i have seen marines out of the military prison -- i have seen them in leavenworth dying in solitary confinement. marines. because they got aids or hepatitis c. convert visn's into what i call residential treatment centers. -- convert prisons. knock down the gun towers. take down the razor wires. inspired the corrections officers, the people with badges that make $150,000 a year -- inspire their asses. [applause] i am all for the union. i do not like their union. what you do is you rehire people back as correctional workers. what happens is in a state of california, where somebody needs help because they contradict or alcoholic or have a bad temper and they are going to be of their wife or sexually assault her stepdaughter -- whatever their problem is, let's do something about crime before they commit the crimes. they have this urge to do something illegal. they call the police and say, "i need help. i'm drug addicted. an alcoholic. please help me." right? they are directed to this treatment center where they can voluntary commit themselves for three to six months. they will do a workshop -- wor

planning department staff, the city attorney, marlena burke to help me navigate the impenetrable leavenworth of building center code. yet next, the unprecedented human rights commission of september 23, which was attended by over 150 people concerning surveillance and the race and religious profiling of members of the arab, a middle eastern, south asian communities. members of the clergy, attorneys, and scholars testified at the hearing. it was approved by the human- rights commission last thursday. today, i passed a resolution endorsing those findings of the human rights commission. next, we had an impressive hearing in the police commission on creating de missile health crisis team and ensuring training was not only retained, but modernized. this resolution affirms the decision to create a crisis prevention team and urges the sentences go police department to understand that the success of the program depends on adequate mental health screening systems. the problem it addresses is the volume of mental health issues that police officers encounter. it is disproportionate to the situation and

another issue, on march 20, a group on leavenworth, they wanted to get in without paying the cover charge, and they were denied, and they became real verbal. one of the people had to actually be escorted out, but this is a situation where the people of the door are doing the right thing. people are intoxicated before they even get to their establishment, and they are not letting them in. a lot of times, some bards think that we hold things like that against them. no, i would much rather have them stop and the problem before it gets and then having the police respond. another note, we went to management training. commissioner al perez ws t -- al perez was there. it comes down to the fire code, but it says for those around 1000 -- vice chair joseph: could you please be quiet when entering the room? thank you. >> 1000 assembling, they're required to have management that is trained, and after going to training, i think it would be something that would benefit any establishment, so i think we could talk to commission staff with a training that bars and clubs could send people to. i just think

leavenworth, before taking this command, and he has guided this effort very impressively.he fact is that we have increased very substantially in every single area of the mission. the funding has, indeed, gone up because we're in the stages of building the infrastructure to allow the additional forces. buying the equipment for them. and we still do have fairly substantial numbers of contract trainers, but we're starting to bring those down as we replace them both with nato, isaf trainers and increasingly afghan trainers because we have an afghan train the trainer program among all the other efforts. one of the most significant steps forward in this regard is in the literacy arena. and we have actually already had some 50 to 60,000 afghans go through literacy training and we have even more than that number in literacy training now. now, you may say that's a strange pursuit for a train and equip mission, but the fact is that one of the major challenges in afghanistan is human capacity because of the more than 80% illiteracy rate. and if a soldier can't read a serial number of

leavenworth, before taking this command, and he has guided this effort very impressively.he fact is that we have increased very substantially in every single area of the so-called train and equip mission. the funding has, indeed, gone up because we're in the stages of building the infrastructure to allow the additional forces. buying the equipment for them. and we still do have fairly substantial numbers of contract trainers, but we're starting to bring those down as we replace them both with nato, isaf trainers and increasingly afghan trainers because we have an afghan train the trainer program among all the other efforts. one of the most significant steps forward in this regard is in the literacy arena. and we have actually already had some 50 to 60,000 afghans go through literacy training and we have even more than that number in literacy training now. now, you may say that's a strange pursuit for a train and equip mission. but the fact is that one of the major challenges in afghanistan is human capacity because of the more than 80% illiteracy rate. and if a soldier can

key input in this regard was lieutenant bill caldwell former commander of 82nd airplane out at leavenworthas taken this command and has guided this effort impressively. the fact is we have increased very substantially in every single area of the so-called train and equip mission. the funding indeed has gone up because we're in the stages of building the infrastructure of the forces, piling the equipment for them. and we do have a substantial number of trainers and we're starting to bring them down as we replace them with isaf trainers and increasingly afghan trainers because we have an afghan train the trainer program among all the other efforts. one of the most significant steps forward in this regard is in the literacy arena. and we have actually already had some 50 to 60,000 afghans go through literacy training and we have even more than that number in literacy training now. now, you may say that's a strange pursuit for a train and equip mission. the fact is one of the major challenges in afghanistan is human capacity because of the more than 80% illiteracy rate. and if a soldier can't

half-dozen officers is them telling me the best years of their life was in maxwell air force base, fort leavenworth and we immediately start from a position of common understandi understanding. i think this is a strategic asset to us that we can certainly maintain full support for. >> i appreciate that. you adco those sentiments. admiral olson speak was actually. you can sign up for a member of the imf fan club. i was in a position long ago a part of the application team of imf in tunisia. and that country was particularly well served by imf. >> we were just a couple days ago with prime minister netanyahu your keys referring to the earthquake, that is taking place right now. and when senator lieberman was talking about the command, it occurred to me that when we were in suit card, we were with africana and said, so you have three right now that really are getting with this problem. you guys all talking to each other, do you feel there's no problem in the george yin was an earthquake has taken place in three command? >> we have a very close working relationship and a strong collaboration between us.