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Discussion historically and whether or not there has ever been a large or successful movement in this state towards the elimination of money bail . Now you are going stump me by starting off with an empirical question i cant answer. First im very honored to be here with plenty of officials. I have tenure so let me be blunt. We are speaking about building a system which we call mass incarceration. We have many of people who dont need to be locked up and that is to provide public safety. Thats one of the reasons i see bail as so critical. Its not a sexy topic. Its one of the reasons its language...

Discussion historically and whether or not there has ever been a large or successful movement in this state towards the elimination of money bail . Now you are going stump me by starting off with an empirical question i cant answer. First im very honored to be here with plenty of officials. I have tenure so let me be blunt. We are speaking about building a system which we call mass incarceration. We have many of people who dont need to be locked up and that is to provide public safety. Thats one of the reasons i see bail as so critical. Its not a sexy topic. Its one of the reasons its language...

Go ahead. Yes, i was referencing earlier there has to be stakeholders all the page. And for the Sheriff Department to reclassify and allow someone to be released, pretrialed, supervi supervised and thats high majority of the time. But if there was criteria charged and not just based on discretion of the sheriff or the District Attorney. But the criteria to reconfigure and acknowledge so its a part of law in the city and county of San Francisco. That to me affirms our commitment to what this experiment would look like. To make a product of the discretionary act by those elected. So goes with th...

Having a right to be released on their own recognizant under the theory that the police should do their work and make sure that person doesnt commit other offenses . And that its not legitimate to make that consideration at the time of a bail assessment . I think that is my view, i think through slow steps we accumulated a system that has a ton of minor offenders and not able to accused in that way. And the right of the constitution and the rights we have made up for the mistakes made. We have to toss out the lowlevel crimes not just in the city but many parts of the state. And with that bandw...

Walking people out of jail. Weve just come out of a difficult 45 years and that is budget years with a lot of social services being cut and really at the end of the day when you are talking about it and talking about housing and talking about employment, you are talking about counseling; you are talking about substance abuse. When there is not access to those services and you are trying to wrap it around. Come full circle to your question, how do you now relate to the Risk Assessment or the much more refine instrument . I totally agree that there has to be this instrument that assesses risk an...