Good morning, everybody. Please have a seat. It is wonderful to be able to announce the filling of one new job. Before we do [laughter] i wanted to make a somewhat broader statement about the economy. Ash is willing to indulge me. Last month, americas businesses created more than 300,000 jobs. This keeps a pace this year that we have not seen since the 1990s. So far this year, over the first 11 months of 2014, our economy has created 2. 6 5 million jobs. That is more than in any entire year since the 1990s. Our businesses have created 10. 9 million jobs over the past 57 months in a row and that is the longest streak of private sector job growth on record. We also know that the pickup and the pace of job growth has been in industries with higher wages. Overall wages are rising. That is a welcome sign for millions of americans. We have an opportunity to keep up this progress if congress is willing to keep our government open, avoid selfinflicted wounds, and Work Together to invest in the
If you cannot get through on the phone lines and want to make a comment, try social media. Twitter and facebook. You can make a comment. A lively conversation already taking place. Finally, you can send an email. We want to start off by showing you some of the local papers around the country. Some of the headlines they are featuring regarding Law Enforcement. Here is the denver post. When do police go too far . Here is the atlanta journalconstitution. Multiple police cases ignite national debate. In the arizona republic, they have an article about a local case. Family says dont focus on race and police killing. Here is the state out of columbia, south carolina. City to hold police more accountable. Where body cameras, get more training. Press, a nation started to protest. Stirred to protest. Here is the boston globe where protests were held last night with chance of justice. Herald, police cases converge to store national debate. Stir national debate. He cleveland situation report indi
Why dont they put the black cops in the black areas and put the white cops in the white areas . Try well, we always your demographics should be representative of your community. That is a lofty goal. People through the hiring process is not as easy as we hope for. Hirehought of trying to and recruiting in the demographics in your location is a goal that every agency should aspire to. We do believe that. Thank you for the thank you part. Deputy both young sheriffs and its a difficult time for them. They go out there every day and do their job. They made a choice to come to lawenforcement to make a difference. A thank you every now and then goes a long way. Host is there a disconnect on the racial lines between africanamericans and police . Guest in some areas, yes. Cast the bigto net, but in some areas, there are. The men and women of Law Enforcement come in a variety of different colors and shapes engenders. And genders the more we can be representative of archimedes, the better we wil
Perception and reality of states. G in the united build stronger relationships, ake a deep dive into our training and policies that need tpofpforth. Ce, and so we have 90 days, which is not a lot of time, but i think we can up with some solid recommendations for the resident and it probably is going to require more work partwards because the easy is writing a recommendation and hard part is implementing something. Im pretty confident we will be to have something on his desk within the time frame he would like to see it. In your several years in philadelphia what is a policy up ge that you have made there . Use of deadly force. Firing at , automobiles which a lot of banned for years. Here in philadelphia we had not done that. Put that in place. That is one that comes to mind immediately as it relates to use of force. We also made revisions in our training. Something back in 1998 when i was chief in washington, d. C. D. C. , working with the u. S. To help Museum Officers better understan
Promise . Actually, it was a threeday promise and has been whittled down since then. But we didnt have the three days that were originally romised by republicans. The bill, i knew it would increase tricare costs. Wasnt happy about that. I voted know against a procisthat takes something as important as our National Defense and said here you go, heres the whole thing, trust us, vote for it. We didnt have a chance to review it. What were there any powers in this thing given additionally to the n. S. A. . Is there any more power to spy on americans under this bill . I dont know. I couldnt vote for a bill that as launched on us last night thats this important, and i deeply regret it with the good things that were in here, and there were numerous good things, well thought out. But you cant push a bill this important on us, especially when we know there are problems , we just dont get a chance to find them. Cant vote yes. I couldnt in good conscience vote yes. One additional ironing, mr. Spea