wouldn't know what a screwdriver is, but they know the tools to use. they tell me all the time out, there is a way that we can help the young people instead of just going to jail, cleaning the walls, and get an education. >> that is the conclusion of public comment. we will move to comments from the commissioners, and i want to thank everybody for their comments. commissioner marshall: i want to say that this is very different from the last time we were here. i want to say that that is great. it is qc -- easy to be here at

nights like this, so i want to mention a couple of people. it was a tough night. he took a lot, but he stayed there through the whole thing. you did your best to deal with the issues that surfaced, and it was ugly night. i think your behavior that night was tremendous. i think the person of lot. think you for that. it is those nights back create these kind of things. i want to say it is easy being there at times like this. if you can be there ha, you get nights like this.

commissioner kingsley: i have a question that has to do with the district chart? thank you for your presentation, i appreciate it. a lot of information here. page 19 of your report, there were too that jumped out at me. one is the other assaults category that appears to have doubled, and that as over the previous two years. i am wondering if there is anything that goes with that

that you would like to comment on? >> i would have to go look at those reports. i don't want to talk of the top of my head. i don't know if it is a typographical or not. i would have to look to the report and see what the evidence is. with the other one? >> prostitution for the previous years, 36 and 40, and all the sudden in 2011, two. i was wondering whether the sex trade crimes are included in prostitution, or how all of that fits? >> the one or two misdemeanor charges our ability headed there -- are dielineated

there. we have a small number of prostitution cases, but i will look at that. commissioner kingsley: i thought it may be moved to a different part of the city. >> we don't have the prostitution numbers and the mission district. a also the downtown area, we have very little there. i will have an answer for you tomorrow during business hours. >> we had a hotel. it would be part of the environment that has changed. reports every day coming across

my desk if there was one particular building, it was the focal point that makes sense. it may be different categorization, but we will find out. >> we appreciate the enthusiasm that you bring to your job. can you address confiscation of firearms? very important in the community. when i was looking at the numbers for the last couple of years, it would appear that roughly 25%-30% of firearms confiscated are not related with an arrest. i am curious about that, how that comes about.

maybe some examples of how you are able to confiscate the relatively large number of firearms. >> most of the tip of theline and -- are because of tip line or anonymous means. information, for instance, someone has located a gun that they wanted to turn them or they knew that it was-did a certain location. the gang members, it will be in bushes or other locations. the way of their searched there is no firearm on them.

oftentimes, we will be doing a walk through that will be identified who they are. the main thing is that we get a firearm, and that is great. again, we are able to deal with you if you want to remain anonymous. if you want to remain confidential, there is a section where we can protect your information from being disclosed. we just want to get the guns. >> just out of curiosity, how many of the guns confiscated are illegal firearms? >> assault weapons? it is not a great deal of assault weapons. mostly ballot as handguns. generally those are obtained through lawfully obtained or a residence is burglarized and it

is a stolen firearms. a child had a handgun inside of his backpack during one of these school searches. and so we are able to attract these firearms. there are lawful purchases from the pawnshop in other states have transferred across state lines. those are tracked as well. >> anything further? >> i had questions. >> i have to pick up a family member so i'll be moving in two or three minutes. dr. marshall will take over. >> thank you for your presentation, you are very good

at pacing the power point. it is clear that there is a team, a spirit to the work that you do end there is a humble air there. a couple of questions in response to the public, and i have heard, the asian resident population, and bilingual officers, i wanted to ask you how it has been for you. in terms of outreach, dramatically increasing the asian population, what are the ideas you have to get them involved in the community? >> she has made a very good point, we need more cantonese and mandarin speaking officers

at the station. the officer might be off duty. we have them come to the bayview, the ones that are certified to use them. he has been my major resource for years. we live like most of the officers, over 90% are here because they requested to come here. we need to do more distant stations.

you may be familiar with him, he was the outreach officer to a whole number of -- he was promoted to lieutenant in the recently transferred. we hope to get more, right now we are getting it from others -- the other stations. we have been traditionally been doing a lot of outreach. we hope to do more. i think the meeting will be a very important one because both allen and the three said to -- ellen and teresa sukeduke have

been critical of our efforts and to take the criticism to heart. we're also working with other organizations on third street, it has been there about four months. eddi zheng, he's a community leader. this is one area we need to do better. >> i share your sentiment, is a growing challenge that needs to be practically addressed. i am glad to hear there are all these supporters in the community working with you. >> i will say that when there are exigent matters, 911 calls, we have support three

dispatchers and other means to make sure that people receive the emergency response and we get the information in their native language. in terms of the crime prevention piece in the of reach, i will double efforts on that. >> i wanted to s mend u aboutel pl -- to ask you about mendel plaza. the themes that is a hot spot for some kind of activity we may not want. or their ideas the you could share with us? >> we could speak for hours about it, it has been on the front burner. these suggestions are the same from the folks that we get at the opera house, those in

various institutions along oakdale, george carver, all the same. they want the violence to stop, they want visible police presence. we're doing some plainclothes work. rodney fitzpatrick is out there every day and working in that area. supervisor cohen is working on this. malia an d [unintelligible] there are a whole number of suggestions. we have removed the benches, increasing lighting, working with dpw, public utilities, mta.

everyone is working on making it safer. dbi, supervisor cohen is whispering in my ear. code abatement, issues with liquor stores. there is a multi-city department effort. we have the arts commission that i met with for an hour, suggesting what they are doing at the opera house and the plaza. the opera house has a vibrant operation int he pla - -i- in the plaza. we want more events in the summertime, that is going to happen. it is right at the focal point for everybody.

safety, security, making infrastructure changes. the folks that live and work there, they want change. they want cops there, so i have resources galore. knock on wood, we haven't had shootings or gun issues in the plaza for the last 90-120 days. i think that is directly attributable to the enforcement and visibility. i hope answers your question. >> i think the interagency approach makes sense, and you. >> i might ask you something that is near and dear to my heart. the community ambassador program, how do you feel about that?

>> wheat keep mixing and matching. we keep mixing and matching, the office of immigrant affairs. we have a lot of city bureaucrats here helping us out. not only do we work closely with the ambassadors, and i think they are a very important component, b.a. degree a m safeuni jiechi thepla -- bringing a degree of safety to the muni platforms, they are there. there is a young attorney that is also a police sergeant, and

he has a training session for all the ambassadors throughout the city. the bayview station community room, he gave them over an hour- long session of out communicate with the police and how to deal with miscreance, the types of things they have to deal with. they're out there with a yellow jacket bought or something. that training, i believe the director was pleased with the training. we will continue to train the ambassadors throughout the city. the foot beat officers say the ambassadors are part of a team that i believe has brought down some of the robbers. robberies are about the same in

the san bruno corridor. the answer to your question, it is working out very well. >> that is what we hoped. >> anything else? commissioner marshall: being in the boys' club, it has really changed. it is not perfect, but there were years when it was just insane. i am glad to see the things are improving. there is a good chief in place, a good captain in place, and let's keep it moving. no one wants to return to the way it was.

>> you have toiled in these venues for decades and you converse with the issues. it has something to do with the police, a lot to do with the police that as more of the community -- in the community leaders are incredible, as you know. there are all types of folks that are involved in these issues each and every day. people live in the neighborhoods, they visit the corridor, and there are peaks and valleys and stops and starts, but you are right. it is moving in the right direction. we have to keep remembering that the community is one that is important. >> chief, want to say something? >> the next item that no one is

looking forward to is adjournment, but he did use phalanx in context tonight. he is one of the officers retiring at the end of june. he has toiled in the san francisco police department for four decades. i think we can honor him by adjourning at, i don't want to steal your thunder -- >> line item 4. adjournemtn. ment. >> in honor of the captain. >> hear, hear. [applause] >> the meeting is adjourned, ladies and jump in.

--and gentlemen. >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's.

she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the

program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area and -- we call it the big store. they go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. it is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. >> when you are talking about recology, do you have the only sculpture garden at the top? >> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is beautiful.

a lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. we talk about recycling and conservation. they can meet the artists. >> fantastic. let's go meet some of your current artists. here we are with lauren. can you tell us how long have been here so far and what you're working on? >> we started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. i am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand- embroidered objects from our day-to-day life.

>> can you describe some of the things you have been making here? this is amazing. >> i think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. i have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. it is also very windy down here. there is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. there is a pamphlet about hearing dea -- nearing death. this is a dead rabbit. this is what i am working on now. this is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. it is for a very special friend. >> while we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. >> i am interested in the serendipity of these still life

compositions. when he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. it is probably one of the least thought of compositions. people are getting rid of this stuff. it holds no real value to them, because they're disposing of it. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel. what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question. for me, being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed

material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster. it was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or

settled. the sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. it becomes a part of something else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. area artists. we encouraged artists from all we encouraged artists from all