they attend uc san barbara an international study program and undergrads and they're from 8 different countries. they wanted to know how we did community police in san francisco. because in their native countries they don't have community police. we have a lot of foot beats because of the population density and the traffic. we have them in chinatown and at the fisherman's wharf. some need no taxpayer money and union square and fisherman's wharf hires additional foot beats to supplement our beats. ♪ ♪ okay. when tony bennett was singing he left his heart in san francisco he left if in the central district and when he was talking about cable cars he was talking about a gentleman who spent 29 years at metropolitan and annoy finishing his 22 year in the police department. so officers of the central district they have big hearts. here's steward and our former chinatown beat officers. constituting just retired after 35 years he wants to come back as a reserve and volunteer his time in the community. leon just retired about two months ago after 40 years of service and we decided to come back

i went to school at uc santa barbara. i have been in san francisco since 1989, have lived in the excelsior since 1999. the difficulty is, muni often sees it as an industrial area, not a neighborhood. we have to figure out how to make it work as a neighborhood and as a place that can service the light rail vehicles. i have had lots of different jobs. my main job has been doing social work for san francisco state university. i have been a community organizer, a social worker, but i have also been a legislative aide. i worked mostly for community- based organization supporting kids and families, working for labor. i got to see how city hall could be an effective tool to create change. i looked at running in 2007, 2008, and somehow i made it. i have been in politics for so many ways, doing work around central america, supporting people in central america against u.s. imperialism, their right to live, self determination. i did a lot of work on that on campus when i was in college. a bit of work on apartheid when i was in college as well. >> i ne