. >> president of the committee, skm members, my name is cath lynn mcguire. i'm the executive director of the strategic bureau of the police department. today we're seeking your approval to receive and expend a $5.3 million grant that will implement a new incident-based reporting system, and i will give you a bit more detail on what that means. three things to keep in mind as we talk about nibrs is it is something that the d.o.j. will be requiring at the close of december 2020. this is allow the department to have best practices and data collection and automation for crime data. just to give you a background, the current method is uniform crime reporting method. essentially, it sums all data into crime categories, eight part one times and a number of part two crimes, as well and reports those in a summary fashion to the federal government. this -- that system was based on a rule created in 1929, so as you can imagine, it's quite antiquated, and it collects data -- limited information. this information the sfpd uses to report crime data, this is the current sy