it this evening, i evening,occ complete statistics and mediation statistics. as of july 20, the occ open 516 cases and we closed 482. we open 30 more cases than we have closed. during the same time last year we open 5 stoddert 62 cases and closed five under 41. -- 562 cases and closed 541. this is an 8% decrease in cases opened as compared to the same time last year. as of july 20, we had for under 15 pending cases -- 415 pending cases. today, we have sustained a 39 cases. during the same time in two dozen 9, with sustained 27 cases. this represents 44% increase in sustained cases. the sustained rate is 8%, which is more in line with the historic average of sustained cases since around 1996. today, the occ has facilitated the mediation of 20 complaints this year, compared with 45 by the end of july last year. so far this month we have had three mediations. that concludes my report. president marshall: anything further for the director? vice president mazzucco: thank you. >> you are welcome. president marshall: alright, commissioner reports. i don't think we ha

president marshall: i am assuming we discussed this with occ? commissioner hammer: there was a meet and confer. president marshall: so we want run into that issue if we tweak it. why don't we get that all of that in order before you bring it back, ok? commissioner hammer: i will work with commissioner mazzucco, and if we have to me, i would add to process. am i would just like it at a signing a commissioner to each and every case, even if there is a hearing officer, just like the regular court world when you have a magistrate judge is still assigned to a regular judge. so the commissioner does not do much work, but there should be someone tasked with knowing what is going on. commissioner hammer: we will put that in the draft as well. the only thing i would suggest, i know we are ready have in the rules the first meeting of the month we get the full reading of all the cases on the docket. i think it would be helpful to us, one of the numbers that came out i think the last count, there were 10 officers on light duty because of discipline charges

>> item three is reports to the commission, under which we have item 3-a, the chief's report, the occ director's report, and the commission report. we start with the chief's report. president marshall: midevening, chief. and mr. president, how are you today? president marshall: tired. go right ahead. >> mr. president, commission, members, i like to go over quickly the status updates concerning basic policy and the dna backlog. starting with the crime numbers for this four-week cycle, updated this week. we are down 15% total, 17% down on property crimes, 6% violent crimes year-to-date. we're down a total of 10% compared with last year to date. we are talking about roughly 2300 crimes less, 4% down in property crime, 4% down violent crime. as far as any noteworthy events, we are continuing to develop our regional crime center. we are getting better at collecting crime information very quickly and putting it out to our troops. we had a series of robberies that occurred in the city in the last few days. we had the director who was able to very quickly identify the pattern. we have one sus