>> i do want to recognize beverley upton, who is from the domestic violence consortium, and the advocacy that you and your coalition partners have made over the years. if there are any comments that you would like to make i would like to give you the chance to make them. i of the advocates have been waiting very patiently for over 10 years for this, and if you would like to comment on this i would like for you to do that. >> thank you, members of the public safety committee. i always start with a 2002 article that ran in the chronicle. we talked about the cry for justice. this is in 2002. this is all in your packet. y'all have this article. there have been some lessons learned. when we all stood in shock after the killing in 2000 and mayer brown said that the city is going to implement justice, i think he had all the best intentions but we had no idea what we were in for. we did not know that our systems were not able to integrate, and technology has spent a lot of time in the 1970's and 80's not integrating itself. and i don't think anyone at that level in the mayor's office recognized