supervisor chisupervisor mirkarl that making the crime lab independent would help its reputation? >> yes. many smaller jurisdictions are paying huge amounts of money to support very sophisticated pieces of equipment that they do not have the money to purchase any more. you could have a regional facility here and the city would wind up making money. that has happened in other jurisdictions where they wind up charging a fee for service. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. i appreciate that. colleagues? thank you very much for your help. >> it is clear that our major structural problems are played out and to fix these problems we need capabilities where we work together to develop comprehensive plans but achieve competently managed state of the dark crime labs to provide scientific we based factual evidence that helps to convict the guilty and convict -- convicted a guilty and free the innocent. -- convict the guilty and free the innocent. staffing as far as low national standards and working conditions have early deteriorated over the last few years, 25 yards away from the entrance in