. >> to be made by city offices benchmarking on police staffing >> good afternoon my name is natasha mehale i'm in the managers program by the controllers office one of our main purpose is to develop and track on the city departments one of the key efforts is to benchmark other jurisdictions we do other regular reporting we have other departments in this coming fiscal year we have expanded reporting so it's accessible on key citywide metrics and we're going to expand the use of measurement in the delivery and mnl management of city services so today we're talking about the police staffing report. one of the benefits of benchmarking is helping us understand what we're delivering compared to the same services. some of the limitations is we're looking at the numbers but we may not be looking at the reasons for the tifrnss in case for staffing we took a few key metrics like crime crime density and population compared to other cities what this doesn't take into account other factors that would effect police staffing that would increase policy budget denominator krafices and many other things the