street and putting them in the building. it requires the police. it requires prosecutors. it requires judges and it requires probation officers. the police, prosecutors, judges and probation officers don t make a dime you have prisons. we have no incentive to send people to prison. the reason we do is that s the tool that we were told will make us safer and people better. et we don t profit off send iin people to prison. if we can change what happens down here, police should be trying to reduce crime in their neighborhoods. prosecutors should be trying to improve public safety in their neighborhoods using data and science we know works. probation officers should not be. probation officers. they should be probation liaisons. they should be helping people stay out of jail. probation is another reason why so many people are in jail. probation officers used to be like social workers helping inmates make the transition to life on the outside.
drunk and disorderly. one time the police picked him up overnight and we went over there right away. they said, he s fine, sleeping and when he wakes up we ll let him go. that night they stripped him down buck naked and when they let him go he was all bruised up. it must do something on your psychological state of mind. it does. in and out of prison so many times. tommy s daughter, jerica lived with him. every day he got her ready for school. he cooked all her meals. she was 15 years old when he father committed suicide. now, with tommy gone, jerica struggles to find a reason to go on. it was on his birthday, i was coming from philly. i ran upstairs to change my shoes and my friend ran out screaming. i m like, what happened?
change you didn t become a successful person, an independent filmmaker, because your parents just let you run wild and didn t care about checking your homework. you know, i had a single mother. i shoplifted. for a while i actually sold pot. i d gotten i thought and i was always fearful, you know, that i would end up in the system because the statistics were, you know, against me. and all of my friends were in the system. and i wonder if i had gotten caught selling pot or shoplifting if my life would have been very different. you avoid crime and you avoid scrapes with the police because your parents teach you to respect other people, to respect their right to be safe and to resolve your disputes without violence. and if you want money, go earn it. get a summer job. when you grow up that way, the chances of you winding up and having an unfortunate
disproportionately poor in this country. those are real issues, but no one looks in the mirror and says how am i contributing to the problem? it s all about oh, those damn cops in baltimore screwing up. the power of cops is to arrest someone. that s the legal authority we give police. but you can t tell them not to pull over roger because he s driving a nice car in a rural white community. you should tell them that. - i love my grandma. - anncr: as you grow older, your brain naturally begins to change which may cause trouble with recall.
you deal with that which you most often hear from guys who look like i look when there is one of these shootings like just comply with police orders. don t talk back. or my favorite, and i ve said it. i ve got to admit. i ve said it. don t break the law. sure. yeah. we have courts for people who break the law and jails for people who break the law. police aren t they re supposed to bind you over for trial but ultimately, we re saying we d rather have policemen who decide that you not complying with them is a death sentence. i don t think ultimately that s what we would like in a society. i think when you look on the face, it seems absurd to say, i heard giuliani say teach your children to respect the police. you can t teach your children to clean their room, but we re putting the onus on a child rather than a trained adult who is trained in policing. these ironic things people say are the motivation for writing this book.