A survey from the Research Center found americans are not interest in typhoon haiyan. The survey conducted a week after the storm hit Shows Americans donating to the relief effort is trailing behind other recent Natural Disasters. 14 made a donation to charities and 17 plan on doing so. 18 of americans contributed after the hurricane last year and 18 planned to donate. A look at the United States funding and this is heard from the asid members. I want to apologize for being a few moments late. We had a vote on the floor. And some of the members will be arriving as they finish on the floor. Nearly one month ago, the deadliest typhoon hit the philippians with sustained winds of 150 miles per hour. The surge reached a height of 40 feet. It killed more than 5600 people. Another 1,759 are listed as misses. 26,000 were injured. It is the strongest storm recorded at landfall and 5th in terms of wind speed. The storm was three and a half times the size of katrina. Last week i led a delegation
Editorinchief, james bennet. Thank you, commissioner, for being with us today. [applause] i thought id open with a familiar, oftrepeated statistic that i thought i should repeat again. Youll correct me if i have it wrong. In 1990, there were 2,245 homicide in the city of new york, which i think was the record mark. And last year there were 333 homicides in the city of new york. Though the population had grown by a Million People in the meantime, and there are however many millions more visitors to the city every year. I can remember what the social implications of that statistic were for neighborhoods across the city in the early 90s, and the transformation is nothing short of astonishing. You arrived in new york to lead the Transit Police this 1990. In 1990. And while there are no doubt many factors that explain the decrease, the source of strategies and tactics you put in place from aggressively implementing the broken windows philosophy to pursuing datadriven methods of policing are