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family. and in the stories that i ve heard from members of my family, from previous generations and the challenges we face as parents. this is personal. we can see through the eyes of so many of our fellow new yorkers. and all we want, all of us together is to know that everyone would be kept safe. that s what it comes down to. and particularly that our young people who are learning life s lessons will be safe while they go through that process of maturing. it s what every parent yearns for is that their children get to go through their childhood and learn lessons they need and be ready for the world up ahead. god forbid we lose any child before they complete that journey. before they re equipped with the tools to live. so many people were grieved
possible. these are fundamental lessons that will be taught here and even in the brief example i saw earlier, you can see the power of experienced instructor helping officers to realize there is some better ways to do things. you ll hear from first deputy commissioner ben tucker. until his promotion last month, ben was the architect of a lot of the training efforts you re seeing here and also in the curriculum of the academy for new recruits. he ll continue to lead those efforts and make sure that this new training produces the changes we need and you ll hear from him in a moment. i think as a man who grew up in this city and chose this profession early on in his life, ben can talk to you about what it means to change the training and talk to you about it from
actual prosecutions. it s not zero. there are some very famous cases that have wound up probably the most famous of all was beating of rodney king in los angeles, the officers, people may remember the state trial was moved from downtown los angeles to simi valley, which is a very white part of the los angeles metropolitan area and the jury acquitted the police officers. they were then charged again in federal court and ultimately convicted. at least some of them were. i think when you think about the federal possibility in these recent cases especially this most recent one here in new york. there s a distinction about what went on in ferguson and what went on on staten island. in ferguson case, you had a life or death struggle between officer wilson and michael brown that went on in the car, the gun
family. and the stories i ve heard from members of my family from previous generations and the challenges we face as parents. this is personal. we can see through the eyes of so many of our fellow new yorkers. and all we want, all of us together, is to know that everyone will be kept safe. that s what it comes down to. and particularly that our young people who are learning life s lessons will be safe while they go through that process of maturing. it s what every parent yearns for is that their children getting too througe getting tgets to go through their childhood. so many people were aggrieved