brand new apple laptop went for $100 this morning. that is a serious problem. if you cut off the head of the snake, there is nobody -- no body. people leave the laptop on the table when they get a coffee. we are taking baby steps. it is ongoing. we need to run a little bit more. we will try to step that up. foot beats, that is self- explanatory. we try to compress the assignments. we try to follow up the plainclothes operations with visibility. it is important. after the homicide, i went to bed at 4 in the morning -- at 4:00 in the morning. the project would be here in this district. i came home the next day with flowers for the wife. she surprised me with a big, shiny cot. i get to put that in my office. joint operation with the mid- market foot patrol. we have our robbery operations. saturation patrol, outreach with prescription medications, gang monitoring. we have a lot of programs. i am begun acronyms. tag, tenderloin abatement graffiti. we're working on that, trying to get resources together. h.o.t. hotel outreach tenderloin. you go around town and see peo

new technologies that may have emerged. as you may know 18 months is a lifetime in technology. imagine going to the apple store and buying a laptop and bringing it home and not opening it for 18 months. by the time you open it, there's probably been two or three versions that have changed and you're just cracking open a very old version. so a technology refresh is possible. plus, very simply two requirements are smaller than four. and that means that your change management footprint is smaller, the amount of business reengineering, the amount of data cleanup. what we've done is very bold. we have stopped all modernization efforts in financial systems across government by saying there are no longer any new acquisitions, new task orders, new contracts. you can finish out the contracts and tasks that you're working on today. but no new work until your project has been reviewed for these types of rescoping opportunities along these variables. and approved by omb for going forward and we've established a board to help us, the financial systems advisory board which is made up of very talented cfos and cios in the government today with