>> our crime comes reported to the police department. >> supervisor ronen: reported to the police department? >> yeah, exactly. so i think we had -- so for 2017, we had 40 total incidents. out of those 40 total, we were able to make 20 arrests for last year. and that is just a comparison between 2016 and 2017 for lgbtq hate crimes and then total citywide. that is all we have for you. if you have any questions, i'm certainly available. >> supervisor fewer: are these misdemeanors, felonies, and what kind of crimes are we talking about? >> it depends. so the hate crime is an additional charge. it's so -- there has to be an initial crime, so there's a threat, there's a vandalism, an assault, a battery that's

committed, and then, the hate crime is added onto that. so generally, the police department will charge the felony if possible, but it's based on the initial crime that's committed. >> supervisor fewer: and so what is your criteria in your -- the measure that you use that is a hate crime, what is the criteria? >> so we look at basically, it's the penal code. it's the motivation. so was this the extent of the crime, and then, we look at what -- what the penal code will allow us to charge based on that. and then, we work very closely with the district attorney's office to make sure that we can get obviously the stiffest punishment and the most -- the strictest charge we can based on the incident that occurs. >> so i -- given that you're the only representative from the police department, i was, you know, very sad and not

surprised, but sad to see the data from the human rights commission that over a third of the lgbtqi people do not trust the police, and i'm just wondering how the police department is addressing these really dismal statistics? >> absolutely. we do train every person that comes through the academy. in the last two years, we've trained over 500 recruits that come through the academy. we have participated in the it gets better project. we have created a video that was -- is available for the public to view. we attend community meetings. the -- my predecessor, i took over in november , and my predecessor participated in a statewide training video, in the development of a training video that's available for police agencies throughout the

state to view to train their officers to deal with victims, to better investigate these crimes, so we can have, you know, good outcomes of people getting punished, and obviously the victims getting the services and support they need, as well. >> supervisor ronen: and have you seen that these trainings and these outreach sort of tools have made a difference? how do you -- how do you track progress in this area? >> i scan say just from our office, we do get a lot more calls from out in the field, where officers are at an incident and things are happening, they're not quite sure what steps to take, is this a hate crime, is it not a hate crime. i don't have a number i can give you, but i can say there's definitely an increase in the number of officers say, hey, is this a hate crime? how do i get there?

what questions do i need to ask? >> supervisor ronen: but if it's -- if this community is not trusting -- if such a large portion of the community is not trusting the police, have you done an analysis of why that is and -- >> to my knowledge, we have not, no. >> supervisor ronen: i know this is not exactly your department. >> that's all right. >> supervisor ronen: but that's something we might want to look at further in this committee and bring the chief here because that's an alarming statistic and there needs to be measure on that and improvements in that. i just think we should have a follow up meeting on that topic, but i understand that's not your role in the police department. >> supervisor fewer: it's absolutely right. it's what is the culture within the police department, and sort of what is the culture of police officers on the street when dealing with lgbt folks, too, so i think interesthere's

thing about reporting the hate crime and classifying it as such, and there's another thing about going to the police. i'm remembering there's a lot of underreporting also, and so i think that in order for us to really combat this issue, that we really need to have real statistics on what is really happening out there, and i think that this snapshot of it is a really small percentage. which i actually don't really believe these numbers so much. i mean, i understand that the penal code section, it has to meet that criteria, but even when i know what's happening in our schools, i think that this is a very low number for maybe some of it is maybe around the relations, which we know is not under your jurisdiction. >> supervisor sheehy: so i just want to say how incredibly

disappointed i am that no one from the command staff showed up today, and how disrespectful that is to our community. we have increased the number of deputy chiefs and commanders, and the fact that not one of them could attend today is a disgrace and a total disrespect to my colleagues. so second, i think the narrowness of the focus on hate crimes doesn't really capture the enormity of the problem. i appreciate the incident when an officer was actually rounded. but when they show up in the castro on halloween specifically to target the lgbt community as they finish their celebration, when we see violence, you know that started at -- that happens at pride,

that happens at lgbtq events, when we see violence against sex workers who are trans, those don't count as hate crimes, i understand, specifically, but our community is being preyed upon, and because of the -- you know, really, as my colleague noted, the lack of trust? sfpd, which is validated by the lack of respect shown today by the command staff not having the -- the courtesy to send someone today. you know, i used to do trainings with advanced officers when i was in the district attorney's office on same sex domestic violence and more generally on lgbt issues. and it's disappointing to feel like that we haven't made more progress in the 20 years since i was doing those trainings. to have just the minimum degree of respect to send someone from the command staff to a hearing on violence against my

community, so i really don't have anything else to add, but thank you. >> supervisor fewer: i actually would suggest continuing this hearing and sharing that when the command staff is here so we can ask them questions around culture. i understand that isn't your purview. i also want to say i remember, during pride. it must have been about 2012 or 2011, that my husband made an arrest of a group of kids, young men, that were there with -- they had knives and made an arrest. and at that time, kamala harris actually tried it as a hate crime and was very successful, and he was somewhat shocked that actually it met the threshold, and they were really following through of it, because a lot of times, they're suspecting it was a hate crime. but it was right on pride,

right on the fringes on vanness. so i'm wondering how many are investigating as height crimes, but then how many don't meet the threshold. so even those crimes, i think that we may suspect are really important actually to collect data on because it just looks like this problem is not a big problem here, you know, and we know just anecdotally is. so i think even keeping the data on the ones you suspect but don't charge as a hate crime is important. >> supervisor ronen: i just want to chime in with my colleague, supervisor sheehy. i agree with you. i feel like the presentation, just a couple of numbers on a piece of paper, we know that this community is being targeted in ways that have

increased since the trump presidency. we hear that anecdotally, and just to come here with some vague numbers on a piece of paper that actually showed a decrease in these crimes without really an analysis of what's happening on the streets and even just looking at -- which i don't know if this is the first time that you've seen this data, but that a third of the community doesn't trust the police? we know where that comes from, and there's a very long history where the police targeted this community specifically with violence and malice and, you know disdain, and that's not that long ago. when i started off by saying

i'm not impressed with those statistics, it goes deep. at supervisor sheehy mentioned, targeting of sex workers, immigrant, trans-latinas who don't feel safe talking to the police because of immigration status. this is a major issue and problem in our city, and i just completely agree with supervisor sheehy that it just doesn't feel like the department is taking this seriously with the way that you've come here today and addressed that, so i just want to back you up, supervisor sheehy. i completely agree with you. >> supervisor fewer: yeah. i just want to say i support supervisor sheehy. we called this meeting, and it was postponed. it was not on the spur of the moment. we knew it was coming. i also think it's unfair for the city to put you -- because

i know in your unit, you have this certain purview in your unit. but i also think if we -- so we would like to also know, like, what are the kind of data could we suggest that the police actually collect and share with us that really gives us a snapshot of what wis happening on the ground? so this is just a hate crime, but also how many lgbt folks are victims of violence, and those type of things, i think, are really important. and then, we should also get data from the office of citizen complaints to find out what kind of complaints are we also hearing about the police force, too, just in the light of trying to protect this community at this critical time, especially when we know nationwide that deaths of transgender folks have been increasing, the incidents of

antilgbt organizations getting boulder and stronger. all of these things feed in a culture that is anti what san francisco desires, and what the lgbt community of san francisco deserves. it's not fair to put it on you, but i guess it's sort of to the messenger, but i think that a deeper comprehensive look with the police department. we are not going to actually get a handle on this until we actually work collaboratively with the police department because i actually feel like we really depend on your services, actually, to help keep this population safe, too. and are we all working together at the same goal? i think also that we should continue this hearing, and we should also request certain data so we're prepared to actually get a true snapshot of what's really happening on the streets of san francisco for

this community that has, as we know, has also been under attack, not just by our federal government, but by organizations and individuals of organizations that believe in a hateful ideology. so thank you very much. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you, and i agree with your suggestions. because if someone waits outside bars in the castro for people to go home and then robs them, that's not necessarily a hate crime. but it's a crime of opportunity. you know, so the violence against the community, it can be -- or people who prey on trans sex workers, knowing that they're very unlikely to report violence for a whole host of reasons. you know, i think the level of detail we need to have on violence, and it should be violence against the community in all of its aspects. the narrow focus on hate crimes -- and again, i agree

with my colleagues. it's not fair to hold you up here or lieutenant o'cone or to hold you up. i feel that the castro is less safe than it has been, and i don't feel i'm getting very much responsiveness from my interactions from the department in terms of safety in the castro. so i'm just reaching a level of frustration. i'm on my fourth police captain in the castro, so we actually haven't been able to create any kind of coherent, meaningful, you know, progress moving forward or strategy. i mean, my -- you know, it just seems like -- like i said -- and it's not to you guys, but it doesn't seem like there's the adequate level of respect from my community within the department at this time. thank you.

>> thank you. >> supervisor sheehy: and then next, i'd like to introduce christine dubarry from the district attorney's office, d.a.'s office.

>> i'm technically challenged, so i'll do my best here. thank you, supervisor ronen, supervisor sheehy, supervisor

fewer. i'm here on behalf of d. d.a. gascon. in our office, we have an individual within our general felonies unit that's dedicated to hate crimes cases, and that person, unfortunately, rotates at our rotations through the office rotate. i invited brook jenkins to be here with me today, but she's actually picking a jury on a hate crime case, so she was unable to join us. but the d.a., this is an issue he's taking very seriously, as his predecessors, and we have taken the time to try to amplify it in the office to make sure that all the communities in san francisco know that our office is here to protect them when they are a victim of any crime, particularly when they are a victim of social location. there is a question earlier how we define a hate crime, and in our presentation we have the

penal code 422.55, which describes to you what are the parameters in deciding whether something is a hate crime. it can be anything from a misdemeanor theft or a vandalism all the way up to very serious felony conduct. and then, below that, you can see the different associations an individual can have or characters an individual can have, such as -- as a vulneraby that can make them a target. we have seen a lot of targeting of communities in our country in particular the last year, year and a half, and unfortunately, san francisco doesn't have a wall to keep that type of activity out. these are some of the groups that we see being victimized

frequently in our own city. it's not unique to san francisco. unfortunately happens around the country. some of the earlier presentations indicated from the southern poverty law center indicated increases in hate crimes across the country, and we've seen that here in san francisco, as well. >> supervisor ronen: what does it mean that victims are an example of a group targeted by hate crimes. >> so we've seen an increase of people being targeted, like muslims and people in the arab community. >> supervisor ronen: right, but... >> i think the descriptor might have fallen off of that.

we do every time we speak on this issue, want to emphasize the hotline that we have. there was a discussion by director davis the difficulty of getting people to come forward. we experience that as well. one of the things that we setup after a lot of the targeting of immigrants and then in the muslim community by then candidate trump was to emphasize the hotline, so we do have that hotline available to all victims. we do offer language services. as you can see here, we take calls in english, spanish, cantonese, mandarin, russian, arabic, and tagalog. anyone who would like to report a crime can do so on that line. if they speak another language, we'll obviously get assistance to help them with that.

there are no immigration consequences for calling this number and reporting a crime. the d.a. has done a lot of outreach to different communities to reassure them that our office was here to be supportive of them if there was actual crimes, if there was information they wanted us to look into, along with the police department, that we're available to do that. and we're always available to speak to other communities about this work or other parts of our office. and then, we also have community advisory boards that come in to meet with the district attorney and attorneys in our office. so as it relates to this hearing, we do have an lgbt group, and we have serl other

groups based on racial and other identities, and we find in those a lot of intersectionality. we'll find one board is interesting in partnering with one of the other community boards, and so we'll being the liaison that fosters the relation between those communities. in addition to that, we have had a big campaign of reaching out to the consul generals in our city and signing memorandums of understanding within those communities to assist both victims of hate crimes, domestic violence and human trafficking, crimes that we feel particularly -- people that may be immigrants or visiting this country may have even less comfort inn talking to us or the police department, so we work with the consul generals to sign those memorandums with their home country and really making sure that they're aware -- the laufrt supports but maybe more

importantly the victim services supports that we can offer people in those situations, so we do a lot of work in that community in speaking at events to make sure we're reaching more deeply into the community. and then, i want to spend some time talking about our local statistics. i did, just before i came, get some 2014 numbers as well, so i'll report those to you. we have certainly seen an increase in both the cases presented to us by the police department as well as the cases we have filed in our office. in 2017, we had many cases that are booked on charges that didn't include a hate crime, but after we reviewed the facts and looked at them more carefully, we've been able to determine that a hate crime does exist, and we were able to add those charges. that's why you'll see in 2017, four more hate crimes than cases that were brought to us, because we felt, the strain of

the conversation earlier, mau not have appeared to be a hate crime, but with a little more time in our office, where we were able to consider the facts, we felt that a hate crime is appropriate. what's not represented on here is the 2014 numbers. as i said, i just got those before i came. in 2014, sfpd brought 12 cases to us as hate crimes, and we filed only four of those, so we had a quite low filing rate at that point, and we've had a steady increase over the last four years in both the cases brought to us and the cases we've been able to file. in fact from 2014 to 2017, we've had a 575% increase in the cases that we're charging as hate crimes. and just in the last year from 2016 to 2017, we're had a 93% increase in our caseload in hate crimes, and i think that's consistent, unfortunately, with the trends we're seeing in the

country of just a lot more language of hate and targeting, and it is resulting in crimes in our city that require us to prosecute them as such. of the cases that we have this year for 2017, the 276 were lgbt victims, and at this moment, i can tell you that three were trans. it's where a lot of our outreach is, and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> supervisor sheehy: well, first, do you still have a victim advocate dedicated to the lgbtq community? >> so i just want textis texti our chief of victim services if we have a dedicated worker, and

we don't, but particularly within hate crimes, we don't have a dedicated advocate or a dedicated lgbt advocate. >> supervisor sheehy: so my role, when i was there, was a combined role of hate crimes and for domestic violence because domestic violence is a particular challenge. the common assumption that i found at the time, which is borne out by statistics is when you have a heterosexual domestic violence, you know, 95% of the time, i think it's a statistic, the man is the aggressor. but in 99% of the same sex situations, that's not always the case. i don't know how well known this is, but if you've done domestic violence work, you know if there's an injury,

someone has to be arrested, and it's automatic. that's state law, and it also includes same sex domestic violence. and so a lot of the training that i was doing was actually trying to talk to officers about being very mindful about doing a complete investigation, looking at the types of wounds people had, defensive or offensive wounds, canvassing neighbors so that you could correctly identify the aggressor in domestic violence. so i think it's disappointing that this office has lost its focus in the last 20 years in that particular area. so that's one. i do think it is useful to actually have people dedicated to that work, and you know, to the degree that people are victims of crime, the awareness that they may have been targeting because of their sexual orientation or gender

i identity, that interaction should be -- i just feel -- i guess my census, i guess the criminal justice system is buckety. so if someone yells "fag" as a hate crime, or if you're transgender, and somebody beats you up because you're coming out of a bar in the castro and robs you, that's not a hate crime, but actually, those were targets that were specifically chosen because of that person's identity, and i don't know where the intersection is taking place within our criminal justice system. and then, i also am curious just to how you can work with trans sex workers who on one hand you're arresting, however, on the other hand, you're asking them to report true reports of violence against them, and when there's so much -- i mean, let's say there's so much economic discrimination against trans

folks, and unfortunately, folks do a disproportionate amount of sex work is a way to survive in this city. and yet, and the violence associated with sex work is so high, and that is a form of hate crime. and i'm just not getting a perception of some of the intersections of -- or the vulnerablity, i guess, of my community. and when i say my community, i shouldn't be so parochial, because all of us are here together. of my community, because it doesn't seem -- even after all this time, it doesn't seem to have permeated into the criminal justice system in a really valid w really meaningful way. >> i think those are valid comments. it does leave one feeling as if

it's not a whole holistic approach to a community or an issue, even, and i think that's valid and warranted. we welcome the feedback on how to make improvements in that. it ourns out that all of -- many of our supervisors within victim -- it turns out that all of our -- many -- i do feel that it's an area that we need to improve upon, and i was preparing for this hearing, which i always appreciate that opportunity. it gives us a chance to pause on our work, is i do feel we need a dedicated victim advocate. we had a trans victim who was very dissatisfied with the way

her case was handled, and she met with her attorney. i think we were able to resolve that, but having had somebody dedicated in that role, i think we may have avoided having to get to that place with her, and so i do think a dedicated advocate would be a plus to us. i think a dedicated attorney would be a plus to us. we do have a turnover in that office because we have to fill holes in other parts in the office. [ inaudible ] our resources don't allow for that, so you know, we try to pick the smartest and most capable people in that unit to do the work, people that have a

real passion for that work. i think it takes a special drive of somebody willing to peel back the layers of a police report and understand what's motivating somebody to commit this crime. how might this victim have perceived that, and that takes a unique perspective on those cases. but i agree we should have more, and having more dedicated resources always gets a better result. >> supervisor sheehy: thank you very much. >> thank you. >> supervisor ronen: if we want to open up this item to public comment, is there any member of the public who would like to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor sheehy, do you want to add any closing remarks? >> supervisor sheehy: you know, i think that there's just this assumption, because i just -- and it's not just the

lgbt community, but there's this assumption that because san francisco is so progressive that we made so much progress on -- on these social cultural issues as a community, that these things don't exist anymore. and as we saw this summer with the white supremacists, they know there's parts they can act in their communities. there are specific communities that are easy to target in san francisco, because they're here, they have freedom, but that also means they have increased vulnerablity, the people who specifically want to target them. and i really was hoepgs there

was more awareness of the special vulnerablity in these times where people feel particularly ' particularly emboldened in being able to target groups that have been marginalized. i think it's been a collaborative effort. we all have worked in coalition with each other and collaboration with each other to get to a place that san francisco exists as it is, but the awareness of our time now with what we have happening in our country, i guess if i have one takeaway, is i hope that the public elements of our city government will reexamine what their posture is and recognize that we're feeling more vulnerable, not less. and we need to feel safe, and

we rely on our public safety agencies to help us feel safe. and so being attentive to that and taking that as a priority -- and again, it's not just the lgbtq community, but it's really our immigrant community, our muslim community, i mean women -- you could go down the list -- people of color, we're being targeted in washington. we don't live in a -- we feel like we live in a bubble, but we don't. there's bridges, there's highways. people come here, and i think that maybe another -- another order of attention -- a higher order of attention and thoughtfulness about the vulnerablity of our communities is necessary at this time. >> supervisor ronen: thank you -- thank you for that. that was -- appreciate that you called this hearing and would love to follow up on the issues that we didn't feel were

meaningfully addressed. supervisor fewer, no comments? >> supervisor fewer: no. >> supervisor ronen: okay. with that, can i entertain a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? okay. great. so this item is continued to the call of the chair. thank you, everyone, for the presentations and for coming out today. mr. clerk, is there any further items? >> clerk: there's no further business. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. this meeting is adjourned. .

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center on mission street in san francisco and joined by carla, the deputy director of spur and one of the persons who pushed this shelter in place and safe enough to stay concept and we want to talk about what it means and why it's important to san francisco. >> as you know the bay area as 63% chance of having a major earthquake and it's serious and going to impact a lot of people and particularly people in san francisco because we live on a major fault so what does this mean for us? part of what it means is that potentially 25% of san francisco's building stock will be uninhibit tabl and people can't stay in their

homes after an earthquake. they may have to go to shelters or leave entirely and we don't want that to happen. >> we want a building stock to encourage them to stay in the homes and encourage them to stay and not relocate to other locations and shelters. >> that's right so that means the housing needs to be safe enough to stay and we have been focused in trying to define what that means and you as a former building official knows better than anybody the code says if an earthquake happens it won't kill you but doesn't necessarily say that can you stay in your home and we set out to define what that might mean and you know because you built this house we're in now and this shows what it's like to be in a place safe enough to stay. it's not going

to be perfect. there maybe cracks in the walls and not have gas or electricity within a while but can you essentially camp out within your unit. what's it going to take to get the housing stock up to this standard? we spent time talking about this and one of the building types we talk about was soft story buildings and the ground floor is vulnerable because there are openings for garages or windows and during the earthquake we saw in the marina they went right over and those are -- >> very vulnerable buildings. >> very and there are a lot of apartment buildings in san that that are like that. >> and time to. >> >> retrofit the buildings so people can stay in them after

the earthquake. >> what do they need? do they need information? do they need incentives? mandates? >> that's a good question. i think it starts with information. people think that new buildings are earthquake proof and don't understand the performance the building will have so we want a transparent of letting people know is my building going to be safe in it after an earthquake? is my building so dangers i should be afraid of being injured? so developing a ranking system for buildings would be very important and i think for some of the larger apartment buildings that are soft story we need a mandatory program to fix the buildings, not over night and not without financial help or incentive, but a phased program over time that is reasonable so we can fix those

buildings, and for the smaller soft story buildings and especially in san francisco and the houses over garages we need information and incentives and coaxing the people along and each of the owners want their house to be safe enough. >> we want the system and not just mandate everybody. >> that's right. >> i hear about people talking about this concept of resiliency. as you're fixing your knowledge you're adding to the city wide resiliency. >> >> what does that mean? >> that's a great question. what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san

we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and [music]ou very much for joining

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2011. my name iskim troy, client of city clinic. when i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. i felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know was very helpful. so i [inaudible] hiv care with their health >> about a quarter of our patients are women. the rest, 75% are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex with men. a small percent about 1% of our clients, identify as transgender. >> we ask at the front for $25 fee for services but we don't turn anyone away for funds. we also work with outside it's going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. >> i get casted for a pap smear

and i also informed the contraceptive method. accessibility to the clinic was very easy. you can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. i feel i'm taken care of and i'm been supportive. >> all the information were collecting here is kept confidential. so this means we can't release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a sexual health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. >> trance men and women face really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. and in healthcare. hiv and std rates in san francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. so we

really try to make city clinic a place that strands-friendly trance competent and trans-welcoming >> everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. they are friendly good for me being a sex worker, i've gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they weren't competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel like they slapped me on the hands but living the sex life that i do. i have been coming here for seven years. when i come here i know they my services are going to be met. to be confidential but i don't have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less >> a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10 minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. we have some testing with you on site. so all of our samples we collect here. including blood draws. we sent to the lab from here so people

will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. then we have a few test we do run on site. so those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. people get those results the same day of their visit. >> i think it's important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you can come to. >> on-site we have condoms as well as depo-provera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. we can prescribe other forms of contraception. pills, a patch and rain. we provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in san francisco residents or, to women who are enrolled in a state-funded program called family pack. pap smears are the recommendation-recommended screening test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. we do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day

of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. >> in terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people.if people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little more. we might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. so if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. to my best advice to be senior is get here early.we do have a website but it's sf city clinic.working there's a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. as well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. the phones answered during hours for clients to questions. >>

>> >> neighborhoods in san francisco are as diverse and fascinating as the people who inhabit them. today we're in the sunset, where we'll join supervisor tang for the inspiration of this show, where we explore san francisco, one neighborhood at a time. hi i'm katy tang the district 4 supervisor in san francisco, which is comprise of sunset and

parkside neighborhoods. i think what makes district 4 unique is that we have so many different cultures here. we have so many different generations of people. different experiences and that makes it a vibrant neighborhood. for example, which you go down urban street you can do to a japanese restaurant, chinese restaurant, american restaurant, and the cultural diversity is just what makes it so amazing my name is ching le, and i'm the owner of the kingdom of bounty. 17th san francisco, 94116. we make the most authentic and different kinds of dumplings and dim sum. recently more and more popular because they are vegetables and meats that we use fresh vegetables and meats in the business.

it's really inspired to start discover your district series, because i wanted to find a way for neighbors to come and get to know our small businesses and our neighborhoods. get to know each other, get know our office, and do so in a setting that was unintimidating and fun. so i launched this idea call the "discover your district," where we go every month to one or two small businesss in district 4 and we have done things such as learning how to make dumplings that we're learning today and there are so many different activities that we have exposed our residents to. >> today is the very special day, because the city of san francisco hosting this for san francisco city. learning how to make dumplings and knowledge of dumplings. they love to do it and all enjoy it. >> this is definitely not my first time making it, so i have

definitely improved a lot. the first couple of time s i tried to make dumplelings they looks inedible. they have definitely improved. there is a special dumpling eating contest, which is amazing. everyone those eat the dumplings that they made and see how many they can do. i'm curious as to how many they going to be able to down today? >> don't forget to write down what you are eating today. >> we make all different kinds of dumplings and enjoy what they made. so after that, we'll have contact how many pieces of dumplings they can eat and announce the winner today.

>> in 2017 we've had the lowest number of fatalities on our streets in our history. we still have a lot of work to do. and doing this work is a team effort. it is of course working with the department of public works and the sfmta to discuss infrastructure issues to make it safer for pedestrians and bicyclists who are vulnerable to vehicles often times sadly going too fast. we're working with the san francisco police department, doing everything we can to crackdown on those individuals speeding and breaking the law and doing things that could create these kinds of accidents. no one wants to see the accidents on the