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Were brought up i want to give the chief a chance to be responsive in the office of citizen complaints maybe makes more sense to to do that in your report chief because thats what were doing next on the agenda im sorry sir i closed Public Comment. I can reopen it. No. Im sorry sir Public Comment is closed. Next line item. 5 b chief if if i can just start. The issues that i think would be helpful is obviously there is an open investigation from the occ so im happy if theres anything you want to share director hicks the issue that was brought up by a couple of our speakers and the members of the...

Because we know that you have a great relationship, or at least, you know on the distribution better than most. Your mayor brought you here. You have twice monthly meetings with your police chief. But for someone whos starting not from a good a position of, you know relatively good relations, i think maybe there are some more concrete things you can say about how you let it start with the union representative. And if you could give us ideas about a strategy, that would be useful, at least for me to hear. Like getting your membership on board or something. I dont know how you do that. Its a fai...

Over 146 officer fatalities per year. That is a shocking number. One officer killed somewhere in america every 60 hours. All right. But the good news is that numbers are going down. If you go back to the 1970s we were averaging 231 officers killed in the line of duty each and every year. That means the 146 number i cited is 37 lower than it was 40 years ago. That is at a time we have double number of officers serving and putting themselves at risk. Would you have expected that number would have gone up, not down. There are a number of factors that are responsible for that and i have enumerated...

And [inaudible] street very close to where the mother was shot last week and just that morning my husband was dropping me off at bart and we had a conversation where i said you know this is the reality of where we live and i dont want to be afraid to go out you know and my husband said you know you are really not a target you know you are you really shouldnt worry and i said thats not easy to say and i get the Police Reports and i know that innocent people are you know bullets come through their walls its not just people people who arent where they are supposed to be i mean this is 4 oclock in...

A video camera there were kids gambling right in front of my how my house 15 to 20 people if i tell them to move one of them threatened me want to shoot me you know and then the police came right away when i call and want me to identify the person and im afraid for my safety so i wouldnt come out so i just want to you to be aware that theres a lot of activity going on on on casad on casada and third and im even afraid to drive around that corner. Thank you. Thank you for taking the time to come. Next speaker . Ill try to keep my composure i didnt expect to say anything today my husband is a Pu...