going to the vigil there, that s a help, he should have did that from the beginning. he didn t even visit the families right away. he has to do all that but he has to answer questions from the press and everybody else. so he s deflecting everything. go face it, fight it, and i think he can take over and i think the police department would be just as glad that he does this and if they start working together, that would be a good cause. all right, gil alba, appreciate it. katie glick, nice to see you as well. thank you both. thank you. still to come, a christmas time tragedy. a mother convicted in the murder of her young son now two decades later walks free from death row. female announcer: it s time to make room for the new mattress models!
appear to be an immediate obvious off ramp for him. you know, this, of course, comes in the context of not only years of perhaps mistrust but also weeks of pretty explosive tensions. as we were just talking about, some police officers feel that he didn t really have their backs in the wake of some of the protests that we ve seen sweep the streets in new york. so you re seeing that come to the forefront now. tensions are so high it remains to be seen how receptive people will be to some of his overtures now. gil, you say this goes back before this. should the mayor have been doing other things maybe to prevent this from escalating to the point where we re at now? he can still keep his philosophy, what he has, but he has to work with the new york city police department so he has to change. but it s not the police commissioner that should be talking, it should be the mayor who should be able to now take control and put the city back together again and start with the mayor. and i think
of a loading website. don t listen to the naysayer. switch to comcast business today and get 50 megabits per second for $89.95. comcast business. built for business. praying if our fallen officers. that appeal coming from a new york city community leader after two of the city s finest officers were ambushed in their patrol car. this may be easier said than done giving the growing tensions between the new york city mayor and the new york city police department. so rejoining me now is jumaane williams, gil alba, and jeff gardere. you know, i keep going back to this question, but it s so important. jumaane, how does this city begin to heal? well, we have to accept some
it s okay, if i want a better housing doesn t say i m against housing agents. stop saying because i want something better that i m anti- something. there are a lot of social issues here. right, exactly. this is very, very complex. i think we also need to understand what the pressures that the police officers are under. you spoke about this earlier with some of your guests that they have to have certain quotas that they have to hit. they have to work in certain communities and do certain things that they may not want to do. you know, i ve worked with the nypd on doing some trainings and so on. these are good men and women, but they re under a lot of pressure. but we have to make sure that we don t see them as the enemy. they re not that at all. we need to support them. we also need to support better policing and support the community. and they re often put in bad situations. i feel sorry let me ask you, gil, you re the man right here, former officer. they said about patric
psychological point of view that if someone is critical of the police department and they want them to do better, then they re seen as anti-cop and they re not. i think what we ve seen here, you ve talked about this, the outpouring of love from the new york community, a lot of these we saw menorahs and crosses and so on. it is diverse because a lot of those people who are there, and who brought a lot of those things to show their love for the police, are also people who are also upset about michael brown and eric garner. so it doesn t have to be a divide here. this is about all of us wanting to do better as a community and that s what we must do. gil, you re the police officer in the room. you know you can t argue with anything like that, but what s the underlying factor here? i mean, there s the police take action in those communities and this is what happens from that. but you get the police together with the community. what happens after that? i mean, how do you there s