saying now? they are talking about suspending this package of $263 million including 5 million to purchase 50,000 body cameras for police officers across the country. ferguson is a problem not unique to st. louis or that area and not unique to our time. that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departm many communities. a protests continue to go around the country. eric holder was in atlanta yesterday saying the justice department is going to redouble efforts to deal with racial
the president proposed $263 million in funding for community policing initiatives including 50,000 police body cameras. the president acknowledged concerns echoed by so many people whether the meetings will result in action. there have been commissions before and task forces and conversations, and nothing happens. what i tried to do describe to people is by this time will be different and part of the reason this time will be different is because the president of the united states is deeply invested in making sure. in the two years i have remaining as president, i m going to make sure that we follow through. and joining me now two activists from ferguson who attended the white house meeting. philip ag new and brittany executive director for teach for america st. louis. thank you for joining me today. appreciate it. thank you. brittany, i know that some of
you can see there, police officer next to him, politician talking about the simmering tensions. what can the president do? well, you know what? he s got a four-point plan. it s $263 million in actual program push here for 50,000 police body cameras, a task force on police practices, white house report on police militarization executive order on military style equipment acquisitions. those are four prongs of the plan, which is costly for the taxpayer. 263 million. i feel like law enforcement had a very bad day yesterday because people were talking about all the changes that need to be done to their jobs to the way they go about it, the way they re even trained. the attorney general, while the president is having this meeting on how to make law enforcement better or modernized, he had the attorney general in atlanta pretty much convicting the cops of ferguson, saying that of course it was racial profiling that got this whole thing started on the wrong foot. listen to him.
dangerous. that s the job. not to shoot to kill, but bring the guy into custody for justice. that s his job. i agree. young folks have been asking for police cameras and deescalation tactics de-escalation, meaning? saying i need backup, i m not going to pull a gun and shoot him six times. talk about biases against young people of color. the president laid that out. he s asking congress for $263 million to fund this program. for 50,000 cameras. what would that mean in philly? you look at 50,000 cameras nationwide. how many police officers are on the streets right now? what percent would that be? 30,000 police in new york. a million offices around the country. 5 to 10%. pilot programs launching in chicago. may not have stopped darren
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