Different. The congress is different. There was a different atmosphere in the country at the time. And it took the movement of folks in the community to get us to this point. I dont think the president could have gotten us there, one of them was make sure we have Consent Decrees in cities to monitor police departments. Speaking of, i talked to you about it this summer on my podcast about newark being under Consent Decree. To make changes to policing since tend of the obama administration. What did that require . Tell us, what did you think of that . Consent decree is necessary. The department of justice, the obama administration, when i came into office, they had already begun an investigation and decide that they needed the Consent Decree for the police department. We had to work with the justice department. The first thing that worked, we didnt push it away. We were not aggressive saying we didnt want this. We embraced it and said lets work together and believed that we needed it. Th
Policing changes since the end of the obama administration. What did that require . Tell us, what did you think of that . Consent decree is necessary. What happened is the department of justice, the obama administration, when i came into office, they had already begun an investigation and decided that newark needed to be under Consent Decree police department. An tease are things that have been happening around the country and needs to continue. So we had to work with the justice department. We didnt the first thing that worked is we didnt push it away. We werent aggressive in saying we didnt want this Consent Decree. We embraced it and said lets work together and believed that we needed it. That was the first step. We began to change policies and practices by bringing the community and changing use of force policy. Changing policies around stop and frisk, changing policies around deescalation. All of those things are important. We have new policies, over a dozen new policies that crea
america s other epidemic shows no signs of slowing. this time a mass shooting at a rail yard in san jose, cam. there have been 17 mass shootings in the last week. 17 in the last week. deaths from gun violence in the u.s. up 23% so far this year. it s another case where the victims were front-line workers. last month it was a fedex facility in indianapolis, before that a supermarket in boulder, colorado. and now it s rail workers helping other essential workers get to work during this pandemic. these are the folks who are showing up every day throughout the pandemic to ensure that transit would operate every day to support members of our community to depended on transit for their livelihoods or for their lives and, you know, these are essential workers and they took risks to themselves, showing up every day for work, and now their friends and their family members are mourning their loss. the mayor says the gunman was a co-worker and the victims due them well. this is h
court, these hollywood produced videos would not be admissible as evidence. even with the court ordered public defender representing yourself with no counsel whatsoever, you couldn t do a worse job them trumps attorneys did yesterday. 24 hours ago i was suggesting to the lead trompe l oeil or name i cannot recall i choose not to the guy who is usually staggering around recalling his parents playing him albums of senate speeches in his boyhood. he might as well have brought on whoopi goldberg to rectify her defenses. a couple of hours later, our own shannon bream broke the news that the accused mr. trump was furious with his legal team as he should be. thankfully for him, he was down my stomach they were nowhere to be seen today. instead among the prosecutors, congressman eric swalwell a man penetrated by chinese intelligence in the comely shape of things. this is no obstacle to being the prosecutor charged with trying to get chairman more dominic sworn enemy removed from th
is that even though so much has been looked at, a steady drip of what we know might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the ex-president s efforts to overturn the election result. the latest bombshell coming from conspiracy theorist, alex jones, who was at the capitol on january 6th. during his broadcast monday, he said he took the fifth more than 100 times in his interview with the select committee. politico reports on what jones referred to as the quote, unofficial testimony that he delivered on his show, quote, jones described the questions the committee asked him about his contacts with gop fund-raiser, carolyn wren. who he described as a liaison for logistics relating to trump s rally. quote, my contact for the fifth and sixth was carolyn wrenn, he said. all this comes as focus by the committee on recently revealed plans to get the u.s. military to seize voting machines. plans that resulted in an executive order being crafted. one that was not signed and ultimatel