Details the vision of the atomic bomb. Enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan 3. Next on American History tvs weekly reel america series the people and the police, oakland, a 1974 krontv documentary about Police Brutality in the community and various ideas to reform the Police Department. Almost from the day it was founded in 1848 folks across the bay in San Francisco have been making jokes about oakland. Theres no there there Gertrude Stein is said to have said. Today californias fourth largest city is a booming industry of commerce, art and culture. But oaklands new glamour and prosperity are not shared equally by all its citizens. Nearly half the citizens population are nonwhite and many are poor. They do not patronize the simpphony or museum or hold the jobs created by the industry port and transportation facilities. Most of oaklands black and brown citizens came here from the south during world war ii lured by recruiters for government and private industry to work in shipyards and defense plants. After the war the shipyards closed. Many factories moved to the suburbs leaving most nonwhite workers behind. Technology put still more workers on the unemployment and welfare lines where they were joined by newly dispossessed farmers and farm workers forced off the land by the growth of agribusiness. During the 50s oakland became blacks and chicagos surrounded. Oaklands all White Police Department earned a reputation for head knocking brutality thats left a well remembered mind numbing bitterness in the hearts and minds of those who lived in that place. I was growing up in the late 30s and early 40s. At that time the Police Department was perceived as brutal and there was fear on the part of black people in oakland at that time if the police ever came into that community. I remember one specific situation where several young blacks were being apprehended by the police or they went into their homes to pick them up for some alleged crime. I remember one Police Officer kicking one of the young people that couldnt be more than 14, 15 years old. I think that the black panthers raised a very significant issue and that was the brutality of the police when they came into the black community. We taught them laws of arrest, search and seizure and patrol procedure practices which could only result in an officer oriented, so as we went about in this Police Department as an operational style in the 50s and some part of the 60s stopping people from various pretext and this was a mandate of the Police Department itself, we incurred, very, very bad relations with the africanamerican community. Today theres a new relationship developing between the people of ghettos and the police. Police hold meetings in the community and they are well received. I never thought id see the day back in 47. 48 i could see people were coming. Its our responsibility to get out in that community and well be here if you want us. And im here quite frankly to assure you those men you see sitting here and the men that work 24 hours a day seven days a week in the oakland Police Department will be striving to achieve a goal theyre going to take a humanistic approach to policing. I dont happen how stressed our policemen happen to be, i want to see every citizen treated with dignity. I would say theres been some tremendo tremendous change on the part of the police. I think theyre moving away from the head knocking brutal physical approach and trying to be more Public Relations oriented, more Community Relations oriented and hopefully more sensitive and liberal in their approach to modern law enforcement, and i see some dramatic effects. In a moment a look at how things are going in oakland these days between people and the police. Were going to leave this American History tv program on Police Training films to go live to a Senate Commerce oversight hearing. By the way, you can watch all our American History tv programs on our website, cspan. Org. And well take you live now on cspan 3 to a hearing where foreigns will hear from five commissioners of the federal trade commission to discuss Technology Companies and antitrust law. Live coverage on cspan 3. The ftc is the nas