mr. gascon, and i joined him when he moved over to the d.a.'s office. joining the office on his request, because i think we really have a unique perspective, having worked on the defense side and on policy issues, and i can attest that he is undertaking a wholehearted effort to really bring some reform to the criminal justice system on many fronts, this being one of them that we are evaluating. i hope that you as city and county residents will see in our work that we really take some efforts that will reform. anybody that has participated in the criminal justice system for any length of time knows that it does not work from whatever and will you are looking at it, so the question is how do we make it better? we hope to engage all of you in that. we are starting neighborhood courts, and a lot of efforts that we hope to engage the city and county in supporting us and looking at ways to move away from the over incarceration of people and look at ways to reform their behavior. the efforts we have undertaken when george was appointed to the position -- jeff

mr. isikoff, there was some strange disappearance of the d.a. from the '98 case? >> reporter: right. that has been under investigation for years. i should point out that -- i talked to investigators that assured me this week this is an active and open investigation. i think that it's pretty clear, they're certainly getting tips and allegations that might -- suggest might be in some way related to this, but in fact there is no evidence after this point that we have -- >> we don't know there's -- >> but john martin, we do know -- >> we have no evidence of that whatsoever. >> but we do know this is the d.a. that has been missing that closed the case in '98. >> who in 1998 decided not to pri. they find his car, they never find his body, and there has been -- it's been a wild case for six years. no one can explain it. they say it's suicide, homicide or a walk away. now you have his friends, everybody is saying the new spotlight on this case. they're saying maybe if nothing else, there's a national spotlight, maybe we'll find out what happened to that d.a. ray gricar. >> we do know, before