we do not need to spend $287 million plus operations to jail people when we can reduce the recidivism rate from 70-40% by increasing diversion. we'd really appreciate that you would take that quite seriously. thank you. >> thanks so much. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is ervin. i with the transient program. people have been sent for any reason. the figure of the united states population being 2% and the african american 47% and indigenous people at 30%. it's clear that incarceration is a huge and whether entrance -- transient of color succeed or not. the population in san francisco that is transfeminine in incarcerated. the hall of justice must be closed because of the size of vulnerability and rather than build one high rise and the two buildings located on the 7th floors, the buildings need to be disbursing in the district remaining close to court. why are we not locating the model and locating other non-service such as pretrial and laundry to costly building and renovate such as women's recovery center at 930 bryant. would this not be cheaper an appropriate. if we can get

we're obviously committed to that edition to talk about the provisions we're foors many events recidivism0 of those depending on how he do in the playoffs the majority of events will not has nothing to do with with the warriors there be a mix of concerts and other sporting event and we hope some cultural events to the city this is typical your profoundly aware i suspect you know this the industry for this kind of facility i was involved in the brooklyn they're doing roughly the same mix we see similar potential in the bay area just to show you some pretty pictures this is the money shot from the blimp looking at toward the park in the foreground one of the interesting things about the facility we have two front doors one 0 third street and which faces towards muni makes sense we anticipate and hope that many of our guests will arrive using that form of transit and along france way and bay that will be an important coordinate as you can see isn't for ground the secondary entrance talking about an arena that is a cut down a rendering of that i'll show you that entrance will be on the southe

department captain extensively pulling son and chief they have a lot of programs really dealing with recidivismor men and not really many for women so they have a women's resource center for women that are coming out of jail to be able to connect into services and so they want to create a coffee cart as a social entrepreneur program to train women to be bar status so i met with them to kind of talk them through what this may be from a business operational side and so this is kind of an exciting thing for us to be partnering with the sheriff's office to help to get a program that will support those women reentering and getting jobs in the private sector. >> workplace i'll leave my director's report there. >> great. >> so we'll move on to president report. >> i have nothing to report next item. >> item 9 vice president report. >> on to item 10. >> commissioner reports. >> no one seeing none, move on (laughter). >> okay all right. you got lots of meetings. >> moving on to 0 new business. >> item 11 new bus and seeing none. >> and item 12 is motion a adjourn. >> i motion to adjourn. >> i second it.

department of justice for multi-disciplinary partnership to reduce recidivism and providing framework for preventing prison pipeline march 1 to december 1, 2015. >> same house same call. without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. next item please. >> item 30 is an ordinance to amend business tax regulations code for regulation and enforcement of motor vehicles for hire. >> same house same call. without objection this ordinance is passed in the first reading unanimously. item no. 31. >> item 31 ksh ordinance to amend rental payment differential and to regulate relocation payments to evicted tenants. >> supervisor. >> thank you very much madam president. just briefly, this provides ordinance -- addresses some of the concerns that have been raised in federal court. specifically it sets a cap on the amount of location payments that are made. and it also provides specificity to the controller in terms of the formula that is used to determine the amount that it's paid. so with that i respectfully ask for your support. thank you. >> okay. not seeing any other names on the rost

and with a low recidivism rate. that is the number of released prisoners who then go back to crime.tlook on incarceration based on the principle of normalization. in fact many inmates in denmark are incarcerated in open prisons where some prisoners leave their confines to work nearby on a regular basis. they earn wages and even get sick pay. the incarceration rate in denmark is also around ten times lower than the united states and the recidivism rate there is also low. in his testimony, justice kennedy also highlighted the use of solitary confinement in america. >> solitary confinement literally drives men mad. >> today in europe's prisons they lock up some of the worst defenders in groups of three or four with apparently better results, justice kennedy said. in america, prison is meant to be all about punishment with little effort at redemption. thousands of petty offenders are locked up and treated inhumanely. when they are eventually released they lack the skills ability or psychological capacity to integrate back into society. inevitably many of them end up back in prison. it i

mark leno says it 90s in the face of a lot of hard work to lower california's recidivism rate. they have sent letters to apple's ceo to reconsider. >> we don't understand the function of policy. what are they trying to achieve? if they say quality, that's the first we've heard of it. we train folks for quality and safety. we do ask. >> apple isn't commenting but they are saying it only depends on the arrests in the last seven years. >>> they got an ear full. san jose city leaders were peppered about seemingly endless probs. they listened but will they act? do they offer up any solutions. >> no. they only took questions about 50 minutes. many people upset about crime waves including a lot of burglaries and that's why they held the meeting here tonight. the public wants answers. >> very scary. i don't feel safe in my neighborhood anymore. >> some blurting out questions. asking for better street lighting, more patrols ander month officers for their city. >> i want your to do list. >> the city and county leaders host the event together. the heeders were all in one room. >> we're th

they figure, while they're locked up, most of them will get out, statistics we feel, recidivism rates are high, how do you make them better while they're in? >> you mentioned some of the abuse and you actually spoke to a former juvenile inmate who experience they'd and some of the solitary confinement. let's watch this clip. >> you were locked up all the time. you got out to work out, make a phone call, two or three minute shower and you were done, you know what i mean? makes you that it system, makes you hate the c.o c.o.s the inmates, hate them more. these boys come in adamaged, poverty damaged,poverty is a big factor, the question is how do you help them so when they leave, you give them a chance to not come back in. eric con ont ontreras that you saw here, he's doing fine so far but i think it's a bit of a struggle. he breaks down when he talks about being 12 years old and in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and how motionly emotionally damaging that was. >> soledad o'brien, thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> up next, as the u.s. works to restore relat

days the financial as using those for rental market are we in the vacation or register at 60 days recidivism 6 hydrohundred dollars and do you believe that 2 thousand conflict of interests a month this question is about whether or not this is taken off as restrooms and seasonal borders this is a huge population students and artists coming to town on commission we have a lot of folks that don't think roommate situations or part of the situation that are being priced out of the market and interesting data about the increased number of vacation homes we have in 2012 according to the census we don't know whether this is an indicator of short-term rental but financial incentives to keeping unit off the market and targeted neighborhoods at least 50 percent of around and short-term rental in the midst and the hated and the castro and south of market western edition there is a high concentration in those neighborhoods their experiencing the greatest gent indication financial enforcement cap the number of days as 60 days this is supervisor campos we can support that and bookings you can track those t

providing planning i training for solar and network academy is to the previously incarcerated to reduce recidivism now i know that everyone on the commission is highly regarded in may bill but there's a disconnect clamism and sexism is wrong the m-3 to get rid of the bad apples and offer training for the remaining police department so the force can be aware of the internal bias and the difference population that san francisco has. >> thank you>> thank you. next speaker, please. >> welcome. >> good afternoon, president and chief suhr e london and pastor brown i don't come here to speak this is my second time to come to the police commission hearing i'll say that i'm a native san franciscan a retired san francisco police officer i believe that all lives matter i have two nephews opd i believe that all lives matter and the gentleman that came up and was talking about the body cantonese i think that that should be something it san francisco police department should be thinking about before any incident like in south carolina body cams will protect the citizens of san francisco that does not trust the

roughly you'll see that we've touched over one hundred and 20 thousand lives throughout the network recidivism one in eight people in san francisco received service from some part of our network that as you can see by the bar graph that volume various by the divisions given the broad breath and differentiates between the san francisco by the different division for example, on the one hand to the far left is laguna which provided services to a little over 12 hundred patient recognizing they provide twenty-four hour care rather than the san francisco general hospital over one hundred thousand varies for someone that stays in the unit for that a 6 month stays and also some place that came in to the lab for a blood draw so i'm sharing this slide to give you an overview of our managed care office in terms of the managed care product lines they oversee their shown not by chart to the right our medi-cal managed care population healthy workers the healthy san francisco program and healthy kids basic take away from this slide is we compare the graft of the bar chart in september 2014 to december 2014 y

off the top of my head, i don't know what the recidivism rate is coming out of u.s. prisons. maybe 30%. one thing about terrorists. this is a different animal than a criminal. this is someone, not just going to rob a bank and shoot somebody. this is someone who wants to -- there are no rules to what these guys wants to do. the notion we should treat them like some mob boss in the gambino crime family equate what that does what terrorism wants to do to this country is absurd. that's why you have gitmo. they deserve a special place, obviously a special place in hell. gitmo is not quite hell. the weather is nice there. >> the weather is nice we made gitmo a respectable place for terrorists to cool their heels. there is a big push president obama it's part of your legacy. you have two years left. this is one of your major promises. close this place down. >> that's right. let's get one thing out of the way quickly. gary said our enemies don't fear us. i think people who have been on the receiving ends of our drone attacks might disagree with you, gary. they do fear us. >> at that

diversion that allows police to take people to housing and other services and see a saechb 0 percent in recidivism rates and reaarrest for those that went through the housing serves and it is something we in san francisco need to think about if we invest 30 million dollars to give police officers to the tools and connect people with the sorts of economic and social justice approaches that can really help them in stead of additional police officers to arrest and incarcrate people. >> thanks very much. next speaker, please >> good afternoon. my name is mohammed sheck with critical registance and i'm also here to oppose-strongly oppose the allocation of fundsing to increase the police department, the officers employed. the issue of systemic violence of racism has come to the for oaf any policing and when the recent revelation of the text messages and sheriff gladiator fights in the jails of abuse of instance, san francisco is no exception. to the city and coupty has one of the luest rates of imprisonment historically and in the state so we should work to continue that downward trend. sfr visor wiener

cambiar hopes to model itself after a program in missouri with the lowest recidivism rates in the country. taylor's program is too new to measure. superintendent quintero runs the place. >> these are clients who have been committed by the court because they've been found to have committed delinquent acts. >> what would be a delinquent act? >> um, range of different things. it could be anything from a probation violation to murder. >> so you have kids here who have killed someone? >> yes, we do. >> but like most kids in the national juvenile incarceration system, the majority at john paul taylor committed nonviolent crimes like shoplifting, burglary, or selling drugs. >> we have facilities here and facilities in albuquerque. >> sandra stewart is director of new mexico's juvenile justice services. >> instead of just warehousing kids and watching them serve their time, the kids learn to do everything together in a unit. >> and the staff started being trained to be more along the lines of mentors and team leaders and coaches rather than correctional officers. >> hey we're gonna be doing a che

the recidivism rate was 29 percent. innocent citizens and law enforcement officers to be injured, maimed, or murdered due to a detainer a detainer not being issued or honored because of this administration's policy. the administration is responsible and will be held accountable. when president obama announced its november 202014 he indicated that he would allow millions of unlawful and criminal aliens to evade immigration enforcement and did this with the issuance of new so-called us immigration and customs enforcement priorities for the apprehension, detention, and removal of aliens. under the knew enforcement priority broad categories of unlawful and criminal aliens will be beyond the reach of the law, even if they don't qualify for the president's unconstitutional legalization program. this means that millions of removal aliens will remain in the us without any risk of. simultaneously president obama effectively announced the end of secure communities despite the fact that the pres. president claims he took action to

reduce recidivism? >> there's hundreds and thousands of advocates looking at prison reform. there's one thing that will change the system. that's our will do legislators. they have to work together. they have to change the laws. if you don't change the laws we'll be talking about this 30 years from now. >> the book is from jailer to jailed. my journey from correction police commissioner to inmate number 84888-054. i wanted to share that with some who may not have it memorized. i understand and i was surprised that you haven't talked to rudy giuliani your old boss and great friend for so many years. >> it's been a long time. lou: how does that make you feel? >> look i've talked about this. this is a small portion of the book. but the reality is that we create a distance early on to keep him out of the mix of my withdrawal -- and the federal investigation. but what bothered me was that he's the godfather of my kids. and i would have hoped he was there for them while i was gone. >> great to have you here. again, congratulations. time for a look at last night's poll results. we

he says it flies in the face of work to lower california's recidivism rate leaders have send letters to apple urging them to reconsider the policy. >> we don't understand the function of policy what are they trying to achieve? you have no idea how barring someone, we train folks for quality. we train folks for safety. that's what they need. we do whether they have felony convictions or not. >> apple has not commented but a source familiar with policy says it only applies to felony convictions within the past seven years. california attorney general pamela harris also looking into the matter. >>> well french laundry is opening today for the first time in months. the well renown restaurant tweeted out these images of their kitchen last night, giving fans the first look at what is the temporary digs. the restaurant has been closed since december as it builds a new modern kitchen. until it is ready, chefs will be cooking in four heavily renovated shipping containers. >>> an alarming new study for women this morning, false positive mammograms cost the nation $4 billion a year. false posit

because it is relatively new, we don't have statistics as far as recidivism rate, but we do know that the tools to survive without re-offending out in society. >> it is liberating. i mean, it is like a weight off my shoulders. i'm not hiding anymore. i found out that i'm not the only one. >> historically in all prison settings sex offenders are low man on the totem pole, so to speak. inmates can't tolerate sex offenders. they really don't even like living in the same prison with them. >> you hear all the stories about this happens to sex offenders, you know, stabbings, beatings, rape. that's still a very fresh memory also. so i was scared. >> today alex's worries are focused not on his safety in prison, but about his re-entry committee meeting about his release, which is just months away. >> re-entry committee is pretty much where i meet with all the department heads. mental health, security, education. they go over all of the things that -- the classes and programs i have taken while i have been in here. and give me any suggestions about what they think would be helpful for me when i

make it more effective, reduce recidivism which is stubborn and has been for decades. >> there are hundredsnot thousands of advocacy groups around the country looking at prison reform. there is one thing that's going to change the system and that's our legislators. they have got to work together. they have got to come together as a bipartisan group which they are starting to do now, and they have to change the laws. if you don't change the laws we will be talking about this 30 years from now. >> the book is "from jailor to jailed, my journey from correction and police commissioner to inmate number 84888-054." >> i got the number. >> i thought i might have it. i wanted to share that with some who might not have it memorized. great of you to be here. i understand and i was surprised that you haven't talked to rudy giuliani your old boss and great friend for so many years. >> it's been a long time. >> how does that make you feel? >> look, i have talked about this and this is a small portion of the book but the reality is that we created distance early on to keep him out of the mix of the heat

the recidivism rate. the majority repeat offenders, felons not able to legally possess a firearm that keep perpetuating these crimes. >> last night, there were stats about gun ownership and i know you said he was wrong. you hear these a lot. >> do you have a gun in your open, you're four times as likely to be shot with it as to use to it defend yourself. if you have a gun in your home, you're twice as likely to be a victim of homicide three time likely to be a victim of suicide. >> and you say? >> that's a nicely debunked study from a guy which came out in the late 1990s. his methodology was flawed and he padded the statistics and used cases of armed criminals who went at innocents away from the home and used that in order to inflate the numbers. in fact, this study has been debunked six weeks to sunday. a lifelong democrat and a criminal research here teaches down in florida was the one who led the charge, along with john watt, a criminal researcher. they have to make stuff up to support their argument.

john really the extraordinary thing of this program is it seeks to head off this system, the recidivism rate is unacceptably high. this could have a role in stifling that. kenyatta really the prisoner we spoke to, said this is rewarding rewarding. >> thanks for bringing this to us jake. >> thank you. >> a former auschwitz guard oscar gruening, was asked to explain how the nazi prison camp functioned. the trains filled with jewish prisoners were constantly arriving. gruening said the camp was efficient and able to process thousands of prisoners a day. >> gene kline a survivor of auschwitz, with the trial of this former guard on the way. here is what he has to say. >> my name is gene kline i'm a hello cawft survivor. springholocaust survivor. it was our turn now spring of 1944, in hungary. hungarian soldiers waking us up early in the morning and they're telling us you are going to get on trains and be moved to places, we don't know where and start marching towards the train, which consists mostly of cattle cars, russ colored cars sliding doors very small windows, barbed wire. our journey

high recidivism rate in america is 76.6%. >> wow.hat's amazing. >> and it's often because people get out of prison and out of want to transform their lives that employers are not willing to even let them flip a burger at mcdonald's because they have a rap sheet. >> i have quite a number of questions from the audience so let's add a few. somebody asked how do you measure the success of your investments? how are you doing? can anyone take the online training? >> that's a good question that we help them we hope to offer online training to open event. midwicket franchised and license our curriculum to other people or offer online courses to others so that may be coming soon. in terms of measuring the success of our investments we look at the revenue of the businesses. we look at the profit and we look at how many of the people they are hiring them a special when they hired defy grads they get bonus points and we look at the attraction and the growth rate and we have a not for naught and resident who will build up their companies. so are

the recidivism rate is 76%. and it is often because people get out of prison and they want to transform their lives but employers are not willing to let them slip a burger and mcdonald's because they have a rap sheet. laura: i have a number of questions from the audience. let's add a few. somebody asked, how do you measure the success of your investments? how are you doing that? can anybody take the online training? catherine: we hope to offer online training. open it and up and license it to others. that is may be coming soon. in terms of measuring the success of our investments we look at the revenue of the businesses. we look at the prophet. how many other people they are hiring, especially when they hire defy grads. we look at their traction and growth rate. we have an entrepreneur in residence that helps build up companies. our cover these are young, they are in inception. some are generating around $100,000 in their first year, which for us is pretty good. we had one business that generated north of $30,00