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And all of this matters greatly, because public safety to me is the most important function of government.
所有這些事項都很重要，因為我認為，保證公共安全是政府最重要的職能。
If we're not safe, we can't be educated, we can't be healthy, we can't do any of the other things we want to do in our lives.
如果人身安全無法保證，我們就不能接受教育，就不能保持身體健康，就不能做生活中想要做的任何事。
And we live in a country today where we face serious criminal justice problems.
今天我們生活的國家面臨著嚴重的刑事司法問題。
We have 12 million arrests every single year.
我們每年有1200萬起拘捕行動。
The vast majority of those arrests are for low-level crimes, like misdemeanors, 70 to 80 percent.
絕大多數的拘捕行動是針對低級的犯罪行為，像輕罪，這些占據了70%至80%。
Less than five percent of all arrests are for violent crime.
不到5%的拘捕行動是針對暴力犯罪。
Yet we spend 75 billion, that's b for billion, dollars a year on state and local corrections costs.
然而，我們每年花費750億美元，以十億為單位，作為國家和地方的修正成本。
Right now, today, we have 2.3 million people in our jails and prisons.
此時此刻，有230萬人被監禁在看守所和監獄里。
And we face unbelievable public safety challenges
我們在公共安全方面面臨著驚人的挑戰
because we have a situation in which two thirds of the people in our jails are there waiting for trial.
因為現在的形勢是監獄中有三分之二的人在那里等待審判。
They haven't yet been convicted of a crime. They're just waiting for their day in court.
他們至今還沒有被判定有罪。他們一直等著出庭受審，
And 67 percent of people come back. Our recidivism rate is amongst the highest in the world.
其中有67%的人會重返社會。我們是世界上累犯率最高的國家之一。
Almost seven in 10 people who are released from prison will be rearrested in a constant cycle of crime and incarceration.
幾乎每釋放10個人就有7個將會再次被逮捕，這是一個恒定的犯罪和監禁的周期。
So when I started my job at the Arnold Foundation, I came back to looking at a lot of these questions,
所以，當我開始在阿諾德基金會工作時，回頭看了很多這類問題，
and I came back to thinking about how we had used data and analytics to transform the way we did criminal justice in New Jersey.
重新思考了我們怎樣利用數據和分析轉變了新澤西州的刑事司法。
And when I look at the criminal justice system in the United States today,
后來我注意到當今國家的刑事司法系統，
I feel the exact same way that I did about the state of New Jersey when I started there,
我覺得應使用同樣的方法即首先在新澤西州使用的那種方法，
which is that we absolutely have to do better, and I know that we can do better.
毫無疑問我們要做得更好，而且我知道我們可以做得更好。
