Fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of court as long as 120150 days in jail. My office, when we learned of this, we were not involved in the creation of it, challenged it because we believed that it was unconstitutional because you were not charging people with crimes and you are jailing people for contempt of court when legally they hadnt failed to come to court because in most of the
Worker who had been shot to death by a man who refused treatment. The county r remains the only county to implement the law. There have been other counties in Los Angeles County and other counties who are considering it. Why have they not adopted the law. What is it about forced treatment and the consequences for an allowing refusing treatment. We have a panel who have a knowledge of this subject in some cases because of their professional endeavors and in some cases because of personal experiences and in some cases, both. Let me introduce them. Karen chen is an attorney manager for the San Francisco public defenders office, kathy, whose son battled Mental Illness, can is a subject treatment expert for the medical center. Danny is the associate director for the serial neeb breet program for the city of san diego. And San Francisco chief of police. Gary is a psychiatrist and lauras law advocate and eduardo vega of the Mental Health association of San Francisco. Let me start by opposing
And officers had to corden off the area and a man crashes into a tree and police dont know if drugs or alcohol was involved. They ended up involving Police Vehicle which may have been on the way to this scene. Lets move on to a live picture and traffic is moving well in both directions here. It is a nice drive on southbound 880 down to hayward. If you are driving at the bay bridge toll plaza without any waiting about an 8 minute drive time into San Francisco. 4 31 lets go back to the desk. Topping our news 14 people were shot over a two week period. City leaders promising to take action. Here is more on the steps people are taking to keep people safe. Alex . Reporter police are launching a Violent Crime Suppression Team and 14 people were shot in the latest two weeks. This apartment complex on delta boulevard, this is where a 23 yearold man was shot and a 28 yearold man was wounded by the gunfire. This is the latest in a series of Violent Crimes and last week, an 11yearold boy was woun
Families, my loved wupz ones that lost. That made me fight more. I never gate gave up my fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of court as long as 120150 days in jail. My office, when we learned of this, we were not involved in the creation of it, challenged it because we believed that it was unconstitutional because you were not charging people with crimes and you are jailing people for
Five from Silicon Valley. Mornings on 2 begins right now. It is 7 00. You are looking live at antioch this morning, where neighbors are on edge and police are tacking action after 14 people were shot over a twoweek period. Ktvus alex savidge is there and coming up in two minutes, he will tell us how the city plans to put a stop to this wave of violence. Good morning. Welcome to mornings on 2. Im tori campbell. Good morning, tc. Good morning, dave. Im dave clark. Steve is off today and we have rosemary in. Lets get to weather. We have a pleasant afternoon in store, at least away from the coast. This morning, the low clouds, thicker, more widespread. The onshore breeze is thicker. And we have the clouds stretching in some of our inland valleys this morning. So the low clouds, patchy drizzle will remain through the morning and the low clouds will stick to the coast the rest of the day. Around the bay, well have the low clouds. The patchy fog. Mostly sunny for the afternoon in the inland a