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
Hopefully, we will be a part of their education and they will adopt what we do here today, and they will look forward and they will see, not only 44 months, but they will see 44 years of no Domestic Violence, how about that for our kids . [ applause ] i also want to give a shout out to everybody who worked on this justice and encourage panel that was started some 12 years ago. When we asked them to assemble to go through all of the work that we have not done and what we should do, and the private sector and the Public Sector with the city agencies and with the nonprofits and with advocacy and they came up with 121 recommendations for us. And i am proud to say that today that we have our final evaluation report for those 12 years work that we have been doing to tackle these 121 recommendations and this final report, is a part of the reflection of the work that we have been doing and i just want to say a big, big thank you to everyone who has been working on that panel and everybody, and
This park is open. Just a few steps away from union square is a quiet corner stone of San Franciscos our community to the meridian gallery has a 20year history of supporting visual arts. Experimental music concert, and also readings. Give us this day our daily bread at least three times a day. And lead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] meridians stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. It gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. It is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. You want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. I felt like at meridian, it could do some good. We did not even talk about price until the day before the show. Of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community.
Level of migration, and sometimes by the time that the police and we get there, there is very little that can be done. And unfortunately that is not only bad for the family, it is bad for our community and it is bad. And you know, i have saw this before and you know, i have used it and i am stealing this work from everyone else and i heard once that a few, engaged in Domestic Violence in your home and you are almost guaranteeing that your sons, will grow up, to be abusive themselves and end up in jail. And we need to work together, to win this cycle of violence and we need to get to the day, for having, this meeting and this come ration of success to suppose to still talk about one out of every four women being the victim of the violence in their life and i am really honored for the company that we have hear today and we have a lot of work to do and i look forward to being able to continue to work with you. Thank you. Before i introduce my commissioners i want to report that thanks to
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 limited english, and immigrant survivors and we have expanded training on the Domestic Violence for the agencies and the Community Partner and that means that we work in a very collaborativive way, for just the violence and cross training and training over 437 criminal justice. inaudible and that includes, judges, that includes all other personnel that are working within our criminal justice system. And we have also made sure that we have victim responses to the system