Different. The congress is different. There was a different atmosphere in the country at the time. And it took the movement of folks in the community to get us to this point. I don t think the president could have gotten us there, one of them was make sure we have consent decrees in cities to monitor police departments. Speaking of, i talked to you about it this summer on my podcast about newark being under consent decree. To make changes to policing since tend of the obama administration. What did that require? tell us, what did you think of that? consent decree is necessary. The department of justice, the obama administration, when i came into office, they had already begun an investigation and decide that they needed the consent decree for the police department. We had to work with the justice department. The first thing that worked, we didn t push it away. We were not aggressive saying we didn t want this. We embraced it and said let s work together and believed that we needed it.
Policing changes since the end of the obama administration. What did that require? tell us, what did you think of that? consent decree is necessary. What happened is the department of justice, the obama administration, when i came into office, they had already begun an investigation and decided that newark needed to be under consent decree police department. An tease are things that have been happening around the country and needs to continue. So we had to work with the justice department. We didn t the first thing that worked is we didn t push it away. We weren t aggressive in saying we didn t want this consent decree. We embraced it and said let s work together and believed that we needed it. That was the first step. We began to change policies and practices by bringing the community and changing use of force policy. Changing policies around stop and frisk, changing policies around deescalation. All of those things are important. We have new policies, over a dozen new policies that c
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