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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...

Rifs. Just to give you an idea of the scope of what we are doing. Approximately 1100 people come out of jail from our program. This time we are targeting somewhere around 1500 cases. Prior to the last 3 or 4 years, the data that is now coming in, recidivism is around 6 or 7 percent, failure to appear rate or people to appear in court is lower. They are 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 em...

Because if the Constitutional Rights can find to incarcerate, they can talk about bail. I think what is so dangerous about that moment and it came to a surface in the bail reform act of 1984, the federal law, the birth of preventative detention which one thought was clearly unconstitutional and then became a public good that changed the whole view of a system. Now we live in a justice preemptive justice, but they will commit other crimes in the future. I would say if we all now agree or at least many of us agree with Justice Kennedy that the result has been a prison system that is barbaric tha...

Services and thats really how it wraps into what we do. Before i get to miss dewint, i want to give professor simon a chance to say a few words. Im wondering professor if you can context lies this 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 ...