Critical and necessary changes that we have the Critical Response to the Domestic Violence in San Francisco and let me just give you a few of those highlights etch of which is not more important than the other and each stands alone with great importance. And one, we have been able to achieve the greater accountability for Domestic Violence, offenders and working with the probation department, and and the others to achieve this end and we have exexpanded Language Access for Domestic Violence survivor and that means, working collaboratively with the Police Department and the department of Emergency Management and making sure that we are able to respond and identify those bi lingual officers, who can provide Critical Response, and we significantly increased investments in services to women and survivors of violence and their families. And the city did provide increased funding for Community Based Domestic Violence agencies with a particular focus on at risk populations. Such as the lgbt q
And we work together, and it was lucasa and do an excellent job to help everybody navigate that system. Greg suhr and the department and to make the tough decision and help every day and they save lives and help the Community Heal and they help all of us stay connected that is what part of the justice is. And the next one and mary and we have a family friend here today who will talk to you about bary and we are beginning this process begin with her family, and so while we did go 44 months, we do have 3 new homicides and we have to take care of these families and we must take of these children and when we talk about talking care of folks and we talked about advocacy and that is the advocates in the das office and the Police Department and as the advocates with the District Attorney office and the dedicated Community Based call of the survivors and the families 24 hours a way, and for those of you who are working in shelter and crisis lines, and legal services, and to today, is your day.
And now, it is having suffered three, even though we are in a record low, homicide, here, almost ten percent and better than ten percent of the homicides that have occurred in San Francisco, have been Domestic Violence related. And we continue to provide the assessment for the training for the Police Officers and increased the limited accomplish training because we dont want somebodys inbility to communicate in english to be a deter and we want to insure that all survivors that San Francisco is a sanctuary city and that there is status in the United States will never be called into question and they need to report, because again, there is no excuse for Domestic Violence upon anybody. Our special victims unit continues to thrive without 16 additional investigators to the special victims unit just in the calendar year, 2014. And the things for most as we see it work here best in San Francisco and as we continued to have the Domestic Violence advocates located in the special victims unit
Supervisor, served for many years on the partnership and the domestic abuse, board of directors. Please help me to welcome president chiu. Thank you, dr. Murase. And i want to thank all of you who are here tonight, representing the beautiful diversety that is San Francisco. And we are asian, we are latino, we are white, we are black, and tonight, we stand together wearing the color purple. A color that represents the bruises, that we all want to see ended some day. I am proud to be here representing our San Francisco board of supervisors. Our board, we have stood with you with our community, and to make sure that we have programs that are funded where they need to be and to make sure that we have our policies where they need to be. And i want to take a moment, i, i know that claire joyce and inaudible mother is with us today and claire, what happens 14 years ago, i know is something that we all mourn every day, every one who is here. But you know that your daughter and your family name
President of the Police Commission, loftus, and many others, help me Welcome Police chief greg suhr. Thank you and on every marked Police Vehicle in the San Francisco Police Department there is one Bumper Sticker and on the back of every single car as you see the Police Vehicles traveling around and it simply says that there is no excuse for Domestic Violence. And because, there is not. And much has been made in the National Media about how come this happened and that happened and how about just no, there is no excuse, period, for the Domestic Violence. And the San Francisco Police Department is a critical piece of that as we respond to any calls for Domestic Violence in San Francisco and as the mayor pointed out, we did enjoy a period of some 40 plus months where there were no dow mist i can violence homicides in San Francisco. And now, it is having suffered three, even though we are in a record low, homicide, here, almost ten percent and better than ten percent of the homicides that