i have the support of the shares association, the police officers association, and >> welcome, everybody. to the 2011 justice summit by the book. i'm so excited to be here. you know, we've been doing these summits now for seven years, but this by far is the most exciting summit. i cannot wait to hear the panelists that we have today. we're going to be delving in to some of the most critical issues affecting the criminal justice system at this time. and we're going to talk about, what is justice and what it means. you know, plateo said, "i do not know what justice is, but i know what it is not." and that is very true when you think about it because it's something that we take for granted, that we believe in, that we hope for, but the reality is is that we don't understand and appreciate justice unless we are deprived of it. and in many cases the definition of justice is the correction of an injustice, and that's really the spisht that we're approaching today. we have three action-packed panels. our first panel celebrates the 50th anniversary of a novel that really defined american justice

i'm president of the bar association of san francisco. basf, as we note the bar association to be called, has had a long relationship with the public defenders office. it is crucially important for administration of justice. and so is san francisco conflicts panels where administration, which the bar association has provided in partnership with public defenders. so in san francisco when a public defender has a conflict of interest, criminal defendants and minors are represented by private attorneys from a panel administered by the bar association of san francisco. maintaining this independent body of attorneys is critically important as a well-run public defenders office. we are each other's complement. we are the sum of the parts that makes whole the criminal departments working so well in san francisco. in 2003 the superior court contracted with the bar association of san francisco indigent to have cost-saving oversight to the administration and billing associated with conflicts. so tron is the director of the courts administration and

i'm on the board of the neighborhood association. i don't want to be here tonight, and i didn't want to be at the planning commission hearing where mr. braunstein's c.u. was nearly revoked. i didn't want to be at any of the other meetings we had over the last two years trying to get resolution on this noise issue. but this has been a litany of broken promises and lies from the very beginning. greg came to our organization. he had the existing bar on the site. there had been a lot of noise problems there. and one of the reasons that we supported his plans to basically completely reconstruct the building is that he promised that the noise issues would be addressed and we wouldn't have them to worry about anymore. that didn't happen. and even very specific things that he agreed to. the building has sort of an air lock door system where there are two doors, and you have to go through one door and then another door to get in. the conditions of use specified that the outer tour always be kept shut. he said the east most outer door would on

trial lawyers association for inviting me to do this. i am a neutral moderator. i have not endorsed any candidate in regard to this race, and you will hear from the candidates who will have an opportunity to answer the questions which i have formulated. i want to thank tony and julie for the hell they gave, along with other people in formulating the questions we have come up with. the questions in the long run are those that i have written and that i will put to each of the candidates. in regard to the ground rules, i would say each candidate will have two minutes to make an opening statement and then a closing statement. each candidate will have one minute to answer every question, and in addition to that, i have a number of intermittent questions, which are lightning round questions, that i will just throw in and ask for a yes or no answer, and then move on to the more fleshed out questions. the time keepers in the first row will hold up a yellow card to signify to the candidate that they have 30 seconds remaining, and they will hold u

and that is the policy of the united association.ocal 38's members should be very proud of their leadership that they're able to lead them down this road. i was reading through this little booklet here before i came up, and it gives a little history of training in the united association. it mentions the itf board, which runs all the training. it mentions that larry is a member of that board. what it does not mention is when the board was started, larry, senior, was one of the founding members and the chairman for most of the life of that board and has worked very hard, not only here in his local, local 38, to make sure that training is as good as it is, but has worked very hard all over hardua, through the itf, to make sure all local train like his local. his leadership goes beyond anything we can thank him for. i do want to thank you it at this time, larry, for all you have done for local 38 and for all you have done for the united association, and especially in the training. i have been very proud to work with you over the years. [

it is not just the police officers association but the president of the association, oppose the 600 -- owes the city and county 650,000. he worked as a poa for five years. we talk about it and 9/11, as it was a very solemn event. no doubt about it. to use it as a cozy speech to bring it before this commission is uncalled for and unprecedented. he was allowed more time than he was allowed. i bring up these issues because the city has a lot of problems and they are related to finances. you are part of the police commission. you are part of an organization that has oversight over the poa and police department and the poa is considered the most powerful union in san francisco. president mazzucco: next speaker. >> good evening, commissioners. i am a business consultant. i would like to talk to about some research i have done and outrage on the broadway corridor regarding towing on friday and saturday nights. some of the research i have discovered is that diners who are being towed after 8:00 p.m., whether they arcturus or locals alike, feel it is unfair practice. we have had good, healthy

my name is janet carpenelli, president of dog patch neighborhood association. ways going to read my letter but have you it there and also actually the things that david talked about here were pretty much what i was going to talk about. we're especially happy that the project sponsor offered to support our local other nonprofit groups, which is green trust s.f. what we're doing there is greening 22nd street, our little neighborhood commercial strip, it's part of the eastern neighborhoods green street plan and designated green streets. we have been working privately to start that project along. and as well we have the historic scott school on tennessee street, which is in a lot of need of restoration but right now we have the idea to put the two out buildings to use as a nursery school and family center. and that group has been fantastic in raising so much money for that and they're also giving us the money for the family center so that will help that project break around this year. so i think that's all i have to say in particular about the project. one thing i

at the international association of chiefs of police. the other media interests are rounded.t is merely a consolidation of all of them. they maintain a standard case load during the daytime. they will park at the station closer to the beach and if we have made of them down town, they will come down town. this is actually why they were born 35 years ago. half the complement is downtown, it really comes in handy during the summer. again, it's about locating there if we have need for violent suppression versus having them travel after the travel time. and we're working towards getting our special victims in a together with his a -- which is an efficiency plan recommendation. it appears we have found one on the fifth floor, and to be on the floor. it is a bit of a sanctuary. that concludes my report. commissioner kingsley: good evening, chief. thank you for your report. i like to go back to the horror regarding drunken-driving. i was not quite sure what we gave to america and the award. how can you expand on that elevator? >> we were first in the state, so the office of traffic s

and the 2007-2013 mou between the city and county of san francisco and the municipal association of fire. item number 8, or in its adopting and implementing amendment number four to the 2007-2013 mou between the city and county of san francisco and the san francisco police others association, a unit p-2b. item number nine, adopting and implementing amendment number 4 to the 2007-2013 mou between the city and county of san francisco and the municipal executives association, police, by extending the term to june 30, 2015 and by implementing specified terms and conditions of unemployment for fiscal years 2011-2012, 2012-2013, 2013-2014, and 2014-2015. supervisor chu: thank you very much. we have a member from the department at human-resources. if i can ask you to speak on the contract briefly about what they are, what they include, and leave out item number 5. >> good morning, supervisor. i am the employee relations director with the department of human resources. i am happy to be here today to share with you yet another wage concession package agreed to buy the city's public safety unions,

the glen park association board sent comments to the planning department in june. one of the request we made was that the design guidelines and policies be written into the plan so that any new development in glen park will reflect the scale and character of our existing neighborhood. again, the planning staff has been very responsive to our requests. thank you very much. president olague: any additional public comment? public comment disclosed. commissioner moore: i am delighted the plan is as mature being presented to us. i'm glad to see there is a much support. i think it is a good piece of work. i would like to know who owns a glen canyon park as land? who is the owner of that? >> i believe it is the recreation and parks department. commissioner moore: then we need to take particular attention to how these plans are being addressed because i think i hear the road is an -- it's not quite where it needs to be. i am interested to hear you track that when we review the roads and a couple of week. who owns the bart parking lot? >> bart. commissioner moore: is part a

the american bar association has one of the best legal libraries in the world. coaching and has said -- has built a law school that has no books. we're working with those countries to provide them with legal materials because they have been asking. they also ask for lawyers to help them with their loss students -- loss students -- law students. we have reached out to see if we can do some exchange program. what i tell them not to do, i think that they ought to not -- the same thing i said earlier. they ought to try to find the separation of funding issues that the government needs to make it not a political system. they need to look at what is adequate. in these countries, access seems to be the biggest issue. they ask me about access. it is ironic that we have our own access issues, which we talked about earlier, but they are very concerned about not having sufficient access to the legal system for their citizens. >> the problem of under- nourishment, so to speak, of the justice system is one aspect. you have talked about, is it that the trial level, the origin

i want to a knowledge of the merchant's association. they were extraordinarily proactive with the video store, and there will be inspections. they did do their cast inspection. i want to applaud them that monthly, they are assembling a meeting so that businesses that may have received a letter can come and talk to them. i attended a meeting last week and there will be some new business that received a letter and had it not been for their consistent information education through the emergence newsletter, she would have thrown away the letter. nashua be able to respond. i appreciate the merchant's association being very proactive and responsive to their merchants. and katherine who is the in turn is concluding her internship, but she worked this summer to really start compiling some early detailed information. and we're close to 300 cases. this does not include cases that were filed in state court. if there are some interesting trends, there is a high number of these cases that are in the richmond and the sense that restaurants. there is

as president of the american bar association, i have an opportunity to choose the theme for our law day, and i chose the legacy of john adams from concord to guantanamo, because every high-school student had to think about why it is our obligation to defend those who have ideas different than our own. why we live in a constitutional democracy. a constitutional democracy is the difference of two words, each of which are two letters. that is the rule "of" law, and the rule "by" law. the rule by law as when a majority get together and get -- and decide what rights, if any, the minority has. nazi germany was one of the most lawful and unjust society is in the history of the world. the nuremberg laws were rules by law. what exists around most of the world and in cuba today come in my own experience, is that the most powerful, the most privileged, get together and decide what rights, if any, the minority have. the united states constitution is the rule by law. the rule by law is to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. it is the classic definition of law. now, the rule of law