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Cindy Elias

Commissioner, San Francisco Police Commission

We identified Elias’ voice at 13 meetings.

13 of 20transcribed meetings with their voice identified
4.4min a meeting at the Police Commission, at least
72questions at the Police Commission
8 of 10present at roll calls through Jul 15, 2026, from the clerk
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Next Police Commission meeting: Wed, Nov 4, 6:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Four clips, newest first

“No, I get that, but what I’m saying is when you look at it over the long period of time, the percentage of complaints you receive is still essentially the same. That hasn’t decreased, is my point, right?”Cindy EliasCommissioner · Police Commission · Apr 8, 2026 · 1:10:23Play at 1:10:23
“Is there a report that we’ll be following, or something— the audit findings in some sort of written fashion that’ll be available to the public as well?”Cindy EliasCommissioner · Police Commission · Jun 17, 2026 · 22:01Play at 22:01
“When you say that the hearing officer makes a recommendation, I know prior what would happen is the commander would look at the file, make a recommendation, and then send it up the chain so that the chief would actually review it and then either concur or disagree and provide the recommended discipline. So is that not happening now?”Cindy EliasCommissioner · Police Commission · Mar 18, 2026 · 44:52Play at 44:52
“I think in the future it may be helpful also to sort of present to us the programs that, you know, like you mentioned, that have been cut but that the department is absorbing to try and alleviate some of the concerns and problems that those programs were aimed to resolve.”Cindy EliasCommissioner · Police Commission · Mar 4, 2026 · 29:18Play at 29:18

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Every roll call

Present at 8 of 10 roll calls at the Police Commission, roll call through Jul 15, 2026

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Excused 2 · Absent 0. Feb 18, 2026 to Jul 15, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 11 of the 23 meetings we hold, through Jul 15, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →
Questions

Elias asked 72 questions at the 13 Police Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Elias’ 67 questions to city departments at the Police Commission, 66 went to police.

Who they question: 67 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Police Commission67 questions to city departments
Police Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Police6699%
Police and sheriff oversight11%
Neighborhoods Elias named

2 places Elias named in meetings

Lines where Elias named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

San Francisco
  • Bayview Hunters Point 2 times
  • Tenderloin 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Analysis Neighborhoods file (DataSF (City and County of San Francisco)). A dot says the place was named, not where Elias was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Elias’ voice

13, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Elias’ first remark.

  1. Oct 7, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety3.4 min28:50
  2. Sep 9, 2026Police Commission0.4 min22:19
  3. Jul 15, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety1.7 min30:54
  4. Jul 8, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety6.7 min41:20
  5. Jun 17, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety2.4 min1:08:50
  6. Jun 10, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety41.7 min1:53:40
  7. Jun 3, 2026Police Commission2.6 min54:25
  8. Apr 8, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety3.8 min6:18
  9. Mar 18, 2026Police Commission4.5 min42:00
  10. Mar 4, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety5.4 min15:30
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  1. Feb 11, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety4.4 min1:16:04
  2. Feb 4, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety7.7 min20:07
  3. Nov 5, 2025Police CommissionPolicing and public safety2.8 min1:10:15
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Elias was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Cindy Elias’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Elias said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Elias or of San Francisco alone.