but, more importantly, as we look at caseload, we have seen a decline in caseload over the last three years. from 16% from 2009 to two dozen 10. an additional 8% from 2010 to 2011. overall, the caseload is declining. we believe that one additional position is sufficient to meet their current requirements. supervisor chu: thank you. supervisor wiener? supervisor wiener: thank you to ms. hicks. i would like to respond in terms of declining caseload. i preface this with my own perspective, having spent years and years as a trial lawyer in the city attorney's office representing police officers in many cases. my experience, and straddling the time span from years before you arrived and then after your arrival, and my experience for a number of years with the occ was that a lot of the -- a number of investigations that i saw, because there would be a lawsuit and then a companion occ complained that usually the investigation occurred before the lawsuit was filed, frequently. so we would see parts of the occ file to the investigation, and there were a number of instances when the investigati

i am only asking for two caseloads. based upon what i have right now, and i have been experiencing getting about 30 a month from the state, and i am also experiencing getting 10, which is increasing to about 20 a month from the community service in -- supervision. instead of the jail bed, they are putting them under our superiors -- supervision out in the community. in statute, there is 12 months, and if there has not been a jail commitment in those 12 months, some of those cases will come off. i have included that in my projections. the state projections have been off. mine have been right on. we're at 111% of the state's community suburban population, and we are triple that of what the state assumed. when my population is going up in the mandatory supervision, that is because the state assumed there would be in the jail beds and they are not. that is what realignment intended. but i have to have adequate supervision to have them in the community, and i want a supervisor with the highest risk case which is what we do w

this has created holes in my regular probation department and increased their caseload. everybody within the department has taken on a significant workload waiting for these new staff to come. we did not have an existing probation officer list. and in fact, now we have done all of the interviews. another major thanks to the sheriff's department. they have done a background checks for us. we anticipate these 20 will record the very first part of august. supervisor mar: supervisor olague has a question. supervisor olague: i was wondering if you could give us some information on the demographic breakdown of this population. >> i have a slide on that. just a little bit later on. supervisor olague: ok. and i have some questions related to -- i am really excited to be working with you guys. i am on the reentry council, as you know. it is really incredible work. the focus is truly on the rehabilitation of the individual. i think the majority of people want to be able to improve themselves and their lives. and without the resources, without the right type of counseling for subst

these are, of course, vital departments that have to do with the justice project and caseload management. the data center project is on schedule as approved. they have worked to put into the cloud over 700 servers. eventually, in addition to that, we will physically relocate 450 servers city-wide. i also completely support the efforts to consolidate systems when we see a clear benefit. we have also made good progress on merchandise that will go live this fall. these things may not be immediately apparent to the average citizen, but i know it will make our government work better and faster and the results will be real and tangible. while we are making good progress, there is still much to do. the important work of making sure that these projects are running on time, as you know, we are members of that. i look forward to working with you on improving how we manage our critical investments. thank you. supervisor chiu: thank you. supervisor campos has the next question. supervisor campos: we all know the importance of the issue of rising health-care costs. the land use development hearing to

the full caseload will only come on line three years into the agreement. exxon'what happens after 10 yea? what does this terrible problem really cost san francisco? the proposed agreement is flawed. good it must be fixed to ensure they provide not fair care and stop offloading on other health- care providers. if they had provided at the average level of comparable hospitals, it would have provided $125 million a year, nearly $30 million more than it has committed going forward. over 10 years, letting it off the hook now for its share care will save $300 million, much more than the total is committing, and shift $300 million of the cost to san francisco taxpayers and other health-care providers. it is for those reasons we think the provisions are flawed and should be renegotiated. for its thank you. next speaker. please hold your applause. >> you mind if i asked a couple questions? you just heard from this passed presentation of the estimate, but the deal we have the does been proposed is $30 million less than what would be required if they were asked to pr

one has estimated of the caseload in 2011 cost more than $300,000 in a police officer pay. it also imposes enormous cost on the judicial system. it has been estimated they account for 40% of the cases in court. it has been estimated only 1% involved professional criminals who deals drugs for a living. as of june 20, 2011, there were 109 cases intemperances go. i will now offer three policy recommendations that speak to the disparate impact i have identified. first, i urge the commission to attract a costs incurred in san francisco. these include overtime pay for police officers, the costs incurred by the individual, and the cost to incarcerate those who are convicted. i urge the commission to consider pre-or rusarrest alternatives. law enforcement in seattle have partnered to implement a pilot program called law enforcement assistance diversion. a report from 54 individuals in the seattle neighborhood were responsible for 2700 are refs. this statistic eliminates the ineffectiveness of our breast--f arrests. san francisco leader should engage in further study of pre- arrest

because we were facing significant shortages, we needed to look at our caseload and figure out a way to keep our standards, but to be able to go through everything else. the way we did this is to slow down the number of new routine inspections we were performing in dealing with the ones where we had no-shows'. we sent the package out and focused on that and what happens this when you are dealing with a complaint generated system and systematic enforcement of which you are required to do, you build up more and more cases and periodically, you need to do what i indicated to my staff, at steep exfoliation. you have to go through those cases but it's difficult for the inspector to go back through those. the senior staff and myself met every two or three weeks, looked at the numbers and created a system where the inspectors could go through. if we did some other things. we were before you and we did some shortens the time frames on heat violations. we also doubled up on the amount of cases we can send for the same amount of efforts. instinet sharing it with code enforcement, we have two s

in terms of the impact to adulterations is a berkeley, -- of the old probation specifically, our caseload are those who would have been parolees under the old law. our case load is 110% of what ccp projected. as of today, we have received approximately 306 clients. that was as of the end of june. we also anticipate that we will be up to within about a six month time frame, four hundred 56. that is where the range of our supervision cases will be, somewhere between 450 to 500. and that is just on the post- release cases. other cases that we have under the 1170 h sentencing, and is another thing san francisco has to be proud about, is that there are a lot of jurisdictions that are just getting straight jail sentences. what is unfortunate about that is that community supervision -- if a gimmick -- an individual is to be successful, they need to be transferred out of the community. that is where a lot of the needs are at. if they serve all of their time in jail and and are released, they have completed it. there is no way you would consider any type of supervision tale. that is not just impor

the other part of the caseload i was talking about in our traditional state youth, we have some wonderful staff there. she developed a plan called the success plan. most of our parishioners have a three-year probation sentence. she puts them on an 18-month success track. her goal is for them to be able to achieve all of the goals in the plan, and if they do, she will take them back to court and basically ask the court for reconsideration. it is about giving them the lifeline. that is where the motivational interviewing comes in. officers are engaging the population but also, if the individual ends up in difficulty, they know they can call their probation officer and they will get help. not just get a sanction. >> at 1:00 p.m. there is a schedule of government audit and oversight committee meeting. we will need to keep moving this along. i know we have other presentations coming up as well, but thank you for the great presentation. >> in addition to that, we have been picked as one of four jurisdictions in the united states to do this two park project, trading for evidence- based practices

he was good with numbers, and he used the numbers and look add the court's docket, caseload, and he really as chief justice roberts indicated really took apart a neutral case for what fdr was proposing and laid bare the obvious motivation for the court-packing plan. >> how common between the court and legislature would it be for a missive to be sent from the court on to congress? >> it does happen. the chief justice, and i don't know whether this was the practice back in the day. it has become the practice that bafs basically every year there's a state of the judiciary letter that the chief justice sending over to congress. sometimes it can be pointed. for a number of years rehnquist and roberts made pay point of explaining that they were less than happy with the current state of judicial pay. so there continued to be these kind of issues between and among the branches, but i also think that probably the way the chief justice hughes handled the court packing scheme probably took court-packing off the table as a realistic option going forward, and i think that's one of his great contributio

>>guest: we lowered the welfare caseload by 70 percent, and we found the vast majority of those peopleed into work and something magical happens when you move into the workforce you climb the ladder of success, the income goes up. so that has been a great success over the last 25 years. >>neil: where is the advantage, now, of a waiver? to what end? is it such a burden? what? >>guest: this is the strange thing about this administration. they seem to want to get as many people on welfare assistance as possible so we saw this, remember, a few weeks ago we talked about the food stamp program and how the administration is doing outreach to try to get more people on to food stamps, and now you have this waiver they are offering the state saying you do not have to require people to work which i think is exactly the big problem. look, we already have 47 million people on food stamps. the number of people on traditional welfare is rising, again, for the first time, in 20 years, and i don't see the logic of it other than the president wants to grow the welfare state. >>neil: that was a real wate

half of the welfare caseload dropped in four years. it worked. obama can't abide that.eople off of welfare in this regime. we don't want people leaving the welfare rolls. voters that are getting away -- we want more people on the welfare rolls. we're going toed a tries food stamp parties. >> stephanie: wow! it is like romney saying if you want free stuff vote for the other guy. first, how weaselly is that that he waits until he's not in front of the naacp to say something obviously inherently racist. >> there are sure a lot of welfare queens and cadillacs out here. >> limbaugh's talking about if you take a step back is this constant conversation, the conservatives are having in the media about what obama is doing. he's trying to lure as many people to be dependent on the governor, poor people and minorities and that's all part of this very un-american agenda that he had to sort of create this army of poor people who are dependent on the government to live therefore they vote democratic. i swear this is what they talk about every day and they're 100% serious. that's how

he's handled an impressive caseload including almost 3,000 civil and criminal matters and 400 judicial settlement conferences. he is the type of consensus nominee that we look for in every single state. he's given the highest possible rating by the american bar association. no questions asked, this is a good man and a good candidate for this spot. the american bar association's nonpartisan peer review, every single reviewer said this magistrate is well qualified to serve as a circuit court judge in the tenth circuit court of appeals. and where are the politics there? the politics are the democratic majority leader has offered to the two republican senators from oklahoma a chance for this good man to serve and now they are going to stop him with a republican filibuster. if you wonder if you're looking for evidence of a dysfunctional senate, hold on tight and in just a few moments we'll start a roll call and you'll watch as republican after republican comes and votes to kill this man's nomination for the tenth circuit court of appeals. president obama will be the first president in 20 ye

since the enactment of welfare reform, welfare caseloads have dropped dramatically. families receiving welfare have dropped by nearly 60%. people have got jobs, people who have never had jobs before for generations and gained the self-esteem from working. welfare reform remains popular and is often cited as the most significant domestic policy accomplishment in decades. the core philosophy behind welfare reform is the emphasis on work and moving from dependency to self-sufficiency. now, despite the popularity of welfare reform, programs created under tanf have languished. as more states were able to get credit towards the federal work requirement based on the declining caseloads, tanf increasingly became less of a welfare to work program and more of a funding stream to prop up other social programs. in 2005, the nonpartisan government accountability office reported that several states listed as part of their definition of a -- quote -- "federal work activity" unquote under tanf some of the following -- bed rest. two, personal care activities. three, massage. four, ex