Polarizing figure. Obviously, we know about that trial in the 90s that really transcended the way people cover those court cases. And his background as an athlete for years, simpson was an honored athlete, an incredible one coming from a poor neighborhood in San Francisco and turned into a superstar. We know his legacy changed during that murder trial in the mid 90s outside the betrayal Hill Recreation Center is an old, faded mural. One of the athletes on the mural is oj simpson. This park and this gym is where he spent a lot of time playing sports as a kid. There is simpson on a Baseball Team in the late 50s. There he is again years later, posting with kids outside the ballpark. Everybody in San Francisco was so, so proud that he was a san franciscan. He attended Galileo High School before playing at city college. He finished his collegiate career at usc and spent 11 seasons in the nfl, finishing with the 40 niners. But for the neighborhood, he left behind, there are questions about t
Honor of being in this hall and being on your team with athletic ability and charisma. O. J. Became a celebrity. He starred in commercials, Television Shows and in movies. People magazine called him the first black athlete to become a media superstar. All that changed in june 1994, when simpsons exwife, nicole brown simpson, was found brutally murdered. Shed been stabbed repeatedly and her throat slit. Her friend Ronald Goldman also repeatedly stabbed to death. Simpson was the main suspect before his arrest. He led police on a now infamous slow speed chase aboard a white bronco. It was carried live for hours on tv stations across the country, some people cheering him on. Millions watched his nine month trial for murder. We, the jury in the above entitled action, find the defendant, Orenthal James simpson, not guilty of the crime of murder. Two years after his acquittal , simpson was found liable for both deaths in a civil trial. He was ordered to pay 33. 5 million in restitution to bot
Staff especially our director of Environmental Health but also other staff on a vision that looks at reducing speed limits as improving the Public Health and our department of Public Health continues along with the mta to lead on making our city safer especially with our vision zero processes but San Francisco i fear is falling behind new york portland and other cities in america according to the report and in places like bristol and london and paris that are taking boulder and faster actions than we are in our city and we can really learn from these practices from other cities and apply them to our unique conditions here in San Francisco id like to acknowledge with us today are fred ro u. S. Seo and from the mta we have a director of sustainable streets mr. Tom maguire from the department of transportation in new york where he worked for years improving safer streets in new york and our sustainable Streets Division and from the department of Public Health we have our cochair of our Sa
Mar supervisor campos and supervisor christensen im fred r from from the budget and analysts office. Im just getting this prepared. Today im going to summarize the report that we completed at the request of supervisor mar on reduction options in San Francisco. Ill start with a quick profile of collision statistics and speeding information in the city. First of all from 2011 the number of vehicle collisions was 3111 of those 844 involved pedestrians and 630 involved bicyclists. Of the another statistic is the number of collisions with fatal ities and that number has gone up respect respect ively and 622 collisions in in 2011 and over 21 percent of the drivers in the city exceed the speed limit by five Miles Per Hour or more. This map shows where those streets are and when i say over 21 percent, this was some information com piled by the department of public health, that range is from 21 percent to a hundred so we could have significant numbers of drivers exceeding the speed limit. Let m
Hour or more. This map shows where those streets are and when i say over 21 percent, this was some information com piled by the department of public health, that range is from 21 percent to a hundred so we could have significant numbers of drivers exceeding the speed limit. Let me ask you to repeat that. I think this is highlighting the culture of speeding and unsafe driving in our city so at least 21 percent of the drivers are driving over the speed limit and its on over 88 streets that are identified by that map. That is correct supervisor mar and as you can see they are scattered throughout the city. No neighborhood is immune. In terms of the collision history and you made reference to this supervisor mar in your opening remarks there was a drop off and we can see through about 2004 in collisions and then it stayed around 3000 or so for every year since 2006. For collisions resulting in fatal ities otherwise the numbers are between around 30 and have been around 40 since 2011 we hav