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
Today the president defended his Health Care Law against a chorus of disingenuous critics who are suddenly very concerned that people are having trouble signing up through healthcare. Gov. Obama care is, indeed, a train wreck. I mean, a visit to the website is kind of like a trip to the department of Motor Vehicles in your state. Ive heard that theyve had over 8 million hits, and so far, they have people in the Single Digits that have signed up. Ive been online waiting on hold virtually for 89 straight hours, still cant get signed up. Im hearing firsthand the frustrations from my constituents. One constituent said the program freezes up when i try to enter your tax filing status. This is the same Political Movement that just a few months ago was encouraging people to cripple obama care by not signing up. Theres a grassroots effort sweeping the nation to encourage young people to opt out of the law. Most young people dont realize, they have the opportunity to opt out of obama care. Did
His Health Care Law against a chorus of disingenuous critics who are suddenly very concerned that people are having trouble signing up through healthcare. Gov. Obama care is, indeed, a train wreck. I mean, a visit to the website is kind of like a trip to the department of Motor Vehicles in your state. Ive heard that theyve had over 8 million hits, and so far, they have people in the Single Digits that have signed up. Ive been online waiting on hold virtually for 89 straight hours, still cant get signed up. Im hearing firsthand the frustrations from my constituents. One constituent said the program freezes up when i try to enter your tax filing status. This is the same Political Movement that just a few months ago was encouraging people to cripple obama care by not signing up. Theres a grassroots effort sweeping the nation to encourage young people to opt out of the law. Most young people dont realize, they have the opportunity to opt out of obama care. Did you know obama care may be ha
Chorus of disingenuous critics who are suddenly very concerned that people are having trouble signing up through healthcare. Gov. Obama care is, indeed, a train wreck. I mean, a visit to the website is kind of like a trip to the department of Motor Vehicles in your state. Ive heard that theyve had over 8 million hits, and so far, they have people in the Single Digits that have signed up. Ive been online waiting on hold virtually for 89 straight hours, still cant get signed up. Im hearing firsthand the frustrations from my constituents. One constituent said the program freezes up when i try to enter your tax filing status. This is the same Political Movement that just a few months ago was encouraging people to cripple obama care by not signing up. Theres a grassroots effort sweeping the nation to encourage young people to opt out of the law. Most young people dont realize, they have the opportunity to opt out of obama care. Did you know obama care may be hazardous to your health . May b