Firearm obviously in defense of his life and his partner and shot in the direction of the suspect, striking the suspect. He was pronounced dead at valley medical center. When alicia gomez stopped to pick up her daughter she feared the worst. When i pulled up i said god, no, you know, it was right in front of the apartment complex. I didnt make contact with my daughter and i was scared for her safety. Reporter investigators are questioning the two University Police officers. Another alarming point, there is a student Daycare Center across the street from where the shooting happened. No one else was injured in this incident. Now, there should be a fluid communication between University Police and the San Jose Police department because the captain at University Police and the chief used to be employees Police Officers in the city of san jose. Im damian trujillo. Nbc bay area news. Thank you. There are tense moments in san jose across town as police gathered at a culdesac. Our chopper was
Nonprofit organizations. They are very important functions, but they are very different functions. The work that we do in our office is directly related to legislative mandates such as probation for requesting Victim Compensation funds from the state. We also work with victim relocation. Were working closely together as a team between Victim Services and attorneys who are handling the prosecution, often assisting in that process. That is a very different process than the one that our partners in the nonprofit world do. The ones that our partners in the nonprofit world is very important and frankly, we couldnt do our job without their support. But its important to recognize that they are very different. Here are some highlights about where we are in terms of our caseload. If you look in 2010, you look at the average number of cases that were handled by the office, it was 143 and im talking about Domestic Violence cases, that is an 88 increase. Next i would like to point out your attenti
The police department, but i think what the District Attorney is saying that we have seen the opposite. Its just a oneyear drop there. Thank you. Other questions that are related to the funding for the Victim Services . The problem is that at the same time we were requesting in addition to our Victim Services the state reduced the funding coming in. So the end result of this process is that we actually lost the funding from state for three people. We gained the funding from the general fund for three and we wind up as we were prior tour to our request. Were seeing an increase. We did not have that increase. Supervisor avalos. Thank you chair farrell and thank you d. A. Gascon for your presentation. On your slide on page 5 you compare San Francisco with Santa Clara County. Just want to make sure that were talk about an applestoapples comparison. How are these Domestic Violence units in each structure . Are they structured in similar way . Are there any staff borrowed from other parts th
Only other county in the bay area that has vertical prosecution and vertical for felonies. What does that mean . When you have a vertical prosecution unit, when you are doing is that you have the attorney that picks up the case from the very beginning takes the case all the way through trial and conviction. When you have a horizontal unit, you have multiple individuals, that may be picking up pieces of the case. Somebody may take the case to arraignment. If its a felony, somebody else may do the preliminary hearing and somebody else may eventually try the case. The downside in Domestic Violence when you do business that way, is that you lose continuity and the trust of the victim. And Domestic Violence is one of those areas where the relationship between the victim and the prosecutor is crucial, because the very beginning were dealing with victims that generally reluctant. Typically a Domestic Violence victim does not want to prosecute the offender. Why is that . The offender is often
In terms of staffing, i just want to put up a visual of our Department Staffing from fiscal year 2001 to today and you will see that over time we almost had eight staff at the beginning of the 2000s and were now down to 5. 0 fste. I have six people in my office, three working parttime. Part of these reductions reflect the fact we have tried to keep cuts away from our direct services, as much as possible. In your handout you have a time line of achievements that this policy analyst helped us achieve in the time that we had that position. In 2002 we released a comprehensive report for San Franciscos response to Domestic Violence and lists hundreds of recommendations by departments and we worked very intensively and collaborative with the other agencies to make sure that those recommendations were followed. In 2006 we conducted a safety audit for looking at our different partners in the criminal justice agencies and how well we were serving victims of Domestic Violence. In 2007, we starte