if you believe that black lives matter, you ought to be concerned about the ferguson effect. if cops are staying in their cars and they re in an african-american neighborhood, it s not the cops killing african-americans, it s criminals. if criminals are emboldened, more african-americans will die. if you believe in sentencing reform, when murder rates were at historic lows, people were open to that. but as they skyrocket, you can see popular support for that evaporating. so there s a lot of political ramifications. he said i ve looked at all of it. is it the early release of prisoners from jail ? the point is, the spotlight being shined on the police officers who feel under scrutiny for just doing their jobs. what does it say, this guy comey is a brave soul. i mean, it s not often you see someone in the administration come out and break with the messaging on an issue that
the year prior to freddie gray s tragic death. when i ran for mayor of baltimore, it was not because our city was doing well, it was because we had allowed ourselves to become the most violent and addicted city in america. we put our city on a path to reduce violent part one crime by more than any major city in america over the next ten years. i attended a lot of funerals. including one for a family of seven fire bombed in their sleep for picking up the phone in a poor african-american neighborhood and calling the police because of drug dealers on their corner. we ve saved over a thousand lives in baltimore in the last 5 15 years of people working together. and a vast majority of them were young and poor and black. we saved lives and we gave our city a better future and
picking up the phone in a poor african-american neighborhood and calling the police because of drug dealers on their corner. we ve saved over a thousand lives in baltimore in the last 15 years of people working together and the vast majority of them were young and poor and black. it wasn t easy on any day. but we saved lives and we gave our city a better future improving police and community relations every single day that i was in office. in one year alone, though, 100,000 arrests were made in your city, a city of 640,000 people. the aclu, the naacp sued you and city and the city actually settled saying a lot of the arrests were prout probable cause. the key word was the word settled. that s true. it was settled. arrests peaked in 2003, anderson. but they declined every year after that as we restored peace in our poor neighborhoods so people could actually walk and not have to worry about their
failed policies. let s talk about this a little bit. one of the things not reported during that heartbreaking night of unrest in baltimore was that arrests had fallen to a 38-year low prior to the freddie gray s tragic death. when i ran for mayor of baltimore in 1999, it was not because our city was doing well. it was because we allowed ourselves to become the most violent, addicted and abandoned city in america. i ran and promised people that together we could turn that around. we put our city on a path to reduce violent crime more than any other major city in america. i did not make our city immune to setbacks. but i attended a lot of funerals, including one for a family of seven who were firebombed in their sleep for picking up the phone in a poor african-american neighborhood and calling the police because of drug dealers on their corner. we ve saved over a thousand lives in baltimore in the last 15 years of people working together and the vast majority
lawsuit over the federal government over a plan that discriminated against african-american homeowners by offering them lower grants than white homeowners. james, help us to understand, what was that inherent flaw in the road home formula? as a point of clarification. we didn t win, unfortunately, but we did end up settling for about $62 million. had we won, it would have been in the billions of dollars which would have been wonderful for residents of the city of new orleans. and worth pointing out you re a nonprofit lawyer. our lives would have been very different had i been a for profit lawyer. look, here s the bottom line. the way the formula was set up, when people applied for funding, people got money based on the value of their home on the day the storm hit. instead of the cost to rebuild their home, and so, you know, if you live in a historic african-american neighborhood, it doesn t matter what it costs to rebuild your home, usually african-american neighborhoods have hom