any bureaucratic red tape to implement body cameras as soon as possible. to say everyone over the city, i don t want to give false expectations. this will be the largest department in the country that would have a full body camera program, but we are working very hard to make sure that we fast track it but at the same time make sure that we get it right. did you speak yesterday about this and what s the response? i did speak to her about it and a couple of things. the department of justice had been encouraged by the progress that we had made with the collaborative review. they were also very keenly aware of the reforms that we had already put in place, the work had been done in baltimore under my administration to reform the police department and to get it right, this relationship between the community and the police.
he didn t engage the actual command button he simply dialled in the altitude 100 feet. that doesn t cause the plane to increase its rate of descent at all. but it again, i know you know it s kind of monday morning quarterbacking here but the pilot comes back in there s nothing that shows him in other words, you can wipe out all that information you were playing with before? right, it s a button a physical button that you turn that has numbers in it and if he returned it back to the appropriate altitude that was issued by air traffic control, the captain would have no idea. anthony romine always a pleasure to see you, thank you for being with me. still watching that baltimore mayor press conference, which is expected to begin, we re almost seven minutes into the hour now, could
that have focused on freddie gray s death, but on the ongoing structural challenges that we see in the relationship between law enforcement and community. the attorney general expressed her support for seeing through the work that the justice department had already begun, indicating that her resources, her staff, her support would be here for the long term but there were also some other conversations that we wanted to have about our ongoing concern about what we re continuing to see in communities across the city. and what is that? you asked for a pattern in practice investigation, what do you want to see? well the pattern of practice investigation says that we have reason and reason for pause and cause to look at structural and systemic incidences and continuing practices that violate the constitutional rights of citizens of baltimore. this is not just a matter of freddie gray s death. it is a matter of freddie gray s death being another in a long line of issues that we see
the target of repeated citizen complaints for harassment and excessive force. a series of public safety town halls all across baltimore in the nine police districts where i solicited community input that was later incorporated into new ethics and situational training reforms. the recruitment of the department of justice cops program last october to launch a collaborative process to further enhance reforms. the adoption of the new police schedule that puts more officers on the streets so that they can build deeper relationships with the citizens that they protect. our department will have body cameras before the year s end. meanwhile, i ve also fought before the general assembly in annapolis to make substantiative changes to the state s law enforcement officers bill of
a pattern or practice of stops, searches, or arrests that violate the fourth amendment. i am asking that they investigate what systemic changes or systemic changes exist within our excuse me challenges that exist within our police department that can contribute to excessive force and discriminatory policing. at the end of this process, i will hold those accountable if change is not made. we cannot be timid in addressing this problem, and i m a mayor that does not shy away from our city s big challenges. at no other time in our city s recent history has any administration brought this level of resources to the table to change our police department. while the past few days have been some of our dark estest the city has ever seen we ve also seen a resilience that sets