good evening commissioners, president elias, vice president carter oberstone acting director roseen steen and the public. to highlight the crime trends, i won't repeat what is posted but i want to highlight the biggest area of concern is the increase in homicides from 4 this time last year to 7 year to date. majority gun related homicides and that is something the department is paying particular attention to. on the converse side good news, our overall shootings are down by 3, 29 this time last year to 26, which is a 10 percent decrease from this time last year. our total gun violence victims of gun violence is flat at no change this time last year. 33 this time last year, 33 year to date so shootings is part of the overall goal to reduce the number of gun related homicides and i'll talk what we are doing to do that in a minute. as far as major incident this week we had one homicide during the reporting period in central districtt a pier 5. this is february 27 at 1 a.m. in the morning. the witness heard a pop fallowed by a male yelling, the witness wents outside saw victim against the wal