i'm valerie brown with the lower hate neighborhood organization. we are here today at the neighborhood empowerment network to talk about safety on your streets. this actual workshop is what we call a 30,000 feet aerial view of what we do. the lower haight motd we created a few models for safety and some are complex and a lot of information. we are going to give you just a little bit of this today. we will talk about how to connect with the different city agencies, your supervisors, your captain at our station. the city attorney's office and beat officers or street officers. one of the things that i would like toit introduce the panel. captain from northern station. regina from the legislative aid of ross mirkarimi one of our supervisors. from the da's office. the president of our merchant's association of the lower haight. ron, a beat officer and antoine another beat officer. the city attorney was at our morning session this morning and had to leave. regina and i work with the city attorneys office and will talk about that today in the lower haight

. >> we promised to bring america together and i thought for a second valerie jarrett didn't want to hug scott brownoute every morning. >> yeah actually we start around the capitol building and go down around the monuments, you're right, almost every morning. but we do it when the sun is a lot lower and the sun is coming through the dome and it's thrilling. >> it's still thrilling, as i try to explain that to people, every time you go up and you see that capitol, it's just a thrill. >> it really is. we have an interleague softball league that we do and just to play out here and always look back and it's good to see you here, good to see everybody here, just trying to get healthy and i thought i would swing by and say hi. >> we appreciate you watching, we understand governor that they watch every morning in the senate gym. >> that's good. you need some incentive while we're running. >> we have seen before and after pictures of you, you have gone on a real health kick over the past year. >> absolutely, like most moms when they have children, it takes a little time to lose that pregnancy weight. so las

valerie was keeping up. and she kissed scott brown. it was awkward and we were pushing them together, but okay.aty. >> i was going to say i saw him kissing democrats and then i asked her, since it was a bipartisan fun run to kiss scott brown and she wouldn't do it. i said how partisan of her and when i looked at her, when she finally kissed she was like -- and i said that reminds me of my wife when i'm sweaty. women don't like to kiss sweat. >> he had run a few miles. >> he was in the middle of his daily 20-mile run or whatever he does. >> and i pulled him in for an interview. the guy will never be the same. >>> let's talk really quickly, that's one of the lost joys of washington, d.c., and why we have the problems that we have. it's one of the reasons we wanted to do this. it used to be that politicians could fight like hell on the house floor, on the senate floor and in the white house and then they and their wives and their families would go out to dinner on the weekends, or the guys would golf with each other, they'd see each other in church on sunday morning. if you're in a synagogue or if