cocaine offense, violence to it, burning people with curling irons, an awful time. broken windows morphed into something more punitive to stop-and-frisk and eventually led us to eric garner. there s nothing wrong with broken windows if it s under control. the problem with eric garner there should have been a ticket. there wasn t a reason for five cops to kill him. the pendulum swung. you think about what was happening during this time not only this crack cocaine and policing, at the time of the crime bill, everybody was so scared about crack we overreacted. that s what happened at the time. now, we re trying to figure out how will we pull this back and bring the good parts of broken windows. it is that idea, mark, police
while bill bratton was the commissioner. while mr. bratton was head of new york transit police in 1990, he ordered police to arrest as many turn style jumpers. that used to be a big thing in new york. they found that 1 in 7 arrested was wanted for other crimes and that 1 in 20 carried a knife or weapon. these are the things often cited in broken windows type policing. what is your experience with it? i was a prosecutor in the mid-80s in new york. when i first came in, broken windows was being utilized. it was one thing. and then crack came to new york. suddenly arrested ballooned, murder rate went up 10%, child abuse went up, domestic abuse went up and the place went crazy with crack and it was very dangerous. it was a scary time because crack was not just an extra
washington post that trump administration officials were in early stages of considering payroll tax cuts as one way to boost consumer spending. we got an official statement, cutting payroll tax is not something under consideration at this time. yet less than 24 hours later after the statement came out, heard president trump in the oval office say i ve always been looking at payroll taxes. he also talked about indexing. feel like i am preaching to the choir, the trump administration has been considering taking executive action to index capital gains to the inflation rate. republicans are on board with that, generally republicans on capitol hill. democrats say the white house doesn t have the authority to do that unilaterally, that it would only help the rich. watch this to see which proposal that the economic advisers are talking about prop up the economy come to fruition. an interesting conversation. all my years of covering the economy, never heard of taking executive action to cha
favorably. most of the time it was the g8, included russia. and president obama didn t want russia in because he got outsmarted. that s not the way it really should work. is that something that should be discussed, will you discuss we spent a lot of time on it, spent time discussing it already. our countries have been discussing it and we re taking it up today at an important meeting after this. do you like the idea? sounds like you like the idea, right? the waiver? do you like the idea? no, it is something we re thinking about. on venezuela, is the white house in contact with the maduro regime. we are in touch. we re talking to various representatives of venezuela. we re helping venezuela as much as we can. we re staying out of it but we are helping it, it needs a lot of help. it is an incredible tribute to
and you don t win, that disappears quickly. that s why they re putting this on air in iowa, about to kickoff another event there today. part of a six visit, he was there eating dessert at the iowa state fair. he will be there in a couple of weeks for labor day weekend. the biden campaign focusing on iowa. let s talk about this. there s criticism from people that say the message here coming out of the biden campaign is don t get too caught up in what you believe and changes you need. you have to get donald trump out of office if you re a democrat and you believe that. there are some people that think that s a message of selling out. well, as mike put it, the fact that joe biden s wife said you may have to swallow hard, accept joe isn t exactly a ringing endorsement. but we re not in normal times. there s a desperation among democratic voters to find the exact right candidate who can beat donald trump. since there s no possible way to