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things different we need to do more to prevent kids from falling through the cracks using data i had given the closing argument and the victim in the case was a mother of 8 who lost one of her sons to gang violence. awhile i fought in the courtroom i was haunted by what was happening to her other children. when we were addressing the impacts on her children at home and as fate had it shortly after that trial that ended i met one of my heros dr. harris and other person said we have to do better we ve heard about the dismal statistics but we have a change to do something different and know the impact of toxic stress and this is a place were there this is going to end and we re going to screen the kids and bring the best and bright you mind to serve the kid. together we ll transform the lives of kids giving them a fair shot to grow up to giggle, to run and leap along the way every child deserves that chance. i ask that nadine harris join me. and then ail talk about tours ....
and dr. davis would want me to say how the seniors can get in it. bouquet it the day to take a maker i went to denny s when something big happened but we ll have to go to denny s. the first time popcorn i m going to introduce is dr. william walker the longtime advocate when people didn t bother with us he s the chair of directors and he would help us. (clapping.) distinguished and honorable persons on the platform may i mention one or two names this is the honorable and distinguished nancy pelosi we all love (clapping) and honorable mayor of the city of st. louis mayor ed lee would you give him a nice round of clause. to my brothers and sisters who are here san francisco is a world-class city you can t have a world-class city without a world-class clark class neighborhood like the bayview service center is a world-class center. (clapping.) . and today, we came not to just talk and give out information but to celebrate. i remember sophie maxwell i was in her office sh ....
whose the chair of our fund committee is former mayor willie brown i promised him the video he ll get to see it so give him a hand (clapping) george has always told me don t go to willie brown for the small stuff. so i really want to thank even for being here. this is a spell your last name day toro everyone dr. davis family is here the family is in the house the daviss. i want to acknowledge the board of directors and we re going to do that they re my boss and they re in the house we ll have them stand but i want to thank them from the bottom of my heart so thank you. i want to start out by thinking a little bit about what dr. davis meant he was a forward thinker and thinking about bayview in the day and bayview has changed and is different but he was thinking about it 20 years ago. and this took 20 years. and later on i m going to talk about the beautiful people and how they ve helped us and supported our organization but it was really dr. davis is the reason we re he ....
smaet strategy and will deployment and combirs our community. we ve been successful so far but focusing on the 5 most dangerous intersections and our confliction factors and using our data for realtime deployment and redeployment we can get a handle at least for the enforcement piece but as far as as education we re going to need community and partnership we re looking both ways to cross the street now look both ways and make eye contact with the driver before you cross the street. you are our populations is over 8 hundred thousand and growing and twice as many bicyclists in the city and more construction in the country and at the same time everybody can t wait 60 seconds longer to be on their cell phone we re at a crisis level in san francisco we exceed violent crime serious injuries and deaths by those that are happening on the roads we can do this using technology and follow the lead of the people behind us but we can t get it done without doing it together. i ask i ....
the commission and one of the problems is because we don t have any legislative ability with them because they are, you know, state level, i think that it would be great if we could come up with some kind of letter or conversation around two to send to people who are legislating them, because for the three years i ve sat here, these party buses are the bane of our existence and cause fights and problems and, you know, there needs to be better regulation. and if we are able to help in /aeu sissing that i think we should. the problem with that is that at the state level i mean, i ve been working on this myself and i ve gotten all the way up to senator hill s attention and i think we just don t have i mean, we need more support. i mean, maybe a letter from this commission about how important it is. obviously, you know, the drinking on the bus situation is an issue. i was anying any tavern guilds or business /aeu associations that deal with this, might be good to no ....