Less credence to that than a set of statistics. Guest a set of statistics guess to the overall if these guys were engaged in drug interdiction and were being told to after jamaicans and the daye dea keeps close track of who it doing the drug smuggling on the eastern core so if theyre looking for particular drug gang that is racially identified to me it seems to me legitimate that would be one part of the grounds for pulling somebody over, but for average traffic stops just dont think thats happening. Host you spend much of the book, then you havent spent a lot of your recent career, talking about the effectiveness of stop, question, and friction in new york city, and denying its involveses racism, but you are aware that a commander, spin county, deputy inspector, is caught on audiotape, the recording which was introduced in floyd trial, the stop and frisk trial, you write about in the book. Im saying, that, you have to stop the right people, mail, blacks, between the ages 1421, but he
You better understand what this world is like and if you have that desire, and i surely surely hope you do, you can do worse than start with william shakespeare. [applause]. You can watch this and other programs on my netbook to be. Org. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies and brought to you as a public by your cable or satellite provider. Next on book tvs afterwards program, Manhattan Institute seated near fell, Heather Macdonald discusses policing in america. She is. She is interviewed by delores jonesbrown, law and plea science professor at john jay college, about her book, the war on cops, how the attack on law and order makes everyone laissez. Good afternoon, how are you today. A great, thank you so much. Im happy to have this opportunity to talk to about your new book, the war on cops. How the new attack on war makes everyone laissez. We know each other, we been on previous panels together, one of the first things i like to ask you is you discussed in the book a
That change your way of thinking, theres one book that did that for me when i was in college and that was the feminine misty misty my Betty Freeman and literally a lightbulb went on when i read that book and i decided that maybe my life was not going to consist of getting married and having children and living that kind of life that i should be thinking about taking care of myself and expanding my own horizons. I can honestly say that is one book that totally changed my way of thinking about myself. Is there any reading that you do like nonfiction or historical that helps you do your job in the senate . Well, theres a lot of reading that i do just on issues such as, i read a lot about immigrationin our country because , Immigration Reform is something that we need to address and thats very purposeful for me as an immigrant area i read about whats going on in the middle east, i read a lot of those kinds of articles. I read about whats going on in the Supreme Court and so those are the k
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Citizenship. For millions of americans, the site of a policeman instills a sense of calm, faith, that order is being kept, that good guys are watching. For many others, thousands stopped on the streets of new york because they look or act a certain way. That footage is the center of an internal police investigation. [speaking spanish] [bad boys] police stops have a couple of different purposes. The main one is to keep streets and those safe by stopping drivers who are driving too fast or lowing through stop signs or not yielding at stop lights. The police in recent years have developed a second purpose for police stops. They use them to try to hunt criminals or people who they suspect might be criminals. They will look if you look suspicious or seem out of place or seem up to no good in one way or another. Sometimes the signs of this are quite subtle. They will stop those people and proceed to ask questions. For example, what are you doing in the neighborhood, where are you going, is t