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