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Prosecutors office, in a Police Department, its arresting. Its putting in jail. Its going in court and find this person guilty and punish them. Thats a kind of hard power and most of what is done in a Prosecutors Office most of the resources are devoted to those hard power tasks, but although we devote less resources to soft power there are probably more important and soft power is where you change the hearts and minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the c...

And its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school L...

Significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are b...

Use their guns safe zee criminals arent going to go to background checks. They are not going to go to the gun store and fill out a form. They are going to steal their guns, get them on the black market. Well, two Million People tried and were turned down because of the brady law. And only 44 were prosecuted. Im in support of that. You just refuse to acknowledge that theres more that we can do while we focus on that and that doesnt even represent what your members think. The question was about co...

And only 44 were prosecuted. Im in support of that. You just refuse to acknowledge that theres more that we can do while we focus on that and that doesnt even represent what your members think. The question was about common ground. This is clearly not an issue where theres common ground. I appreciate you both being on and having this discussion. We want to continue that. A senior lawmaker comes outfront to explain why hes voting against hagel. And Chuck Grassley implies video games and not guns ...

Shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as prevention. We dont want to be responding to issues once they happen so we work very hard to build relationships that are truly centered around individuality in the schools so to be proactive we build these strong communities. We have conversations about our communities. Our balance score cards at every one of our schools developed and revises every year has a component talking about a safety H...

Less resources to soft power there are probably more important and soft power is where you change the hearts and minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the community are and certainly in our office we devote significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a sh...

Want that to be true we have to be just with one another and i think thats what were trying to do in oakland. [applause] District Attorney. Well first of all i would like to thank you for putting this together. I also want to thank katie miller and rebecca from my office and consistently at the forefront and in the community and Common Sense Media who became a partner last year and katie and her people and rebecca and the School District we started Public Information a year ago and my partner Ri...

Or little n and thats just the way we greet each other and for someone that entered school only speaking spanish and you think about the language issues and in spanish i can tell you a whole bunch of terms that people use to great each other that are so racist, homo phobic and have a length and accepted as accepted and we need to Work Together and were dealing with a culture we are trying to shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as pr...

From my office and consistently at the forefront and in the community and Common Sense Media who became a partner last year and katie and her people and rebecca and the School District we started Public Information a year ago and my partner Richard Carranza who is an incredible superintendent, someone i am proud to work with. First of all let me tell you that bullying takes many different shapes. It can be physical, it can be emotional, it can be verbal. I can tell you having been a non English ...