Nonprofit organizations. They are very important functions, but they are very different functions. The work that we do in our office is directly related to legislative mandates such as probation for requesting Victim Compensation funds from the state. We also work with victim relocation. Were working closely together as a team between Victim Services and attorneys who are handling the prosecution, often assisting in that process. That is a very different process than the one that our partners in the nonprofit world do. The ones that our partners in the nonprofit world is very important and frankly, we couldnt do our job without their support. But its important to recognize that they are very different. Here are some highlights about where we are in terms of our caseload. If you look in 2010, you look at the average number of cases that were handled by the office, it was 143 and im talking about Domestic Violence cases, that is an 88 increase. Next i would like to point out your attenti
The police department, but i think what the District Attorney is saying that we have seen the opposite. Its just a oneyear drop there. Thank you. Other questions that are related to the funding for the Victim Services . The problem is that at the same time we were requesting in addition to our Victim Services the state reduced the funding coming in. So the end result of this process is that we actually lost the funding from state for three people. We gained the funding from the general fund for three and we wind up as we were prior tour to our request. Were seeing an increase. We did not have that increase. Supervisor avalos. Thank you chair farrell and thank you d. A. Gascon for your presentation. On your slide on page 5 you compare San Francisco with Santa Clara County. Just want to make sure that were talk about an applestoapples comparison. How are these Domestic Violence units in each structure . Are they structured in similar way . Are there any staff borrowed from other parts th
Only other county in the bay area that has vertical prosecution and vertical for felonies. What does that mean . When you have a vertical prosecution unit, when you are doing is that you have the attorney that picks up the case from the very beginning takes the case all the way through trial and conviction. When you have a horizontal unit, you have multiple individuals, that may be picking up pieces of the case. Somebody may take the case to arraignment. If its a felony, somebody else may do the preliminary hearing and somebody else may eventually try the case. The downside in Domestic Violence when you do business that way, is that you lose continuity and the trust of the victim. And Domestic Violence is one of those areas where the relationship between the victim and the prosecutor is crucial, because the very beginning were dealing with victims that generally reluctant. Typically a Domestic Violence victim does not want to prosecute the offender. Why is that . The offender is often
Spiked by 350 . The supplemental that have i proposed is a 750,000 number. It involves four components with a significant focus on Domestic Violence victims. It includes additional staffing for the District Attorneys Office with additional prosecutors, Victim Advocates and providers particularly Legal Services for Domestic Violence to assist with restraining orders, child custody and immigration cases. Funding for a Domestic Violence awareness campaign, which is kicking off this month. Related to the 1 billion rally we have coming up next week and restoration of a previously eliminated Domestic Violence policy analyst position, who had been the only city staff position focused on Domestic Violence. And the one last comment i want to say, obviously in 2012, we had a significant Public Discourse on Domestic Violence, but i would state despite the recent controversy everybody agrees we need to do more to increase our safety net, everyone from our mayor and District Attorney to our sheriff
Trial and conviction. When you have a horizontal unit, you have multiple individuals, that may be picking up pieces of the case. Somebody may take the case to arraignment. If its a felony, somebody else may do the preliminary hearing and somebody else may eventually try the case. The downside in Domestic Violence when you do business that way, is that you lose continuity and the trust of the victim. And Domestic Violence is one of those areas where the relationship between the victim and the prosecutor is crucial, because the very beginning were dealing with victims that generally reluctant. Typically a Domestic Violence victim does not want to prosecute the offender. Why is that . The offender is often the breadwinner. The offender is often someone who who is in a relationship where there may be children involved and the victim is looking for a way to fix the problem without necessarily prosecuting the case. Unfortunately, we know that historically the problem does not get fixed unles