Games. We got farmers markets. All going on. All going on on this saturday morning and really not a bad saturday morning to do anything outside. Sunday, maybe a little different. Again, a few sprinkles possible mainly to the south. Talking about northern neck, even south of fredericksburg, re but it youtraveling especially Virginia Beach and North Carolina, thats where yoh d into rain as the frontal system draped itself across North Carolina right now. H rain well to south, but eventually that rain moves to the north. Peeks of sunshine for u closer to home. Again, well have clouds out there today and i think mainly clouds out there, but, again, so. E sun at times 60s and low 70s. Cool out in the shenandoah valley. Made need a light jacket this morning. 82, headed to that, the breezy side and rain to the south. Stays sew the south. Gardening tips today, butterflies actively laying eggs on milkweed, theclusive food store. Plant these to get a little mort brfly action. Rain is coming tomo
We started the center to give you the quick general background. It is the center that gathers together a bunch of different faculties from across the campus and also different departments that work on religion and collect in one place. And produce a set of programs that are public that people can come to on all sorts of different topics and religions spanning from the very beginning of recorded history until the present time. Berkeley is a place that has always had a tremendous range of different kinds of scholars. And has never had a collection point for bringing energies together. The berkeley study of religion is that. We started it in 2012. That is the fourth or fifth year of real programming. It has been growing strong ever since. It is the first time there has been a real dedicated project on a religion all religion institution. We are proud of the kinds of things were putting together. That is what is exciting here. You are a professor of history. And focused on the protestant r
They took away a lot of my thunder because a lot of what they say was what i was going to go over. We are making a lot of headway in the short time that i have been involved. That is a good thing. It is important to know that from what i have seen our department does really reflect our community. We have approximately 400 officers that speak some type of foreignlanguage. Of that 400 or so, most of them, we have 173 that speak spanish, 81 are certified; 91 cantonese speakers, 60 certified; 20 mandarin, 9 certified, 7 russian, 6 certified, 39 tagalog and 5 vietnamese. There is no lag time to getting information on any type of crime occurring. We do use landline with an interpreter is not available, that is the card. Most of the language services, including interpretation, we had 1800 calls that required interpretation of language services, most of that was spanis, with about 1060, second was cantonese, with about 400 calls. Sometimes, you may be underreported, it can be a lot higher if n
If we can stream that its a great call. I am not sure how the civilian part is; for officers it is scenariobased. Commissioner chan. Commissioner chan i am reminded of what assistant District Attorney jean rolan said, the importance of maintaining trust. From the moment an officer and an inspector encounters the victim. I think the transformation that the department has had, president chu, i want to commend you for your work that started in 1998, none of this happened by accident. The moment that someone who does not speak english it is important for us to keep the safety net going for victims in the city. I want to thank everyone for their leadership to get to this point in my question is, we talked about this a few weeks ago before the police commission. I think you are doing a great outreach to the community. Obviously part of my concern that talk about over the last few weeks is in light of recent events in the city. The concern is that women who dont speak english or are living in
To get the process moving more quickly. On the street patrol officers, theyre using their own cell phones to call Language Line. On a real level of equipment, officers need a better way to ask his Language Line. We are working with the department and think outside of the box. Bilingual officers use digital recorders because of Department Requires them to tape interviews with victims, witnesses and suspects. The department was able to provide 50 digital recorders. We need more. Let me turn this over to deputy chief beal, a vital member of our team. I dont know if i am a vital member of the group. I was assigned to represent the chief on this group. Is and as i walked in the door that day and saw the members of the group i knew that i was in trouble. I knew the group was going to be extremely motivated, extremely directed, i immediately began getting homework assignments from these women. Its a great cause. I was glad to help. Upon request i reissued Department Goals to have officers app