mr. gascone, show your rank. president marshall: any further public comment? i had a motion and i do not know if i had a second. any objections? without objection, so ordered. thank you. lieutenant, we will move to item no. 2. >> members of the public may address the police commission for a time. determined by the chair not to exceed three minutes on matters within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission which do not appear on the agenda. president marshall: general public comment, please. >> reinhardt, director of san francisco open government. --ray hart, director of san francisco open government. i want to acknowledge that the agenda is good. all the members on which the matter of public -- all the matters on which members of the public may wish to comment on are arranged in front of the closed session and there will be no reason to deny their free- speech rights and their ability under the sunshine ordinance to participate in the session. i would like to comment on something that occurred last week. during one of my comments, i paused. after a co

gascon. >> thank you, mr. mayor, and thank you everyone. as the mayor indicated, this is really about people working together. it's about the police department, the mayor's office, the district attorney's office, our chief probation office and her department who happens to be here and the community. certainly our federal partners. what we're going to do very quickly is walk you through a powerpoint that will illustrate what the numbers are. i think it's important as the mayor indicated, there are lives, there are real people behind the numbers. i think that is what we should be focusing on. while the numbers tell a story, the numbers really are meaningless unless we put the context to the numbers. the fact that there are less people being victimized in our city. as a matter of fact, we were looking at a study that was published a few months ago, actually at the end of 2009 where they took three different assessments of the cost of crime in this country. and we averaged the three different numbers that were provided by the studies. in lookin

mr. martin and he is going to talk about the prescription drug operation that we have been working with and will continue to, please. >> thank you. as chief gascon just said, last month on september 25, the d.e.a. with its state and local counterparts throughout the nation conducted its firstever nationwide prescription takeback program. on that day in just a four-hour period, we collected over 242,000 pounds of prescription drugs nationwide. thanks to the overwhelming response of the public that these unused and unwanted prescription drugs have been in people's medicine cabinets for years sometimes are now, have now been properly disposed and communities are safer and more likely to be drug-free. the overwhelming support we got by the public demonstrated that there is a clear need for a permanent solution to the problem of safely disposing unused and unwanted prescription drugs. and the september 25 event highlighted the value of that recently pass secure and responsible drug disposal act of 2010. the president just signed this into law yesterday and this legislation is going to allow d.e.a. to create a process that could take up to 18 months,