beverly upton with the domestic violence consortium. we have made some progress. i do not want to appear that we have not made any progress at all. but i think we are in danger of losing those good steps that we have made and some of the progress that we have achieved. in 2000, the average domestic violence homicide case for sentences go -- for san francisco was 10 women. and it was 7 for limited english proficient the victims. seven out of 10 of our victims in 2010 had this issue very as a city, we have done a very good job. our homicide rate is down by 80%. at this year, it may be even better. we may get through the year with one possible homicide and perhaps none. it would be the first time in my time here. but dealing with access issues coupled with the secure community issues have such a chilling effect on the community. secure communities is a different conversation. we are here to talk about language access. one of the issues facing domestic violence victims are wrongful arrest and dual arrests. in just as commissioner chan mentioned, an abusive partner or

i want to recognize we have missed beverly upton hear from the san francisco domestic violence coalition. do you want to wait? we can wait, then. if we could have the next presentation. thank you, officer ha. >> you are welcome. >> good evening, commissioners. i am a policy analyst. and thank you for holding this hearing and i look forward to further discussion about language access. a little bit of background -- four years ago, this commission passed dgo 5.20 in collaboration with over 20 organizations. at that time, we said that the easy work had been negotiating a 14-page document. the real hard work would be implementing it. here we are a few years later and there are many things we can be proud of. shortly thereafter, community organizations continue were the with the police department. which produced a great video on training for officers in collaboration with the department. which produce an officer reference guide on language access. many different forms were translated. we produce a brochure for the public in multiple languages. in that regard, we are happy with the progress tha