These things unfolding, these episodes or anecdotes wherein the president seems to be at war not just with our cheers and applause stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen stephen, stephen, stephen cheers and applause stephen welcome to the report good to have you with us good to have you cheers and applause ladies and gentlemen, please, sit down. Folks, folks, let me say colbert nation, on this night, i found the shofar to herald the arrival of Rosh Hashanah, the jewish new year, may 5775 be a year of happiness. laughter i still got it. laughter nine years later it still tastes just as rammy as ever. Nice thing about a dead ram horn, it only it only gets dead ramier. And folks, im already enjoying the traditional Rosh Hashanah treat known among the jewish people and i hope im pronouncing this correctly, apples and chhoney. It expresses our hope for a sweet new year. And Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah is just the beginning of
Happiness. laughter i still got it. laughter nine years later it still tastes just as rammy as ever. Nice thing about a dead ram horn, it only it only gets dead ramier. And folks, im already enjoying the traditional Rosh Hashanah treat known among the jewish people and i hope im pronouncing this correctly, apples and chhoney. It expresses our hope for a sweet new year. And Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah is just the beginning of the jewish high holiday fun. From now until yom kippur marks the time of solemn reflection and atonement known as the days of repentance, not to be confused with the upcoming blockbuster, transformers 5 days of repentance. applause stephen the plot centers on optimus primes bar mitzvah and his most difficult transformation yet from boy into a manment and at the end he turns into a pen and pencil set. Traditionally this is a time to apologize to all those you have wronged. Now i do not follow this tradition because i am not jewish and i have never been wrong. laught
Movie was the subject of peace negotiations between the north and the south at the very end of the civil war, which is the subject of the book. Its a shorthand way for me to introduce it to people because most people who have the fainted faintest interest in the subject will have seen the movie. The cover of the book is on the projector, which redepicts a meeting between lincoln and grant and sherman and admiral porter, who was the senior Union Admiral at the time. On the steamship river queen which was the air force one of its time, as i like to think of it. And it was the chamber, or the compartment on the river queen that you see on the cover of the book that the peace conference took place, about a month or month and a half prior to this meeting between lincoln and his military leaders. The artist who painted the picture in 1868 entitled it the peacemakers which i have always thought was titled with some conscious irony that took light of the fact that the peace conference that had
Item number three. I know we understand the importance of the work here, but certainly the recent incident in can kansas city is glaring, the foot ball player is a tragedy. I talked on the radio about it and talked about it at the club with the young men and women. That is certainly on my mind and not that we need more focus but certainly thats why were here. Thank you. I just want to reiterate the women that came forward there has been substantial changes in the way Domestic Violence cases are prosecuted and vghtded. You will hear more about that but when i started out there was Domestic Violence department and it was in the general Works Department and now there are victim advocates. We have come a long way and one of the things the article says you need to bring Families Together for financial reasons and other reasons and those are the reasons that hold people in battered relationships and when the police come the first time its not the first time it happened and people need to be
Record of homicides in San Francisco. It was running about 10 Domestic Violence homicides a year and including in the year 2000 the Domestic Violence violence of claire joyce tampango by her exboyfriend in front of her two children and in the subsequent investigation our commission made happen it was clear that she had taken out police reports, got emergency protective orders, did everything she was supposed to do, but it the failure of city averages to respond appropriately so the members. Oversight panel for the last 10 years really taken to task the coordination and the policy reforms that departments committed to, and i am very pleased to report that with the help of many, many people in this room to date we have gone from 10 domestic homicides to this year so far 0,0 domestic homicides in San Francisco this calendar year so i know commissioners have received a package of chocolates. In it it is an eraser and together we are erasing Domestic Violence homicides. Thank you very much.