Through the city and 129 Million Dollars in ada upgrades. As a former non profit director who is in charge of managing one of the city owned facilities that included issues with the elevator, issuewise the boiler system, issues with infrastructure it is exciting to see a significant investment. However i do have serious reservation about the praublgect in the plan, inthe new jail proposed as part of the hall of justice. A large portion of the population is there because they have a Mental Health issue or cant pay bill. I know it can be difficult to factor Mental Health into a intrastructure plan, but i think we need to be sure we are doing Everything Possible to reduce unnecessary incorns ration and provide Effective Services to those suffering from Mental Health problems. If we build a a92 jail, insure we are building not only the right size jail, but the right kind of jail. If that means the jail should also be a certified Mental Health facility than lets make it happen. I will conti
That reporting is not consistent. Yeah, but you have to remember the cable system is 40 years old. We have a state of the art crime data warehouse. The jump that weve made this technology in the last 4 years for instance getting email has been tremendous. So the best Data Available has been used and certainly the Data Available for this report was light years better than the data used the last time we redirected 20 years ago. Right, maybe that is a great example. It varies from year to year even from department to department and maybe we can come up with a uniform. We have a uniform crime report to the fbi and this year we were able to consolidate all of our numbers to matchup at the end of this calendar year. It talks about quality and control for validation. There are some issues that would be great to address at some point in the future, not right now. I dont think it comes to any surprise to anyone that our data and system has been a work in progress but continues to improve and if
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male announer live from the bay areas news station, kron 4 news starts now. New at eight. Its that time of year again. As many as one Million People are expected to welcome in the year of the snake at tomorrows Chinese New Years parade. Organizers give kron four an inside look at what to expect. More silly serpents than you can shake a stick at. Pam the dragons. The floats and we will show you this years new parade route. Been a 300 lbs. Of glitter, and 2 million lbs. Of paper. One of one the creaters these are the creaters baby pictures. It started off as a joke but i guess that they left them on their. [laughter] with 1 Million People expected to attend. It is estimated that 40 million will watch it on television and china. Here is one of the many reasons. We build these things for rain, shine, torrential rain. We are ready to go. Reporter a lot of those workers will be out tomorrow with long line of outthrustfloats on. 54 certainly,pier 54 it goes until 8 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Right no
Waiting for that 4 00 p. M. Advisory to determine the full extent of new yorks travel ban and whether or not new yorks subways will shut down. We are expecting a very high rate of snowfall starting later this evening combined with high gusts, gusts as high as 55 Miles Per Hour, so get to wherever you have to get by 11 00. On a night like tonight, you really are jeopardizing yourself if you are out past that hour anyway. We learned all broadway shows in new york city will be cancelled tonight due to the storm. Joining me now from boston is chris pallone. Whats the word up north in boston . Reporter even though there hasnt been a lot of notice for this storm, friday into saturday the models started showing the blizzard was coming. It appears that people are heeding the warnings. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has been very emphatic. This might be a historical event. You need to be prepared for this. You might have to stay in your home maybe two, maybe three days lose power. Make su