garrity's report on the tenderloin district. ok, with that, we will move on to item 2. >> introducing captain joseph garrity, commanding officer of the tenderloin, addressing the commission on police activities in the tenderloin. >> good evening, commissioners, general public. i spent 14 years as a patrolman and walking the beat. another six years as a sergeant and the attendant. i have seen many people through the commission. with that in mind, i will not go line by line. people have been around long enough -- these power points -- they will kill you. and they get a little dry. i do not mind answering questions. i was wondering how i would start this thing. i was having lunch with my wife -- she is always around someplace. i was eating a salad and thought that i would start this thing off -- thinking about when i was a kid going to my father's funeral. i remember, as a manager, your seed lori from home runs hit by somebody else. we have lt. these are station investigations. mike in the corner over there, we had lieutenant dakot

garrity. he will go over a state of the union for the tenderloin. on crime numbers, we continue to be around the 10% crime reduction. we had a very good production last week. and other crimes went down 17% in the last four weeks. property crime was down 19%. basically, what we are talking about today, we are down to 280 crimes compared to last year. we are down 190 mileage crimes. 2570 property crimes for a total of 2760. before i move on to the presentation, i wanted to give you a quick update as to some personnel movements and i also want to talk about an area that we have been working on for several weeks, having to do with robbery. we have been spending a lot of time doing analysis, and today we want to take the opportunity publicly to start putting out what i consider important information for the public. we will continue to do so for the next few days. we want to minimize victimization. one of the things that we did was come up there are a number of things the public can do to fight robbery, and then i will go into the presentation. as you kno

. -- garrity was put in the tenderloin. supervisor mirkarimi: on average, the captain's seem to be changing every two, three years. it is important to understand, if that is an institutional change, we should be privy to that, too. supervisor chiu: are there any members of the public that would like to speak on this item? each speaker will have up to three minutes to speak. >> good morning come douglas yetts. i have lived here for 58 years. i want to comment on the crime statistics of crimes on high profile asian victims. i thought it was interesting the names of both victims were not released so that people like me would have to find it hard to do any follow-up on the effects on the victim families. i understand, one in the lord's park is being done in order to protect the victim, but i still see many cases of assault. victims names have been released in the past, and it would be useful for people like me, to have those names released. in regards to the second oprah file -- high profile case regarding the rate at san franc

incendiary racial rhetoric, vote garrity, sex lyrics permeate much of rap. >> we are trying to take theork with reach out to us because they realize we are trying to work with kids directly and do something that is across the board positive. >> perfect opportunity to bring it to the class. >> the artists do they have educational backgrounds? >> some do. we've worked with artists who have been tutors. >> tucker: any complaints from parents, teachers? >> i could list the complaints on one or two hands. it happens but it is very rare. >> tucker: i wonder why it takes hip-hop to get certain students engaged in learning? it never has, why does it now require that? >> i think the bigger idea is using something that students are interested in, that has a connection. hip-hop is one of those things. stuck -- >> tucker: is technology improving or a distraction? how thousands of teachers are making a profit outside [ sniffs ] ♪ bye! bye! ♪ hi. hey! hey! [ laughter ] ♪ [ female announcer ] walk into a burst of fresh fragrance when you pass by. get motion activated glade sense and spray and release