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So, you really act as a good communicator and facilitator in the program from a Law Enforcement background. And the grant we get through public works really allows us to run effectively. Great, thank you. [speaker not understood]. Let me come on over here. Whats your question . Okay. [speaker not understood]. Ive gotten three years of knowledge [speaker not understood]. My question is this. How am i going to get the police department, how am i going to get city council theyre partially on board, but some of our people in public works are here today. How can i convey to them that im not a nut e...

I introduce jennifer nelson, we introduced her before. applause a lot of you have talked to her already. She will be working with the speakers on stage. And id like to introduce jim merkasio with the San Francisco graffiti advisory board. He will be the phil donahue. I hand you the microphone. Ill hold onto it. I believe the way were planning to do this, we have some written questions that we will be reading off and the panel will be answering them. Ill also be taking questions from the audience. So, if anybody has a question, feel free to raise your hand. Allow me to have time to get over the...

Person, like someone youre looking into so they dont get suspicion us . Oh, yeah. [speaker not understood] was saying, dont [speaker not understood]. Youre exactly right. Once you start friending about 10 people because, again, dont do more than like 10 a day. Try to get friends. Let their friends request you and you say, accept, accept, accept. Accept everybody on there. Because thats how it shows you have credibility. And then the other thing is you do have to put some pictures up. So, you know, some thing can be a little more abstract with it, but, again, dont use your own city. Dont use a ...

Have this piece of graffiti on our property and i dont feel its a nuisance and im not going to remove it . And we havent had any problems actually whatsoever with our graffiti by law being challenged. How the by law works is that our by law officers, any graffiti that comes up is at their discretion. So, whether they determine what is on the property is a nuisance and it allows us to keep our Mural Programs running. It allows us to look at individual situations. Early on we had one situation where there was a Property Owner dispute between two neighbors where one had painted a sunflower on her...

For probation officers. This is done through a public grant. Its a very effective program. We have been able to turn a lot of kids around, restore justice. We get a lot of positive feedback from the community, a lot of other officers are happy to get the overtime. And as an officer, youre really able to facilitate the program well because you are able to put on a lot of different hats, communicate with probation, you communicate with Traffic Court judges, with Community Referral center, and with station personnel. So, you really act as a good communicator and facilitator in the program from a ...