talk to me a little bit about the work you all have been doing in this city for that. we kind of focused a lot on re-entry in the city of newark. earlier you talked about hotspots but we re not just doing hotspots in terms of crime, we re doing that in terms of following prisoners as they come back to their families to figure out where they re going, what they re doing, services and resources that they have. we have a project called hope where we transition them into jobs and begin to try to help them re-enter into society. we helped them with everything from i.d.s to transitional housing, employment, to all of these things to make sure their transition back into newark is a good and safe one. it s a difficult job, because we still trying to get employers to buy into the fact this they need to hire ex-offenders. but we are working very hard to make that happen. we also help folks on a lot of other things with education, to re-introduce them to their own families, to many things as
from people like president obama police officers are not getting out of their cars. reporter: not doing their jobs. i was in the room for the fbi director s speech. while many people, including the national director of the fop, as well as civil rights groups had real issue with what the fbi director said, he didn t is a you any of those things. if we re going to have an argument or discussion about crime rates potentially going up as it relates to viral videos which was the argument the fbi director was making, we can have that conversation and you had the conversation earlier today where there certainly is anecdotally not impact in some places with police officers feeling more scrutinized and therefore maybe being more hesitant. we don t have any data to link that to rises in violent crime. the fbi director wasn t at any point claiming this was president obama s fault. there was a little bit of something. chris christie is mischaracterizing what the fbi director said. on the other
the officer said the first thing is i saw the man with the gun and then i thought about ferguson. i hesitated. that s real. that s scary. but he went. he was there. he fought crime. he did the most noble thing that men and women in law enforcement can do. and so while it is real that law enforcement is at an unprecedented height of scrutiny, and while accountability and change is incredibly scary for people who are putting their lives often the line to keep all of us safe, while all of that is real, let s be sure when we go a little bit off reservation, right? that we re easily brought back. because what i don t want to see happen is i don t want the scare tactics of the scary black folks and scary brown folks to become a political football that anybody grants any more leg legitimacy than the crazies who are saying it. stick with me. much more on this and there are more voices to bring into this discussion, including the man who president obama s going to visit tomorrow to discuss cr
of shootings rise at the same time that the number of murders plummets. it is because getting shot does not necessarily mean being murdered. the main thing that intervenes there is an ambulance and high-quality emt response system. you re thinking as mayor you can actually bring down the murder rate not even by changing the crime rate but by changing things like street access, the number of ambulances and the ways in which we actually are responding to crime in neighborhoods. and gun control. the less zbunguns, less access automatic weapons, smaller the gun, contributes to all that. shootings should necessarily become murders but because of the things you said it reduces the amount of murders. but also the immediate access to weapons kind of allows people to have the opportunity to shoot which then causes murder. stick with us. i want to bring in a couple more things. just really important to know up next secretary hillary clinton is confronted by black lives matter activists eve
i think what we re seeing, unfortunately, is because we re in a moment right now where any kind of a social movement that makes gains, there are reactionary forces that try to roll it back. the way it gets rolled back often is through perpetuating a myth and culture of fear. what you talked about earlier in terms of the ferguson effect, wesley told me the first person who used that term is heather mcdonald. that s no mistake. you have a person who s known for her racist reactionary writings and provide nounsmen pronouncements. creating a myth that people are afraid of to promote social repressive policies. you have to understand there s been proof and data that you can reduce incarceration rates and also reduce crime at the same time. one does not relate to the other. you don t have to have mass incarceration to reduce crime. in new jersey that s happened. in california that s happened. in many states in america crime has reduced and incarceration