you served in iraq twice, sir. thank you for serving, first of all. welcome home. what was that like for you? >> well, combat really isn't combat all the team so there was a lot of downtime. you talk about coming home, you know, i was a really confused person but while i was in iraq i made a lot of brothers and had a lot of fun. i learned a lot about myself and about our country. >> you saw a lot of this that we're showing here and a lot of your comrades saw a lot of it. >> that right there. >> and then you come back and then we as a society expect you to be normal and to adapt once again to civilian life and that's not always the case. no, sir. i went through two divorces by the time i was 22 years old. it was a really difficult transition for me, you know? around other marines i was a squared away guy. you know, we went to school, went to work, you know, had a good time. with my relationships i didn't talk to my mother for six years.

never got to say good-bye to her when she passed away in 2006. i really didn't have a relationship with my father up until two years ago when we were both going to readjustment treatment. it was a really bad transition back home for me. >> one of the difficulties is getting the veteran who is returning home to seek out these services. one thing i've noticed about the vet center in particular here is if i call as a news reporter and say, juanita, i need access to a veteran, she is very protective of all of you. she's not going to allow me to come in and talk to you y'all unless she feels it's something that needs to get out there, but for the most part the answer for juanita is always no. does that make it easier for the veteran to seek the services? >> it's kind of tricky. i mean, as an employee at the v.a., we can't just have that break in trust between an employee and the veteran. >> right. >> you know, when i got out of

the military, that was the most difficult transition. the v.a., i thought it was for the older guys. i thought only vietnam veterans, world war ii guys. i didn't think a 23-year-old guy could go in for a checkup at any time he wanted to, and i kind of blame the military for that. you know, the military does a really good job of trying to keep you in, and wunls you say, hey, i don't want to be a marine anymore, they go okay. have a fun life. >> that's it? >> that's it. >> briefly, talk about -- >> this is where we come in. this is where we step in. we're the readjustment counseling services, and we do provide therapy for the veteran that is coming home from the war zone, from the wife that has had her husband in the war zone for two, three, i mean sometimes these guys go for nine tours. for the children that are coming back and dad is distant, dad doesn't know how to communicate with them, so we have families there be there at the vet center

at no cost. washington realizes our veterans are coming back with readjustment problems because of being in the battlefield. >> sure. >> so they say send us the bill, and they take care of that. >> it's an opportunity for you to seek out the resources that are available for veterans. veterans and their families resource fair. there's the information on your screen. april 13th. at the slapta clara county faur grounds fiesta building. there's more information. we will be back and talk more about this resource fair when we continue.

>> we are back here on communidad del valle. back with us now is a friend of the community for many, many years. welcome back to the show. >> thank you. >> you are here to make a challenge to a lot of folks because you really need the help. >> well, i would like to say that it's not personally that i

need -- i think veterans in general. i have talked to people up and down the state, and we're not really getting support from foundations and large corporations, large companies. there's even medium size companies that should be encouraged to help veterans a little bit more, to be more involved in the situation because, you know, you have been to the center downtown, and you see the numbers that come. it's event after event. we formed a new committee and we're trying to raise money for that. that's why we want to encourage foundations and companies to be more supportive of veterans. >> if you can, encourage some of the veterans out there who might be watch whoing might be reluctant to seek out the services at the vet center. how might this resource fair at the fairgrounds be kind of a buffer to kind of let them get acquainted with what the

services y'all have to offer and maybe that way? >> i would want them -- i have been working at the v.a. for over two years now, and there are still things that i learn every single day about it. there's -- you know, there's not a roon for a veteran to be homeless. there's not a reason for a veteran to go without health care. there's not a reason for our veterans not to be in school. furthering his education or working. there's so many opportunities out there just for having been a veteran. you know? the amount of benefits that younger veterans are eligible for, or the ones that haven't seen combat, but aren't making ends meet. there are so many financial elements that the v.a. can provide for every single veteran. i know that we, you know -- we have service members. we get out, and we don't have that -- we don't get the good brief, you know, and there you're going to have over 50 venders there that are going to

give each veteran their specific amount of time to tell them, hey, this is what your bets fits could get through us and through us. it's a good thing to go through. >> i would imagine it's a difficult part that might be walking through the door because after that you are going to see what's out there and when you people like juanita and sometimes alberto, when you meet folks like this, they make that transition easier for you. >> well, we've definitely -- there's an age difference between us. >> i might add. it's pretty much. >> there's nothing different between him and i. there's that stigma when you get out and go to the v.a. that you are broke, you know, and that's not necessarily true. getting to the door, i can understand we don't want to label of being broke on us. >> plus, if there's -- if there are veterans out there, you are going to run into other veterans who maybe were in your shoes at one time and now have topped stopped to help and there trying to help you get what is coming

to you. any thought on the resource says of -- >> i talked to a lot of the businesses just like you say. we're want different in the sense of one thing -- i'm sure you already know, with your -- you are talking to two persons that are veterans, and we want to help veterans. we're helping veterans. you know, there's only so much we can do, our own personal initiative. we would like to see some veterans have initiative in the process because we understand the veterans. >> we were just talking about how they talk to one another. sometimes people are reluctant to go to a vendor and other people that they feel more comfortable talking to a veteran, and we have them break the ice, if you will, and it's a very important thing for veterans. we don't mind doing that. we that's what we're there for. >> we want to see a packed house at the veterans and their families resource fair happening

on april 13th at the san antonio county fair. enjoy, it and talk to your fellow veterans. >> thank you for the work that you are doing for those that serve our country. >> sure. >> all right. up next here on communidad del valle, san francisco sheriff. stay with us. [ boy 1 ] hey! that's the last crescent. oh, did you want it? yea we'll split it. [ female announcer ] made fresh, so light, buttery and flakey. that's half that's not half! guys, i have more! thanks mom [ female announcer ] pillsbury crescents. let the making begin

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♪ the one and only, cheerios >> we're back with san francisco sheriff, ross. several prmz throughout the jail system in san francisco county that he is involved with. thank you so much for coming down. >> it's my pleasure. >> we're talking about -- your thoughts being a veteran yourself. your thoughts on the difficulty in making that first step drew the koor boor rsh i'm delighted with what your other guests had to say. i have an honorable discharge. my family is long-term vets. as a sheriff i'm very concerned about how veterans especially returning from iraq and afghanistan from their service

are now getting implicated in the criminal justice system. we were the fist in the united states, thanks to my predecessor, and establishing what is known as the cover pod, and it is a specialized re-entry pod for veterans. at the time it was established from years ago, and it was focussing, of course, on vietnam vets, and the large population and the neglect, i think, by our society to that population. now we're seeing that also exponentially occur in iraq and afghanistan vets as well. it's very specialized to deal with their needs because what we want to do is help rehabilitate them so they're less likely to come back into the criminal justice system. >> very good. well, we'll talk about that throughout the next couple of segments. let's get this out of the way, first. let's talk about your leadership right now with the sheriff's office and what you're transitioned to having like and if there were any questions about an your rank-and-file about your leadership ability given the legal issues of the past here. >> well, everybody is really the consequence mat professional, so it was nose to the grind stone

when i was actively searching last year. as i could tell from my absence and then everybody just seamlessly just wants to get the job done. that was a real testament to the excellence of the men and women of the san francisco sheriff's department. there's about 1,100 members of our department. it's about $171 million a year. we command a lot of turf in the city and county of san francisco, and i have to say i'm very impressed about the initiatives we're putting forth, and everybody is all hands on deck and moving towards those advances. >> i have been receiving some of your news letters, and it looks like you have several newspapers in place to prevent recidivism. we don't want inmates to recommit. >> in the past it's been a little bit scoffed at for our compassionate approach in the

criminal justice system because in my -- my predecessor believed there should be appearingses for alternatives to incarceration. people, taxpayers, think the pecking order of costs, it is the highest of the pecking order to incarcerate somebody. for us it's about $50,000 to $55,000 a year. if we can get a better bang for the buck and in lieu of incarceration that we can put somebody through a diversion and anti-ricidivism program for a fraction of the cost and see better results, then that's what a sheriff should do, and even a more moderate to conservative county who may not have been of that same mindset are now coming around, especially because of state prisoner realignment. >> are those programs working? are you able to appease those on the conservative side maybe who don't want the rehab effort, who want hard-term incarceration? >> well, believe it or not, even in san francisco it's not a question of whether you have conservative or not conservative, but you have skeptics because i think on behalf of those who are victims or who feel unsafe, they want to

make sure that there is a very effective public safety and county jail system, and we have one. the goal, of course, is to make sure that people don't return back into jails so that we give them the tools compel them to have the tools sop that they are less liable to repeat their offenses. the state of california has failed miserably in the past on their repeat offender rates. 78% with the resid vichl rate of the state of california which is one of the reasons that motivated governor jerry brown to really install any one of the -- not even the programs. now the counties are bringing up a more sophisticated criminal population, and they're now putting on the hot seat to come up with proper anti-recidivism programs. we do so for male or females and different cultures of that population, and with use either directed at substance abuse,

treatment on demand, but not by itself because a great portion of the jail population have a substance abuse problem. about 65% to 70%. housing, vocation. those are the other areas we really try to laser in on. >> it's the office the sheriff in san francisco county. they're recreating at times. log to the website and call that phone number for more information. office of sheriff ross. we'll be back to talk about a special program called the five keys charter school out of san francisco. stay with us. [ female announcer ] why settle for plain bread?

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so. our jail capacity in total is a little more than 2,400. jail population for the last 15 months has been under 1,600. it's a combin's effect. it's crime from a first responder perspective to pushing more assertively alternatives incarceration program. if somebody doesn't have to be incarcerated, we have an alternative to reroute them through a more effective re-entry system. so they can get the treatment they need, and less likely to repeat. we're fiending great success. >> is there any negative impact of realignment at all? have -- i would imagine not because you probably see overcrowding, but has realignment impacted the jael system in any negative ways? >> not in san francisco, because san francisco was a stand-out wresh we didn't always send that money. you can also return the

population -- >> in some ways those that would normally go to the state prison are more sophisticated in their criminal behavior, so requires a little more than specialized approach for those that work outside and inside the jail. not on behalf of san francisco. i think that the county jails are actually becoming a replacement for mental health institutions, and i'm very worried about the indicators that even though we have a lower jail population, people who are suffering with acute mental health are starting to fiend themselves implicated in the criminal justice system because the state is not managing the population of people suffering with mental health needs or we're going to have to rewire how we deal with the population that also requires a very specialized approach zoosh how close is the governor here to what you are saying? is he aware of that concern? >> i think is he.

i think a number of sheriff's are knocking loudly on their door in a very collaborative way, but it's sgnt anybody can ignore. >> tell me about the five keys charter school program. it's unique, ask it seems to be working. >> we're proud. it is the first in the united states of a jail system that has a high school. it's a charter high school embedded in the jail system. we have a high percentage of the inmates who are there for not just a short period of time, but longer period of time, 09 days or more essentially, and some even less who participate in the five keys curriculum. the goal is that they don't have a high school diploma that they will work towards that, and we're just now g.e.d. certified. it's a testing center. then, of course, it's to give them skills, but the basic skills literally, and it's important to remember that even in an enlightened liberal city like san francisco, we have pockets and communities that are very disadvantaged. if we can do the kind of work

that should have been done outside the jail system but inside the jail system, that's exactly what we need to do. >> do you think that sometimes when there is a lack of literacy, that child or that person is more likely to offend? >> yeah. it's not too early to tell at all. i think plenty of studies have affirmed that because it's all the other i think benefits and/or the consequences of not being able to cope and manage in one's own world to be able to advance yourself without i think some of the rudimentary skills, and so even though it's up to the person themselves to really self-initiate their own improvement, i want to make sure in our administration that we have all the proper, i think, assets in place to assist us, and that's exactly what we are doing. >> i didn't ask you to prepare for any demographics, but speaking of demographics, if you can generally talk about what your jail system looks like. >> oh, i thn stuff by heart. i don't think it's too uncommon

in most of the counties. especially in urban centers in california. unlike more rural areas, others, but our jail population is about 1,600 right now. the composition breaks down to about 55% african-american, which is high. it's even hire than the state average. the next is about 21% white-caucasian, and about 16% latino, and then a random other, asia, et cetera, or others. that's troubling because i think it also shows the inequities of those who can't afford bail and many high percentage of the jail population. it's a pre-trial population, so because they can't afford bail, they can't get out, then really they have no other option. as sheriff i have limited discretion that is empowered by state law to allow others out through state electronic

monitoring or a state furlough program, but it's a narrow window. >> do you find that maybe some might think, well, i don't want to leave the jail system because i'm going to get my high school diploma or my g.e.d.? >> well, we don't have a frequent flier card for those. maybe i should consider it. no, all kidding aside -- well, maybe. i don't know. nobody said that to me. i don't think they're coming for the food. that's for sure. i think that that's the main staple. >> let me get your thoughts. you're fresh into the office. there's a chance for sheriff again. are you going to run again? >> in 2015, there's a great chance. i set out the supervisor for almost two terms. a leader in the issues of public safety, which is one of the reasons that i ran for sheriff and that my predecessor, mike hinesi wanted me to, and chomping at the bit, and really

advancing the kind of programs that keeps san francisco i think as an innovator in the criminal justice system and we have a lot of work to do. >> well, for sheriff not for higher office. >> he is the sheriff of san francisco county, ladies and gentlemen. there is more information. we want to also have people log on so they can get your newsletters. >> a lot of people don't know what the sheriff's department does. a lot of things beyond just managing the jail system. if they contact the sheriff's department sfgov.org or sfsheriff.com and say you want to sign up for the newsletter, we'll be more than happy so sign you up. it's an electronic newsletter. >> thank you for inviting me to your show, and i don't use this in the issue from the san francisco issue. really these are bay area, and regional issues. i think what people talk about housing and jobs and employment.

i'm surprised there isn't more collaboration between the nine bay areas and county sheriffs on questions of public safety, and i hope we do have those kinds of sort of opportunities to come together and share i think -- the bay area is very unique in our challenges just like pop laegs and all of the things we have to prepare for. >> maybe this is the chance for something like that. >> thank you so much. good luck to you. my pleasure. >> let me give you our twitter handle in case you need to get ahold of us. drop us an e-mail. there's my e-mail address and my twitter handle. pick up a copy of our newspaper and support your bilingual leak e weeklies. thank you for sharing a part of your easter sunday with us. we hope you're enjoying your ceasar chavez holiday weekend as well. 5

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but better than the previous estimate of 0.1%. business investments and exports were better than first reported. the markets flirted with new highs during the holiday-shortened week. on tuesday, the dow was up triple-digits. on thursday, the s&p finally hit a new all-time high. line lines as cyprus reopened its banks on thursday. the tiny island nation with a huge banking system allowed depositors to withdraw cash for the first time in a week, but there was a limit of 300 euros per person per day, all part of a bailout plan to rescue cypriot banks. meanwhile, boeing's dreamliner completed a successful test flight as the company hopes it has overcome finally those heating problems with its lithium-ion batteries. boeing needs permission to resume flights from the faa, and there are reports it may face another challenge, namely, a temporary ban on some long distance flights. one airline ceo says he has full confidence in the dreamliner, but he is concerned about something else, the impact of th