miss milfray? [unintelligible] [no audio] >> absolutely. i also think it is important people are treated right off the bat. the more time they have psychotic episodes, the more serious their mental illness can become. i think that jail is a horrific place to get treatment. i think it would never end up in the criminal justice system if they have what they needed. i think they would never end up in the criminal-justice system if they had what they needed from the start. >> we like to hear from miss leslie cockbogan. thank you for joining us this evening. please talk into the microphone. >> california has one of the highest recidivism rates in the entire country. san francisco conducted a study exclusively for behavioral health court called "the effectiveness of mental hea lth court for reducing recidivism and criminal violence. though it has reduced those things more than jail alone. this was a peer-reviewed published study published in the "american journal of psychiatry." this study compared 172 behavioral health court clients to other cli