policeman that breaks the law. you can t have it one way or another, you have to have one standing for all. either you want to save and preserve our lives or you don t. reverend. and former new york city police commissioner bill bratton, thank you for being on this morning. we appreciate it. and still ahead, the latest from surfside, florida where crews at the site of the collapsed condominium are switching from rescue efforts to recovery mode. plus a grim new milestone in the fight against coronavirus. the global death toll has hit 4 million amid growing concerns over the delta variant. and england will face italy for the 2020 european championship. advancing to the final with harry kane s extra time goal. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. k.
britain. it gives me great joy even though i ride with team america now, for this team to triumph on the field as they have off it. roger bennett, thank you so much. number one, reborn in the usa . heart-to-heart, finally after all these years getting its due in reborn in the usa . that escalated quickly. with about two weeks to go until the summer olympics, japan s prime minister has announced a covid-related state of merge for the tokyo region. new restrictions will be put in place starting on monday, and lasting through the games until august 22nd. the new york times reports the decision could force officials to abandon plans announced last month to allow domestic spectators at events. a move met with public
district attorneys in new york that are all reform minded but too much, too fast. we have to address the issue of understanding some people need to be separated from society. we have a lot of well intended efforts, bail reform one of them, but too much too fast. if you look at new york city s situation in particular, everything was going well until 2018, state prison population down 40%, homicides down 90%, overall crime down 80%, then the legislature in albany and the city council, well intended criminal justice reform, 20 19d it all blew up. a year before the coronavirus and its influence, new york began to experience increased shootings, violence and crime of all categories. this was a direct result of well-intended efforts that went too far, too fast. reverend al, you and i have talked about it, we spoke about
angeles police departments, bill bratton. he s the author of the new book the profession, a memoir of community, race and the ark of policing in america also with us the host of msnbc s politics nation reverend al sharpton. good to have you both on this morning. thank you both for being on with us. mr. commissioner, what is going on out there from oakland, chicago, new york to philadelphia, violence is spiking in ways that reminds us of like the 1970s. what s going on? a number of things going on. the criminal justice system of the united states collapsed during the coronavirus epidemic. courts were closed, we were releasing a lot of people out of prison much too early. the proliferation of guns is
opposition over concerns that the games would become a petri dish for new strains of the virus. tokyo reported 920 new cases yesterday up from 714 a wreak ago. the global death toll from covid-19 eclipsed 4 million yesterday as the crisis becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant. the ap reports the tally of lives lost over the past year and a half has as compiled from official sources from johns hopkins university is about equal to the number of people killed in the battle in all the world s wars since 1982, according to estimate from the peace research institute. here in the u.s. the cdc is warning that the delta variant