Graciously come back to the festival this year to talk about his latest book, a memoir of time leading the 1990s investigation into whitewater and the matter during the 10 years of bill clinton. When you have been in the whitehot center of the public eye has he has judges probably needs no introduction but i will give you a quick snapshot of some of his distinguished career in law and public service. Is a graduate of George Washington university, Brown University law school. He was the us solicitor general. He was dean of the pepperdine law school. He was chancellor and president of baylor university. Hes been a very distinguished private attorney with firms in california, texas and washington dc. He also is something called [inaudible] even though we have a very bright crowd and this is the annapolis area, i bet if i asked you or if i said the three names you are not allowed answer, can i bet no one know soon they are, but if i said the names Archibald Cox, ken starr and bob mueller y
Okay, lets start, delighted to have you here, the call of the wild west is what i call this, jack london, rugged individualist or socialist . Turned out to be both. So jack london, the most popular writer of his time, even more popular than mark twain since mark twain was in the twain of his life, jack london was the up and coming major figure and sold a half 1 million copies of books, really a phenomenal character. He was in individualist who spoke out against individualism. He was a capitalist to railed against capitalism. He was a socialist who criticized the socialists. He was a racist who hated racism. So now you know who jack clinton is. A very complex character. And so by the way we are going to have time for questions and answer butmany of you, i have been fascinated with the novels, stories and life of jack london, the most prolific novelist of the american wild west, theres probably no better eclectic writers in london. He lived as a minor, he lived and wrote as a minor, a sa
The officers of shelter are not real. The rv count what is the city providing for People Living in rv . Safe parking . They do not have resources yet. Hsoc is targeting People Living in the vehicles. I meet with advocates across the United States are stunned with how harsh it is in San Francisco. There are Human Rights Violations taking place here. Good evening, commissioners. Thank you for having this hearing. I hear a lot from you guys about need for Community Policing, not enough money, this stuff. We have massive housing. We need funding to expand treatment. Nobody addresses Mental Health if they are going to the streets, not permanent housing. We have 75 fulltime highly trained, highly expensive offerings responding to what is an economic crisis. A housing crisis. That is a lot of money over 40 million spent leading nowhere. That neighbor that commissioner taylor we were talking about that is frustrated. That neighbors needs are not met by moving people block to block. Those needs
Hsoc is targeting People Living in the vehicles. I meet with advocates across the United States are stunned with how harsh it is in San Francisco. There are Human Rights Violations taking place here. Good evening, commissioners. Thank you for having this hearing. I hear a lot from you guys about need for Community Policing, not enough money, this stuff. We have massive housing. We need funding to expand treatment. Nobody addresses Mental Health if they are going to the streets, not permanent housing. We have 75 fulltime highly trained, highly expensive offerings responding to what is an economic crisis. A housing crisis. That is a lot of money over 40 million spent leading nowhere. That neighbor that commissioner taylor we were talking about that is frustrated. That neighbors needs are not met by moving people block to block. Those needs are met by moving people to housing. As long as we have a Police Response to homelessness we are not going to have the resources to house people. I th
14,000 citations had been given affecting homelessness as defined by the budget legislative analysts office. By 2017, we were happy with the department and working with them and getting those numbers down. The last time we got those numbers it was at 9,000, still a huge number, and a huge cost, most of them unpaid. Since 2017 we have not seen that data. I have been on the phone with the Treasures Office who said the police are not collecting on the data. We should be tracking this. We should be able to see if we are giving more or less citations. These numbers are low. We have heard the citation of 647e mentioned. That is important. That is used to threaten people taking the tents away and taking it as evidence. When i was doing evidence in 2014 and 2015 this was not regularly used at all. This is something we are hearing on the streets and now in data and the prosecutor is not progresses cuting the cases because the threat carries a lot. We have heard, though, that they are using 647e