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individuals to the detriment of our own police department, rather than looking askance at it and assuming that every police department and employee in that department is not fair. mr. hanlon? i think one thing to keep side of sight of, if we re giving people the power to carry a gun and arrest citizens and put them in jail forever. we talk about how we deal with this situation, to minimize it and say it is just a few officers, the department is generally ok, that there is not a culture here, whether it is a code of silence or a code that we can do what ever we want, it is not dealing with the problem. [applause] i believe that it has to be dealt with. but it cannot be dealt with by minimizing it and saying there s too much media about this stuff, that it is not fair. it is fair because the police are given this incredible power. more than anybody else. you know, i can deal with a cop in court, but i will not mess with him on the street, because he can tell me or ....
chief of police being here. it does not end the questions. it is a conversation that has to get down to important issues. it has to start and meetings like this are a start to recognize. i think it is a real positive step. [applause] and although i would argue many of the things that were said today on the panel and i cannot believe i am going to say this i completely agree with john burris and stuart hanlon. [applause] thank you for giving my closing comments from me. i would like to thank the public defender s office for providing the public and anybody he wants to come to this forum, hearing from these experts, and they help you take away some good things from this and i hope you take away some good things you take away some good things from this panel. so many people here. this is the third and final panel for those of you who have stayed. this is going to be an incredible discussion. leading the panel, this is the chief attorney of the public defender s ....
in the greenroom, we were talking about the cost of outfitting of one car. how much does it cost for a lawsuit? what does it do to the perception of the department. those are the kinds of things we can do. but we have to put it we have to commit as a city, as individuals to the detriment of our own police department, rather than looking askance at it and assuming that every police department and employee in that department is not fair. mr. hanlon? i think one thing to keep side of sight of, if we re giving people the power to carry a gun and arrest citizens and put them in jail forever. we talk about how we deal with this situation, to minimize it and say it is just a few officers, the department is generally ok, that there is not a culture here, whether it is a code of silence or a code that we can do what ever we want, it is not dealing with the problem. [applause] i believe that it has to be dealt with. but it cannot be dealt with by minimizing it and sayin ....
consent given and the past key is used or the person s own key is used, it ends up being, as many things are in this day and age, a cost issue. i would like to weigh in. can you imagine police officers arriving at the ritz carlton, informing the front desk they would like a key that opens all the hotel rooms, and no, they do not need an escort. they just will be doing what they would like. there would be public outcry. and the only reason that there is a public outcry about the use of master keys, and we have brought forth stories the new york times published a story with first hand witnesses from single occupancy hotels. this is someone s home. there is no different constitution for people living in sro s. they say the officers come in and intimidate physically or verbally into handing over the passkey. if this were happening anywhere , but sro s, there would be outcry. [applause] and our one last question will be open for anyone who wishes to answer it. do you ....
it told us there was some kind of test what will i do? he said this? they tried this out? they just told me this morning that they would kill me. [unintelligible] more implications for my personal religious background. i remember when i executed him, when i left that night to go to the press conference, my wife was outside and is hit me all at once. every time the war and executes a prisoner, a piece of them dies as well. this leaves you feeling very frustrated, and i had said, with the executions i was involved with, each of those four times, i climbed into the shower and i would scrub and scrub. but you cannot make yourself clean. when everyone else was sleeping in the middle of the night, i was killing someone. everybody else got to get up once more like nothing out of the ordinary had happened. this is another thing if you actually have to do this. i was watching them die in the gas chamber, and wondered what my children thought of their father. and ultima ....