Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for coming. Im a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise institute and a columnist at the washington examiner, and i think that youve seen erupt around the country especially this last year a discussion on criminal Justice Reform on over criminalization and all sorts of things we will focus on a specific aspect of that. My thoughts on why i picked this i have libertarian leanings and justice and mercy need to play up. I dont think we will get into a question of are we locking up all the millions of people that we lock up makes our country safer that is a tricky question to debate. Once we put people in prison, are we doing anything to help them or just burning lives. When you having prison sentences that serves a deterrent effect so it serves some good. It keeps criminals off the streets theres some good there. We call these correctional facilities. Are they just making things worse . So given the debate for some extent of criminalization although
Conference here i covered that, but this is different. This time he talked about terrorism in philadelphia. Within moments of todays news conference, james comey erased any doubt about how to characterize last weeks attempted murder of Philadelphia Police officer jesse hartnett. We at the fbi level, through our joint Terrorism Task force, are investigating that attack as a terrorist attack. Reporter two days after the shooting, police got a tip the suspect may be part of a terrorist group. Director comey tells us theres no evidence of that. We see no indication he was part of an organized cell of any sort and no indication that there is any followon plot connected to that. Reporter comey says hes not sure how the suspect was radicalized. Archer is the second person arrested in less than a year in connection with terrorism. Federal agents arrested keona thomas last april. Director comey tells us there is no connection between archer and thomas. Philadelphia is not a hot bed for radicali
77 ran late with an average delay of 48 minutes. The problem of course was the snow and ice that still covered tracks and switches. We came across crews working by hand to clear it all. But for much of the day five l. I. R. R. Branches had no service, including the hempstead line where we found this woman waiting. How long have you been waiting here . Two hours. Reporter her english was limited but her expression needed no translating when we told her that trains werent running. Still cant get to work and the snows been stopped since yesterday. Were paying a lot of money for the railroads. Crazy. Reporter communication between the railroad and its riders seemed to make a difficult day tougher. The Commuters Council which represents riders says that communication was so poor some trains were nearly empty, others hopefully it will be here soon. Its cold. Reporter and tonight the Commuters Council is actually calling for an investigation of the l. I. R. R. s communication practices. Were
Clearly saw the need for because of our community partners. Anyway, it got published, the article was published in this months article, in this months magazine so hopefully it will be used as a model for agencies across the united states. They can take our order and use it as a basis or a template for doing what they do and seems to be working here. So i appreciate the recognition. Thank you. Thanks, rachel, and thank you, deputy chief tamioka, well make sure we get copies of that magazine if project what would want one with a copy of the article for occ as well. That would conclude that piece of that presentation. Looks like some of my colleagues might want to say something. Im sorry. Vice president turman. Thank you so much. I thought the video was incredible and i want to thank everyone for their participation. Project what, i have, i firmly believe, and ill state this, we have a Police Department that is forwardthinking and hard working to meet the needs of its public. And this is
Good evening, my name is jaimie gerber, i am the project coordinator for project what, thank you for having the space here tonight for us to talk. Thank you for all your hard work on dgo 7. 04 and thank you so much for taking the time to include youth voices in this process. Project what is really excited and really grateful to know that the chief is designing officer trainings on trauma and its effect on children. We feel that this is a really important opportunity to continue to include youth voices and to include the impact on children when their parents are being incarcerated. Our ask as project what would be to hopefully be included in the designing and planning of these trauma trainings and to be a part of regular meetings with the department to kind of keep up with the progress and formulation of these trainings. So i come to this work as someone whose parents were not incarcerated when i was a young person and i have learned incredibly quickly that these youth who eithers have