i never thought i would be sitting here agreeing with every word john burris would say. [laughter] this is the first time i have had an opportunity to be with him. however, i do agree with him. it has to be enforced throughout the organization. what we expect up our people. what we want to ensure up our people, particularly the integrity and the values aspect. many of us, not many, but quite a few departments have of all you statement. ethics, integrity are part of those values. it is not just a document that is on a wall. it is something we have to believe that every level and in force at every level. in preparing for this, i found an absolutely wonderful article, "the truth about the police code of silence revealed." i really recommend that you take a look at that. i'm going to recommend most police chiefs take a look at this. there are profiles. he talks about the code of silence. that is about the fact that there is. how you prevent the code of silence? it is like how do you prevent crime? or how do you stop crime, let's put it that way. the best way to prevent these

said today on the panel -- and i cannot believe i am going to say this -- i completely agree with john burris and stuart hanlon. [applause] >> thank you for giving my closing comments from me. i would like to thank the public defender's office for providing the public and anybody he wants to come to this forum, hearing from these experts, and they help you take away some good things from this -- and i hope you take away some good things you take away some good things from this panel. >> so many people here. this is the third and final panel for those of you who have stayed. this is going to be an incredible discussion. leading the panel, this is the chief attorney of the public defender's office, matt gonzalez. >> let me talk about how we decided to have a panel as part of this year is just a summit on the death penalty. san francisco is often known for being a large city, in this case, we have a unique history with the death penalty. during his reelection campaign of 1999, terrence hallohan said that they would not seek the death penalty for any offense in san francisco. he was reelected by

i never thought i would be sitting here agreeing with every word john burris would say. [laughter] this is the first time i have had an opportunity to be with him. however, i do agree with him. it has to be enforced throughout the organization. the organization. what we expect up our people.

john. he goes on to say -- brooksville, florida, on our line for republicans. you are on the "washington journal." burris? caller: this is chris. host: are you in brooksville, chris? go-ahead. caller: go ahead. thank you. i think the economics have to be tied to the political because the economy is a big problem for him politically. they are both combined. but i get a little tired of people wanting to blame everything on bush and expect no culpability by president obama. his first year he had a super majority in the house and he had a filibuster-proof majority in the senate, for a whole year. they could have done anything they wanted. but they fought amongst themselves. it has nothing to do with the republicans. the health care thing they passed. republicans had nothing to do with that. they didn't ask them what they wanted were to bring input because they didn't need their input. if you don't need the other parties input, especially with something like that, you are not going to ask them what they want. you are going to make them sit on the sidelines and just say this is our deal, to the victor goes the