clerk: commissioner byrne. >> yes. >> clerk: commissioner yee. >> yes. >> clerk: vice president carter-oberstone? >> yes. >> clerk: you have six yeses. >> next line item please, sergeant. >> chief report discussion, will be limited to whether to calendar on a future meeting. chief scott. >> thank you, sergeant young blood, oberstone, commission and the public. okay, i'm going to start off as usual with general crime trends. overall, the department, the city were down 7% on part 1 or serious crimes and that includes the violence and crimes, that's almost 2000 crime decrease in this time last year. the break down between violence and property, is difference about 90, less than 90 crimes. i'm sorry, up, just less than 90 crimes and violent crime and we're down about 1400 in property crime. one of the biggest category is deaths, that's been for quite sometime and we're down almost 8% which is about thousand fewer. however there is still a lot of work to be done in both of these areas. in terms of homicides, 25% increase here to date. we have 20 compared to this time last year and in terms of homicid