Your books are praised by oprah, president obama and you win the poets with the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . Before we take the pain away, this book is taken off and away unexpected and startling and wonderful and i thank my lucky stars and they sleep a little better and that her mood generally and try to enjoy despite my best efforts. What is up doing a better mood. I been writing for 20 something years doing fiction for 20 something years temperature write a book and people to get and no one typically cares and it disappears so i had the pride and think it i did a good job from the book and the bonus of other people reading it as well. Host your first book was about elevator repairs, people, how do you sell a book like that. Guest exactly. With that book i wrote a description and i said to my agent you dig in the concept of elevators inspectors or you dont. Youre either along for the ride in the description or not indefinitely when i was writing it was my s
Welcome to book tv in depth this is especially or fiction on indepth and last month was David Ignatius who writes about the cia. This month we have Colson Whitehead is our guest his most recent book is the underground railroad. What is the appropriate response mr. Whitehead when your books are praised by the president obama and ohio oprah and the National Book award . It takes the pain away. [laughter] this book has taken off in a way that is unexpected and wonderfu wonderful. So i think my lucky stars i sleep a little better, a better mood generally, and try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Why does it put you in a better mood . I have been writing 20 something years doing fiction 20 years. And no one particularly cares. So i have the pride of thinking i did a good job with the book and the bonus of other people to see that as well. Host your first book was about elevator repair people. How do you sell a book like that quick. Exactly. So when i send it to my agent with the concept
Also president are chief scott of the San Francisco Police Department. We also have a cantonese translator in the back for those that need it. Good evening, everyone. This is the february 19th meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. We have a special meeting in the ingleside district, this is my Police Station so im really happy to be here. We dont have too full of an agenda tonight, so well allow three minutes for Public Comment. With that, lets get started. Call the first item. Line item 1a. Chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents in the chief describes for a future commission meeting. Thanks for welcoming me to ingleside. Im going to be brief in my report today. And ill open it up for questions from the commission. Basically i will discuss our crime trends for the week and for those of the folks in the audience who have not attended a Polic
Also president are chief scott of the San Francisco Police Department. We also have a cantonese translator in the back for those that need it. Good evening, everyone. This is the february 19th meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. We have a special meeting in the ingleside district, this is my Police Station so im really happy to be here. We dont have too full of an agenda tonight, so well allow three minutes for Public Comment. With that, lets get started. Call the first item. Line item 1a. Chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the incidents in the chief describes for a future commission meeting. Thanks for welcoming me to ingleside. Im going to be brief in my report today. And ill open it up for questions from the commission. Basically i will discuss our crime trends for the week and for those of the folks in the audience who have not attended a Polic
Supervisors from the district. Yee, district 8, supervisor mandelman which includes the glen park and Diamond Heights area, and also district 9, supervisor ronen, district 10, supervisor walton from the Visitacion Valley and sunnydale area and the largest district 11, supervisor safai, which includes excelsior and Outer Mission areas. I have 34 schools in the district which include balboa high school, leadership, reardon, city college. The population is roughly 139,000. Desk grams are africanamericans 4. 2 percent, asians, 21 percent, latin, 25 percent, other is 12. S 31. 3 percent. On to the next slide. Staffing overview. I have 128 in my personnel of which 120 are sworn, five are p. S. A. , Police Service aids and three civilians. I have five lieutenants, 20 sergeants, 90 officers, four recruits. Currently i have one s. R. O. , a School Resource officer, i have two foot beat officers, one on the Mission Geneva corridor and one on leeland street corridor. I have hopes of increasing on