Americas elections. I will now recognize myself when Opening Statement. Yesterday the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system come close quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. They are elections very core of our democracy under a aa tactic special counsel most report in no Uncertain Terms detailed how reform government attack on her 2016 elections. The russian objectives were clear, deep in distress and discord in a society come secure the election of one candidate of president over the other, and in so doing undermined confidence in the integrity of our elections and damaged our nations standing in the world. There is no evidence russian affected the actual vote count of our elections but russia did successfully steal thousands of documents from american citizens that
Yesterday, the director of National Intelligence testified that, quote, the greatest challenge we have as a nation is making sure to maintain the integrity of our election system. Closed quote. Excuse me. I agree. Our democracy was founded on a government elected by the people, for the people and free and fair elections. Today our elections, the very core of our democracy, are under attack. Special counsel muellers report in no Uncertain Terms details our Foreign Government attacked our 2016 election is, the russians objections were clear, secure the election of one candidate of president over another and undermining confidence in the sbrintegritief our elections. Theres no evidence that russia affected the actual vote count of our elections but russia did steal thousands of documents from american citizens that it used to influence public opinion. It also accessed voter data and gained other valuable intelligence which it may seek to exploit in the future. In short, as special counsel
In enforcement. Two other comments real quickly. As far as the first five, one of the main thing that happens that causes collisions, his failure to signal. The Police Department shows very few statistics on siding people for failure to signal. This is a preventative measure that would eliminate a lot of the collisions if bicyclists and pedestrians saw someone signaling it would be very easy to do that yet we see no action on it. We would like to encourage being considered part of the first five, because lastly, we have asked, were going to do a resolution on it which gives grant for bicycle Traffic Enforcement in some areas of the city. Getting a grant to test out and the other cities are doing it very successfully. Its a fraction of the cost of a motorcycle and we would like to see it thank you. Next speaker. I am a School Crossing guard at 19th and judah, i represented the guards during our contract negotiations. We have been lobbying for more than a year since the mta informed the
The correlation is not causation, but the recent increases relate inversely to the declining number of officers in enforcement. Two other comments real quickly. As far as the first five, one of the main thing that happens that causes collisions, his failure to signal. The Police Department shows very few statistics on siding people for failure to signal. This is a preventative measure that would eliminate a lot of the collisions if bicyclists and pedestrians saw someone signaling it would be very easy to do that yet we see no action on it. We would like to encourage being considered part of the first five, because lastly, we have asked, were going to do a resolution on it which gives grant for bicycle Traffic Enforcement in some areas of the city. Getting a grant to test out and the other cities are doing it very successfully. Its a fraction of the cost of a motorcycle and we would like to see it thank you. Next speaker. I am a School Crossing guard at 19th and judah, i represented the
Vision zero Research Collaborative of backgrounds and expertise. With respect to emerging mobility, we have been working to create a standardized methodology to monitor injuries related to new modes of transportation through the trauma registry. Recently released our first sixmonth report looking particularly at escooter related collisions. These were shared as a part of the packet. I want to acknowledge our vision zero epidemiologist was critical in leading this work and is in our audience today. Because of the injury prevention Research Collaborative we had a Strong Foundation when escooter hit our streets last year to work with the hospital staff to develop methodology for tracking. We were the first in the country to do so who were eager to impairment something similar given the Public Safety concerns with respect to two new modes. There is a number of names that have advancer this including reporting the data including transparency and consistency with respect to definitions, and