Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much. That's a very good idea. Now, if you will remember, Izaak said that he was involved in the drug…”

“Thank you very much. That's a very good idea. Now, if you will remember, Izaak said that he was involved in the drug court system in his hometown of Visalia, California. I'd like to call now on Judge Jeff Tauber, who is here, who initiated the design implementation of the Oakland drug court program, which was one of the Nation's first. He's now president of the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, and he advises Federal, State, and local agencies about how to establish these drug courts. So I'd like for him to talk about this. In view of--you heard the statistics Reverend Jackson mentioned. We know more than half of the individuals that come into the criminal justice system in the country have some sort of a substance abuse problem. And I'd like for him to tell me what he thinks the results are from the drug courts that have been established enough--in time for us to evaluate them and what he believes the future of the drug courts movement is. [Judge Tauber described the drug courts program, indicating that research showed that the program dramatically reduced recidivism by 40 to 60 percent. He described how the drug courts had successfully collaborated with other organizations and agencies in the communities.]”