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. gets shot.

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