this is not anything new in the feel of juvenile justice. we just want to move step by step in this direction. >> what's taking it so long? >> staffs and community as well in our department. >> i want to move on a little bit. i want to talk about specifically police participation and i would like to ask lieutenant miranda. what do you think it would take to have more gun buy backs? >> if i can say one thing. i want to commend john tores. i think he's doing a wonderful job. he's doing a lot of

intervention. i will be quick. i have a quick story for you. when this first started. with john tores. it was like someone was drawing a line. it was police department on one side. crn's on one side. correct me if i am wrong. what are they going to say? who is going to retailiate. after the first meeting. we started to each other. again, it's not a perfect world. neither are the police. i think john has done a great job. i know he needs more crn's. the more input he gets will be fantastic. >> thank you lieutenant. >> you know lieutenant, thank

you for bringing that back up. we have something that is actually working. so, why don't we expand the crn program? just expand something that is working. who here. i don't want to pick on anybody. who can come up with a solution to expand something that is working? we have people already talking that are not always on the same page. but agree to disagree. >> i will throw this out there. i think that any kind of data is the ingredient that's necessary to prompt additional resources to come in. if we can tie in the crn's that we all know into data, then, and we can prove it.

i think that lens itself to expansion. >> is that something you could help with? >> one thing that's happening next week. street out reach workers from oakland and san francisco will be coming to talk about best practices. it's hard to prove what's causing violence to reduce. it takes tremendous resources on what's working. certainly what we want to do is track the overall trends in violence. we are in the middle of a study and compare that to the study

from 2004 to 2006. we are not just looking at the numbers. but getting behind the cases and get a story about the trends in violence and how different community and city partners can respond. it's difficult to say this one part is the reason for that. because there are a lot of moving parts and a lot of people working together. >> i would agree. >> i mean, we have been trying to find, has there been national data? how do we prove this as one specific piece for collaboration? i think again, lieutenant, thank you for those words. there are effectiveness.

but there's a clear link that this is the safest strategy. it's a work in progress. i am appreciative of ways to come up with data measures so we can say, definitively. this plays in the whole scheme the violence reduction >> i mean, i just want to be clear. it's not impossible. it's difficult and it takes time and resources. if we had the available resources to do an indepth study. it's a serious under taking. >> i followed up that. you know what. it's take it even further. let me say this. it isn't rocket science. may be we don't need the data. >> i can think where crn's have

helped. they have been able to put aside emotions. you can call me ernie. i don't call him chief. getting back to the gun buy back. i think we are right in line. we are doing the same buy back. we could use more. i think if you were to talk about gun violence. in 2006. we took 238 off the street and already in 2008. we have taken 296. a lot of people are high 5ing. to me. where are those guns coming from. where are these guns coming from. if the numbers are becoming so

high, we are quadrupling. we better find out where they are coming from. the gun buy back is good because it cuts down to domestic violence. you can no longer sell the gun. people are selling us guns they can't sell otherwise. i am not saying it's a bad program. we would like to have more gun buy backs. it always comes back to capabilities and your help to get to the community and tell people. if you see a gun. call us. we will make a report.

we just took an ak 47. we bought that gun and nothing happened. i would rather do that. it's not the absolute program. the other thing i wanted to stress. the call in. we have identified 44 who are at risk. they are either victims or suspects. 9 out of those first are shot are killed. with the target with the call in is working. we are doing bed checks. we go out with these probation officers. i know where he is. we bring him home and do that 3

or 4 times. i just think that gun violence is really up and we have to get the guns off the streets. all you need is an id. if we don't get the support of the community, with no questions asked. i'm sorry i am taking so long. and we will be glad. we need to do more gun buy backs. >> i have more questions for you. did you want to say something? we moved on. it was only in regard to expansion. there was a supplemental buy

back and now they are in the planning stages. so, while it's been pretty tried and tested. it's still relatively new. they are different in some regard in their texture complexion and i think that there is on going discussion about evaluating the impact that those crn's are having in those neighborhoods. i think folks have their eyes on it. they are a tremendous asset. and those most at risk.

we support the work and want to be supporting those things have a maximum impact. >> you are a senior aide advisor. can i ask you when you go back and advise him and tell him me all think the crn program is working pretty well and put a plug in to expand that program. >> i think there are already on going conversations. we are going to coordinate all our out each efforts and make sure they are working in concert. >> okay. i want, cheryl, did you want to comment on the bed checks? maybe, bed checks. ernie was talking about in the colin? cheryl?

i have been ignoring you. but not really. anything you would like to add before we move on here? no. i did want to say. i want it to be really clear. the partnership we had with mlcj. it wasn't an attack on the mayor's office. i think the challenge for us to figure out how when someone workd and another part of it doesn't, how do we make it work together? that's part of what as we kind of move on. realizing that we need to stay connected to community to some component. they know how to get community members and how do we educate and begin to help them be developed into the leaders we want them to be.

lieutenant ernie. when was the last gun buy back we had? >> approximately 2 months ago. >> how many more will we have? >> again. it's all a matter of putting together the resource. we do get a lot of resolvers. it's a matter of getting all the people together. >> what people are you talking about? who do you need to make it happen. it's a resource program. the police department needs officers to do the leg work and

footwork. we need the community also. i always call san francisco a village not a city. people transverse so easy. east san jose and west jose. they are here. one shooting effects everybody in this room. i hate to talk statistic. one crime affects you. you. it doesn't matter who it is. >> why is it so hard to get people together? >> let's make it a priority >> can i say, i mentioned earlier. i think that it's beginning to happen. i don't want to negate those efforts are being made from the mayors office and d.c. yf.

i think john osaki mentioned it before. getting people to come together for the betterment of the community not for their department or organization >> one thing cheryl brings up. what i like to tell people. we have the very difficult task the balancing the public's expectation of today. they don't want to hear about the long-term strategies to make sure this isn't popping up next summer. it allows us to front load. we have turf issues. they are not in the western edition. they are among cv o. check the egoes at the door.

they are costing us the lives of the young people. it requires us to have the will to come together to say enough is enough. >> i am on is this gun buy back. anything, any sense in your organization of any plans for any future coordination efforts? >> there are discussions about the gun buy backs. we have to deal with the issue of access to firearms. while i think that particular program is important, i think we need to go back to ernie's point. what are we doing about the

overwhelming access to the guns. it's just one of the strategies. one of the challenges is attracting the communities. it's not the 15, 16, 17-year olds who are bringing the guns to us. the reason being. when we talk to the young people. why didn't you show up. even if i'm giving you a $250 voucher. we have to get a little more innovative approach. i know it's different as a state and nation to grapple

with the manufacturing of automatic weapons. >> what i hear often. that's just one strategy. that's just one program. we have to do this. why don't we take what we're doing and expand what we're doing? my next question. what do you plan to do about the accessibility? what can we? >> ultimately. the more and more youth don't have the ability to either call themselves get a job. graduate high school. you got more insecurity with their personal selves. of course. they have already grown up with issues in their family. the ultimate i think is. we have one part to play. we can't play all the parts. as long as we all come together. we can do the big work itself.

the ultimate thing is that us coming together is really going to show the difference with the youth we're working. we are able to get the guns off the street. they will be back. not by the choice the youth. >> i would also like to say, mayor newsom has tried to take the approach to enact legislation to out law gun shows. minimize the availability of folks to purchase now firemans. we are limited by state and federal law. when we look at what we can do as a city, we are bound by the state and federal law. we have taken creative approaches and eliminate the

accessiblity of fireman it is. we have more work to do >> i think one of the most damaging lines. one youth told us. he is more scared of getting caught without a gun on the street than caught with a gun by the police. it's a direct and general order, we will accept any gun. no questions asked. it's booked as found property. you know brothers and sisters and people who have guns. make the call. we have hot lines. we have to get them off the street.

we talk about these injunctions. i often wonder what's going to happen. now that we have done all this enforcement. the next wave is the next wave the kids. are we protecting them? i have been doing gang work for 20 years. it's embarrassing that we are arresting grandsons and grand kids. we have to stop that trend. it's not like if plea and mr. adachi get in a fight. here we go. you are gone. we better stop that trend. cheryl. >> i was just go to ask cheryl.

her viewpoints on use with guns and whether the gun buy backs will work. do you have friends, thank you for bringing that up. >> i know people with guns. i wouldn't. i don't want to get involved with that. i just leave them alone with their guns. i don't get involved >> i say that to say, the idea if someone is carrying a gun, we might consider them dangerous. if they got that one, they can get another one. >> we have to consider, this is going to be a long process.

this is not a one stop drop, if am i rackateering. i am going to take a couple of guns i don't use and use others. the major thing we have to look at is prevention. we have so many different levels of things we have to use. we can't just say, okay. drop your gun off, you're cool. that's not a shot at the program. we need that problem. but we need these other programs and dealing with the parents and families. we just first grader at cleveland. i worked at cleveland. he probably found the gun. stuffed it in his back and went to school.

>> nobody knew >> all my friend that is have guns. it's because it's for protection. because they don't want to be caught without a gun. if you're without a gun, there's more of a chance you're going to get hurt yourself. >> i guess the question is how do we make people feel safe in our communities? the issue is how do we need to get people to feel like they don't need a gun. >> you got video games that allow them to placate the attitudes. we have movies that make millions of dollars of that attitude created from our community. yes, we must do this, we must look at all the components.

as reductions took place. man if i couldn't get that summer job. i knew i was going to be robbing folks. that was, not to date myself. that was a couple years back. >> hey, hey. come on. anyways. but, you know, it is, things have gotten reductions and other cuts. it all impacts us. not getting the gun off the

street. it's a longer term investment. are we prepared. >> i think what we are going to do now is engage our audience. we are going to ask you if you have questions of any of our panelists, staying focussed on making changes to deal with guns and violence. what's working? what's not? >> hello. last summer. everything was okay in treasure island. we are lost in the island. what is happening through the

city of intervention out their on the island. they do have traditional boys club. ymca. i am not hearing anything. what am i hearing today >> john torres. i want to talk to you later. >> i am piggybacks. d.c. y f has funded these and may are meeting with of the service providers. they do have a community interveners. >> where do we find out.

the d.c. yf. >> it's an interesting thing we're dealing with here. our young people. of course, we are living in a very, very, tense time globally, with our young people really needing to be prepared and in their preparation needing to make a contribution in the united states and abroad. the question as well as the concerns that i have, have to do. i think the gentlemen in the orange and the other young lady and also this is for the

mayor's aid. we are talking about mentor programs. i have been listening to this for the last 7 hours. i attend a lot of other events. the idleness of not having enough to do. are the basics keeping them in step. so, i'd like to know what other leadership programs are going to be available to these young kids. we heard about the sport things. what about the things coming out of silicon valley, working