it. what do you think about what they ve done now? well look, i think here is the thing. i can t say what anyone was thinking when they made the decision. i have to look at the decisions that people make. that s what i m talking about. i m talking about what people actually did. i saw mayors and city councils across the country making arbitrary cuts to the police department to appease a movement, appease and activist community that didn t live in the cities in some cases where the violence was occurring. i refused to allow people who don t even live in our city to help me make about keeping my people safe. so i prioritize the people of dallas and we ve been rewarded as a city with, again, going on three years now of falling violent crime in every major category that is tracked by the f.b.i., all of them. we re the only city in the united states in the top ten with that type of success.
but you also have to remember that this point in any presidential cycle candidates aren t really focused on general elector elector. they are interested in activists. that s who comes to cpac, activists. the fact that trump is leading the polls shows that he has the most support among the activist community that buoys and pro fells candidates early in the race. it is telling, but it isn t reflective of who is going to vote in the end. back to his speech. it was nearly two hours. we heard a lot of the same themes that he pounded, you know, in 2016. you know, this angry, you know, talk about, you know, the deep state, fear mongering. is that going to, i don t know, resonate again? these are his greatest hits, i guess. it s something that i think we are going to see in the coming
accountable who have been complained about to internal investigations in the past, we would not be here today. that s what they have been telling us. sop they feel like there is more accountability that needs to be and more reform that needs to be put in place. i want to let you hear from one of the young ladies that we spoke with last night. this is her hometown and she is part of the activist community as well. and she was really saying, look, i know a lot of people are praising the police and the police chief, particularly, not the police, but the police chief, for swiftly firing these officers and the district attorney for swiftly charging these officers with murder, which is what the family had asked for, but many in the protest community and many of the residents who have come out to decry what happened in the past say that s just not enough. are you satisfied with what has happened so far? absolutely. not. how many more families have to hurt before something legitimate is do
is come and thank the activists because without you all, we wouldn t be at this point. nobody was talking about justice for tyre like kareem ali and you all. there s something going on with this attorney crump and i want to applaud you all privately and publicly because without you all we wouldn t get justice for tyre, we wouldn t have got justice for george floyd. we couldn t have gotten justice for ahmaud arbery, we wouldn t get justice for breonna taylor without the activists. no way we can get justice so we thank all the activist community. [ applause ] all right. just two more. you two. your co-counsel, m mr. romanucci, referred to the actions of the officer and potential act these officers face is your office going to be possibly pursuing upgraded