[inaudible] the City Attorney but took no action. The board [inaudible] and that the Real Property negotiators took no action. Member hot it would be appropriate to take a motion or disclose or not disclose . [speaker not understood]. We are adjourned. However however. Lets have the tv thing go off for a moment. [adjourned] [adjourned]. Do you like this top . Thats so gay. Really . Yeah. Its totally gay. You know, you really shouldnt say that. Say what . Well, say that something is gay when you mean its bad. Its insulting. What if every time something was bad, everybody said, ugh. Thats so girl wearing a skirt as a top. Oh. You are. Ha ha. Shut up. Those are cute jeans, though. We came to seven straight about 10 years ago. 7th street about 10 years ago. The environment is huge. It is stronger than willpower. Surrounding yourself with artists, being in a culture where artists are driving, and where a huge amount of them is a healthy environment. You are making it safer. Push, push. That
Specialty unit. The iplt is really big. There are probably people in this room saying i got graffiti when somebody else wanted it, and thats hard. And theres people like me and the officers i have hired into my units that just love the job and see the value in it, see the value for the community. So youve got to have that interest or else, again, you are going to have not as successful an officer. Now you found the officer, you got him figured out, i talk a lot about officers but the same applies to civilians, anybody sitting out in this audience. Because my concept is anybody can be a graffiti expert and a lot of that comes down to training. Where do you find this training . First its police officers, we get a lot of it through approved training classes, things certified by the state, postclasses and thats fairly consistent in a lot of states that have a group that authorizes what kind of training the officer gets. Articles and books, thats fairly selfexplanatory. And really you wind
These cars. This was a part of the effort to locate michael powe who went missing after ringing the new year in with friends at an adams morgan bar. The took a tragic turn when investigators discovered powes body at the bottom of a ventilation shaft at a Apartment Building here and they believe he fell to his death through an opening in the roof. A sad close to a missing person case. The Police Confirm the body of a man found in a ventilation shaft on built more street is that of 23yearold michael powe. Powe has been missing since new years eve when he parted ways with his friends at shenanigans bar. Friends say at around 2 45 a. M. New years day poe powe called a friend and said he was celebrating on a rooftop which they thought he meant he wassen a rooftop bar. That was the last they heard from him. A 911 call from a resident brought investigators to this building Late Wednesday night located a block from the bar where powe had been with friends. What he was doing on the roof and how
Governor andrew cuomo proposing four new sites, adding to four other hospitals already set to open. The president heads to norfolk, virginia today to watch as the usnf comfort travels to new york to help give relief to Health Care Providers in the outbreaks ope epicenter. The house passed a 2 trillion stimulus package. Jed, griff, good morning. Difficult and different circumstances as everyone in this network has endured. How are you both doing . Doing okay. Doing okay. Its interesting because were doing this show pete is in the usual studio on the couch, im in a pod on the second floor in the building and griff is over in dc. Hopefully this translates well to the audience. Its a challenging time, calls for different measures. Were here, well pull through together and we hope the audience is with us today. I wish i was there with you in new york. We are social distancing. Were seeing that has been an effective tool against combating this. Ive been covering this story all week long and
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 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