across this country. sometimes things look bad on video. this one was bad. and for all the progress that we had made sense ferguson, it wiped it out like that. he was the first person i worked with that was shot and killed. he came back to his neighbourhood to make a difference and was murdered. there is a frustration that public confidence in the police can be smashed in an instant despite some officers making the ultimate sacrifice. and the most recent death? this man. yes, sir. what happen? what happened ? he was responding to a call last year and was ambushed and killed. but studies show far more civilians are killed by the police than the other way around. as america marks the one year anniversary of george floyd s death,
hurt and it s putting handcuffs on your own police department and the way that you stop violence and looting is by sending a very quick message to those who would engage in criminal activity that they are going to be arrested you re not going to let them get away with it you are going to be contained and that s what the mayor prevented from happening. you may remember we had a lot of protests when i was police commissioner we had no violence we had no riots because we worked with the community and also con takened the demonstrators. okay. here in knewnew york city however, there were hundreds of people out on the street and finally they arrested people because they were blocking traffic. in the past in new york city ever sense ferguson missouri a lot of protests have stopped traffic and, you know the mayor and police commissioner the police officers have not arrested people until now. what s going on? well i think it s pretty clear that they are responding to baltimore.
looking at it from a policing standpoint. they re also looking at it from a civil rights standpoint/criminal. now they need to do a ferguson study. let me tell you what that will do. that will let us know all the things we re doing right, all the things we re doing wrong. it will get skeletons or whatever they may be out of the closet so we can effectively address these issues. that s part of what the public wants. they want to know their police department is transparent, that a they re honest and doing their job based on regulations and rules. elijah thanks to much. wanted to play a little bit of this interview that you did. why did you come out here with your broom?
who tore up the place. what they were doing, what those community leaders and clergy and others were doing, that is a statement. that s the kind of organizing that needs to take place if we re going to tackle this problem. they need to be lifted up. point number five and i ve got six because this is important. sense ferguson and the task force that we put together we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with
we know and love. this is certainly not putting us in very good light. it doesn t help with tourism, doesn t help bringing in businesses. we re going to be stronger after this is over with. it s very unfortunate and sad. we re going to do everything we can to move on from here. can you talk about the whether there were conversations about the mayor about ferguson what might have been learned from ferguson. whether you decided to pull back on bringing in troops because of what might have been learned in ferguson. those are questions you should probably direct to the mayor. i didn t have discussions about ferguson or why she was holding back. we were ready to get moving forward as soon as she made that decision, we got to work. are there damage estimates at this point? a number of businesses and homes have been damaged or destroyed. our insurance commissioner activated a team to come in and work on those assessments and