The speaker for today was Alan Jackson, who was introduced by Eric Barter. Alan is a deputy district attorney of the Los Angeles County, and is a member of the major crimes unit, and has worked on such cases as the Phil Spector case, of which they got a second degree murder conviction. These are cases that have large amounts of defense money, and go on in court for a long time. Alan has been with the distict attorney office for fifteen years.

Some interesting information was that during times of prosperity there is more crimes taking place than during times of recession, such as we are feeling at this time. There are many reasons for this, and one of them does not seem to be the lack of jobs. There were many reasons not remembered by me.

In our state we are presently being told that many prisoners will be released into society shortly, with a worry  that there will be no jobs for them to fill. This would seem like they would go back to  crimes. Alan informed us that before they are released, they would have completed some  type of job education. Although, it is estimated, that even then probably as much as seventy percent of them will be back in jail in a short time. It is estimated that it cost approximately thirty thousand  dollars to give each one of them job training.

After hearing an seeing Alan, we can be very proud of the high quality of men that we have representing us in the courts. Thank you for an excellent program. (Art Killian)

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