. >> richard carrea and i wanted to introduce to you inspector richard van cole who will be taking over the duties formerly handled by another officer. it's good we have dave downstairs at southern and rich is 31 years in the police department. a lot of experience in financial crimes. and i think you will enjoy working with him and he will be available to the commission. any questions? commissioner newlin: welcome. >> and i think you will find working with nick and the rest of the staff very good experience. >> he has been here for two days and both days he was on the phone with the entertainment commission. commissioner newlin: thank you. >> another officer is here. commissioner newlin: sure. >> good evening. steve mathias from central station. going over a couple of things, new year's eve. went over pretty well. we had a few snepts, but relatively speaking, -- a few incidents but relatively speaking, it was calm. the clubs had a nice security and safety inside the clubs and outside for the most part. we did 25 inspections at various clubs in our district. so we trite to go around to -

. >> richard carrea and i wanted to introduce to you inspector richard van cole who will be taking over the duties formerly handled by another officer. it's good we have dave downstairs at southern and rich is 31 years in the police department. a lot of experience in financial crimes.

inspector van cole, i'll talk with him and no reason we can't track those incidents as well as any other. it's convenient if they are made at the station and someone leaves a copy there, but this means we have to go into the system and get them. but we can track those. >> i appreciate that. >> recess is often a complaint from the neighbors i have been dealing with as well over on broadway. commissioner newlin: any public comment on the police presentation? seeing none, we'll go through the -- almost got away. >> i'm going to be brief because you have a full line-up but i have been doing research on the party buses and i'll share information with you. it's not just broadway corridor but union square and overall, just the assessment is, it's not a positive experience. i'll bring some information in and maybe we can share a data and get our arms around this. thank you. commissioner newlin: thank you. before we go on, a little housekeeping issue. the fire marshall will allow you to stand in the room but do it on the wall opposite the exit doors. people standing inside the room would line up

van der sloot, a suspect in the disappearance of u.s. teen natalee holloway in aruba, pleaded guilty today to the murder of a a peruvian woman. he will be sentenced friday. we asked coleson if he was surprised about this. >> i was a bit surprised that he pled guilty today because he's a liar, a manipulator, a gambler. i thought he'd want to throw a monkey wrench into the system and possibly victimize the families even more. >> the question heard around the world today. who is killing nuclear scientists in iran? the latest victim is a scientist who was blown up in his car this morning. he was a top official at the uranium enrichment plant and the fourth such victim in two years. iran is pointing the finger at israel and the united states. >> i want to categorically deny any united states involvement in any kind of act of violence inside iran. >> so, who is targeting these scientists? we asked peter brooks, a national security expert. here's what he said. >> my sense it's probably somebody from the region, maybe israel, maybe an arab state. both these groups of people do not want to see iran achieve nuclear weapon state hood. another possibility, iranian themselves that

van der sloot, a suspect in the disappearance of u.s. teen natalee holloway in aruba, pleaded guilty today to the murder of a a peruvian woman. he will be sentenced friday. we asked colempson if he was surprised about this. >> i was a bit surprised that he pled guilty today because he's a liar, a manipulator, a gambler. i thought he'd want to throw a monkey wrench into the system and possibly victimize the families even more. >> the question heard around the world today. who is killing nuclear scientists in iran? the latest victim is a scientist who was blown up in his car this morning. he was a top official at the uranium enrichment plant and the fourth such victim in two years. iran is pointing the finger at israel and the united states. >> i want to categorically deny any united states involvement in any kind of act of violence inside iran. >> so, who is targeting these scientists? we asked peter brooks, a national security expert. here's what he said. >> my sense it's probably somebody from the region, maybe israel, maybe an arab state. both these groups of people do not want to see iran achieve nuclear weapon state hood. another possibility, iranian themselves th