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. Thank you. Commissioner chan. Slash l
Things that are being said about Domestic Violence will be said about elder abuse in the next few years. As a field elder abuse prevention lags behind Domestic Violence by 20 years and thats a shame because elders are the Fastest Growing segment of the population and a thousand people turning 65 everyday in the country and San Francisco likes to be first in everything and aging is no different. We have the unique population and the highest percentage of Senior Citizens in an urban area in california and we know many will develop some form of dementia so we have a very vulnerable population, so i want to touch on the numbers in the slide and we see in 2011 we had 6,000 reports and we have 512 and these cases are 100 i dont want to spend too much time delving into the numbers because theyre there to look at with better explanation around them, but i want to highlight a few things that are important to our city. Working in the Elder Abuse Center we see i really want to take the opportunit
And the project on Domestic Violence policy reform. Right now i would like to call up justice encourage project Oversight Panel, the past and present people who have made it what it is today. And if i could have commissioner shorter actually announce the names. Thank you commissioner. Again its an honor to not only serve on the commission of status of women but especially to chair the justice and courage Oversight Panel which oversees the domestic policy Domestic Violence policy issues and programs for the city and county of San Francisco, so im delighted to introduce three of our panel members, beverlyupton who is the chair of the Domestic Violence consortium, and kathy black who is the executive director of her group and Jamal Perkins who is just a terrific advocate at large on the issues of Domestic Violence and i believe that marylee is here and a former member of our panel as well as folks such as fionama and former commissioner dora king who was my predecessors of the Oversight P
Violence council has done and all of the Community Agencies have come together. Thank you very much. So i will touch on some of the trends and recommendations that were seeing from the Domestic Violence perspective. Domestic violence has been worked on much longer in San Francisco at a policy level and you will see that reflected in the numbers, but again when you combine elder abuse and child abuse and Domestic Violence its San Franciscos most reported crime, Family Violence. So you will see that still the majority of the calls that are coming in thank you come in to the community. As many of you know, and as the president of the Police Commission said its rarely the first time by the time the police are called or there is a criminal justice response and not Everyone Wants a criminal justice response so we are proud to be part of a community that speaks over 60 languages; that operates crisis l shelters and Legal Services for over 30 years and we are very proud of that. We are very pr
Violence council has done and all of the Community Agencies have come together. Thank you very much. So i will touch on some of the trends and recommendations that were seeing from the Domestic Violence perspective. Domestic violence has been worked on much longer in San Francisco at a policy level and you will see that reflected in the numbers, but again when you combine elder abuse and child abuse and Domestic Violence its San Franciscos most reported crime, Family Violence. So you will see that still the majority of the calls that are coming in thank you come in to the community. As many of you know, and as the president of the Police Commission said its rarely the first time by the time the police are called or there is a criminal justice response and not Everyone Wants a criminal justice response so we are proud to be part of a community that speaks over 60 languages; that operates crisis l shelters and Legal Services for over 30 years and we are very proud of that. We are very pr