i just want to say thank you to rick bruce, retired commander bruce. he could be doing many other things in his retirement years, but he is committed to this program for life and really, really has made a difference in keeping it going and taking it to the next level. thank you, rick. >> thank you. any other items, chief? >> yes, sir. i will quickly go through the crime trends for this week and we had two other reports. for crime this week, we are -- we had a fairly quiet week. we had no shooting incidents, no homicides in the past week. we are still at 29 homicides for the year, compared to 37 this time last year, so we're down 22%. overall we're down 8% in part 1 crime. our violent crime is down 10%, a 22% decrease in homicides. also, we have had a 22% decrease in our shooting victims. we have a total of 101 victims of gun violence this year, so we're 22% down -- i'm sorry, 84 this year, compared to 101 this time last year. our property crime, we are 7% down and continue to show a decrease in auto burglaries compared to this time last year. we're sti

we have retired command officer rick bruce here.o we want to highlight some of the work done with our youth engagement. commander fung. >> good evening president, vice president, commissioners, director. my name is daryl fung, commander of the department's community engagement division. at the commission meeting on september 11, we presented an overview of the department's participation in a 2019 summer intern youth program. at the conclusion of that presentation, the commission requested the department submit follow-up presentation following metrics which is contained in the report contained in front of you today. regarding the summer youth intern program in summary, over 2180 youth have participated in the s.f. p.d. sponsored projects including future grads, project poll, youth works, and a youth career academy. the largest group presented was african-american with 55% of the participants, followed by asian youth with 18% followed by latin-ex. currently the department does not have a system implementation in place to follow up wit