and l.a. pd commissioner. and when you were in l.a., it was the days after 9/11 when this issue of freedom of speech versus national security was in sharp relief, as illustrated by the patriot act. it does seem with politically motivated hate-motivated crimes and what we should be calling domestic terrorism at this point, that conversation is going to come into plan. this guy put something on 8chan that seemed to imply an attack. how do you navigate that world? americans really enjoy their constitutionally protected privacy but the social media and the digital world are becoming the place in which these ideas are communicated. one of the unanticipated consequences of the internet was that it was going to connect us all. the idea of the billions of people in the world were going to be connected.