patty lee. patty, i don't know if you wanted to make comments. also, police commissioner cindy alias if you wanted to make comments before opening it up to the public comment. i'm sorry, patty, i can't believe i got your name wrong. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for convening this hearing. i think it's important, given the changes that we've seen in the law and given the incidents that occurred at balboa high school. what i wanted to bring to the attention this afternoon of this body is the fact that frankly, i think that the sb395 legislation that was enacted the first of this year, our office and i actually have miranda duty right now so if this phone goes off i have to take a callment we will field any calls from the police when there is a custodial interrogation of any child 15 and younger. in the past year, we're near the end of the year and we're keeping the data, we have fielded over 75 calls. i wanted to talk about the impact of those calls, not only with the youth, but with the families. also, in terms of the interactions wit

patty lee. patty, i don't know if you wanted to make comments. also, police commissioner cindy alias if you wanted to make en

patty lee. patty, i don't know if you wanted to make comments. also, police commissioner cindy alias if you wanted to make comments before opening it up to the public comment. i'm sorry, patty, i can't believe i got

patty lee. patty, i don't know if you wanted to make

patty lee, managing attorney, public defender's office, juvenile unit, and i have been in the juvenile unit over 30 years. but what i want to say tonight is that we need to have an immediate option program for the ranch because right now, in the past year, we have contested 11 d.j.j. recommendations. this is what the private bar and our office -- last year, in 2017, we only had four. so we've been successful in keeping these youth out. but we cannot wait another year. we have kids in the pipeline, and we know that the recidivism and reoffending rates for d.j.j. are horrendous. so i'm here to ask that we also create immediately an opening for a ranch program, whether it's at the ranch or with community based organization support. thank you. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. next speaker. >> supervisors, i'm the director on the center for juvenile justice. i'm going to be very clear. there's absolutely no way that san francisco should ever send a kid to a state institution at this point. we have -- we have an array of programs that's unmatched anywhere else in the state. in fact probab