survive and you could barely ask someone away work out every single time there was a t v i needed to do was kind of wait hold people accountable make sure that they were taking responsibility and that is an important thing to remember because it's not something that's new it's not something that's flashy it's becoming more trained to hear the phrase but the principles are rooted and it's rooted in community most productive way possible and how we move at a way that doesn't stigmatize and shame a person committed an act but actually gives them a pass for rebuilding the refutation and repairing the harm that they every case eight police officers from the police department the jurisdiction where there will be for the incident occurred and we hope to have the volunteers from the community as well because those are the people who know how best to repair the harm in their community and so tonight i really want to put out a call for volunteers if you are interested in at the end of tonight if you feel passionate the ones that are working on the ground and they're the ones that are the circles and they're the ones that are really helping make their real transformation so there is a sign list at the back of the team where you payment so that's one  they do not need to know what that something is that's what we're here for to help with that process but they have to be willing to try and that's just turned you don't have that can really go to the nd thing is that we have to have scott of cases of all this guy was operating alone she was trying to manage this case load to figure out how to sort of medicine doctor for the day and they say the feds attorneys came in and the police prosecutors  newly formed sort of justice commission i will tell you my fear is not of the status of all the good things will get ruined so i'm sort of there is it as a defenseman do ensure that what we have placed in our communities  angry man was talking to the other fighter and said you know if we could pull together a small fund raising campaign here at the church i think we could raise enough money to get you a course or bunker hill community college now you like to know why you support both black eyes matter and the police go to this website now as this was unfolding right next door in the city so all the police union was protesting in front of city hall a black last minute matter back where we had this unfolding in iraq two completely opposite ends of the spectrum and of course all of our officers were educated by this because they went to that website and they learned that the movement was to make the final decision as to whether the offender successfully completed their contract if they did the circus clause in the case because if they did we seek a criminal complaint and go the traditional criminal justice point that is very small for our community as we all the way things work in the traditional justice system a lot of times people make mistakes and it's high to take that mistake often but here we're given an opportunity to make a difference and then given the opportunity to make a difference to correct the harm that they've inflicted the number our victim and  want to have this finally come big to melt one and i think if you have seen the circle you are probably already in the camp of the converted i think if you have not you may still have some questions y make wonder why the district attorney a very improbable supporter of this kind of reform a very improbable supporter in terms of mill six county which is the largest county in massachusetts fifty four cities and towns eight hundred and forty seven square miles twenty five colleges and universities one million six hundred thousand people don't burst in every possible way we prosecute just under forty thousand and what happens case gets called and what unfolds is you have a prosecutor tyrants and defended the president uses their with their lawyer their lawyer speaks for them quickly even if you recognize that when you did was wrong well already quite knows what they did to you before and it is probably a reason the you were almost forced to do what you did prosecutor i continued to say it was the same people going back over and over i did a prosecutor long enough that i had the misfortune of prosecuting the children and grandchildren of people is someone out to me based on the answer to that question will i be able to feel safe in my house again and you don't get years with this to those questions in the traditional justice process even when  information that all changes in the circle because in the circle what you see is st of all the accuse the offender who has to listen to what the real impact was i'm seventy five years old and now i'm afraid to live in the house that i've been living in for forty seven years because you broke it and i really need to know why broke into that house that's my mother's wedding  support and for the person who's been victimized to be able to hear the answers to those questions you know that i talked about the questions in the breaking and entering one of the circles that's probably and people the matter how that case gets resolved key it even get to the place of beginning to recover because they wonder what with you with the person before they important pieces about that the st is that to the extent that people don't repeat their crimes obviously we're always save or any other piece which is really important to remember is that is the ch case becomes commonwealth versus john smith john smith is the again just because john smith is on the other side of the v in that case you didn't see it to be a member of the community of the results are better it increases public since it so often provides for victims those things they desperately need to begin the journey of healing then they is there what we do is always have a partnership and as a district attorney i'm incredibly fortunate to have police chiefs who have been willing to take that leap of faith sometimes when we try t things then that's really why we made so much progress is because even though the job is very different than the job they signed up to do when they join the department they have been willing to work with us to make that effort i truly thought it was crazy i'm like he's lost his mind are eighteen to twenty four year olds are a small percentage of the population but they treat the biggest problems of the silver they are the ones that are fighting they're the ones that are disobeying st twenty one year olds with three year old who are great kids and i said i got sixteen kids or work i don't know how to deal they have mental health issues they have addiction which they have they've never been told right from wrong in the beginning saddam he was twenty one years old and it was a set of incarceration at twenty one a and i was i was amazed i was  it can't be used against and the last thing we did was we got rid of kind of an oversight commission and it's important to say one thing about how we did it we didn't give that mission the authority to say you're not doing it  out in show partnerships by showing that you do have the support and the community can rise up and build its work as well the other thing that i wanted to underscore that i think you heard here is that decisions that young children young adults up to the age twenty four make that we criminal i like to say when i was sixteen my very existence was a sorrel i was a sixteen year old whole you setting them up for success rather than setting them up for failure then the community as a whole fries and we get lower abiding young people to grow up to become productive members of so the point you're made in the beginning i mean we interview people for potential fugitives but our police officers position we always ask what's the reason why you want and ninety nine percent of the people will respond and want to help you so that's sort of like the underlying reason and the point is to the reset of op as well i mean you for that amount of times to me that i fortunately the system that we have presently just a