that people have suggested in these situations, even when you have it, it doesn t solve everything. for example, i ve heard so much about the lack of diversity in ferguson, if only there was more diversity in the police department. if you watch that garner video closely, you ll see that there s a black female nypd sergeant right there, at that scene. we haven t heard anything about what she s doing. because if she had told those patrolmen there s going to be no arrests, there would have been no arrests. so you know, you have diversity, in that sense, that you have, you know, minority representative as a police, not just one of the officers going along with the program, but a sergeant. the highest-ranking officer there. the other aspect is that not much has been talked about selection, police departments have to do a better due diligence on the front end, you see the police union, you see the effort. if you get bad apples, it s very difficult to eliminate them from
because obviously it wasn t the one that the whole world was watching. the department of justice launching a federal investigation. too many americans feel deep unfairness when it comes to the gap between our professed ideals and how laws are applied on a day-to-day basis. new york mayor bill de blasio ordering a retraining of the nypd s 35,000 officers. we re changing how our officers talk, with residents of the city. changing how they listen. and attorney general eric holder calling for reform. there are real measures that can be taken. reformed civil rights leaders say is needed nationwide. when we shine a spotlight on the criminal justice system, when we shine a spotlight on the experiences of people, it points to a very big problem. in cleveland, ohio, a two-year investigation by the justice department found what they call a pattern of excessive
. the new york city police officer accused of killing eric garner was not charged with a crime in the chokehold death, but this was not the first time that officer daniel pantaleo was in the middle of a racially motivated incident. two previous lawsuits were filed against him by three black men who say he violated their rights, eugene o donnell is a professor at the john jay college of criminal justice and served 14 years as an nypd police officer. let s talk about the cases against officer pantaleo. there was one case in which he strip searched two black men in broad daylight on the street. he made them drop their pants and they say he subjected them to a really humiliating search. he touched them even inappropriately. you were on the nypd. what s that about? it s hard to say for sure, the nypd has to do a better job of looking at patterns and say whether or not this is bad situation that shouldn t have
cigarettes, you think the staten island police should have had bigger and better things to do that day. this was ratified by the prosecutor s office and the top people in the city government said this is a good thing to do. this is revenue enforcement. a few cents of tax revenue per cigarette. you put street cops who think the worst when they go into these situations with, lethal weapons, you move them forward and inevitably, if police do enough adversarial enforcement, there s going to be bad outcomes, that s inevitable. we need to reduce these trivial interactions. officer pantaleo was not indicted into eric garner s death. but now an internal investigation by the nypd into what he did starts. are police departments reluctant to throw the book at one of their own? new york city police department has in situations where people have died, has at a minimum taken people out of enforcement actions, they have lost their guns and never returned to patrol or didn t
standoffs but no serious violence replicated across the country. nationwide, outrage garner s daughter says she appreciates. this is not a black-and-white issue. this is a national crisis. in chicago, protesters clashed with police after shutting down a major thoroughfare. and in d.c., protesters stage a die-in only blocks from the white house. no justice, no peace! all this after a grand jury declined to indict nypd officer daniel pantaleo in the chokehold death of 43-year-old eric garner. the grand jury sat for nine weers hearing from a total of 50 witnesses, 22 civilians, police officers and medical personnel. 60 exhibits were admitted into evidence, including video, records regarding nypd s policies and procedures, garner s medical records and photographs of the scene. but the details of the evidence