great advocate for bikes in the city, mike caswel who has relocated to la and with the sf police and sfsafe as well. and i would like to thank london breed, and president david chiu and committee chair, david campos for their work as well. i would like to call up deputy police chief loftus and officer matt freedman who have helped individuals recover their bikes as well. >> well, thank you very much for having me today. it is good to see everybody again. and i can talk to you about some of the things that we have been doing since the last time that we have met. if that is okay? one of the things to combat bike theft is we have started a twitter account. and it is at sfpd bike theft and in doing that, i wanted to try to harass the power of social media and gather the bicycle community together in one umbrella to try not only to get the message out about locking techniques and bike theft safety, but in general i saw this grow into something where people were actually tweeting me pictures of bike theft in progress. and of a number of different things that we could use in turn to put cases on p

thank you. >> and i want to take and thank sfsafe, the bicycle coalition. and officer matt freedman and deputy chief for their work and i think that we are close to making significant progress, and i think that what makes this process so unique, and that the project that started with the ideas from the community, and people that have been victims, of bike theft, and really it is involved the key, partners from the mta to the police as well and the city. and we have been looking at studies of davis and other entities and around the world as well and so we are drawing from some of the best practices too, and it is a real credit that we have great leadership in this department as well. and really innovative and resourceful like officer freedman and also the allies in the mta to really address the key and safe and secure, bike parking areas and did not increase the number of places that people can secure with the u locks, hopefully to good bike racks in all neighborhoods and merchant areas as well. i think that the recommendations that we took in july and in an