supervisor wiener: thank you to ms. hicks. i would like to respond in terms of declining caseload. i preface this with my own perspective, having spent years and years as a trial lawyer in the city attorney's office representing police officers in many cases. my experience, and straddling the time span from years before you arrived and then after your arrival, and my experience for a number of years with the occ was that a lot of the -- a number of investigations that i saw, because there would be a lawsuit and then a companion occ complained that usually the investigation occurred before the lawsuit was filed, frequently. so we would see parts of the occ file to the investigation, and there were a number of instances when the investigation was wholly inadequate. there is one case that i will not name where there was a lawsuit against several police officers who i was representing and we went through, and there was an occ complaint that had been sustained were the occ had not spoken to any of the witnesses outside of the complainant and the police officers. even the ones listed in

ms. salazar an opportunity to speak about the war and the program. -- about the award and the program. >> thank you, director hicks, deputy cashman, and i want to thank the department from the opposite is down, and i am glad that deputy chief cashman is here. he is mike doty. i want to thank the poa -- he is my go to. the trainers that do the training for them, the staff, the bar association, for helping me recruit great mediators. and finally the staff at the occ, good to find the cases for us, and we have an amazing panel of mediators, though are the boots on the ground. [applause] and i just want to say that we are so grateful for the recognition, and thank you so much. president mazzucco: i wanted to say that i was fortunate because director hicks was at her son's wedding, and i got to sit in, and i have to say, it was an experience. it was called conflict revolution, and i met some of our mediators, our volunteers, and it is incredible, that our officers are sitting down and complaining about the conduct and telling both sides have a feel about it, and they are explaining why they do something, and then why t