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Either way its going to be dangerous. There is a lot of violence in the taggers. They get into fist fights. Ive arrested tagers with knives and brass knuckles. Ive heard stories of guns being taken off tagers. It is a violent culture or has aspects of violent culture in it. You need to educate people on that. When youre going when youre painting over someones graffiti, that could be seen as the ultimate disrespect. And you could be exposing yourself to a lot of danger. Thats one of the reasons w...

Is diminishing, when you can show them how different it can be, that suddenly makes Good Business sense to them and theyll dedicate the resources to you. So, thats whats worked for me. applause anybody else up there . Everybody okay with that answer . I think were pretty grateful here in San Francisco that we have a mayor that was actually the director of the department of public works. So, we know hes totally on top of it and involved. Do you have another question . This isnt geared towards any...

[speaker not understood]. Do we have anybody up there . We have one pioneer over here thats willing to take on that one. By the way, is that oakland, that accent . [laughter] i guess from my perspective, it never hurts to ask. We have a huge variety of sponsors. For example rona who is like a lowes or home depot who is supplying or providing paint. They are a sponsor of my program. So, they provide me a 45 discount on paint as well as they give me a 25 discount coupon that we give to everybody. ...

I dont want them babysitting me. But i never go in alone again. I carry some protection. I get a threevehicle escort. Our Police Department is all behind this. I use magnetic signs on my vehicle now and i always wear a safety vest. Never go alone. We set up five different conditions to do that so we never have a repeat. Its not worth it. Hes from hayward. Hes in hayward and im going to come over to gideon unless anybody else there has a response to this. Gideon if youd like to stand up. Id like ...

Is going up or down, it has to do with how effective you can make your programming. The graffiti Audit Program we have come up with, we looked everywhere to see if there was anybody doing any type of Statistical Analysis on graffiti vandalism in cities and we werent able to find any so the model you will see is we worked with Mark Mckinney and management and worked as a team to see how we could view how graffiti affects the city. These audits are designed to be repeatable from year to year. We h...

Remained fairly consistent from the beginning of the program. Although the percentage of how much graffiti they have has gone down. What were finding, too, is that while the reduction in the graffiti over all was very minimal this year, we saw huge swings in the amount of graffiti vandalism by neighborhood. So the gardineau neighborhood in 2011 had a 77 percent decrease, we saw a 200 percent increase in the neighborhood. That is telling me these are the priority neighborhoods through this year w...

Whats a good direction . [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. Basically the task force, theyll put together and try to convince the citizens something is happening, then it will go away. Its no longer a political issue. What turned the corner for us, we had a mayor go out during one of our zero tolerance on blight mayor. She went out on a clean up day. The people from the Better Business bureau went with they are and started dragging her through the streets and started showing her...

So. [speaker not understood]. Hold on a second. Let me come over here so you can restate the first part of your question again if i could get you to stand up and well talk to the San Francisco Police Department here. First part of my question was perhaps more urgent. We represent this table, and over here oakland california. And youre aware of the violent nature in that city. Of course, yeah. What im concerned with is you have do gooders and theyre painting out something that the nortenas have p...

Where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesnt rollover. You definitely want to have this in a noncombustible surface. Now, here we have our stove. After a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook . Well, i wouldnt recommend cooking inside of the house. You have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. So it wouldnt be safe to use your fireplace to cook . Not at first. You should check it b...

Call it, what glue do i use. We have to be looking at strategies more on the prevention end. Are we using motion cameras, lighting, sprinkler systems, relandscaping, fencing. The more we do, the more successful were going to be. On the preventive end well have a quick question, hear from chuck and i know there is a gentleman over there that has had his hand up. Go ahead, chuck. We have an Award Winning Mural Program in the city of hayward, but we have one real strong block and thats dealing with...