behalf. garnell, before we go, is there anything you want to say about your mother, ruth, that you didn t get to say today? i ve been wonderfully blessed to have an opportunity to share memories of my mother with a pretty large audience. my mother was a great person, a great woman. she was my hero. she was our everything. she loved us unconditionally. and she set a very high bar for all of us. and we aspired to love and to be the persons that she raised us to be. ben, thank you. garnell, of course thank you so much. i am honored to have you on the program. and we thank you for your candor today. and sorry that you re having to deal with this. but thanks for speaking up on behalf of the entire country. thank you, don. thank you very much. so we have this going on in america and a lot more.
agency s active shooter program says uvalde officers didn t follow their training. she s also the author of stop the killing: how to stop the mass shooting crisis. and she joins me now. katherine, thank you. i appreciate you joining. hi, don. i feel like we just had this conversation. because we did. but, listen, i want to talk about your latest op-ed. and it is entitled i created the fbi s active shooter program. the officers in uvalde did not follow their training. and you note all the training uvalde police had ahead of that shooting, talk to me, please, about what was in place and why those protocols weren t actually put into practice. so, law enforcement across the country has been trained. and there are 800,000 law enforcement officers in the country, and they have been trained over the last many years, particularly since columbine by a bunch of organizations and certainly the fbi and a bunch of other police
validation for violence. don? tom foreman, thank you so much. gas prices at an all-time high. the treasury secretary saying inflation s at an unacceptably high rate. but what do americans think about the squeeze? i m going to ask, next. through the challenges, the hurt, the doubt, the pain. no matter what, we go on. biofreeze.
you don t prosecute people for small crimes. people get away with small crimes, then they think they can get away with bigger crimes. and if you don t prosecute them, then people are going to vote you out. look, that was the broken window theory in the 1980s. and i don t know if we re heading back toward a reassertion of the broken window s argument that is precise in policy. but, broadly speaking, if you look at l.a. or san francisco, i think what s driving this public mood is less fear of crime, per se, than anxiety about disorder. and the sense that government officials are in effect ceding control of the streets. not far from where i live in venice, there is a homeless encampment that has essentially engulfed the public library. and there is a sense that the city, in effect, is, you know, ceding a public asset to people who don t pay taxes and denying the use of it to the people who do, not to mention public safety and feeling safe walking on the street.
i ve been wonderfully blessed to have an opportunity to share memories of my mother with a pretty large audience. my mother was a great person, a great woman. she was my hero. she was our everything. she loved us unconditionally. and she set a very high bar for all of us. and we aspired to love and to be the persons that she raised us to be. ben, thank you. garnell, of course thank you so much. i am honored to have you on the program. and we thank you for your candor today. and sorry that you re having to deal with this. but thanks for speaking up on behalf of the entire country. thank you, don. thank you very much. so we have this going on in america and a lot more. it is election night here as well. polls just closing in california. there are also key primary races