kohlman advocates has been around for thirty years. primary we work with youth of color and that's in district 10 and 11. we're excited about the progress. we're getting close to something happening. we'd like to see it happen this semester. so when the parents and the police have interaction on the school compasses we've hoping to connect with the police chiefs and get something knocked out to thank you so much. and now we want to bring back the commissioner to talk about the next steps and how to move forward with this >> thank you, commissioners i know that some of those questions have been answered. one it the expensive - this is standardizing the pamphlet to juvenile arrest folks. and four what is the timeline for an establishment with an m l u and how can the community provided feedback. number 4 is really important because it's the sooner we can get this done the sooner we can get this in place so thank you guys >> okay. let's take questions. could i have the power point back. commissioner i think it was rodriguez was it? and pe

and the demagic backpack give away i believe is on saturday at young blood kohlman on the 42nd bloke. we bought back about 1 hundred and 56 incense. one-hundred and 52 handguns and as a result rifles. i'll bring up the captain who will give you an update on the recommendations. and we'll hear from the youth directors themselves. >> good evening captain. >> good evening director hicks and members of the department and public and i'm captain of the training division. this evening i'll provided you with the update. we have the proprietor for sergeant's and police officers which addressed the taufbz unique to young. we have scenarios of real life police and emphasize effective communication. is presenter will provide a trainer to trainer course on wednesday august 13th. this is only a part of the overall training. we have 12 slots we'll be picking 12 folks to bring back to the department. in addition to providing the training for officers as the chief mentioned. the department is heavy invested in our cities youth. we have many programs in place. we have been providing support for you you

we did the mayors backpack give away at john o congressional and is b give away and to youngblood kohlman the at risk kids have what they need to start school so nobody starts behind. education is a high priority. people having problems with crime all come from not congratulating graduating from high school. so if we can make sure our kids get out of high school we'll have a satisfactory place to live. we had a busy week. we promoted 55 sergeants on monday and we had a promotional performance and in the all because we're seeing so many retirements from our ranks so when we get those officers in we don't run into any problems. we're making sure we transition and there are some of my appointments over there. we'll have an academy class. i know a lot of people want to know about staffing we're short 3 hundred officers or 15 percent. help is on the way we graduate another class at the end of december and then we'll be back to full staffing beginning in 2014. we are at a record low for fatality violence we've surfed 28 homicides. we've never had a total that low it's a 40 percent reduction but

thank you kohlman >> good evening director hicks. i believe we're on line item b >> the distribution of recent activities and presentation for the fiscal reports and comparing reports for january one 12 through july 31st, he, 2013 mediation. >> good evening vice president and members of the audience. >> prior to section 4.127 this provides with the monthly commission report. as of july, 2013 report and common reports in the packets i'll discuss them. in january 1st, 2013, to july 31st/96 we opened 2 hundred 13 cases which were fewer when we opened 449 cases this is an 8 percent reduction. the investigators closed 3 less cases then were open and this was compared to 4 hundred and 13 cases. as of july 31st the occ had 3 hundred and 10 pending cases and now compared to 3 hundred and 33 pending case last year. in july the occ sustained allegations. the cases comprised 4 percent of the cases closed july 31st. in mastectomy the mediated 3 cases. 84 officers were offered the training and it's lower than previous years that have exceeded 90

. >> evan kohlman, as always, can you so much. we'll talk with you again. so how vulnerable to terrorism are public places here in the u.s.? i'll be speaking with a member of the house homeland security committee in just about five minutes. stick around for that. >>> let's go to washington now. just eight days until a possible government shutdown, and new today, gop senator ted cruz defending house republicans for approving a government spending bill that defunds obama care despite senate majority leader harry reid saying any such bill would die. senator cruz today saying not so fast. >> senate republicans, it's now our turn to unify to stand together with house republicans. and then the next step, look, this may end up going back to the house. and i hope and fully believe the house will continue the fight. and if we take this to the american people, i believe the next step after that is starting to get red state democrats, starting to get -- if you're a mark pryor, if you're a mary lan drew running for re-election in arkansas and louisiana, then you start