thank you for /eupbl serrating the district attorney's office [inaudible] working on for some time so we welcome the /hr*epb, we have a hate crimes unit where our prosecutor has specialized training. he has successfully prosecuted transgender hate crimes. with respect to the transgender community and hate crimes, since 2010 we've had 11 cases and we've been able to file on nine of those. six of those cases resulted in /haeutd crime convictions. we strive and continue to strive to improve relations with the transgender community [inaudible] with the mayor's office and with any other neighborhood community or government organization that will work with us on this to improve the transgender community and law enforcement. those meetings will continue until we see what needs to isppen happen, which /khrab /raegs, reporting when crimes occur and successful prosecution of cases when that is merited. to improve the safety at 16th and mission we have attempted to organize the community on patrol similar to that of the castro community. we've participated in the mayor's office meetings about 16