Study on black america with the moynihan report. We will show you the report on reducing crime in the wake of violence in baltimore. The former Maryland Governor is on the panel and covers drug legalization and broken families. This is an hour and ten minutes. Morning. We can get started. Again, good morning, everyone. My name is jason riley. I am single fellow at the Manhattan Institute for policy research and i would like to welcome everyone to the symposium entitled prosspects for black america and moynihan report turns 50. If you are looking for a White America symposium you are in the wrong room. That would be any of the other rooms in the building. I will be brief with my remarks because we have excellent panelist lined up and i want to give them as much time as possible. I will get a chance to speak later on this man. I started working at the Manhattan Institute for policy research in february of this year. But the idea for this conference on race first occurred to me many years
Is an unmitigating tragedy. A task where the police have to work to refine tactics to make sure they dont misperceive threats. The police have an obligation to treat everybody they encounter with courtesy and respect and that obligation and too often violated. The police develop rough attitudes on the street in part because of the behavior that they receive in trying to make arrest or investigate crimes. But that civilian behavior is no excuse for treating people rudely. Nevertheless, in new york city alone today 10,000 minority males are alive who would have been dead had homicideerates remained at the early 1990s level. And what saved those lives was a revolution in policing that began in 1994 and continued and spread throughout the country. The essential aspects of that revolution is an obsession with crime data, analyzing crime data on a daily if not hourly bases to try to figure out where crime patterns were emerging and accountability for police prestinct standers. It used to be
And the Obama Administration has given itself a substantive limit by saying although the president can use military force without congress, that force cannot announce whats been war. What a war versus use of military force is a very fuzzy definition. The bombing in libya was determined not to be a military force. Not enough to war. Without giving the president unchecked power to engage in military force. The president can act independently without congress up until it engages in a war theres a variety of other problems in that including the International Definition of war means essentially that would be every action almost no declared wars anymore. Thats one way in which the administration has tried to do the power it claimed for itself. I think the disagreements as to what constitutes a war, i think that there has been evolution in the Obama Administration towards a view of how war powers are allocated in the constitution. Even the current debate over isis, it sought congressional aut