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Kevin Benedicto

Commissioner, San Francisco Police Commission

We identified Benedicto’s voice at 18 meetings. Named Mission most often: two times.

18 of 20transcribed meetings with their voice identified
6.6min a meeting at the Police Commission, at least
92questions at the Police Commission
9 of 9present 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

One clip, newest first

  • Kevin Benedicto · Commissioner · Police Commission · Jun 17, 2026 · 23:27

    “What was the size of that— of the 288th recruit class when it started at the academy?”

Every roll call

Present at 9 of 9 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

Absent 0. Jan 21, 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

Benedicto asked 92 questions at the 18 Police Commission meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Benedicto’s 85 questions to city departments at the Police Commission, 81 went to police.

Who they question: 85 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Police Commission85 questions to city departments
Police Commission: questions by department
DepartmentShareQuestions
Police8195%
Police and sheriff oversight45%
Neighborhoods Benedicto named

4 places Benedicto named in meetings

Lines where Benedicto 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
  • Mission 2 times
  • Chinatown 1 time
  • South of Market 1 time
  • 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 Benedicto was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Benedicto’s voice

18, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Benedicto’s first remark.

  1. Oct 7, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety8.6 min20:53
  2. Sep 9, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety0.9 min22:45
  3. Jul 15, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety4.6 min6:26
  4. Jul 8, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety14.2 min59:19
  5. Jun 17, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety2.8 min1:03:27
  6. Jun 10, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety13.0 min46:37
  7. Jun 3, 2026Police Commission15.0 min5:45
  8. Apr 1, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety8.9 min30:19
  9. Mar 18, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety3.4 min3:06
  10. Mar 4, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety2.3 min22:40
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  1. Feb 18, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety8.7 min22:32
  2. Feb 11, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety3.5 min6:27
  3. Feb 4, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety17.1 min30:11
  4. Jan 21, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety4.7 min5:39
  5. Jan 7, 2026Police CommissionPolicing and public safety1.3 min34:26
  6. Nov 19, 2025Police CommissionPolicing and public safety8.6 min4:50
  7. Nov 12, 2025Police Commission0.7 min18:05
  8. Nov 5, 2025Police CommissionPolicing and public safety14.1 min55:49
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 Benedicto was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Kevin Benedicto’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 Benedicto 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 Benedicto or of San Francisco alone.