hello, i m adrian finnegan, in doha, with a summary of the news on al jazeera and historic agreement has been reached between lebanon, israel, on a disputed maritime board up. the pact was broken by the us, both sides say that it satisfies all of their requirements. but smith has the latest. israel s prime minister jala pete has called it on historic agreement. he said it strengthens israel security injects billions into israel s economy and ensures the stability of the northern border. there was a little bit of a hiccup last week when 11 on wanted some changes to definitions of what the boys that israel was put in place along in the c along. it s bought a board or what those boys will be described as and over royalty payments. from a gas field that struggles the israel 11 on board, but it seems somehow they ve come to an agreement on, on the definitions for these. and so israel will now have a security cabinet meeting on wednesday. and then it has to go to supreme, the high
if you simply address the 70% pretrial part of the problem, you would not need a new jail. it s easy to see the numbers are represented right in that statistic. and if, indeed, the district attorney s office is working on a tool to assess the capability of releasing more people pretrial, if that study should be done in time for you to redirect this decision and redirect these monies, it always comes down to a matter of priorities. and i know that the sheriff will say that the monies to build capital investment money is not the same thing as operation money and you can t just take it out of one pot and put it in another. but the reality is a lot of this is coming from the general fund and the reality is that all the time we re spending talking about this today and in other things is timely not able to keep on developing these very robust programs that san francisco has been doing such a great job on. i m a native san franciscan and i m incredibly proud of how we ve done, reall
and in that work we have seen tremendous results in a quick review of 30 cases that the alternative sentence planner had looked at. of the 30 the initial offer had been prison. at the end of that nobody was sent to prison. so, we see a real changes in the way our office is conducting business and how that impacts the rest of the stream in criminal justice. and beyond that in the coming year, we re looking to create a pretrial tool, an assessment tool to help us understand who needs to remain in custody during the pretrial portion of their case. you heard the public defender mention that a vast majority of people are in there for bail. there is also cases where we advocate for somebody to remain in custody and perhaps they are a low risk. but without a tool to help us assess what risk somebody is to the community is very difficult to make an informed decision about who should remain in custody during the pendency of their case. we re looking to use some more science and data t
their case. you heard the public defender mention that a vast majority of people are in there for bail. there is also cases where we advocate for somebody to remain in custody and perhaps they are a low risk. but without a tool to help us assess what risk somebody is to the community is very difficult to make an informed decision about who should remain in custody during the pendency of their case. we re looking to use some more science and data to do that work in a more elegant and narrow fashion. and i think we ll see some pretty significant results if we re able to get that project underway as 70% of our jail population is pretrial. that is obviously the biggest place to look for reductions. i just want to point out that in 2006 the situation was much different. chief still made some very good points about the fluid nature of things in the state. the good news is things are trending towards more local control. what we see for more local control is we have a tendency to red
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