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suicides, unintentional injuries, and gun crimes with stolen guns. i appreciate these findings. you do not want to get a phone call that says your son has been killed. he was not playing with a gun, he was visiting the home of someone else and he has been killed. thank you. supervisor mirkarimi: thank you for sharing that very powerful and tragic story. thank you for everything that you are doing to really help stem the tide. thank you. next speaker please. good morning, supervisors of public safety. is there any member of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >think it over, think it over because i want it safe in the city today and police take away all the hate. come on, public safety committee, come see about that supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? this is the time to time in. seeing none, public comment is closed. chine in. colleagues, madam city attorney, if there is anything that you would like to ....
statistics for that, it is all anecdotal, but that is what we usually hear from the people bringing in the patient at the time. supervisor mirkarimi: supervisor campos? supervisor campos: i think, in terms of making the policy case, explaining why something like this is needed, i think the testimony and comments from our public health staff, personnel, is compelling. it is not just a public safety issue, it is a public health issue. not only is it about saving lives, but making sure you also improve the quality of the lives that you do save, and that you also minimize the impact that additional expenditures that come with these kinds of incidents have on the rest of the system. for money that you spend on one critically injured patient, that is money that you are not going to have for other needs within the system. i think it is very compelling, and i hope that there is more of an effort, not only within san francisco, but nationwide, to see this as a public health issu ....
stats are always a hard thing that we try to ascertain when we get to this committee process. do you have any idea on the use of hollow point bullets, maybe and vocally, anecdotally, what sfgh has had to deal with? usually, if we recover any bullets or bullet fragments, we send it to the police department for further examination. we cannot get the results of those examinations. but anecdotally, there is a difference in the destruction that we see visibly with the organ. in recent operations i have had to partake in, thit seems like there are more cases of destruction, hamburger meat. it seemed to be becoming more prevalent these days. i also do clinical work at highland hospital. the same is true across the bay. this problem is growing locally. that is a front line hospital also. the same thing happens there as well. i think this problem is growing locally, and i think there is an industry that is trying to have more destruction with this bullet. so we are seeing it ....
difficult to buy a hollow point expandable ammunition will save lives. in closing, i want to thank san francisco for being in the forefront of being in the four of protecting its citizens from gun violence. i learned from the department of justice in sacramento, at a time when annual gun sales in california are at 600,000 per year, this is double what sales were eight years ago. with the nra shooting fighting t holes in every ordinance, this is critical. in terms of what we were talking about before, how do you enforce a law that is in the home? this is the same issue in the 1970 s, the domestic violence movement phase. how do you break the concept that a man s home is his castle? how do you enforce those laws? it has been through education and also through reinforcement that has been made public that lets people know, reminds them of what they should be doing. so it can be done. supervisor mirkarimi: and cultural shaming, like with domestic violence. i appreciate you ....
stem the tide. thank you. next speaker please. good morning, supervisors of public safety. is there any member of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. >think it over, think it over because i want it safe in the city today and police take away all the hate. come on, public safety committee, come see about that supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. any other public comment? this is the time to time in. seeing none, public comment is closed. chine in. colleagues, madam city attorney, if there is anything that you would like to add? nothing more from the other than, as a citizen of san francisco, appreciative that we are a leader on these policy issues. supervisor mirkarimi: despite the adversity nationally, locally from special interest groups. i think the fighting speak for themselves. i believe we can always add more to those, shared by the anecdotes in the stories and to committed here today, make it that much more powerful. i a ....