>> hi everybody, i'm the general manager of your san francisco recreation and parks department. i'm thrilled to be here with all of you and our honored guests. we have our mayor, our assembly men, supervisor mandelman, our new assessor, our commissioners. to all of the honored and elected guests, we have a ribbon cutting for all of you today that is right up your alley. this is actually the ninth ribbon cutting of let's play sf. this happened -- let's play sf, none of us remember where we were in 2012 but if you were a voter here, you passed a parks

bond in 2012 that allowed a community of your peers including some of our representatives i'll introduce in a second, to identify the most needy playgrounds around the city for public and private investment. we're also joined today by drew becker, the ceo of san francisco park alliance, the recreation parks department and our commissioners and elected family here have worked together to make sure each of the 13 most deserving playgrounds is funded and neighborhoods are revitalized through a combination of play, creativity, of connectivity and if you look at this space, you can see the potential of this project. this project is also the beneficiary of the open space acquisition fund that goes back to the 70s. the city was smart enough -- this used to be a rail line,

many who live in the community know this. look what we have been able to do with it. it's really quite special. this particular 1.7 million renovation includes something that is near and dear to my heart and to the hearts of so many children in san francisco, a nature play area. part of our san francisco children and nature initiative. to give every child in san francisco a nature-based experience every day. it is little projects like this that really make the difference. so i'm really thrilled with that. we also have a lot of ada accessibility features in this project so we can all get out and enjoy our parks and play. we even have green space on that end of the alley for dog walking and exercise equipment and all kinds of fun stuff. this project was a mix of funding services from the let's play initiative and we also have

funding from the 2012 community opportunity fund and some will speak to that in a second. let me just say a few thanks and then turn it over to our mayor. first to all of you for being patient. these projects take time. it seems 2012 was a really, really long time ago but in playground time, it was like a blink of the eye. special thanks to dave who leads the jury commoners. i believe dave is speaking in a bit who wrote the application and dr. michael lindsay, i don't think dr. lindsay could be here today, but the school was very involved in the cof application and design and certainly they're going to enjoy the space. quick shout outs to our partners. the san francisco parks alliance, we wouldn't be able to do these projects without the

caring, generous support of the parks alliance. the san francisco children and nature network, our city family from public works. there are several here. thank you dpw, you guys are awesome. i see rachel gordon in the background i think. and everybody has a mask on. i shouldn't be calling out people by faces because i can't see them. again to our commission. to the parks recreation advisory committee, the committee of citizens that works with us to help develop these projects. i know karen and steven are here. thank you for your presence. to my own staff for their hard work. lisa is here, she has been the captain of let's play sf. i see nick here, thank you nick.

michelle who leads an amazing crew. james, robert, i know i'm going to forget somebody. these are the people who so lovelily and talently care for the space. our commission president likes to say victory has many parents and this is another victory with many, many, many parents. thank you to the entire team of people who have worked on this. in the interest of time, i'm going to turn it over to our mayor. mayor breed. (applause) >> thank you. we want to just extend heartfelt thank you to the people of this community, especially. it was your work, your advocacy that made it possible. people ask me in the last year and a half, isn't it hard being

a mayor. we just went through a global pandemic. it has been tough. yes, it has been tough but being here today makes it worth it every day. i'm here with community. i'm here with people who care about san francisco. and who want to create these amazing opportunities for our children, for our neighbors. that's what this city is about. the same thing happened when the pandemic first hit our city. we all came together like never before and yes, we are one of the densest cities in the country, which is why creating spaces like this are so important, but we also saw despite a global pandemic, we saw one of the lowest death rates anywhere in the country and seeing the highest vaccination rates anywhere in the country. so -- (applause) we should be proud. but i'm not surprised. it's what we do best. when an opportunity presents itself, we don't see just a

problem. we see a solution. jury commons is a solution for the community. it created an old rail yard, a place that this community knew about for many, many years and used for many, many years but had a vision to make it into something that can be extraordinary and that's what you created. all the greenery, all the plants, all the play structures and yes, the advocacy it took to get it done. reaching out to apply for fund ing with the city. you know how difficult the city can be and how difficult it can be to get funding from the city as well. i want to thank the parks alliance stepping in with the last bit of cash to get it over the finish line. it takes a village to make incredible things happen in san francisco and the village of jury commons has been

instrumental in making this happen for the community around us and the entire city. this is an amazing accomplishment, one we should be proud of and one to take us to the next level for economic recovery. we know during the pandemic, our parks were everything for us. our open space and parks, they brought us closer together. i don't know about you, but i didn't know a lot of my neighbors. during this pandemic, going outside, meeting folks, walking around, going to parks, you get to know people you never knew lived in your neighborhood. that's what this jury commons will continue. as we begin to open and recover and go back to our lives the way we knew it once before, this will still serve as an important gathering place for this community to make sure that our kids, our neighbors, we continue to know one another, support one another and get through any challenge that comes our way. thank you for being here today.

(applause) i'm like to introduce assembly member chui. (applause) >> thank you madam mayor, particularly for your leadership during these times. i'm a former musician and i usually don't verbalize the songs in my head but i have to at this moment. the song going through my head is the one that starts with "it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood". i'm going to stop there. it truly is a beautiful day here in this very spot. the mayor has thanked so many folks from her perspective as our incredible leader of our city. i'm going to thank so many of you as a parent.

as someone who has a ritual with my 5-year-old son every weekend of trying to find a new park to play in. and what you have created here is not only going to be the destination this coming weekend, you have given not just kids a slide to slide on, adults something to play on, but just another place for us to bring community together. when i'm in sacramento, my colleagues ask me, hey, you represent san francisco, san francisco seems to have a lot. why are you such a park advocate. i explain to folks that in our amazing city, seven years ago when i was first elected to the legislature, i would tell folks in chinatown, you have immigrant kids kicking soccer balls on top of housing projects and in the mission, you have latino immigrant kids kicking soccer balls down alley ways and a few miles away, the bayview, african

american kids from time to time kicking balls on top of formerly toxic contaminated sites. this is why we do the work we do. we need to make sure our next generation of kids have the opportunities that every child should. the opportunity to play, to thrive, to learn how to be in community with each other, to grow strong and to grow to become the next mayor of this city. i just want to thank all of you who are part of this amazing community. this village, whether from the public sector and from rec and park and with the commission, whether you work with rec and park, from the private sector helping to construct the spot. whether you're from the nonprofit with your vision, it takes all of you coming together. in particular, i want to ask, how many are jury commoners? raise your hand. you guys are the ones who really made it happen. let's give it up for them.

thank you so very much. with that, it is my honor to introduce someone who represents this section of the mission, my good friend supervisor mandelman. (applause) >> thank you. there are a lot of politicians to speak today. i will try to be brief. i do want to say three big thank you's. first to jury commoners and the neighbors. this was a project that came out of the community. i think i remember back several years folks in the neighborhood, dave and others were taking care of this park even in its prior iteration. the vision for what this park could become came out of the community, grant applications were done by community. even until the very end in figuring out that this park needed garbage cans god damn it. the neighbors stepped forward and e-mailed us and we forwarded

e-mails to rec park and they figured out we need garbage cans. tremendous thanks. and to rec and park for both providing joy during the pandemic for finding ways to keep us safe, i remember phil put in the dots around in delores park in early days thinking about social distancing and delivering a service i think people love, constantly our controller studies show people love our parks and grateful for the management they are getting and they really love it when we have beautiful new or renewed parks like this. and to the parks alliance, drew and the alliance, thank you for your partnership with rec park and the work you do in district 8. we were doing a movie night which was fantastic and lovely and delightful. but the mayor and i were out for a ribbon cutting for christopher

park opening, there's a lot of great work happening through the partnership. as a neighbor, i live like a block away. and very grateful to have this as a supervisor, i'm grateful for it. speaking of people who helped get us through the pandemic, the former head of the office of economic and work force development and now our assessor controller. >> thank you supervisor. it is a pleasure to be with everyone today, especially when you step away from the evaluations you have to do being your assessor-recorder here in san francisco but most importantly, i wanted to say thank you to dave, to mary for your leadership in making this happen. ensuring we could get the work done and investments in place. i know how important it is to wake up in the morning and know

you have greenfield equipment to do exercise on and i'm happy to see you here in jury commons and to the department of recreation and parks and all of the work you do to make sure the spaces are open, healthy and safe for our communities across the city. whether here, at jury commons, in delores park or all throughout special places, nooks and allies to enjoy each other, breathe fresh air, be safe and be in community, i'm so grateful to all of you and the parks alliance doing this in so many places around our city. it is needed for all of us of every age. and i'm grateful for drew becker and continued work he does to make this happen. with that, drew becker. (applause) >> thanks. i want to bottle that. thank you so much. really appreciate it. so happy to be here today in

this amazing new space created by the neighbors for the neighbors and for this great community. this is part of our partnership with rec and park the let's play sf initiative. basically it's crowd sourcing for playgrounds that will impact about 20,000 children when they're all open in a few short years. we have raised over $12 million for 13 playgrounds throughout the city. i want to thank the board and donors for making that happen. we are lucky to live in san francisco that prioritizes parks. in the past year and a half, we have realized how important they are to our life, specifically playgrounds. if you remember back in the day, a year and a half ago when playgrounds were closed. there was the outpouring of support to open our playgrounds and i think it reached the state house actually. it was amazing to see. it's really the community like

you is what changes that. you change this space with that as well. the san francisco parks alliance is a proud to support the rec and park department and happy to support all of the amazing things it does. it is by no big issue that the rec and park department is one of the best in the city and county of san francisco. people love rec and park department and under the leadership of phil, thank you so much to him and what he has done for the department. phil, thank you. (applause) investments like this are the reason why -- this is amazing, timeout magazine called san francisco the number one city to live in in the world because of great spaces like this all over the city.

you're within a 10 minute walk of all public spaces. new playgrounds and parks and allies that have come alive. that's the san francisco we know and we're proud of. i'm proud to be a part of it and the parks alliance is a part of it and the rec and park department is part of it and proud to be working for a great mayor like london breed making sure her dream is reality. i want to give a shout out to the capital team. (applause) it's under new leadership. stacy, congratulations on that. and then tara and alex, great job on all the work you do. sarah and suzanna and team, thank you so much. we appreciate being a part of it. (applause) >> thank you. >> i live around the corner on san jose avenue. (applause)

i've led the jury commoners as we call ourselves since 2009 which literally means i buy the coffee. i'll stay on the thanks train or describe more parts of the thanks elephant. number one, laura who couldn't be here, who started the jury commoners in about 2004. and started the organization that led to the work that led to us all being here. number two, in i think 2014, eric anderson, the park services manager of this area at the time got me to write a grant for the community opportunity fund, which was unsuccessful. a couple years later, mary who is right there in the purple mask wrote the grant that succeeded and that's why we're here today. (applause) super thank you to mary.

and then number three, i want to thank smart folks at rec and parks, i don't think i fully know how it works but assembled with a community opportunity fund grant money from the let's play initiative and it turned into a more substantial project and that's why the whole park is in great shape now. so what that got us, i want to point out a couple of things i'm personally super happy about. anyone who lived in the area used the old park remembers what it was like. the paths were the crater of the moon, you couldn't get through here even with wheels. it is all great now for everybody to get through here and use the whole park. and number two, a new irrigation system, the things we plant will stay alive for a little while.

(applause) as a volunteer, i'm super happy about that. one more thing. if -- for everyone who is here and interested, this is not an end, this is the beginning of the next step. for everyone here interested helping keep this park in lovely shape it is in today, find me before i go or google meet up jury commoners and you'll find us. join the group and we'll start coming and cleaning up and keeping it in good shape. thank you. (applause) i don't know who's next. >> now to the business of this thing and cut a ribbon. >> okay.

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water slide, for little kids and those of you that are more daring and want to try the rockslide, we have a drop slide. >> exercises for everybody. hi have a great time. the ladies and guys that come, it is for the community and we really make it fun. people think it is only for those that play basketball or swim. >> i have been coming to the pool for a long time now. it is nice, they are sweet. >> in the aquatics center, they are very committed to combining for people in san francisco. and also ensuring that they have public safety. >> there are a lot of different

personalities that come through here and it makes it very exciting all the time. they, their family or teach their kids have a swim. >> of the gem is fantastic, there is an incredible program going on there, both of my girls have learned to swim there. it is a fantastic place, check it out. it is an incredible indication of what bonn dollars can do with our hearts and facilities. it is as good as anything you will find out why mca. parents come from all over. >> there are not too many pools that are still around, and this is one-stop shopping for kids.

you can bring your kid here and have a cool summer. >> if you want to see some of the youth and young men throughout san francisco play some great pickup games, come wednesday night for midnight basketball. on saturdays, we have a senior lyons dance that has a great time getting exercise and a movement. we have all the music going, the generally have a good time. whether it is awkward camp or junior guard. >> from more information, visit

is -- >> our united states constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the united states, which is incredibly important for many reasons. it's important for preliminary representation because if -- political representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. it's important for san francisco because if we don't have all of the people in our city, if we don't have all of the folks in california, california and san francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. >> it's really important to the city of san francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so we've created count sf to motivate all -- sf

count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census. >> for the immigrant community, a lot of people aren't sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u.s. citizens or whether it's something for anybody who's in the united states, and it is something for everybody. census counts the entire population. >> we've given out $2 million to over 30 community-based organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. we've also partnered with the public libraries here in the city and also the public schools to make sure there are

informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and we've initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. because of the language issues that many chinese community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. >> so it's really important that communities like bayview-hunters point participate because in the past, they've been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it

wasn't enough. >> we're going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. you know, any one of our given blocks, there's 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u.n. of san francisco. so it's -- our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. >> you go on-line and do the census. it's available in 13 languages, and you don't need anything. it's based on household. you put in your address and answer nine simple questions. how many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. your name, your age, your race, your gender. >> everybody is $2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. >> all of the residents in the city and county of san

francisco need to be counted in census 2020. if you're not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be underserved. good afternoon and thank you all so much for joining us. i want to begin by thanking our attorney general rob bonta for

coming here to the visitation valley community. it's really great to have you here in san francisco, but especially in this particular community and thank you for cohosting this round table discussion that was so important to talk about the challenges that exist around hate crimes in this city and in this state. especially as we have seen an uptick in violent hate crimes against so many of our communities in san francisco and the bay area and across the state and nation. in just a few short months on the job, he's already taken action on a number of initiatives related to criminal justice reform and racial justice which are issues that we all care about deeply in san francisco. thanks to the commitment of the community leaders that are joining us here today, so many folks who have been really on the ground addressing these issues for decades, our police chief bill scott who is with us

as well. we just had a very productive discussion on how we can continue to combat hate crimes by working together. we know that there's no short cut to this work and finding the root cause and solutions will require a continuous work in these and continuous conversations of sharing of ideas not just when something happens, but also proactively when something isn't happening. to address hate crimes at their core, we need buy-in from local community support from law enforcement and a commitment from all levels of government here in san francisco. we're steadfast in ensuring that every community is heard and protected. whether it is work around violence, prevention, and racial justice, our partners have experience and have worked

tirelessly and collaboratively with 1 another to combat these issues. today, as i said, we are in visitation valley because we remember when grandma wang as she was brutally attacked almost two years just a block away from here at the visitation valley playground. grandma wang was doing her morning exercise when that tragic incident happened and sadly, she struggled for a year before passing away earlier this year. none of this should of happened and we want to send a clear message, an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. we will continue to stand in solidarity and here in san francisco, we will do everything we can to bring perpetrators of crimes of this nature to justice. leaders here are taking action and banning together and

partnering and we're doing so because we know how important this is. an example of this work can be found in our expansion of the street violence intervention program with community youth center and self-help for the elderly and members of the street violence intervention program and i want to thank sarah wang for really taking aggressive action and working with the community to make sure that people know that we're going to have eyes and ears on the streets, but we're also going to make sure that we support and look out for our seniors. part of this expansion, includes patrolling neighborhoods in the city and responding to hate crimes against our asian community. another part of the program provides seniors with escorts to go with them while buying groceries and seeing doctors so they can feel safe when running their errands. our goals with these two programs are to build the trust of these diverse communities and increase public safety for everyone in san francisco.

just over a month ago, i was tagging along with sarah wang and the members of the street violence prevention program as they were engaging with merchants and customers along this commercial corridor or leeland avenue. a lot of times merchants feel left out right here, but often times i had a chance to talk with merchants from the restaurants and coffee shops, they felt hopeful to see this effort and this partnership and they asked that we stay consistent, especially the community engagement from c.y.c. and svip. it's offered the support to those members to use the restroom or have a place to relax and i'm sure many of these great places to eat along leeland avenue have been some of their favorites. it takes a village and we know how to do this in san francisco. this really gives me hope because we're making a

difference and residents and merchants are feeling the difference. we're committed to addressing xenophobia and we're here to support the visitation valley community and all of our partners in san francisco. and, i look forward to continuing this great work with attorney general bonnta who knows how critical these issues are in san francisco. before i bring the attorney general up, i just want to recognize him and his efforts in listening to communities across the state. as leaders, it's easy for us to sit in the offices and go about our work and the fact that attorney general bonta is committed to not only doing the round table here in san francisco, but throughout the state in all of the major cities is so key to turning things around and keeping people safe. he's not waiting for the

attacks to occur, he is being here, being proactive so that we can make a difference. he's here to listen and to take action and we will be working together hand in hand on policy changes, on investments and on whatever needs to be done so no one has to be a victim of a crime in any part of our city or our state. and, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome attorney general rob bonta. >> well, thank you all for being here today and thank you mayor breed for your very kind remarks. thank you for your leadership, for seeing and valuing and fighting for all of the beautifully diverse communities right here in san francisco as we talked about inside. san francisco has been a leader, a model, has often and

so consistently demonstrated policies and approaches that lift people up and make our community stronger and has often been a place where the state of california has scaled up those policies that have started right here in san francisco. so i'm thankful and proudtor here in san francisco today with mayor breed, chief scott, and all of the great community leaders that you'll hear from today, that you'll hear from momentarily. and to talk about how we move forward and i was very inspired and i'm leaving very hopeful and optimistic about our shared future, our common future and our common commitment to addressing the epidemic of hate crimes. that spike in hate incidents that have impacted so many communities. no community is immune as we know. we certainly are well aware of the huge increases in anti-api

violence. our black community, our sikh community, our lgbtq community, our disability community have all suffered and our conversation today was a good reminder that we're all in this together, that we're going to move forward together or not at all and we can move forward when we have conversation when we listen, when we communicate as we just did. today's very important because this is the launch of thir teen of these round tables i'll be doing across the state where we sit in community, where we join a common circle and talk about our challenges and how to move forward and it was very appropriate that we started in san francisco today. given san francisco's historical and consistent

leadership. and how it has always demonstrated that we celebrate our diversity and our diversity is our strength and so i appreciate the opportunity to be here and over the next few weeks, i'll be in different places all over the state having similar conversations to uplift best practices to highlight and illuminate our solutions so that we can prevent and heal as we address this epidemic of hate throughout our state and throughout our nation. as california's attorney general, i see myself as being the people's attorney and it's important for me to see and value and protect every community and for so many of our communities, for too many of our communities right now we are in a full on state of crisis. a full state of emergency when it comes to hate and, you know, the statistics are alarming and they're shocking. we know that across california,

hate crime events increased 31% across the board last year. anti-asian hate crimes in particular increased an alarming 107% and right here in san francisco, home to the lgbtq rights movement, anti-gay hate crimes accounted for over 25% of all hate crimes in the last decade. and, of course, statistics can illuminate and they tell a story but they don't tell the full story and so i was very thankful and grateful for the opportunity to hear directly from community members and impact from community members who shared their own stories. personal stories, painful stories about themselves. about the communities they fight for and they're trying to uplift and i appreciated that conversation today and, you know, it's going to take all of us to do this work. and, there's no you know

there's no cure all, but there are many ways to make progress and we heard about many of those ways today being victim centered cross racial healing circles. the list went on and on for how we can make progress and when we can make progress, we should. when we can take a step forward together, we must and so we identify many pathways to improve our work going forward. and in a few weeks, i'll be in my fifth month in office and since the day i swore in i've been addressing the epidemic of hate recognizing that too many of us for too long in this state have felt the sting of hate. tomb communities, you know, myself included. this is personal work for me as well. we got to work on day one

taking on the forces of hate and that's why i've established the racial justice bureau to help tackle the rise of hate that's why i've issued new guidance to better understand hate crimes in california. it's why we've launched the office of community awareness and response to directly engage with and respond to the needs of communities and it's why i've pledged to keep working to do more, to lean in, and to continue this fight and doing that working with our local communities like right here in san francisco. because we know that we must protect those hurt by the forces of hate and hold accountable those who perpetrate hate violence against our neighbors. and, you know, it didn't always seem like this, but it's like this now. for many of us, everyday life has come with an additional worry. whether it's going to the

grocery store, picking up your children from school, riding a bus going for a morning walk. in these moments, too many of us right now are asking ourselves, could i be next? and the stakes are too high to sit back as mentioned by the mayor, we're only blocks away from where an 89-year-old grandmother was senselessly assaulted and left to die. and, hate and prejudice cannot and will not be tolerated, plain and simple. as your attorney general with the full weight of the law and the california constitution behind me, let me say this, there is no place for hate in california or anywhere, any time period. full stop, end of story. and, across our different cultures and identities, today, we came together to affirm this fundamental truth.

across our differences, we are united in making sure that our neighborhoods and our cities are safe and healthy and prosperous for all. nothing is most important. let me close by saying this. my parents are social justice champions. i grew up as a young child. i had the blessing and the privilege of growing up in la paz. from a young age, i've worked with my parents. while they worked alongside iconic leaders and phillip veracruz that when you see injustice, you need to fight to correct it and injustice against one is injustice against all. today, we reaffirm the us, not the me that we're all in this together and that we will rise together or not at all and as i

take on injustice in many forms, as the people's attorney, we are very laser focused on taking on hate incidents and hate crimes as the people's attorney, i thank you. next, we'll be hearing from sarah wong, the executive director of the community youth center. >> thank you, mayor breed. and thank you for all the brothers and sisters behind me. today's round tame is truly inspiring, but it's also emotional to me. i think especially the asian communities are going through a lot of pain. even it runt one community

doesn't feel safe or community doesn't feel safe and today when we have our own discussion, we talk about sharing a lot of similarities across different communities that we're dealing with anti-immigrant hate, anti-muslim hate. anti-lgbt hate, all kind of hates that we see right now is a crisis. at the same time, because of this round table that we're here across the board, but also how we're going to coordinate together to really move forward to combat this kind of hate and violence. for everyone i really feel hopeful. we did talk about the challenge that we're facing including underreporting, language barriers. victim services. the lack of cultural competency services across the board.

but we also talk about how important it is to really have violence prevention strategies. how will one make sure that we don't only respond when there is a crisis. so, that we don't always have to rely on gofundme and things like that when something happens, when tragedy happens. so i really feel very hopeful and i'm really looking forward to work together from the state and also the city level to ensure the safety of all communities. thank you. >> i'm a member of the st. gregory arminian church of san francisco. after this meeting, we feel more secure knowing that the attorney general, the mayor,

the chief of police, they've made it crystal clear that hate will not be tolerated at all on any level and that there are consequences to it. division is a source of -- it's a disease and it spreads through society and it's, we cannot have a civil functions society with hate and there will be consequences and 0 tolerance and san francisco's at the forefront of it and we need to set an example not just in our city, but in had our state and for the entire country that hate be not be tolerated at all. thank you. >> thank you. happy to answer any questions if you have any.

>> so in 2021, we've had 83 reported hate crimes. let me say this, that does not tell the whole story and 59% of those were against asian, people from the aapi community. and let me just point out one thing of those 59% which is 49 hate crimes, 30 of those was committed by one person who is now in custody and has been filed on by our district attorney. as was said repeatedly by all the speakers, we will not tolerate it. there's no place in our city and there's no place for it in our state and we want to hold those accountable. >> can you talk more specifically about the arrests for hate crimes and that you understand the percentage of being prosecuted. >> like i said, 30 of the 83 is one person and so those 30 are

cleared and we have solved other crimes. we have not solved others. we're still working on that case and we need the public's help on these things. these are very difficult situations because in addition to the reported hate crimes that meet the statutory evidence of what constitutes a hate crime, we know the incidents are happening day in and day out and i want to take this as an opportunity to encourage everybody to report these types of incidents. report crime. there are no areas to report in crime. so we solve many of them. we don't solve all of them, but we need to work with our community members and the people standing behind me to support this effort to make sure we don't have those events in our city and if we do, people are held accountable

swiftly with all the might of the world behind it. thank you. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> yeah. we did put out a press release. i do have that information. so we can get it to you. >> reporter: and then for an individual like that, [inaudible] ? >> like everybody else, he has the right to it a fair trial. he's in jail right now. so that's important as well. we'll see what the outcome in, but he is in jail right now. okay. thank you. >> one last question. >> reporter: [inaudible] so i wanted to ask people usually meant a hate crime is usually closely in line from the [inaudible] but the hate [inaudible] what kind of behavior? >> thank you for your question,

the question is about hate crimes versus hate incidents and what qualifies as a hate crime for something that might still be a hate incident which does not necessarily qualify as a hate crime. there are specific definitions under the law and the facts must meet the threshold of that law to qualify as a hate crime. i encourage us to use that hate crime statute. that's a tool that we have to do what chief scott and some of our speakers were talking about earlier to make sure that people know that there is no room for hate, not here, not anywhere not know, not ever and so that's what they're there for. as far as hate incidents, i know there's debate, dialog, and discussion right now about

maybe potentially changing some of those definitions, but might still be a hate based incident. and as tools, if they come online, they should be utilized as well. it's encumbent on all of us. and there's multiple dimensions to this. we need to make sure we're focusing on prevention as well from occurring in the first place and there's been some great work being done right here in san francisco, having some of our seniors who might be vulnerable so that a hate crime can be supported as well. so critical and so important and even if they're a victim of

a hate incident, they're support so i think that's an ongoing debate about what we can do to address nonhate crimes, but it's encumbent upon us to use every tool in the tool box and that hate is unacceptable. period. end of story. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> yes, they did. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> no it does not. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> yeah. i'm happy to respond to that. san francisco is a major city, it's a city that has challenges

of a major city and what we have tried to do is to put policies in place to combat those challenges. that when they see the amazing golden gate bridge and they see this beautiful home and this library you feel good when you walk through the door. there's a lot of beauty, but within that beauty, there's a lot of diversity and here in san francisco, what we do is we talk about that diversity as a strength of our city. how amazing it is that you could be in visitation valley and then you can just go right over the hill and be in the bayview hunter's point. you can go to chinatown.

you can go to little italy. all these different neighborhoods and have a completely different experience. so i think that san francisco we should be celebrating and highlighting the beauty, the uniqueness although as one of the densest cities in the country but most importantly, that should not take away from the beauty of this city and how amazing it is. thank you all so much for joining us.

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