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Recently, certainly not in the last 10 years. Im not offhand aware of a case where theres been a criminal charge. Not in my memory. Not mine either. Okay. And then with the firearm discharge review board, you included a list of the composition of that board. And i wanted to ask if theres any changes in that composition. I remember a couple months ago we did talk with the chief, some of us, about including someone from training and potentially from tactics. I wondered if that is in here. This reflects the current structure. So, there havent been any changes. This varies a little bit from the ge...

Our positions. As i mentioned, you know about 89 of our budget is personnel. So, its important to look at as our sworn fte. Last year, we have 22 13 positions, sworn positions budgeted. Next year we will be at 22 01, which seems a little downtowner intuitive, but we are in a major hiring initiatives. And the reason for that is is that we have more people retiring than we have hiring right now. Civilian positions are going on, part of our recivilianization plan getting officers back to do patrol duties, and having civil yens be at headquarters basically. There is a breakdown of the airport and ...

With 20 pedestrian deaths recording in San Francisco. We have seen an unprecedented number of accidents along with enforcement and better infrastructure education is a need to prevent these injuries. Im hoping to get started the education piece within the next month or so. In district seven we wanted to do some pilot program. We are asking students in our Public Schools to participate as crossing guards. Right now there is two schools that have shown a strong interest and we are hoping to take it off. Why i was interested in doing that is really the education piece where you start educating ch...

People think its about driving, but its speed. 60 percent of the injuries occur in intersection. Our public needs to be aware of this. Too often people are not yielding to oncoming pedestrians. We need a shift that will require everyone to Pay Attention to the streets. San francisco is ranked as having the highest total rates of fatalities and major injuries to pedestrians and bicyclist by both vehicle miles and by population. I know we can do better. We are a city that knows how to do things so lets get it done. This will call on the Transportation Authority to convene a working group of Pede...

Driver. So thats my attempt. And what we are finding out and maybe everybody might know this, but for people that dont know this, speed is responsible for 10 times the number of pedestrian injuries in San Francisco, more than driving under the influence. A lot of people think its about driving, but its speed. 60 percent of the injuries occur in intersection. Our public needs to be aware of this. Too often people are not yielding to oncoming pedestrians. We need a shift that will require everyone to Pay Attention to the streets. San francisco is ranked as having the highest total rates of fatal...