of an umbrella action to talk about these issues, to hammer out a solution where trust is restored because we are experiencing a crisis in confidence. video the flareups is not going to solve the problem. the can t ignore it, we actually have to talk about what the problem is. people feel that they re being targeted because of their skin color or their socio-economic status. that has to end. the site of money, what is the greatest obstacle to the attorney s office? aside from money, the lack of technology. the technology is very antiquated and this is an area i ve been working very aggressively to operate. we have been reaching out to other partners in the community. we have already started a modernization process. we re leaning towards the creation of a better technological solution to many of our cases. this is similar to my answer to the last question. but we are missing through trust and collaboration with the community. that is what we need to make it safer. we nee
this testimony and put in all of the proper procedures. even in concert with other evidence, we need to be very skeptical. again, the job of the d.a. is to do justice, not to convict. we need to make sure that our evidence is completely reliable. and his use of incentivized witnesses is a terrible practice. these people are in jail for a reason and they become self interest. we talked about getting witnesses from the jail. and we should know exactly what is going on in these jails. people go into jail and they don t come out. sometimes they died. why should we know exactly what is occurring? we should know, just they don t have any right to privacy in jail. we should know the truth. maybe he is telling the truth. if he isn t, we know that that didn t happen. i think it goes to a training issue. you can put cameras everywhere you want, but at the end of the day, you have to teach how to do things right. i ve been a leader in terms of training. i have conducted seminars a
have an office that people want to come to. it is my commitment to make san francisco one of the best in the country so it is no longer just to the county referred to when we talk about the best offices in the country. we need to have leadership that has been there and done that, leadership that can train the lawyers. in order to lead an army of trial lawyers, you need to walk a mile in their shoes to earn and gained the trust of those lawyers. i have a federal clerkshiin the northern district. i chose to go to the d a s office. i like these advances could be a office to be the place that people turned down offers to go to. it is important to have an internship program that is one of the best in the country. they know how they are in it for the duration. i am here to defend the district attorney s office. it was one of the most enviable job to get in today, i see a lot of that edta is here. no trouble, no problem attracting people. this is san francisco. would you rather li
witnesses is a terrible practice. these people are in jail for a reason and they become self interest. we talked about getting witnesses from the jail. and we should know exactly what is going on in these jails. people go into jail and they don t come out. sometimes they died. why should we know exactly what is occurring? we should know, just they don t have any right to privacy in jail. we should know the truth. maybe he is telling the truth. if he isn t, we know that that didn t happen. i think it goes to a training issue. you can put cameras everywhere you want, but at the end of the day, you have to teach how to do things right. i ve been a leader in terms of training. i have conducted seminars and conferences around the country including hawaii. i testified at the u.s. senate to teach our legislatures. training is essential. i have trained a law-enforcement about what it means to corroborate testimony. and how you handle everything from undercover operations to jailh
some of us know when evidence is useless. by having that knowledge in hand, we can pass it on to others. the district attorney is somebody who has been there and done that. the district attorney doesn t have to go to court and try cases. the district attorney, him or herself, should be inspiration to those people in the office. people should know that my boss has been there, my boss has done that. the job is district attorney, not district manager or district administrator. i know how reliable the evidence is prior. i also believe i am the only district attorney in the state endorsed the policy, i am very pleased that actually passed. san francisco is uniformly seen as different from other cities. how should our differences be taken into account in determining what should be prosecuted? the question is so vague. [laughter] objection overruled. i am serious, what differences are we talking about? how re we different? we are humans. we are subject to the same defileme