as a matter of fact, i don t believe it s a new measure. i think deescalation tactics have been part and parcel of police training for over 50 years. so there s nothing new, and i couldn t consider deescalation and the introduction of current technology into law enforcement anything significant, or part or aspect of reform. so what sort of police reforms would you want to see to try and deescalate the situation, as the mayor put it? i think you have to start and deal with the culture and institutionalization of policing, the current training mode, the climate, the focus on aggressive and overmilitarized enforcement models. the current model is outdated. until you take that model and trash it, you re going to have the continuation of these same types of incidents. i don t think the introduction or the refocus of training information that s already
all right. everything good with you? good, man. thanks, man. al cannon has been the sheriff for charleston county for more than a quarter of a century. he s witnessed the problem from its early days. you go back to the late 60s, early 70s, the psychiatric community was moving away from institutionalization. so what was supposed to follow along with that was commune-based funding for community-based programs. those programs did not follow. so you ve got some real challenges there, and a lot of it has to do with, okay, you re not putting people in psychiatric facilities like you used to. so more often than not, law enforcement ends up having to deal with society s failure to really fully address that issue. mayberry says he s been suffering from mental health disorders, including schizophrenia, since age 12. as an adult, he s had a number
goes back to that balancing of risk and reward that we re always doing. going back to the arb conducted by admiral mullen and ambassador pickerring, how many of their recommendations did you as accept of state accept? i accepted all of them. they made 29 recommendations, comewoman. i accepted all 29 of them, and began to implement them before i left the state department, and i know that secretary kerry has continued that work. do you recommend for future secretaries and for this committee and other members of congress a formal review process as we go onward? i don t want there to be a review process that is triggered by death of americans. my earlier yes, institutionalization of this process. we make sure that our men and women in embassies are safe and they re safe tomorrow and a year from now and ten years from now. what needs to be done so that we can make sure that our four
we were doing and others we are prohibited. it goes back to that balancing of risk and reward that we re always doing. going back to the arb conducted by ambassador pickering, how many of their recommendations did you as secretary of state accept? i accepted all of them. they made 29 recommendations, congresswoman. i accepted all 29 of them. and began to implement them before i left the state department and i know that secretary kerry has continued that work. . do you recommend for this committee and other members of congress some sort of a formal review process as we go onwards? i don t want there to be a review process that is triggered by death of americans. institutionalization of this process so we make sure that our men and women in embassies right now are safe and they are safe tomorrow and a year from now and
so this isat process that the joint teams of d.o.d. and state that goes out initially looked at the 19 posts. that s great that they come back with a report. it s kind of like, you know, the seven reports to this. and now we have another committee. we can keep having committees to look into benghazi, but if we never act on them, it doesn t help our men and women on the ground. and that s what i m focused on. so what i want to know is with these isats, so they came back with their recommendations to you. have they been resourced? are they institutionalized? what has been done with this process so that it s not a snap shot in time in reaction to benghazi attack, and i want to make sure that, you know, at the very least, we re continuing the cooperation or at least there s some sort of institutionalization of the review process to make sure that if it s not those 19 posts, if the shift now is there s 20 posts or some other posts, what has been done to make sure it s institutionalized? w