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Critical and necessary changes that we have the Critical Response to the Domestic Violence in San Francisco and let me just give you a few of those highlights etch of which is not more important than the other and each stands alone with great importance. And one, we have been able to achieve the greater accountability for Domestic Violence, offenders and working with the probation department, and and the others to achieve this end and we have exexpanded Language Access for Domestic Violence surv...

And we work together, and it was lucasa and do an excellent job to help everybody navigate that system. Greg suhr and the department and to make the tough decision and help every day and they save lives and help the Community Heal and they help all of us stay connected that is what part of the justice is. And the next one and mary and we have a family friend here today who will talk to you about bary and we are beginning this process begin with her family, and so while we did go 44 months, we do...

And now, it is having suffered three, even though we are in a record low, homicide, here, almost ten percent and better than ten percent of the homicides that have occurred in San Francisco, have been Domestic Violence related. And we continue to provide the assessment for the training for the Police Officers and increased the limited accomplish training because we dont want somebodys inbility to communicate in english to be a deter and we want to insure that all survivors that San Francisco is ...

Supervisor, served for many years on the partnership and the domestic abuse, board of directors. Please help me to welcome president chiu. Thank you, dr. Murase. And i want to thank all of you who are here tonight, representing the beautiful diversety that is San Francisco. And we are asian, we are latino, we are white, we are black, and tonight, we stand together wearing the color purple. A color that represents the bruises, that we all want to see ended some day. I am proud to be here represen...

President of the Police Commission, loftus, and many others, help me Welcome Police chief greg suhr. Thank you and on every marked Police Vehicle in the San Francisco Police Department there is one Bumper Sticker and on the back of every single car as you see the Police Vehicles traveling around and it simply says that there is no excuse for Domestic Violence. And because, there is not. And much has been made in the National Media about how come this happened and that happened and how about just...

Lacency it is against the values of human rights, we stand with the men, women and children that are victims and survivors of Domestic Violence. We stand with our Community Justice partners, and victims advocates, and the community to bring to light the issue of Domestic Violence, and in order to keep it out of the shadows. And we stand with you, to help victims find a voice, safety, and shelter. And adult, probation, stands with you to foster a culture of justice, and support, for the victims a...

Thank you for being here. Through whatever you are passionate about, service will improve your life as well as the lives of everybody that you serve. Thank you again, for being here, for paying attention to this. And thank you to mary. For her inspiration. Thank you, so much, nicole and we also honor the memory of lewis and her family, who are here as beverly mentioned and next we will be hearing from the adult probation, director crystal tuluc who is here on behalf of the adult probation chief,...

Hopefully, we will be a part of their education and they will adopt what we do here today, and they will look forward and they will see, not only 44 months, but they will see 44 years of no Domestic Violence, how about that for our kids . [ applause ] i also want to give a shout out to everybody who worked on this justice and encourage panel that was started some 12 years ago. When we asked them to assemble to go through all of the work that we have not done and what we should do, and the privat...

Next, please help me to welcome, someone who represents the heart of this community, my dear friend, beverly upton. I am so honored to be with everybody today. This work goes on, and it is difficult but it goes on. What does it take to shine a light on Domestic Violence . What does the city have to have . Well, tonight we will see that it is going to have city hall lighting up purple. But what does it really have to have at its heart . It has to have leadership and it has to have justice and it ...

Level of migration, and sometimes by the time that the police and we get there, there is very little that can be done. And unfortunately that is not only bad for the family, it is bad for our community and it is bad. And you know, i have saw this before and you know, i have used it and i am stealing this work from everyone else and i heard once that a few, engaged in Domestic Violence in your home and you are almost guaranteeing that your sons, will grow up, to be abusive themselves and end up i...