. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is kyle patterson. my office has been involved in the analysis including we've done three forecast. we've also recently released a report earlier this week about the county jail 6. the question that we were asked to answer since the summer that we've carried out is imp.county jail six. we seen large drops in the jame population between 2009 and 2014. you're all aware of that. common question i usually get, why don't we. that trend to continue. in actuality, we've seen in the past couple of years, the jail population has remained relatively flat. on the chart on slide one, we can see on the left side, the jail population in 2014 has remained very flat. in november of 2014, population 47 passed which downgraded a number of felonies and misdemeanors. this is a name that came up from a number of departments including folks who has been opposed to the jail replacement project. existing facilities are not sufficient to meet security needs. what he's saying, he doesn't think that county jail six is a viable op

brian strong, kyle patterson, these people are not criminal justice spirit experts -- experts. these people are city administratorring. we've been asking them for years to us some analysis. you have people who are working in the communities who are spending our wheels trying get this research to all. our city administrators who have the resource and the capacity to do that are not doing that. it's really important that we listen to experts, that we listen to experts and tell you what san francisco needs. i think it's important to say that we are getting a lot of national attention for we're kind of a locking contradiction. we have a 50% jail population and we have d.a.s and pd saying we can continue to decrease. as a city, our mayor is pushing $400 million plan. this national attention is also playing out in our money bail reform that we need to be looking at in terms of creating more prisons here in san francisco. we are under federal lawsuit now. going to have a huge impact on this discussion. lastly, i want to say i feel that dr. austin's perspective was being misrepresented

. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is kyle patterson. my office has been involved in the analysis including we've done three forecast. we've also recently released a report earlier this week about the county jail 6. the question that we were asked to answer since the summer that we've carried out is imp.county jail six. we seen large drops in the jame population between 2009 and 2014. you're all aware of that. common question i usually get, why don't we. that trend to continue. in actuality, we've seen in the past couple of years, the jail population has remained relatively flat. on the chart on slide one, we can see on the left side, the jail population in 2014 has remained very flat. in november of 2014, population 47 passed which downgraded a number of felonies and misdemeanors. this is a name that came up from a number of departments including folks who has been opposed to the jail replacement project. existing facilities are not sufficient to meet security needs. what he's saying, he doesn't think that county jail six is a viable op

. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is kyle patterson. my office has been involved in the analysis including we've done three forecast. we've also recently released a report earlier this week about the county jail 6. the question that we were asked to answer since the summer that we've carried out is imp.county jail six. we seen large drops in the jame population between 2009 and 2014. you're all aware of that. common question i usually get, why don't we. that trend to continue. in actuality, we've seen in the past couple of years, the jail population has remained relatively flat. on the chart on slide one, we can see on the left side, the jail population in 2014 has remained very flat. in november of 2014, population 47 passed which downgraded a number of felonies and misdemeanors. this is a name that came up from a number of departments including folks who has been opposed to the jail replacement project. existing facilities are not sufficient to meet security needs. what he's saying, he doesn't think that county jail six is a viable op

kyle patterson has over seen a lot of that work and can cover that and a couple other updates oen our work >> good afternoon. before i get into discussion of the more recent analysis done about couny james 6 i want to talk about jail population trends. you look at the slide up now, we know that bestween 2009 and 14 a sharp decline in the jail population and i hear folks say, if the population is declining why done we wait and see what happens and may not need a jail but the data don't suggest that. in the last couple years we have seen a flat jail population and the in the last 8 months it increased. these are daily jail counts. on the left side we see 2014 the jail count remains flat and in november 2014 proposition 47 passed and this is a proposition that downgraded a number of felonys to misdemeanors and saw a drop of 100 to 125 inmates. afterthality initial drop we have seen it tick back up. in 2015 the population is increasing. reala what it tells us is the population will plateau or increase absent or major policy changes. we have done 3 jail population forcasts thoerfb past 3 y

. >> good afternoon supervisors, my name is kyle patterson. my office has been involved in the analysis including we've done three forecast. we've also recently released a report earlier this week about the county jail 6. the question that we were asked to answer since the summer that we've carried out is imp.county jail six. we seen large drops in the jame population between 2009 and 2014. you're all aware of that. common question i usually get, why don't we. that trend to continue. in actuality, we've seen in the past couple of years, the jail population has remained relatively flat. on the chart on slide one, we can see on the left side, the jail population in 2014 has remained very flat. in november of 2014, population 47 passed which downgraded a number of felonies and misdemeanors. this is a name that came up from a number of departments including folks who has been opposed to the jail replacement project. existing facilities are not sufficient to meet security needs. what he's saying, he doesn't think that county jail six is a viable op

kyle patterson has over seen a lot of that work and can cover that and a couple other updates oen our work >> good afternoon. before i get into discussion of the more recent analysis done about couny james 6 i want to talk about jail population trends. you look at the slide up now, we know that bestween 2009 and 14 a sharp decline in the jail population and i hear folks say, if the population is declining why done we wait and see what happens and may not need a jail but the data don't suggest that. in the last couple years we have seen a flat jail population and the in the last 8 months it increased. these are daily jail counts. on the left side we see 2014 the jail count remains flat and in november 2014 proposition 47 passed and this is a proposition that downgraded a number of felonys to misdemeanors and saw a drop of 100 to 125 inmates. afterthality initial drop we have seen it tick back up. in 2015 the population is increasing. reala what it tells us is the population will plateau or increase absent or major policy changes. we have done 3 jail population forcasts thoerfb past 3 y

kyle patterson has over seen a lot of that work and can cover that and a couple other updates oen our work >> good afternoon. before i get into discussion of the more recent analysis done about couny james 6 i want to talk about jail population trends. you look at the slide up now, we know that bestween 2009 and 14 a sharp decline in the jail population and i hear folks say, if the population is declining why done we wait and see what happens and may not need a jail but the data don't suggest that. in the last couple years we have seen a flat jail population and the in the last 8 months it increased. these are daily jail counts. on the left side we see 2014 the jail count remains flat and in november 2014 proposition 47 passed and this is a proposition that downgraded a number of felonys to misdemeanors and saw a drop of 100 to 125 inmates. afterthality initial drop we have seen it tick back up. in 2015 the population is increasing. reala what it tells us is the population will plateau or increase absent or major policy changes. we have done 3 jail population forcasts thoerfb past 3 y

kyle patterson has over seen a lot of that work and can cover that and a couple other updates oen our> good afternoon. before i get into discussion of the more recent analysis done about couny james 6 i want to talk about jail population trends. you look at the slide up now, we know that bestween 2009 and 14 a sharp decline in the jail population and i hear folks say, if the population is declining why done we wait and see what happens and may not need a jail but the data don't suggest that. in the last couple years we have seen a flat jail population and the in the last 8 months it