police chief kathy linear met with the residents to address the current state of crime if you will here in the district. and so far, the chief says 75% of homicide case this year have been closed with an arrest and added more than half the homicides that happened in 2016 have occurred on the other side of >> we made a lot of progress and are looking good going into the summer this is beginning of where we stapt to see spikdz in last year. right now we're in good shape and want to keep it that way. the most important thing has been robberies. we started beginning of year 30 or 40% we dropped to around 9%. we're going in the right direction. the task force is objective and we can't let the pressure off. >> are you worried coming into the summer this year seeing how the trend is picking up even if slightly now. >> no, actually i'm very comfortable. robbery trend it going in the direction we aunt to go and that is the single biggest crime. >> chief asked about the current state of affairs for metro and safety as well as the -- and she says "it may not be politically correct to say this they