between station personnel and community- based organizations, such as the community response network, homey, lower 24th street merchants association, mission boys and girls club, the san francisco wraparound project, central latino senior center, and la casa. because of this open line of communication, we had a number of successes that we could point to. one was 17th and mission shrine for the homicide victim. we met early on with the committee outreach workers to clarify what our expectations were and establish with the needs of the community were. it was very successful. there were a couple of incidents, one instance they put up a huge amount of blue balloons, which is basically advertising their gang colors. it was unacceptable. we were able to talk to a person from the community response network. he talked to the people there and have volunteered to take the balloons down. if we had interceded to take the balloons down, it might have developed into something unpleasant, and we felt it was not necessary. a couple days into the shrine, a tv cameraman was roughed up a little bit. but we go

and the chief and members of the mission committee, and representatives from the response network, homey, mission boys and girls club, the wraparound project, all met at mission station to discuss various strategies that we could deploy to de-escalate the gang violence. in addition to that, we have conducted training sessions with the salvation army, staffing counselors for their back on track program, which is a program released back into the community. we have held meetings with the parents of youth who are at risk of involvement and gang violence. i'm recently met with juan percy, the dean of discipline we also met with another high- school's dean of discipline. we met with supervisor campos and supervisor at kim to discuss ways they could be of assistance and weighs would further employed the community to work together with us to eliminate the violence. finally, our long term outreach. our easter rate cut and christmas giveaway for the little ones. this is a long-term investment in reaching into that commit -- reaching into that community, letting them know that we are partners with

but we got the word back, not got hold of the executive director of homey, told him that was not acceptable and we cannot tolerate that. he went back and let people know there is a certain decorum that was expected, and a respected that. -- and they respected that. days after the homicide, a homicide victims funeral was scheduled. the victim of wasa soreno, and a funeral home was in norteno turf, as was the church but and cemetery. we cooperated with the community and they arranged for transportation of the srenos into the norteno turf for the wake, the next day for the funeral. the community workers stayed out. we provided a heavy presence and the was no violence. it was a volatile situation. i mentioned the shooting at 24th and harrison on march 2. the victim was rushed to the emergency room of the general hospital. there was a large group of nortenos, very angry because this fellow had been shot. if you hours later, a soreno gang member was shot. he was coming to general hospital. we anticipated this was not good, a bunch of angry nortenos already there, with angry sorenos coming in. bec

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