night the occ was also present at the national night out activities held at northern, mission and ingleside districts. last week attorney donna salazar did a role play on occ mediation to students at uc berkeley and next week i will provide the commission with the july monthly comprehensive statistical report and that concludes my report. >> thank you. commissioner truman. >> dr. hicks are those new glasses? >> let me see. >> they are my glasses. i normally wear "a" contact lens. >> they're very nice. >> thank you very much. >> make sure that gets in the minutes. >> director hicks is wearing glasses. >> thank you director. >> you are welcome. any other questions for the director? seeing don please call line item 4d -- actually c. >> commission reports, decision and commission reports and commissioner reports. >> i have nothing to report this evening commissioners. do you have anything to report? >> actually there is one report. the commissioner is back and i wanted to welcome you. >> i missed you guys too. >> and the commissioner was confirmed for additional four years and commissioner deje

i polled the captains of payview, mission, ingleside and the northern district. these are the most affected by gang violence. they said they appreciated what the crn did what they want to see them more. they need to fill that communication. it also comes down to training and trust, to be able to have them talk to officers. they would address the officers, they had arrested some of them, when there were actually under. they will help the police and the community. under his guidance we are the most active community. of anyone in this country and any department. he puts his money where his mouth is. he tells them to stay out of the gang, and that we have officers with a wilderness program. there are a number of things in the organization in place to start to make change. we have seen this over the last three or four years. in 2008 there were 98 homicides in san francisco. the number is now almost half. i think we continue to see that, as we work with the community. in closing, i want to say that your task force, they do an amazing job. they have the community aspect

two people were arrested in the ingleside district this weekend after finding kilos of ecstasy. >>> hayward city workers are striking right now. it's affecting a number of services including water treatment and street maintenance. city negotiators ended talks with the union last month but no new talks are scheduled. >> reporter: outside city hall in hayward workers are calling for justice. >> what do we want? >> a contract! >> when do we want it? >> now. >> reporter: the seiu charges hayward with unfair labor practices after the city declared an impasse last month without any new negotiating dates. >> for seven months they have not moved the bargaining position from these workers, the lowest paid workers of the city, they want them to give back $5 million out of their pay. >> reporter: the city is asking for a 17% concession in healthcare and pension benefits each year, affecting about 350 employees. >> we have asked all of our groups to contribute at the same level of concessions. many of our groups have already gotten there including our firefighters. we are asking seiu to get to that sam

two people were arrested in the ingleside district this past weekend. officers responding found multiple kilos of ecstasy. today at the press conference police plan to display the narcotics along with the cash they seized. >>> san francisco police have changed their approach to dealing with alleged drug dealers now and that's led to a decline in drug-related arrests. police have often been steering drug users toward treatment. arrests for drug-related felonies and misdemeanors have dropped 75% in just the past five years. 2008 san francisco police made nearly 10,000 arrests. but in 2012, they made fewer than 2,000. >>> new york mayor michael bloomberg says he will appeal a federal judge's ruling on the city's "stop & frisk" police policy. the ruling states police have violated people's civil rights by wrongly targeting black and hispanic men. the ruling will not end the policy but the judge appointed an outside monitor to oversee major changes to it. bloomberg says this will harm his city's crime-fighting efforts. >> we have to give the members of our p

at a major ecstasy bust in the ingleside district. two people are in custody.olves several kilos of the drug. police say they will have the drugs and the drug money on display at that news conference this morning. >>> san francisco's public utilities commission, due to vote today on the city's renewable energy rates. clean power sf was supposed to launch in october. residents of san francisco would be rolled into that program but they could opt out in they want. originally customers would have paid about twice what they currently pay pg&e. city leaders wanted to reduce what customers would pay so the vote has been delayed several times. >>> neighbors opposed to a proposed apartment complex in la fayette spoke out at a city council meeting. >> we believe this huge project is wrong. >> plans for the terraces of la fayette call for 300 luxury apartments to be built across from a high school. developers say the apartments will provide needed options for renters in la fayette. but neighbors say the project is too big and would worsen traffic in that already busy are