Live in and why you are running for San FranciscoDistrict Attorney. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. As you know im brook jenkinsm francisco district [inaudible] i live in the Mission Bay Neighborhood in the city. Where im raising my 2 small kids hor 6 and 2. Im running for District Attorney i became a prosecutor in 2014 i know how personal this work is to those we serve both victims and those who yet to become victims. In addition to those accused. We have to make sure the work we do balance the need to be equal and fair to those who are charged with the need to have accountability so we can have Public Safety for everyone in the staechl since the day i got appointed thats what i have been trying to do is reintegrate accountability back in the system. But in a manner, of course, that is fair [inaudible]. And i truly believe that we can balance both of those interests in order to achieve Public Safety and help those who have o felonieded and committed crime in this city. Regained ability to function as productive citizen in our communities. So that is why im running im the only person who has any prosecutor experience and who has ever done that. [applause]. Good afternoon im joe veronese, [inaudible] is this on [inaudible] i am a graduate [no mic]. I can do it without it if you want . [no mic] how about now . My minute up . Yes. [laughter]. We will start with the beginning. Thank you, im joe veronese good to be home i graduated from usf at the law school. Born and raised i live in cal hallow area where i grew up my entire life. I was a Police Commissioner in San Francisco. I was a criminal Justice Commissioner for california for 7 years. Fire commissioner for 3 years special patrolled the streets of San Francisco in this neighborhood for 3 years. All of those years were in public service. All of those years were unpaid as a volunteer for the service of San Francisco. This is my city and today i dont rescue noise this city. And thats why im running for District Attorney. It is not just about talk and saying, well make San Francisco safe again. It is about doing the work. Getting out. Makes arrests and make people safe in San Francisco. We have people in this city, many people in the city that are fendzing for themselves that stops. We get become to the work of protecting people and delivering a Justice System that we all deserve. [applause]. Everybody can hear me . Good evening usf, it is wonderful to be back after like joe i graduated from usf school law. Stole it now. And neighborhood i lived in north beach for 27 years. I lived in now i live in mission with my 8 year old son who attends school in the mission. Im running for this city because right nought city is in crisis. The corruption and mismanagement and back room deals of a Single Administration lead the city in disgrace. Thats why now we need an independent District Attorney someone removed from the politics and press conferences and willing to take action and clean up our streets. We need to do this in a way that is both smart, compassionate and thoughtful. It is one thing to talk about crime and declare a war on drugs and another to address users and dealers as separate individuals. We need to take a tough but smart approach to crime. Thats why im running for District Attorney of San Francisco. Thank you. Good evening issue everyone iming Maurice Chenier im a graduate of university of San Francisco. I have beening law for 29 years special an attorney all this time. Im due for a vacation had this is over i will take one. Bottom line is, im running for District Attorney, i will tell you the neighborhood i grew up in the ocean view district of San Francisco. One of the most dangerous in the u. S. Drugs every where. Murders every wrchl i seen drugs, i seen murders, rapes, robberies. It is time to stopful so im sending a message this is why im run to the bay area. Go buy an apple any criminal. Take a by the thats the last free by the at crime you will get if im elected to District Attorney im not playing. I dont have to convince anyone myself is convinced. Bottom line is i will make this city safer and i make it safer for everyone. Thank you for the opportunity to address you regarding my candidacy. [applause]. Thank you all for fanatic on your best behavior. I guess that trap door threat worked. The first question, we will go to joe. Can you out line how you are planning to deal with the fentanyl crisis from the higher level import and distribution down to the street level drug dealers . Furthermore, can you elaborate on how the drug enters the city and your strategy to get it off our streets . Absolutely, thank you, your honor. Day one of my administration the day i get sworn in, those investigators that driving the District Attorney will go back to work and the street and make fentanyl arrestos that day. There is no reason that should not be happening now today. In the what is happening the police in the tenderloin are giving safe passage to kids after they get off the bus when you give safe passage to drug dealers in a neighborhood in San Francisco who owns that neighborhood . The drug dealers do. That stops they get arrested. But what is important is that we work with our other Law Enforcement partners. We have dhn for many year and it is stated off because of frictions between administrations we need to recreate our task force with the federal government and with the marshalls and with the probation and marshalls. We need to because e know the drugs are coming from outside the United States. They know through arizona. Up through san diego. And we need to stop it from the source. We send a message on day one when i become District Attorney. The days that you run the streets those days are over. [applause] ltd. Me be clear the war on drugs has never succeeded in 50 years in the United States. And thats an National Fact we have to accept. We, in San Francisco, cannot stop the cartels when we can do is address the street level deal nothing San Francisco. We have to do it in a series and smart way temperature is not just about look them and up 3 the key we tryd that. All it does is bring out more dealers and more now fighting for turf. Thats why we had the increased violence, once you sweep a block they are fighting over the next block. We have to do it intelligently and a difference with dealers and users. We have to address the demand side of this. Because ultimately no matter how low or high the cost guess, as long as people are addicted to drugs they will seek out drugs. To stop the drugos streets, we have to address the demand side of it. The demand side means treatment fir users helping them and building out programs which our Current Administration failed us. And thats the reason we have the crisis on our streets. Thank you. Mruz [applause]. I want to interrupt you. I really proeshth your applause the problem is it takes time away from the speakers. Lets keep it to a minimum. Thank you. Cant fight drugs without partnering with the federal government that will be the top level. Lower level, users and dealers will go to jail. I want to be clear the reason why you cant fix a user without getting them in the system. If you are a keep doing drugs we have to stop spending good money on bad. We had one in the newspaper one person, 4 people cost the city 4 Million Dollars in one year. Back and forth to the hospital on over doses. I will set a moratorium. Fine, you are sick you have a drug problem we will try to fix you one more time. Beyond that you go to jail. As far as dealers i have no sympathy i seen them my life. Unlike you you have not. I saw them on the way to school in the morning. Dealing drugs. Pushing poison on the people. I am simply fed up nonsense going on in this city and intends to change it for you. Now, one of my biggest things i will do is block access. I will put users and dealers in jail. If you dont shape up, you gotta ship out. Thats the bottom line. Thank you my time is up. [applause] thank you. The second question will start with im sorry. Not a second time in a hurry. [laughter]. Mraez. I think people know my policies but i will reiterate them. I truly believe we have to have accountability in the realm for several years i handled the cases myself and know what accountability looked like and did in the look like. I know the das office decriminalized the safely drugs. I did come in and take a tougher approach because we need one 1700 death in 2 years. We have a job to do and frankly the peep in the tenderloin and soma and the mission are begging to have clear streets where kids can walk and the elder low with get by without having to interfear with people dealing. Lined up and what i have done is implement had i believe the necessary policies including pretrial detention for those who have cases some you may have seen the guy arrested with 8 pounds of fentanyl that is someone we south to detain pretrial he should not be on the streets. We are making sure that the dealers are admonished and should they be connected to selling fentanyl to someone over doses they could be charged with murder we have to hold the people accountable. Thank you. Brook. My apologies. Goes to Show Supreme Court justices make mistakes. The second question will start with john. Cart compassionate, alternative response team. It was crafted in order to have an alternative to the Current Practice of having Police Respond to homeless. The concept is a deeply trained and well paid response this centers unhoused people while responding to 911 and 311 calls from San Francisco concerned about the presence of unhoused persons. Have you endorsed cart . Why not . John . This may be rigged but i started cart. I was on the Police Commission when we passed the resolution to direct the formation of cart. I worked with a large grouch stake holders to develop cart over the process of 2 years. We got funding for cart but it was held up by again, this administration which is focused the resources on policing the homeless opposed to supporting the homeless. Ultimately, cart is a good program. A program that we need because, look, you know i worked on the Police Commission like joe we know that police are not workers for the unhoused not social workers or trained we need a proper professionals to come in and address them, connect them with services and help people finds housing. Finds Mental Health treatment. Find Substance Abuse treatment. You look at the streets and upset at the conditions on the street but these are real People Living there and we have to treat them with compassion and give them justice through our system. Thats what cart was formed to do proud to have been one of the people who started it. May i hear the second part of the question. Concept is deeply trained well paid pier response that centers unhoused people while responding to 911 and 311 calls from San Francisco concerned about the presence of unhoused importance. Can you have you endorsed cart . Why or why not . I will endorse any program that helps get drug addicts off the street. I will endorse any program that helps get addicts off the street that is one of my primary concerns. I see. I went to an interview the other night and i saw drug addicts lined up on golden gate avenue. I saw 200 drug addicts lying down on the street. We need to do something intervention is necessary. What is in place now is not working. So, yes, it would be with my policies to get yourself straight or go to jail, plus cart, that is fine. The combined approach and attack will resolve this problem. The people are suffering not just the homeless. The people the citizens are under siege. We have to think of the citizens and the drug dug heads or whatever addicts. We have to think of both. With that in mind, anything that helps homeless and the drubbing addicts get off the streets im 100 for. Thank you. No applause, please. Yes. Im in favor of both cart, the Street Crisis Response Team from the San FranciscoFire Department anything that allows intervention with unhoused and allows the police to address the criminal conduct. We have a Police Department thap is almost 600 officers under staffed. We need them focused on those who are committing crimes. And spending their time and resources on that. And i feel that having ridden around with the Street Crisis Response Team the w they do is extremely valuable and trying to intervocabulary in those who are living on the street. Some who i witnessed one woman reviv their assistance but they monitor and know and have really relationships with buzz they try to help the people you know, routinely. I believe that they are an asset to helping to make sure the unhoused get connected to resources and opportunity to be connected to resources that should always be the first stretch innervention. I think we need to do more to make sure we are helping people get off the street and not leaving them that is absolutely not compassion. With respect commissioner hamasaki before cart there was ems6. As a fire commissioner the rigs used for cart came from the Fire Department they were old and brandnew they were new vans used we paid for for purposes of ambulance but they turned out to be small we gave them back. Now they are driving doing this good work am im supportive of cart of. Home willness is in the a crime. We need to fix this system. You got cart, the team, ems6 and all of the people that are just moving people around. We see that in San Francisco and drives us crazy. What is happening is our government is failing us and we are spending billions 3 and a half billion dollars every year on homelessness addiction and Mental Health. The problem is homelessness and addiction are not crimes Mental Health is in the a crime. Eventual low it can turn to a crime. I was walking on Market Street with my son and there was a man out of his mind stick a needle in the tree and turns and says dwhad that person stick this needle in us. Thats what we experience in San Francisco. We are failing the city. You dont see it in the presidio or marine or san mateo. Question 3. Approximately start with maurice. According to the National Registry of exonerations, more than 3200 people have been exonerated from criminal convictions in the United States since 1989. Joaquin was exonerated by Innocence Commission this year after spending 32 years in prison. For a crime he did not commit. Will you commit to continuing the District Attorneys Innocence Commission . Maurice . Yes. I have work with the project in california to try to i was part of a team that freed one individual. The bottom line is the root cause of that is failure to disclose. Remember that ladies and gentlemen. Failure to disclose is the root cause of 90 of the convictions we have. Because as a da you are supposed to turn over all evidence to the other side. I dont want to win by hiding evidence. Im going to put the evidence on, i will let the jury decide win, lose or draw. Thats what you get from me and as far as the Innocence Project goes im for it if someone is innocent they dont belong in prison. There are 2 types there is factual nonetheless and well is legal innocence. They are quite different. Numbers i heard dont mean that some of the people were not guilty they may mean some of the people were not a second time legally guildy be careful im for an Innocence Project i worked for the ninth circuit prosecute boneo project appellate freeing people. I have pub believe low committed to congress the work of the Innocence Commission. I actually already spoken with and met with an e steamed professor at this law school to make sure we are continuing the work but enhancing the way it is done and referrals come in we want to make sure we are extending our reach to as many inmated in that want cases reviewed. There was no mech will niche under the Left Administration on do that which could be a result of the fact they did not have time but that is something that we were talking about as well as other ways to expand the scope of the work to make sure we are bringing in the cases we need temperature is work im committed to as the da and we reasonable appointed our member to that commis