left si let's callnem 8. [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, chief. >> good evening, president mazzucco and commissioners. i'm going to present tonight's ds and couple of items of interest for the public. i'll start with crime trends and where we are this year. i'm very pleasedo report to the commission and the public that we are down 43% in homicides year to datae as of this week. in real numbers, we are 12 homicides where we were this time last year. we are 16 opposed to 28 this time last year, going into the summer, that's really pleasing. we still have a lot of work to m thst ithe year -- little more than six months, but compared to where we were last year, that's very, very good news for us. our overall homicides with firearms are down 58% from where they were this time last year, basically, 19 this time last year, and we have eight year to date. our total gun violence victims are down by 50%, and this is the number of total victims struck by gun fire. ear tr f homicides, we are as