high profile civil settlement, it is important to point out the overall gains that we have made by improving community police relations. we have seen reductions in the number of complaints alleging police misconduct, and police discourtesy as a well as a number of lawsuits filed against this city. and on a final note, i want to extend my most sincere condolence s condolences to the family of mr. freddie gray. i realize that money cannot bring back the loss of your son, your brother, and your loved ones. but i hope that the settlement can bring a measure of closure to the family, and friends, and i open up to questions. how long was this negotiated? i don t know the specific amount of days, but the settlement e negotiations have been going on for some months. and with the federal litigation, is that part of the
police commissioner batts. what did he tell you? he said they ve made a lot of progress 2349 last few years. reduced a ub number of complaints they ve had for for discourtesy, from complaints for excessive use of force, officer-involved shootings are down by one-third and says he s ousted 50 officers in the past two years. again, he says that he s doing his work to try to fix the department. obviously it s not gone far enough. yeah. we ll see what this federal investigation, going to take a few years? right? at least a few months. yes. usually these federal investigations take they go on and on. exactly. see how quickly they can get this resolve pd thank you for that. horrifying sight on a itch maer u.s. interstate. a plane on the highway, bursting into flames on i-285 north of atlanta. martin savidge is there for us. what are you hearing? what did happen, martin? reporter: wolf you can see
greatest protection for any police officer is not their gun or badge. it s the trust. it s the respect that they have from the community. so look, we re never done with this, though. now, everybody has a cell phone, cell phone cameras bringing a degree of openness and transparency? a good thing? it s a very good thing. we should go to body cameras, require all police departments to report in a timely and accurate fashion police-involved shootings, by the way during our seven years were the lowest seven years on record for police-involved shootings, we should require the reporting of discourtesy, body cameras all of those things because the cell phone cameras, proliferated that s raised the bar for what we expect of a public institution, like law enforcement especially with the intertwined history in the united states. when we come back i ll ask the governor about his potential presidential campaign and perhaps some of his possible opponents including a certain former secretary of
naacp, ncu, sued you for arresting individuals, your administration for arresting without cause, and al sharpton saying it alienated from the police. are we seeing the flip side of the success you had in reducing crime? well he s look, let s acknowledge this. i don t think that there is a trade-off. in fact we never used the term aggressive policing. we were very clear with police officers. we wanted them to be assertive whens in, pro active in restoring to the good people in every neighborhood their streets from open-air drug dealing, but we also worked every single day on policing our police. we encourage people, jake to call about excessive force and discourtesy. for the first time we gave our civilian review board their own detectives to investigate these cases and the people in baltimore on more than one occasion actually, i was elected. won every district in the city after having this conversation
reason they do a dissent decree is if you don t own up to your problems. i knife problems flea markets and i was determined to fix them. they re telling you $5 million here what they don t tell is it s down. police shootings, discourtesy, excessive force, lawsuits against the city we re finding more officers accused of wrong doing guilty. they don t want to tell you that part. because they don t want us to be in the victory. we will get justice for freddie gray. believe you me we will get justice. we re going to do it because we re going to work together because if with the nation watching watching three black women at three different levels can t get justice and healing nature community, you tell me where healing in this community, you tell me where we re going to get it in our country. i want to thank the department of justice for coming here today, community relations