she also led the effort to select chief gascoigne.hief, we talked about the murder of a german tourist. this week, there were three homicides within a 24-hour period. it sounds like the staff are still good, but it is pretty shocking to have three murders within 24 hours. >> we are doing the work on some of these cases. although we believe there were different circumstances in all three cases, we believe there is a correlation with one particular gang. not necessarily of the homicides were connected to one another. we believe it might be the case that this is one gang. it is a work in progress. i am glad that you raised the issue of the german tourist. we feel strongly we have identified the suspect in the case and we feel confident that we can obtain arrest warrants from the secretary's office. it is obviously generating a great deal of publicity now. these other three cases, i believe that we will be able to resolve all three of them. our homicide clearance rate, although i do not have it in front of me, is very high. we are exceedi

if the chief gascoigne agrees with us, he can impose discipline for up to 10 days of suspension. beyond that, termination is within the purview of the police commission. it would then move to this body to adjudicate. we also have a wonderful program which is a mediation program. last year, we facilitated 76 mediations. it allows complainants to resolve an issue with an accused officer in person, in a dispute-resolution of passion. the goal is to bring the parties together in an effort to achieve mutual understanding. through partnerships with community boards, the san francisco bar association, we provide neutral mediator for the program. our mediations can and have been conducted in languages other than english. participation and mediation is strictly voluntary for the complaint and an officer. they have to agree for it to go forward. eligible officer participation in the program is over 90% and we really appreciate the cooperation of the police association in this program. in 2009, we received 1019 complaints. of these, we sustained about 7% of the cases. so far this year, we h