that didn't last very long and then there was the prosecution system for the state and local system, so all of our states except for about four of them had elected officials for the state. federal prosecutors are appointed but state and local our elective officials and that ev process is supposed to be the way that we the people hold prosecutors accountable. the problem in the system is that because there is no transparency in the most important functions prosecutors performed mainly the charging and the plea-bargain and it's pretty hard for the electorate to hold them accountable. when they run for office on the state and local level they don't talk about here are my charging policies of a plea bargaining policies because i don't think most people would know what those terms mean they speak in very general terms i am tough on crime and then that is really basically with the public has to choose from without any discussion about the most important functions that they perform. and so that is my concern. what a defendant's lawyer not be about to be part of that or to hear the deliberati

boston built the first modern sewer system in the united states. ours was completed between 1877 and 1884. with this wonderful new sewer system, we were taking our filth and moving it out to the ocean. of course, all of this was untreated. in the 1960s, we were still pumping all of our sewage out to moon island, untreated. we would get swimmers here, never knowing, in the middle of summer, why you would have a cold. well, we were swimming in diluted sewage. melosi: the major way to deal with pollution, at least until early into the 20th century, was through the process of dilution. the assumption was that the capacity of rivers and streams, and even the seas, allowed for certain levels of pollution that eventually would purify themself. as we get later into the 20th century, it becomes clear that the volumes of waste made dilution unworkable as a single solution. and so treatment became the ways in which we deal with pollution. narrator: to protect public health, starting in the 1950s and '60s, there was a push to put in wastewater treatment plants

the u.s. justice system? >> i think maybe that is the seminal question as to why we are gathered here today and why we are talking about this issue. lawyers alone will never accomplish that. judges have the worst. they're not supposed to be out there asking for money for other court systems. the average citizen has to demand the attention of the courts. sandra day o'connor has one of the best statement. in every society, there have to be a safe place. in a democracy, that is a place that is the courts. we have to have the average citizen talking about how they want to preserve that save space in our society and talk to their legislatures, because there is a view among legislators, not all of them, but many, that the courts are another agency. it is not another agency. it is a co-equal branch of government but is necessary to protect our fundamental liberty, and to be such a branch, it needs adequate funding. when they say we have an economic crisis, we do have an economic crisis. there is no question about tha

in the downtown area of atlanta, the sewer system and the stormwater system are combined and there are overflows during storm events, and so the purpose of this system is to relieve that flow, take it into the tunnel, transport it to a brand-new treatment plant, clean up the chattahoochee river. narrator: instead of the combined sewage overflowing into the river, it will flow into this tunnel that acts as a storage tank. the water will then slowly empty into the new plant for treatment before it's released back into the river. man: the system in total is about 8 1/2 miles, 27 feet in diameter. most of the time it will be dry. the only time it will fill is when the sewer system is overwhelmed by the storm. it is a massive project. our budget was $210 million. we've worked about a million and a half man-hours. hunter: it is an incredible amount of work. our capital program right now is $3.9 billion. over a period of less than 10 years. franklin: so it's very expensive. the bottom line is, we, as atlantans, as georgians, don't have a choice to protect the river. we need to leave it better

for the building, the base glazing system for the building and the structural system for the building. what is the protection for glazing system? what is that? >> so, the glazing systems, the glass, throughout the building. >> oh,. >> as mr. ducebella mentioned, there is... >> actually we have a slide on that or i could go through that in detail if you like. >> if you just give it to me. >> it is about making sure that the glass does not participate in becoming a hazard to people inside or around the transit center in the event of something occurs. >> and so, >> when you build many things with kind of resistant glass to start with, >> yeah. you start off with a basic tempered glass system. but this is layers lamination in the glass to make it safer and more secure. >> as you go through each piece could you give us a dollar amount? it would be helpful? >> i will have that when i speak to the distribution. >> all right, thank you. >> what i will try to do is be as explainable because there is this technology mystery because i can appreciate the concern about using buzz words i

if we see misuse of improper use of the system. i would like to comment on the fact that e-verify employers are told specifically in all the guide lines in the memorandum of understanding and all the materials they are not to prescreen employees and if we become aware of any such behavior we immediately refer those cases. last but not least i wanted to comment on the review process. when the trademark sea comes through, they can contest the tnc. if the contest eight days for whatever information because i want to point out that what generates the tnc is a mismatch between the data that was entered and e-verify and the data that we are checking against other databases, city of eight days to come to the agency to the dhs or social security depending what the case is to correct the to data. if it takes longer to make that correction we hold that case and notify the employer. the other thing i would like to add is why we don't have a formal process with the final on confirmation review, we do review the final on confirmation if an emplo

an existing system in order to integrate the electronic trip data and electronic taxi access system that we are trying to develop, and the data elements that are listed are both made available in real time with a little bit of specifics about where and at what point the data is collected. that has not changed any of the data that was required to be collected under the electronic trip data requirement that have been around for a couple of years now. >> to clarify director hienicke, a through k, on pages 59 and 60, you will find the exact same items being struck from the previous section and page 53. it is exactly the same items that you previously approved that are currently logged to be provided. we are changing the requirement, the provider from the color scheme to the dispatch service. as director -- said, adding the real-time requirement to make the application work. >> and the real-time requirement, not all of this information is going to have to be entered in real-time by a taxicab driver, the number of passengers, what else is a driver going to have to enter? >> the only thing

it continues to improve the systems. during this sen -- centennial year we reflect on the transit system. driven not >> good morning everyone. how is everyone doing? nice and loud crowd, that's exactly when we need, engagement. i am part of the mayor's office. the director of crime prevention services. and we are proud to launch this first forum in the county of san francisco and particularly here at the hall of justice. today we have an array of presenters and keynote speeches. and district attorney opening the forum and we will have a forum by the chief and our own mayor. today we want to explain a little bit of background how this panel came about. the forum was an effort that was designed a year ago. with many key stakeholders that are present here today. the attempt was to begin bridging the dialogue between criminal justice agencies and community-based organizations. so there a strong attempt to try to help a population that is mostly impacted right now by criminal justice. by violence in general in our community. t

on the fire alarm system, we took a look at the redundancy system of putting of multiple devices and found a way to rewire the fire alarm system using alternate panels so they would have detectors wired to each so if the loss of one would allow the fire protection system survive. not completely, the fire department can still see the fire spread. on the standpoint of situational awareness we have a very comprehensive building. >> quickly on the sprinkler and alarm, what was the cost reduction there? >> i can give you the numbers. bob beck can do that? >> maybe we should have bob goes through the numbers. that's what i'm interested in. >> i wanted to give you the process rational so although we are looking at the protection requirement we put together a world class team of engineers. each experts in fire protection, fire alarms, communication, structural design, hvac, so as recommendations came in from urs, we could not only validate whether they were rational, we looked at the team that they were assembling and with their very specific expertise in these areas try to find the best solu

it's a serious thing that they know the system is broken. and the criminal justice across the united states acknowledge deep flaws in the way representation is provided to people. eric also spoke to the american council of chief defender in 2009. we know they lag far behind other justice programs. they constitute about 3 percent of all criminal justice expenditures in our nations largest counties." i'm going to skip ahead. we interview lawyers, who fire appropriate motions and do many other things that attorneys should be able to do as a matter of course. finally we know there are numerous challenges in the public defense system like budget shortfalls. he acknowledged the challenges the system faced were not new and quoted justice hugo black when gideon came before the supreme court. there can be no equal justice when a trial a man gets can be a pile of money he has. what can be do? he asked the audience. the question resonates, echoing and bouncing off the walls where a player knows what needs to be done to fix the problem but no one can gen

.. >> guest: those are the decisions that drive our criminal justice system. most think of police officers as being sort of the first people who introduce people to the criminal justice system, and for the most part, that's true. police officers have a lot of discretion on who they stop in the street and ultimately, who they arrest, but they only bring individuals to the courthouse door. it is the prosecutor who has the power to firmly entrinch individuals in the system or not because once a police officer brings one to the court, to the prosecutor, the prosecutor then is the person who decides whether that individual will be charged with a crime and what those charges will be, even if there is probably cause to believe a person committed a crime, even if that prosecutor believes that he or she has proof beyond a reasonable doubt and can prove that person's guilt. at trial, they are not required to charge that person. they can decide at that point to simply drop the charges, or they can decide to go forward, and they have a lot of discretion in deciding what to

that the court system was taking. nd we took a snapshot of over 2500 transactions in 2012. that comes to $23 million. and coming through us the process is that you pay your assurity or your entire bail. going through the bailbonds industry that 10% represents $10 million. >> let me make an announcement that we will take questions from the audience. if you want to ask one, there are cards that you can signal to amy who will hand you one. we would love to hear your questions. mrs. dewitt, it's been a while since you had the podium or the mic. there has been a lot said, i am wondering when you hear this talk about eliminating money bail system. is this something that can realistically happen or were we able to achieve that, there would be a move to reinstate what your organization does? >> let me first off thank you, matt, let me first say i feel like a minority among the panel. but i am not overwhelmed by it. i think we have a little misconception here and what we forget all along, the public, the taxpayers. the bail ind

the reform and commercial bail system is one of the hottest topics. the institute of policies has called the bail system a failed policy that leads to excessive incarceration and mostly of pretrial detainees who cannot afford to buy their freedom. time and time again commercial bail has proven itself to most effective with those released on assurity bonds with 60 percent less likely to become fugitives. let me introduce the panel, der a dwight is with the association, she owns carson bail bonds and in the industry for 4 decades and former mistake mayor of carson california and helen for the juvenile and criminal justice system and currently on the and ralph on the commission of san francisco and works closely with the sheriff's department which now leads the program for violent offenders. >> san francisco, he has over 3 decades of experience in law enforcement including his former role as chief of police in san francisco. he's been a critic of current models in the criminal justice system that rely too heavily on incarceration. will looeng is the c e

solutions are to the criminal justice system here. to the black community, he talks on and on, indignant but right. mostly he wonders how change happens. sometimes i think about what is it, this mahatma gandhi thing. he cracks your head and you say thank you. he cracks your head again. you have to be animal when you do that. it's an outrage. he pauses and collects himself. i'm not talking from bitterness. he says this and yet how can you let go of bitterness. like a dog licking a wound keeping it open and raw greg bright revisits his past wonders if it's a happy ending because he lives in a yellow house, my pot of gold at the end of a rainbow after finally receiving $190,000 in rest tuition. unending that could go either way. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. before we kickoff the first panel we have a special treat for you. we are lucky enough to have the filmmaker in one of the subjects that premiered at the sundance festival called gideon's army. they fight tooth and nail in possible odds. you are going to get a sneak

that's the way the system works. along the way they have to sacrifice either the well-being of their workers or the well-being of the planet or the environmental conditions, they may feel very bad about it, and i know plenty of them who do. but they have no choice. and they will explain if they're honest that that's the way this system works. so we have despoiled our environment in a classic way. that's why we have huge cleanup funds, that why we have so many problems. that's why we have to impose all kinds of costs on companies now to deal with this problem. so i'm not very hopeful. i don't think this is a system that has a place in it for us to seriously deal with the limits to growth, with the need to preserve our environment, to take care of our health as a people because we have a system that pushes forward with a kind of intensity that pushes those issues to the side. >> janet from woolwich, maine. >> if you could be president with a cooperative congress, what are the three most critical things you would do to

but as you well know, the ama running a system on actual costs have set the price for medicare. and because we have a system, you get caught up in that in some opec visionaries don't have a volume and range -- there's no way they can survive under the current fee-for-service system. there's something larger at it got to be part of any system. >> i think what's really interesting come is being held plants making sure that they can help physicians who want to stay in their offices a single practitioners are one other part tichenor and giving them support in terms of coordinated care so that physicians don't have to do all that sells. >> we just need to ensure medical care for everyone. >> will take the next question, thank you. very important point. >> unexercised teleology major and we seem to be talking about prevention and wellness in a very vague manner and we all seem to talk about it only from the perspective of stopping a disease that's happened from progressing to a catastrophic disease. but the incentives to prevent this from happening, diabetes, high cholesterol, things l

we should improve the social security system. we should continue to follow the policy of making coverage universal and ensuring basic care and providing multilevel sustainable social security. we should expand the coverage of social security of the overall management of accounts to higher-level authorities embrace the benefits and improve and coordinate all social security programs and make social security more equitable and sustainable and facilitate a straight transfer of accounts between locality. this basic pensions should be raised another 10% and allowance for urban and rural residents and subsidies should also be further raise. we should develop reform and development of medical to consolidate and improve the system for basic drug and new operating mechanisms of community levels and health care institutions for the form of hospitals and encourage nongovernmental bodies to operate hospitals. we should support traditional chinese medicine and at a minority medicine. we should improve the universal system established as a mech

clearly, we have a long way to go to improve the current system. if you are dumb enough to try to buy a gun when you are on the lam, we need to get you. imagine someone who is a fugitive from justice going in to buy a gun, deals -- fills out the form and they pop up in the system as being a fugitive of justice and nothing ever happens to them. that is a good place to start in fixing the background check system. >> the limit to what you would support for a background checks, the bill that senator coburn is working on -- >> tom corbett -- tom coburn is a good friend. anything he is working on, i will look at. i would be open to looking at their work product. i would say this. as my colleagues have said, we have a background check system that does not create any determined. so what if you fail the background check? it is against the law to fill these forms out and if you break the law and nothing ever happens to you, my concern is expanding the amount of paper we do nothing with is not the deterrent we are looking for. >> if i can add one other part to

when the recently updated the system i pulled up to a call at whole foods, the police officer is there. are you mcguire? he was trying this new app in my cell phone, he was getting a cab for a lady. my name comes up and it's kind of weird, people don't even know my name. i was going through a lot of papers, this one back to 2000 when i was a commissioner, august 2000. the proposal from a firm in berkeley, and website taxi dispatch, virtually identical to what flywheel does. even had extra features, downloaded all the activities that the cab does; it even had four different alarms, this was august 27th, 2000. how did we get into this position where we did not have this? i'm standard the cab companies have invested a lot of monies but we have to have this now. a particular app. i have a concern. i heard the contract has already been awarded to some unknown firm without a real track record. that is kind of -- that is disturbing. in the goals that you have i ask did you remove the word " ridesharing", we don't want to give this illegitimate companies any loopholes. >> -- electra cab. i don

systems. so, that includes both the electrical systems in the building, fire sprinklers in the building, and the network system in the building, that support the communications and the video surveillance and the other systems. roughly 17 and a half million dollars worth of modifications and changes recommended there, he highlighted a few. allowing generators to back feed from one zone of a building to another. but also a number of other recommendations relating to the power systems separating the routing of primary and emergency power systems so that a physical interruption in a primary power distribution will not effect the emergency power distribution in the building so a great deal of redundantcy. we have a high level of reliability for those systems that support people exiting and emergency responsers entering the building. >> then, the situational awareness and intrusion detection, roughly 18 and a half million in that category. this includes as you are aware, video cameras, but also door electronic looking on doors and enhancement of electronic looks that were previously being provided. so

the community-based organization and the sheriff system and the collaborative court system and the d.a. and the chief of police. and that's what it takes, when people talking about changing the system. everyone working together collaboratively and unselfishly, keeping our eye on the prize. we have implemented evidence-based model of adult probation. all that means is that everything we do is based on evidence. motivational interview. and the type of services. and risks needs instrument tools. so we know what that individuals's needs are. but we have taken it a step forward for this population. and we are the only probation department in the state that has created a specialized group, 18-25 years olds that have wrap-around services and individual treatment plans. but the other important thing we have done is create a success-based supervision model. and you have to couple that can services. and when individuals trip, they will trip and fall. so many of them have addictions; right. it's how we address those basically violations they have. we do it in a strength-based way. we do in a disc

the third was they had a very strong accountability system. they had a centralized body that would go out to the schools and look at the quality of the school's and rate them. that was the first three things they did. that catapulted the country from being not so good to actually where it is now which is very good and now when you look at what finland is able to do, they're trying to go from good to great so there tweaking around the edges and that sort of thing. and i think it is a lesson, i believe, in what is possible. if a country puts its entire focus on making sure the education system improves, then that is the kind of progress you can see. tavis: your book is teacher- centric. to your point, the first thing on your list about what the finnish people did was to look at the teachers it wanted. again back to your critics. your critics would take the example in ct that teachers in finland are treated with respect. doctors and lawyers, nobel laureates. the people of finland have such a high regard for how they treat their teachers, one would

but now the system itself has become the target of public criticism. with more people willing to speak out, this could be a chance for china's new leadership to spell out their position on human rights issues. nhk world, shanghai. >>> syrian president al-assad is vowing revenge on the people he blames for a suicide bombing. the explosion killed 49 people including a religious leader that was a staunch supporter of the assad government. the bomber blew himself up at a moss income the capital da mat cuss. the state-run news agency says one of the victims was a sunni muslim preacher who backed assad's fight against rebels. the bombing. he said he wouldn't let the deaths go in vain and urged his supporters to carry on their fight. leaders of the opposition free syrian army say assad is making false accusations. government troops are losing ground to the rebels. analysts say assad is speaking defiantly to try to boost their morale. >>> four years on from the end of fighting, slis ree lafrpga i getting on. many are getting valuable help from the internationa

we should give reform of the financial system and increase the modern financial system so it supports development of the real economy. we should raise the competitiveness of banking and security and accelerate development the multilevel practical markets. we should carry out reforms to make interest rates and the rmb market based and gradually achieve compatibility under capital accounts. we should promote reform of the financial systems, carrying out price reforms and increasing rates -- the resource of products. >> the income distribution system is a basic system of vital importance for social development. and an important cornerstone of the socialist market economy. we have formulated deepening reform of the income distribution system. we now need to promptly formulate specific policies, ensure that institutions are established and policies are implemented. and narrow the income gap. so that a more equitable share is shared by all the people. [applause] we need to advance development of socialist democracy and socialist rule of law. we should insure that people occupied a principle

but when you add more people to the system, that raises costs. we care about covering the uninsured? because they're not using health care now. they're going to use health care. we want that. that's going to raise costs. not very much but a little. the bigger issue is how do you deal with these enormous prices you were talking about with nancy? that's where the affordable care act can help, which is bringing more competition to the bidding and pricing of these items. >> how would that work? the hospital like you just saw there, what would happen? >> they did bidding where medicare would reimburse certain rates for medical devices and they had bidding across different manufacturers to be the low bidder to bring that service. lowered prices by 40%. that medicare bidding demonstration. there is no reason that exact approach can't be applied across the board to drugs, to other diagnostic tests, maybe even a provider services. >> there was something in the documentary that caught my attention. it had to do with the idea of essentially paying people to