pick statistics during the pandemic. we know all of us are living through historically challenging times. the covid-19 pandemic dramatically changed everything about how we live our lives, how we investigate and prosecute crime and even changed the kinds of crimes that are occurring in san francisco and across the country. we launched a retail theft task force specifically to focus on more effective and more efficient ways to intervene in disrupting organized retail theft. the fact is as you look at my charging rates in 2021 after the pandemic settled down, we're charging rates at a higher number than current district attorneys in other counties around the bay area and at higher rates than my predecessor in 2018 or 2019. so we're doing everything we can and we need police to continue to make arrests and to bring us higher quality investigations. take the incident in union square a couple days ago. we know that more than 30 individuals were involved and the reality is only eight of