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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 Sheriffs 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. Hes been a critic of current models in the criminal Justice System that rely too heavily on incarceration. Will looeng is the c e eo of diversion project from ranging from final alternativ...

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 ...

Their clients. Im a huge fan and knowing what we need to do is to make sure those people that need help get the help they want. Our clients are offered treatment and across the board every Single Person arrested for that are offered services an they all get help. Everyone of them gets help. And my outcomes show that they benefit from that. Thank you. [ applause ] you were a substance treatment expert for the medical center. I understand there is some promising new treatments about alcohol that maybe on the horizon. Tell us about that. As far as treatment for alcoholism, the first things to con...

If i were brought to a conference for the police, wed have a very different point of view. If i was at a conference for the District Attorney we might have a different point of view. The nice thing about this program is we are going to have a job. The police are going to arrest these. The attorneys are going to prosecute their cases and the public defenders is going to defend their client and everybody gets to do their job. They are going to do it legally, ethically, but we ask more that they do it morally. So, if im walking down the street and im pulling my dogs chain or i leave my dog outsid...

Its kind of ironic that we are going last because we are first in dealing with people with crisis and i can remember back when i was brand new back in 1981. There were folks in alley ways, one comes to mind his name was bobby, you wouldnt even recognize him from the time you would initially contact him to the time he would get out after a 90 day hold for court. You dont have that anymore. The answer cant be to do nothing. So as Police Officers here in San Francisco there is a myriad of options that officers go through whether its 51 50 where people are danger to themselves or to others, door a...