buckingham palace. the 99-year-old husband, of course, of queen elizabeth stand ing beside her as they parented four children together, eight grandchildren and then welcomed ten great grandchildren, many of whom will gather to remember him today. he was born a prince of greece and denmark, gave up those titles when with as a young naval officer he caught the eye of young princess elizabeth and married her at the age of 21 and served her and the united kingdom for the rest of his days. his proudest association was with the british military, a member of the greatest generation serving in world war ii in europe and in the pacific. he was actually in tokyo bay on the last day of world war ii to witness the signing of those documents. today more than 700 members of the british armed forces are honoring him with their participation in his funeral. correspondent david spunt has a look back at prince philip s extraordinary life. reporter: for seven decades prince philip was seen as
i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. commissioner, i d like to take roll. yes, please. [ roll call ]. you have a quorum. you also have with us chief william scott of the san francisco police department and paul henderson. thank you, everybody. this is the january 15, 2020, meeting of the police commission. we do have a heavy schedule tonight, so we will have two minutes for public comment. i m going to change slightly the agenda order. i ll ask the chief to give his report first, and then we will call line item 2 next before we move on to the d.p.a. report. so with that, i turn it over to you, chief. thank you, president, vice president, commission, and executive director henderson. i start off today s report with a summary of our crime trends for the week. as of january 13, our overall crimes are down 21% year to date. and i just want to re
mode of like, i guess, a real stable place to progress my supervisor peskin: i think we hear you. right. it helped me to stop what i was doing to progress back no a regular living situation. further myself there. i also performed well in track and instead of going cold turkey and easily being drawn back into the situation, it allowed me to ease the tension into a regular living situation. thank you. supervisor peskin: thank you for your testimony. seeing no other members of the public on item number 1, we ll close public comment. supervisor haney and his staff have asked for an amendment that is in the long title on page 1 and the substance is subsection c on page 3. if there s no objection colleagues, i will move that and we will take that without objection. and i have been advised by the city attorney that because ha amendment is deemed to be substantial in nature, this will require a one-week continuance so without objection, we will continue the item as amended on
groveside. when you re at the site, it seems like this piece of land is already part of the park because we already operate and maintain that piece of the property. however, on paper, this parcel remains a separate piece from under the jurisdiction of ocii. ocii was formed as a successor to the redevelopment agency which dissolved in 2012 and as part of ocii s long-term prompt management plan, it guides the dispostion of certain redevelopment property and under the plan, ocii must transfer this addition of adam rogers to the city and county of san francisco. staff brought this potential acquisition before prozac back in february of 2017, where they nancy recommendeunanimously reco had. they recommend occi to ensure the department owns the entirety of adam rogers park and title. no cost for this property transfer and maureen munsen has joined me today and also available for question. thank you. thank you. is there any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed.
i ll ask the chief to give his report first, and then we will call line item 2 next before we move on to the d.p.a. report. so with that, i turn it over to you, chief. thank you, president, vice president, commission, and executive director henderson. i start off today s report with a summary of our crime trends for the week. as of january 13, our overall crimes are down 21% year to date. and i just want to remind everybody we are very early in the year, so these percentages usually change pretty drastically through the year. with that our total property crimes are down 23%. we ve continued to have fewer reported incidents in all categories, with the exception of arson which has increased 22% year to date. our burglaries are down 31% and our auto burglaries are down 21% when compared to 2019. when compared to year 2017, we re down 38%. our total violent crimes are down. specifically drivewaysing homicides, we had no homicides this past week, and a total of one for 2019. tha