complexity of the covered entity and the size and scope of the covered entity and the consumer financial information to be protected. .. >> based on your what you quoted, that sounds right but as i said we believe you need to

look at the regulatory environment as it existed and work within the. the debate today is about how do we pass a law that can provide businesses moral clarity and the ability to evolve with the threats. i don't think the objective should be a shoehorn law that was written for one industry to apply to an entire -- >> i don't think that's what this law does according to want to just read. i think it clearly states that provisions in their reflect the size, complexity to the nature and scope. it personalizes it. integrates that flexibility. >> i appreciate your focus because we agree with the need for the flexibility. we simply are looking at the proposal in its entirety and it's hard to separate things out without talking about how it would affect when it's all merged together. >> thank you and yield back. >> the chair now recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts who did not steal mr. mulvaney's credit card in his hypothetical

mr. lynch is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the. i want to thank the witnesses for their testimony. ms. moy come on the question of federal preemption, when we talk about complete federal preemption, which i got a federal standard and at least as far as this legislation goes we are talking about federal enforcement as well. that's been taken away from the attorneys general of the state. and even further, it looks like the notification for breach would be taken away from the fec and given to the ftc. so we are consolidating that as well. and as well it might involve i'm not sure if i'm getting this correct. if we have a federal standard and a retailer or a basis compliance with the federal

standard, does that apply some type of immunity for that individual retailer if they're complying with what the feds require? is about also holding them harmless from any liability? >> i'm sorry communing in an environment where there is, what this creates a floor and not a ceiling and states continue to have -- >> well, this would be a complete obliteration. total preemption. you have one standard. you can call it, it would be a ceiling. would be a ceiling. is that implying some type of immunity or protection from liability for the complying company? >> yeah, i mean, company would then only be liable if come as a would be held liable under the federal law. any additional obligations of a state law that appraises existed would no longer be actively enforced. >> this legislation that would

be problematic because, as your testimony indicated, it only recognizes financial arm, right? there's a trigger actually there's a financial harm trigger. i think there's also a trigger for very narrow set of personal information. >> actually i'm not sure if there is a i thought that is under the impression that the financial trigger applies to everything but perhaps you're right. i'll take a look at that. >> if i may, the provisions of the bill of 2205 also provide perturbatent identity theft as well as financial and. >> right, yes, but many states as i noted in my written testimony have either no harm trigger at all recognizing that consumers want to be notified of the breach of certain classes of information and want to go to safeguard that information regardless of whether they could be used for identity theft or financial harm equipment and states have either no trigger

portrait of that is broader than just financial in nature. >> one of the problems i have is about this introduces a federal standard, and it takes out the states. massachusetts happens to be very robust consumer protection privacy framework that i think will be harmed. we've been blessed with attorneys general that have been very active in defending consumers. and some of those cases as you pointed out i think the average case of breach in massachusetts, we have 2400 last year but the average size was about 70 for consumers. that's not the type of thing that the fec is going to go after come in my opinion. >> that's right and that's why we think it's a critically important if we want to ensure that all consumers are protected by federal standard. it's really important to have as many people keeping an eye on what's happening with breaches

and working with companies to develop their security stand and working with consumers to respond after their information has been breached and to watch out for potential harm that could be coming down the pipe. pipe. it's important to have the involvement of the state ag's in all about. >> if we dashed if we didn't do scum and i'm in favor of introducing a very high for across the board that i think we did some some may be close to 40 states, but i would like to have that flexibility for states that coming up on comp they are more flexible. congress is not known for its speed at all, and funding to states out there with the ability to provide additional protections especially in the face of the sophistication of some of these hackers is very very important, in my mind. there is some income grew to in this bill. talks about a federal standard, but then it says every covered entity will be responsible for

adopting a system of security protection that is commensurate with their size, their complexity. the gentleman from north carolina just brought this up in a different context, but how do we deal with that where the pizza shop a coffee shop, a bank, banks are a different class but each and every company is going to be able to write size of the level of protection. but in reality that stream of information that is breached may not be compartmentalized. >> i'm sorry, what do you mean by the information may not be compartmentalized? i'm sorry. >> if they hack into your e-mail enter password, that opens up all of the door of information that they can access it might not be readily evident, you know, based on where they entered the stream of information. >> right, sort. may i just respond to --

>> very briefly. >> i would say there are certainly login credentials that can be, because people recycle passwords, can be used across the counts and that's an important reason. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the chair recognizes the gentleman from california, mr. royce, chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. >> drama. there's been a lot of discussion about the current liability, what it looks like or i guess one of the question is what it should look like it if i could ask governor pawlenty i had a question here. whinny data breach occurs how should we allocate financial responsibility for the breach? for example, if a breach of sensitive customer information workers at a financial institution and it's shown that the institution did not protect the customer information as gramm-leach-bliley requires, do you agree that a financial institution should be responsible for the cost of the breach? >> congressman royce, yes. we believe that the entity that

was negligent or entities, portal, should be responsible for the negligence. >> governor, should the same be true of the merchant? if there's a breach with a high likelihood of harm being done to the consumer, should the merchant to be responsible for the costs associated with that bridge to the extent that the entity has not met minimum security requirements speak with congressman royce, absolutely. >> mr. dodge, i would ask you if you agree on that point. >> i would tell you that we do agree because that is what happens today. today merchants are obligated if they have a breach by contract signed with the card networks to reverse the banks of the piece of software because. in addition to the teeth they do everyday, every time he couldn't action which obligated to prevent the fraud if it happens or even if it doesn't happen. those fees are being paid constantly. >> the next question i'm going to ask governor pawlenty does come it's been proposed by some

that consumers should receive notification of a data breach directly from the company that was breached even if they have no relationship with the company. wouldn't a simpler solution be to allow the notice to come from the company that the consumer gave their financial information to directly while also find allowing the company to identify where the breach occurred, if it is known? is my understanding that there's currently no law, no contractual obligation that would preclude a financial institution from identifying the institution where a data breach occurred when sydney out a notification to their customer. is a better understanding as well? >> congressman royce, yes. of course, you might imagine if there's a breach it unfolds in the early hours and days with a great deal of uncertainty and sense of crisis around because people think about what they're going to say publicly in sending out notices, particularly if it

incriminates another company, you want to make very sure that you are articulating that correctly and accurately for fear of liability. i think some companies don't name names in those initial notices over some of those concerns. >> as we look at the cyber attacks and we see this increasingly as we talk to the europeans and asians governments, a lot of these are being conducted now by state-sponsored or state sanctioned entities. we actually, for example, c. individuals traveling from a certain bureau and north korea to moscow to be trained. and then we see their conduct with respect to the banking system in south korea and the attempt to implode the financial system in south korea with those direct attacks. what can or should be done in the view of some of the panel here to hold these countries accountable in situations like

this? how do we do that? >> to the extent this has evolved into an international dynamic and you have state-sponsored or semi-state-sponsored activity, the united states is going to have to respond in kind at a level of country to country discussions and potential consequences. as you may know under current law the only entity that can fire back, if you will in cyberspace is the u.s. government. private entities cannot trackback, so the deterrent or consequences for this potential can only come from the u.s. government. lastly there needs to be rules of the road internationally. we have rogue rogue states, semi-rogue states, acting recklessly come in responsibly in a very concerted fashion. what you see now in terms of payment disruption is relatively minor. the consumers get reimbursed. it's convenient, menacing concerning and you should act on that alone but compared to some not too fanciful scenarios where

the entire payment system is disrupted or another piece of critical infrastructure is disrupted, that something you need to be thinking about. >> we've seen the iranian attempts here. have you seen that in your industry? >> we are cautioned not to attribute other than what's been reported publicly but it has been reported publicly. north korea was involved in an end to come and attack was attributed to him and i think you're seeing public reports of russian or russian sponsored entities, iranian and iranian sponsored entities and on down the list. >> chairman, thank you. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the chair that recognize the gentleman from new york mr. meeks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me first i guess mr. oxman, let me ask you this question in the same line, after 9/11 we talked about having all of our intelligence agencies working closely together et cetera. and so here we talk about

preventing data breach is there are a number of entities that are concerned with your device manager fact, a network operator, financial institution or app developer. seems to me that it would be important that these entities work together to develop an effective mobile data protection solutions. and in your estimation is interesting work in a collaborative way all the interested parties doing that? what, if anything, do you think that congress can do to ensure greater collaboration so that we can make sure that everybody is working together to try to eliminate this huge problem? >> thank you congressman meeks. i think the good news is the short answer is yes. the industry is working enormously smoothly together to deploy the next generation security products and services that we need out there in the market, secure against these increase on sophisticated cyberattacks. the industry is working

collectively through standards body like pci to deploy next-generation security technologies like chip technology in cards, like tokenization to take account information out of the system. unlike encryption to secure point of entry against intrusion from cyber attacks. >> the industry as you noted is enormously complicated. it does involve a number of different players from financial institutions to payment processors, merchant, consumers, device manufacturers. as we move to new technology like mobile payments and wearables come it's going to get even more complicated. but again i think the good news is we're working very well together to deploy all these next-generation technologies because we all shared interest across the ecosystem in ensuring that our customers feel comfortable shopping at our stores and using electronic payment. as for the second part of your question, what can congress do? i think h.r. 2205 represents the ideal vehicle for addressing what we do need congresses help with, and that is unifying a

patchwork of state laws that are inconsistent and in some cases incompatible with one another to address how we let consumers know when something does go wrong. criminals are sophisticated and to keep acting the way to make sure we're all on the same page when will our customers to if something happens. that's what the congress can be helpful. >> thank you. let me ask mr. valenti. -- mr. pawlenty. i know and everything are just when you noted that emv chip card to proven very effective, and after a number of my costs switch out on them to make sure you have the chip. but one of the questions, and this happens with my daughter, et cetera, now, that they're doing more and more shopping online. people not going to the store as much ended in shopping online and it seems as though that you

are more frauds now taking place when people are doing just shopping online. can you discuss ways in which firms are innovating to prevent customers, consumers who rely more on online shopping so we can prevent fraud in that case? and again like i asked mr. oxman, ways that congress can do to ensure greater data breach protection as we move away from in store purchases. it seemed this new generation is online. my daughter will go to the store anymore. everything is online. what we can do in that regard. >> great question. as was mentioned earlier chip card took a long way toward eliminating or greater reducing card present fraud for the reasons that were mentioned earlier. so that's progress in good, and we applaud that and enthusiastically embrace it. but as we have seen in the other emv adopted countries, the fraud and shifts to the online environment. what happens of course is a jamaican order online or over the phone or the widget into your article, you're three or

four digit code and your expiration date and away you go. if i have the information from you i can make a transaction online at it let's say it is loose to put them out of the future of the in the near term is a technology platform called tokenization which allowed a transaction to occur with a unique set of data that connects comp needed data to finalize the transaction, but the personally identifiable information isn't necessarily transmitted as part of the. a token one unique system. it's coming. it's just around the corner and it's already marketed to some extent but it was or the cost is coming down, the ubiquity, becoming more ubiquitous so they'll be big part of the solution to it was invented 10 years ago so that will be something else that will come next. >> the gentleman's time has expired. that should have recognize the gentleman from maine. >> thank you, mr. chairman.

appreciated very much thank you, all you folks for being here today. i really appreciated. oxman, i know you and i both from maine, probably the safest in america we want all kinds of other folks to come up and enjoyed our state. data being sent we are not immune to folks who are stealing a credit card, credit card numbers are using a debit cards fraudulently what have you. we know there's a problem. .com is across the country to even the great state of maine. that being said one of the things i've heard this morning that i'm delighted that is that this seems to be some common ground, a lot of common ground when it comes to the fact that there is an issue with cybersecurity. we all know it's there. you folks all agree to it that even though you are from different parts of this space if you will. i've also heard from the mistaken that there's consensus that we need instead of 40 individual lines the individual laws we have one national standard or whatever larger from

each of you can start with you governor, if you don't mind. what else is on the top of your list? what else would you like to inform this committee about that would be very helpful for all the players in this space to make sure our consumers throughout the country well protected with a bank accounts credit cards and what have you? but could you advise us to do? your members are the folks on the critic you're much closer to this problem than we could ever be. please tell us. >> that's a great question. you think about notification. it helps notify people there was a problem and i wanted to clean up the mess. that's little consolation for people of the mess visited upon them. it's hopeful. as to standards that will help as people raise their gang i think this entire space is going to evolve in a very interesting improperly disruptive fashion over the next 10 years the things we talked about it at the entrance of technology platforms will look very differently 10 years from now but i don't think we'll be walking around with

pieces of plastic intends. the whole thing is shifting increasingly mobile and other ways to make payments. i what is going to come from the technology sector, big changes and the changes. >> mr. dodge? >> i've got some attention is being paid to collaboration because i think that's an important outcrop from these catastrophes this focus. lester we collaborate with financial services roundtable electronic transactions association, with whole bunch of merchant and financial service associations to talk about these challenges to try to find common ground. collaborationist that is what into threat information sharing where businesses can share threat information to the rising tide. the ability to see a threat, share with others which is on how you. congratulate congress to pass legislation on the last month. one of the things we look towards is how do we enhance security to the 21st century

and beyond. car ticketed today is weak. and needs to improve. is a half step on the calendar for later this year but it's only a half step. we really want to see congress focus on that and we want to see the business community that's responsible for creating those cards to focus on as well. >> mr. oxman stick with i'm excited about the changes in technology we're seeing and if there's one thing for the committee to be aware of is there is no need for an inquiry into the technology because the industry is working together to deploy it. my first job was as a bank teller, the summer after first year in college in the heart of the second district of maine and a hot technology back then in the '80s was the atm machines. today, consumers can buy things with her watch. it's amazing what's happening out there. i think the good news is from carcasses perspective the industry is deploy the technology safely, securely and reliably and we will get it done

done. >> these pieces of technology that are much more tempting develop much were quickly that i can understand, now today with goods and services you buy online through a mobile device. do you see any problems coming down the road with those types of technology or is that was going to go or what where it should go come in european newspapers this kind of technology is incredibly exciting particularly because it allows us to develop more robust security along side. the way to think about it is it's been the means of implementing a payment transaction initiating the transaction using your watch or phone instead of plastic card. that watch or vote on whatever device it is has many more security capabilities to it in the plastic card. it's a good thing for consumers. >> mr. orfei and lester in this country go down this path will continue to work on this problem and find solutions to are we not exposing consumers incomes and business to more cyber risk

if. this edifice and other developed countries, parts of world art ahead of us because the answer that question? i think the technology is going to evolve and we will have good it is, particularly mobile will be the future payments but i think what's key is this information sharing effort that's in progress right now. been able to collect information, translated so is actionable intelligence and then that will allow us to preempt attacks from organized crime, rogue states and state-funded actors. >> thank you all very much. thank you, mr. chairman. yield my time. >> the gentleman from georgia mr. scott, is recognized for five minutes. >> governor pawlenty government like for you to address this and others can chip in as well but with the challenge for our migration of the emv chip technology in the united states basically due by october 15 why

are you was consumers only now receiving the chip cards when consumers in europe and canada have had them for many years? why are we behind the eight ball? >> there is some unique history as relates to how europe got to where it is relating to technology, their documentation system, how do data processing how it works relative wrote to do we did in the united states. to some of your i would say the transition from what we had to but we need and where we are headed next is a very big transition. think about the millions and millions and millions of point of sale terminals that would have to be chip ready. right now only about 25% of retailers can even take a chip card subject to flip over their point-of-sale systems, backroom system. the banks had to do the same so it's a massive transition. when we benefited from it being done earlier?

probably but we are where we are and that which is to be done as quickly as possible. this is highlighted the urgency of it. >> now, since then such a brain trust of cybersecurity before us in this distinguished panel, i want to shift for a moment. are you satisfied, and how would you describe the national security threat to our country as a result of cybersecurity as a national security issue? i think it's one we really, really have to deal with. and how would you relate that particularly when we've had attacks on our cybersecurity from china russia, from iran north korea isis, al-qaeda other terrorists, now our military bases are being put on

heightened terrorist attack alerts at the level we haven't seen since 9/11. what is it that we need to do more, and how do you address and how do you rate this thread at its present time as a national security issue? governor pawlenty, or any of you. >> i would rate it as a clear and present danger. that's what i said what i said earlier but i think for particularly folks who are on the side of the aisle, it's not as comfortable to say we'll just do something different uniform or across the country but i think this is elevated not just the card processing but many other aspects to a national security issue. we have no identifiable threats to critical infrastructure of this country that would impair not just the economy the health and well being of our citizens if they are deployed to any sort

of scale. and so it is a clear and present national security threat that i think needs to be addressed with the kind of urgency and a kind of seriousness and that kind of weight behind it. >> and congressman scott, it is a question to answer largely by technology. thank you for your leadership and taking accountable in the congressional payment technology caucus. because technology companies including many from the great state of georgia, are out either deployed systems to secure networks against intrusion. and there is no question that the payments industry is focused relentlessly on this because the secure networks and the reliability of networks and systems is why consumers choose electronic payments as their preferred method of engaging in commerce and we need to make sure that remains a confidence factor for consumers. >> and mr. oxman how ready willie the? october is right around the

corner. pashtun how ready are we going to be? what are your expectations? how we set that date? is it accomplishable? >> congressman scott, the migration connect over to the chip cards is a date that we've sent as a milestone, and it a lot of work to do. 1.2 billion cards and consumers wallets need to be replaced. more than 8 million merchants and u.s. need to upgrade their systems under to accept chip card. that's going to take some time. will they be completely finished by october? no, we won't be all done but we will be largely better and most important lead the industry is entirely unified in recognizes the importance of making this infrastructure upgrade. we are doing it, working together, merchants can financial institutions, payments companies and consumers and we're going to get it done. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman and now the gentleman from arkansas

mr. hill, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank the panel for your being with us this morning. on ms. mullaney's ms. mahoney's comments about gramm-leach and impact on banks have the right a kennedy bank for the entire history of gramm-leach its existence, i do think it was flexible into standards when it comes to examination and practice both in scope of this and not so i think that's something that's worked well in the financial services industry. one question i have unlike the pale compared to is what role does liability insurance coverage play? i know in our company we took out the coverage at the very modest premium for notification coverage which was sort of what was recommended by the underwriters i didn't find it very compelling or particularly

useful, but in a large breach its orbit would be helpful to pay out of pocket expenses. but what's happened in the liability coming on insurance coverage is for our entities beyond that? i mean come what standard are they setting when they come to underwrite a retailer? let's start with you mr. dodge about data breach. is a mathematical lost potential for one of your members. >> sure. i'll acknowledge at the outset i don't claim to be an expert on cybersecurity liability insurance. however, my exposure do is to does come off as a little bit of perspective. it's a pretty immature market, pretty new and rapidly evolving. i know the ministrations work on ways to make it a more mature more competitive market. many retailers are looking into many have purchased liability insurance other lights today. i suspect the number is growing by the day. one of the challenges they all face is what exactly too pricey. they don't know how much to get and they don't know that getting

a great value for it. but they know it's important to have and they're working on vacation that improves over time. i think your point is a good one. >> also in the verizon report has been mentioned, only about 20% of those bridges are as a result of the retailer fashion retail and banking industry which need 80% or not. we have had one question about that today. just last week i got a letter from the arkansas medical society where over 60 physicians had their identities stolen when they filed their income tax return. didn't know it until they went to hit send electronically to the irs and there were suddenly learned that already filed a return which of course, they hadn't. so can you reflect on standards that we've talked about today for the other 80% that we have not come that's not represented here today? or may become mr. oxman you might take that one. >> i do think that is an

important issue because the honda consumers suffer from identity theft can in some circumstances be as impactful as the harm suffered from the threat of financial data. i think h.r. 2205 does a good job of making sure that all entities, not just retailers and financial institutions and payments companies can but all entities that have storage or access to the sensitive personal information are required to abide by the federal standards that h.r. 2205 would put in place. and i do think that's a very important component of the bill. >> does anybody else want to add onto that? >> i think the fundamentals of the pci standard are applicable across all vertical markets. i also share your concern in my discussion with law enforcement officials assistance in particular, the next big target. protecting that data in following adheres to the pci standard would benefit those industries as well.

>> i think it's a little, you know on that paper we can't even have a conversation with our aunts health without a doctor nation with a dock with everybody jumped on it is the we've got health care data at risk of financial data and is irs data is financial law. certainly as serious as having your one's credit card number compromise. so i'm glad to hear you say you have some comfort that the standard indigo help in this other 80% of the issue that we're not addressing today. thank you. mr. dodge? >> we also endorse a strong reasonable standard come when the provides business with a strong expectation for government considers to be recent standards. we believe should be enforced by the ftc. we've endorsed legislation that came out of the commerce committee to choose just about everything that's important for addressing this issue that we first look at the regulatory

landscape, design solutions within that rather than moving a regulation designed for one industry to apply to the rest of the economy -- to apply to the rest of the economy. >> the gentleman from wisconsin, chairwoman the ranking member of the monetary policy committee, ms. morecambe is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you very much mr. chairman for the elevation to i just want to thank all of the witnesses for taking the time and being patient with us. and i can tell you that you guys almost come and ms. moy, you almost answered my questions with other members are asking. so i do want to apologize if things seem redundant. let me start with you, ms. moy. you talked about having federal standard of for standard or to talk about the ftc really providing that service at this

point. i guess i want your opinion or knowledge about whether or not you think the ftc is currently staffed up and resourced up enough to continue the stewardship. how much more would it cost to do with the? how many more employees do you anticipate? is there a necessity to create a new agency? >> so i apologize because i don't have those numbers for you, although i could do some research and try to help you answer that question. i mean i do think that the ftc is doing a pretty good job enforcing data security specifically the biggest cases. and at the state level the states are active in this area as well. also enforcing sometimes the own data security standard and sometimes a standard that they are drawn from from the authority of the general consumer protection acts their main ftc acts. so i think it's really important though to preserve the ability

of what the states are doing, to continue to provide that important service and to set our a new standard adenylyl continue to preserve protections for pieces of information that would not be covered by the latest proposal we've seen. for example, in your own state of wisconsin the breach notification statute would extend to dna and biometric data that's not necessarily covered by what we've seen in some legislative proposals. >> i really would like to know how much this will cost. in keeping with his same theme mr. mulvaney was sort of going down this road about who pays for the cost of the breach. on october 1 2015, is going to be a merchant liability shift. and so we are at gwen moore's custard stand here and i've got my smart phone to build a swipe

my card. how much is this going to cost to me or do i just take risks and sake of colleges take chances for a few years until i get my basis of intent, start franchising my custard store or how much will it cost me to be compliant? >> the good news is for a small business that interested in upgrading their infrastructure, the costs are very low. you can get an a&e chip device from square for $30. >> okay. spoonfeed what are the right way to get it from a payment processor for not much more. so the cost is actually very low for the merchant and the good news is that october liability shift to digital it about if the merchant makes that small investment in the upgrade to accept chip cards and get the card issuer has issued a chip

card in the liability for fraudulent transaction actually rests with the issues. so the merchant is exactly the same as they would be today. as long as it made that investment in the infrastructure they don't have liability for counterfeit card in that senate spent that was the end of escaping me. how much is going to cost the custard stand to be able to do it. obviously, know the a lot of costs for atms come and i guess it's a little bit more costly. how much will it cost to update all the atms? >> the atms and actually fuel dispensaries, the gas stations i got an extra two years to upgrade their infrastructure simply because it's pretty complicated to actually take the credit card equipment out of an atm or out of a gas pump. they don't have to worry about upgrading their infrastructure until october 2017, for those two industries.

>> my last time for governor pawlenty. i guess as head of the financial services roundtable, i guess i'm just curious about what it's taking us so long to do this. we are behind europe and canada. you guys are testified we're going to stay behind. >> some of the countries that went emv didn't have much legacy technology to begin with so they could jump to it as first adopters. other countries have other histories like the uk, for example, in an era of telecom was with expensive, they loaded up all the transactions across and process them at the end of the day called batch processing. the ability to real-time fumigation via telecom had something to do with how and when things it all. i think think you said been slow to this issue of the fact of the matter is we do see the need opposite everybody does and moving as quickly as possible to

implement and for good cause. >> mr. chairman, i realize my time has expired but i want to ask governor pawlenty i the vikings going to be as bad as they were going to be last season? >> did you say the packers? >> the vikings. >> i think the big question is how do we get some of that custard? the vikings are going to be better this year spent the gentleman from florida no is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman and pamela. i can only focus my remarks by thinking i could early 1980s when i was installing computer systems, 16 bit processors in pharmacies across the eastern united states and we would use a dial-up modem to update the drug prices and to process data and at that time the movie wargames came out starring matthew broderick would show that we can hack into a whopper, the intelligence computer that started an international wargame and redefaulted page where you go to walt disney world educating magic band that you were that all your data shows is exactly where you are, what you do what right you want to be on all your billing

information at the evolution has been a tremendous benefit tickets given us a path of expanding our commerce and our economy tremendously. it's given opportunities to those that seek google against us. that's why we are here. one of the institutions of higher education from the university of south florida rest in addition. two years ago they were designated to be the center of cybersecurity, an academic program. not have over 100 students seeking masters in this particular arena. my question is is there a great deal of cooperation between the private sector and academic sector in trying to innovate ways to continue to fight cybersecurity cracks anybody can address that. >> i would just be depends on other retailers who have sought such partnerships have found welcome partnerships. actually established in the cold the retail cyber intelligence sharing center and at the core that wrapped around it is an

opportunity for educational opportunity. i know that group has some great partners already in the academic community looking for ways to identify ways to bring future chief intelligence security, information security officers up to the ranks and also to share information. >> it seems that would be a good partnership even though that's what over 80% of our commerce in cyber is in the cyber world is through the private sector. mr. dodge, let me ask you to speak to this question because as mr. brahimi was asking who bears the cost of a fraudulent -- mr. mulvaney come is a between the banks and retailers. is there not in excess of any particular either expressed or implied right of indemnification between the parties that would allow that to be resolve absent statutory or legislative and public? >> the front payment requirements, the pace after a

breach or any fraud is told in the contracts. the retailers are bound by those contracts and their unwillingness committed by the those contracts they lose the risk, they risk losing the right to accept cards. >> there's a limited negotiate and what you're telling me. a retailer wants to accept mastercard, except all the terms and conditions without negotiation speak with you signed a contract presented to you. >> one of the things we talked about, you talked about very well and in depth is the emv electronic mastercard visa check. for some time this has been in practice in the european market, has it not? >> it has. >> had it not been for guess an executive order will not be pursuing it as fast as we are in the united states. what has been the reason for the delay of the implementation of the chip technology here? >> so the reason that chip technology is being deployed today in the united states and it's been deployed already in europe is the following. in europe that have the ability that we have here to authorize a

transaction online. when you swipe your card at the point is that what happens is that transaction is transmitted through a payment network to the card issuer for yes or no answer when the receipt is spent out 1.4 seconds later with a yes answer is because that transaction is authorized and approved online. in europe they don't have the infrastructure to do that. the card authorized the transaction which means that chip with a swipe machine isn't going anywhere. it's making the decision right there and that's why the chip infrastructure is necessary in europe and has it been necessary -- >> now we are moving to tokenization which is protecting the database of all private information and it is encrypting that transaction with a one time identification. and then not allowed anybody who captures that to have fully nothing. >> exactly right. the way the system works today in many cases your actual account number is transmitted. what are cyber thieves looking for, credit card numbers.

why do they breach retailers? because there are tens of millions of the. there's nothing to steal. >> how fast are we moving in that direction? >> very quickly. >> will become the predominant various? >> it is being deployed across all retail segments. we have an existing infrastructure needs to be replaced. it will take some time to get to but we will get there. it's a great technology and is what is working together to make it happen. >> i know we talked about point-of-sale defenses predominately but after the data has been breached and in the consumer's identity is stolen, how effective are some of these companies out there that allegedly protect consumers from having identity stolen? is that good or is it bad or is it just someone else's opportunity? >> i can't speak to anyone any one of those companies. everybody needs to be vigilant. you need to monitor yourself in addition to services you may provide. i want to go back to the point

you made which is about advancing that decked out in cards to get where we are in europe. the migration that's happened in the united states is only half the. were on is getting the chip. it does not require a pin. it's worked in europe and in canada the its broad fraud than. >> abandon ship lemonade -- >> you need to have it together when not moving to that in the united states. >> i yield back. >> i thank the gentleman. now the gentlemen from arizona mr. schweikert is recognized. >> , and. okay. a little discussion may go away from the legislation that is being vetted. mr. oxman from i listen you seem to be the most practical on the panel. is that a fair -- >> i guess i've been voted.

>> can we walk through a couple mechanics? first, the philosophical box i want to work from is if you and i wanted to design as robust a system as possible i'm not asking practical but possible today where i still have the use of my financial instruments, my credit cards online at the retailer come in any fashion it may be what would i be doing? because when we said something in his car to cover your skill with such high hopes for tokenization hand-off and the randomization of the designs of those tokens. is it token plus? if you and i were designing a system here in making sure that if we work on the legislation that it has and openness to grab tomorrows technology, what

should we be doing? >> a system designed from scratch would ensure that actual information that can be tied back to you or your account cannot be intercepted. put another way, you would make sure you didn't transmit actual information in a way that could be taken by someone else and used in the same form. that's the real goal of all of the latest security technologies that you see deployed today. it's dynamic and make sure that interception information can be so. we didn't talk about the chip works in the chip card but the real difference between the chip and the magnetic stripe is it generates a unique dynamics he could do with the transaction but even if you intercepted the chip information are the chip information are tried great account of the chip you would know the code for the next transaction so it would be useless to you. design a system from scratch would make sure that information with a manic and could we got back to anything, even if that

were intercepted. >> is a blend of comic is my tokenization, hand-off mechanics and a bio mechanic? if i'm doing online and ip algorithm behind the sink this is an id that matches -- i mean, what am i doing to make these things were? >> that's kind of interesting think about mobile payments which a lot of these great technology company are moving to deploy. >> you beat me to my last minute of conversation so much as move onto. as we all move to mobile pay and catching up with the rest of the world, is the technology in my payment systems on this comp is about my future of transaction security? >> it is a great future of transaction security because what that mobile device has on there is the token were talking earlier spit it could have the tokenization, my biodata with my fingerprint and it has its version of an agenda not technically an ip but it has and

overcome fears of the device that goes with this. >> the future we are all working together to to bless all of those elements to it. it's almost as if we have an opportunity thanks to advances in technology to device that utopian system from scratch. >> no for everyone else on the pelican how do i incentivize that? >> at one point i would make at the outset is jason is right to future payments using mobile technology and we're going there but we're not there yet. there's 1.2 billion cards circulating in the united states way to make sure we are locking down that before we move to the next generation or while we're moving to the next generation. i will try to wave -- waiting to the detector logic, but we believe tokenization has a great opportunity at great potential and serving mobile technology and the encryption that is appointed i think will work for a long period of time. >> so the in gang road is you've

devalue the data so it is useless in the hands of criminals. the three technologies that we've talked about today do exactly that. the point-of-sale, point-to-point encryption and tokenization to you bundle those directly come implemented properly, the value is useless. there's no reason to break in even if he did whatever you stalled, you can use it anywhere else. >> in my last 15 seconds my fear is much of today's conversation was pujols a liability who pays? and my fear at one level, that's an absurd conversation do have. we should be having a conversation how do we build a robust technology so i don't have a problem? >> the good news is it's happening while mobile payments and some things you mention are a small part of the picture the raterate at which the court our rapid adoption rate particularly for younger people is very high. the future that you were foreshadowing is unfolding. >> i yield back, mr. chairman,. >> now the gentleman from

indiana, the chair of the republican policy committee, is recognized for five minutes. >> thank the panel for me. and keyboardist and. i think were getting close to wrapping at the i wanted to talk a little bit further about breach notification. i think mr. dodge a couple times you get close to this but i just want to make sure i better understand your position and your organization's position. you stated that she wanted clarity for the business community. i know you support the one sentence of standard that was based on reasonable and something energy and commerce committee bill. i think if you look at section four of h.r. 2205 it has a set come a process that is laid out that franklin is much clearer and i think more scalable. it's based and modeled off of what banks have been doing for 16 years under gramm-leach-bliley. can you explain from your perspective why you believe

2205's clarity is sufficient? >> the gramm-leach-bliley act answer the legislation you're referencing were designed primarily for the financial service industry that was passed in 1990 -- 2000 was in force over the last 15 years. what we have argued is you have to look at the regulatory landscape as it is today and look at what's been done for regulations that apply to other industries. there's been a substantial body of work done by the ftc in enforcing cybersecurity expectations of business. that's established a decade worth of case law that merchants and businesses all under the authority of the ftc understand what the expectations are spirit am i hearing you say that while the energy and commerce bill has a oneness in standard come to believe that one sentence incorporates the ftc standards that have been -- >> idea editing any business that would be forced to comply

with it, and most businesses today are, don't look at the sensibility and the legislation but they would look a with a body of work is an the requirements of the -- >> so i'm understanding, is your objection to regulate would be? >> we will take you live to the west confront the u.s. capitol when people are gathering for the 34th annual national peace officers' memorial services. representatives from the national police organization and president obama will been paying tribute to law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty over the past year. and their names will be put. representatives from police forces in other countries will also be recognized. back in 1962 president kennedy proclaimed may 15 as national peace officers' memorial day which coincided with national police week. live coverage it on c-span2.

[background sounds] spent honor guard parade rest. >> phil liggett from the top of the national launch will now deliver the invocation. spin please join in prayer. our heavenly father we gather this went on capital grants of this great nation. we call upon you as we join our hearts and minds together in prayer that you bring comfort and peace of those among us that mourn, that you cover our active offices across the country is your protection. as we remember the officers who

died in the line of duty since our last service with renewed strength that they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk. this in your holy name we pray amen. >> you may be seated. special thank you to officer in decline from the great state of indiana for that beautiful rendition of our national anthem. [applause] i am a national presence of fraternal order, order of police and it's my honor and privilege to welcome all of you on my for the officers, our law enforcement families our distinguished guests, and most especially our surviving family members. this service is dedicated to the memory of your loved one and this service is for you.

i'd like to begin with this one by introducing our guess it would join on the dice this year for those solve salty finger on my right please welcome frank larkin from the senate sergeant at arms. [applause] next to him is craig, chairman of the national law enforcement officers memorial fund. [applause] and our dear friend of president of the concerned police survivors, madeline neumann. [applause] next we have eric church country music star who will perform a musical tribute later in the program. thank you. [applause] and next event and is the chief of our host agency of the united states capitol police. [applause] i would also like to take this time to thank the united states capitol police for their undying support of this memorial and all of the work that is done

year-round by members of the capitol police to put this service on, as well as the border patrol. thank you very much. [applause] we are very pleased to welcome the chief legal and corporate services officer and one of our most generous corporate partners and longest-serving partners to this memorial service. thank you. [applause] it's a great honor for me to welcome one of the f.o.p.s most stalwart champions senator patrick leahy of vermont, ranking member of the senate judiciary committee on the senate judiciary committee. senator gingrey appreciate you for being here and all the years that you've attended, and also for your leadership and support in getting the blue alert and body armor bills through the senate. thank you, sir. [applause] we are very fortunate to have with us a senior member of the

judiciary committee and the senate president pro tem senator orrin hatch. [applause] thank you for being here senator hatch. and i want to take a personal note to thank you for your leadership on a painting law enforcement retirement bill that is expected to pass later today. thank you so much. [applause] next to senator hatch is linda henning, national president of the f.o.b. auxiliary. it is with us and them that we welcome you to this service but we want you to know that they do all of the background for this work and setting to service a. we're very proud of our auxiliary, so thank you very much. [applause] now turn to my far left, but like to welcome paul irving, the senate sergeant at arms, uncertain the sergeant of arms of house of representatives. [applause] next i'd like to welcome one of our dear friends dea administrator michele leonhart,

u.s. -- michelle like to thank you for your 36 years of service, congratulate you on your retirement and let you know she is a proud member of baltimore lodge three fraternal order of police. [applause] .. [applause] we also welcome homeland security secretary jeh johnson

who has attended services in the past and we thank you for being here. [applause] we are also grateful to have our new u.s. attorney general, loretta lynch here with us today. welcome. finally it is my honor and privilege to have with us today president barack obama and i will fully introduce it in a few moments. [applause] thank you mr. president. on behalf of the national fraternal order of police and national fraternal order of police artillery is my honor to welcome you to the service. we come to this place to honor brothers and sisters who have given their all so we continue to live in peace in the greatest country in the world here at 100 years ago this week two members of the pittsburgh police department decided to come together to form an organization for the stated purpose are

working to increase benefits salary and working conditions for law enforcement. that goal is still our stated purpose and along the 100 year pass to today, the national fraternal order of police made a conscious decision that we wanted a special day every year to honor those who lost their lives in the performance of their duties. a 15th was designated at that day in 1962 by president john f. kennedy. in 1982 esop began hosting the service of the proper way to honor heroes. this day is for america to tell family members that we honor respect and grieve for your loss. we are not dedicated to any other purpose and make sure your sacrifice will not be forgotten. it is used to describe the past

by making this a national event. local officers would be the only ones to attend the service. if possible it is just a word that is used to stop you from trying. we didn't stop trying. from our first year two today where we have a journeyman has been filled with memories and experiences that none of us will ever forget. that is when it's the law enforcement community is a bond that lasts a lifetime. we understand it is not a job but a way of life that falls that the family and extended family. you allow them to do their job and we thank you for that. in these times negative about

our profession, it would be easy to forget that most americans respect the jobs we do and overwhelmingly know that law enforcement and other public safety professionals are a much-needed and first-class line of defense. we must provide the best service we can to our communities and we must never allow naysayers to deter us from our appointment duties. true professional sore in the face of diversity in the proof is in the heroes we honor here today. in men and women who went to work in answer the call is a human being can give. they engage themselves so others can go and live on. they gave of themselves the weather is to be with their families. they gave of themselves so others can enjoy the pursuit of

happiness and they gave of themselves because it was their job. it is time for all americans to stand up and tell the world that we honor the work that our heroes have done and that they honor the memory of the font enforcement professionals. in this place where so many have been honored including our great military or elected leaders and now these heroes must always remember their sacrifice. we must honor their memory by continuing to provide quality law enforcement and we cannot let anyone take away from their achievements and sacrifice. today i call on this nation to recognize the men and women who wear a badge or a siren going on the streets of this country and put their own safety on the line and i call on elected leaders to provide them with the necessary tools and resources to perform the duty and support us with our mission. we are asking for the respect

and admiration that law enforcement professionals deserve. our commitment to you the families, friends and coworkers of our chair supportive comrade will never forget the memories and never let this country forget the sacrifices that they have done. god bless you. god bless our officers working the streets of america. god bless our military and god bless this country. thank you very much. [applause] it is now my honor to introduce the president of the national sop lindsay henry for some remarks. [applause] >> mr. president, members of congress, brothers and sisters of law enforcement family and friends of our fallen heroes. welcome to the 34th annual national peace officers immoral

service. in 1962, congress authorized president john f. kennedy to proclaim basic themes of each year as peace officers memorial day. a day in which to honor the brave law enforcement officers who proudly wear the uniform and daily serve communities in which they live and work and ultimately made the supreme sacrifice in the performance of their duties. a proclamation further designated the calendar week in which may 15th falls each year as police week in recognition of a service given by the men and women of law enforcement. they stand guard day and night to protect citizens of our community. the proclamation was signed october 1st 1962. 20 years later may 15, 1982 the first national peace officers

memorial service was held in the senate park honoring 91 month enforcement officers around the country. we gather to honor the memory of our loved ones. as their officers, friends and coworkers gather in this place to celebrate the memory of their lives that were taken in an instant while serving and protecting the citizens of our great nation. each of these officers would want to be remembered as community service just doing their job. they would much rather be remembered as jill and pat son or daughter, amy's husband david's wife bobbi and jenny's dad or mom or to be immortalized as a hero. these officers did not live for the honors they pay.

their happiness was simply in doing their job quietly serving and protecting the public on a daily basis. and while we honor you are remembering for the person they were. it is a heartache no one can heal. no one can steal. the sacrifice of the officers and the family will not be forgotten. their devotion to you in the profession will be carried on by the brotherhood and sisterhood of law enforcement. you need only observe to see the uniformed officers here today to be assured that you'll never walk alone. these 100 dirty one brave men and women gave their all. they made the ultimate sacrifice and lay down their lives to protect and serve the families, friends, coworkers and public here today to honor them.

may they rest in peace. may god bless the families they leave behind. may god watch over law enforcement officers who serve this great nation and may god bless the united states of america. thank you. [applause] >> we will now have a musical selection by eric church. ♪ ♪

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joining us. a stalwart for law enforcement for many years and a pleasure to have you with us here today, sir. [applause] i am honored to welcome and introduced the keynote speaker for our 34th annual national peace officers memorial service. barack obama, the president of the united states. president obama has been with us in past years and it's a privilege and honor to have him again to honor the families of our fallen heroes. this day as the families chance to offer their condolences to each other in the presidents chance to offer our nation's condolences to you. mr. president, it's a difficult time for the men and women on the beat and families at home. our hope is to stand up for law enforcement and be thankful we have kept them safe. brothers and sisters and distinguished guests please help me welcoming the president

of the united states, president barack obama, who will express our nation's condolences. thank you so much, sir. honor to have you with us. [applause] >> thank you. thank you so much. please be seated. thank you chuck for that kind introduction. for years the proud service as a police officer and the advocacy you do on behalf of law enforcement in families. i want to thank the fraternal order of police and leadership including jim pascoe and linda hennie for everything you do to support those who protect and serve. let me also say as we gather here today our prayers remain with the families of our marines and two nepalese soldiers now

that the wreckage of their helicopter has been found in a remote part of nepal. they went to that remotely and to help people who suffered devastating losses in the earthquake. they represent a true that guides our work around the world and our friends need america's help. sometimes those in uniform get attention only when there is a battle, but they do so much more than not looking out for folks who are vulnerable or having a tough time experiencing disaster and it can involve great risk and great sacrifice. and we give thanks to all of our fellow americans, military and civilian who reflect the very best of american leadership around the world. we are here to honor heroes who

lost their lives in the line of duty. the men and women who put themselves in the way of danger so that the rest of us can live in safety. they were beat cops, deputies detectives correctional enforcement service officers, federal and tribal police. but to many here today, they went by different titles. caring husband loving wife, my son, my daughter, mom dad. sell the families who are here today whose loved ones did not come home at the end of a shift, please know how deeply sorry we

are for the last few have been toured. know how deeply grateful we are for your loved one's sacrifice. we hold them up as heroes because that is what they are. it takes a special kind of courage to be a peace officer. to be the one people turn to their most desperate bowman to be willing to run into a dangerous situation when everyone else is running the other way. the scripture tells us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves but only a special few take the commandments so deeply to heart that they are willing to risk their lives so that others, often total strangers can know peace and security and that is what peace officers do. today we honor 100 dirty one who

made the ultimate sacrifice. officer kevin gordon was a member of the police department in griffin georgia appeared has been to tammy, father of seven children army veteran. his daughter deborah said we were his platoon. kevin deployed his own training to race his young platoon leading them in cases. how motivated are you? there are motivated highly motivated. drove them with the basics to study hard and push yourselves and take care of each other and

everywhere he went, he made friends. in tammy's words, he never met a stranger. to help make ends meet kevin took a night shift as a security guard at a waffle house and one night customers got rowdy and as kevin was placed in a troublemaker under arrest, he was shot and killed. he was just 43 years old. one week later kevin sun graduated from griffin high. dare to cheer him on were over 100 of kevin's fellow officers. today he is in the army training to be an mp and wants to be among enforcement just like his dad. senior deputy jessica hollis started out as an emt in san antonio, texas. she and her husband ricky applied to the police academy

together, were expected to gather and graduated together. the second married couple in boston to do that. jessica eventually joined the county sheriffs office where she became a senior deputy and member of the prestigious dive team. she was a fierce animal lover. if she drove by a turtle trying to cross the road, she would slam on the brakes and gently carried to the other side. she took her son mason on special vacations. the family lake house in new orleans on diving trips just the two of them and last september after heavy rains, jessica went out to check for civilians trapped in rising water. it was around 2:00 in the morning when she called for help. her car was being swept away by the flood water. minutes later she was missing. dozens of officers came to join the search but by the time they found her, it was too late.

more than 1000 people attended senior deputy's funeral. and mayor travis county sheriff greg hamilton made sure to tell all of his officers that he never had a chance to save them mean. i will do anything for you. officer roberto sanchez's parent brought into california from mexico when he was just four years old. it was the first trip on an airplane and that airplane is what brought him to america. he began to collect model airplanes. he took his high school sweetheart, sonja, on plane spotting dave even work as a freight carrier in orange county john wayne airport. he always had one big dream to be a police officer. when he joined the lapd friends say was one of the happiest days of his life.

he lived within walking distance of his bearings. he volunteered at the school where his niece teaches kindergarten and he married sonja, his high school sweetheart and his partner on the force was his best friend so life was good. one night officer sanchez was in pursuit of a speeding vehicle went him one intentionally crashed into his patrol car. he was the third los angeles police officer killed in a crash in just two months. fewer jobs are inherently dangerous. the reminders are two common. just a few days ago, two police officers were killed in the line of duty in mississippi. a week before that an officer was killed in the line of duty in queen. a few months before that two of his fellow officers in the n.y.p.d. were killed as well.

we cannot erase every danger from the duty you have chosen. we can offer you the support you need to be safe. we can make the communities you care about and protect safer as well. we can make sure you have the resources you need to do your job. we can do every thing we have to do to combat the poverty that plagues too many communities in which you have to serve. we can work harder as a nation to heal the risk that still exists in some places between law enforcement and the people you risk your lives to protect. we owe it to all of you who wear the badge with honor. leo a two-year federal officers who gave their last full measure

of devotion. most of all we can say thank you. we can say we appreciate you and we are grateful for the work that you do each and every day. and we can thank the families who bear the burden alongside you. on behalf of the american people the for the families, friends and fellow officers of those we have lost, my prayers and deepest thanks. we could not be prouder of them are more grateful for their service. we cannot be prouder of you and all who worked so hard to keep us safe. may god bless you and come for you at morning.

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am. you have been a shelter for me, a strong power from enemy. i will abide in your tabernacle forever. i will trust in the shelter of your wings. father, lifted the family members and asked if they find rest in you alone. the salvation comes from you. he alone is iraq and our salvation and fortress. we will never be shaken when we place our trust in you. in your name we pray amen. >> david gray to sing god bless america. ♪ ♪

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here today with a promise that we will never let america forget your loss. thank you. god bless you. and that concludes the national peace officers memorial service. thank you. [applause] [background sounds] [inaudible conversations]

[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> and the national police officers memorial service the official event wrapping up national police week. in 1962, president kennedy proclaimed may 15th is national police officers memorial day. this is the 34th annual memorial service, which was first held in 1982. we will be showing president

obama's remarks from the service again later tonight as well as the reading of names of law enforcement officers who were killed in the line of duty last year. you can watch the entire event tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on our companion netware, c-span. the

>> in capitol hill the u.s. house finishing up its political work for the week. outlining defense programs for

the next fiscal year, $612 billion in the vote in the house to 69-151. bill reported the mesh or despise because of increases in funding for wars. $30 billion more than the president requested. only eight republicans opposed the bill. 41 democrats across the aisle to support it. find more at the hill.com. new attorney general loretta lynch in arne duncan kicked off the national summit on preventing youth violence bringing together local officials around the country and federal agencies to share information and talk about their efforts to prevent violent among young people. take a look. [applause] >> thank you so much. i am so pleased to be here today and just thrilled to join our

distinguished speakers and welcoming everyone to the national summit on preventing youth violence. i am especially happy and very humbled and honored to be joined by attorney general lynch. she has had a very busy first couple of weeks and i am delighted she has taken the time to be with us here today. on behalf of the assistant attorney general, carol mason who was unable to join us today i would like to thank all of you for making the trip to washington. your commitment to reducing violence in your community and for expanding opportunities for young people. we are grateful for your participation and very proud to be your partners. now let's just take a moment and see who is here to represent. can i hear it for my east coast? [cheers and applause] all right.

now where my heart is on the west coast, do we have any? [cheers and applause] all right. loud and clear. what about our southern side? [cheers and applause] in the heart of the nation, our midwest site. [cheers and applause] all right. and a final shout out to our international representatives. all right. we are so happy to have all of you here. we have a busy day ahead and i know you are all eager to hear from ours beakers. but i would just like to take a moment to thank those who had a hand in organizing our program. for any of you who have put together a big conference, you know how much work it is. it all looks and is today, but it takes a lot of effort behind the scenes. so three people in particular

deserve our recognition. sera prize to just open the conference. [cheers and applause] share in his carol mason's chief of staff my very good idea. we have a lot of fun in the office together. and he is the department's point person for the national foreign and he does just a fantastic dog. georgina mendoza make towel. [cheers and applause] incher rome are void. [cheers and applause] both from our office of juvenile justice and the length of the prevention oversee the day today at dignities. and they handled the countless logistical matters that went into making the summit possible. so thank you, georgina incher

rome. the agenda looks fantastic. [applause] i also want to thank our federal partners both within and outside the department and on capitol hill. great support all across the government. as you can say this commitment to the effort runs to the highest levels. behind each of these leaders as they host a dedicated staff working hard to make our vision a reality. finally, i want to thank all of you who went joined us from across the country for a real dialogue about how we can prevent youth violence. i had the pleasure of meeting the youth representatives this morning and i know our country is in great hands. they are a fantastic group of young people.

[applause] you are on the vanguard of our nation's work to protect our communities and our kids and we are grateful for all you do and very glad to have you here with us today. now i have the great privilege of introducing our next speaker. in her first week on the job our attorney general to find the challenge all face every day. moving forward the national conversation about civic trust while ensuring that our communities are safe and our law enforcement officers are supported. ..

to please join me in getting a warm welcome to attorney general loretta lynch. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, thank you. good morning everyone. i'll kick him away. i was backstage. i heard you. good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> that's what we need come energy.

commitment. that's what this cause takes. so good morning again everyone come and 20 thank you beth for that very kind introduction but also want to thank you for your exemplary leadership that you should at the office of justice program and for your steadfast commitment to preventing youth violence and putting public safety. it's truly, truly outstanding work that you do. i also want to thank karol mason, our outstanding assistant attorney general for the office of justice programs. the work that ojp does each and every day, strengthening partnerships with state, local and tribal justice officials ensuring a focus on evidence-based approaches, and funding innovative and groundbreaking projects, is a vital part of our nation's effort to build the more just society that all americans deserve. and i also want to take just a moment to acknowledge dr. william bell, president of the casey family programs, for his longstanding commitment to this very important issue. let me begin --

[applause] thank you. and let me take it again what an honor it is for me to be with all of you this morning. it's a pleasure to join with all of you, so many devoted public servants, engaged private leaders and passionate civic leaders as we rededicate ourselves to the safety and the security of our nation's children and youth. i want to acknowledge, in particular the young people who are with us today, and to thank you for your activism and your advocacy on this compelling issue. as we've seen from recent events, preventing violence in our communities is not an abstract concept, but a clear and pressing need. and my friends, it is indeed it requires more than prosecution strategy, but rather an approach that sees all sides of this challenging issue. healing our neighborhoods,

building mutual trust and promoting well-being are not lofty or unreachable goals, they are tangible pieces of the more prosperous and more peaceful society that we all seek. now, as you know, last week i traveled to baltimore, in my first trip as attorney general, to meet with public officials, law enforcement officers and communities representatives. i spoke to women and men who had taken to the streets after the unrest to clean up trash and debris. i spoke to police officers who would work 16 days without a break and were concerned not for the own safety and security but for the safety and security of the residents of baltimore. but i have to tell you i think i was most impressed with the young people that he met with in baltimore, about nine of them who are working within their community and with their peers to make their city a better

place for everyone. a few of them seem to read more about civil rights law and those lawyers that i know. and they were optimistic despite all that happened in that great city. they were optimistic about the future of their city. they are a testament to the strength of our young people, even those who live in tough neighborhoods and face real economic challenges. day and so many like you are making a real and a positive difference and serving as an example to others. and i told them that i hoped they would challenge their peers to do the same, because in many communities in baltimore and in communities across america, it is all too easy for our youth to get caught up in drugs, gangs and violence and give in to a troubling status quo. but our youth are more than a statistic. they are our future. in fact, it is a distressing reality that not just a sizable minority but, in fact, a

significant majority yes, a majority over 60% of our nations youth have been exposed to crime violence and abuse either as victims or even as witnesses. this violence can take many forms. it can occur of virtually everywhere from the streets of our neighborhoods to the far reaches of cyberspace, from the schools where our children from the earliest lessons, to their homes where they should feel most secure. it is clear, however, that regardless of how or when it occurs exposure to violence can have real and devastating consequences for growth and for development. research has shown that, whether children observe violence directed at others or become victims of abuse themselves exposure to such behavior will make them more likely to fall behind in school, more likely to suffer from anxiety and depression, more likely to struggle with drug or alcohol abuse later in life, and

ultimately, more likely to perpetuate the cycle of violence in what dr. martin luther king called a descending spiral of destruction. but not my friends is why some was like this are so important. it's why the work you're doing to rally local stakeholders to improve law enforcement increase support for violence prevention efforts and expand access to family and social services is so critical. and it's why the obama administration led, in part, by this justice department, has dedicated itself to these efforts, making an unprecedented commitment to this critical issue. at the heart of this commitment is our national forum on youth violence prevention, representing a network of 15 communities and federal agencies that work together, share information, and build local capacity. these communities, from boston to san jose and from seattle to baltimore, use prevention,

intervention enforcement and reentry strategies to stop violence and spur progress. through their innovative and collaborative efforts, we have already seen homicides and juvenile violent crime drop in nine out of the 10 cities that participated during 2014, and some cities even reported changes in quality-of-life measures like increased school retention and better police practices. the national forum's success has been complemented by the community-based violence prevention program, which currently operates in 16 cities nationwide, targeting youth gang and gun violence by building partnerships among law enforcement, service providers concerned residents and community- and faith-based organizations. after implementing the evidenced-based deterrence and public health practices recommended by this violence prevention program, cities reported reductions in gun violence and increases in

community engagement. outstanding efforts like these are not only noteworthy, they can be duplicated and we're striving to bring them to more cities across the country. beyond these efforts, we're supporting evidence-based interventions for children, expanding our base of knowledge and developing comprehensive strategies under our defending childhood initiative, led by ojjdp and the office of justice programs. represented her so well. we're working with our partners in the private sector and across the federal government including secretary of education arne duncan whom you'll hear from later today and secretary of labor tom perez, to end the school to prison pipeline that since too many children on a well-worn path from the schoolhouse to jailhouse. and we are standing up and speaking out against so-called zero tolerance school discipline policies that bar the doors of opportunity for children who

need support, leaving them stigmatized and marginalized left out and left alone. as many of you know, some communities are particularly vulnerable and require a special, targeted effort. through the task force on american indian and alaska native children exposed to violence, we have worked with leaders in tribal communities to bring down alarmingly high rates of violence, drug abuse, alcoholism and suicide, and to develop fresh, data-driven strategies to address those problems together. under an array of programs to reach the more than 100,000 children who are victims of human trafficking each year, we are working to end the scourge of modern-day slavery. our office for victims of crime just recently released a $14 million solicitation that is focused on supporting male survivors of violence and their families.

and with the president's my brother's keeper initiative, we are rallying a coalition of government and private sector leaders to create and expand opportunities for youth across the nation, demonstrating to young men of color, and to all our young people, that their country cares about them, values them and is determined to help them reach their full potential. in fact, just last week, the president announced the my brother's keeper alliance, a new independent nonprofit focused on providing invaluable support to boys and young men of color at every point of inflection, from early childhood learning to high school graduation to lifelong development. now, of course, these are vital and in some cases truly groundbreaking efforts. but while we have made important progress, my colleagues and i also recognize that we have much more work to do and that government cannot conquer these

challenges alone. that's why your efforts are so important, and why the work that this forum is helping to institutionalize must go on. it must go on until every young person's neighborhood is a place of safety and not of danger. it must go on until a child's zip code does not dictate that child's future. and it must go on until every child has the opportunity to grow, to learn and to succeed free of violence, free of abuse and free of fear. now my friends, i have no illusions that this work will be easy, or that the complex challenges will be resolved overnight. but as i look out over this gathering of extraordinary individuals and motivated organizations, i cannot help but be optimistic about all that we can accomplish in the days ahead. i have no doubt that we will meet these challenges, that we

will overcome these obstacles and that we will create the safer, more just society that all our young people deserve. and i am confident that with the passion and the hard work of the individuals in this room, and our partners and friends around the country, we will make new progress reach new heights and expand the circle of opportunity for young people across america i thank you once again for your dedication to this vision, your commitment to this cause and your unwavering devotion to the future of our nation. i urge you to keep up the outstanding work. i wish every successful and productive conference. thank you for my new t-shirt a few minutes other wiki today. 90 so very much. [applause]

>> -- with you today. thank you so much attorney general lynch. we appreciate those tremendous source of support, and we're very grateful order commitment and leadership. now i am pleased to introduce another one of the administration's leaders in a national forum. under the direction of secretary arne duncan, the department of education has been one of the justice department's closest allies in reducing youth violence, and expanding opportunities for our young people. from the forum's inception secretary duncan has made the full range of his department's resources, funding, staffing and expertise available to support our collective efforts.

and we are especially grateful for his leadership in addressing fiscal to prison pipeline, promoting support of school discipline and providing educational services to youth in correctional facilities. secretary duncan has put the department of education front and center in making sure our kids are given the support education and guidance they need to get on the right path. i'm so delighted to join us today. please welcome secretary of education arne duncan. [applause] >> thank you so much. i'm thrilled to be here and i just want to let you guys know personally how much i appreciate the difference you are trying to

make in this extraordinarily hard and difficult but important work. i will tell you why this is a personal. growing up on the southside of chicago play basketball in different neighborhoods, too many of the friends i looked up to the mentored me and help protect me sometimes have lost their lives due to violence. when you're 13 14 a 15 year-old kid growing up come when you see kind of stuff it scours you and it stays with you. when i led the chicago public schools when i get got older, by far the hardest thing i did do was to go to funerals of our public school students who were shot and try to talk to the families and try to go to the classroom where there's now an empty desk and trying to say something to those children that made a little bit of sense. on average we lost one child every two weeks due to gun violence on average. the vast majority of these students were not gang bangers. there was a young girl who was shot at 7:30 a.m. in our living

room from 100 yards away by an ak-47. it was a young man on a bus going home after school. and i thought things couldn't get worse. when it came to d.c. those numbers continue to go up. i think there's been some reduction but what whether it's my home town or anywhere the nation what we've seen is absolutely staggering. the loss of human potential and the loss of leaders. we as a nation can't afford to continue to let that happen. we are thrilled high school graduation rates are at all time highs. we are thrilled dropout rates are going to have you as a nation we are nowhere near we need to be. tocco going to college and a decommission physics. there's fundamental building block we have to put in place. our children have to be fed. if they're hungry it's hard to concentrate in class. we have to take care of their physical needs, if they need eyeglasses. but they are scared living in fear. it's hard to have those dreams of the future.

when i was in chicago took a picture a young man had drawn for me. a picture of massive fire been. the caption he wrote was if i grow up i want to be a vibrant. really, really deep saying and to make it its recommendation that the thought, if i grow up. if that's what you're thinking every single day it's hard to think long-term. so begin the work you guys are doing, hard to do as difficult as it is i just want to let you know how much it means to me personally. i want to quickly reflect on going to ferguson recently like the attorney general went to baltimore last week. just to let you know for all the very real challenges we have some extraordinary young people across the nation in all of our communities. want to hear from young people frankly more so than from some of the adults was simply stunning. the leadership creativity, the courage, the sense of what they can accomplish, despite all the challenges, it gives me hope

about where we can go. in ferguson quite candidly i had never heard a depth of fear of the police department itself. and just story after story that you heard from young people. one young girl talk about how her father was beaten. that was just the norm how things happened there. if we are serious about reducing youth violence we have to be series about reducing adult violence as well and look at all of these things together at the same time and really really challenge ourselves as adults when we are not doing the right thing. last week in baltimore i met with some extraordinary young people. very, very clear. i walked down the list of what they are looking for. first, summer jobs. afterschool jobs at a chance to do something positive. people end up up selling drugs that because that's their first choice, the choice of last resort when you're trying to survive and eat and they don't have all the family support at home, we have good jobs for young people.

probably shouldn't say this in a room like this but occasionally what i go go to sit down with some of the gang leaders back home in chicago and ask them what the biggest, trying to create peace become productive and positive what's the biggest impediment? jobs. went to think about what we did at scale to create those kinds of opportunities are young people who just have to make some money. community centers come afterschool programs, talk about not enough extracurricular programs. is going to in baltimore, sports teams were great but the debate team had no coach, and couldn't go to any of their debate competition. that simply doesn't make sense. we talk about committee centers. they were old broken down decrepit. not places that were welcome me. i think all of our schools should be committee centers. our schools should be open 12 13 to 14 hours a day.

thankfully in the vast majority of communities around the nation our schools are safe havens. very little violence happening at schools or the vast majority is on the street. if we can keep our kids there longer we think that makes a lot of sense. more vocational programs, more chances for folks to forget what they are learning in school topics relevant to the rest of their lives. one idea i threw out road tested with the kids got this idea public boarding school. that's a different idea or controversial idea your question is do we have some children where is not a mom or dad grandma, nobody home. certain kids we should have 24/7 to really create a safe environment and give them a chance. [applause] give them a chance to be successful. there's a small handful of public boarding schools including one in d.c. something i thought that in chicago, didn't quite get it done. want to challenge folks to think

deeply. the final thing i will say, i am increasingly convinced that origin people have the answers. i think for us as adults in terms of how -- [applause] the answer is -- getting simpler, more simple less complicated editing we should be held accountable for two things. won, we should be held accountable for listening to really listening into deep and authentic an ongoing way to a young people are asking for. we should be held accountable for delivering as best we can what they're they were asking for. so we can go and listen to young people saying they desperately need summer jobs cannot find which creates some. all we do then is just perpetuate the exacerbate the cynicism, a sense that we don't care. we can't create committee centers come afterschool programs to make sense. if we can all start into holding ourselves accountable for ongoing partnerships ongoing listening and then month by month, quarter by quarter, year

by year delivering to our young people are asking to help them live productive and positive life that i think we can do technical heckuva long way to predicating these huge challenges. again thank you for your hard work. thank you for your commitment. whatever me and my team can do to be good partners please hold us accountable. if we want our kids to be a successful in life as we wanted to become successful academically, not just graduate from college -- high school book at a college if we do not solve these problems were not in again. this is the gateway, a ticket to get her students to where they need to be. thank you again very much. we want to do everything we can to support your hard work every single day. thanks for having me. [applause]

>> thank you, secretary duncan. we appreciate your ongoing support, delighted you could be with us today and i hope we all can't accept his challenge to listen to youth and act on the recommendations. so we've got a lot on our agenda, and so i hope we have a lot to show for at the end of this conference. our next speaker is another one of our close federal partners from the department of health and human services. larke huang is a senior advisor and the administrators office of policy planning and innovation at the substance abuse and mental health services administration. she provides leadership on national policy related to mental health and substance abuse, issues for children adolescents and families. larke has dedicated her career to improving the lives of

children, families and communities. and she's also been a super great supporter of our work on the forum. please welcome larke huang. [applause] >> okay, good morning. >> good morning. >> for the third time. still a good morning. thank you, deputy assistant attorney general mcgarry and a gracious welcome and thank you to attorney general lynch for opening this very important meeting. i had the honor of welcoming all of the on behalf of the department of health and human services. the are a number of hhs agencies, cdc, administration for children comes person my agency samhsa that are actively partnering with this youth violence prevention initiative with the department of justice.

as the present speakers before me have that i would like to also express a special welcome and thank you to the young people and the young leaders here who are representing their cities. your courage, your resilience inspires us to be better public servants. your work to end youth violence in your communities motivates us to be more conscientious members of ours. andangel continued optimism in the face of struggle gives us the confidence that by working together we can create better futures and opportunities. in fact, let's have these young people and young leaders from their communities stand up so we can acknowledge them. [applause] terrific. thank you for being here and thank you for being leaders to our future. that time in urgency of the summit couldn't be greater.

the forum was born out of youth violence in chicago several years ago and now continues as explosions of violence, trauma, racially charged events are occurring around the country on a much to regular basis. the latest events occurring just 30 miles from here in baltimore one of our new forums. i'd like to share very briefly three things with you. first, it's with urgency outrage, and necessary specific action steps that we need to disrupt the finding that your zip code is your destiny. a study of d.c. metro area found a life expectancy could be correlated with metro routes. the further you kabul from the heart of the inner city the greater your life expectancy. just last week it was reported that in washington, d.c., ward eight has 10 times the rate of infant deaths. that ward three has.

to ward nearly five miles apart. ward eight residents are primarily poor residents and people of color. and a just released study from the census data reported that geography plays a significant role in shaping a child's chance of future success. some counties dramatically improve a poor child's odds of having up the social ladder. others have had a negative pull on the children were ever here in that community whittled away at a poor child's odds of thriving as an adult measured by potential earnings in adulthood. counties with the worst social mobility have among the largest minority population. poor children in these neighborhoods continue with struggling schools and racial and economic health and housing segregation. we need to collectively do something about this. second point, kids that are too sad or two mad have problems

learning how to add. so kids that are sad, too sad, too bad can't and. we know more about the impact of toxic stress, dramatic stress and exposure to violence than we've ever known in the past. we have researched techniques that map under a developmental brain and nervous system changes that occur with such exposure. we now know that these adverse childhood experiences can lead to chronic physical diseases, mental and substitute disorders, risky sexual behaviors to the inability regulate emotions and behaviors, sometimes associated with violence. we know that children exposed to physical maltreatment and chronic and complex, are often tightly wound them over vigilant overly sad and depressed, hopeless or angry and aggressive not knowing how to deal with these issues. we can't expect that these children just ease into school and focus and attention were put

these children become wired differently and it takes a lot to rewire them and put them on healthy developmental track. but we know it can be done. it's not just a matter of school readiness for children getting our children ready for school but that schools must be ready to receive and support these youth and all that they bring into the classroom. [applause] thank you. so we must ask ourselves, can we disrupt the past from schools to juvenile justice? especially for youth of color especially for use with different kinds of physical, mental, psychological challenges. we have a number of effort, summon your cities that are focused on addressing the trauma of young people get we know some emergency room interventions school-based interventions neighborhood programs, conduct and public health, jobs and mentoring programs can prevent or reduce the impact of trauma and violence. we have emerging evidence that for youth in detention

addressing their trauma may result in less probability of reoffending. but we need to put this drama knowledge and prevention practices to work. my third and final point is collaboration which is what your teams are doing here and what we are trying to do as federal agencies and working with you and across our federal agencies as well. it means more than being in the room together. it means putting resources and innovation on the table. as i mentioned earlier multiple hhs agencies are involved in this initiative, the department of justice can education, housing, labor. and since we are all making a commitment to collaborate ends support of the public health and the public safety. we are learning to talk across our silos and departmental mandates which is not an easy thing for us to do often to recognize that public health public safety, public education,

public housing go hand in hand in hand together. that good outcomes in each domain are dependent on the other that are essential for flourishing neighborhoods. but convenient and talking is just the first step that we must bring resources, whether that's funding, data people are new ideas to the table to do things differently. we must generate sustained political will. and we must identify practices and policies that worked for specific communities. as federal agencies were trying to go beyond the talk. we invite you to visit a new cross agency website which brought about 15 to 20 different agencies and departments together, and to visit his website, www.youth.com/national forum. defined the funding announcements and information resources, learning about success stories and communities an evidence-based programs that

come from different systems perspectives to get to recognize that each one of our federal agencies we have our own collection of evidence-based practices, whether they are in juvenile justice, child welfare health and mental health education, law enforcement all critical components for building safe, resilient and thriving communities. the challenge is for you of all those together. we need to use new strategies including technology which is so much a medium of youth of today and something that we can very much learn from their leadership. so in closing, i want to acknowledge your critical work and express our commitment to ongoing collaboration. and the collective impact that we can have in ensuring that every child has a support to maximize his or her potential and contribute to thriving communities. so finally i believe you were three questions as you go through this summer. first, think about why were you

why were you in particular selected to come to this summit? and why did you accept the invitation? and third, what are you going to do differently when you go back to your communities? thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much clark. what a great challenge to all of us with those three questions. -- larke. now i'm pleased to introduce our final speaker one of our biggest come and i mean biggest, supporters on capitol hill. congressman bobby scott has fought consistently and passionately for comprehensive juvenile justice reform and effective prevention programs for youth. it's safe to say is one of the nations most vocal advocates for

kids. he's also been a tremendous ally and supporter of the administration's work under the national forum. and i think it's worth pointing out that his district doesn't even have a forum site and so you know -- yes you know how much his heart is in this work. it's an honor to have him with us this morning. please welcome congressman bobby scott. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, betsy, for the very kind introduction and promise for future site. good morning. i want to thank you for being with us today and want to thank the attorney general and the secretary of education and the representatives of health and

human services for coming together and really pointing out that choice that we have. they represent the choice. we can educate the next generation today or we can incarcerate the generation tomorrow. that's a choice that we have and i commend the cities have joined the forum today your dedication to a comprehensive approach to the problem of youth violence is one that should be replicated all over the country. we know what works. when it comes to areas of public policy, we know what works. unfortunately, it's not always politically expedient. what polls welcome what has a catchy soundbite. we know that in congress for too long we have followed the political slogans and soundbites. we have come up with slogans like tough on crime, three strikes and you're out,

mandatory minimum sentences abolish parole. educated to write it's even better. if you do the untold crime you do the of the time. all of those have been studied very little if anything to reduce crime. action a couple of them actually increase crime. but they loaded up the prisons to the point where we lock up a higher portion of our population than any country on earth by far. as we just put a little bit of that money out into with the children's defense fund called the cradle to prison pipeline into a cradle to college adequate pipeline, we know we can save money. it takes an effort, takes some commitment and it takes making the right choice. that right choice is a continuum of services starting very early. i say real early, teen pregnancy prevention to reduce the number of children born to dysfunctional families prenatal care to reduce mental retardation and learning

disabilities. nurse visits right after birth have been studied significant reduced child abuse which is highly correlate with future crime. early childhood education to make sure that children can read by the third grade. accounts up to the third grade you've learned to read. after the third grade you read to learn. if you can't read by the third grade you're not learning by the third grade can you on the way to dropping out which is highly again correlated with future crime. afterschool programs that constructive things to do access to college. we need to make sure that people growing up see their older brothers and sisters and neighbors going to college and higher education. if they see they are not going then they can can figure out they are not going to do. that has a devastating impact on their inability to stay up late at night and do all the studying and make the sacrifices. but we know if we end if we get into the cradle to prison

pipeline and create an accredited college and career pipeline, i've introduced the youth promise act which follows pretty much what many of you are doing today. it's more of a processor with any program. that process is you get the community together. he figure out how much money are you spending on prisons and teen pregnancy because you know together could crime reduction program you reduce teen pregnancy and a lot of other social pathology. what are you spending on it today? a lot of communities will be absolutely embarrassed because the very high crime areas they may be spending more on social pathology, incarceration teen pregnancy and other kinds of problems than they spent on the school board budget. and so put the number in the middle of the table because if you're going to come up with a plan that would reduce that in half, then you shouldn't limit. you give $100 million wasted and counterproductive incarcerations, you need to make sure that you come up with

programs that can do something about it and you're not limiting your imagination too little programs that may help a few. you need to have a comprehensive evidence-based program. and when you come up with that with a plan, evidence-based and we put that in the bill evidence-based as opposed to what? as opposed to the slogans and soundbites you would be funny if he did with it into bill, come up with evidence-based but do something about as you put the plan to study it to make sure it's working if you ask people to save money can get him to chip back in so that the programs can be funded in the future, we will help fund the program once but after that the savings ought to be enough so that you can continue the program in the future. that's the kind of approach that can significant reduced crime and save money in the process. we know the prevention and early intervention approach is the way to go to the attorney general mentioned a report on children exposed to violence. they are much more likely to be victims or perpetrators of

violence in the future. a solution in that report was actually reduce violence and have a lot of things you can do to reduce violence. the interesting thing about that report isn't mentioned the criminal justice system twice. one, you're trying too many children as adults and joint just outside. and two, zero tolerance ought to come to an end. [applause] the entire report was prevention and early intervention counseling and things like that. and not the criminal justice system because the attorney general's report concluded or at least inferred the criminal justice system is not an effective way to reduce violence. they can respond to violate but it cannot actually reduce violence. so we need to work together to make sure that we are actually reducing violence that i want to thank you for making the right choice, to follow the evidence

to back to reduce violence than to play politics. you are actually doing what works and prevent the prevention is the right strategy to use and for that i want to thank you. i advise you to keep up the good work because the next generation is counting on your good work. thank you very much. [applause] >> so thank you all the more for making available to help us out with his big thank you so much bob. so as we transition to i like to ask our panel us to come up for what is is entitled champions are just as complete as working to end youth violence dignity to join me now invoking our mayors from camden, minneapolis, oakland as they come up.

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> so this is kind of exciting for me. this is an opportunity now for us to have a conversation with leadership that really is tasked with leading the work. and so when we thought about this conversation, we knew that we would hear for support from the administration but we knew we would have congressional leadership both at the federal level speak to you what we can do at the national. but so much of what we do when it comes to addressing and preventing reduce the youth violence is led by our mayors. we know when we put together the form we said we need a

commitment, clear commitment from mayors chiefs of police to our school superintendents, our public health commissioners that we knew that it kind of started and ended with the mayors. and so i'm delighted to have with us mayor read from camden, mayor high just from minneapolis, mayor schaff and -- pretty heavy hitters. you have their bios. i would encourage you to look at those are i want to jump into the conversation because i think what we have here is an opportunity to directly from some mayors who i would say just in short dated. they understand how important this is. entities start off i want to do is have our mayors who i know are not shy and who i know will speak their minds share with us just take three minutes, go down the table first and that the open for us the conversation and

frame for us why is this important, what is preventing youth violence so important for you and that you here with us today, you have a number of things on your plate. you have endless list of responsibilities. why are you with us today? what is so important about addressing this issue for you? so i would love to have you opened up for us. take that question and respond to the end and will move further into sotomayor hodges, let's start with you. >> all right. is this working? i don't know how to turn this on. is this working? okay. good morning. i walked slowly because i knit need if i sat here i would be first but -- [laughter] the greatest is this is a priority of mine. it predates my dad asked me although i was on the city council. but we put together a blueprint for youth violence prevention in 2008. the reason why when i walked through the doors as mayor a

year and a half ago i have made such a priority is because i know the future of our city depends on the. there's a moral argument to be made about violence and youth violence, and the fact that it is not evenly distributed across populations, across the city across cultures. it's not. that in and of itself is at the fabric of the committee and at the foundation of the committee? for me this is an issue for every single person in the city of minneapolis as well as every single person across the country country. but if that is not persuasive argument for people come it's also our economic future. ..

>> and we the baby boomers are retiring we know that we're going to need all kinds of people stepping up to plate to take those jobs, and we know that the population is increasingly of color, and we know that our kids of color are the people who are increasingly not getting the education they need to take those jobs, then we are just shooting ourselves in the foot economically. a study of the minneapolis/st. paul region shows if we don't, if we were to end these inequities by 2040, we could have $32 billion more of personal income sitting on the table. so this is important to me as a human being frankly knowing what's happening in my community, knowing it's just

wrong on a moral level, and then as a mayor who has stewardship of our city and the public safety, but also of our economic future. >> thank you, mayor. [applause] so mayor again mayor schaaf, say as well why here, why is it so important for you? >> my name's libby schaaf, i'm the newly-elected mayor of oakland, california, my hometown. and growing up in oak poland, you know, this sense of violence was something that held the city back. i remember being a little girl scout and going to my first national encampment, and somebody asking me if i was afraid to live in oakland. and the performance of our public schools have been the other thing that just always felt like it was holding our city back. all this just like mayor hodges said, unmet potential. you look at these statistics

and they are shameful. you talk about racial disparities, and oakland 77% of our caucasian third graders lead at grade level. only 27% of our african-american students read at grade level in third grade. 23% of our latino students. that is shameful in a city that prides itself on progressive values, diversity and inclusion. but i think as mayors the statistics are daunting, but it is the personal, visceral experience that you have. it's the morning when you hug your own 8-year-old and then get the call about an 8-year-old that was shot. and it's having to go to that neighborhood and try and help a community, not just a family, but a whole community make sense

of something so sense lens and that this child -- senseless and that this child and i'm, you know recalling a specific example, an 8-year-old girl who was murdered on purpose as a retaliation for a gang-related murder her father had committed. to have to attend the open casket funeral of an 8-year-old child is something that is so personal and heart wrenching and it's not just the tragedy of of that 8-year-old, it's the tragedy that we as a community raised a young man who made that decision to purposefully kill her. and so it's a loss of two lives. and so i think that is the sense of urgency and the sense of personal touch that i think we mayors bring to the conversation. >> oh, thank you. thank you.

[applause] mayor redd? >> yes. good morning, everyone, and thank you, theron, for inviting us to participate in this panel. i have to say sitting here with my colleagues today from across the nation i can feel their passion and their energy, their commitment and drive to bring about public safety and to reduce violent exposures for our children who are growing up in urban centerings. i certainly want to recognize and thank the forum because we are excited in camden for the work of the forum and how we are able to enhance public safety. and so the question is why is this important to us as mayors? i can tell you that taking office in 2010 public safety and education has been a priority of mine. camden has held the dubious distinction of being the most dangerous city in america and the most impoverished city in

america. and as a mayor assuming office with a number of issues all happening at the same time i wondered to myself how can i best help the children, youth and families in our city to overcome violence in the neighborhood and certainly to increase academic outcomes in our school system, making sure that our children are going to college or coming out of high school with a career that they're ready to enter into. and, indeed, driving a wedge in the cradle-to-prison pipeline. and so in camden we have begun to embark on a holistic plan to enhance public safety in our city. our plans started with a transition to a camden county police force in 2013. and what i remember of that day was hearing the sounds of children at play as we made a

switchover to a force that would allow us to put more than 400 officers patrolling our streets and our corridors and certainly our neighborhoods and really launching a community policing paradigm that interacted with young people on a positive engagement. for instance, we have a pacer program, a police and community enjoy reading to enhance literacy between our young people and the police officers that read to them on daily basis. it was watching our metro officers out in communities taking up three-on-three basketball game with our young people again as a way to bring about safety in the city of camden. but we could not do this without collaboration, and i want to enhance the importance of collaboration. and we heard our attorney general lynch speak to that today in that government cannot solve this problem alone. and it is the strength of collaboration, it is the strength of this forum in

helping us to identify evidence-based strategies to really move towards the outcomes that we are looking to achieve again, to reduce and mitigate violent exposures in our communities for our young people. so public safety and education are important to all of us on this panel and particularly in the city of camden. >> thank you. [applause] last but not least, mayor gunter from salinas. your thoughts. >> well as you become a mayor you realize you've taken on a large responsibility, and it isn't just hiring policemen and firemen and patrolling the street and seeing that. i come from a unique background. i did a tour of duty in vietnam came back and was a policeman for 33 years. i've seen a lot of youth violence, i worked a lot of the homicides. and i looked at it differently as i stepped into the role of mayor. i realized that i had a huge

responsibility working with the youth of our community. i've had the blessed position of stepping into a program where we've reached out to our community, and we realize that we need education, we need to work with our youth, and we have a couple of our youth leaders here. and it becomes your drive, it becomes one of the many things that you want to do. and as you do this, you realize that it's not done by the city alone, it's not done by the mayor. and i used a phrase "bully" in one of the forums yesterday and the group looked at me kind of odd, first time they had ever heard somebody use the phrase bully and realize it could be meant in a good way. i think sometimes the mayor has to be a bully and has to bully all the other organizations in your city. you have to work with your education, your health your faith-based community. i'm very blessed, i have a very strong faith-based community. i had a little breakfast for 320 pastors all showed up for

breakfast, and we had someone talk to us about juveniles with mental illness something that i hadn't thought about. and the number that had been going to juvenile halls that probably should have had some mental health other than incarceration. you know early childhood development, libraries how important all these things are your parks and recreation, you know your public works. how do you plan your parks? you don't think about that. your social service programs and your police department. how do they react? how do they work? we in salinas have had our ups and downs in the last couple of years. we've had lots of homicides lots of violence. i have a very good chief of police, and i'm very blessed to have that, and i have a very good police department. they're working very hard. but we also have all the other partners that i think drive you a little harolder as the mayor. and i know -- harder as the mayor. and i know these three ladies work very hard, and they all do it for the big salaries they make, i'm sure. [laughter] they give up, they give up a little more of their life.

and when their cell phones ring, it's not because people call you and say, hey, you're doing a great job, keep up the good work. [laughter] they're calling you to tell you what's wrong whether it be a pothole, but when you get that phone call that another young person has died, it hurts. you feel the passion. you go, first of all, as a cop my goal was i gotta get 'em and i was very good at getting 'em, but now i've got to figure out what causes this. i have a police of chief's job to go get 'em, my job is to figure out how we can prevent the future ones from happening to help him with resources and to help the public work as a whole community. i have a very young population. a thursday of my community's under 28 years old. we got rated as one of the dumbest nations -- cities in the nation by some panel, and i got angry and called 'em up, and i said how dare you? well, you don't have enough engineers. well, i don't have a four-year college. we've got one coming to our

town. that was the number one reason we were rated as dumb, and i was, like, livid. one of the things we've worked on, i've learned to blow off the bad news a little bit. [laughter] not much. but a little bit. talk about my community. we have good people. we produce produce for the entire world a $4 billion industry. we have an ag tech summit coming. we have silicon valley 45 minutes away and they're coming to our town, and they're working at teaching our young people about computers in that zip code that nobody wants to be from. but i think the reason that my group of friends are here, we believe in what we're doing and we believe that there's hope and we believe that we can make a difference and we can turn it around. all we've got to do is each community save one child and we're moving in the right direction, then it'll be two and we'll move forward. so that's why we're here. >> thank you. [applause] z -- okay. so it's evident as to why we

wanted to have a conversation with you. it's both personal, it's both your commitment to your community, it's the inequalities, it's the challenges that you see. and understanding that you can't do it alone. and so having this kind of collaboration and building this community is necessary. so we thank you for that. and we know, though, that that work is not easy. and i think one question we have is how are you in your communities with your leadership building those necessary collaborations? people have talked about there's those groups that, you know, you have the authority, you have certain systems, you have certain sectors where you have the authority. you can easily kind of give the instruction, give the order. and it happens but there's also partners you have to pull in who you don't necessarily have oversight, you don't have a say in terms of how they might use their resources. nonetheless, you need to partner with them in your city. so how are you going about building kind of the necessary

coalition that you need to address these challenges at once again it's personal, it's the families that you see who are touched by violence, it also has an impact economically on a community. so how are you going about pulling in all those necessary partners to do this work? again, i throw that open to the full group but i will not holds to the order -- hold us to the order that we go down the line. [laughter] i know some people have thoughts on that. would one of our mayors want to -- i know we're on this list where i might ask but i throw that open as a question to see who wants to take first lead on that. and that's all i'm going to say. >> all right. i'll be happy to start. you know, in our city we formed a group called the community alliance in safety and peace. they meet every other wednesday morning at 7 a.m. for some very bad coffee, and there are 70 nonprofit groups that come together. but we've also included our health d., our probation

department, our education. we held it in one of our salinas school district, we hold it in their conference room. and it always amazed me after i became the mayor the first time you go to this group, 7:00 in the morning people are happy, they're there for passion and a reason. and i think what this has done, because they all see what the other groups are doing they get a chance to work together, we have presentations and the energy level in that room is amazing because it falls generally the day after one of my council meetings where things always aren't pleasant. so i walk into this room and these people are jazzed, they're enthused about what they're doing. they talk about the young people. not by name, the ones they're saving. and they talk about program leaders and what they're doing. it forces me to up my game a little bit, to be a little better at what i do because they're very good. the city has reached out and said how do we keep this

sustainable, how do we get all these groups involved? well one of my concerns as mayor was we had been funding two full-time and a half-time position for our own city community alliance of safety and peace. so we moved the funding into something for sustainable so if i drop dead as the mayor and the next person doesn't like this program, they can't touch it. it'll take 'em years to undo what we've done. but i think what makes it work and how you get the other groups involved is you have to use a little bit of your political savvy and power and tell them you go to your educators you go to your probation and say this is going to make you look good. everybody in those positions want to look good. and you sometimes have to convince them this is going to help them. but in reality what you have -- you're telling them is this is going to help your community. because if kids aren't in trouble and they're getting educated, being mayor was a really cool job then because guess what? then that phone says good things

are going on. but if you're working with these different groups that you can purvey the importance of this, then you're stepping up. and i think that's really what works. >> well mayor, thank you for that because i've had the privilege of being there at 7 a.m. with you all -- [laughter] bright and early with all those stakeholders around the table in the room and like you said some 70 folks that you all were able to brick together to do this. -- bring together to do this. you have to talk to salinas and check in with what their doing because this is a very impressive approach. to bring that number of people together on a consistent basis to talk about violence prevention and really to have people held accountable for all that is taking place to address that. so that, i think is a great model and example. i throw it out to my mayors, other thoughts on how are you building the necessary coalitions and collaborations to do this work? >> i'll jump in. i want to talk about why, the evidence that it's is so important to have that coalition. in oakland california we are

doing just about every single model program. i mean, we're doing it all. we are the national model for emergency room intervention, we have public health officials trained, clinicians ride with our police and respond to calls. we are a model for restorative justice practices in our schools. i mean every model program, ceasefire, both the chicago and the boston models -- [laughter] we do it all. and yet our outcomes are still completely unacceptable. and i'll tell you a little secret, as a council member i discovered that i had this really interesting constituent that lived in my council district. her name's rachel davis. you may have heard of her. [laughter] and when i found out what she did, we sat down on a park bench one sunny afternoon before i was mayor, and i said why is it that oakland still sucks?

[laughter] we're doing everything right. what program are we not doing? she said, libby oakland is doing every right program, but there never has been a coalition, there never has been a body where there is shared ownership of the total agenda. [applause] so i've only been mayor for a little over 100 days, but boy i picked up the phone and said, rachel, now i'm mayor, and we can do this. [laughter] and so we had the first meeting of oakland's new coalition and we just started our blueprint planning process very inspired by the work in minneapolis. and the energy in that room was amazing, and it was a group of people that had never in my 16 years of working in oakland politics -- i'm new as mayor

but not new to politics -- i had never seen those people in a room together. >> fantastic. >> and so that is the important work that needs to be done, and part of it is ceding a little bit -- it's both being a leader and putting out that call. because when the mayor calls people do show up. it is a nice thing about being mayor. but at the same time, you also sometimes have to share that leadership. so this coalition is cochaired by the president of the city council. in oakland the mayor doesn't sit on the city council the mayor's more like the ceo. the president of the council the police chief and the superintendent of schools. and the four of us are e -- equal co-chairs of this coalition. so both making the call leading by example and then also sharing that leadership. and the last thing i'll say and then i'll give it over is to demonstrate how much you care about the issue, sometimes you've got to do a little bit

more than just call a meeting. i have also spent my first 100 days sitting in restorative justice circles with 100 oakland youth. and so i'm trying to demonstrate my commitment through action and example. >> fantastic. no, thank you. thank you. [applause] >> so the evolution of coalitions in camden sort of began in 2011 when we created what i call the congress of resident faith-based and community-based organizations. and it was sort of envisioned as a house of representatives for each of our 19 diverse neighborhoods having representatives that would come to a meeting that we would hold monthly, again so that i could report out on progress and/or the channels of the city and also hear back from the residents. but sharing all of that information at the same time. the next step became our designation as a form site which

builds on some of the work that was already underway, but also allowed us to expand that coalition to wring in our -- to bring in our school district, to get out of the silos to bring in our nonprofit organizations. and individualings that wanted to contribute -- individuals that wanted to contribute to the social fabric of the city of camden. it also includes, you know, having all representatives at our county, state and federal government. and, again addressing an issue together with a shared vision, a shared mission on how do we enhance effectively public safety in the city of camden, and then how do we create the social supports that are necessary for children, youth and families to survive. and so as we moved on in work of the form and we went through our training and received technical assistance we also partner with a nonprofit that's been effective in delivering services which is the center for family services. and they work with us on

trauma-informed care. and not only were we able to launch the cure for violence, cure for camden is what our model is called based on a chicago mold, we were also able -- model, we were also able to work with the newly appointed superintendent to integrate intervention supports and second step programs in the school curriculum. again, to begin to mitigate and to reduce the exposures to violence that our children were facing. and we also worked in partnership, in collaboration the police department with the school district with the mayor's office to create safe corridors to school. so i believe that the coalitions are very important and the work that we're doing in order to scale up our operations, but we have to start with the program that's evidence-based and that works, that demonstrates outcomes that we can track and monitor and certainly to go back and to tweak those things that are not working. so public safety and education

are a constant dialogue discussion can planning and focal group in the city and how we can get better at it and how we can get the message out there. i think it's also important to share this excitement that we have in this room with the residents. begin to teach them what you're learning here in washington d.c. so that they can buy in and take ownership of the work. because at the end of the day it's the youth it's their parents, their grandparents that are going to sustain all that we're doing once we go back home. >> fantastic, fantastic so, mayor redd n that -- [applause] and that's really the theme here, too, is, you know a community can have a lot going on. you can have your evidence-based programs, you can have education doing something,, have law enforcement doing something, and some of these things can be model programs, but they're not always connected. they're not always on the same page or the line as well as they can be. so you all stepping in with your leadership to bring that together is important.

and it's always good to have a rachel davis. those conversations we found in the form to be good as well. i know, mayor hodges, that has been something that we've heard in other communities in terms of looking at what minneapolis has done to really build that coalition. and rightly so, made it the blue print. can you say a little bit more about, again what you're doing under your leadership to further build and enhance the collaboration that you all have? >> well, thank you. one of the -- i mean i will agree we what my colleagues said, that the power of mayor to convene is strong. and choosing where to use that is important and this is one of the key places, as i said earlier, for the city. this is crucial moving forward. you know, having it be evidence-based is very helpful as well, and fact that some of the evidence coming out of our seven years of experience is very positive in terms of what our youth crime numbers look like and our youth violence

numbers look like. i think refreshing the blueprint over time is important. we take a look at it. we've done that and recently you know, we have new leadership every once in a while including right now. one of my co-chairs sam simmons, is here. but there's one of the things that i think helps it be a coalition is that we use a public health model. this is housed, for the most part in our health department. and so that helps bring a whole bunch of people to the table who might not feel that it was of them or part of them if it were simply considered a law enforcement issue. and i think people here address that a lot. but having that, having that be at the core is important. but there is a difference between how do you bring people together and how do you keep people together. and i think that, that's where you have to employ some kind of different strategies. and a couple of them are

personal. i think mayor schaaf said it well being present with people is important, and that's a personal choice that can be made. for any of the leadership, but including the mayor, to be present in the work and to keep real with it. and a personal skill to have and to cultivate is being willing to withstand a great deal of discomfort. because as things move forward change is required. change is uncomfortable for most people, and the pushback -- you know you're doing well when the pushback starts, and you know you're doing better when it gets stronger and stronger. and the challenge is, at least in minnesota part of the pushback is people stop come toking. and so, and i'm just -- stop coming. and i'm just going to name us here, sometimes knowing how well to think about white people -- everyone breathe i just said white people --

[laughter] knowing how well to -- how to think well about white people and the places where we get stuck, the ways we've been steeped in racism, the places we've been steeped and may not even know that's how we're responding to a situation, having a good skill there can help approach people who may be withdrawing rather than engaging, who may be objecting for reasons that seem reasonable but in the collective or in the aggregate are actually getting in the way of the work going well. to approach those people with compassion, but also holding a tough line. and, you know, prevailing as the various mayors have said prevailing on self-interest and the fact that success here makes people look good, success here makes the community stronger and better. that everybody has a stake in this going well. but approaching folks with

compassion is a good skill set even in the face of not wanting to have compassion because what we're doing -- and by "we," i mean white people -- often is irritating, to say the least. [laughter] so i will just put that out there as one of the things that needs to be addressed and grappled with with a leadership team to think about in terms of keeping people together in the face not only of, you know, waning interests, but in the face of success because in success it means that change is happening, the change is where people get uncomfortable. the system is set up to get results, so to get different results, you have to change. so that may not be the typical response, but i think it's a useful thing to put on the table. >> no fantastic. i think, again -- [applause] i think to the point it's one thing to get people around a table, it's also another thing to deep people. and we often -- to keep people.

we often say sometimes a crisis happens, and everyone shows up. and they'll at that moment kind of say we're going to rally, we're going to get together, but sometimes to really sustain the work requires some difficult conversations. it requires some education at all levels. and you all through your leadership do much of that and have partnered well with many to do that. it goes to that question then about priorities. and in talking about you can get folks around the table, you can start to have a plan, you can even go as far as to implement it, but things come up. we've seen ferguson, we've seen baltimore, we've seen things across the country that are often taking the national attention and also taking attention at the local level in terms of things that you have to, as a mayor, respond to, you have to deal with. but all the while we still have this issue of trying to prevent and address youth violence. we have our coalition, we have our teams together. how in light of sometimes the shifting priorities and the challenges that may or may not

be expected, how do you -- and through your leadership, what are you doing to keep people focused on preventing youth violence as a priority? you talked about your coalitions, you've talked about how you're trying to work your plan. but when it comes to setting this as a priority, what all are you doing? i think there are some examples of what you said, but i want to make that point because i think that is, in part, how this gets ten ad, really making sure we have a priority. so i throw that out to you all again. how are you making this a priority even amidst the other challenges you first. first -- you face in your cities? >> one of the key things that we do at the city and that i do as mayor is embed it into all the work that we're doing. i mean it's one thing to elevate it and to name it and talk about it publicly and really show that we're doing stuff and getting results and

that's important but embedding it in all the other work that we're doing in the city anything from, you know certainly as part of our my brother's keeper work and our my brother's keeper initiative, it's one of the goals. but it's also i have a cradle to k cabinet which is focusing on kids 0-3 when that brain development happens. but knowing that children that age are exposed to violence, and that exposure to violence is one of the predicters of perpetrating or being a victim of violence later means that that has been incorporated in the cradle to k work, considering it as youth violence prevention. as i said, it's part of our health department. it is part of our law enforcement strategy, but it's also part of our economic development work, you know, knowing that we need to put economic development in the places where the violence is occurring. we know where those hot spots are in the city. you know, focusing some of our economic development strategies where they're needed most because job opportunities, you

know, you talk to anybody who's in that situation, you talk to any of the guys who are in that situation or the young women, the first thing -- can what is the one thing, i have asked this question, what is the one thing that if it changed would make a difference in moving you away from rather than toward violence and this kind of life on the street. and without hesitation all of them say a job. and so embedding it in everything we do, including economic development, including our work in education not just, oh, if we reduce inequities and inequality, things will get better generally, but how do we think about our economic development in terms of violence reduction, not just how do we reduce violence through economic development, if that makes sense. it's talking it to the -- it's taking it to the different places that have an impact, not just expecting those places to come and work on youth violence. embedding it, diffusing it throughout the system. >> great, great. others. thoughts of how you make it a

priority because i think again you know, we come together and we have this summit, it's great that we're all here, it's great that we're talking about this, and we believe that youth violence is preventable, but we know that we have to stay the course, and so it has to be a priority. how are you setting that as a priority in your cities? >> like mayor hodges, camden too is embedding the work of the forum in a city government and certainly in our collaborations. so we pretty much live, eat sleep, breathe this youth violence prevention program. and so our strategies, we've come up with an acronym it's entitled pier, prevention, intervention enforcement and reentry. and underneither those strategies are aspirational program, some of which i've talked about here this morning. but as mayor hodges indicated, so it's also translating that work into economic development, and for camden unless we could make camden a safer city, we

could not attract in private investment. and with private investment comes jobs. because camden also had probably the highest unemployment rate in the nation when i started as mayor, 19% was our unemployment rate. we're trending down to about 15%, and we look forward to trending down either, even further. but having jobs for residents for our adults that are coming home, reindustry because we know -- reentry because we know a successful reentry program is one that has employment at the end of that walk. but making sure that we have jobs for our youth during the summer. i remember growing up in the city and probably in my early 20s when we had about a thousand summer youth employment jobs that were federally funded. well obviously, that's not the case at this time, so we have to go to foundations and to private employers to consider hiring our young people and their entities.

so i'm pleased to report out that we have one such entity whole tech, which is going to be a technology and manufacturing company, moving to the city that will start out initially with 400 jobs, eventually scale up to a thousand jobs. but what is so unique about this company is that the president wants to work with our school system and particularly with camden high which is notorious for a high school dropout rate that exceeds 60% to create a career technical education program that is linked specifically to the jobs that are going to be created when his company comes to the city. so with those pipelines that i think we need to have in place again that are embedded in our system and that we're making systems changes that can sustain themselves over time. >> fantastic. and i hear you all kind of using a word there in terms of having things really embedded having the conversation with multiple folks, not necessarily just your traditional partners who might come to you but really doing

outreach. other thoughts on how you make this work of public safety and violence prevention and really bringing these folks together as a priority. mayor gunter? >> well, i think one of the things you look at is there's always competition for the attention of what a city does and what's going on whether it be building a new dog park sometimes or whatever people think's more important. [laughter] but if you educate your community on the important of youth violence by just putting it in plain facts, you know what? if you have a lot of violence you have thisok reputation, you lose companies you lose jobs, you lose future, you lose hope. some of the ways i think you have to as the government in working with the businesses coming in is to make the community more livable. our community alliance in safety and peace, and i have two of the members, jose andt( fernando over here, they're teaching these

programs, they're teaching youth leadership programs. that's one of the things that's going on. and then they teach adult leadership programs so that they take sustainability in their own neighbors. by them doing that, that teaches people how to empower themselves, and i think that's the first direction. and as a city by you staying on top of it working with the health department was mentioned and we have health department representatives here that are working with us, teaching us about some of the items we may not have paid attention to as a city that you can work to create the importance of how you deal with the youth violence, how you make it so that that is reduced. because when you reduce that, companies come to your city. we're starting to see that trend now. you know, i mentioned that silicon valley, the ag tech folks, they're starting to come to our community. we are opening up -- we're going to be opening up some new businesses that are going to employ people, and they're working with our junior college.

we have a junior college program that has probably got the most fantastic on the job training for welding for diesel mechanics. it's overwhelming how much they're getting through and how these jobs are becoming available to people before that had lost hope. so some of that has come through our collaboration or education collaboration and all of us working together with the true goal to reduce youth violence. get the guns out of of the hands of those kids. when we get those kids that need our help, we've got to be there to lift them up and put them in a position to transfer to the future. >> fantastic. i know complements of our friends over at casey family -- [inaudible] will have a conversation we can have our commitments be safer, very well -- communities be

safer, may well attract more businesses to our communities. play your s -- mayor schaaf, you made one of these your priorities, how are you setting this as a priority now in office? >> yeah. in campaigning i campaigned around the idea of holistic community safety. and it's kind of to take it beyond just prevention intervention enforcement reentry, but to add that root causes conversation. what is the economic self-sufficiency in our community? what are the educational outcomes for our young people? how is poverty and affordability affecting safety in our city? i'll tell you actually in oakland it's pretty easy to keep youth violence as a priority because the people of the city of oakland consider it a priority. we the city just did in preparation for our budget a scientific poll of voters to say, you know, what's your top priority as we go into the

budget? well over 80% of those polled said safety and crime reduction. it's roughly a third. it's a clear priority. and our voters are very generous. on the november ballot we had two special taxes passed. one is a renewal and again in california that requires at least a two-thirds vote. for two-thirds of your people to vote to tax themselves. i know that probably sounds miraculous in some of your cities. [laughter] but a public safety tax that pays for both increased policing as well as violence prevention initiatives, and also our school districts got a fantastic initiative passed to find linked learning that school-to-career connection that, again getting back to these root causes. and i think that is more my challenge, is to now expand that

conversation to make sure that people are thinking just beyond prevention intervention -- boy i want to be in that room. >> i know. [laughter] they're fun! [laughter] >> the issue of housing affordability is a big one in the bay area. so it's expanding the scope. >> no, thank you, thank you. so i did not want and would not at all decide to end this conversation without obviously, asking you to also challenge i think, the national leaders, the federal leaders here, the decision makers who i think again, can be partners and can work with you to achieve the goal that you have for the city in terms of reducing and preventing violence. what would you say in terms of, you know, what more can be done, should be done? you've already mentioned yourself how youd to set this as a priority you've embedded it, there's even some taxes, some policies that you have. what more or what would you want to see from federal partners and

maybe national groups that are out there doing to sport this work? -- support this work? challenge us, no holds barred, really what more can be done to support communities such as yours to get this work done? >> oh, i've got to start on this one. my list is long. [laughter] i'm sure that other people will chime in. i mean, it is shameful. we are the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have sub is citytized daycare -- subsidized daycare for children. that's shameful. [applause] happy mother's day. [laughter] universal preschool. every study shows that a great return on investment it is. [applause] free community college. a reasonable minimum wage. i mean cities like mine, we had our own minimum wage. oakland, california, minimum

wage is $12.25, but i as a city should not have to pay out of my general gunned to enforce a reasonable -- fund to enforce a reasonable minimum wage when that is the federal government's job, to set a reasonable minimum wage. [applause] ..

>> whenever there is a shooting in minneapolis and my fabulous policy volunteer i say if there hadn't been a gun there wouldn't have been a shooting. [applause] there is room in the second amendment regarding the guns and gun policy and that is the key to reducing gun violence and youth violence. if i were not constrained that is what i would say. [applause] in a practical sense you have

all been great partners. you are employing really great clutter dedicated ways for the agenda forward and recognizing the symbols where we can show that work or don't work. the one shift i would make is having an investment in parents that are eager to invest kids. i find this on the early childhood side of things coming youth prevention that is really appealing but you can't invest in the kids if you don't invest in parents and particularly who

are parents. we had a parenting program support groups to have resources for people that are parenting and i would say this to all of the leadership at the national level, philanthropic governmental, other kinds of investments because that will help us invest in kids and the next generation. >> that's great. we also have an administrator in the office who talked about the engagement of care and the department of health and human services and others we've heard that conversation kind of start more and more. that is great so as we near the close i want to give you a chance to respond to that question.

>> the first thing i would like to say is that we would like to see the work sustained and i know as the priorities shift in washington, d.c. sometimes they are shipped and programmed so i hope that the form will continue to go forward and that you continue to expand to other cities and sites that help your assistance and technical training. it helps us to reduce poverty along with funding programs that help us to work with parents and so if we are advancing education and making sure that children are reading at grade level and then when it is time to read and learn we also need to work with their parents. in our city there's does a high literacy rate among the parents and so if our parents can't read they are not going to read to

their children and they are not going to be able to help them with homework so some of those types of programs going forward if they are scheduled to assist us in a respective community it would also help to mitigate violence in the neighborhood and enhance public safety. and then finally, career and technical training programs. we need more of that. we recognize not every child is going to college immediately and i will share my story quickly. some children need to come out of high school with the skill set that they can go into the workforce. my life and personal story in one minute i lost both of my parents to gun violence. it was a community and my grandparents helped to raise me and nurture me and so when i graduated high school i didn't go only to call it although i had been accepted i stayed home because i had a brother to help

raise. so i went into the workforce and until tonight when i learned my degree. there are other young people throughout this nation that may be stated with a similar circumstance but if given the right support, the right social support they can achieve and succeed and that's why it needs to continue. [applause] we have about another hour. like someone says we said we sent all of our money to washington and then they tell us what they are going to give us back. so i will be kind to my will be thrown out of the next plane in washington. they need to work harder on the education level. they need to make sure that every kid graduates from high

school and we need to go into those areas that we make sure they are and that they have the ability to make that determination on whether they want to go to college or to the workforce. they need to work with our health department. we need to make sure that healthy children and adults. we have children that never gets examined. it probably should have been put somewhere else but we took the easy out as a community. we are probably still doing that. don't get me wrong i am a vb version law-enforcement and i also believe the department of justice has to put more money into the law enforcement so that we can put officers in communities where they are staying and working with their neighborhoods and where they built that relationship.

we have two officers in a tough neighborhood. one of the programs they've put themselves and they are actually teaching parenting classes. i get phone calls where they say this is awesome don't let it go away and the other thing is sometimes when you've got a thousand kids signing up to play baseball when we need the money to make that sustainable because the first is public safety responding to calls but there is an area that we need the help and coming up to the communities and that's what i would like to see us do. [applause] >> i know we have to wrap this up and move onto the next conversation but i have to say just on a personal note as we

have traveled to a number of cities including the community sponsored intervention it has been a large degree alongside our police chiefs hoping to drive the change and when you all speak about prevention when an officer speaks about prevention and carries a certain weight and our public health partners have told us that it is so much in their efforts to prevent to have folks such as the mayor and the police chiefs out front talking about prevention. we know the work is not easy and you have a lot of names on your plate so we couldn't have been happier to have you join us to set the stage and to show people you can challenge us and show us what is on your mind because it doesn't inform you having a care in washington to think how we can better support the great

fantastic work that you all are doing. please give them a round of applause. [applause] spin it as split as we know when it was started in 2010 the first one was the big reveal of the city plans and elect to continue that tradition so in 2014 we welcomed five new cities to the network. the city of baltimore, my hometown. i was born and raised in baltimore city cleveland, long beach' have long beach added to

the network. [applause] louisville and seattle. so continuing the tradition we are welcoming each city the opportunity to share with us or plan to develop the company of a strategy to work in combat and even eight violence. so first we had the city of baltimore. we have the health commissioner for the city and we would have the city and long beach good

morning everyone. i'm from the boston city health commissioner. on behalf of the mayor i would like to thank the form for hosting this event. when many individuals have gotten us where we are today including the other city partners from the mayors office the health department office of criminal justice thomas did attorneys offices and we are also very grateful to the department of justice for all of your hard work bringing together this inspiring group of individuals here today. the team prepared an entire presentation to talk about the blueprint for the youth violence prevention. it wouldn't be right to talk

about anything in baltimore without addressing the big elephant in the room of what happened to weeks ago. as you know a 24-year-old named freddy gray died while in police custody. peaceful protests in the city turned into riots and violence. and all the problems in the city were turned into the national news. but these are evident. i want to show you on the next slide our composite risk maps. you will see that on every natural there is a lack of employment that have big differences between see the color code between the red and the white on the screen but there are ten fold differences

between the neighborhoods that are just a block apart. not surprisingly there's also these areas that correspond to the highest rate in the city. this is in the community that he came from. the statistics also sobering. of all people adult videos are unemployed. one out of every three buildings is vacant. but the dream areas that you see are areas of high incarceration rates. many people have mentioned how personal and issue this is to so many of us and i want to share a story with you. i want to tell you about my

patient. he was 17-years-old when he came to me in the er and he had been shot five times. he was shot three times in the chest and one time in the abdomen. i knew him because he was there just two weeks ago. he had been assaulted and stabbed. he had a broken hand from punching someone. a month before that he was there for depression, suicide and many times before that for alcohol, heroin cocaine and complications. there were notes about him come a charge could fill books about him growing up in a foster family about him being in and out of the juvenile justice system. my job as the er doctor was to save his life that but i couldn't help wondering at what other point in his life could we have saved him?

we know it can't just be seen as a criminal justice issue. i've heard this in so much of what everybody said that had its roots, violence is a matter of life and death ended a public health issue. like other public health issues it's contagious but just like others we can prevent it and we can do something about it. we received the view of baltimore had been selected. we had a tight timeline but we were committed to the plan in 90 days and so with the help of the prevention institute and under the leadership we convened a broad group of public and private stakeholders.

we had plenty of meetings, six youth focus groups and interviews with our camp for men. one thing that resonated with us immediately is that the goal needs to be to prevent the youth from entering the promotion of this system. we have to focus on stopping the cycle of violence. if we have to stop it from every point of the region will justice system many people mentioned the issue of substance addiction. we have to have a plan for helping not only the youth but also their families to get back on track. i'm going to show you the vicinity of eco- vision statement which is that all people are valuable and protected in the city where there is an abundance of

opportunity for people to dream. we identified a core principles. the first and many people mentioned this earlier that it must drive our priorities. and the second coming education opportunity for job opportunities, all that has to be part of our plan as well. third, we have technology to grow knowing that brief violence and violence brings trauma. but when they are afraid to go out and play on the streets when families are suffering from violence every day so much if we feel that we are living in a war zone that's something we really have to change. we have to focus on the collaborations. every city and every

organization is on the silos and we've heard the mayor and others talk about the importance of convening around one central goal of wining the work that is being done in the city around the goal and finally the principal that reminds me of the african proverb i am as we are what we are all responsible for the safety, health and well-being. the goals that we identified that early childhood is safe and nurturing but families are supported and connected people are committed to trusting adult. a neighborhood engages young people with opportunities and finally people in the neighborhoods have economic opportunities as well. i'm not going to read the indicators that we have here except to mention we have nine indicators and measures under

each of these are things that will continue to refine over time. i do want to say a word about the structure because we know that requires a combination of approaches. we have the leadership in the city to show a more commitment second is for the communities to play an integral part and fared that we must have some cooperation because it is a true interdisciplinary coalition effort. we have our work cut out for us but we are proud of the work we've done. we developed a blueprint. we received important feedback from partners including the

department of justice and we planned on moving this blueprint into a living and breathing strategic plan that will have metrics and timelines. i also want to emphasize the last thing we want or that any of us need is another report that we are just going to file and put on a shelf somewhere. we want to make sure we have actionable recommendations and clear governance and accountability and implementations of that weekend move this critical issue forward again in collaboration with everyone in the city of. now no doubt the events of the last few weeks will also shape our thinking. the world may have seen the burning buildings and destroy

cars. what we see is that they will have their destiny determined by their zip code. they are crying out to be heard and the children that are dying on the street what they see is we see is the need for action from a public approach starting with our blueprint. on behalf of the baltimore city partners i commit to a dedicated focus to fight for equity and where the communities are in a safe city where our young people can dream. thank you very much. plus the

[applause] good morning all of you. i have the privilege of serving as the long beach city prosecutor and it is my pleasure to speak today on behalf of the mayor who wasn't able to be here today himself and presenting with me we will describe the violence prevention plan. a few years ago they held their homecoming football game. the game ended and standing on the sidewalk a young man

16-year-old who had dropped off by this point came across two rivals. those that amounted to a threat and the young man pulled out a gun and fired at least three shots. we know because he hit each one of the two ended in the third fell into the audience of people that just left the game into the body of a young woman. not involved in a gang in any way shape or form she was involved in the school a member of the track team. her family left the killing fields of cambodia to move to southern california to start a new life. it was the first for plugging her parents allowed her to

attend because it was homecoming. it was the night before following so the students dressed up. she wore a supergirl costume. after an event like that it is easy to point fingers. there's plenty of blame to go around and it was pointed at the school district the court. all the signs were there but we all know it can do more than just deflect blame and point in another direction. we also know that fingers together can be so much more. they can left largely. the rededicated themselves in the last few years to a sustainable and vigorous violence prevention plan for a number of reasons. most importantly because it was

critical to the future of our city. i'm proud to represent long beach and i want to mention some of our team members that are here today. we didn't just bring a representative of the department that we have with us the chief of the police. [applause] we don't just have a representative of the school district we have the superintendent of unified, the third-largest in california. [applause] the director of development services is here who oversees the violence prevention plan. [applause] we have the director of our own health department here and the office represented and please raise your hand. there you are. [applause]

this is a team effort and i'm very proud of this team. i have a lot of admiration for the team that has been put together and now to share the process and the details i would invite tracy who heads up our violence prevention plan. >> thank you and good morning. i want to thank the long beach team and other people in the room that journeyed with us. the god of the violence prevention. [applause] [inaudible] [applause] georgina who worked for the staff and so thank you georgina. [applause] and the violence prevention network they all supported us in

our work. one of the first things we did was map the issues of violence in the city as well as poverty, code enforcement and several other risk factors so i'm only going to share a few with you this morning to paint a picture of what is happening in parts of long beach. as you can see on the heat map gives you the most violent times so we we actually went back for four years and tracked these particulars as violence moves but historically stays in the central area of the city. we looked at the rates in the poverty and vertically you can see the same locations with the highest amount of poverty as well as youth and adults.

we are able to look at the zip code and see that we have a high concentration and adults on probation. last but not least and dear to my heart is looking at the rate of child abuse, assault and elder abuse. here we can see in the same zip codes that we have for domestic violence and high substantial cases and child abuse. we all know the correlation between those who witnessed violence and are affected by violence or abused and how that cycle then goes on to carry out later in life, so as a city we've looked at these demographics. we surveyed over 2,200 community residents. ..

its social out of the home onto the campus into the community and back and forth without right or reason. we believe if we're going to battle violence together we have to look at all these in tandem how we begin to push those things back. our vision is to long beach residents with safe families and communities come back in state schools after consuming citizens

connected to their communities. we have bold goals we set for ourselves by 2020 and we are tracking these each year. decreasing domestic violence come decreasing those who are abusing -- abused and neglected adequate decreasing the number of incarcerated youth aligned with my brother's keeper, increasing the high school graduation rate in our city and also last but not least increasing the committee's perception of resident safety through annual committee service better multilingual. i'm also proud our city has looked at the framework of risk and protective factors. we develop our plan knowing we have to reduce risk factors in a child's life and adults alike to all those negative things that will impact their trajectory of their life force and increase protective factors in the home school campus come in our neighborhoods, the library the

part in any committee. working together to make sure we're increasing those factors so every child abuse and adult stands a chance for a positive light outcome. now going to share with you three components of our plan. we working groups complete on the ground to meet every of them to look at the goals and objectives and implement our logic model. the first bucket is safe families goals increasing access to prevention services. during our planning process we uncovered over 220 social service programs provided by government agencies, faith communities. but we found is oftentimes they're not located in the neighborhood who need them the most so how do we call locate those in the neighborhood who need them the most provide into the people who need the most in that moment a of time when it's critical? we are looking at reducing family violence. when we look at the helm child abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse, we cross-reference addresses and overcommit benjamin day code enforcement

might've been a thursday friday night 911 came for a call for service. but guess what? these entities are not meeting with each other. where increases in addressing different dates of the week for different factors that are all interrelated. part of the work is developing a multi-touch with multiple disconnected or we break down the silos and talk about specific addresses and families and children who attend our schools and make sure we have a comprehensive approach in terms of helping these families rehabilitate and break the cycle of violence. our next section of the state schools goals come increasing the high school graduation rate. we know those incarcerated read at about a third critically reading level or less our third graders in long beach we are dedicated make sure they continue to read at grade level all the way through high school. we are looking at increasing forms in english language arts and math come increasing school attendance can increasing. and caregiver participation and

of course last but not least increasing safety in and around schools. this is probably one of the groups that is most nearly to my heart and and this is the safety me because practices would work with residents and help them get outside of the four walls of their home or apartment and begin to take ownership of their community. we surveyed residents, time and time again they said i wanted of the police officer who works in the police district were under the i need to know my neighbors put the they told us they want to get out and get to know each other. we are looking at increasing immunity engagement in a high crime neighborhoods, activating or reactivating neighborhood associations who have been blamed for many years in those neighborhoods, accessing programs. ripped free clip assistance, tree planting, beautification projects. there's so many things our cities offer and what i found in my presentation in the neighbors in long beach those neighbors don't even know these exist.

our job as a cities to go door to door and to activate as residents to come to the association meetings come to join meetings at it again to reform their neighborhoods from the inside out. we know unemployment is an issue as well. we overlaid the map in our city with poverty. those same track high level employment. how do we develop a strategy that we go door-to-door initial our unemployed residents in our city have access to our local come to our youth in newspapers have access to some of jobs and increasing that come increasing activation portals and use knowing that the program but a call to action for abuses committed to provide internships and jobs for our residents. last but not least collaborate with our law enforcement. this is important. we work with them as they do enforcement to hold accountable the adults are committing acts of violence against other human beings, holding him accountable for their actions in these particular neighborhoods and

ensuring 99% of people live in neighborhoods who are not committing acts of violence are safe where they live. sorry about that. and at this point i would like to turn over to doug who will finalize our presentation. thank you. [applause] >> as you can see long beach has an ambitious plan a plan that can only be accomplished with an unprecedented level of cooperation from multiple participants. the list is the core members who have worked together to create the plant had and then to implement the plan did you notice long beach has a state university, long beach state university is a key component of the. the city has a number of departments that are working together for a common goal. we also have county players, county probation, district attorney's office, the sheriff's department. we have hospitals, long beach

memorial hospital, saint mary's hospital, two very large institutions among many others working together and for the first time at least in my life working together in the same room for the same goal all wars in the water rolling in the same direction. also i would add i didn't mention earlier but we have another partner and that's the long beach ministers alliance. we have today with us pastor greg sanders, the president of the long beach alliance. thank you for coming and joining us. [applause] >> very briefly, long beach had a lot of activity before but it wasn't aligned together. for the common goal of coordinating efforts to prevent violence. but as you see any very short period of time long beach has aligned its efforts to work in this area. back in may 2014 the city council adopted its violence prevention plan called save long beach. shortly thereafter the city

procedures office received a significant grant from the department of justice for our antitank strategy which is a strategy that does not solely rely on the suppression -- anti-gang -- working on intervention and rehabilitation of former gang members. the city is not aligned the grant that it gets to coordinate with the violence prevention plan. of the city of long beach and the school board have accepted the challenge of president obama's my brother's keeper initiative and also we have consolidated programs so they could work efficiently under one department, neighborhood relations division which is new for the city of long beach. i used the word climate a if he does but i think that's important because we got in a sea of love between a lot of resources and maybe find the same in your communities. people don't know about the resources to the word sidled as

the need for organizations nonprofits department with the same city are doing similar things but they're not doing it in a coordinated effort. our next up is the line these services so there's better interaction among these groups. to secure resources to make sure these are sustainable projects come and find to increase capacity so we can continue to do the things that work right. find out what we have come online at together to secure resources and increase capacity to those are the big steps in long beach. finally, our contact information is here but i especially think the department of justice for making this opportunity available to all the cities working together both within the city and sharing this information across city lines we will be able to do far more than we could find ourselves. thank you very much. [applause]

>> thank you to the city of baltimore and the city of long beach for sharing the work that you're doing on the ground. next we will have sadiqa reynolds chief of community gilding from the city of louisville. [applause] >> good morning. >> good morning. >> all right. i am sadiqa reynolds chief of committee building as you just heard in the city of legal. i'm excited about this work or i want to let you know that the agency, first of all mayor fisher could not be today. he had a prior obligation let me assure you that our mayor is very committed to this work very committed to violence prevention whether it relates to youth, adult come as one in our community. the desire is would have a safe and healthy community where all children are been allowed to thrive such as want to be clear about this commitment today but it is a pleasure for me to be

here and to represent him. in louisville, we focus on suicide, overdose and homicide because we believe that violence even against one's self is something we need to be thinking about and dealing with. we use the public health lands when we talk about violence in our community. if we could start with i would like to use the slides look at the i have decided to abandon most of the use of my slides but we'll start with this one. because i think it's important. i want to talk a little bit about what happened in louisville and now we started this work. there's a timekeeper somewhere. perfect. so in louisville, we started first with the trayvon martin georgia amendment incident. and i think it's worth noting if any of you have not heard yet, that mr. simmons our way shot up

yesterday. he had another incident. this was a citizen so we'll just see how this plays out. i think this country owes something to public apology to the martin family but i know we are not here but i would thought i would throw that in. just because we didn't support enough as far as i'm concerned. but anyway, so when we were waiting for whether or not there would be an indictment in the zimmerman matter, we had some concern in our community that if, in fact, something were to happen and there were no indictment what would happen in our committee? there were many people who said that florida has nothing to do with us can we are in louisville, kentucky. but many of us said no and the mayor himself said wait a minute, we are connected and this will matter and people may respond. and we had to be sure that we have established trust. that's the first thing that have to do is make sure the trust and relationship in the community. for the first time you're out a to get the to ask people to please

calm down lease don't burn my city down. they can't have a level of trust. we put together a group of folks american teen and i love the mayor is here earlier same we have the power to convene a we can use the bully pulpit. we are the conscious of the community and so we ought to do that. in fact, our mayor did come brought together many, many leaders, any many faith leaders also, and we talked about what might happen if it were no indictment. because of that work and because of the conversations when there was, we did not have the outbreak. we did a protest but i'm so proud to say i participated in those things and i worked for a mayor who understood that i also needed to vent. so even with everything to lose i felt the stress. we have to acknowledge that inside many of us that causes you to feel discomfort when you see injustice. we did that in louisville.

that was good because about a month later we had a triple homicide where literally we had someone murdered in front of the police come in front of the cameras. we were able to very quickly convene that same group and then some to talk about the work. and so then the mayor asked for a report to be written. we were very very careful about who wrote that. one, had to be co-authored by the public health department. but the other thing, we got a professor from the university who had been a longtime advocate in the community. we did that because we knew the community would understand he could not be co-opted and we needed to be valid and validated. just from the constant. oneone of the recommendations in the report was that we hire someone to work with violence prevention. and we did that and anthony smith is a director and he is here today.

[applause] >> stand up. he's late to work. he won't even stand up. all, there we go. when he started from the people in the communities said don't call his -- we don't want that. we are not a violent community. we changed the name. we heard them and we call him the director for safe and healthy neighborhoods. while we have a public health lands, let me be clear that in louisville, kentucky, anthony smith office is in the mayor's office because he has the power to convene just like the mayor does. so and anthony smith calls a director, if you need to data come if you need information giving each resources, they respond. because the next call will be from hopefully the mayor, not for me. they will be lucky but anyway. this work is important. [laughter] we went through that and want to talk to you everybody showing tonight at 11.

the reality is we know what happens. when you have a poor community all of the worse things are happening in that community. when the rich folk skeptical everybody else gets the flu. we understand. i changed it up a little bit. work with me. [laughter] [applause] we worked on increasing summer jobs. we had no funding for summer jobs so that may without a new dedicated speech he really shamed of folks into creating positions. we raise money for 1500 summer jobs through public-private partnership. [applause] thank you and those jobs were targeted in the area. so we are making this every night, we will give folks resources. it okay to say this is bad, this is bad. and when you get the resources used in some of the. we tried to target that with our summer jobs. we have a coordinating council between the school system the mayor's office and metro united

way. it's an out of school time coordinating council. what that means, listen to that, the school system metro united way and the mayor's office. denominate organizations we funded? if we just change how we come to requirements on getting the money we can change some of the work. we can make sure providers have trauma informed training. you understand? so they understand what's happening when these young people are coming to them and saying -- what are we dealing with? one in four are one in six young people has been sexually molested. we've got to out of school time providers that understand that i did that and can respond to that and they don't we traumatize them. we also have come we had coding classes. the president of the united states stopped by legal last month best of all the traffic but we were thrilled to have him last night he came in as a thank

you for the coding classes providing this opportunity for years because everybody is not going to go to college. is what? if you learn how to code you will make more money than the mayor probably. keep it moving. we have a health department fellows program. we actually do young people to come and look at public health issues in the community. tell us what works for you. we give them a stipend at the end of the summer. it's competitive. we have an application process. they ought to be interviewed. they have to commit 100% attendance. they have to commit to 100% attendance. they do that. so we had another incident in louisville. we had an incident out on the waterfront and so it's one thing when you're in a poor community and to protest interest of the. it is another thing when you go downtown and we've got folks coming in. that's a different story. people all of a sudden pay attention. now it matters. so we capitalize on that and i

hope help baltimore and ferguson can i know they're doing this. when people are scared, they are already scared, just tell that you've got to invest another you don't get to do nothing. we need money. the language, dialogue conversation, we need funding. so what we got of course was increased in police because they always get that. but i love the chief in louisville, kentucky, because he said we wanted money for prevention and innovation also. so we didn't get the police are just a band-aid. what do we do on the other into? for us we increased the hours of our can reduce excomm extended the hours. o, lord, five minutes. [laughter] we about folks who have hot meals. because we understand when school is that these kids are eating so we serve breakfast and lunch except in areas where we have teenagers can get to breakfast because they weren't getting up, okay?

[laughter] we went through that and what we saw was in a zip code where we extended those committee center hours we actually saw decrease in citations come at a decrease in iran's. and it matters about the program. it's worth investing in. also our mayor allowed two hours the week for every city employee to serve as a mentor. two hours a week on the clock. [applause] we have a credible return to get young people with the recounts and also one on one, one for one mentors. this is something i love. our school system has created an equity scorecard because we recognize the disproportionate with the suspensions at all that the they about this to sit in the room as the code of conduct was revised but this is a big deal. about three weeks ago we had a celebration for every one of

color with a three-point zero and above in our community. social media didn't love it but they need to debt. because when duty to talk about the dignity data? when we talk about what is right? [applause] we have got to begin celebrating what is great about the young people that we are trying to save and engaged and about our own community. i asked at the mayor's office how many of you all saw so much? i as because cause we've all of these negative images about who we are come as a people of color. but where is the positive quick summary people in the majority have to go go out see learn. because it matters. it impacts how you interact that's i think that's important. we have the same goals. just generally speaking create and promote opportunities for civic engagement, improve

conditions support economic growth in the communities with the challenges, enhance quality intervention, promote justice. we have restorative justice in the school system and in the community. another thing we're doing, we have a young person who found her mother dead and so we talked about it and said i bet when your mother is murdered in the middle of the night the school system is notified. but what are we doing for the kids that is exposed to violence all might end to violence all night and don't get to bed until 3 a.m. let me tell you what we've always done. we pulled some staff person from what her normal job is. she now serves as the liaison between the school system and the police department. when a child has been exposed to violence we call the school and say, we don't tell them come sometimes with kids the point is when there's violence and home we want the school to know we want them to treat them like

their human. we have to work with it. i think they're phenomenal teachers but the reality is people come to us with stuff. we want to be able to respond to this hopefully we'll see a reduction in suspension. here's what we've already seen. our school system is increased number of mental health providers. that is phenomenal 13 17 framework. [applause] we have a 40 partners that are working on issues around children exposed to violence. this work is being led a center for women and families but its children exposed to violence because as everybody has pointed out that is important work and we understand that. we have our u.s. attorney is here, can you just stand up? because demand is here. [applause] and he is with us constantly. he is creating a reentry court.

in the federal court system, reentry. we understand how important it is the to people coming back into the committee, they need to be supported. we also have another advisory committee member here president of the imc, our faith later reverend vincent james. if you could stand up please. [applause] thank you. and i think it's important to celebrate partners. we have tons of partnerships anthony told me if i didn't have one side i had to slide, i had to do this would partnerships matter. this is not all. this is just some of the partners we have in louisville. we have implemented 1000 kids before kindergarten. you name it. what we try to do is benchmark. this is really important that we come to these conferences to steal if we want to take whatever you do best and we

would like to do a little progress think you're brilliant and would like to follow your bit of help if we have something to share that you will take it from us. at the end of the day we just want somebody else to live. that's what this is all about. and so we are working every day meeting with our police chief, justin planning doing, checking, acting constantly to make sure that this work gets done and it gets done in the right way. i just wanted to point the finger out advisory committee is made up of not only his attorney county attorney but we got some unlikely suspects. and ceo of banks. initially might have people go why am i here? but they did it because let me explain and this is what we say very clearly. do you think that anybody in ferguson is not a part of that solution? do you know how many conferences got canceled because of what happened because people were

outraged in feelings of hopelessness? what happens when you have a community with abandoned property and boards on the doors? we have got to do something to help heal what is wrong in america. so this is what we are doing in louisville. i hope that you can take something to with you and i thank you all so much for the time. [applause] >> thank you sadiqa reynolds come as a team of louisville. and we do hope that you all steel, sure network, or just take the strategies and ideas from each other. that's why we are here. next we will have hyeok kim, the deputy mayor from seattle, followed by michael walker and

toinette parrilla from cleveland. [applause] >> good morning. >> good morning. >> this is a good looking crowd. my name is hyeok kim, deputy mayor for the city of seattle and a great honor to be on behalf of mayor ed murray. i wanted to share kind of efforts that seattle is taking under mayor murray's leadership. those in building off of a strong foundation of work that our city has been doing since 2009 on the issue of youth violence prevention but also taking advantage of some unique opportunities that our mayor was represented with when he came into office last january. but before i go into my slide presentation i thought it might

be helpful to set a little context for what seattle is looking like today. and by that i mean wind mayor murray took office last january 2014 seattle received a distinction of being in 2013 the fastest growing largest city in the united states. it was also the city that had seen the steepest increase in rent among large metropolitan cities that same year. our city is a city that has a rich diversity. that is, that goes beyond black and white your our city population roughly about 15% of our city population comprised consists of asian-american pacific islanders. roughly historic we've had eight

to 9% african-americans, latino population a bit small at 5% and native americans historically have been the urban indian population has been about 2%. that diversity allies à la of the tensions that our city is is experiencing, like sony other cities across the nation as we deal with development and growth. we have parts of our city that are incredibly diverse. a few years ago after the 2010 census one of our zip codes 98118 zip code was declared as the most diverse zip code in the country. i think of the zip codes have since fought for that distinction. and yet seattle is also known as the city because roughly 70% of the city is white is also very segregated in how our city lives lives. and wind mayor murray took office last year there was a

lot that was very wonderful about the opportunities that were present in our city but there were also significant challenges. and one of those challenges that the mayor identified very early on was the issue of income inequality. when you break that income inequality, down to its foundation, it really is about what we as the city are doing to address the issue of institutional racism in city government and in our civic life. for the mayor he identified the opportunities that we of the city were creating for young people as really a focal point for how he wanted to address income inequality, not just for today but for future generations. so our vision statement as part of this effort is simply that all of seattle youth are achieving their full potential with the support of family and a

united, violence free community. i was livid about some of the values that drive this vision statement. since 2001 the city of seattle has instituted what was then an innovative raised and social justice initiative that has now been modeled i think by a number of other cities, but basically with all of our city programs and services, we take a race and social justice lens to ensure that we are paying attention too, not just how programs are implemented through the race and social justice lens, but to evaluate whether not we are achieving our intended outcomes with respect to equitable outcomes. we have a long history as as a city of believe in community

engagement and shared leadership, and under mayor murray's leadership we have had some very, very robust conversations about what does it mean and what does it take to take a multi-sector collaboration approach to the way that we do business. in his first year in office, the mayor had a rather successful first year and exemplified by the passage of three distinct ballot measures it one of which is identified here a pilot program, $58 million four-year start, the seed, for universal predicate in the city of seattle. focused on high quality pre-k for three and for your old. our voters in our city pass out

initiative in figure would also past a transit levy measure as well as a measure that provided dedicated funding for our parks. so transit, pre-k and parks. and underlying all of those three efforts, again, mayor murray, the connecting thread patty also exemplified, emphasize with all three ballot measures was the issue of equity. we have parts of our city where the per capita availability of a green our open spaces the resident is disproportionately less compared to the city in general. again with seattle, with all of our wonderful diversity we are still struggling with issues of inequity issues like parks and open spaces can when they get to issues around transit.

and so the efforts that the successful ballot measures last year really are helping to in a more holistic way address the comprehensive needs of the community. the other effort, and i think part of the reason why the department of justice invited to seattle to join in this incredible national effort is because since 2009 we also had the seattle youth violence prevention mission in our city of say more about that later, but that effort has given us as a said a strong foundation from which to continue our work and take it to the next level. a couple of other items don't want to mention is the mayor's youth employment initiative. and i think other cities and other mayors have successfully

implemented summer youth employment opportunities. when our mayor took office last summer we had the year before offered a 650 summer youth employment opportunities. last year mayor murray said we will take it up to 1000 to some his goal is 2000. and again like other cities we've had some strong partnership and leadership on the part of our business commuters stepping up to participate in that effort. and, finally another aspect of another example of the copperheads of approach that we're taking in seattle is a rear bridge which is an innovative reentry program operated by our seattle chapter of the urban league. some of the goals for our youth violence prevention effort focused on taking youth employment, community support and connectedness and the coordination of resources.

and as a nation at the beginning, these goals are important to understand in the context of some of the challenges that we face as the city. especially as it relates to young men of color and young people of color. in seattle among 15 and 16 year olds they represent, youth of color represents over 50% of 15 and 16 year old in our city. i think it is a national demographic trend that is reflected in the fact that 2015, if i'm not mistaken, is the first year that there will be a minority/majority in all public schools in our nation. that's a watershed moment demographically for our country. and seattle is a different in

those demographic trends. and yet what is alarming for us and what should be alarming for us is that despite those demographic trends, layered on top of them are continuing and persistent raise the disproportionately when we look at education data, we would look at crime data would look at homelessness data. and so these are just a few bullets about the kinds of data that underlies our work. unemployment is three times higher for young people in general and young people it is partially affected when we come to statistics about violent crime. and again given the demographic trends i just mentioned over 50% of seattle's youth who are 15 and 16-year-olds our youth of color. that means about all of the statistics we talk about young people, young people of color are disproportionately represented.

seattle's rate of youth disconnection is that the national average of a team .7% but for african-american youth that disconnection is the astonishingly high more than nearly 27%. among the other statistics that is alarming for our mayor is the fact that when we break down the poverty rate in the city of seattle by race, our overall population poverty rate is 13-14% which is about the national average. when you break that down by race, white children in seattle about four to 5% of white children in seattle are below the poverty rate. we look at african-american children, the poverty rate goes up to 47%. that is a stark contrast come and one that is not sustainable if we are to live up to our cities ideals of inclusion and

equity. and so what does that mean for us as we enter this partnership, this national forum work? well, it's a lot of work ahead of us. it's going to take a lot of resources and other speakers before me have identified. but there are also opportunities opportunities. so some of those opportunities are national in scope and in addition to the national forum, since the city of seattle has pledged to my brother's keeper, president obama's my brothers keepers initiative as well as the cities united initiative. with respect to our seattle youth violence prevention program, one of the things we are conducting right now as we speak is a comprehensive community assessment of that program as well as other programs related to this issue. so our seattle youth violence

prevention program is funded at about, i'm going to skip around some slides from about $5 million a year. those our city general fund. and we have benefited from some very important outcomes, positive outcomes from that initiative. including the fact that since the base line year of 2008 juvenile court referrals for violent crimes into neighborhoods served by fipp i have gone down by 49%. and yet the work remains to continue to build on this strong foundation. so what are we doing moving forward? the comprehensive assessment that i mentioned for inventory our current city investments including taking stock of what

we have strongly built up with rcl youth violence prevention initiative. but it will also i think more important for us identify the guests and services in system. suck a little bit of a problem child of your because unlike the other good student, the other cities represented that give their presentations, and we have in the city of seattle purposely taken a bit of a pause before we actually develop our plan in order for this comprehensive assessment to be completed. and so we would get the results and recommendations this july. that will then inform our strategic comprehensive efforts moving forward. part of that assessment will be a very frank and candid reassessment of what outcomes we are using, as well as the governments model to achieve

accountability. when we have as a city invested city general fund dollars as we have through a generous levy that supports educational outcomes, our seattle families and education levy that has invested over $253 million to supplement the work of our seattle public schools over the last seven years, for instance where we as a city has invested $5 million per year into youth violence prevention work and we are still seeing the persistence of the disproportionality data that i just mentioned. we as a city and our mayor is committed to taking new steps come and not just outside the box steps but taking a very candid look internally and externally, intro to say how can we do better to integrate our

efforts? extra early to say what are the partnerships that we need to strengthen in order to get to the unified outcomes that we all need to to start not just whittling away at the disproportionately data, those inequities but making ambitious strides to make sure that we are eliminating those inequities. and so part of the launch of this effort was a summit that mayor murray convened earlier this spring really led in large part and organized by maria lockhart who is here our director. we had one of the most wonderful turnouts of young people. we had about over 400 people show up for the opportunity summit at one of our high schools in our south bend a

historically low income neighborhood in seattle and i would say more than two-thirds of the attendees were young people, and specifically young people of color. we have ongoing the city's commitment to our race and social injustice initiative that will help inform begin to outcomes and the methodology that we used in shaping our plan. and we are also, as i mentioned before, taking policy, proactive policy efforts. recently i think seattle a couple of years ago was one of the first cities to ban the box to make sure that we assisted are leading by example to remove barriers to entry literally having the box in our employment forms, that force applicants to record or to identify whether or not they have been convicted of

a felony, right? and in addition to the ballot measures i mentioned last year our mayor led the effort to pass what was then the first in the nation historic increase in our city minimum wage to $15. so sort of in conclusion i wanted to just leave you with a couple of thoughts and then a quote. and a couple thoughts are this that for each of the cities i think that are represented, we in the city of seattle are accredited excited to learn from the efforts and the outcomes but also from the mistakes that other cities has and will consider i think that's part of the excitement of being part of a national cohort, a national community because no one has got the answer right. and so some of the nuggets that i will be taking on is i don't

know -- dignity data right? love that phrase and love the concept that but that phrase is motivated by. and one of the hopefully value added or edited things that the city of seattle will contribute to this effort nationally is also the benefit of having a bloomberg innovation the team. last year the city of seattle was one of a handful of cities that was awarded a bloomberg innovation grant where we will literally have and innovation delivery team that will work as a consultant on this effort, on the issue of violence prevention for young people in our city. and carlos is the director of our team and they work in consultancy with several of our

departments in the mayors mayor's office for six to nine months to help us deliver on the promise and refined methodologies for how we as a city can do better to address youth violence. so i will then leave you with a quote that our mayor shared at his state of the city address, which is an exert from a poem by mike angelo. history, despite its pains cannot be and lived. and if faced with courage need not be lived again. lift up your eyes upon the days breaking for you. give birth again to the dream. thank you. [applause] -- maya angelou.

>> good morning. >> good morning. >> my grandmother said, please follow the three b's. be brief, be bright, be gone. [laughter] that's difficult for me. thank you for having us and let me say after four years of fighting to become a part of the forum, we have finally arrived cleveland. [applause] we will go -- we come from a beautiful city which many of you may know -- he has come home. like i want to say to all of you, coming home is a great thing. come home again. so if you ever get a chance, visit cleveland. we want to be the safest city in america, and we want to join you and say this to you all. all our efforts together, but

make a difference for our communities and that's what we are so proud to join you. in our effort, cleveland is trying to come and i say this it goes back to the original concept of wait and see. what we're trying to do in cleveland really is take so many single great programs and put them together. we are very fortunate and very lucky in our city that many of the fellow initiatives that have wonderful program designs really have followed what they did decide to end their silence. and this gives you the greatest opportunity to link and integrate those. and in cleveland we want to take advantage of that where a population of young people who are coming into contact because of so many system failures.

15-25 year olds in every city here are suffering from system failure. mental health, education, public housing, parenting and racism and poverty. and know what? all of those are saying the same figure i'm saying saying the same faith are undergoing two-seater kind of get a lot of data just to get to the basics. our core principles include is to make sure we have a singular structure as multidimensional, covers all the disciplines and across all levels. that includes from birth to college or to vocation but to employment. it covers a responsibility that when you look at our city we need to build on evidence-based, data driven, programs that work. and those that don't let's change them and get rid of them.

and the third is that we cannot do this without the community. we cannot go in and make it better for someone else. we have to make it for all of us together and those of the pieces of making decisions in our city. our project is a simple. it's to look at partnerships to look at trends from looking at the bar but come of the committee and evaluating the. we have a wonderful team. they didn't want to be announced. many of you have announced the people. with the cleveland able to stand up? unlamented not individually but -- [applause] public housing, our school district our county under youth leadership. they are all wonderful people and you'll get to meet them hopefully. our goals are were simple. we have two wonderful fellow initiatives. many of you know one dci. would like to combine that structure with something that many of you may for years ago called -- a comprehensive

anti-gang initiative. i heard a lot of talk about that. please listen to your community. we want you to rethink reposition what we call things. it matters. it's also important to we have a lot of different partners and one of the other things i wanted to talk about this this is something that cannot be done a little. we truly need to look at all of the various components to work together to make a difference. in our planned we are going back to each of the workshops that is scheduled today, everyone of them as a component that should be in everyone's plan. at various levels. we have recognized despicable to say this is like 360 for me because i'm going to honor someone that is a family member today. our cousin -- i have a cousin who talked to me about 10 years

ago about youth violence. he was the surgeon general of the train into the first report on violence. his name was dr. david thatcher. that's my cousin. and what he said about that was it was a public health issue then, a public health issue that if we are very fortunate that find you all see the light. it's about public health. and our goal is to talk about some of the current issues today, is that for some reason we believe that we need to separate law enforcement from community. it is not a separate thing. policing, law enforcement, the community are all in one. we have to recapture trust retool, we still our offices and engaged our citizens and restored what should be a relationship of knowing people on a first name basis. i think what we try to do in

cleveland is look at all those things and start with something called police the system referrals but i know stephanie's here from joseph. you have a public housing and and policing. td one example how great this program worked we've had a 50% reduction in calls for service and we've increased the favorable -- than trust the police officers over 90%. think about changing the needle in that area. it's because the officers are able to refer within an eight hour window of the services that people need. we are so proud of that. we will continue to expand that as well. our fourth goal is to look at -- 15-20-year-olds and bring them all together. version of those gaps left for us to be but because i recognize we have been to all the other cities we will go through and ended with this and would introduce our health director,

tony. >> thank you michael. >> i think it's still good morning, so good morning. my name is toinette parrilla you director for public health for the city of cleveland. i would like to recognize at this time our honorable mayor frank jackson who unfortunately could not be here today because as many of you are probably aware, he is working to our report as will as just recently our abilities and we are waiting for the verdict our candidate is right now preparing for that verdict and really concerned about how the community is going to respond which was brings me to the health focus which begins with trust and knowing your community. as michael state of the can go through and have very similar maps has been at the other cities have prepared and presented today and i probably

will only need to show one map. and one map that was actually designed in 1940 when the redlining and racism and segregation and discrimination was really deep rooted in our city, which means that certain areas within our communities were designed to fail. designed to fail. so when we sense a placemat aspire zip code, it's true. which means the population, the target population in which michael identified, the age of the 15-25, our young men who are here today representing difference cities when they're supposed to start their life they have a sense of envy. they don't have to hope. they don't know where to begin. the resources can support services, the relationship between law enforcement and the government isn't there. where did it begin? where did they go?

we talked about youth violence. we have to talk about community perception, our moral character. what are we building within the families fabric of what we are supposed to promote? i think those are some of the questions we need to leave here today, not on evidence-based practices, right, a lot of people say what our evidence-based practices? it can be as simple as that an evaluation metrics, having a tracking mechanism. doesn't need to be something in depth and complicated and i think we can make things a little too complicated. win if we can take the time to develop baby steps before we start running we can be more productive and have to sustainability and systems change. because what we need is systems change. he started off with the weed and seed. and we need to make sure we

track what we are harvesting with a seat. because the time is now to the time is now and we are all here for a purpose. not to take and take this information and hoard information which always can we talk about silos and but i said it is hoarding of information. that's a public health issue. so i think it's a matter of sharing our information, how can we improve our information and have to impact ask which brings they do this. it's imperative that as we a light and quick these alliances that we create task forces that are capable of mobilizing to the hotspots that we need to intervene, for true response. we talk about our policemen who are responsible for enforcement and responding at our first social responders come if you will. so the public health