next speaker, and while benjamin's coming up, if michael brinkofski, pedro florez, and david bercutt can lineup. >> good morning. the more time i spend in these communities, the more i think i can be a valuable contribution to these communities and to the task force because i've seen the street-level drug deal issues from both sides. a decade ago i know the tenderloin a different way because when i was 20, i was using drugs from the streets of the tenderloin, and it was a daily process, and i observed police strategies that would curb drug sales and use ageaged i saw policies that completely failed. although a lost a lot of my life, i am lucky that i was able to turned my life around and get an education. i work closely with a program called second chance and specifically a professor mobley who taught me about restorative justice. we watched people turn their lives around using new and alternative programs and staying out of prison. today, i still work in education and also in the law. i'm usually working at a college on post and taylor or i'm working at u.c. hastings a few blocks aw