Where is the police squad in peru who was just given license to shoot down smuggling planes . So we have the latest for you on the refugee crisis in europe. The number of people who have been trying to leave has only been increasing. Macedonia where hundreds of people boarding crowded trains bound for serbia. There are twice Daily Services taking people to the border. Over in greece a similar situation. Thousands people going to the island of lesbos. Where authorities have fired that theyre not registering, only shuffling them to macedon macedonia. At the border 71 people were found dead in a lorrie last week. We have more now from an do you simmons. The hungarian government is defending itself saying that its merely complying with e. U. Law. People without visas cant leave the country. This is what the country spokesperson have to say. I think its clear talking about the asylum law or illegal border crossing. Its unacceptable that 150,000 people come through your borders without disci
Eyewitness news special coverage of the pope in philadelphia. Hello im Pat Ciarrocchi along with jim done von and we are welcoming you to our continuing coverage of the pope in philadelphia. Were taking a live look right now the ben franklin parkway, this is where we are broadcasting from. You could see say we are in the midst of a miracle happening in philadelphia. You can see in the area just below the stage, how the crowds are beginning to grow, and that really is wonderful to be able to see. Happening right now, youre looking also live at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary. That is where the holy father is, you just saw that a moment ago. That he is there and he is resting there for a little bit in the afternoon. He usually likes to take about a 40minute nap in the afternoon. Well see whether he actually has time for that. That theres pleasant of activity though here on ben franklin parkway. Theyre gearing up for the festival of families later day and the popes big mass tomorrow after
American. Most of the tests only involved white and black subjects. Its impossible i think for anyone to try to suggest what the solutions are, but i think we have to start somewhere and how do you legislate away racism or sort of wrong thinking . Thats very difficult to do but i do think we can take a big step by measuring bias, and weve already taken that step to one extent with traffic violations. Sfpd now reports on traffic stops. But we should extend it to detentions whether or not it results in a arrest or not, who is being detained . Who is being frisked and searched . Who is being arrested and tracked for Racial Disparities . We just started doing this. We have a Racial Justice committee and we have a partnership with the center at the university of pencil zaneia and we need to do this and they do this and the chief said and they need to follow up and make sure that the reports when they occur are taken seriously. I think that its important that we require officers who witness
Violence in their own community, and the fact that they didnt feel protected by police in some cases causes them not to take the appropriate steps that they otherwise should that a person who is not burdened by those perspectives perceptions or experiences might so i think its very important that we look at the system in terms of the impact on everyone whether its witnesses, whether its jurors. You know its interesting we just had a situation in a homicide case where jurors actually raised their hand when the prosecutor said something to the effect that you just have to be color blind and there are no africanamericans in the jury panel and the defense attorney had raised that and the prosecutor said Something Like you just have to be color blind and a white juror said thats a racist statement and half of the courtroom applauded and the judge solved the problem by excusing the panel so were definitely seeing people reacting because of what is happening, because of what happened in fergu
And juries from all white jury pools in florida convicted blacks more often than whites and this is a huge issue in San Francisco and from the jury pools we see now were lucky to see a few africanamericans in a panel of 80, 90 jurors so it shows there is a direct correlation between the race of the jurors and the race of the defendant and its interesting they found this this gap was nearly eliminated when there was at least one member of the jury pool who was africanamerican. So how do we address racial bias in a Justice System system . Its access to point fingers and its you or that department or that department and thats certainly not my point here. Obviously when we have officers who are engaging and exhibiting expressed racial bias like we do with the texts they shouldnt be on the force. I think everybody here well, when i say everybody here, but certainly everyone from the chief to the Police Officers association, officers for justice have expressed that sentiment, but the bigger