office should be coming to an end. i can t imagine as a state attorney general or as any level of lawyer saying no, but you said no. yeah, it was a very difficult decision. and something i thought about a lot and talked about, but essentially i was in the i was at a point in my career as attorney general where i had embarked on creating a statewide initiative around re-entry of former offenders and it was becoming a model. i had opened i had started an open data initiative called open justice where i was for the first time of any department of justice publicly sharing arrest data, deaths in custody. we were in the middle of i created a bureau called the bureau of children s justice because there was no state agency focused on needs of children and their rights. and i wanted to see that through, and, frankly, at the
meaningful indicator of whether or not racial profiling is taking place would be the description of victims of violent crimes. they said that census data makes no sense because then have you half the people stopped would be women. they said arrests records were arrest data make no sense because it could be biased in and of itself. they said the most meaningful determination now in new york city, reality is that roughly 70% of the people described as committing violent crimes are described as being black by the victim. and as far as the stops are concerned we stopped about 52% of our stops are african-americans. roughly 24% of the of the people identified as committing violent crimes identified as hispanic. do you put any safeguards on it? when you instruct your police