EITHER AT RESET OR
02:18:35 AT THE GENERAL LIKE I MENTIONED AT THE IN WHEN THERE ARE
02:18:39 DIVERSIONS THE GENERAL IS THAT THE POPULATION THAT HAS A
02:18:40 DIFFERENT OR GREATER CLINICAL NEED WHEN REFERRING TO
02:18:43 RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS MANAGEMENT MEANT NO THAT SO THOSE ARE TWO
02:18:47 DIFFERENT TOPICS I'M SORRY TO WELL RESET ASIDE WHEN YOU LOOK
02:18:54 AT THE TREATMENT ON DEMAND REPORT AND SEE THAT 41% OF
02:18:58 PEOPLE WHO RAISE THEIR HAND FOR WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT AND DETOX
02:19:02 WERE NOT OFFERED SAME OR NEXT DAY TREATMENT A BIG PORTION OF
02:19:06 THAT IS FOR THAT YES THE CLIENT ACUITY MEDICAL NEED TO HIGH IT
02:19:13 EXCEEDS WHAT THOSE PROVIDERS ARE ALLOWED BY STATE LICENSURE
02:19:17 TO BE ALLOWED TO DO. WE DON'T HAVE ANY SITES IN SAN
02:19:21 FRANCISCO LICENSED TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT HIGHER LEVEL OF
02:19:25 CARE UNLESS THEY GET TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL MAINLY THE
02:19:28 GENERAL. AND SO WE THINK THAT IS A MAJOR
02:19:29 GAP. IT IS A ONE OF THE BIGGEST ASKS
02:19:33 WE HAVE OF THE STATE AT THIS MOMENT.
02:19:34 >> THE OTHER IS WHEN YOU HAVE FOLKS WITH DUAL DIAGNOSIS
02:19:37 SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER AND SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS
02:19:43 AND THERE ARE FOLKS WHO ARE NOT THERE NOT ENOUGH PSYCHIATRIC
02:19:44 SERVICES AT THE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT SITES
02:19:47 AND SO WE ARE STANDING ONE OF THOSE UP THIS COMING YEAR WITH
02:19:51 SOME STATE FUNDING SUPPORT THAT CAN BOTH SUPPORT SUBSTANCE USE
02:19:59 AND PSYCHIATRIC CARE CONCURRENTLY AND RESIDENTIAL
02:20:00 TREATMENT. >> OKAY.
02:20:03 I DEFINITELY WILL PROBABLY FOLLOW UP AFTER THIS HEARING TO
02:20:07 GET MORE COLOR ON THE 25 TO 35% THAT ARE ACCEPTING TREATMENT AT
02:20:10 THE RECENT CENTER, WHAT PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE ARE
02:20:13 STARTING DRUG TREATMENT AT THE SOBERING CENTER AT THE AT THE
02:20:20 SOBERING CENTER PEOPLE ARE COMING IN FOR A RANGE OF
02:20:24 REASONS AROUND THAT SO IT HISTORICALLY WAS THE ALCOHOL
02:20:28 SOBERING CENTER AND AS OF RECENT WE HAVE ALSO ADDED
02:20:31 OPIOID USE IN POST OVERDOSE CARE AND 24 SEVEN FOLKS CAN
02:20:38 START LONG ACTING BUPRENORPHINE THERE.
02:20:42 BUT I THINK THAT THE LESS RELEVANT NUMBER IS THE PERCENT
02:20:46 BECAUSE THERE ARE STILL A FAIR NUMBER OF FOLKS GOING THERE FOR
02:20:48 ALCOHOL. SOBERING WHICH IS A DIFFERENT
02:20:51 CLINICAL PATHWAY. >> OKAY.
02:20:54 >> AND THEN WHAT PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE ARRESTED AND TAKEN TO
02:20:58 JAIL FOR DRUG USE ARE STARTING TREATMENT IN JAIL?
02:21:01 WE CAN GET THAT EXACT NUMBER. WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THE FLIP
02:21:06 WHICH IS 40% OF OUR NEW STARTS BUPRENORPHINE STARTS IN THE
02:21:12 CITY IN JULY OF THIS YEAR WERE STARTED IN THE JAIL.
02:21:15 SO OUR JAIL HEALTH TEAM PROVIDES AMAZING CARE IN THE
02:21:19 JAIL THAT WOULD RATHER PROVIDE CARE IN THE COMMUNITY AND THEY
02:21:20 ARE THERE IN THE JAIL WHEN FOLKS ARE BROUGHT THERE EVERY
02:21:24 SINGLE PERSON IS OFFERED NOT ONLY BUTTE BUT THE TEAM THERE
02:21:28 HAS PIONEERED ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO START PEOPLE ON LONG
02:21:32 ACTING INJECTABLE BUPRENORPHINE AS WELL WHICH HAS SOME
02:21:35 BENEFITS. SO ABOUT 40% OF OUR NEW BOOK
02:21:36 STARTS ACROSS THE ENTIRE CITY IN JULY OF THIS YEAR WERE
02:21:43 IN THE JAIL. >> OKAY.
02:21:44 THANK YOU. AND THEN YES, MORE PEOPLE ARE
02:21:47 STARTING TREATMENT BUT THE SIX MONTH RETENTION FOR INDIVIDUALS
02:21:50 NEWLY STARTING MEDICATION FOR OPIOID USE DISORDER IS LARGELY
02:21:54 THE CURVE. IT'S A DOWNWARD CURVE.
02:21:57 YES. THAT IS LARGELY OVERLAPPING FOR
02:22:01 THE YEAR 2324 WHICH IS ONE LINE AND THEN ANOTHER IS 2425
02:22:08 AND THAT DEPICTS THE FALL OF THAT WE'RE HAVING WITH PEOPLE
02:22:09 IN TREATMENT AND WE KNOW THAT RELAPSE AS A PART OF RECOVERY
02:22:13 IS LONGER LASTING INJECTABLE BUPRENORPHINE THE STRATEGY THE
02:22:19 CITY IS RELYING ON TO MITIGATE THAT FOLLOW FOR SIX MONTH
02:22:20 RETENTION OR IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE NOT THE ONLY IT'S ONE
02:22:24 PIECE BUT AS IN MOST THINGS IN HEALTH CARE YOU NEED YOU
02:22:28 NEED TO YOU NEED TO BRING OUT EVERY TOOL THAT YOU HAVE.
02:22:31 SO WHAT WE'VE SEEN FOR A LONG ACTING INJECTABLE BUPRENORPHINE
02:22:35 IS AT THE 30 DAY MARK. THE RETENTION RATE IS ROUGHLY
02:22:36 DOUBLE BECAUSE AND WE'VE HAD SOME OF OUR ACTUAL PATIENTS
02:22:43 AND CLIENTS WHO ARE SUCCESSFULLY IN RECOVERY HAVE
02:22:46 ACTUALLY STARTED LONG ACTING AT THE SOBERING CENTER AND OTHER
02:22:47 PLACES. DESCRIBE WHY THE LONG ACTING
02:22:51 WAS SO MUCH EASIER AND BETTER FOR THEM BOTH IN THE WAY IT
02:22:55 FELT AS YOU START IN THE DOSING PROTOCOL WE HAVE ALSO JUST
02:23:01 HAVING ONE INJECTION PER MONTH ON THAT INSTEAD OF A DAILY FOR
02:23:05 THOSE PIECES. BUT PRELIMINARY DATA WE HAVE
02:23:09 HAS TWICE THE RETENTION RATE AT THE 30 DAY MARK THAN NON LONG
02:23:13 ACTING INJECTABLE BUPRENORPHINE AND THEN I KNOW CONTINGENCY
02:23:17 MANAGEMENT IS PROVEN FOR STIMULANT USE DISORDER.
02:23:24 >> HAS THERE BEEN ANY RESEARCH ON FOR OPIOID USE DISORDER
02:23:28 AND COMBINING THAT WITH YES SO I WOULD CLARIFY CONTINGENCY
02:23:29 MANAGEMENT AS A TOOL. SO FOR RIGHT PROGRAMS WHERE
02:23:33 YOU'RE PROVIDING CLEAR REWARDS AND INCENTIVES FOR CERTAIN
02:23:37 POSITIVE BEHAVIORS THAT IS AN EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE NOT
02:23:41 LIMITED JUST TO STIMULANT USE. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT DID
02:23:45 APPROVE ALL OF CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR THE STATE.
02:23:48 STATE MEDICAL HAS CHOSEN TO ONLY COVER THAT FOR STIMULANT
02:23:52 USE. WE ALSO RUN AND SO WE ARE
02:23:55 RUNNING A RANGE OF CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS BEYOND JUST
02:23:59 STIMULANT USE AND KIND OF EXPLORING MORE OF THOSE.
02:24:01 BUT WE THINK THE EVIDENCE IS THERE FOR THAT AS A REINFORCING
02:24:04 SUPPORT IT ON A RANGE OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
02:24:08 WE THINK THAT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT COMPLEMENT TO HELP
02:24:12 PEOPLE LIKE THE GOAL IS GET PEOPLE INTO TREATMENT, HELP
02:24:13 PEOPLE STAY ON THAT IN THEIR PATH TO RECOVERY THAT'S MAKING
02:24:19 IT EASIER TO GET INTO TREATMENT AND IT'S USING TOOLS LIKE
02:24:21 CONTINGENCY MANAGEMENT TO HELP PEOPLE STICK IN TREATMENT.
02:24:27 TODAY IN AN ARTICLE ON A NEW DRUG PSYCHOLOGY IN THE
02:24:31 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH SAID QUOTE WE WANT PEOPLE TO
02:24:34 KNOW THE SAFEST CHOICES TO ABSTAIN FROM DRUG USE.
02:24:36 >> I WAS HONESTLY DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THAT AND I WANTED TO ASK
02:24:40 IS THAT SERIOUSLY THE DEPARTMENT'S UNDERSTANDING OR
02:24:43 GOAL FOR DRUG ADDICTION IS TO HAVE NO DRUG USE IN THE CITY?
02:24:47 NO, I BELIEVE THEY PULLED THAT FROM A HEALTH ADVISORY WE WROTE
02:24:51 SPECIFICALLY ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY. WE WERE NOT ASKED TO COMMENT ON
02:24:55 THAT ARTICLE. I CAN PROVIDE THE HEALTH
02:24:58 ADVISORY WE WENT THROUGH. WE SAID CHLORINE IS SO POTENT
02:25:02 SO TEN TIMES MORE POTENT THAN FENTANYL FOUND IT
02:25:06 IN COUNTERFEIT PILLS, HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS CAN YOU TELL FROM
02:25:10 INCLUDING FROM YOUTH HOW DO I KNOW IF THIS DRUG IS LACED WITH
02:25:16 CHLORINE OR NOT? AND OUR MAIN MESSAGE IS THAT WE
02:25:20 SAID IN THE HEALTH ADVISORY FROM OUR HEALTH OFFICER WERE
02:25:23 ONE PILL CAN KILL. YOU DON'T KNOW IF ANY YOU DON'T
02:25:30 KNOW IF A COUNTER YOU DON'T KNOW IF A PILL IS COUNTERFEIT
02:25:31 ONLY TAKE A PILL IF IT'S BEEN PRESCRIBED TO YOU BY A BUYER,
02:25:34 BY A CLINICIAN AND YOU PICKED UP FROM A PHARMACY AROUND THAT
02:25:37 AND THE SAFEST WAY TO AVOID THIS WAS AROUND THE SITE
02:25:41 CHLORINE HEALTH ADVISORY IS TO NOT TAKE A COUNTERFEIT PILL.
02:25:45 >> SO WE WERE NOT ASKED TO COMMENT ON THAT ARTICLE.
02:25:49 I BELIEVE THOSE THINGS WERE PULLED STRAIGHT OUT OF A HEALTH
02:25:53 ADVISORY WE HAD THERE WAS SPECIFICALLY AROUND SITE
02:25:54 CHLORINE AND I WOULD ALSO SAY WE DO ALL OF US EVERY CLINICIAN
02:25:59 I HAVE WOULD SAY THE GOAL IS TO HELP PEOPLE ON THEIR PATH OF
02:26:01 TREATMENT AND RECOVERY AND OF COURSE TO BE ABLE TO HELP
02:26:04 PEOPLE NOT USE AND SO THAT IS A THAT IS A GOAL OF THE HEALTH
02:26:08 DEPARTMENT THAT SPECIFIC SENTENCE JUST TO ADDRESS THAT
02:26:12 WAS PULLED STRAIGHT FROM A HEALTH ADVISORY ON SITE
02:26:13 COUGHING OKAY. THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION
02:26:18 . I LET'S SEE SO IN THE CHRONICLE
02:26:22 TODAY IT SAID THAT OFFICIALS ESTIMATE THERE ARE ABOUT 37,000
02:26:29 CITY RESIDENTS STRUGGLING WITH DRUG ADDICTION AND IN THE
02:26:30 MAJORITY OF THEM ARE HOUSED. >> AND IT ALSO SAID EXPERTS SAY
02:26:34 LOW LEVEL DRUG ARRESTS ARE GENERALLY NOT EFFECTIVE TO GET
02:26:37 MOST USERS OFF THE STREETS AND LOCKING UP DEALERS DOESN'T
02:26:43 DO MUCH AS THEY REPLACE PRETTY QUICKLY.
02:26:44 AND THE STORY OF RORY AND THE PRESENTATION THOUGH I
02:26:48 APPRECIATE IT DOESN'T APPLY TO MOST PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING
02:26:52 WITH DRUG ADDICTION IN THE CITY BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THEM
02:26:55 ARE HOUSED IN THE VISION IS THE VISION THAT PEOPLE USING DRUGS
02:26:59 IN PUBLIC EITHER CYCLE THROUGH THE SOBERING CENTER THE 20 THE
02:27:03 SEVERAL DOZEN BEDS AT THE RESET CENTER OR JAILS AND BE
02:27:07 CONNECTED TO TREATMENT THAT WAY.
02:27:08 HOW IS THE CITY REACHING 37 THOUSAND RESIDENTS OR WHAT'S
02:27:14 KIND OF THE GOAL THERE? >> SO WITHIN THE SYSTEM OF THE
02:27:19 THE KIND OF PUBLICLY COVERED AND ALSO FOLKS THAT WE MUST THE
02:27:23 NUMBER IS LOWER THAN THAT THAT IS THERE'S A THERE'S A PAPER ON
02:27:27 THAT THAT'S GETTING REALLY SOON ALSO I WANT TO BE REALLY CLEAR
02:27:31 THE GOAL OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT HAS BEEN VERY CLEAR
02:27:34 WE WANT TO GET PEOPLE SUCCESSFULLY INTO TREATMENT,
02:27:38 SUSTAINED TREATMENT AND RECOVERY AND I THINK AT ONE
02:27:42 ACTION MAYBE THE TREATMENT ON DEMAND HEARING LAST YEAR WE
02:27:46 WENT THROUGH A WHOLE BUNCH OF DIFFERENT PILLARS OF THAT MORE
02:27:50 TREATMENT CAPACITY REMOVE THE BARRIERS TO GET INTO CARE, HELP
02:27:54 PEOPLE SUSTAIN AND TREATMENT AND MOVE FROM ONE SETTING TO
02:27:55 ANOTHER MORE EFFECTIVELY. WE DO THAT WELL IN SOME PLACES
02:27:58 NOT AS WELL IN OTHERS AND REALLY IMPORTANTLY THOSE
02:28:02 APPROACHES THAT I'M MENTIONING SPAN WHETHER YOU ARE HOUSED OR
02:28:05 NOT HOUSED AS WELL. SO WE DO RECOGNIZE THAT MANY OF
02:28:09 THE FOLKS WE WORK WITH SOME ARE HOUSED, SOME ARE UNHOUSED
02:28:11 AND SOME OF THAT ARE HOUSED ARE IN PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE
02:28:14 HOUSING. >> SOME ARE NOT.
02:28:16 >> THANK YOU. REGARDING THE STATE
02:28:21 RESTRICTIONS ON STORING METHADONE AND BUPRENORPHINE,
02:28:25 ONE OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH STATE LEGISLATORS BEEN LIKE ARE
02:28:28 THEY ARE THEY WITH OUR OWN STATE DELEGATION?
02:28:32 >> THEY ARE DIRECTLY WITH THE STATE CAL HHS AND THE OTHER
02:28:36 RELEVANT STATE DEPARTMENTS THAT OVERSEE THE REGULATIONS FOR
02:28:40 THOSE AND BUPRENORPHINE AND METHADONE ARE TWO DIFFERENT
02:28:43 ISSUES. THEY'RE ALL DEA CONTROLLED
02:28:47 SUBSTANCES. METHADONE HAS VERY SPECIFIC
02:28:48 REGULATIONS FOR WHERE AND HOW YOU CAN DISPENSE THEM.
02:28:51 THEY CAN ONLY BE IN CERTAIN WHAT WE CALL THEM OTTPS OPIATE
02:28:54 TREATMENT PROGRAMS THE GENERAL HAS ONE, WE HAVE A FEW OTHERS.
02:28:58 BUPRENORPHINE IS GOVERNED BY A RANGE OF SOME OF THESE STATE
02:29:02 INTERSECTING REQUIREMENTS THAT WE HAVE ASKED FOR SOME
02:29:06 FLEXIBILITY BECAUSE WE DON'T THINK THEY APPLY AND THEY ARE
02:29:10 BARRIERS TO GETTING PEOPLE CARE QUICKLY.
02:29:13 >> OKAY. THANK YOU.
02:29:14 UM I GUESS THIS QUESTION IS FOR ANY OF THE DEPARTMENTS PERHAPS
02:29:21 OR D WHAT SHOULD A PARENT BUSINESS OWNER OR RESIDENT DO
02:29:28 WHEN THEY ENCOUNTER ACTIVE DRUG USE ON THE STREET?
02:29:36 I MEAN I SO I THINK YOU KNOW, WE ARE TRYING TO SUPPORT
02:29:43 EDUCATION IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT ARE THE TOOLS
02:29:44 AVAILABLE TO BUSINESSES PARENTS, SCHOOLS WE ARE AS I
02:29:51 MENTIONED IMPROVING THE 311 SYSTEM SO THAT IT IS EASY
02:29:56 ACCESS TO TO REPORT DRUG USE THROUGH 311.
02:29:59 >> OKAY. >> THANK YOU.
02:30:05 >> WE HAVE HAD SITUATIONS WHERE CHILDREN HAVE ENCOUNTERED
02:30:10 DISCARDED NEEDLES. WHAT IS THE CITY'S PROTOCOL FOR
02:30:13 RESPONDING TO THESE HAZARDS AND HOW QUICKLY SHOULD
02:30:16 CONSTITUENTS EXPECT A RESPONSE ?
02:30:21 OH WE IT'S A MULTI DEPARTMENT RESPONSE AROUND THAT WE HAVE A
02:30:26 SET OF CITY DEPARTMENTS INCLUDING DPW AND OTHERS THAT
02:30:30 HAVE BEEN A HUGE SUPPORT. WE ALSO CONTRACT WITH THE SAN
02:30:33 FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION FOR SYRINGE PICKUP AND I WAS JUST
02:30:37 TALKING TO ONE OF THE FOLKS FROM MARSHALL AROUND SYRINGES
02:30:43 THAT HAVE BEEN SEEN RIGHT AROUND THERE AND SO ONE OF THE
02:30:46 FOLLOW UPS AND COMMENTS WE HAVE IS TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH
02:30:48 OUR PROVIDERS TO SEE IF THERE ARE WAYS WE CAN EXPAND
02:30:51 RESOURCES TO HAVE SOME OF THAT PARTICULARLY NOT JUST AROUND
02:30:55 SCHOOLS AND GENERAL PARKS IN GENERAL BUT ALSO WHAT YOU
02:30:58 ARE SEEING IF SOME OF THE SYRINGES HAVEN'T BEEN PICKED UP
02:31:01 THAT THAT THAT DRUG USERS ARE LEAVING.
02:31:04 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
02:31:08 AND JUST TO ADD ON TO THAT, OUR PUBLIC WORKS DOES REGULARLY
02:31:10 WHEN THEY DO THEIR CLEANUPS AND FROM THE SCHOOLS OR ON THE
02:31:13 CORNER THEY ARE PICKING UP THOSE NEEDLES AS WELL IN THE
02:31:17 MISSION WE HAVE THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM SO AS THEY ROVING
02:31:18 THROUGH THEIR DIFFERENT CORRIDORS AS PART OF THEIR
02:31:21 ASSIGNMENT THEY WILL PICK UP THOSE NEEDLES AND DISPOSE OF
02:31:24 THEM CORRECTLY TOO. >> SO THERE'S MULTIPLE WAYS
02:31:25 AND THEN ALSO JUST REPORT IT THROUGH.
02:31:29 ANDRE'S THE BEST PLACE TO REPORT AS WELL.
02:31:30 SO THAT IT COULD BE PRIORITIZED BY PUBLIC WORKS TO GO PICK IT
02:31:32 UP. >> THANK YOU.
02:31:35 ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW OUR CONSTITUENTS DESERVE MORE THAN
02:31:39 ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE OR VIBES BASED ON CONDITIONS ON THE
02:31:43 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS. WHAT MEASURABLE OUTCOMES SHOULD
02:31:46 WE EXPECT TO SEE IN SIX MONTHS ONE YEAR FROM NOW IF THE CITY'S
02:31:54 CURRENT STRATEGY AROUND DRUG MARKETS OPEN AIR DRUG USE IS
02:31:56 SUCCESSFUL THEN YES I MEAN I THINK ONE OF THE KEY GOALS IS
02:32:06 REALLY RECLAIMING THOSE SPACES ,HOLDING THOSE SPACES I THINK
02:32:10 FOR WHAT ARE WE WD IS REALLY TRYING TO DO IS FIND WAYS TO
02:32:14 ACTIVATE THE SPACES FOR THE COMMUNITY, KEEP THEM SAFE AND I
02:32:18 THINK FOR BASICALLY HAVING DAILY ACTIVATIONS, CHANGING THE
02:32:25 CONDITIONS ON THE PLAZAS THEMSELVES SO THAT WE ARE WE
02:32:29 HAVE RECLAIM THAT SPACE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
02:32:32 THANK YOU FOR THE EVER TOUCHING ON ACTIVATIONS.
02:32:36 I APPRECIATE THE CLAUSES ARE BEING ACTIVATED BUT THERE ARE
02:32:39 720 HOURS IN A MONTH IF ACTIVATION ENDS EARLY TAKING
02:32:44 PLACE ONCE A MONTH THAT'S LESS THAN 1% OF THE TIME RIGHT THAT
02:32:48 THEY'RE NOT BEING ACTIVATED. I REMEMBER A WHILE AGO WE WERE
02:32:51 TALKING ABOUT PERMITTED VENDORS ,PERMANENT RETAIL VENDORS,
02:32:55 PERMANENT FOOD VENDORS POTENTIALLY IN THE FUTURE BEING
02:32:59 ABLE TO BE ON THE PLAZAS WHICH WOULD HOPEFULLY REPLACE
02:33:02 AND DETER SOME UNWANTED BEHAVIORS THERE I BELIEVE THERE
02:33:06 NEEDED TO BE SOME SORT OF MOU BETWEEN BART AND THE CITY FOR
02:33:10 THAT TO HAPPEN. WHAT IS THE PROGRESS ON THAT
02:33:14 IDEA AND OR THAT MOU? >> SO WE HAVE NEGOTIATED AN
02:33:18 AGREEMENT WITH BART AND MOU WITH BART SO THAT WE CAN BE
02:33:24 RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTIVATING THOSE PLAZAS ON A MUCH MORE
02:33:28 REGULAR BASIS. WE WOULD LIKE TO ACTIVATE
02:33:29 ACTIVATE THOSE PLAZAS AT LEAST FIVE DAYS A WEEK FOR MANY HOURS
02:33:33 DURING THE DAY. IT DOESN'T MEAN SPECIFICALLY
02:33:35 THAT THERE WILL BE EVENTS ON THE ON THE PLAZAS BUT
02:33:39 ACTIVATIONS LIKE PROVIDING DANCE CLASSES FOR SENIORS,
02:33:43 BEING ABLE TO GET SENIORS OUT OF THEIR THE NEARBY HOUSING
02:33:47 THAT THEY LIVE IN TO TAKE WALKS THROUGH THE PLAZA TO HAVE TO
02:33:51 ENJOY COFFEE ON THE PLAZA. SO THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF
02:33:52 ACTIVATIONS THAT WE WANT TO DO ALL DAY EVERY DAY AS WE MOVE
02:33:55 FORWARD. AND WE DO HAVE AN AGREEMENT
02:33:58 WITH BART SO THAT WE THAT OPW CAN TAKE RESPONSIVE BILITY.
02:34:02 WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF PROCURING WITH WITH THE
02:34:06 RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE FROM LAST YEAR'S BUDGET SO THAT WE
02:34:10 CAN HAVE A COMMUNITY SPONSOR TO TO REALLY SORT OF COORDINATE
02:34:14 THOSE ACTIVATIONS. THANK YOU.
02:34:17 >> AND THEN FOR ALL WE DO WE'RE ALSO HEARING DIRECTLY FROM
02:34:21 SMALL BUSINESSES ABOUT PEOPLE USING DRUGS IN FRONT OF THEIR
02:34:22 STORES WHO HAVE NEVER OR WHO HAVE RARELY EXPERIENCED THAT
02:34:25 BEFORE. >> HOW IS THE CITY ENGAGING
02:34:28 WITH BUSINESSES THAT ARE EXPERIENCING THESE IMPACTS?
02:34:30 >> SO WE ARE WE ARE MEETING EVERY OTHER WEEK WITH WITH MANY
02:34:37 MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY INCLUDING THE SMALL BUSINESSES
02:34:40 AND I'M REALLY GETTING FEEDBACK FROM THEM.
02:34:44 I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR OFFICE PARTICIPATING IN THOSE BI
02:34:48 WEEKLY MEETINGS AND WE'RE YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO HEAR THEIR
02:34:52 FEEDBACK AND WE ARE TAKING IN THAT FEEDBACK AND REALLY
02:34:55 IDENTIFYING WAYS THAT WE CAN BRING THAT FEEDBACK BACK TO
02:34:59 THIS COORDINATED EFFORT AND AGAIN REPORTING IT, LETTING
02:35:03 US KNOW ABOUT IT, IDENTIFYING WHAT'S WORKING AND WHAT'S NOT
02:35:05 WORKING IS REALLY PART OF THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
02:35:08 >> THANK YOU. AND THEN LASTLY ON THE SUBJECT
02:35:11 OF COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS, ACCORDING TO OUR BUDGET
02:35:15 AND LEGISLATIVE ANALYSTS ABOUT 55% OF ANNUAL FUNDING FOR
02:35:19 AGREEMENTS FOR AMBASSADORS ARE IN SOMA OR THE TENDERLOIN OR
02:35:22 PORTIONS OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS WHICH IS ACTUALLY AN
02:35:24 UNDERESTIMATE BECAUSE AN ADDITIONAL 20% OF ANNUAL
02:35:27 FUNDING IS FOR CITY WIDE AGREEMENTS THAT HAVE DEPLOYED
02:35:31 AMBASSADORS TO SOMA OR THEIR TENDERLOIN.
02:35:32 BUT THESE DEPLOYMENTS COULD BE CHANGED BASED ON DIRECTION FROM
02:35:36 HSA OR DIEM AND COMPARISON. ABOUT 8% OF ANNUAL FUNDING IS
02:35:40 FOR THE AMBASSADORS DEPLOYED IN THE MISSION WHICH IS UNDER
02:35:43 THE ASKING SOLUTIONS AGREEMENT CAN IN THE MISSION GET MORE
02:35:47 RESOURCES FOR NEW AMBASSADORS NOT NECESSARILY TAKEN AWAY FROM
02:35:51 THE OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS BUT IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN GET PARITY
02:35:55 ESPECIALLY SEEING THAT AT LEAST FOR CRIMES THIS YEAR THE
02:36:02 MISSION STATION SAW THE MOST ROBBERIES AND THAT'S NOT TO SAY
02:36:07 THAT OTHER STATIONS ARE NOT SEEING HIGH LEVELS OF, YOU
02:36:11 KNOW, BURGLARY, ASSAULTS, LARCENY, ETC. BUT IS THERE ANY
02:36:17 TALK ABOUT DEDICATING MORE RESOURCES AND COMMITTEE
02:36:21 AMBASSADORS TO THE MISSIONS SUPERVISOR THAT WOULD NOT BE
02:36:23 IN MY BUDGET THAT WOULD BE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY
02:36:26 MANAGEMENT BUDGET. YOU KNOW, I THINK AS YOU'VE
02:36:29 HEARD TODAY, I THINK EVERYONE SUPPORTS THE WORK THAT THE
02:36:30 AMBASSADORS DO. IT'S PARTICULARLY HEARTENING
02:36:33 FOR ME TO HEAR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT REALLY ACKNOWLEDGE
02:36:36 THE WORK THAT THEIR AMBASSADORS DO AND HELP THEM TO SUPPORT
02:36:38 THOSE SPACES. >> BUT IT'S NOT PART OF MY
02:36:41 BUDGET SO I CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
02:36:42 THANK YOU. ANOTHER REASON I REALLY WANTED
02:36:44 SOMEONE FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO BE HERE THOSE ARE ALL MY
02:36:46 QUESTIONS. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR BEING
02:36:49 WITH ME. THANK YOU CHAIR SAUDER THANK
02:36:52 YOU. >> SUPERVISOR FIELDER AND NOW
02:36:53 SUPERVISOR HUANG KAY THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR BEARING WITH OUR
02:36:59 QUESTIONS. >> I THINK I'M NOT SURE WHICH
02:37:03 DEPARTMENT I THINK THIS SHOULD BE PROBABLY S.F. PD.
02:37:06 >> THIS IS ABOUT THE DISPLACEMENTS.
02:37:10 >> HOW ARE WE MEASURING WHETHER WE'RE ACTUALLY REDUCING DRUG
02:37:11 MARKET ACTIVITY RATHER THAN SIMPLY REDISTRIBUTING IT?
02:37:18 I'M SORRY ONE MORE TIME HOW ARE WE MEASURING WHETHER WE'RE
02:37:22 ACTUALLY REDUCING DRUG MARKET ACTIVITY RATHER THAN
02:37:26 REDISTRIBUTING IT AND PLACING IT?
02:37:29 >> YEAH, SO I MEAN I THINK I THINK THAT THE FIRST PART OF
02:37:36 THE QUESTION IS IS HOW ARE WE REDUCING DRUG MARKET ACTIVITY I
02:37:39 THINK IS TWOFOLD. ONE IT COMES ALONG WITH THE
02:37:43 REDUCTION OF DRUG DEALERS THAT WE SEE WOULD BE THE FIRST
02:37:47 THING. SO WHICH WE HAVE SEEN OVER THE
02:37:53 LAST THREE YEARS WAS A DRAMATIC DECREASE IN DAYTIME DEALING
02:37:57 COMPARED TO NIGHTTIME DEALING. >> AS FOR THE DISPLACEMENT
02:38:01 QUESTION, WE DON'T THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DOESN'T HAVE A
02:38:09 MECHANISM TO TRACK DISPLACEMENT OUTSIDE OF OUR OFFICERS
02:38:15 PHYSICALLY DRIVING AROUND ON THE STREET TO VISUALLY SEE
02:38:19 WHERE IT'S MOVING OUTSIDE OF YOU KNOW, ON TOP OF THAT
02:38:24 COMMUNITY COMPLAINTS AND YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY COMPLAINTS OR
02:38:27 BUSINESS SMALL BUSINESS COMPLAINTS.
02:38:30 I MEAN THAT'S REALLY KIND OF THE MECHANISM YOU KNOW 311
02:38:33 ENCAMPMENT COMPLAINTS OR YOU KNOW, STRUCTURES OUT ON THE
02:38:34 STREET. SO THAT'S KIND OF THOSE ARE THE
02:38:38 MECHANISMS THAT WE USE TO TRY TO TRACK, YOU KNOW,
02:38:40 DISPLACEMENT. OKAY.
02:38:41 GOT IT. AND ARE WE USING ANY OBJECTIVE
02:38:45 INDICATORS TO IDENTIFY EMERGING DRUG MARKETS AND INTERVENE
02:38:49 EARLY OR RESOURCE DECISIONS ON WHERE TO ALLOCATE OFFICERS
02:38:56 PRIMARILY DRIVEN BY COMPLAINTS OR THE SEVERITY OF CONDITIONS
02:39:01 ONCE IT GROWS? OKAY, I'LL TRY.
02:39:05 I THINK I UNDERSTAND I'LL TRY TO ANSWER THE QUESTION.
02:39:09 SO WAS THE QUESTION HOW WE ALLOCATE OUR OFFICERS TO HOW DO
02:39:13 YOU IF THERE'S AN EMERGING DRUG MARKET HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY THAT
02:39:19 AND ALLOCATE OFFICERS THERE? >> IS IT BASED ON COMPLAINTS OR
02:39:27 OR AFTER THINGS HAVE ALREADY DETERIORATED?
02:39:31 I THINK IT'S A COMBINATION OF BOTH, YOU KNOW, SO AGAIN, YOU
02:39:39 KNOW, DRUG MARKETS AS A WHOLE AS YOU KNOW LIKE OUR NARCOTICS
02:39:43 DIVISION KNOW WHERE THE DEALERS ARE BECAUSE THEY DO IT EVERY
02:39:46 SINGLE DAY AND THEY'RE OUT ON THE STREET EVERY SINGLE DAY.
02:39:48 SO WHEN DEALERS SHIFT, THEY KNOW WHERE THESE SHIFTS HAPPEN.
02:39:50 YOU KNOW, DRUG USE SHIFTS. >> YOU KNOW, WE DO KNOW WHERE
02:39:55 THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT THESE DRUG USERS PRIMARILY CONGREGATE
02:40:01 AND TILL WE GO INTO THESE NEIGHBORHOODS AND ONCE WE GO
02:40:03 INTO THESE NEIGHBORHOODS WITH A CONCERTED, YOU KNOW, ALL
02:40:06 GOVERNMENT APPROACH EFFORT I GUESS THEN ONCE THAT STARTS TO
02:40:09 SHIFT AROUND THAT'S WHEN IT BECOMES MORE REACTIVE I GUESS
02:40:16 THAN PROACTIVE JUST BECAUSE ONCE THE SHIFT OR ONCE THE
02:40:20 DISPERSION HAPPENS, YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY HARD FOR US TO GO
02:40:24 EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME. >> OKAY.
02:40:27 AND THEN WHEN WE CONDUCT AN ENFORCEMENT OPERATION THAT DOES
02:40:31 DISRUPT DRUG ACTIVITY IN A PARTICULAR AREA OR LOCATION,
02:40:35 HOW LONG DOES THAT DISRUPTION LAST AND HOW HOW CONSISTENTLY
02:40:39 OR HOW PERSISTENTLY DOES THE ENFORCEMENT ACTION NEED TO STAY
02:40:43 THERE TO PREVENT THEM FROM REESTABLISHING ITSELF?
02:40:48 >> EVERY AREA IS DIFFERENT. AS AN EXAMPLE, IN THE BEGINNING
02:40:58 IN U.N. PLAZA IT TOOK US ABOUT NINE MONTHS TO REALLY CHANGE
02:41:01 THE CULTURE OF U.N. PLAZA AND IT WASN'T JUST A LAW
02:41:06 ENFORCEMENT CHANGE. IT REALLY REQUIRED A LOT OF
02:41:09 OTHER FOLKS TO COME TO THE TABLE WITH DPW CLEANING PARK
02:41:13 AND REC I THINK WAS INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS AS WELL.
02:41:21 I MEAN THAT THERE'S A REAL THERE'S A HUGE LONG LAUNDRY
02:41:22 LIST OF OTHER AGENCIES THAT GET INVOLVED SO THAT THAT THAT'S
02:41:29 U.N. PLAZA SIXTH STREET ON THE OTHER HAND IS VERY IT'S A VERY
02:41:33 DIFFERENT CULTURE JUST AS 16TH AND MISSION IS A VERY DIFFERENT
02:41:39 CULTURE. SO EACH LOCATION THAT WE GO
02:41:42 INTO TAKES DIFFERENT TIME. >> THANK YOU.
02:41:46 AND YEAH I'VE SEEN THE LESS VISIBLE DRASTIC CHANGE IN IN
02:41:49 TERMS OF THE U.N. PLAZA GOING FROM WHAT IT WAS TO WHAT IT IS
02:41:54 NOW. SO THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS
02:41:55 THAT'S WHEN PEOPLE FROM THE SUNSET GO TO THE CIVIC CENTER
02:42:00 OR THE REST OF THE CITY. >> THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY
02:42:01 THEY DO NOTICE. SO FOR FOR THAT EFFORT DID YOU
02:42:07 HAVE TO PLACE OFFICERS THERE PERMANENTLY STATIONED THERE OR
02:42:12 DID THEY CAN ROTATE IN OR PATROL BACK AND FORTH TO TO
02:42:16 MAKE THE MAKE THEIR PRESENCE KNOWN TO PREVENT THAT ACTIVITY
02:42:20 ALL OF THE ABOVE D-MAX I MEAN D-MAX FRONT DOORSTEP WAS ACROSS
02:42:25 THE STREET WHICH WAS VERY BENEFICIAL AND WE LEVERAGED OUR
02:42:32 DISTRICT STATION OUR DISTRICT STATION TENDERLOIN CONSTANTLY
02:42:36 DOING PASSING CALLS, CONSTANTLY HAVE AN OFFICERS PRESENT.
02:42:39 I THINK AT ONE POINT WE HAD A COMMAND VAN ON THE CORNER OF
02:42:43 SEVENTH AND MARKET. I MEAN IT WAS JUST YOU KNOW, IT
02:42:44 WAS REALLY, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE EPICENTER OF, YOU KNOW, THE
02:42:48 DRUG MARKET. >> SO I WOULD SAY ALL OF THE
02:42:51 ALL OF THE ABOVE AND YOU KNOW, FOR FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT
02:42:55 DEPLOYMENT. THANK YOU.
02:42:55 YES. WHEN I TALK TO MY CONSTITUENTS
02:42:59 THEY'VE NOTICED VISIBLE CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENT IS WHEN THEY
02:43:02 COME TO COME TO DOWNTOWN. SO I I THINK THAT'S A THAT'S A
02:43:06 WIN BUT STILL A LOT OF WORK TO DO.
02:43:09 THERE IS A LOT OF WORK TO DO AND IT TAKES TIME AND YOU KNOW
02:43:11 WE'VE WE'VE WORKED YOU KNOW YOU KNOW I HAVE TO GIVE YOU KNOW
02:43:15 KUDOS TO EVERY AGENCY THAT'S AT THE TABLE INCLUDING THE
02:43:18 OFFICERS THAT ARE DOING THIS WORK.
02:43:20 >> ONE, IT'S NOT EASY AND TO YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED
02:43:25 OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST THREE PLUS YEARS IS THAT THINGS
02:43:29 DON'T IT JUST TAKES TIME TO SEE IMPROVEMENT AND WE HAVE SEEN A
02:43:33 LOT OF GOOD IMPROVEMENT. >> BUT LIKE YOU SAID, WE THERE
02:43:37 IS A LOT OF WORK TO DO AND THEN WHAT EVIDENCE DO WE HAVE THAT
02:43:40 WE ARE REDUCING THE VOLUME OF THE DRUGS BEING SOLD AND MAKING
02:43:44 THOSE MARKETS LESS PROFITABLE AS OPPOSED TO DRIVING UP THE
02:43:48 PRICES? SO I WOULD SAY THAT ANOTHER YOU
02:43:55 KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT PRICE ALREADY.
02:43:59 I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT SUPPLY.
02:44:00 SO AT ONE POINT IN TIME THE DRUG DEALERS WHEN THEY WERE
02:44:04 COMING IN IT WOULD NOT BE IT WOULD NOT BE OUT OF THE
02:44:07 ORDINARY WHEN THESE NARCOTICS OFFICERS WERE DOING THEIR WORK
02:44:11 OUT THERE DOING THEIR BUST OPERATION AND SPOTTING
02:44:14 OPERATIONS WHERE WHEN THEY WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE A SEIZURE
02:44:16 FROM AN INDIVIDUAL SELLING AT SOME SOMETIMES THESE THESE
02:44:20 FOLKS WOULD HAVE A POUND TO 2 POUNDS OF NARCOTICS ON THEIR
02:44:25 PERSON AT ONE TIME. NOW THEIR DEALING IN MUCH
02:44:29 SMALLER AMOUNTS AN OUNCE OR TWO AT A TIME.
02:44:32 >> THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT THE VOLUME OF
02:44:36 NARCOTICS IS NOT STILL OUT THERE.
02:44:37 BUT WHAT THEY'RE BRINGING ON THEIR PERSONS IS A LOT SMALLER
02:44:41 AMOUNTS. >> OKAY.
02:44:41 THANK YOU. AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT
02:44:44 ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THE CONDITIONS THAT ARE OUR STREETS THAT WE
02:44:48 HAD SEVERAL YEARS AGO WERE UNACCEPTABLE AND THAT'S NOT
02:44:51 NORMAL FOR ANY CIVILIZED CITY AND THE CONDITIONS THAT WE
02:44:56 STILL HAVE THEY'VE IMPROVED. THEY'RE STILL NOT ACCEPTABLE
02:44:59 AND WE STILL HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO.
02:45:00 BUT I'M PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THE CITY HAS DONE TO ADDRESS IT
02:45:03 AND MAKE IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE WORK THAT OLD IS DOING AND THAT
02:45:10 PRO-SOCIAL WORK TO MAKE ACTIVATE THE COMMUNITY.
02:45:13 >> I SUPPORT THAT FOR SUPPORTING TREATMENT
02:45:18 AND RECOVERY SUPPORT THE WORK THAT YOU DO AND GETTING PEOPLE
02:45:22 TO HELP THAT THEY NEED AND SERVE.
02:45:23 PD ARRESTING THE DRUG DEALERS I SUPPORT THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
02:45:26 I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT ABUNDANTLY CLEAR.
02:45:30 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
02:45:31 WE APPRECIATE THAT. AND YOU SUPERVISOR WONG
02:45:33 AND PRESIDENT BENJAMIN THANK YOU CHAIR SARTOR THANK YOU THE
02:45:40 COMMITTEE FOR YOUR TOLERANCE OF A VERY LONG DAY.
02:45:44 >> I HAVE A COUPLE QUICK POINTS AND THEN PROBABLY WE SHOULD GET
02:45:48 TO PUBLIC COMMENT. >> CHIEF BIGGS, YOUR COLLOQUY
02:45:54 WITH OR DIALOG WITH SUPERVISOR FIELDER REMINDED ME OF SOME
02:45:58 THINGS AND I JUST WANT TO ACTUALLY REALLY EXPLORE.
02:46:02 >> SO UNACCEPTABLE FOR A POLICE OFFICER TO DRIVE AWAY WHEN
02:46:06 THERE'S PUBLIC DRUG USE HAPPENING AND AND PEOPLE ARE
02:46:10 ASKING THAT OFFICER FOR HELP BUT IF THAT OFFICER HAD GONE
02:46:18 FROM WHEREVER HE WAS GOT OUT OF HIS CAR OR WALKED OVER ACROSS
02:46:22 THE STREET, WHAT WOULD HE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO TO PEOPLE WHO
02:46:25 WERE PUBLICLY USING IF THE OFFICER SAW THE INDIVIDUAL
02:46:33 USING NARCOTICS HIMSELF, SAW HERSELF, SAW MISDEMEANOR SITE
02:46:37 AND RELEASE ON SCENE AND RELEASE AND WHAT DOES SIGHT
02:46:41 AND RELEASE MEAN? >> CITATION SO MISDEMEANOR
02:46:45 CITATION SO ARREST YEAH BUT NOT A CUSTODIAL ARREST.
02:46:49 RIGHT SO TICKET TICKET AND YOU KNOW COME BACK TO COURT
02:46:53 SOMETIME. GIVE A DATE SEE YOU IN 30 DAYS.
02:46:56 >> YEAH AND AT SOME POINT THE OFFICER LEAVES AND THEN THE
02:46:59 OFFICER WILL RIGHT? >> YEAH.
02:47:00 YEAH. I MEAN THE OFFICER WOULD
02:47:01 PROBABLY OBVIOUSLY HAVE THE INDIVIDUAL MOVE FROM THAT
02:47:04 LOCATION AND THEN THE OFFICER THE ABILITY TO DO THAT HAS THE
02:47:08 ABILITY TO DO BUT THE PERSON CAN COME BACK AFTER THE
02:47:09 OFFICERS LEFT. >> THAT IS CORRECT.
02:47:12 OKAY. ALL RIGHT.
02:47:13 AND THEN SO AND I THINK THIS MAYBE GOES A LITTLE BIT TO LIKE
02:47:20 THE POTENTIAL CHALLENGES AROUND THE RESET CENTER WHO CAN GO TO
02:47:23 RESET IF I AM SIMPLY IF I HAVE USED AND I'M SHOWING SOME
02:47:30 SYMPTOMS OF LIKE MY USE CAN I BE TAKEN TO THE RESET CENTER 18
02:47:36 OR OVER I'M 18 OR OVER NO MEDICAL ISSUES.
02:47:40 NO MEDICAL ISSUES. I'M JUST I'M HIGH.
02:47:41 YEAH, YOU'RE HIGH. YEAH.
02:47:42 IF THE DETERMINED ATION IS MADE THAT YOU'RE UNABLE TO CARE FOR
02:47:45 YOURSELF I HAVE TO BE UNABLE TO CARE FOR MYSELF.
02:47:49 >> THAT'S PRETTY HIGH STANDARD. THAT IS A HIGHER STANDARD.
02:47:50 OKAY, SO MOST OF THE PEOPLE ON THE PLAZA OR AROUND DO THEY
02:47:53 MEET THAT STANDARD. I WOULD SAY IF YOU ARE SMOKING
02:47:57 FENTANYL AND YOU KNOW YOU COULD IT COULD VERY WELL POTENTIALLY
02:48:01 BE AT THAT STANDARD. YES, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT
02:48:04 FENTANYL KILLS PEOPLE. >> WELL, THE REASON I ASK THAT
02:48:08 BECAUSE I DID HAVE THE EXPERIENCE YESTERDAY I HAD A
02:48:11 GREAT VISIT TO THE RESEARCH CENTER.
02:48:12 I THINK OTHER PEOPLE HAVE IN THE RESET CENTER AND THEY
02:48:16 DID TALK ABOUT THERE ARE TIMES EVERY WEEK WHEN THEY ARE FULL
02:48:19 THERE WERE THREE PEOPLE IN THERE ON A YOU KNOW,
02:48:23 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON WHICH WAS INTERESTING TO ME AND I THINK
02:48:30 HIGHLIGHTS I THINK WHAT'S GOING ON THERE IS THE DIFFICULTY OF
02:48:32 GETTING THE SET OF FOLKS WHO ARE UNABLE TO CARE FOR
02:48:38 THEMSELVES THERE FOR MEETING THE CRITERIA FOR DETENTION
02:48:42 IN THAT WAY AND THEN TAKEN THERE AND I THINK IT'S IT MAY
02:48:49 BE HARD TO LIKE BUT I THINK THE PUBLIC WOULD LIKE IS CLEAR THE
02:48:53 AREA THERE ARE BUNCH OF PEOPLE THERE USING THEIR HIGH ARREST
02:48:59 THEM AND TAKE AND FIND DON'T TAKE THEM TO JAIL TAKE THEM TO
02:49:03 THE RESEARCH CENTER. >> THAT'S GREAT.
02:49:04 I THINK WHAT YOUR OFFICERS AND THE RESEARCH CENTER MAY BE
02:49:07 EXPERIENCING IS OKAY, HOLD ON NOW WE HAVE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE
02:49:12 WHO HAVE USED DRUGS BUT NOT ALL OF THEM ARE UNABLE TO CARE FOR
02:49:17 THEMSELVES AND MEET THE STANDARD OF THAT WOULD BE
02:49:20 NEEDED TO GET THEM AT THE RESET CENTER.
02:49:23 >> YEAH SO I'LL ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE CAN ALSO
02:49:26 USE THE 11 550 CODE FOR SOMEONE USING DRUGS IN PUBLIC
02:49:29 AND THAT'S ALSO A CODE THAT WE CAN USE TO BRING SOMEONE TO THE
02:49:31 RESET CENTER AND TRANSPORT THEM IF THEY'RE USING SO OFFICER
02:49:34 PHYSICALLY HAS TO SEE SOMEONE LIKE WITH THE PIPE.
02:49:38 >> SO WE'RE WE'RE GOING THROUGH THESE VERY NARROW KEYHOLES.
02:49:41 >> YES. TO GET PEOPLE OFF OF THE
02:49:44 STREETS. OKAY.
02:49:48 I THINK THERE IS A DISCONNECT BETWEEN THE CONVERSATION THAT
02:49:55 POLITICIANS HERE WANT TO HAVE WITH YOU OR MAYBE THE
02:49:59 DEPARTMENT OR MAYBE THE ADMINISTRATION BECAUSE WE NEED
02:50:03 TO KNOW OVERALL THINGS BETTER, WORSE AND THEN IN THIS AREA ARE
02:50:10 THINGS BETTER OR WORSE? YOU CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION
02:50:14 AND YOU MIGHT NOT BE THE BRIGHT PERSON TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW
02:50:18 THE CITY THINKS ABOUT I THINK YOU AREN'T I THINK THIS IS A
02:50:19 MAYOR'S OFFICE KIND OF A QUESTION BUT WE NEED A WAY TO
02:50:26 THINK ABOUT OVERALL ARE WE BETTER ON MISSION STREET?
02:50:30 ARE WE BETTER IN THE CASTRO? ARE WE BETTER?
02:50:33 AND IT STILL FEELS TO ME AFTER THIS HEARING LIKE IT'S ALL GOT
02:50:37 AND THAT MEANS THAT WHEN SUPERVISOR MAHMOOD WANTS TO GET
02:50:41 SOME RESOURCES AVAILABLE AND GET SOME OF GET SOME FOLKS
02:50:45 OUT OF THAT OUT OF HIS VALLEY OR THE TENDERLOIN AND TAKEN TO
02:50:49 THE RESET CENTER, YOU CAN'T SAY TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WHO ARE
02:50:53 AROUND THE RESET CENTER YOUR AREA HAS GOTTEN BETTER.
02:50:56 SO ACTUALLY DON'T WORRY WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO BRING IN SOME
02:51:00 MORE PEOPLE. WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE SOME
02:51:01 RELIEF TO ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD AND THIS ISN'T GOING TO MAKE
02:51:04 YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD WORSE. AND I HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT THE
02:51:07 PEOPLE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD RIGHT NOW ARE LIKE THINGS
02:51:09 HAVEN'T BEEN BUT THINGS HAVEN'T GOTTEN BETTER.
02:51:10 THIS HAS ONLY MADE THINGS WORSE AND WE HAVE NO WAY OF SHOWING
02:51:13 THEM EITHER YOU'RE RIGHT OR YOU'RE WRONG.
02:51:18 >> WE CAN'T LIKE HAVE AN ACTUAL NUMBERS BASED CONVERSATION AT
02:51:22 LEAST THAT I HAVE SEEN IN ANY OF THE PRESENTATIONS AND I
02:51:24 THINK THAT'S A PROBLEM. >> YEAH.
02:51:26 I MEAN I DON'T AGAIN I DON'T REALLY WANT TO BE PUTTING YOU
02:51:28 ON THE SPOT BECAUSE BUT IF YOU WANT TO TRY TO RESPOND TO ANY
02:51:31 OF THAT I THINK I THINK I WILL. >> WHAT I WILL SAY ABOUT THAT
02:51:34 IS I'M JUST DOING THE WORK AT DIMMOCK FOR YOU KNOW, TWO AND A
02:51:41 HALF PLUS YEARS. IS THAT ONE OF THE HARDEST
02:51:44 THINGS THAT WE REALLY NEVER COULD PUT OUR FINGER ON WAS HOW
02:51:51 COMMUNITY FELT ABOUT CONDITIONS ON ANY CERTAIN BLOCK WITHOUT
02:51:55 COMMUNICATING WITH THOSE FOLKS IN PERSON.
02:51:59 SO THERE WAS NO REAL YOU KNOW, IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS
02:52:02 ALWAYS A CHALLENGE FOR US AND I THINK THAT GOES TO WHAT YOU'RE
02:52:07 SAYING. YOU KNOW, OVERALL, YOU KNOW,
02:52:10 I'LL DEFER TO POTENTIALLY SOMEBODY ELSE FOR THE OVERALL
02:52:14 ANSWER. BUT INDYMAC IT WAS ALWAYS LIKE
02:52:18 WE COULD NEVER PHYSICALLY MEASURE WHAT AND HOW COMMUNITY
02:52:22 FELT WITHOUT HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH INDIVIDUAL
02:52:25 PEOPLE YOU HAD OVER YOU DID IT DEMAK AND YOU HAVE MEASURED
02:52:28 MAYBE YOU'RE JUST DOING IT BY EYEBALL BUT YEAH, GAZILLION
02:52:32 DRUG DRUG DEALERS DOWN TO NO DRUG DEALERS THAT WE CAN SEE.
02:52:37 >> YEAH BUT WE ARE YES. >> DURING THESE PARTICULAR
02:52:40 HOURS CORRECT. SO THAT'S LIKE A THING THAT YOU
02:52:44 CAN POINT OUT AND AND I THINK THAT'S HARD TO DO CITYWIDE BUT
02:52:48 IT WORKED FOR THE DEMOCRAT. YEAH.
02:52:51 >> FOR A SMALL GEOGRAPHICAL AREA.
02:52:52 ALL RIGHT MAYBE WE SHOULD GET A PUBLIC COMMENT UNLESS OUR CHAIR
02:52:55 HAS HIS OWN QUESTIONS. >> I DO.
02:52:56 IF YOU'RE INDULGE ME. >> I KNOW WE'RE GETTING LATE.
02:53:02 >> I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS. AND FIRST JUST ON ON SLIDE 15
02:53:08 FROM S.F. PD THE WHAT'S COMING NEXT?
02:53:12 I WOULD HAVE I'D LIKE TO SEE THIS BUILT OUT MORE I'D LIKE TO
02:53:16 SEE MORE SPECIFICS, MORE TIMELINES.
02:53:20 WE'RE OBVIOUSLY TALKING A LOT ABOUT WHAT'S BEEN DONE, HOW
02:53:24 IT'S BEEN GOING, THE CHALLENGES BUT I THINK WE ALL WANT TO COME
02:53:28 AWAY FROM A HEARING LIKE THIS ON MORE MORE SPECIFICS.
02:53:31 WHAT IS THERE TO LOOK FORWARD TO?
02:53:33 WHAT IS THERE TO BE HOPEFUL ABOUT AND DIFFERENT CONTEXT.
02:53:39 BUT THIS MORNING ANOTHER UNIT FROM SFP WE HAD VERY SPECIFIC
02:53:43 NEXT STEPS WE HAD TIMELINES SO I'LL JUST PUSH YOU TO GO
02:53:47 FURTHER ON THIS. I THINK PERHAPS AFTER THIS
02:53:51 CONVERSATION THIS CAN BE SHARPENED UP THE WANT GO BACK
02:53:58 TO THE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT ARRESTS OF DRUG DEALERS VERSUS
02:54:05 DRUG USERS CAN YOU JUST TELL ME MORE ABOUT HOW THAT COMES TO BE
02:54:13 LIKE IS THERE DO YOU HAVE A PARTICULAR AT THIS MOMENT OR
02:54:17 HOW HAS IT CHANGED THROUGH THE PAST?
02:54:21 LIKE WHAT IS YOUR PRIORITY AND YOU ARE YOU ARRESTING MORE
02:54:24 DRUG USERS BECAUSE IT'S EASIER MORE VISIBLE OR IS THAT
02:54:28 ACTUALLY WHAT YOU'RE PRIORITIZING?
02:54:32 AND OF COURSE ALL OF THIS IN THE CONTEXT THAT AT LEAST
02:54:33 WITHIN THE MAX ZONE THE DEALER ARRESTS ARE GOING DOWN WHICH
02:54:39 WALK US THROUGH THAT SO OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY IS ALWAYS
02:54:44 DRUG TRAFFICKING. THAT IS THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN
02:54:48 OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY AT DEMARK IS THAT WE HAVE TO
02:54:51 ATTACK SUPPLY COMING INTO OUR CITY WHEN WE'VE REDUCED THE
02:54:58 AMOUNT OF DEALERS IN OUR CITY THEN AND WHEN WE REDUCE THE
02:55:02 AMOUNT OF DEALERS IN THE CITY AND PUSH IT INTO THE LATER
02:55:06 NIGHT HOURS THERE YOU KNOW IT'S NOT I DON'T I DON'T WANT TO SEE
02:55:13 IT'S THERE ARE MORE DRUG USERS DURING DAYTIME HOURS ON OUR
02:55:17 STREETS THAT WE'RE CAUSING ISSUES FOR A LOT OF THE
02:55:21 NEIGHBORS OR THE NEIGHBORHOODS. SO WE INTENTIONALLY CHOSE TO
02:55:25 SHIFT TO ADDRESSED I'M SORRY ADDRESS QUALITY OF LIFE TYPE
02:55:33 CRIMES. AND SO IF THERE ARE FEW DEALERS
02:55:37 AND THERE ARE YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY THERE'S TEN DEALERS
02:55:38 AND THERE'S 200 USERS, IT'S OBVIOUSLY A LOT EASIER
02:55:40 MISDEMEANOR CRIMES, OPEN AIR DRUG USAGE YOU KNOW FOLKS UNDER
02:55:45 THE INFLUENCE YOU KNOW THERE'S MORE FOR OUR OFFICERS TO DO
02:55:52 RATHER THAN IF THERE'S A LIMITED NUMBER OF DRUG DEALERS
02:55:56 OUT ON THE STREET. >> I THINK THAT ANSWERS THE
02:55:59 QUESTION. SO ARE YOU THE THE THE SMALLER
02:56:03 NUMBER OF DRUG DEALER ARRESTS IS THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE HARDER
02:56:07 TO GO AFTER THERE'S FEWER OF THEM?
02:56:08 WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS THERE. >> I THINK IT'S ALL OF THE
02:56:11 ABOVE. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE FEWER OF
02:56:15 THEM PUSHED INTO THE LATER EVENING HOURS INTO THE NIGHT.
02:56:18 YOU KNOW, IT DOES TAKE TIME TO DO INVESTIGATIONS.
02:56:22 WE DO FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO APPLY PRESSURE NOT JUST TO
02:56:26 STREET LEVEL SALES. WE ALSO NEED TO APPLY PRESSURE
02:56:30 TO, YOU KNOW, WRITING SEARCH WARRANTS GOING UP THE LADDER.
02:56:34 FEDERAL PARTNERSHIP AND REALLY TRYING TO GO UP THE LADDER
02:56:38 HIGHER TO WHERE WE GET LARGER SEIZURES AND YOU KNOW, PULL
02:56:45 NARCOTICS, YOU KNOW, OUT OF, YOU KNOW, THE EAST BAY
02:56:47 AND PRESUMABLY IF YOU HAD THIS NIGHTTIME NARCOTICS UNIT I MEAN
02:56:50 THAT NUMBER WOULD SHOOT BACK UP .
02:56:53 >> YOU THINK? YEAH.
02:56:53 I MEAN IF WE WERE TO DO IT YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE TO DO IT FIVE
02:56:56 DAYS A WEEK AT NIGHT. >> YEAH SURE.
02:56:57 NATURALLY. >> CAN YOU TELL ME A LITTLE BIT
02:57:00 ABOUT MAYBE JUST TAKING A STEP BACK WHO ARE THE DRUG DEALERS
02:57:03 IN SAN FRANCISCO OR IS IT THE SAME FOLKS?
02:57:08 IS IT INDIVIDUAL ACTORS? ARE THEY HIGHLY ORGANIZED?
02:57:12 WHAT IS IT LOOK LIKE TODAY AND HOW HAS IT EVOLVED OR NOT
02:57:15 EVOLVED OVER THESE LAST FEW YEARS?
02:57:18 SO PRIMARILY IT'S THE SAME FOLKS WHO ARE DEALING ON THE
02:57:22 DRUGS ON A SMALLER SCALE IN OUR CITY.
02:57:26 SO SAME SAME FOLKS THAT WE'RE DOING IT IN 2023 AT THE
02:57:30 INCEPTION OF DIMOCK YOU KNOW, WE DO SEE IN DIFFERENT
02:57:34 NEIGHBORHOODS DIFFERENT METHODS OF SELLING SO NOT NECESSARILY
02:57:42 INDOORS. WE DO SEE I'M SORRY NOT
02:57:45 NECESSARILY OUTDOORS BUT WE DO SEE INDOORS AND WE DO DO
02:57:49 INVESTIGATIONS INTO THOSE TYPES OF INVESTIGATIVE ARE INTO THOSE
02:57:53 TYPES OF DRUG DEALING INVESTIGATIONS.
02:57:54 SO IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT EVERYWHERE IN ARE THESE
02:58:00 INDIVIDUALS WHO LIVE IN SAN FRANCISCO OR ARE THESE
02:58:02 INDIVIDUALS WHO LIVE AN HOUR AWAY, THREE HOURS AWAY?
02:58:05 >> I MEAN WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM?
02:58:08 SO THE MAJORITY OF THE NIGHTTIME DEALING THAT IS
02:58:09 HAPPENING THE INDIVIDUALS ARE COMING FROM THE EAST BAY.
02:58:19 THANK YOU. I HAVE I THINK I HAVE ONE
02:58:23 QUESTION FOR ACTUALLY I THINK DO WE HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM
02:58:26 BART HERE? IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND JUST A
02:58:30 QUESTION FOR YOU AND MAYBE A WOULD LOVE IN GENERAL TO GET
02:58:34 YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON ANYTHING TODAY AND THEN ALSO
02:58:39 SPECIFICALLY ASK YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT JUST TO REMIND ME THE
02:58:42 JURISDICTION OF YOUR AGENCY AS IT RELATES OBVIOUSLY TO
02:58:46 STATIONS, ELEVATORS, ESCALATORS UP TO THE PLAZAS THAT WE'VE
02:58:47 BEEN TALKING ABOUT. >> IF YOU COULD JUST HELP LAY
02:58:50 THAT GROUNDWORK, MR. CHAIR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR CALLING
02:58:54 BART UP. MY NAME IS ROD LEE.
02:58:55 I'M THE ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER AT BART RESPONSIBLE FOR
02:58:58 EXTERNAL AFFAIRS AND I'M WITH OUR COMMANDER FROM OUR BART
02:59:02 POLICE DEPARTMENT, ERIC WHITE. I WANT TO FIRST START OFF BY
02:59:05 SAYING OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS BART HAS BEEN LASER FOCUSED
02:59:09 IN REGARDS TO IMPROVING THE RIDER EXPERIENCE AND INCREASING
02:59:13 OUR RIDERSHIP AND WE'VE FOCUSED KEENLY ON SAFETY, CLEANLINESS
02:59:20 AND RELIABILITY AND MOST RECENTLY OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE
02:59:25 REPORTED TO US THAT 91% OF THEM ARE SATISFIED WITH THE SERVICE
02:59:29 THAT WE'RE PROVIDING SINCE 2024 OUR CRIME RATE NOW HAS GONE
02:59:38 DOWN 67%. >> SO WE ARE DOING ALL WE CAN
02:59:43 TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT IS PRESENT IN THE
02:59:44 SYSTEM ON OUR TRAINS AND IN OUR STATIONS IN OUR PLAZA AREAS
02:59:50 THAT WE HAVE THROUGHOUT OUR SYSTEM AND OUR RIDERS ARE
02:59:52 SEEING THE DIFFERENCE. JUST THIS WEEK WE HAD TWO OF
02:59:54 OUR HIGHEST RIDERSHIP DAYS SINCE THE PANDEMIC SO THOSE
02:59:58 CHANGES ARE BEING SEEN EARLIER AND MENTIONED ABOUT THE FARE
03:00:02 GATES WE EXPEDITE IT GETTING THOSE FARE GATES INTO THE
03:00:07 MISSION STREET STATIONS IN ORDER TO FORTIFY THE
03:00:10 SECURITY AT THOSE STATIONS. WE'VE INCREASED THE LIGHTING
03:00:13 IN THOSE PLAZAS. TO DO THAT THE COMMANDER WILL
03:00:15 TALK ABOUT HIS DEPLOYMENT AND THE INCREASED PRESENCE THAT
03:00:18 WE HAVE IN THOSE THOSE PLAZAS, THOSE PLAZAS OUT OF 26 CITIES
03:00:25 THAT WE OPERATE IN IN FIVE COUNTIES ARE OUR MOST
03:00:28 CHALLENGING AREA RIGHT NOW. SO IT IS BEEN VERY HELPFUL THAT
03:00:31 THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, DPW YOU OPW E W D AS WELL AS SAN FRANCISCO
03:00:40 POLICE DEPARTMENT HAVE BEEN PARTNERING WITH US OVER THE
03:00:41 LAST SEVERAL MONTHS TO REALLY ADDRESS THIS CRISIS THAT WE
03:00:44 HAVE IN THOSE PLAZAS. IT TAKES A COLLECTIVE EFFORT
03:00:47 FOR US TO TO ADDRESS THOSE. WE UNDERSTAND THE MAGNITUDE OF
03:00:51 IT. IT'S CHALLENGING FOR OUR RIDERS
03:00:52 GETTING INTO AND OUT OF THOSE STATIONS BECAUSE OF THE
03:00:56 CONDITIONS IN THAT THOSE THOSE PLAZAS WE'VE GOT YOUTH HERE
03:01:00 TODAY I'M OUT OF THOSE PLAZAS QUITE FREQUENTLY WITH OUR
03:01:03 GENERAL MANAGER AND WE SEE CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES
03:01:08 WALKING PAST THOSE CONDITIONS. SO WE TAKE THIS VERY SERIOUSLY
03:01:11 BUT IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO TAKE A COLLECTIVE EFFORT WITH
03:01:15 THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO IN ORDER FOR US TO EFFECTIVELY
03:01:16 ADDRESS THESE AFTERNOON. ERIC WHITE ZONE FOUR ZONE FIVE
03:01:24 COMMANDER FROM BART POLICE THAT COVERS EVERYTHING FROM
03:01:27 EMBARCADERO TO MILLBRAE INCLUDING THE AIRPORT.
03:01:31 OUT OF ALL OF THAT I WOULD SAY FULLY 75% OR MORE OF MY TIME
03:01:35 RIGHT NOW IS FOCUSED ON TRYING TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS IN THE
03:01:39 MISSION. WE UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEMS THAT
03:01:43 ARE GOING ON AT THOSE PLAZAS AND JUST GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF THE
03:01:47 COMMITMENT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE TO IT.
03:01:48 I KNOW THE SIBLINGS HAVE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT STAFFING.
03:01:51 I HATE TO BE A BROKEN RECORD BUT WE'RE EXPERIENCING A LOT OF
03:01:54 THE SAME ISSUES AND WE ALSO HAVE THE WELL-PUBLICIZED
03:01:58 IMPENDING FISCAL CLIFF COMING UP.
03:02:02 ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE WE ARE STILL INVESTING OUR LIMITED
03:02:05 RESOURCES IS IN OVERTIME FOR OUR OFFICERS TO COME OUT TO THE
03:02:08 MISSION SO WE CAN HAVE DEDICATED OFFICERS TO THOSE TWO
03:02:12 STATIONS. MY NORMAL DEPLOYMENT RIGHT NOW
03:02:15 YOU KNOW I HEAR DC BIGS UP HERE TALKING ABOUT HAVING 14
03:02:19 OFFICERS JUST FOR NARCOTICS UNIT AND FEEL THE JEALOUSY I
03:02:20 HAVE FOUR COPS AND A SERGEANT FOR THE ENTIRE DOWNTOWN
03:02:26 AND MISSION AREA FOR SIX STATIONS WITH THE ADDITION OF
03:02:29 THE TWO OVERTIME OFFICERS I HAVE ONE OFFICER PER STATION
03:02:32 THERE ARE DEPLOYED IN TEAMS OF TWO SO THAT'S NOT QUITE THE HOW
03:02:35 IT WORKS OUT BUT OUR RESOURCES ARE EXTREMELY LIMITED AND WE'RE
03:02:39 TRYING TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF THEM AS WE CAN.
03:02:42 >> IN ADDITION TO THOSE FOUR REGULAR OFFICERS AND EXTRA TWO
03:02:45 OVERTIME OFFICERS, WE ALSO HAVE CRISIS INTERVENTION SPECIALISTS
03:02:48 WHO HAVE A BROADER AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY BUT THEY ARE
03:02:53 FOCUSING ON THE MISSION CLAUSES AS WELL.
03:02:56 WE ALSO HAVE A CRITICAL ASSET PROTECTION TEAM THAT'S A
03:02:57 SERGEANT AND I BELIEVE EIGHT OFFICERS RIGHT NOW THEIR FOCUS
03:03:04 IS SPREAD ACROSS THE DISTRICT BUT SHOWING AN EXTRA PRESENCE
03:03:08 OUT HERE IN THE CITY AND PARTICULARLY IN THE MISSION
03:03:10 IS ONE OF THEIR PRIORITIES. WE ACTUALLY HAD THEM FIXED POST
03:03:13 IN THE MISSION, PARTICULARLY 16TH STREET ABOUT A YEAR AGO
03:03:18 AND IT WAS HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IN KEEPING THE PLAZAS CLEAR BUT
03:03:22 IT WAS UNSUSTAINABLE. THAT'S A TEAM THAT HAS
03:03:26 RESPONSIBILITIES LIKE I SAID IN ALL OVER THE DISTRICT AND WE
03:03:29 CAN ONLY DEVOTE THEM TO ONE STATION FOR A LIMITED AMOUNT OF
03:03:31 TIME. WE DO HAVE A DETECTIVE WITH ME
03:03:34 TO COUNTER NARCOTICS TASK FORCE AND WE ARE AWARE OF THE LINK
03:03:38 BETWEEN THE EAST BAY SUPPLY COMING OUT HERE INTO THE CITY.
03:03:44 SO OUR DETECTIVES HAVE BROUGHT HCF OUT TO THE MISSION TO TO
03:03:48 RUN OPS TRYING TO STEM THAT TIDE BUT YET IT COMES BACK TO
03:03:52 IF WE HAD MORE COPS WE COULD DO MORE.
03:03:56 BUT THAT'S WHAT THE PICTURE LOOKS LIKE FOR US RIGHT NOW.
03:03:59 THANK YOU FOR THE OVER I MEAN I'VE I'VE FELT AND I'VE SEEN
03:04:03 THE NUMBERS THAT BEAR THAT SAFETY ON BART IS IMPROVING
03:04:06 I'VE SEEN MORE OF YOUR PRESENCE THERE PARTICULARLY IN THE
03:04:10 STATIONS ON THE TRAINS. I THINK THERE'S PROGRESS THERE.
03:04:14 OBVIOUSLY STILL A LOT OF WORK TO DO IN THE PLAZA THEMSELVES.
03:04:18 >> ARE YOU I THINK WHAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM US IS THE WORK OF
03:04:25 OUR IWD IS FANTASTIC BUT HOW DO WE MAKE THAT MORE PERMANENT,
03:04:29 MORE ENDURING? ARE YOU ABLE TO BE A PARTNER
03:04:33 IN THAT AND SPECIFICALLY A FINANCIAL PARTNER IN MAKING
03:04:36 THOSE INVESTMENTS IN THE PLAZAS AND VERY DIFFERENT SITUATION
03:04:43 WITH THE CONDITIONS? BUT YOU KNOW I THINK OF SOME OF
03:04:45 THE IMPROVEMENTS MADE AT THE BERKELEY PLAZA AND HOW YOU'VE
03:04:48 GOT A COFFEE CART THERE, YOU KNOW, PRETTY MUCH AROUND THE
03:04:52 CLOCK CAN WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO GET THAT IN SAN FRANCISCO,
03:04:56 PARTICULARLY IN THE MISSION? >> YEAH, MR. CHAIR,
03:04:59 UNEQUIVOCALLY WE ARE COMMITTED PARTNER TO THE CITY AND COUNTY
03:05:03 OF SAN FRANCISCO AND ALL OF OUR SERVICES THAT WE HAVE
03:05:07 THROUGHOUT THIS GREAT CITY BUT ESPECIALLY ON THOSE THOSE
03:05:08 PLAZAS. >> SO EVERYTHING IS ON THE
03:05:12 TABLE. WE'VE GOT GREAT DISCUSSIONS
03:05:15 THAT ARE HAPPENING WITH THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS UP TO THE
03:05:17 MAYOR'S OFFICE SO FUNDING IF THERE'S A DESIRE IN REGARDS TO
03:05:20 MAKING SOME PERMANENT CHANGES THE PLAZA OF COURSE WE'VE GOT
03:05:25 TO WE'VE GOT A BART DIRECTOR WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT
03:05:28 AREA SO HE'S GOT TO BE ON BOARD WITH ANYTHING THAT YOU KNOW WE
03:05:31 BRING FORWARD. BUT CERTAINLY EVERYTHING IS ON
03:05:32 THE TABLE FOR DISCUSSION IN REGARDS TO MAKING
03:05:36 IMPROVEMENTS AT THOSE PLAZAS. >> YEAH.
03:05:37 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE TODAY. AND WITH THAT, MADAM CLERK, CAN
03:05:44 WE GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT? >> YES.
03:05:44 MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM SHALL
03:05:48 LINE UP NOW ALONG THE SIDE BY THE WINDOWS.
03:05:50 >> ALL SPEAKERS WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES.
03:06:02 HOLA MIAMI KELLY IS DOING WORK TOGETHER.
03:06:06 YOU HEAR MARSHALL BROWN SQUAD? YES.
03:06:10 VERO KNOW MY GOALS ARE FOR ME NOT THAT THEY'RE NOT MY YOUNG
03:06:15 NOT THEIR
03:07:43 IS TRYING SO I'M GOING TO TRANSLATE HELLO MY NAME IS
03:07:47 MICHAEL I'M IN FOURTH GRADE AND I GO TO MARTIAL ARTS
03:07:51 SCHOOL. I LIVE JOSEPH A FEW BLOCKS AWAY
03:07:55 BUT I DON'T LIKE MY MORNING WALK TO SCHOOL FOR THE
03:07:56 FOLLOWING REASONS I HAVE A CONDITION THAT I'M WORKING ON.
03:07:59 I TEND TO PICK UP TRASH WHEREVER I GO EVEN THOUGH MY
03:08:02 PARENTS TELL ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN NOT TO DO IT.
03:08:07 I CAN'T CONTROL THE URGE. >> SORRY THIS IS VERY TOUCHY.
03:08:13 SEE DIRTY DANGEROUS THING ON THE STREETS CONSTANTLY PUTS AT
03:08:21 RISK. I ALSO HAVE A LITTLE BROTHER
03:08:26 WHO JUST STARTED KINDERGARTEN. I WOULD LIKE OUR SCHOOL
03:08:33 SURROUNDED AREAS TO BE SAFE BECAUSE HE STILL HAS MANY YEARS
03:08:37 AHEAD OF HIM IN MARCH AND I WANT IT TO BE A SAFE PLACE FOR
03:08:44 HIM AND HIS NEW FRIENDS. PLEASE HELP US IMPROVE THE
03:08:51 NEIGHBORHOOD AND KEEP THE STREETS FREE OF BUSINESS.
03:08:56 I CAN'T WE CAN'T ALL WALK TO SCHOOL FEELING SAFE AND AT
03:09:03 EASE. >> THANK YOU.
03:09:06 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER
03:11:29 NINE YEARS OLD. I'M IN FOURTH GRADE OF MARSHALL
03:11:30 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. I REALLY LOVE MY SCHOOL.
03:11:34 I LOVE PLAYING WITH MY FRIENDS. MY TEACHER IS REALLY NICE.
03:11:37 I GET TO DO LOTS OF FUN THINGS IN ART CLASS.
03:11:40 MY SCHOOL IS AMAZING BUT THE TRUTH IS SOMETIMES I FEEL A
03:11:42 LITTLE SCARED WHEN I WALK TO SCHOOL IN THE MORNING AND WHEN
03:11:45 WE LEAVE IN THE AFTERNOON THINGS HAPPEN AROUND MY SCHOOL
03:11:49 THAT I DON'T LIKE. I'VE SEEN DANGEROUS THINGS
03:11:53 LYING ON THE SIDEWALK THAT MY MOM TELLS ME I SHOULD NEVER
03:11:56 TOUCH. I ALSO DON'T LIKE IT WHEN WE
03:12:00 WALK DOWN THE STREET AND SEE PEOPLE LIVING ON SIDEWALKS
03:12:03 BECAUSE SOMETIMES THEIR PRIVATE PARTS ARE EXPOSED.
03:12:07 THEY YELL REALLY LOUDLY, SOMETIMES EVEN THROW THINGS AT
03:12:12 PEOPLE OR CARS THEY ALSO DO STRANGE THINGS THAT REALLY
03:12:16 SCARED ME. SOMETIMES I HAVE TO WALK FASTER
03:12:20 AND HOLD MY MOM'S HAND REALLY TIGHT BECAUSE I GET THIS
03:12:23 NERVOUS FEELING LIKE A LITTLE PIT IN MY STOMACH.
03:12:27 I WOULD REALLY LOVE IT IF MORE POLICE OFFICERS COULD COME
03:12:31 AND HELP US AND HELP KIDS KEEP US SAFE JUST LIKE OFFICER
03:12:36 GAMBLE DOES ESPECIALLY IN AREAS WHERE THEY ARE NEEDED MOST SO
03:12:40 THAT ALL KIDS CAN WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL, TO SCHOOL AND ARRIVE
03:12:44 FEELING CALM AND WITHOUT FEAR INSTEAD OF SEEING PEOPLE
03:12:48 SUFFERING AND YELLING IN THE STREETS.
03:12:51 I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE HAPPY PEOPLE FAMILIES WALKING
03:12:54 PEACEFULLY, FLOWER BEDS FULL OF COLORFUL FLOWERS, TREES
03:12:59 AND BEAUTIFUL THINGS ALL AROUND MY SCHOOL.
03:13:02 WE KIDS DESERVE A BEAUTIFUL PLACE WHERE WE CAN ALWAYS FEEL
03:13:06 SAFE. >> THANK YOU.
03:13:07 THANK YOU. THANK YOU.
03:13:10 >> NEXT SPEAKER HELLO. GOOD AFTERNOON.
03:13:14 MY NAME IS SARA DOMINGUEZ AND I AM IN THIRD GRADE AT MARSHALL
03:13:19 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND I MENTION IRENE.
03:13:22 I REALLY LIKE MY SCHOOL BUT I AM VERY AFRAID WHEN I WALK
03:13:26 ALONG 15TH IN 16TH STREET BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY IN HOUSE
03:13:32 PEOPLE THERE THERE WHO ARE OFTEN USING DRUGS FIGHTING,
03:13:36 SLEEPING IN THE AREAS WHERE I HAVE TO WALK AND USING THE
03:13:40 STREET AS A RESTROOM. THEY ALSO LEAVE DANGEROUS
03:13:44 SYRINGES AND TRASH LYING AROUND THINGS THAT A CHILD SHOULD NOT
03:13:51 NOT HAVE TO SEE. THESE PEOPLE STAY VERY CLOSE TO
03:13:56 OUR SCHOOL AND THAT IS WHY TODAY I'M ASKING THE
03:13:59 AUTHORITIES HERE TO KEEP US SAFE BY KEEPING OUR SCHOOL
03:14:04 AND SURROUNDINGS IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS CLEAR OF
03:14:08 THESE UNHOUSED PEOPLE. I AM ALSO ASKING THAT THE CITY
03:14:11 AMBASSADORS WHO USED TO WATCH OVER OUR SCHOOL RETURN I HOPE
03:14:16 THAT THESE UNHOUSED PEOPLE CAN BE TAKEN TO PLACES WHERE THEY
03:14:20 CAN RECEIVE HELP WITH THEIR PROBLEMS.
03:14:23 SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT IT SHOWS THAT CHILDREN ARE NOT A
03:14:26 PRIORITY FOR YOU BECAUSE WE ARE NOT PROTECTED WHEN IT COMES TO
03:14:30 OUR SAFETY AND WE WE ARE EXPOSED TO SO MUCH DANGER.
03:14:34 I HOPE MY VOICE IS HEARD AND THAT MY VOICE REPRESENTS
03:14:38 THE CHILDREN OF MARSHALL SCHOOL .
03:14:41 WE CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE OF THIS CITY AND COUNTRY.
03:14:45 THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
03:14:49 >> NEXT WEEK PLEASE. HI MY NAME IS MARIANNA AND I'M
03:14:54 THE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS COORDINATOR OF MARSHALL
03:14:57 ELEMENTARY. OUR CHILDREN ARE CLEARLY NOT
03:14:58 SAFE. RECENTLY, AS YOU ALL KNOW, A
03:15:04 FIRST GRADER FOUND A BLOODY NEEDLE IN HER SCHOOLYARD,
03:15:05 STARTED PLAYING WITH IT AND PASSED IT TO FOUR OTHER
03:15:08 FIRST GRADERS NOT KNOWING WHAT IT WAS.
03:15:12 DAYS LATER A GLASS BOTTLE WAS THROWN FROM A NEIGHBORING SRO
03:15:15 ONTO OUR SOCCER FIELD NARROWLY MISSING A STUDENT.
03:15:18 THESE CHILDREN SHOULD BE LEARNING TO READ, NOT DODGING
03:15:22 FLYING BOTTLES OR FACING NEEDLES.
03:15:23 >> OUR STUDENTS ENCOUNTER DRUG USE, TRAFFICKING FECES
03:15:27 AND SYRINGES DAILY DRUG SMOKE ENTERS OUR CLASSROOMS
03:15:31 NEIGHBORING ASSAULTS LACK EFFECTIVE OVERSIGHT.
03:15:38 WE'VE REPORTED THESE ISSUES FOR YEARS.
03:15:39 THINGS HAVE ONLY GOTTEN WORSE. AND BY THE WAY, I WAS THE ONE
03:15:42 THAT EMAILED JACKIE FIELDER SO I CAN LET YOU KNOW ABOUT THE
03:15:49 ENCOUNTER WITH THE OFFICER. SO WHAT WILL IT TAKE FOR THE
03:15:53 CITY TO ACT? EACH CHILD CONTRACTED A
03:15:54 LIFELONG DISEASE FROM A NEEDLE A STUDENT SUFFERING PERMANENT
03:15:58 BRAIN DAMAGE FROM A BOTTLE. WE DEMAND THREE ACTIONS DAILY
03:16:04 SIDEWALK CLEANING BEFORE SCHOOL INCLUDING ROUTES FROM MISSION
03:16:08 STREET BUS STOPS 15TH STREET AND 16TH STREET BART STATION.
03:16:13 BECAUSE THOSE STREETS ARE FILTHY EVERY DAY.
03:16:16 SECOND STOP DRUG USE AND TRAFFICKING.
03:16:20 THE AIR MARSHAL AND ENFORCE SAFETY REGULATIONS OF
03:16:21 NEIGHBORING SRO. THIRD A SAFETY PLAN WITHIN 30
03:16:27 DAYS WE THAT IS DESIGNATED CITY OFFICIAL ACCOUNTABLE FOR
03:16:28 RESULTS. >> WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT US AS
03:16:33 A CITY IF WE CANNOT PROTECT OUR CHILDREN?
03:16:36 ACCESS TO EDUCATION IS A RIGHT .
03:16:39 BEING ABLE TO ACCESS IT SAFELY IS PART OF THAT RIGHT.
03:16:40 OUR CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER. THEY DESERVE TO BE SAFE
03:16:44 AND THEY DESERVE IT NOW. THANK YOU.
03:16:47 >> THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
03:16:52 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS MICHELLE AND I'M A
03:16:57 THIRD GRADE TEACHER AT MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
03:17:00 >> TODAY I'M NOT JUST HERE TO TALK ABOUT SAFETY.
03:17:04 I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT WE ARE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN AS A
03:17:07 SOCIETY. AS MARIANA SAID, A FIRST GRADER
03:17:12 PICK UP A USE SYRINGE NEAR OUR SCHOOL A BEER BOTTLE WAS THROWN
03:17:16 FROM A NEARBY BUILDING ALMOST HITTING OUR STUDENTS.
03:17:19 WE REGULARLY SEE PEOPLE USING DRUGS AND DEFECATING JUST A FEW
03:17:24 FEET AWAY FROM OUR SCHOOL. WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR CHILD LINES
03:17:28 WHEN THESE SITUATIONS BECOME PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE?
03:17:31 REPEATED EXPOSURE TO AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT CAN CREATE ANXIETY,
03:17:35 EMOTIONAL DISTRESS AND DIFFICULTIES CONCENTRATION
03:17:39 ,CONCENTRATING AND LEARNING. BUT SOMETHING WORRIES ME EVEN
03:17:40 MORE. WE ARE TEACHING THESE CHILDREN
03:17:44 THAT THIS IS NORMAL, THAT THEY DON'T DESERVE TO WORK FREELY,
03:17:48 PLAY OUTSIDE OR FEEL SAFE IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY.
03:17:51 AND I REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
03:17:54 >> IN SAN FRANCISCO SHOULD A CHILD REALLY HAVE TO LIVE
03:17:58 IN FEAR JUST TO GO TO SCHOOL? >> SERIOUSLY?
03:18:05 >> OR IF STUDENTS ARE READY FOR A CHALLENGE THAT MANY OF US
03:18:07 CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE. AND WE NEED REAL SOLUTIONS.
03:18:10 PEOPLE ARE STRUGGLING WITH SEVERE ADDICTION ADDICTION OR
03:18:14 SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS AND NEED TO
03:18:17 SPECIALIZED FACILITIES WHERE THEY CAN RECEIVE CONTINUOUS
03:18:19 MEDICAL CARE, PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT AND SUPERVISED
03:18:22 ORIENTATION WITH APPROPRIATE ILLEGAL SUPPORTS.
03:18:25 SO MY QUESTION IS SIMPLE. ARE WE GOING TO KEEP
03:18:29 NORMALIZING THIS OR ARE WE FINALLY GOING TO DO SOMETHING
03:18:31 ABOUT IT? AND PLEASE REMEMBER SOMETHING
03:18:34 WE ARE TALKING ABOUT KIDS. >> KIDS ARE THE MOST PRECIOUS
03:18:37 THING WE HAVE AS A SOCIETY. THEY DESERVE ACTION.
03:18:44 THEY DESERVE SAFETY AND ABOVE ALL THEY DESERVE A CHILDHOOD.
03:18:47 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:18:49 NEXT SPEAKER. >> HELLO.
03:18:54 MY NAME IS YEAR MY DAUGHTER AND I VICTORIA JUST SPOKE TO
03:18:59 YOU A FEW MINUTES AGO. >> I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU
03:19:03 THREE THINGS. FIRST THE SITUATION THAT WE
03:19:06 LEAVE ON A DAILY BASIS ON THE STREETS NEAR TO MARSHALL
03:19:09 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. >> SECOND EARLIER REGARDING
03:19:13 SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU ABOUT THE STRATEGY AND ACTIONS THAT
03:19:16 YOU ARE TAKING AS A CITYWIDE STRATEGY.
03:19:19 AND THE THIRD POINT IS WHEN ASKED FOR YOU IN THREE IDEAS
03:19:22 THAT COULD BE SIMPLE MAYBE SILLY BUT HOPEFULLY THAT MAKES
03:19:26 YOU TO REFLECT AND SEE IF THEY CAN BE APPLICABLE.
03:19:32 FIRST OFF THIS SITUATION ON THE STREET WE ALL KNOW WE HAVE SEEN
03:19:38 SHOOTINGS BETWEEN 15 AND 16 STREET OVER THE MISSION ON A
03:19:40 DAILY TIME. >> WE HAVE SEEN PEOPLE RIGHT
03:19:46 OUT OF MARSHALL SCHOOL WITH KNIFE FIGHTING.
03:19:47 >> WE HAVE SEEN MANY THINGS. >> WE DON'T WANT THAT FOR US
03:19:51 NEITHER FOR OUR KIDS. THE SECOND POINT TALKING ABOUT
03:19:55 THE STRATEGY PROGRESS SOME COUPLE THAT MANY OF THE
03:19:58 DEPARTMENTS AND PEOPLE WORKING ON THIS HAVE SHARED WITH US.
03:20:02 THEY ARE GREAT AND THEIR WORKING ON DIFFERENCE
03:20:05 PERSPECTIVE BUT WE HAVEN'T SEEN OR WE HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING
03:20:09 FOR THE KIDS, ANYTHING FOR THE CHILDREN.
03:20:10 WE WORRY ABOUT PEOPLE IN HOMELESS SITUATION.
03:20:13 WE WORRY ABOUT HOW WE CAN HELP THEM BUT WHAT ABOUT OUR KIDS?
03:20:17 SO MY AS FOR YOU IS PRETTY SIMPLE INCLUDES SOMETHING
03:20:21 TANGIBLE THAT ADDRESS OUR KIDS. HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS ACTUALLY
03:20:28 SAFE FOR THEM PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY?
03:20:32 THREE SIMPLE IDEAS WHY DON'T WE JUST PUT PLANTERS AROUND ON THE
03:20:36 MISSION SO WE MAKE THE CITY EVEN MORE BEAUTY AND WE
03:20:40 ACTUALLY MAKE A PHYSICAL BARRIER FOR PEOPLE TO STAND
03:20:44 THERE. >> WHY DO WE NEED TO HAVE
03:20:45 PEOPLE USING AND SELLING THE STREETS ON THE PARKWAY WHEN WE
03:20:51 CAN JUST PUT LIKE BEAUTIFUL PLANTERS AS SIMPLE AS THAT?
03:20:54 >> OUR SIMPLE IDEA COULD BE JUST PHYSICALLY MOVING THOSE
03:20:58 HOMELESS PEOPLE TO A SPECIFIC AREA SO WE CAN A PLACE
03:21:02 EVERYTHING ALL THESE IDEAS THERE.
03:21:03 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. THANK YOU.
03:21:06 >> NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE. >> HI.
03:21:10 GOOD AFTERNOON SUPERVISORS. MY NAME IS CAROLYN GOOSEN
03:21:15 AND I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC DEFENDER'S
03:21:17 OFFICE TO URGE OUR CITY LEADERS TO FOCUS INVESTMENT ON REAL
03:21:22 EVIDENCE BASED SOLUTIONS TO HELP PEOPLE WITH SUBSTANCE USE
03:21:26 DISORDERS. RATHER THAN INCREASINGLY SPEND
03:21:27 MORE AND MORE MONEY ON INEFFECTIVE AND HARMFUL POLICE
03:21:31 LED INITIATIVES SUCH AS DMARC WHILE D-MAX SWEEPS TEMPORARY
03:21:38 LEE MAY REMOVE THE VISIBILITY OF ADDICTION AND POVERTY ON A
03:21:39 PARTICULAR BLOCK OR A FEW BLOCKS CYCLING VULNERABLE
03:21:43 COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN AND OUT OF JAIL FOR LOW LEVEL MISDEMEANORS
03:21:47 DOES NOTHING TO ADDRESS ROOT CAUSES OF ADDICTION IS NOT A
03:21:51 LONG TERM SOLUTION AND INSTEAD INFLICTS ACUTE HARM.
03:21:57 IT CAN TRIGGER HORRIFIC MEDICAL WITHDRAWALS DRASTICALLY
03:22:01 INCREASING PEOPLE'S RISK OF A FATAL OVERDOSE UPON RELEASE
03:22:03 AND CAN ALSO LEAD TO PEOPLE LOSE THEIR JOB OR THEIR
03:22:06 HOUSING. THESE DEMAK OPERATIONS ARE ALSO
03:22:09 EXTRAORDINARILY COSTLY TO THE CITY.
03:22:13 >> CONSIDER THE LATE NIGHT DEMAK OPERATION AT JEFFERSON
03:22:14 PARK LESS. >> LAST YEAR 86 PEOPLE WERE
03:22:17 ROUNDED UP. >> THERE WAS DOZENS OF POLICE
03:22:21 OFFICERS DRONES. THIS WAS A LATE NIGHT
03:22:25 OPERATION. OUT OF THOSE 86 ARRESTS ONLY
03:22:28 ONE PERSON WAS CHARGED WITH A FELONY POSSESSION WITH INTENT
03:22:32 TO KILL. HE WAS A CLIENT OF OUR OFFICE.
03:22:36 >> AND ONCE THEY WENT TO TRIAL AND THE JURY HEARD ALL THE
03:22:40 EVIDENCE, HE WAS ACQUITTED OF ALL CHARGES.
03:22:43 >> AND SO NOT ONLY THAT, BUT HE HAD TO SPEND EIGHT MONTHS
03:22:47 IN JAIL BECAUSE THE D.A. REFUSED TO ALLOW HIM PRETRIAL
03:22:50 RELEASE. SO WE HAVE THE COSTS OF THAT
03:22:51 INCARCERATION, THE COSTS OF ALL OF THOSE POLICE, THE COSTS OF
03:22:54 THE FAMILIES OF THOSE WHO ARE ARRESTED AND NO ONE WAS FOUND
03:22:57 GUILTY OF DRUG DEALING IN THAT SITUATION.
03:23:01 >> POLICE BODY WORN CAMERA FOOTAGE FROM THAT EXACT RAID
03:23:05 ALSO EXPOSES THE GRIM REALITY THAT SEDANS AND SHARP CONTRAST
03:23:09 TO THE DEPARTMENT'S SANITIZED VIDEOS FROM THAT NIGHT.
03:23:11 IT SHOWS OFFICERS AGGRESSIVELY PUSHING PEOPLE, CURSING AT
03:23:13 THEM, FORCING THEM INTO CURBS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COVER THEIR
03:23:17 HANDS ZIP TIED BEHIND THEIR BACKS.
03:23:20 >> SO WE URGE YOU TO REDIRECT RESOURCES TO PUBLIC SAFETY
03:23:22 SOLUTIONS THAT WORK HOUSING TREATMENT, HEALTH CARE.
03:23:25 THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU.
03:23:28 NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. >> I TOO HAVE BEEN A BROKEN
03:23:35 RECORD AS A MID-MARKET HOMEOWNER WITH A MASTER'S
03:23:36 IN SOME REGULAR BIOLOGY. >> NOT A COMPLETE IDIOT.
03:23:40 I'M JUST GOING TO REPEAT A PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS TOPIC
03:23:43 FROM APRIL 2025. MY DISTRICT SUPERVISOR HAD MADE
03:23:47 A CHERRY PICKED EX POST QUOTE MEET THE LUNATIC FRINGE.
03:23:48 >> I'M GOING TO TAKE FRINGE OF AMERICAN DRUG POLICY AN
03:23:51 ORGANIZATION THAT WANTS DRUG DEALERS INVOLVED AT QUOTE EVERY
03:23:54 STEP OF THE POLICYMAKING PROCESS UNQUOTE.
03:23:55 >> THEY'RE PUSHING FOR SAN FRANCISCO TO ENSHRINE A DRUG
03:23:58 DEALER FRIENDLY DEFINITION OF RECOVERY THAT INCLUDES ILLICIT
03:24:02 DRUG USE. >> HE WAS REFERRING TO THE DRUG
03:24:03 POLICY ALLIANCE THAT RESEARCHES AND RECOMMENDS DRUG POLICY
03:24:06 GROUNDED IN EVIDENCE HEALTH EQUITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
03:24:09 HERE IS THE PARAGRAPH HE CHERRY PICKED THE SENTENCE FROM QUOTE
03:24:13 RESEARCHERS SHOULD FURTHER EXPLORE THE ROLE THAT ECONOMIC
03:24:14 AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS PLAY IN CONTRIBUTING TO PEOPLE'S
03:24:17 DECISIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN DRUG MARKETS AND THE KINDS
03:24:19 OF SOCIAL POLICY THAT CAN IMPACT THESE DECISIONS.
03:24:21 FURTHER STUDY IS ALSO NEEDED ON THESE TYPES OF POLICIES
03:24:22 AND INCENTIVES THAT ACTUALLY WORK TO GET PEOPLE OUT OF DRUG
03:24:26 SELLING OR DISTRIBUTION IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY.
03:24:29 FINALLY, RESEARCHERS AND POLICY MAKERS SHOULD INCLUDE PEOPLE
03:24:30 WHO HAVE OR WHO ARE OR HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN DRUG SELLING
03:24:34 AND DISTRIBUTION RELATED ACTIVITY IN EVERY STEP OF THEIR
03:24:37 RESEARCH AND POLICY MAKING PROCESS.
03:24:38 >> PEOPLE OF SELLING AND DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTION
03:24:41 RELATED EXPERIENCE ARE EXPERTS IN HOW DRUG MARKETS FUNCTION
03:24:45 AND THE INCENTIVES AND PRESSURES THAT DRIVE THEIR
03:24:46 CHOICES AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT WILL BE CRUCIAL IN CRAFTING
03:24:49 EFFECTIVE POLICY SOLUTIONS TO DRUG MARKET HARMS WHILE
03:24:53 MINIMIZING UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE CONSEQUENCES.
03:24:56 PAGE 54 FROM RETHINKING THE DRUG DEALER 2019 WHAT DANGER IS
03:25:01 AND HARM DOES THIS POSE US? >> IS IT BECAUSE THIS ONE DRUG
03:25:04 DEALER THAT WAS USED IN AN EXAMPLE IS A BLACK JEWISH MAN
03:25:07 WHO HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO RACIAL AND ANTI-SEMITIC ABUSE
03:25:08 BY OUR SOCIETY AND THAT STEERED HIM AND HIS PAIN TOWARD DRUG
03:25:11 USE AND SELLING. >> WE WOULD HAVE TO ADDRESS
03:25:12 LARGER SOCIETAL ISSUES THAT FUEL DRUG ADDICTION IN THIS
03:25:15 COUNTRY IF WE REALLY LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE, IF PEOPLE LISTEN TO
03:25:19 PEOPLE LIKE THIS, WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT ADDICTION INTO A LARGER
03:25:23 CONTEXT AND TO ACTUALLY EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS IT.
03:25:24 I DON'T BELIEVE I HEARD THE WORD RACISM ONCE AND HEAR
03:25:28 DOMESTIC ABUSE VIOLENCE ETC. A LOT OF ISSUES THAT ACTUALLY
03:25:34 DRIVE THIS. >> THANK YOU.
03:25:35 NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE. >> GOOD.
03:25:39 WHATEVER IT IS. SUPERVISORS CHRIS SHULMAN LOWER
03:25:45 POLK COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THANK YOU
03:25:47 FOR CALLING THIS HEARING. PRESIDENT RANDLEMAN THANK YOU
03:25:51 TO ALL THE SUPERVISORS HERE. SUPERVISOR SARTOR THANK YOU FOR
03:25:54 WORKING WITH US AND AS PART OF OUR DISTRICT AND I'D LIKE TO
03:25:58 ACKNOWLEDGE SUPERVISOR MAHMUD AND HIS COMMENTS ABOUT THIS
03:25:59 PLACE THE LOWER HILL WITH MY COLLEAGUES UP THERE IT'S FACT
03:26:05 AS FAR AS WE'RE CONCERNED. YOU KNOW, I WANT TO I WANT TO
03:26:08 PICK ON A COUPLE OF THINGS AS IT AFFECTS LOWER PORK AND MY
03:26:12 CONSTITUENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTRICT.
03:26:13 YOU KNOW, WHILE WE WELL, WE'RE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF DMX A PERIOD
03:26:20 DMX EFFORTS AND EFFORTS IN THE TENDERLOIN, WE DO SEE
03:26:21 DISPLACEMENT IN LOWER POLK IT'S IT'S A REALITY WE FACE.
03:26:28 WE'RE NOT PITTING NEIGHBORHOOD AGAINST NEIGHBORHOOD.
03:26:29 WE WANT WE WANT ALL OF OUR ADJOINING AND OTHER COMMUNITIES
03:26:33 TO SEE POSITIVITY AND ACTIVATION RESULTS
03:26:36 AND IMPROVEMENTS. BUT WE DO SEE DISPLACEMENT.
03:26:41 >> IT'S REALITY AND WHAT WORKS WELL WITH THE CITY IS IS
03:26:45 DISRUPTING THINGS COMING IN. IT'S PARK POLICE ACTIVITY
03:26:48 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH ACTIVITY BUT WE DON'T HOLD
03:26:53 THINGS DOWN AND LOWER POLK A BACK IN JANUARY 1ST LOST
03:26:59 COMMUNITY AMBASSADOR FUNDING AND COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS.
03:27:03 NORTH OF POST STREET AND WE'VE SEEN.
03:27:06 WE'VE SEEN A DETERIORATION OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD SINCE THAT
03:27:07 TIME OVERALL THINGS ARE BETTER SINCE THE PANDEMIC BUT IN THE
03:27:11 LAST YEAR WE'VE SEEN A DEGRADATION OF THE
03:27:14 NEIGHBORHOOD. BUSINESSES HAVE REPORTED
03:27:16 CHALLENGES AND SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT WE WILL BENEFIT
03:27:21 FROM THE COMMUNITY. AMBASSADORS NON-POLICE
03:27:22 INTERVENTION. WHILE WELCOMING CONTINUED
03:27:25 EFFORTS FROM THE DEPARTMENTS BEHIND US AND DEPARTMENTS THAT
03:27:29 ARE NOT REPRESENTED. SO THANK YOU FOR CALLING THIS
03:27:30 HEARING AND THANK YOU TO ALL YOU AND THANK YOU TO THE
03:27:33 DEPARTMENTS HERE. >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS
03:27:37 . >> YOUR NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
03:27:38 HI, I'M A RESIDENT OF THE MID-MARKET AREA I LIVE ON JUST
03:27:42 OFF OF SIXTH BETWEEN THE RESEARCH CENTER AND THE OPEN
03:27:45 DRUG MARKET ON SIXTH STREET AND I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT
03:27:49 TO RAISE A COUPLE OF THINGS. ONE WHICH IS HYPER
03:27:51 CONCENTRATION WHICH HASN'T BEEN DISCUSSED HERE.
03:27:53 SO YOU HAVE THROUGH YOUR POLICIES CREATED A HYPER
03:27:58 CONCENTRATION WHERE IF YOU LOOK AT SIXTH STREET WE HAVE IT IS
03:28:00 LINED WITH ESSAY ROLES MANY OF WHOM ARE DRUG ADDICTS WHO ARE
03:28:02 JUST TEN FEET AWAY FROM GETTING THEIR NEXT FIX.
03:28:06 YOU HAVE FUNDED SERVICES SUPPORTIVE SERVICES WHICH ARE
03:28:10 HANDING OUT CONSUMABLES WHICH FURTHER ENTRENCHES THESE GUYS
03:28:14 INTO ADDICTION AND ULTIMATELY A PREMATURE DEATH.
03:28:18 AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE CONVENIENCE STORES WHICH ARE
03:28:19 ALSO FEEDING INTO THIS WHOLE CYCLE.
03:28:21 SO YOU'VE CREATED A BIT OF A DRUG MECCA ON SIXTH STREET
03:28:24 AND IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE DRUG MARKET YOU HAVE TO ADDRESS
03:28:28 THIS HYPER CONCENTRATION. THE SECOND THING I WANT TO TALK
03:28:29 ABOUT IS RESEARCH. WE HAD MANY MEETINGS WITH THE
03:28:33 MAYOR'S OFFICE AND DORSEY'S OFFICE REGARDING RESET ALL OF
03:28:36 OUR CONCERN THAT THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BE A REVOLVING DOOR
03:28:40 BACK ONTO SIXTH STREET BECAUSE OF ITS CLOSE PROXIMITY
03:28:41 AND ACTUALLY INCREASED THE AMOUNT OF DRUG ACTIVITY BECAUSE
03:28:44 THEY'RE BEING RELEASED WHEN THEY ACTUALLY ARE CLEAN
03:28:47 AND CRAVING DRUGS. >> I DO TRACK DRUG ACTIVITY.
03:28:51 SO BENJAMIN, YOU HAD ASKED IF WE'RE TRACKING IT.
03:28:52 WE DO TRACK DRUG ACTIVITY WE CAN TO THE POLICE CALLS AND IT
03:28:56 IS ACTUALLY GOING UP. >> SO I'M IN A NEIGHBORHOOD
03:29:00 WHERE THE RESEARCH CENTER IS SUPPOSED TO SERVE US AND YET
03:29:03 WE'RE NOT SEEING IT ACTUALLY HAVE ANY BENEFIT.
03:29:07 I PERSONALLY SEE THROUGH THE POLICE DATA THAT IT HAS GONE UP
03:29:10 . SO I WOULD CAUTION EVERYONE
03:29:11 ABOUT EXPANDING RESET UNTIL WE SEE IT PROVE A VALUE IN THE
03:29:16 NEIGHBORHOOD IT IS SUPPOSED TO SERVE.
03:29:19 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:29:22 >> NEXT SPEAKER HI, GOOD AFTERNOON.
03:29:26 >> MY NAME IS DAPHNE ADAM I AM THE PARENT OF A SECOND GRADER
03:29:29 AT MARSHALL ELEMENTARY AND I AM A RESIDENT OF THE MISSION
03:29:31 DISTRICT. THE FIRST THING I WANT YOU GUYS
03:29:36 TO KNOW IS THAT MARSHALL IS A GEM IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
03:29:38 THE STAFF AND THE ADMINISTRATORS ARE AMONGST THE
03:29:40 MOST INVESTED PASSIONATE PEOPLE I'VE ENCOUNTERED IN PUBLIC OR
03:29:44 PRIVATE EDUCATION. THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO BE HERE
03:29:48 TALKING TO YOU ABOUT MARSHALL IS AN EXCELLENT SCHOOL.
03:29:52 >> IT'S A SCHOOL THAT THE CITY SHOULD BE PROUD OF.
03:29:55 INSTEAD WE'RE ON YOUR AGENDA TODAY BECAUSE A FIRST GRADER
03:29:59 GRABBED A BLOODY NEEDLE THROUGH THE RECESS FENCE AND BECAUSE
03:30:02 THERE HAVE BEEN MANY, MANY OTHER INCIDENTS THAT ENDANGER
03:30:03 THE SAFETY AND THE WELL-BEING OF OUR KIDS OF MY KID PRESIDENT
03:30:13 RANDLEMAN, I APPRECIATE YOUR OPENING STATEMENTS.
03:30:15 I APPRECIATE THAT THIS IS A COMPLEX PROBLEM.
03:30:18 I APPRECIATE THERE HAVE BEEN SUCCESSES CELEBRATING OUR
03:30:21 SUCCESSES DOES RING HOLLOW THOUGH WHEN YOU ARE STEPPING
03:30:24 OVER NEEDLES ON YOUR WAY TO YOUR KID'S SCHOOL MANY MANY
03:30:26 DAYS A WEEK I CAN'T HELP BUT THINK THAT OUR KIDS IN THE
03:30:33 STAFF AT THE SCHOOL AND THE PEOPLE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD NOW
03:30:36 WHO ARE STRUGGLING WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND THE PEOPLE
03:30:38 STRUGGLING WITH HOUSING INSTABILITY THAT WE ARE ALL
03:30:40 COLLECTIVELY COLLATERAL DAMAGE OF A PUBLIC RELATIONS CAMPAIGN
03:30:44 ABOUT THE CONDITIONS OF SAN FRANCISCO STREETS IMPROVING I
03:30:48 DON'T SEE IT. IT'S AN EMERGENCY AND I'M
03:30:51 FRANKLY ALARMED BY HOW MEASURED THE TONE OF THIS CONVERSATION
03:30:55 WAS TODAY OUR KIDS DO NOT HAVE SAFE PASSAGE TO THEIR SCHOOL
03:30:59 AND IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS IT'S BECOME APPARENT THAT THEY
03:31:00 AREN'T EVEN SAFE ONCE THEY'RE ON CAMPUS.
03:31:03 >> FOR THOSE WHO ARE HERE FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, PLEASE PASS
03:31:07 A NOTE TO MAYOR LURIE FOR ME I FOLLOW HIM ON TIK-TOK I SAW
03:31:11 THAT HE DID A RIDE ALONG WITH A PD THIS WEEK.
03:31:12 >> VERY GOOD. I LOVE THAT.
03:31:14 KEEP DOING THAT. I INVITE HIM TO COME VISIT
03:31:16 MARSHALL. I INVITE HIM TO WALK THE BLOCKS
03:31:19 AROUND THE SCHOOL IN THE EARLY MORNING AND EVENING WHEN WE
03:31:21 DROP OFF AND PICK UP OUR KIDS HE CAN DO A LITTLE TIK-TOK
03:31:23 VIDEO ON IT. THOSE ARE SO CUTE THEN HE CAN
03:31:25 HELP US FIX IT. >> THANK YOU.
03:31:29 NEXT SPEAKER HELLO MY NAME IS EMILY GASSNER AND MY CHILDREN
03:31:33 ATTENDED MARSHALL FOR EIGHT YEARS FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH
03:31:37 FIFTH GRADE AND IN THE LAST TWO YEARS I SAW THE STREET
03:31:41 CONDITIONS DESCEND INTO SOMETHING I WOULD DESCRIBE AS A
03:31:44 DAILY NIGHTMARE ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL ONE YEAR AGO AT
03:31:50 3:00 IN THE AFTERNOON AS WE WERE WAITING FOR THE BUS ON
03:31:51 16TH AND MISSION SHOTS RANG OUT TEN SHOTS FROM A GUN.
03:31:58 IT WAS JUST WITHIN A HALF A BLOCK AND IT WAS MAYHEM.
03:32:02 ELDERLY PEOPLE, CHILDREN, EVERYBODY THAT WAS IN HARM'S
03:32:06 WAY. THIS IS TRAUMA THAT WE ARE
03:32:10 TALKING ABOUT THAT WE'VE HEARD FROM OUR CHILDREN THAT'S GOING
03:32:12 TO LAST A LIFETIME AND WE ARE STILL MY KIDS ARE NOW IN MIDDLE
03:32:15 SCHOOL AND WE ARE TRYING TO TAP INTO THERAPY FROM THE CONSTANT
03:32:20 NIGHTMARES WE HAVE OF MY SON THINKING SOMEONE IS GOING TO
03:32:24 KILL ME ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL WITHIN A BLOCK OF THE SCHOOL HE
03:32:27 WOULD HOLD HIS WATER BOTTLE OUT AND SAY MOMMY, I'M GOING TO
03:32:31 PROTECT YOU BECAUSE PEOPLE WOULD SAY I'M GOING TO KILL
03:32:33 YOU. WE NEVER KNEW IF SOMEONE WAS
03:32:34 GOING TO TRY TO STAB US. STUFF WOULD GET THROWN AT US.
03:32:37 WE WOULD SEE PEOPLE WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN THERE, GENITALS OUT
03:32:42 IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOL PEEING ON THE SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF THE
03:32:45 SCHOOL. I HAD TO PUSH MY CHILD OUT OF
03:32:46 THE WAY WHEN SOMEONE WAS USING SMOKING EITHER A FENTANYL OR
03:32:53 METH AND A BIG CLOUD WAS COMING OUT OF THEIR MOUTH AS WE WERE
03:32:57 WALKING INTO THE SCHOOL BUT THE FAMILY IN FRONT OF US IT HAD IT
03:33:01 HAD GOTTEN TO THEM BEFORE IT HAD GOTTEN TO US THIS IS
03:33:05 TRAUMA. >> THIS IS LIKE A DIRTY SECRET
03:33:06 IN SAN FRANCISCO THERE'S A TALE OF TWO CITIES HERE.
03:33:09 IF THIS WAS A WHITE SCHOOL ON THE WEST SIDE THIS WOULD HAVE
03:33:12 BEEN TENDED TO A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO BECAUSE IT IS A
03:33:16 LATINO POPULATION LOW INCOME, 30% UNHOUSED.
03:33:19 IT'S LIKE TREATED LIKE THE KIDS DON'T MATTER AND IT'S NOT OKAY
03:33:23 . SOMETHING REALLY TERRIBLE I
03:33:24 FEEL IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ONE OF THE KIDS OR ONE OF THE
03:33:27 FAMILIES AT MARSHALL AND I JUST FEEL LIKE NOTHING IS GOING TO
03:33:31 HAPPEN UNTIL THAT DOES. SO WE BEG.
03:33:34 >> WE ARE BEGGING FOR HELP. PLEASE HELP.
03:33:38 >> THANK YOU. NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE.
03:33:41 >> HELLO, MY NAME IS AMELIA HARMON.
03:33:46 I'M SPEAKING FROM DISTRICT NINE IN MY INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY I
03:33:49 THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT PREVENTION IS SYSTEMICALLY MORE
03:33:50 EFFECTIVE THAN TREATMENT. IN MY FIVE YEARS AS A PEER
03:33:54 COUNSELOR ON THE STREET CRISIS RESPONSE TEAM I PERSONALLY
03:33:57 RESPONDED TO INNUMERABLE CALLS WHERE I SAT DOWN IN A LIVING
03:34:00 ROOM WITH MOTHERS AT THEIR WIT'S END SUPPORTING THEIR
03:34:02 ADULT DEPENDENT CHILDREN STRUGGLING WITH ADDICTION WITH
03:34:05 SEVERE MENTAL ILLNESS, VIOLENT BEHAVIORS WONDERING IS THIS THE
03:34:08 DAY THAT I MAKE THEM HOMELESS? IS TODAY THE DAY THAT I LOCK
03:34:12 THE DOOR AND MAKE THE CITY NOW CARE THAT THEY CAN ACCESS
03:34:15 HOMELESSNESS SERVICES? WILL I LOSE THEM TO THE STREETS
03:34:19 ON THOSE CALLS PEER TRAINING LIVED EXPERIENCE OF TREATMENT
03:34:23 STORIES OF RECOVERY MADE THE DIFFERENCE PIERS INCREASE
03:34:27 ENGAGEMENT IN CARE OUR CITY HAS LOST ALL BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
03:34:31 SPECIALISTS ON OUR 911 DISPATCH BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS
03:34:33 RESPONSE TEAM ACCORDING TO A STATEMENT MADE LAST WEEK BY THE
03:34:36 ASSISTANT DEPUTY CHIEF OF EMS, THE STREET CRISIS RESPONSE TEAM
03:34:39 IS A QUOTE STAND ALONE FUNCTION LOOKING AT THE IMMEASURABLE
03:34:43 EFFORTS OF THE COLLABORATION IN THIS ROOM, I FIND THAT HARD
03:34:47 TO BELIEVE THE LOST EFFICACY OF OUR SRT IS AN INSIDIOUS PUBLIC
03:34:51 SAFETY ISSUE THAT UNDERMINES THE WORK OF EVERYONE HERE.
03:34:54 SFD PLACES THE ONUS ON EACH. I ASKED THIS COMMITTEE TO CALL
03:34:58 ANOTHER HEARING AND INVITE SFD TO REPORT ON THEIR DATA
03:35:02 ACCOUNTABILITY PRACTICES THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO ALL
03:35:05 PARTNERING AGENCIES HERE AND TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON THAT CALLS
03:35:09 FOR HELP AT A MOMENT OF CRISIS HOMELESS OR NOT QUITE YET.
03:35:13 >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
03:35:17 NEXT SPEAKER HELLO AGAIN SUPERVISORS MY NAME IS JUSTICE
03:35:24 DOOM LEARNED TODAY I AM HERE AS REPRESENTATIVE FREEMAN ON
03:35:28 DEMAND COALITION AND THE SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION HIV
03:35:29 ADVOCACY NETWORK. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS
03:35:32 HEARING TO THE TABLE. I WANT TO ECHO MY
03:35:35 DISAPPOINTMENT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE IS NOT PRESENT
03:35:36 ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING HIS BREAKING THE CYCLE INITIATIVE
03:35:39 WHICH AFTER THIS HEARING SOUNDS A LOT LIKE MOVING THE CYCLE
03:35:43 RATHER THAN BREAKING IT. IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE PEOPLE
03:35:47 BELIEVE THAT THE HAS BEEN EFFECTIVE.
03:35:48 I DON'T THINK YOU CAN CALL IT EFFECTIVE WHEN THE ISSUE JUST
03:35:51 GETS PUSHED. IT'S LIKE TRYING TO CLEAN UP A
03:35:53 PUDDLE WITH A BROOMSTICK. >> YOU'RE JUST PUSHING THE
03:35:56 PROBLEM AROUND. >> WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF ISSUES
03:36:00 ABOUT THE SYRINGE SYRINGES IN THE MISSION DISTRICT AS YOU
03:36:03 ALL ALL KNOW THE SYRINGE PICK UP PROGRAM WITH SPF WAS REDUCED
03:36:08 IN FUNDING THIS YEAR WHICH I THINK WAS A HUGE MISTAKE.
03:36:14 I'VE ALSO HEARD A LOT OF TALK ABOUT THE TENDERLOIN LINKAGE
03:36:15 CENTER AND THAT I WAS QUOTE UNQUOTE UNSUCCESSFUL BECAUSE OF
03:36:18 ITS LOW CONNECTIONS TO TREATMENT.
03:36:21 AND EVEN THOUGH DORSEY YOU MENTIONED THAT THE RESET GETS
03:36:25 THE PRIVILEGE OF ALSO USING CONNECTIONS TO SUMMARIZE
03:36:27 AND OTHER HOUSING BENEFITS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE THE
03:36:29 TENDERLOIN LINKAGE CENTER DOES NOT GET THE BENEFIT OF ALL
03:36:33 THOSE RESOURCES THAT ARE OFFERED AND CONNECTED TO FOLKS
03:36:34 AS WELL. MEANWHILE DEMAK HAVING OPERATED
03:36:37 FOR MULTIPLE YEARS GETS A LOT OF THAT SUCCESS AND TENDERLOIN
03:36:41 LINKAGE CENTER AS ONLY 11 MONTHS OF OPERATION GETS A LOT
03:36:45 OF UNSUCCESSFUL. I THINK THAT IS A RIDICULOUS
03:36:47 FAILURE OF US TRYING TO TRY OTHER OPPORTUNITIES LIKE
03:36:50 PREVENTION AND HARM REDUCTION IN THE CITY PAIRED WITH
03:36:54 ENFORCEMENT AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
03:36:58 WHEN WE JUST FOCUS ON ENFORCEMENT WE SEE AGAIN THIS
03:37:00 REVOLVING DOOR HAPPENING AND WE NEED TO HAVE A BETTER FUNCTION
03:37:05 OF USING A FOUR PILLAR APPROACH THAT EQUALLY FUNDS AND PUTS
03:37:09 EMPHASIS ON EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE PILLARS TO
03:37:12 TRULY TREAT THE DEMAND ISSUE IN THIS CITY ADDICTION IS A
03:37:20 MEDICAL INTERVENTION AND IT NEEDS THAT TYPE OF ISSUE TO BE
03:37:24 BROUGHT TO IT. >> THANK YOU.
03:37:27 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. NEXT SPEAKER HELLO AGAIN.
03:37:31 ONE FINAL THOUGHT OR IDEA I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT
03:37:35 CORPORATE CORPORATE RELATIONSHIPS.
03:37:39 SAN FRANCISCO IN THE BAY AREA IS THE SECOND WEALTHIEST METRO
03:37:43 AREA IN THE UNITED STATES. >> SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE
03:37:46 IN THIS CITY WHAT IS STRATEGY CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS SO WE
03:37:49 CAN LEVERAGE ON TECHNOLOGY BRAINPOWER, BALANCE ON A THANK
03:37:56 YOU SO MUCH. >> THANK YOU.
03:37:59 >> WE ALLOW OUR PUBLIC SPEAKERS TO SPEAK ONCE.
03:38:03 NEXT SPEAKER PLEASE DOUBLE W YOUR DUFFY I'M GLAD THAT THERE
03:38:11 ARE PEOPLE HERE THAT DO PUBLIC COMMENT BETTER THAN ME AND SOME
03:38:14 OF THEM ARE SUPERVISORS. >> THERE HAS BEEN SOME
03:38:15 IMPROVEMENT IN THE TENDERLOIN AND YEAH IT DOES GET PUSHED
03:38:19 AROUND AND INTO OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS.
03:38:22 I DON'T THINK I IT'S A CONJECTURE ON MY PART BUT YOU
03:38:26 KNOW THERE IS A GREAT EMPHASIS PUT ON CLEANING UP MARKET
03:38:29 STREET AND I'M WONDERING IF THAT WAS A RESPONSE TO THE THE
03:38:33 FEDERAL ADMINISTRATION MAKING A LOT OF COMMENTS ABOUT ATTACKING
03:38:37 THE CITY AND SO FORTH AND SPECIFICALLY THE TENDERLOIN
03:38:41 . AND SO MAYBE THAT'S WHY IT'S AT
03:38:43 MOVED DOWN TO 16TH STREET WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT FURTHER AWAY
03:38:48 AND A LITTLE BIT OFF. IT HASN'T BEEN TARGETED YET BY
03:38:51 THAT KIND OF TALK. I HATE TALK IF IF WE WOULD HELP
03:38:59 ANY HOUR TO EVEN BE I, I REALLY SUPPORT THE I'M OUR NEIGHBOR
03:39:04 FROM THE MISSION AND IF IT WOULD HELP ANY OUT TO EVEN BE
03:39:06 WILLING TO TAKE SOME OF THAT TROUBLE BACK INTO THE
03:39:08 TENDERLOIN. >> THANK YOU.
03:39:18 DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL PUBLIC SPEAKERS FOR THIS
03:39:20 HEARING? MR. CHAIR, THAT CONCLUDES
03:39:22 PUBLIC COMMENT. >> PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW
03:39:26 CLOSED. I WANT TO THANK ALL THOSE WHO
03:39:30 MADE PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY PARTICULARLY THE STUDENTS OF
03:39:33 MARSHALL. >> THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.
03:39:37 >> I KNOW WE WISH YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE BUT THANK YOU FOR
03:39:40 BEING HERE, SHARING YOUR EXPERIENCES AND LETTING US KNOW
03:39:44 THE EFFECT OF THESE CONDITIONS ON YOUR DAILY LIFE AND YOUR
03:39:48 YOUR DAILY WALK TO SCHOOL. >> IT SHOULD NOT BE THAT WAY.
03:39:52 SUPERVISOR PRESIDENT MADAM CHAIR SARTOR SUPERVISOR PLANK
03:39:55 SUPER VISORS FIELDER AND DORSEY THANK YOU FOR YOUR
03:40:01 CO-SPONSORSHIP. I WANT TO START BY THANKING
03:40:07 WELL OF COURSE THE FOLKS WHO TURNED OUT TO SPEAK.
03:40:12 >> I WANT TO THANK THE FOLK THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THE CITY
03:40:15 WHO EACH DAY, DAY IN AND DAY OUT ARE DEALING WITH REALLY
03:40:19 CHALLENGING PROBLEMS AND TRYING TO SOLVE THEM.
03:40:22 >> I HAVE TO SAY THIS IS NOT A EXACTLY THE HEARING THAT I WAS
03:40:26 HOPING FOR. I WAS HOPING THAT WE WOULD BE
03:40:30 IN A POSITION TO EITHER HAVE A CLEARER SENSE OF TRAJECTORY
03:40:36 BOTH CITYWIDE AND AT A NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL OR HAVE SOME
03:40:40 NOTION A CLEAR NOTION OF HOW WE WERE GOING TO GET THERE
03:40:44 AND SUPERVISOR SARTOR DREW ATTENTION TO THE I FORGET WHAT
03:40:48 WHERE WE'RE GOING OR I FORGET WHAT THAT SLIDE WAS, WHAT'S
03:40:52 NEXT THE WHAT'S NEXT SLIDE IS AS AS CHAIR SLAUGHTER POINTED
03:40:56 OUT A SERIES OF LAUDABLE GOALS DIRECTIONALLY CORRECT WITH NO
03:41:00 NOTION OF HOW YOU WOULD GET TO ANY OF THEM AND WHETHER ANY
03:41:05 AND WHAT WHAT WOULD BE NEEDED TO GET THERE.
03:41:08 AND I THINK THAT COMBINED WITH THE DECISION OF THE MAYOR'S
03:41:13 OFFICE NOT TO SEND AT LEAST A DEPUTY CHIEF TO THIS HEARING
03:41:19 MAKES IT HARD FOR THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS TO FEEL LIKE WE ARE
03:41:24 BEING ENGAGED IN A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE IMPACT OF DRUGS
03:41:28 IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE REPRESENT.
03:41:29 I CAN'T SPEAK FOR MY COLLEAGUES BUT IT IS FRUSTRATING.
03:41:32 I UNDERSTAND THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE MAYOR'S OFFICE THAT THEY DO
03:41:36 NOT WANT THEIR STAFF BEING HAULED OVER INTO THIS CHAMBER
03:41:40 FOR MULTIPLE HEARINGS EVERY WEEK AS WE GRILL THEM.
03:41:43 >> BUT THE REASON THAT I SUPPORT THE EXISTENCE OF THE
03:41:47 CHIEFS IS THAT SAN FRANCISCO HAS SOME BIG THORNY PROBLEMS
03:41:53 THAT EXTEND ACROSS DEPARTMENTS AND IT IS WISE TO HAVE PEOPLE
03:41:57 NEAR THE MAYOR TRYING TO LOOK AT COORDINATING RESOURCES
03:42:01 ACROSS DEPARTMENTS AND HELPING TO SET CITYWIDE POLICY
03:42:05 IN RESPONSE. BUT IF THOSE PEOPLE ARE NEVER
03:42:08 GOING TO COME TO TALK TO THIS BODY, I JUST DON'T SEE HOW THAT
03:42:13 WORKS AND MAYBE WE CAN COME UP WITH SOME RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
03:42:16 SO THAT THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE THAT IS BEING ABUSED.
03:42:17 BUT I THINK THAT THE NOTION THAT THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO
03:42:21 WALK DOWN THE HALLWAY AND AND PRESENT TO US ON ISSUES OF
03:42:25 CITYWIDE CONCERN THAT HAVE CROSS-DEPARTMENTAL IMPLICATIONS
03:42:32 IS JUST IS IS TROUBLING. >> SO I DON'T FEEL DONE WITH
03:42:36 THIS. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW I'M
03:42:37 GOING TO HAVE TIME TO TO HAVE ANOTHER ONE OF THESE HEARINGS
03:42:41 BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR. BUT I DO THINK THIS IS IF NOT
03:42:43 THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES FACING
03:42:47 THE CITY AND I HOPE THAT EITHER BEFORE DECEMBER OR AFTER I
03:42:51 LEAVE THIS BODY CAN GET A BETTER RESPONSE THAT IS A
03:42:58 LITTLE MORE CLEAR AND HOPEFUL ABOUT WHAT THE PATH TO A BETTER
03:43:02 SITUATION FOR THE CITY AND FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS WOULD BE.
03:43:07 SO MY REQUEST TO THE COMMITTEE WOULD BE TO CONTINUE THIS
03:43:08 HEARING TO THE CALL OF THE CHAIR.
03:43:10 >> VERY GOOD. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT GENTLEMEN,
03:43:12 FOR YOUR SPONSORSHIP OF THIS BROADER FIELD OR FOR YOUR WORK
03:43:15 AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS AS A FIELD OR FOR BEING HERE ALL
03:43:19 DAY, MADAM CLERK FOR BEING HERE ALL DAY OF COURSE.
03:43:22 BEFORE WE DO MAKE THAT MOTION, I DO SEE THAT WE HAVE A REQUEST
03:43:24 FOR A REFUSAL AS OF 5 P.M. FROM SUPERVISOR SO I'D LIKE TO ASK
03:43:30 THAT WE MAKE A MOTION TO EXCUSE SUPERVISOR SIR MAHMUD YES
03:43:35 MA'AM. >> A MOTION TO EXCUSE VICE
03:43:38 CHAIR MAHMUD AS OF 5:00 PM. MEMBER WANG REMEMBER WONG I
03:43:45 CHAIR SLAUGHTER CHAIR SLAUGHTER I HAVE TWO EYES.
03:43:48 >> WHAT VICE CHAIR MAHMUD EXCUSED.
03:43:49 A MOTION PASSES AND I NOW LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE THIS
03:43:53 ITEM HEARD AND CONTINUED TO THE CALL.
03:43:56 >> THE CHAIR YES I'M ON THE MOTION TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM TO
03:44:00 THE CALL OF THE CHAIR MEMBER WANG REMEMBER WONG I CHAIR
03:44:04 SLAUGHTER SURE. >> SLAUGHTER I HAVE TWO EYES
03:44:08 WERE VICE CHAIR MAHMUD EXCUSED AND THAT MOTION PASSES.
03:44:11 >> MADAM CLERK ARE THERE ANY MORE ITEMS BEFORE US TODAY THAT
03:44:12 COMPLETES OUR MEETING AGENDA. >> OKAY.
03:44:15 THE MEETING IS NOW ADJOURNED