my staff member jermmy pollack is here. i also propose a alternative resolution which calls to question how ready we are to set a [inaudible] what police staffing should be. starting off, there are other reasons for establishing or established a multidisciplineary process for establishing police staffing levels with. what we have now brought before us is a process that i talked to at least one police commissioner who didn't know there was a resolution before the board of supervisor saying that we should actually increase our staffing levels to 2200 police officers. what kind of process to establish staffing levels exclude the police commission? it makes no sense to me. so here are my major concerns. statistics show crime has actually gone down as population has increased. you will see one of our slides coming forward that will show that and based on department of justice data. we also believe-it is true there may be a correlation between have agpolice department and the level of crime but there was no direct correlation bet