the rewards vary but it's very effective and so far we've done real well anonymously seizing guns off people. >> how many? >> i think about 8. more than 8 this year. but what it does, remember, some of these people that the individuals are calling on, they are very violent people and they are afraid of them. so when they call, they are calling us, that's a key to us to say, wait a minute, if this person that knows this person is calling the police on this person that this must be a very serious issue. but it has worked where we've gotten, i believe, at least one ak 47, several semiautomatic handguns off people without talking about specifics that were just absolute key. then our meetings, we have meetings, standing meetings

regarding cease fire. cease fire, we've had cease fire for several years but we tweaked it a little bit. and when i talked about the sheriff's department earlier, what the cease fire brings together is not only law enforcement but adult probation, juvenile probation, the sheriff's department. the sheriff's department has a classification unit, that classification unit, they have control over what happens in the jails. so although someone who is arrested on the street may not claim to be a gang member or they tell their probation officer they are not a gang member, when they go to the jail, if they are a gang member they do tell the classification unit and that's one way we can stop the violence in advance. that's one. two, we started streaming all of our crime alerts to the sheriff's department so who better to know the criminals than the individuals, the sheriffs, that watch the individuals and are with them and interact with them while they are doing time for prior crimes? or we have had instances, we have had an instance where the individual

committed a series of crimes but they were arrested for the final crime and they are sitting in jail already. so it saves our resources, the police department working for this suspect when in fact he's already sitting in jail and the sheriff's department can tell us exactly where he's at. that's pretty much it, just in an overview of the i and the p part that we have started new. we still are doing, as i said, the probation searches, the parole searches, still doing a lot of the meetings but we tweaked them to make them a little better so we all are responsible. i brought some statistics for you today. first of all, the first slide depicts the homicides of all kinds city-wide this year compared to last year. as you can see, there is a spike in the bayview and the ingleside and in the southern. the ingleside case, an unfortunate case on house

street, that resulted in 5 homicides. so it kind of skews the statistic that's there, that that's 14 homicides this year. >> i'm sorry, do you have -- i can't see, our screen is blinking and i don't have a hard copy. we've also seen a spike in the caravelle, the like view neighborhood and wondering if that's reflected on there as well. >> the spike, when you look at the empirical data, the spike on the numbers, actually the caravelle homicides are only up -- don't mean to say they are

only up 1. >> up 1 from last year but for me a trend is something a few years in the making. what was it in 2010 and what was it in 2009 i think we'll see a trend upward that i have been concerned about. but certainly these numbers in the ingleside, visitacion valley and bayview are very high and compared to other years. i know that's a big concern for the department and the ipo strategy has come from that. since we started ipo and summer was very hot, how have we seen the homicides in terms of the trajectory we were on earlier this year, has it stayed the same? >> they have gone down. violent crime overall is down 3 percent this year or our non-fatal shootings are down 15 percent. i have another slide. this is a snapshot in time. last year we had a total of 50

homicides. we're more than that this year but when you look at that one isolated ipbs department really skewed our statistics for this year. i want to say also no homicide is a justifiable homicides, but just looking at the numbers, i have numbers over the years coming up, you will see how it's -- from our 2008 year where we had 98 homicides, we're still staying well below the average. >> i guess -- i mean i didn't ask the question well enough. this summer we had visitacion valley was very hot, like view was pretty hot, bayview was hot and it was a summer that the ipo strategy was discussed and was implemented, was launched. have we seen, what's the trend been like since the ipo

strategy has come forward? >> take a look at the screen in front of you right now, the numbers, the homicides by month. we did notice the june and july spike where we had 18 homicides between the two months. but when we implemented the ipo plan, you'll see that part of the reason in the month of august we had no homicides at all, zero, and we haven't had that, when you look to the slide immediately to the right, historically that's an 11 year run from 2002 to 2011. august we averaged somewhere around 6 homicides. so if you look at the trend there, the trend clearly went down. yes, we did have a spike in june and july but then you see it's leveling off and even reduced september and october -- august way down, september and october had leveled off,

november we have had two. so i think it's working. it's going to take us a little more time just looking at that one snapshot. >> supervisor olague. thank you. >> how does that compare to shootings. i know frequently there's an emphasis on homicides but it doesn't really speak to the fact that the violence is still occurring. you know what i mean, the shootings don't, just because a person doesn't --. >> you read our mind also. >> okay. >> one of the true gauges of violence is who actually gets shot and survived. so the next slide is our non-fatal shootings without homicides by firearms, just by firearms, in the police districts. this is city-wide. as you can see, the non-fatal shootings with firearms without the individual dying are down 15 percent. that's huge. you see the number of last year to date is 3 halloween was

152 and now we're down to 129. that's key to us. in fact, which you look at those shootings you are seeing the trend is going down and it has gone down. 2009, 2010, and here we are at 2012. >> thank you, it's good to note. and i do appreciate that. it's pretty clear in most police districts except for northern and northern we're seeing a trend upward. >> yes, we are. >> it's just important to note. >> it is important to note and in that light we have created a data base where we can track, when a shooting occurs we notice, we note where it takes place. so, for instance, if it took place in the 800 block of bue

bucannon, the next likely place might be on march alley if i have the vrt south of market i will move them to the western addition, say, hey, we can't have a back and forth, a back and forth. we did have a back and forth during the summer where it looked like it was eddy block, kop, central diviz, i don't know who was warring with who but that accounts for the spike in numbers. >> supervisor olague. >> my whatever isn't working. but i was wondering is there every few years, i think it's every 10 years, they re-evaluate the election lines. will there ever be a vee-evaluation of the police --. >> boundaries?

>> boundaries, yeah. there seems to be this, what's the word, northern station, they go to the marina and they have pieces of the western addition, there seems to be this kind of, i don't know, doesn't seem to be dramatic, i just wonder what criteria is used to create those boundaries and when was the last time it was evaluated. >> i think i've been in for 31 1/2 years, twice. the most recently was years ago. i got to think 20o25 years ago, at least 20 years ago, i think, but you're right, the definition of the western addition. >> the demographic shifted in the whole city to such an dmreepl it seems like there might be the time to start revisiting that. >> i see what you're saying. if you say the western addition, shouldn't that include 8th street? yeah.

>> and nopale didn't exist. >> van ness has its own setting of issues. >> my neighborhood. then just a final slide that i have to present to you, it's the homicide by firearms and non-fatal shootings in the police districts. these are the people who, the non-fatal shootings, the people who survived and the people shot and killed. it's still down. we're still trending down 6 percent. i know those numbers aren't very comforting, for sure, we'd like to see them much lower, but i think our strategy is working. we are all strapped for staffing but i think we're doing a pretty good job of what we got. especially the calendaring of the personnel and our immediate

response because if the supervisor working that day has any questions or if i need to talk to somebody directly, at least we can quell what's going on immediately by sending both uniform and plain clothes officers, motorcycle solo officers, the honda units. we can prestage them and then when an incident "can you occurs we can post stage them in places where we think an incident will flare up. >> do you have it for demographics like age and race. >> for today? we do for homicides. >> but not for the shooting piece. >> the shootings, we do keep that in the data base, yes. but i think most of that is on our web site, available in the web site in the aggregate. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, lieutenant murphy, appreciate your time.

okay, colleagues, if there are no other comments or questions, i just want to announce that we are having a community meeting tonight in the omi neighborhood. i think some of the folks who have presented here will be there tonight. it will be community-based organizations, a lot of community leaders, community residents. the probation department, dcyf, dph, police department, captain lum will be there for the potrero station. it will be a chance for the neighborhood to come together around the spike we had earlier this year in homicides in the omi and i think a lot of committee members will be discussing what they see needs to be implemented in the neighborhood. that will be 6:00 tonight at the rec center formerly called the ocean view rec center. i will be there of

course in my office and that will start at 6:00 tonight. i just wanted to make that announcement and i think it's part of the efrlt we have moving forward how we can really organize around a response at a neighborhood level for homicides here in our neighborhoods in san francisco. so this item we can continue to the call of the chair, colleagues, do that without objection? okay, do we have any other items for us? >> that completes the agenda. >> then we are adjourned. thank you. (meeting adjourned).

>> just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of san francisco's our community to the meridian gallery has a 20-year history of supporting visual arts. experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. and lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change.

>> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former soviet union. these are blown up to a gigantic

images. they lose resolution. i do not mind that, because my images are about the images, but they're also about the idea, which is why there is text all over the entire surface. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around union square. for the 100th anniversary of the mansion, meridian hosted a series of special events, including a world premiere reading by lawrence ferlinghetti. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie

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>> in this fabulously beautiful persidio national park and near golden gate and running like a scar is this ugly highway. that was built in 1936 at the same time as the bridge and at that time the presidio was an army and they didn't want civilians on their turf. and the road was built high. >> we need access and you have a 70 year-old facility that's inadequate for today's transportation needs. and in addition to that, you have the problem that it wasn't for site extenders. >> the rating for the high

viaduct is a higher rating than that collapsed. and it was sapped quite a while before used and it was rusty before installed. >> a state highway through a federal national park connecting an independently managed bridge to city streets. this is a prescription for complication. >> it became clear unless there was one catalyst organization that took it on as a challenge, it wouldn't happen and we did that and for people to advocate. and the project has a structural rating of 2 out of 100.

>> you can see the rusting reinforcing in the concrete when you look at the edges now. the deck has steel reinforcing that's corroded and lost 2/3's of its strength. >> this was accelerated in 1989 when the earthquake hit and cal came in and strengthened but can't bring to standards. to fix this road will cost more than to replace. and for the last 18 years, we have been working on a design to replace the road way, but to do in a way that makes it appropriate to be in a national park and not army post. >> i would say it's one of the most ugly structure, and it's a barrier between the mar sh and

presidio. and this is a place and i brought my dogs and grandchildren and had a picnic lunch and it was memorable to use them when we come here. what would it look like when the design and development is completed. and we are not sure we want an eight lane highway going through this town. and it's a beautiful area in a national seaport area on the planet. >> the road is going to be so different. it's really a park way, and it's a parkway through the national park. and they make the road disapeer

to the national park. >> and the road is about 20 feet lower, normally midday, you go through it in two minutes. looking back from the golden gate bridge to presidio, you are more aware of the park land and less of the roads. and the viaduct will parallel the existing one and to the south and can be built while the existing one remains in operation. and the two bridges there with open space between them and your views constantly change and not aware of the traffic in the opposite direction and notice the views more. and the lanes of course are a foot wider than they are today. and they will be shoulders and

if your car is disabled, you can pull off to the edge. and the next area, the tunnel portal will have a view centered on the palace of fine arts and as you come out, you can see alkatrez island and bay. and the next area is about 1,000 feet long. and when you come into one, you can see through the other end. it's almost like driving through a building than through a tunnel. and noise from the roadway will be sheltered. and the traffic will be out of view. >> when you come out of the last sort tunnel and as you look forward, you see the golden dome of the palace of fine arts and what more perfect

way to come to san francisco through that gateway. >> it will be an amazing transformation. now you read it as one section, the road is a major barrier and then a wonderful strip along the water. all of those things are going to mesh together. >> right now the road really cuts off this area from public access. and with the new road, we will be able to open up the opportunity in a new way. >> this bunker that we see now is out of access for the general public. we are excited to completely rework this side and to open up the magnificent views. and what we want to do is add to this wonderful amenity and restore this coastal bluff area

and respect its military history and the doyle drive project is allowing us to do that recorrection. and this area is not splintered off. >> and we can see how dramatic a change it will be when doyle drive is suppressd and you have a cover that connects the cemetery to this project. it's historic on the statewide and national basis, but you could rush the project or put thought and time to create something of lasting public benefit. >> we really want this, for everyone to feel like it's a win situation. whether you are a neighbor that lives nearby or a commuter or

user of the park. that everyone will experience a much better situation than they currently have. >> the human interest to me is how people could work out so many challenging differences to come to a design that we believe will give us a jewel. landmark of a place. >> i am sure it will have refining effect like embark did. and there were people about that and no one would think of that today. and when you look at growth and transformation of the embark, the same with doyle. it will be a cherished part of the city and a worthy addition to what is there. >> it will be a safe and beautiful entrance to a spectacular beautiful city. it will