laura thomas with the drug policy alliance and first of all, i want to applaud the san francisco police department for reading on addressing drug yus as a health issue. the san francisco police department became the second law enforcement agency in california to issue [inaudible] to their officers to prevent death from opiate overdose and i appreciate that. but i suggest we haven't maximized the taxpayer savings or community helt and safety benefits we can get from continues to look at how we can address drug use in our community and people that use drugs as a helths issue instead of a criminal justice issue. we are doing a lot in san francisco, but there are a number of cities ahead of us in different way. seattle has a program called low enforcement assisted diversion that allows police to take people to housing and other services and see a saechb 0 percent in recidivism rates and reaarrest for those that went through the housing serves and it is something we in san francisco need to think about if we invest 30 million dollars to give police officers to the tools and connect people wi