so going forward it s going to take a lot of resources from the city of louisville to implement these changes. but the important part, they have did irreparable harm to the community and police community relations. and that is really the only effective way to reduce crime, when you work cooperatively with the public and they have confidence in the police department. these units, sometimes these specialty units are started because of an outcry from the public, elected officials off high crime rates. but they don t have input into the strategies. so police chiefs, police departments, they implement these specialty units, give thel specialty uniforms, unmarked cars, sometimes plain clothesed. they set their own hours, they make a lot of overtime money and
enforcement and other policing efforts. will that help, commissioner? well, actually, is only a portion of the strategy that the president discussed today. more details, hopefully, will be coming. but i was very surprised to see how comprehensive that strategy was, and the various tactics within it. i m encouraged by it. that this is something we ve obviously been working on for a while. not talking about only refunding the police, who desperately need that funding. we are down from over 800,000 police officers in the 90s. i think the latest count is about 675,000 in police departments around the country are losing additional officers, every day. he is talking about refunding to hire more police, in the short-term, to give overtime money to cities to put officers on overtime in the summer months. but the comprehensive aspect of this plan is that he is, also, talking about other efforts to
to nassau flight with 150 passengers on board turned back before taking off after an error light for the navigation system appeared in the cockpit. the defense attorney said the government is blowing this case out of proportion. alani was born in iraq and is a naturalized u.s. citizen. he says that he was going to get the plane turned back to make overtime money. he faces up to 20 years in prison, ed. phil keating live in miami. another case, a new jersey man accused of scouting potential targets here in new york and other major cities. rick leventhal is all over this story. good to see you, rick. reporter: you, too, ed. defense say the suspect spent the past 20 years training and spying for hezbollah was on auto pilot. that he was gathering intelligence at every opportunity. they say times square was on his list. according to the indictment, the
especially given all the information that s been given to authorities from sweat. vowing to tighten security all over the prison. make sure no one ever escaped from here again. 13 new rules put in place. no more block, that privileged area where they lived, that is no longer. they ll check the cells once a week for integrity. check each and every cell once a week and every day they ll have random checks for contraband and that means drugs. this is in addition to the governor s search and the fbi investigation into the jail. back to you thomas. okay. adam reporting for us in new york. thank you so much. we have told you about the speech we were anticipating and now the president is there. these are live pictures. president obama will be talking about fixing overtime pay. a plan to boost overtime money
setting wages, we should. the president took a step before he reelection he endorsed same-sex marriage. he owns some large piece of that victory. and i just thought it was wonderful and inclusive for the white house to be bathed in those rainbow colors. it was a very moving and beautiful thing. i m so glad he did it. and paying overtime money for overtime work has been the law of the land for decade. staying on the merits of the issue, which is if you work overtime, you ought to get paid overtime. and they re updating those rules. of course special interest lobbyists don t like it. they don t want any minimum wage either. but i think the president is on the side of the working people on this. new names that are going to