In the white house, for as you will hear from jason furman from the council on economic advisers. All of the agencies are focusing on what we could do on this important issue of reentry. Recentry fits into the broader picture of criminal Justice Reform and last summer the president gave a speech where he focused on three buckets. The community, the courthouse and the cell block. So we have a collective responsibility and many of the advocates that are here together together with the private sector have been focusing on improving our communities and everything from Early Childhood education to breaking the school to prison pipeline to breaking the Sexual Assault to prison pipeline to ensuring that every child gets that fair shot. The president s my brothers Keeper Initiative is another way of helping other boys and men of color to get that shot and follow a life free from crime. So we have to improve our community. We also have to improve the courtroom. And you are seeing there is bipar
Find great erin sight into it. No one respected the admiral than i do. He is caught many times between the macinations of congress where we force him to take from Critical Systems to pay for other Critical Systems and i think he would like to avoid that conundrum. But our near peer adversaries are near to tackling our space assets. This is no longer academic and the question before this committee is what shall we do about it. These adversaries have taken note of the u. S. Space dominance provides our military and observed the defenseless nature of our space assets. If we are to abandon the commanding heights of future battlefields without a fight, it will be our military who suffers the consequences as they find themselves cut off and fighting blind in an environment far from home. China has clearly demonstrated antisatellite missile capability and proven it could reach from orbit to low earth orbit. Russia has also tested a direct assent a sat and north korea and iran have both launch
For example, were betraying that basic principle. At the same time, the certainty part of this is really lacking, so it is stunning that under half of Violent Crimes in the United States are cleared. That is lead to an arrest. Or some other form of resolution. And for Something Like burglaries its more like 15 . It means 85 of burglaries just kind of disappear in terms of some kind of resolution. If you think about someone thinking about attempting to make a burglary, the fact only one out of seven cases is anyone brought to justice, that, unfortunately, encourages the burglaries in a way that i think prison sentences, or the length of prison sentence, dont do much to offset. So now you might think, theres not much what we can do, it is what it is, burglaries are hard to solve and Violent Crime is hard to solve. The evidence is also very compels there is lots we can do. So as an example, jason furman mentioned empirical evidence suggests there is a positive return to police presence. P
Most important thing you can do, movement in politics, to show that you can improve the condition of peoples lives. With stagnation, 4050 years, you know, africanamerican communities, it has been brutal and not much attention paid until the last years. That turned people away from politics and government, from a belief that the government can work on behalf of a too often cited common good. Van i think she is holding out on us. We were talking about right and left stuff. You have been able to get people to come together on your issues in a way that i think is shocking a lot of people. So, did you have any insight . Aijen poo i did, i was actually going to say, i have been so inspired by all the work you have been leading on mass incarceration and i think that we have to get smarter and more creative about how we are connecting the dots between and across the kind of pain people feel in this economy. And one thing that we think about a lot is the fact that this country is actually aging
Take pkg its finally beginning to look a lot like christmas. I like it. Its a nice change. The big winter holidays have passed snow whenever it falls. Down in las vegas he dont have the so its a novelty for some people and they really want to have the chance to enjoy the winter conditions in the winter. The mountain is expected to get inches in the double digits today. Its like a movie. Its amazing. The snow was light in the early part of day but got heavier and heavier as time passed. We can just stay here for the night or 2. Who knows . Were just having fun. Its attitudes like these that have the staff at the mt. Charleston lodge grinning from ear to ear. They say business is booming thanks to all the snow. This week its been snowing every single day. Weve been getting about 6 inches overnight and so we come back to work with a fresh blanket of snow on the ground. But today the snow may make the mountain unsafe to travel locking them in. I get worried that i wont make it down the mou