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director of the civil war institute. i welcome all of you to our panel on georgia gordon meade. i m going to quickly go through this morning as line up. on my far right you to your left, we have john hennessey, and historian. he is also a the author of an acclaimed book on second bull run. to his left, scott hartwig. he is a long time friend and supporters of cwi and also a historian. retired historian from gettysburg national park. he is also written a book on the battle of antietam. it is a two volume study and the second voelume will be out in a few years. excellent. good. to the left of scott is jennifer murray. jen murray also cut her teeth as a historian right here at the gettysburg national park. and she is a professor of history at the university of virginia at wise. and many of you met ken know. he was your adviser at auburn where she completed her dissertation. and last, we have brooks simpson who he just said who needs no introduction. you do need introduct ....
this morning s line up. on my far right you to your left, we have john hennessy, and historian. he is also a the author of an acclaimed book on second bull run. to his left, scott hartwig. he is a long time friend and supporter of cwi and also a historian. retired historian from gettysburg national park. he is also written a book on the battle of antietam. it is a two volume study and the second volume will be out in a few years. excellent. good. to the left of scott is jennifer murray. jen murray also cut her teeth as a historian right here at the gettysburg national park. and she is a professor of history at the university of virginia at wise. and many of you met ken know. he was your advisor at auburn where she completed her dissertation. and last, we have brooks simpson who he just said who needs no introduction. you do need introduction. and everyone, on c-span audience, they know you, brooks. he is a professor of history at arizona state and his specialty as you ....
go? yes, we do. going to work harder. 2017. definitely going to ask the men and women on the force to give extra. newark has not only added more police, they have reassigned many of them to street beats and partnered with citizens groups to promote community policing. public safety director, anthony ambrose says the city is targeting gun violence, adding more officers to shooting response team. treating it like a homicide. sending out intelligence people. sending out a team of detectives and taking the people off the street before they did their second shooting or a murder. reporter: nonfatal shootings are down 21%. robberies are down 23%. auto theft is down 16%. newark mayor, ross barraca. you can t do it alone. the community haptz has to be part of this? they have to have faith, confidence police are there to help them and not occupy their neighborhood. they see violence and crime they report it. reporter: a community advocate here in newark. the numbers ....
no, i would say not, andrea, not a surprise at all chief peter nushom had probably been the front runner. there had been hundreds and hundreds of applicants for this job. clearly d.c. police chief, nationwide profile, a very coveted job in the police ranks. but mayor bowser said she d. settled peter newsome, this thing about community policing and building trust in the neighborhoods. who is going to be best to drive down crimes in d.c. s neighborhoods. and she felt peter nu nushom showed consistency. and when he was here, he talked a lot about building trust when you call us, we re not going to ask your race, religion, age, sexual orientation. when you call us, we will always come, and when we come, we re coming to help. so perhaps the biggest hurdle for the chief here. he s still going to have to be confirmed by the d.c. council. and he may have cost himself a vote or two here, when he talked about the fact that he still roots for his hometown, new england footba ....
not being led by the trump trades but led by things like technology, which quite frankly you could even look at some of these names as anti-trump trades. these are the companies that require foreign workers in large numbers in order to fill engineering and programming jobs. these are companies that maybe didn t get off on the right foot are mr. trump. the leadership teams at these firms were in fact opposed to him prior to the election. so these are leaders it shows what you can do with narratives. you can toss them out and focus on trend. there s a lot of momentum here. one of the more interesting aspects to the software names running, scott, we talk about semis all the time. software companies, big ones, transitioned to subscription model. adobe is the latest example to have just absolutely ripped the cover off the ball going from selling a piece of software to bringing in licensing fees on an ongoing basis and firms that have done that are being rewarded a higher m ....