through the Chair. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I am vernelle Newsome, the commander of the sixth precinct, and if I could, sir, introduce my staff. With me tonight is CAPTAIN SHANNON Hampton, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Charles Gregory, in charge of my detective unit, Sergeant Lee Brown, my MPO sergeant and my staff sergeant Brandon Pierce, just to give you a little background of the service area that we're responsible for in the sixth precinct. Currently, we cover 16 schools in the precinct, one high school, Cody High School. We cover approximately 14.2 square miles, which is encompass inside of 12 Scout car areas and approximately 80,000 residents and citizens. We are a very aggressive in our and our commitment to the community, and we have a strategy and a plan in place that we believe that will provide resources and also exchange in the community. And as I break the numbers down and talk about that, we'll cover that as well. First off, just to give you a report card for the bi annual numbers here, but the sixth precinct, year to date, that will cover the homicides. We've had four homicides for this year. Last year we had 16, which represents 75% decrease. In sex crimes. There were 19 sex crimes this year, 41 last year, representing 53.7% we're down in robberies this year as well with 58 last year at 70 which is a 17.4% decrease aggravated assaults. We are down, and we're currently at 56 561 I'm sorry, last year there were 682 representing 17.7% the total reduction in part one violent crime for year to date is 21.8% representing we are currently at 648, part one violent crimes moving on to property, some of our pain in the back, if you will, burglaries, larceny both down 17% and 18% at burglaries at 195 year to date, last year was 235 larcenies, which include a lot of our porch pirates, if you Will. At 430 last year was 527 reduction of 18.4% motor vehicle theft. I've been a I work Commercial Auto Theft for 18 years, and Imma tell you, I've never seen numbers like these. Currently for motor vehicle theft, six precinct is down 21.8% representing 340 theft this year compared to last year. At 435 I was doing a time when auto theft was 31,000 theft in the city of Detroit. Oh, that is definitely an accomplishment for us. And overall for part one, property crimes, we have a reduction of 20.5% in non fatal shootings. We're looking pretty good there as well, with 48% reduction for the year, at 26 versus 50 last year, and we have a 35% closure rate with the rest this year. So we're looking very well there, our carjackings are at 50% reduction compared to last year, where this year we're at six. Last year we're at 12. Currently, there are no trends to report. However, we are taking measures to combat the block parties and drag racing, as the deputy chief indicated, and the sixth precinct also has a contingency in the park areas. Knowing that River Rouge is one of our one of the largest parks in the city of Detroit, we are staffing that and doing a great job at it is I can say thank you. At the beginning of the year, there were two cameras, portable cameras, that were deployed in River Rouge is kind of helping us and supporting us in what we're calling virtual patrol. So there have been no incidents in river roads. To date, that's the beginning of the summer, moving right along, going right into the strategy for the sixth precinct. We have a five point strategy first, it involves community engagement that's at all levels. We engage the community at each level so that we can get the bang for our buck and get the bang give that bang right back. That includes our community groups, block clubs, our CB patrol way to go, warrendale. We have also commitment from our stakeholders and just a number of collaborations in the community helping us to reach the areas where we just haven't made contact yet. And some of those entities would include our CVI groups, Detroit, 304th Detroit, also the chaplain Corps, and I must say that Chaplain Mobley the left, but Chaplain mo Mobley and his team are instrumental in helping us when we respond to scenes that are critical, scenes and and people need just more than the police assistance. They come out and they help with prayer and and counseling. Second piece for our strategy is going to be target enforcement. We do a great job with that, and just to give you some results from that, our strategy, target enforcement, had netted us this year, 245 guns taken off the street this year. That's 245 the men and women in blue are busy in the sixth precinct, another constant complaint that I received as commander in the precinct, and actually been commander at several different precinct, precincts on the west side, one of the biggest complaints that I received is traffic. So far this year, we've written 10,694 tickets in the sixth precinct. So I'd like to give kudos to the men and women in blue there at the sixth precinct, we've made 1110 arrests, felony arrests. So we are busy. We are engaged also. Now I can't go without saying our community involvement. I'm proud to say that because of our community abroad involvement, we just started yesterday, three new community groups, community block clubs, and two of them are here tonight. Pardon brown can speak to that, but we have two that that are in attendance tonight. Moving along, we have partnerships with Michigan Department of Corrections, Wayne County Sheriff's Office, who assist us with Park enforcement and with our prostitution stings. We also share and collaborate with Michigan DNR also to help us in the parks. And again, our CVI groups are constantly out there. They're constantly engaged. We had a barber shop meeting, if you will, where the community was invited, and the CVI for Detroit, they were there. They were instrumental in the communication. And it was a success for that. We also, at the sixth precinct share a unique relationship with West Side command teams,