Allow people to take ownership of certain sections of their block and help us problems and indiscernible that is a very successful program. We have had over 350 people who are active in that program now. Facilitate a lot of programs, tackle the problem that we have. indiscernible i can tell you that a huge percentage of the come from San Francisco. indiscernible some cases people come from other countries. indiscernible indiscernible our community and makes me very indiscernible someone who is debating indiscernible find a way to change the mind of people. indiscernible help to make that change. We heard from our supervisor david chiu, we spend more than 20 Million Dollars every year erasing graffiti. Peoples property, huge amounts of money. indiscernible beautiful landscape, beautiful programs. We do have a huge ahead of us. I am looking forward to hearing the many ideas that will be coming out of a conference today. We have experts from Law Enforcement. We have experts from committed
Supervisor of the unit to be supervisor of a multi agency dealing with it to being executive director for the entire state, california Graffiti Association of california. So i have a fair amount of background. I first became involved in graffiti back in 1991 when i was told in the gang unit that i was going to be a twoweek assignment to deal with these guys called taggers. I continued until i retired so it was a long two weeks. A lot of times cities dont understand how deep the issue goes. I have had my card handed out, this is my phone number. I have absolutely no problem with people calling me any time to discuss graffiti issues, graffiti cases, any of that stuff, i am always available. Thats why i put my card out there. So first off, before we get into the graffiti part we have to talk about the person whos going to be dealing with graffiti when he goes to court. Personnel and training are the two keys to success in any detail, were going to talk specifically about graffiti but in a
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 rounded, i was supervisor of the unit to be supervisor of a multi agency dealing with it
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
This is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. Ith was built in the 1930s and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. Every year, the World Championship of fly casting is held in San Francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. We are here with phil, general manage of San Francisco rec and Parks Department at the anglers lodge. What do you think about this . It is spectacular, travis from oregon, taught me a snake roll and a space cast. There are people from all over the world come to San Francisco and say this is the place to be. Yeah. Its amazing, we have teams from all over the world here today and they are thrilled. I flew from ireland to be here. And been practicing since for the competition. All the best casters in the world come here. My fellow countryman came in first place and james is on the current team and he is the head man. Its unique. Will not see anything like it where you go to compete in the