in our conversations, it was clear that for me i needed to look for any and all resources that i could bring to my city to make sure that we get this right for the community. we have to have a police department that believes wholeheartedly in community policing working in partnership with the police to have safer communities, and in order to do that, we have to find a way toward that foundation of trust. this relationship can t go anywhere without that trust relationship. and that s why i made the request for a pattern and practice review, civil rights review, so we could start to get to healing, so we could become a safer city, but also a better city. did ms. lynch say the pattern and practice investigation? they have to do a review. i m making the request and they ll do their evaluation and get back to us.
and welcome back to the rundown. any minute now we re expecting to hear from baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake. she s dpptexpected to announce a new partnership with the justice department. this follows the mayor s promise to engage in bold police reforms. msnbc s adam reese is in baltimore waiting for the mayor s press conference to begin. he joins me this morning. good to see you. reporter: good morning, jose we expect to hear the results of her meeting with the attorney general, reforms that might be put in place for city hall for the police department relations with the citizens of baltimore here making the streets safer, making baltimore safer. the attorney general said yesterday she wants to help she wants to provide the tools that the justice department can provide to make this city safer. jose? adam when do we expect this
good to see you. developing now in cape canaveral, one step closer to flying their own spacecraft. spacex launched its dragon capsule, one of two commercial ships that will fly future astronauts. test flights simulated what would happen in the event of a rocket failure on the launch pad. the three main parachutes blossomed and lowered the aircraft safely on the surf. according to nasa the abort test appeared to be perfect. coming up at the top of the hour mayor of baltimore is expected to announce a new partnership between the city and the justice department to hear and help reform its police. we re going to have that news conference for you. in the next hour the faa is expected to announce some changes for commercial drone use. nbc news shot this amazing video of a frozen niagara falls back in february but will drones be allowed to be used for more than just pretty pictures? we ll have that next on the rundown . shopping for a used car is so intimidating. i mean, you feel like
my administration has done compared to other independently with respect to other jurisdictions around the country, we ve done a lot. but just like with everything i m never satisfied with what we ve done. i m always looking to do more and to make sure that every day we seek to make sure we re using all the resources that we have available to get it right for the citizens of baltimore, and that s why i made the request to the department of justice, because i said i want to know if there are more resources that we can bring so we can get this right. we have to have a foundation of trust, and i believe that we need the assistance of the department of justice and the civil rights investigation to lay to shore up that foundation that is weak right now in our city. making this request? i can t really answer that. thank you. mayor stephanie
rights. those reforms would have assisted in the disciplinary process for those officers who engage in misconduct. while our legislative efforts did not win approval in 2015 i am optimistic that we will have greater success in 2016. we have seen results from these efforts. in 2014 citizens complaints alleging excessive force were down 46%. police discourtesy complaints were down 53%. notices of lawsuits alleging police misconduct are down dramatically over the past three years. and our police department is also reporting greater success at punishing those officers who are found guilty of misconduct in an administrative process. despite this progress we all know that baltimore continues to have a fractured relationship between the police and the