Year here, basically, i was doing a federal trial involving some bad things that happened, okay . I usually come in after bad things have happened. And we were picking the jury and ill never forget it, it was about a 6 or 7week trial, 1992 or Something Like that, 91, and it was remarkable to me because we did a questionnaire because the case had a lot of publicity. And id say 99 percent of the people noted, the potential jurors noted they have daily and meaningful contact with a person of another race or religion. And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really what this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspiring f
This to ensure that we have some resources for innovative programs that are happening across the country for those local programs that are really changing the way their schools function and their communities see their schools and promoting those and scaling them up. Very quickly because i know we want to move on, the attorney general launched a defending childhood initiative, i know theres a lot of philanthropy in the room, we want to work in partnership to find those innovative programs. There was a jurisdiction in north dakota that got a grant to implement some of the restoretive justice programs, the superintendent mentioned those. Those have shown real potential for doing good things in terms of preventing recidivism in the bullying context. A grant to boston for statewide bullying intervention, so theres a number of different places, portland, maine and elsewhere. If you have ideas you should never hesitate to call us. Were not a grant making arm in our division but we have the au
Percent of the people noted, the potential jurors noted they have daily and meaningful contact with a person of another race or religion. And then i had another trial after this was done in another jurisdiction that shall go unnamed, and i would say there were maybe 5 percent of the jurors, potential jurors, who had had meaningful contact with a person of a different race or ethnicity and thats really what this is about. One of my least favorite words is the word tolerance because, you know, i tolerate Brussel Sprouts but if you simply tolerate the diversity that is america, you are going to, you are aspiring for mediocrity. When we have, and this gets back to your question, when we have leaders that embrace diversity and that build a culture that says, you know what, if you want to compete in the Global Economy tomorrow, pal, youve got to embrace diversity. Why does cocacola write a brief to the United States Supreme Court and General Motors and microsoft on issues of diversity and Hi
Course of a two year period, we saw 6 or 7 kids who took their own lives, six or 7. We cant get those lives back, tragickly, but we can redouble our efforts to be sure no one else has to bear the unspeakable. We see the bullying of latino kids, of African American kids, we see bullying in so many shapes and forms and ive seen it across the country. But ive always seen remarkable and couragous people at work, local Law Enforcement, local das, people who are getting out of their lanes. The old paradigm of a da and a attorney and a police officer, you get bad guys, you put them this jail. You know, im telling you, ive done a lot of hate crimes cases and i know todays bullies are often tomorrows civil rights defendants. If we simply wait for that train wreck to occur and prosecute, thats going to be like trying to cure cancer by building more hospitals. We cant do it that way. Weve got to get into prevention mode. Weve got to figure out strategies to prevent, weve got to empower School Dis
Good morning, everybody. Lots of people know each other here, wonderful. It will be a great day. Welcome, everybody, welcome to San Francisco. To some of you, welcome to the presidio, welcome to this absolutely gorgeous futures without violence center. I want to start by thanking futures without violence and esther solar for giving us this beautiful space to meet in today. Is esther here . I havent seen her. Well thank her later. They made this Space Available for us. Good morning, my name is me linda hague for those of you who dont know me. I was appointed by president obama a little more than two years ago to be United States attorney and it is my incredible honor to represent the president , the Obama Administration here in the Northern District of california. Welcome to the stop bullying summit. Im a federal prosecutor so it may seem odd that here we are talking about bullying and we asked all of you to be here and i want to explain the origin of that and why this happened. You peo