San francisco. We can do both we have done both the data makes that clear this is to be thats why day is to o so significant i remember 8 years ago and all with ed lee form mayor and form supervisor malia connecticut and police and our form chief and thank you for being here today chief sir. We came out clapping. during a very difficult time. There were a number of photos who were out ranldz a number of challenges to this department faced. And the fact is at the time and though we miss president obama his department of justice put out 200 plus to improve we adapted that and worked with the california doj to implement those recommendations first through xavier used to be the California Attorney general and now others continuing through that process so much has happened a lot of outrage and frustration many of you know i grew up[in a community where trust between people in our community and Law Enforcement was challenging what i appreciate most about what this day means today how far wev
Wont continue the great work to balance the reforms we need to implement as well as making sure we focus on Public Health for San Francisco. We can do both we have done both the data makes that clear this is to be thats why day is to o so significant i remember 8 years ago and all with ed lee form mayor and form supervisor malia connecticut and police and our form chief and thank you for being here today chief sir. We came out clapping. during a very difficult time. There were a number of photos who were out ranldz a number of challenges to this department faced. And the fact is at the time and though we miss president obama his department of justice put out 200 plus to improve we adapted that and worked with the california doj to implement those recommendations first through xavier used to be the California Attorney general and now others continuing through that process so much has happened a lot of outrage and frustration many of you know i grew up[in a community where trust between
Wont continue the great work to balance the reforms we need to implement as well as making sure we focus on Public Health for San Francisco. We can do both we have done both the data makes that clear this is to be thats why day is to o so significant i remember 8 years ago and all with ed lee form mayor and form supervisor malia connecticut and police and our form chief and thank you for being here today chief sir. We came out clapping. during a very difficult time. There were a number of photos who were out ranldz a number of challenges to this department faced. And the fact is at the time and though we miss president obama his department of justice put out 200 plus to improve we adapted that and worked with the california doj to implement those recommendations first through xavier used to be the California Attorney general and now others continuing through that process so much has happened a lot of outrage and frustration many of you know i grew up[in a community where trust between
Item number three. I know we understand the importance of the work here, but certainly the recent incident in can kansas city is glaring, the foot ball player is a tragedy. I talked on the radio about it and talked about it at the club with the young men and women. That is certainly on my mind and not that we need more focus but certainly thats why were here. Thank you. I just want to reiterate the women that came forward there has been substantial changes in the way Domestic Violence cases are prosecuted and vghtded. You will hear more about that but when i started out there was Domestic Violence department and it was in the general Works Department and now there are victim advocates. We have come a long way and one of the things the article says you need to bring Families Together for financial reasons and other reasons and those are the reasons that hold people in battered relationships and when the police come the first time its not the first time it happened and people need to be
All of the Community Agencies have come together. Thank you very much. So i will touch on some of the trends and recommendations that were seeing from the Domestic Violence perspective. Domestic violence has been worked on much longer in San Francisco at a policy level and you will see that reflected in the numbers, but again when you combine elder abuse and child abuse and Domestic Violence its San Franciscos most reported crime, Family Violence. So you will see that still the majority of the calls that are coming in thank you come in to the community. As many of you know, and as the president of the Police Commission said its rarely the first time by the time the police are called or there is a criminal justice response and not Everyone Wants a criminal justice response so we are proud to be part of a community that speaks over 60 languages; that operates crisis l shelters and Legal Services for over 30 years and we are very proud of that. We are very proud of the probably 20 years,