. >> good evening, commissioners, vice president marshall, chief godown, ms. hicks. what you have in front of you is a breakdown of the year-to-date homicide statistics for 2011 and a comparison with the same year to date numbers for 2010. first, you will see that in 2011 we have had 20 homicides compared to the same -- compared to 12 in the same period in 2010. we have closed nine of those cases by arrest compared with five from 2010. this shows the tremendous work being done by the 17 investigators that work homicide and the four that were cold case. it is also indicative of the amount of work they put in durget initial hours after a homicide. you may have heard it referred to as the first 48. i could not be prouder of these individuals. the countless hours they dedicate to their cases, never giving up on them. just this last week we cleared a case from a 2006 homicide. in 2010 homicide investigators cleared a total of 14 cases from previous years. next you see clearances of additional cases. some of you may recall two high-profile cases we had last year. the first

ms. hicks is an african-american and just put it aside. >> excuse me. you're not supposed to direct anybody specifically. calm down. address the entire commission. there are rules of the quorum. i expect you to follow them. we'll give you back 20 seconds. >> i'm directing the entire commission but when i speak on a specific report i have a right to address the director, which is not you, sir. i'm bringing up a fact here that i don't see in the statistics put together by the o.c.c. and if a diverse city like san francisco with a crime rate of unsolved murders would you call clear or unclear. the killer and the victim. particularly the victim, who we should worry about. we recently had a german family that came to san francisco as a tourist where somebody took out the man's wife down there off mason's street.