to make good recommendations. body cameras have come up both with the president, the mayor here in new york. during a test program in california, the use of force by officers dropped by 60% after they started using body cams. and complaints against officers were down 88%. it sound like programs like these can have a real impact on how police and civilians interact. i strongly support body cameras. you used to be a mayor. body cameras and dashboard cameras, had they been available, i would have readily embraced it. because it gives you just yet another tool. by itself it doesn t solve the problem that we re talking about. but what it does, it creates a tool of accountability. and it eliminates some of the guesswork about what happened in an interaction between police and citizens. you used to be mayor of new orleans, and your father before you. so you know how grand juries work, policing work.
the same day the eric garner decision stunned the nation. two more tragedies reshaping the way americans think about our criminal justice system. tonight we re learning more details about the rookie officer who in under two seconds fired the fatal shots that killed tamir rice. police claim the officer somehow gave proper warning in those two seconds. why three commands were given to show your hands by officer loehmann as he pulled up to the gazebo there. but today, disturbing revelations about officer loehmann s experience and training. a new report shows his old boss found him unfit for duty in 2012. from a small town police force in ohio. he said loehmann was weepy and distracted during a handgun training and that his performance was dismal.
that you and i and others are saying? because we clearly are not anti-police. all police are not bad. most are not bad. what we re saying what are we saying about the process? what do we isn t we re marching on december 13th. what do we want? we want effective policing. we want respectable policing. we want policing that has a working relationship with communities around the aims of public safety. what we re saying is that next year needs to be a year committed to action on justice and jobs. what we re saying is, let s get together on the 13th in washington, d.c., for a national march which brings all interests. the coalition of the committed to justice together and in the beginning of 2015, let s come together for an historic civil rights and social justice leaders summit in washington, d.c., to ensure that we ve sustained momentum and continue
employee for the work. so handing out blackberries implies permission to work. and that puts them on the hook to pay them. and we re not just talking about one e-mail. we re talking you are parsing words. make the case, please. i think this lawsuit is outrageous. thank you. okay. these cops this is crazy. i mean, this is a salaried position. seriously, stop complaining and get back to work. it s not as if they re being asked to work, you know, double shifts and not getting paid. as for an e-mail, really, is it that big of a deal? precisely, michelle. the e-mails, this time is quantifiable because it s a blackberry. it s adding up. if the police department didn t want these cops working off hours, then they shouldn t have given them blackberries. they certainly don t give them police radios. they have to turn those in. oh, it s the employer s fault. according to to the act, it is. i am shocked.
perhaps trayvon martin thought he was creepy because he was paranoid because of his drug use. maybe his perceptions were off. also, george zimmerman said this guy looks like he s on drugs. he told that to the non-emergency call operator. it s unfortunate for the prosecution because the police department didn t take any blood from george zimmerman on that night there. are no toxicology reports on george zimmerman s blood. there have been some reports on the fact that he was taking some kind of medication, but that won t come in front of this jury, so i m not sure how you combat this kind of testimony. i think you have to get your own toxicology expert to say you know what? there was so little in his bloodstream, it could not have affected his behavior that night. if they can find an expert that s going to say that remember, their own medical examiner said that he felt that the amount of drugs in his system may have changed his reactions. so i think this is a tough one for the governme