we seem to be gaining on it. the proportion of the homicide rates are levels we have not seen since 1961. i think that that is a story. i think it is a laughable without looking at the resource allocation. this gets you to the things that we to on a daily basis when we try to assess what is the best thing to do it. several weeks ago, a couple of months ago, we saw an increase in crime in a couple of areas of our city.

we some primarily chinese victims and yen and around muni and corridors. we have the freedom today to move these as we need to. weeks took 32 people in the city. we can come up with a more sustainable solution. we are working to come will with funding to have communities. escort services that we will be training later on this month in order to come up with the most sustainable solution. this could put every community

at the same level. i don't have the freedom to be able to move people around and deal with an immediate need. >> they don't have the courage to legislated. this is this solution to a problem. this is a solution, this chief has delivered results. the supervisors want to submit their names for police chief. they did not do that. they are out of their league. this is very damaging legislation.

we have to stop this in the tracks. we need to call this what it is. i am here not mincing words because this is a serious time and a serious business. we have that. let them continue to do our jobs. this has nothing to do with the merits but it is pure politics. >> these are daily things that

we do. the pull down and the rest of the command staff are here in the room. we go through this stuff on a daily basis. we are trying to assess why it occurs. when there are no shootings and stabbings, this is a daily staple for us. we are increasingly getting better. in my personal opinion, this is not only very dedicated but this is an organization that leads on a daily basis by what can we do to avoid the next event. we did it with a trial.

with this -- we did not just wake up and decide that we wanted to play a bunch of cops. they're trying to avoid problems in the city and they are ready to react to. policing is not only react if. the more elegant type of police in this is not a crime that occurred.

mego a larger step further. we meet with our community. but need to the community have to look at the resources that we have available that we deployed and we apply to this based on the partnership and this could be the tool. this is not the only tool and i think it is extremely simplistic to say it could be equated it to community policing. it could be 200 years ago in an annex that we would -- when i started in this business, i was there for anyone to say

what we were doing was community policing. to walk into the neighborhood and get to inertia, that is community policing. community policing is a much broader concept. to put this, this is absolutely so. we have more police and then what we have had in many years. this is a tool to slug it is talking to the neighbors and trying to anticipate what might happen in the neighborhood is like having the patrol in some areas, just like it is improving our technologies that we can get better. this is simply a tool.

peres and approximately 1600 robberies in the city in the first six months. that's still represents a 4% reduction. we have a city where on any given day, there is 1.3 million people interacting in a 49 square mile area. nexpublic safety is a journey, t a destination. we have to get better. this is an area where we are working on the two friends but

the cold is committee members will be a bird to seek help. we are looking to have a very diverse group of experts that will be providing the services to people. these are people who will train on crime prevention strategies, how to avoid becoming a victim. we completed our investigation weeks ago. we were waiting for some decisions to be made whether the prosecution would be taken and what the prosecution would be.

we started reforming the crime must -- reforming the crime lab. the reason why we were able to do so was because we were drawing from a larger pool. the crime lab would have never been able to draw upon the resources that we did very rapidly in order to address the problem. the first thing that we did is we stop the hemorrhage. we shut down the controlled substance lead because of the problem that we first noticed. we had agreements with other regional partners. then we started to call the management. i reached out to the department

of justice. they pointed out to the areas that we needed to work on. we needed to take corrective actions. on track the work in those areas that do not able to have capacity immediately. my commitment is that we will never go back to the problems that we have had before we had people who are terribly overworked. because of the size of our facility, we realize that that

but require that we start contract in. the short term solution has been an immediate infusion of management, contracting out some work. the long-term solution is still evolving as we identify funding sources and we find the best model for the city and county. this would have not occurred if the lab was independent. i question whether it would even have the courage to come up and openly say what went wrong. there are crimes going on around the country. this is a fast-moving industry. the police agency is one of the two agencies that on our own we blew the doors open and expose

their own problems. this is not the problem with investigative reporting for anyone anywhere else. this is a sad moment for policing in the region. plus it -- public safety is so intertwined that a reduction in public safety resources will have an impact on san francisco. we were together very closely. it is closely monitored. during the post -- event, many

were sent to open. the mayor said that it will put together a budget and i believe this was approved. we're hopeful that the process will be okay for us. >> it is important to understand the point. there is no divorce, we are all in this together. look at the crime statistics in the last couple of years. i've seen more crime scenes and anyone should in a lifetime. and many of the victims were not from san francisco and how many of the suspects were not from san francisco. i am open to the idea that some things can be reconciled.

we're dealing with a difficult budget and the constraints are a little bit different. we are looking to keep our police officers out on the streets. we're also looking to keep our fire stations open and have our firefighters deal with the challenges. we want to continue the collaboration with oakland. we have some ideas and we have some staffing models to get us to where we need to go. i am familiar with the minimum staffing that was established.

the chief recognizes the budget and he is satisfied he can continue the budget. there are some very interesting stacking models. we have been looking five weeks out, five months out. key we are shifting and we have been handled. there are some long-range

strategies that will address that concern. >> i don't have it, we can get it for you. we make that available every week. this is a very fluid process. lee can make them available for you. you can see that there is a slight increase. one the things that we do for instance, we look at a three- year trends. we try to determine last two years at the same time that will

provide a window of predictability. there are many things that we can do. it is very important. not perfect, it getting better all the time. colleges h>> a violent crime isn roughly 11%. the one to make sure the understand the nature of the

changing numbers. >> we are anticipating 78 officers. i'm not happy any time that we have had a homicide shooting. we continue to work for very hard. men never happy that someone gets shot.

>> the mayor, the office of workforce development, kick off a new program which is to engage some of the artists in reinvigorating the streetscapes. organized in partnership with neighborhood based economic development organizations, the art in storefronts taps into the incredible creativity of the artist community to help improve the quality of life and the

business climate in poor neighborhoods. the tenderloin, central market, they view, and the mission's 24 st.. at the launch party, the mayor released the first of 13 projects located on taylor and market street. we were there to capture the celebration and to get a closer look at the newly transformed storefront. >> we have an analyst at saying, you know what, we get it. if we close out and we put some plywood, we know it will have graffiti on it. we know that people will not respect this space. they are opening up their businesses, their buildings and they are saying, let's invite young artists in and let's have these artists go at it in great very visually stunning storefronts. >> this is a pilot project that

was started by the mayor as part of his local stimulus plan in partnership with the mayor's office of economic and work- force development. we carried this space in the mission. we were hired to curate this project. we have been the ones that have been handling all of the day to day working with the artists helping to secure their locations. >> we are doing projects in central market, the tenderloin, the bayview, and the 24th street corridor. >> we are looking at the history of the neighborhood and their ability to translate a the kind of things that go on on a day- to-day basis. >> we have over 200 applicants. it was wonderful to see how many people participated. these people clearly understand the neighborhood. >> this is a very unique

neighborhood. it has always been involved in the arts from early on. of they have seen a lot of the art and what it has done to the neighborhoods. i think that they will still connected to it. they will actually embrace it. i think it will be a good thing for all of us. >> if you are walking in the tenderloin, you'll be able to see this piece that is in front of the original [inaudible] which is a restaurant that has a lot of history. there are exciting projects on market streets. there are two gorgeous minerals as well as six different installations. they are making huge figures that they will be able to see. >> there is a definite level of

appropriateness of stuff i am using. a lot of businesses died in 2009. >> i think i'm trying to deal with the maximum out of space possible. that is surging right now. everyone is doing what they can with what they have. sometimes that introduces a lot of interesting things. there is nothing that inspires quite like this. >> the project benefits both the property owner, the neighborhood, and the artists, all of whom have been effected by the economic downturn. >> this is brand new work. >> we chose artists that had a diverse array of media from home video to coulter, paintings.

>> when people walk around these neighborhoods, they will be able to see works that deal with the history of the neighborhood. they will see works that deal with movement and the works that celebrate some locations. they will be able to see works of that deal with new projects like the san francisco film museum which is a small organization that is starting. this is their first presentation to the public. >> this has introduced us to different organizations. they are building our portfolio. our project centers on a film that was found in 1906. shortly afterwards, the earthquake destroyed the majority of the market street

area. that is what we want to focus on. this is dedicated to film and san francisco history. >> we are having a support network now, this enhances our mission and what we are trying to do it and it will protect us forward. >> i hope that we continue. there are storefronts all over the city. we have been approached by many of them. it is about getting the resources together. >> this calley is working with the san francisco arts commission and building a tool kit. >> this will be an open source body of information. people can download the different things that we had to do with the artists. negotiations with the property owners. there is also the artist selection. people can take it in their own

hands to put art in the storefront. tenant issues and renter issues are very important in district 6. about 80% of district 6 residents are renters. and so i think that's the highest rate of any district in the city. after the vietnam war, a lot of people found a point of entry in the tenderloin. and so there's an extremely vibrant southeast community in the tenderloin. it was great to get to know more people down here and realize that there were so many artists and musicians and really creative people live in this area and that there are families. i like the semi-industrial character and because it's convenient and also i dj around

here and i like the clubs and bars and that sort of thing. we hope that all three areas complement each other and that mid-market is not the dividing line between north and south. jennifer low: welcome back to district sf on sfgtv. this month we're at the asian art museum in the center of san francisco and the center of district 6. it's a wide area in the city, one that many people just drive through, with locked doors. but when we go inside mid-market, the tenderloin, and south of market, you'll see the reality is different from the reputation. we met district 6's supervisor, chris daly, while he was visiting residents of an sro hotel now managed by the city. the success at the mission hotel is one example, of halting decades of decline, in the very heart of san francisco. the story of what is now district 6, is just the most

current chapter of center city's