Political and Economic Reforms, particularly in the countrys Energy Sector. As a result of mexicos reforms, moodys upgraded its Credit Rating to Investment Grade in february. This makes mexico the only latin American Country other than chile to achieve this rating. The Mexican Congress recently passed a law that will enable courts to try cases alleged against soldiers. To protect human rights, to protect advocates and journalists represent an important step forward. This is a real challenge, and mexico remains a dangerous place for those working to shine a light on abuses, corruption and crime. I urge the Mexican Government to speed up its implementation of these measures. I also urge the state department to provide direct funding for this effort to help build a safe environment for these men and doing such important work. As our witnesses know, i have been a supporter of the Merida Initiative since its inception, but ive also made clear we have certain obligations under the initiative
Risk assessment or the much more refine instrument . I totally agree that there has to be this instrument that assesses risk and where as 20 years ago, there is Risk Assessment side. What you have to do is realize limited resources. We simply must focus ourn our energies now. You have to focus your services and get obviously the return. Thats where the services have been. There has been a tremendous advantage in the last 5 years. Everyday our office is changing. I fully expect that as this is happening now, our case managers, the challenge for our case managers, they are going to have to adapt to look at these practices in the same way. But you cant substitute great case manager and social 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 st
People would be doing their time and incarceration. That has a tendency to impact the ratios because on the sentencing part of it, we are much more likely to release somebody into community that many other counties are. And we believe that has worked well for us. The crime rate has not gone up, in other areas its low. We are the only one to do so and we are the only urban counties that have under population but the other ones are rural counties. I believe we are doing well. I believe with the sheriffs because we are doing well does not mean that we cant not do better. I believe we can do better. That someone is going to stay in custody in a pretrial setting should be really based on risk, risk of violence, risk of reoffending and or is a flight risk. I think also as we looking at this, we need to push the whole concept of adjustment reinvestment. That needs to go to places to keep people coming into system in the first place. Prevention models, more going towards Public Education and h
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 that doesnt belong in a Civilized Society and serious atonement and i think you would recognize in the california prisons to meet that. Let me say why its a risk. Its always so reasonable to see risk as a way on out of these. I dont think i need to remind those in the room that an entire population were incarcerated for risk. Nobody was held accountable for it either. If you look at the way this is a
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 that experiment the tentativeness of what this commitment would actually be. Why is why which is why i would like to see what the Mayors Office and board of supervisors to look at those forms of discipline and what they look like to us. I recognize the fear and i think its a fear, not even a concern that professor simon has creating an Assessment Tool that can be manipulated for lowlevel offenses or drug offe