and that really becomes a process of racial profiling that disproportionally targeted young black men as potential criminals. >> we're out there. they have more foot posts out there. more police officers walking the beat. >> hi. how are you? >> if i would have put police on every corner in america, of course crime would go down, but the question is at what cost? for many black people it was a sense of community, of dignity, a sense of respect from law enforcement. >> with the majority of americans worrying about their quality of life, in california the easy-going tolerance of earlier decades has frayed. >> at the ballot box what we see in california, which is the leading edge of this trend, is a whole number of different types of initiatives that are meant to further contain communities of color. >> tens of thousands of californians marched through downtown los angeles today to demonstrate against proposition 187, which would bar illegal immigrants from public schools, non-emergency medical services, and welfare rolls. >> we are as american as anybody else. and we deserve an education.