Okay, id like to introduce lieutenant dwight waldo, retired from the San Francisco police department, he will be our next key note speakers so please listen to mr. Dwight waldo thank you, drew, im very pleased to be here and im pleased to see so many people attending. My program today will basically be on training and expertise, being able to go out, understand the gravanis culture and then take it to court and get a successful prosecution. Just a little background, im not going to read it all. I pretty much go by sergeant because i was only a lieutenant the last 3 months and i found out if you google me under lieutenant you find something. I stick with sergeant because i have about 14 years on google for that. I spent about 28 years as a Police Officer for the city of san bernardino, california, about 80 miles outside los angeles. Among other things im recognized as an expert on graffiti in california superior court. Without reading all this i want to let you know that i am well round
Okay, id like to introduce lieutenant dwight waldo, retired from the San Francisco police department, he will be our next key note speakers so please listen to mr. Dwight waldo thank you, drew, im very pleased to be here and im pleased to see so many people attending. My program today will basically be on training and expertise, being able to go out, understand the gravanis culture and then take it to court and get a successful prosecution. Just a little background, im not going to read it all. I pretty much go by sergeant because i was only a lieutenant the last 3 months and i found out if you google me under lieutenant you find something. I stick with sergeant because i have about 14 years on google for that. I spent about 28 years as a Police Officer for the city of san bernardino, california, about 80 miles outside los angeles. Among other things im recognized as an expert on graffiti in california superior court. Without reading all this i want to let you know that i am well round
Creativity alive and not cut it off and just go into old habits. It is a lot like listening. Really listening to watch what is going to emerge. I like this thing where you put your foot on his back. Lets keep it. Were your mind is is how you build your life. If you put it in steel or in failure, it works. That works. It is a commitment. For most artists, it is a vacation and a life that they have committed themselves to. There is this notion that artists continue to do their work because of some kind of the external financial support. If that was taken away, artists would still do their art. It is not like there is a prerequisite for these things to happen or i will not do it. How could that be . It is the relationship that you have committed to. It is the vocation. No matter how difficult it gets, you are going to need to produce your art. Whether it is a large scale or very small scale. The need to create is going to happen, and you are going to have to fulfill it because that is you
The other believe that we have is that it is important to step back from what we know at listen to our clients. Has to stop putting our beliefs on them. We have to look at where people are coming from with technology. And figure out what the issues are that they are having. The big question that we often asked is, when someone is struggling, is that a disability issue or a learning curve issue . We find that the disability issues are the easy fixes. The small print, hard to use a mouse, all of that is very easy to fix. The learning curve issues are really the hard ones for most people. Most seniors and dont have a tool box of strategies for dealing with technology. We were more able to figure things out. I may not know where the downloads folder is, but i know it exists. I might have trouble finding it, but i know it is there. For someone that doesnt speak technology as well as i do, they dont know how to look for it. If you are someone i have an analogy for you. How many people here c
To our graffiti abatement team. From them i give incident number, 451 4321. Okay, we cleaned it up on this date and it was 45 21 for a damage estimate or 54. Whatever it took for them to clean that off and how they cleaned it off, thats how we get our damage estimate to make a bigger case. [speaker not understood] . For the abatement . As thats a whole nother ball game and a whole nother day. But i can get it for you. They do an audit every year, Neighborhood Services department. Last year we cleaned up 6. 4 million in graffiti. So, its pretty bad. I give you the person to get in charge with the abatement side, william hogan. Ill give you his number and stuff. He can tell you how they do an audit. They do a yearly every two years they do an audit and thats how they get their pricing on how many square feet that they have to do. And it just moves up and up and up. When i first started it was like 17 bucks. Now its like 54 bucks. So, inflation, man. So, yeah. This is a great thing. Even