. >> good evening, commander lozar, i believe you're back with us, correct? 1 v . >> i just want to clarify a few terms that we're going to be talking about today. i want to be clear, we're only discussing the infractions given to homeless related crimes, so we're not talking about property crimes or violent crimes that homeless people might be involved in, and we distinguish between homeless laws, a term used by the u.s. department of justice as defined here that those laws that prohibit life sustaining activities which homeless people have little or no choice to engage in public, so this includes like sitting or resting in public, things that you'd only receive a call or ticket for involving those who are living on the streets. we'll also talk briefly about the impact of quality of life ordinances, so these are i think thises like drinking in public that might involve other types of people, but disproportionately affect homeless types of people, as we found. and here, the first thing we want to highlight are the citations that have been given for quality of