bigger or smaller police budgets. i think this is actually an important and clarifying moment in that debate, one that often gets oversimplify, but i think reflects a bunch of complicated issues. first of all, a person opening fire in a public space, like a subway car, really clarifies i think some bedrock shared beliefs about what we want for public safety system in general, we don t want to be shot on the subway. we don t want to be shot in walking down the street, randomly. and if someone does opened fire on people in the subway, i think we re sort of in consensus, we want that person to be apprehended quickly. we don t want them roaming around freely. and indeed, when the subway shooter was apprehended yesterday afternoon, the commissioner of the new york city police department tweeted this triumphant, i would even say braggadocious, statement quote, frank robert james had nowhere else to run or hug and is now in and ypg custody. the work of our detectives a second to none and th
technical legal terms. the james apprehension comes amidst both the trauma of yet another mass shooting in america, and all too common occurrence in this country almost daily, oz well as an intensifying debate, policy grounds and politically across the country about crime policing and justice. specifically, what policing is for and what we wanted to do. and whether we would be more or less police to accomplish that. bigger or smaller police budgets. i think this is actually an important and clarifying moment in that debate, one that often gets oversimplify, but i think reflects a bunch of complicated issues. first of all, a person opening fire in a public space, like a subway car, really clarifies i think some bedrock shared beliefs about what we want for public safety system in general, we don t want to be shot on the subway. we don t want to be shot in walking down the street, randomly. and if someone does opened fire on people in the subway, i think we re sort of in