us because we have a lot to do. we form this group for many reasons, but primarily to address crime and nuisance from the broadway corridor. it is completely out of hand. i ve lived in the neighborhood for almost 20 years now and i can t tell you how many times i have been told that s just broadway and that s the way it is. that is not the case. it is horrible right now. it s a war zone and it s not fair to those of us who live there. it is not safe. we are afraid. we on property and we don t know what to do. i know the police are trying to do the best they can and thank you. i know the chief has allocated more resources to the corridor and that is helping. we have a lot of work to do they re getting the guns off the street and dealing with problem clubs and those who stay in the neighborhood after closing areas and work their ways into the residential areas and urinate on residential doors and people are found with guns right outside on the garden steps. it s very scary. one
chief s blessing on this because he knew that this was a very serious crime that was affecting the elderly, and they were losing their life savings. i think it looks like you did a ton of outreach and education. i m sure it s having an impact. thank you. thank you very much. anybody else? good evening, my name is commander mike biel. i m a commander of the metro division. i promise youly be working diligently with captain tom to put together a plan. also using resources to put together a plan to address the broadway issue. just so we understand on broadway what we re doing right now, what we have going on right now is our new staffing, which will take effect on monday. we ll increase our staffing on a night watch over at central station from 25% of the officers to 30%. there by increasing it by about five officers at night. so that would give us from what we have now on broadway, on any given weekend, four to six officers, increased by another two o three officers.
thank you. [applause] i am mike madrid. i am a member of the police advisory board. i just want at something quickly to what was just brought up about broadway. we hear a lot about the problems on broadway. i lived in that neighborhood about 25 years and it has always been the way it is now. i ve met with the entertainment division several times and was told to my face you people are not anything special. everyone in the city has to deal with this sort of thing, basically it sucked it up because it s the situation. i have been to plenty of meetings where we hear about freedom of speech and i have been the labeled as a more on fun people. i m a property owner. i was born here. i just want to live in my home and feel safe. we hear a lot of things about broadway any might say just stay away from broadway on the weekends. this past spring, i was awoken by about 22 rounds of gunfire right around the corner from me. i thought was fireworks because i had never heard anything like
area, broadway, you see them all around the city now on the weekends. ok, well thank you. another question on a different topic. you reported 30% increase in auto thefts. can you give us an idea of why you think there has been such a marked increase and what your thoughts on are in terms of action to bring that down? i notice several months we had over 30 stolen vehicles when usually we have about 20 per month in the district. and i looked at our crime statistics, and the last month we had a downward trend of about 55% but that was because there were two arrests for auto theft. usually an auto thief will not just steal one car but he ll steal maybe 10 or 20 cars. so with two arrests that brought down the crime rate considerably. we just have to catch some more auto thiefs. but the good news is that 90% of them, they are recovered. looking at the statistics in the central district, 70% of the autos stolen in the central district are recovered in the central district. so
there is still violence there. there is like 30 or 40 cops on broadway and they re still fights coming out. it is a constant bad behavior. chief, any ideas? [applause] is that on camera? those chairs are tough. we will be with the group. i would like to see mr. butler s traffic engineering proposal and we will come up with some stuff. i know trish was talking about coming up with a more localized holding area and to work with the sheriff to see if we can activate something like the way we do for large demonstrations where we anticipate large numbers of arrests. we might be able to do that on a temporary base this on thursday, friday, and saturday night. we will figure something out. we do push extra people toward broadway. we have the events in the southeast sector the last couple of months and we are spreading it then. we will figure it out. we are spreading it sen. it appears i just want to say that the supervisors have passed a number of pieces of legislati