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And how long has this been happening . For as long as the criminal Justice System has been in existence and that is largely been done without a tool which is why we are pushing so hard on the office in multiple fronts and the scientific measures for how we do our work, rather than relying on human instinct and the years of experience in the office to make those determinations and because you get the different out comes from that. And but you can continue to make those arguments without the tools . Yes, i mean that it is necessitated by the process, right . We cant just say that everybody stays in or gets out. It is in the system that we have a bail hearing at the arraignment to determine if someone liberties should be restrained. And so that is the system that we all function within when the District Attorney was elected he said that i would like to have an informed proces ....
Make those arguments without the tools . Yes, i mean that it is necessitated by the process, right . We cant just say that everybody stays in or gets out. It is in the system that we have a bail hearing at the arraignment to determine if someone liberties should be restrained. And so that is the system that we all function within when the District Attorney was elected he said that i would like to have an informed process around that and a tool that my prosecutors in the court can rely on to help them to understand the individual and the circumstances better, rather than making this decision, without that. And so we are working wither earnestly on that. And thank you. That is the sort of development and privacy that i would like to encourage for this process. Because it is critical to making the right decision, and those are hard decisions to make but in the courtroom, we have much more information than the sheriff has in the ja ....
Court, trust them to return to court when it is their time and are not requiring them to sheriff their time and we think that for the San Francisco or project will greatly increase the Public Safety as the people are able to return to the Community Without these risks to continue to earn the income and support their family and also we have heard the praise here today for the pretrial deversion project, the San Francisco pretrial deversion project and already supervises every 1,000 people every day in San Francisco and very successfully and has won National Awards for the excellent work and we feel that increasing funding for this program will do an even be ....
Be electronically monitored . Well, in the bail proceedings. During the arraignment, the court ultimately makes the decision we make the argument and the Defense Council makes the argument about what we think is appropriate and you can imagine the scenario where the defense attorney will say this person is safe and he will come back to court and you should release him on the promise. And we might be saying we disagree with that and we think that there is danger or a risk of him not determining and the judge makes a determination of multiple things set, bail and release them on the promise to appear and on supervised promise to appear and go through the pretrial and have a case manager and i believe that in the Court Electronic monitoring but it will be at the individuals expense. So you make the argument to support having one to be put on the electronic monitoring. And wha ....