Tactics today our panel guests who have both backgrounds in Law Enforcement join me to discuss policing and america all right its time to prove your news i knew. The United States war on drugs was ramped up in the caribbean and eastern pacific with the u. S. Military targeting cocaine trafficking on the high seas meantime a new u. N. Report indicates that the amount of land being used to grow the coca plant in colombia has actually decreased so what is that all actually mean for that lets turn our to correspondent john how he was live in our miami studio with more on this so john whats going on. In the middle of the un office on drugs and crime as its called released a report on wednesday showing that the amount of land and you touched on this in the. The amount of land being used to grow the coca plant in colombia dropped by 9 percent in 2019 from 169000 hectors to 15154000 so thats basically the equivalent of 380500 acres heres the thing though while the amount of land being used to plant coca has decreased in colombia according to this u. N. Report the output of cocaine has it if you look further down in the report youll see that the a total the total amount of cocaine seized in 2018 was 413383 kilos and then in 2019 it was 433036 kilos so thats almost basically thats the equivalent of about 500 tons of cocaine despite the drop in land use for coke the u. S. No d. C. Said that the estimated cocaine production actually saw an uptick of 1. 5 percent from an estimated 1120. 00 metric tons to 1137. 00 so despite less land being used there was still an increase in the overall output of cocaine according to the u. N. D o c that said the Trump Administration has ramped. Efforts in the caribbean going after narco traffickers you may remember back in march the us indicted venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and several other current and former high ranking venezuelan officials including military officials are narco trafficking charges and accuse them of conspiring with the Colombian Rebel Group far to quote flood the United States with cocaine the secretary of state might pompei o tweeted today that quote the us is taking action to bring justice bring to justice former fork members involved in International Narcotics trafficking the colombian people deserve an enduring peace accord with former members who are specked the rule of law and commit to peaceful reintegration into society after the more. Indictment of madeira President Trump announced also in april that the u. S. Was sending u. S. Navy warships to the caribbean and towards the coast of venezuela to intercept narco traffickers well speaking of these types of interceptions the u. S. S. Problem Navy Destroyer with help from the u. S. Coast guard seized a smuggling vessel in the eastern pacific earlier this month that was carrying 2000 kilos of coke thats worth more than 40000000. 00 on the street according to the u. S. Southern command well thats just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cocaine trafficking last june actually almost a year ago today more than 60 tons of cocaine was see from seized from a cargo ship at the port of philadelphia thats worth more than a 1000000000. 00 i said it right a 1000000000. 00 well a day later 333. 00 pounds of coke worth 10000000. 00 was seized at the port of baltimore so figure for the amount of cocaine being found and seized there is certainly as much if not more flowing into the u. S. Europe and other parts of the world so the war on drug war on drugs very much rages on and the about to obviously a demand there john heidi thank you so much. There are numerous ideas being thrown out there regarding Police Reform in the wake of these nationwide protests following the death of george floyd in minneapolis lawmakers like rand paul looking to end nationwide no knock warrants which rose to popularity in the mid 1990 s. During the Clinton Administration now rand paul a republican president bill clinton a democrat but that came on the coattails of the war on drugs during the crack epidemic of the 1980 s. That led to the 994. 00 crime bill that doubled the u. S. Prison population and our next guest wrote an essay about just that called gaslighted by the ruling class which you can find on share post dot com so joining us to discuss Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author host on contact chris hedges. All right chris so before we can address the change in policing and the laws surrounding our criminal Justice System we got to understand how we got here take us back if you will to the 1990 s. 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They create our communities of color if you tear i dont so im 100 people almost all unarmed are killed every year by police chris another interesting thing that you touched on in that essay the folks who are marching out there what do they need to understand about voting and how this isnt really actually changing the system. Well i mean as long as we saw the 2 major dimensions funding the police and apology the police are both black lives matter demands the problem with the funding weve seen the bloggers you do this in new york as you can just play numbers so the new York City Police department has a budget of sick. 1000000000. 00 a year and de blasio is talking about moving on 100000000. 00 of it to community you know Community Support or something. And i sense that the people who are carrying out these protests understand that this is far more than policing reform i think this is a class and a generational revolt now its been exacerbated by coded and the economic misery that many of the protesters are suffering i think as a lead them to a situation where and certainly in economic terms theyre much closer to these communities of color that have been during this for decades no i mean change is going to come off the streets changes by organizing in amazon warehouses for strikes. Fast food workers all these low wage workers and i think we are seeing a kind of uniting between workers especially frontline workers and these groups i look at this is far more at least if you look at it from the perspective of the people in the streets far more than simply calls for Police Reform remember black lives matter has been doing this for many years you know for 5 years and and so theyre pretty savvy i mean they there is its going to be much harder i think for the ruling elites to gaslight them as they have in the past that you certainly touch on a myriad of topics that i think you really get down to to the point of how this all erupted in the past couple of months so well check out his post at share post dot com chris hedges we got to leave it right there thank you so much for sharing that insight. As protester. A 51st state with an issue they say has become far more important in the aftermath. A protest for Racial Justice in both washington and across the country r. T. Is fair project is joining us from the news room and fair and this could be a pretty historic vote next week yes so no in order for a bill to become a law it has to go through 8 steps and hopefully doesnt get vetoed by the president at the finish line right now the fight for d. C. Statehood is in step 6 which is extremely monumental because d. C. Couldnt even get past up to 26 years listen here. For more than 2 centuries the residents of washington d. C. The District Of Columbia have been denied their right to fully participate in their democracy instead they have been dealt the injustice of paying taxes. Proudly serving in uniform in great numbers and contributing to the economic power of our nation. Now the vote is slated for next friday the 26th and there is more than enough congressmen in the democratically controlled house that are officially back in the bill for it to pass however there is an insurmountable opposition in the g. O. P. Controlled senate thats also backed by President Donald Trump telling the New York Post last month quote d. C. Will never be a state you mean District Of Columbia state why so we can have 2 more Democratic Senators and 5 more congressmen no thank you that will never happen monella welfare and back in 1993 then Democratic Controlled Congress shot down a d. C. Statehood bill so why would they flip on it now so it was 2 reasons actually that ignited the democrats to bring about this bill the biggest one being that infamous picture of President Donald Trump in front of St Johns Church just 2 weeks ago now it was the much criticized administrations move to use federal forces to clear Lafayette Park directly across from the white house of protesters with gas canisters for President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet to take a photo op at one of the church now the House Majority leader hoyer says it was a perfect time to introduce the bill and schedule the vote with the merial bows are on board they are very definitely should be soldiers stationed around our city waiting for the go to attack americans in a local policing matter so they knew now that our cause for statehood is certainly about making sure we have 2 voting 2 senators to speak up for us and making sure that our congresswoman has a vote in making sure that we have seats at the table when the governors and state legislatures are talking. Now bows are says it was also the recent covert 19 pandemic that shine light on the plight of washington d. C. So when Congress Passed the cares act stimulus package back in march d. C. Was actually classified as a territory rather than a state well because of that it cost d. C. More than 700000000. 00 in federal corona virus relief funding are also pointed out that the d. C. Taxpayers get no voting representatives in Congress Despite contributing more in federal taxes on a per person basis than many states the democrats are doing their best to convince their republican counterparts to go along with the vote but again its the senate that this vote could get shut down and now however another big point made by the democrats is with just over 700000 residents d. C. Actually has a Larger Population than the states of vermont and wyoming reporting in the newsroom fair and fronsac. Out of the latest coded 19 numbers worldwide cases now topping 8400000 with about 450000 reported deaths the top 3 countries with the most confirmed cases the u. S. Still leading the way followed by brazil and then russia now taking a closer look at this countrys numbers now at 2100000 cases with about 118000 reported deaths. And as protesters across the nation demand changes to Police Tactics how do those in Law Enforcement feel about it a discussion about that coming up and then over at sports or jena ham has the latest on the fate of the upcoming u e f a championship so stick around and keep up with all the latest news and anything you might have missed download our brand new free app called portable t. V. You can watch there 24 sevenths well be back in just. Wall street is busy trading your money 5 days a week and there are 4 corners. And 3 major stock market. And when you have to watch drive or bail it all becomes clear theres just one business show you cant afford to mend. 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Is doing away with plain clothes officer units but protesters say none of that is enough so what will be so we will continue that conversation with 2 former Police Officers to get their thoughts from the other side of the batch now dominick is oh hes a former former Police Officer in illinois and author of the book before the badge everything you need to know before becoming a cop and garland next and hes a former Police Official in the Baltimore Area and adjunct criminal justice instructor garland also sits on the National Board of directors for the a. C. L. U. Gentlemen thank you for joining us today adamic i want to go over to you 1st there are a lot of things that need to be done in the way of Police Reform off the top of your head what do you view as the most important. I think we need to look at the way that the laws or what laws the police are insourcing are viewed one of the biggest things with the narrative of do you on these its not going to solve a problem i talked just a couple days ago about a breakdown of looking at all the ability of the police have which is what the public wants to do away with they want to do away with a certain type of use of force there which generates from why the cops were there in the 1st place in other words was it a proactive or reactive interaction with the public and when you break everything down the force thats used with Law Enforcement on a citizen which is basically because the public has plenty about as you might why are they enforcing laws in the 1st place what are we looking at and specifically what i look at is the war on drugs and the 2nd amendment. If we. Look at and we structure why police are dealing with people who are usually interacting with drugs and guns youre going to take away 95 percent of the issues that stem from proactive policing so the 1st thing we have to look at is not the street cop we have to look at the laws that theyre enforcing we straight away from the constitution Law Enforcement become massively Revenue Generation and we have to look at what command and village officials are having are cops doing its not a problem for the police its what the officials are asking them to do thats a different perspective than ive heard garland same question to you. Well to me this is an easy one and one of the issues is this do does the public have confidence that the investigations into Law Enforcement violence Law Enforcement use of force is unbiased i think the 1st thing that needs to be done is that Law Enforcement needs to be relieved of the already to investigate. How many of us you know i mean heres an example would be if someone was accused of robbing a bank would you trust the National Bank robbers association to do an unbiased the situation certainly not its pretty absurd the cia do you trust them to investigate themselves or do an unbiased investigation no but somehow people think that a Police Department is going to investigate themselves from a person who is the commander of the Investigations Division which included internal affairs im going to have some guy investigate someone else or girl whos on their Bowling League i think not it needs to be taken out of all the states municipalities need an independent Investigative Unit which can not have a retired Police Officers on it it should probably be attorneys that will give the public the confidence that Police Departments arent covering over their own investigations and that is a good point that was definitely somethi