Police chiefs, but there are some i would call the very exclusive group of the finest people who have had an impact on the Police Profession through an entrepreneurial spirit and with a good deal of imagination and innovation in improving policing in the United States. It goes back almost a century ago. The chief of police in berkeley, california, interesting that that is where improved policing started in view of what is going on today. He was chief of police for a brief time in los angeles. In the middle of the last century, bill parker in los a chief in cincinnati, and they were followed by wilson in chicago and pat murphy in new york, detroit, and washington, d. C. There is no question that these leaders in Police Excellence formed a distinguished group in which todays keynote speaker, as an innovator, as an imaginative leader, and as a person has done very much uniquely, has had a unique ince, in policing excellent this country and has in many ways had a unique career that is toy
Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation. We welcome those who are joining us on our website as well as those joining us on the cspan network. We would ask everyone inhouse to be so kind to check that our mobile the vices have been checked and turned off as a cortices. Those watching online you are welcome to ask questions any time by emailing speaker at heritage. Org. Leading our program today and welcoming and introducing our special guest is Ronald Reagan emeritus aschairman well as the 75th of attorney general of the United States edwin meese. [applause] mr. Meese thank you, john. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. I joined john and welcome you. Heritage has done a great deal in the policing and Public Safety areas and we are pleased to have our keynote speaker today. It is a pleasure for me to introduce him since we have known each other a number of years. Believe it or not i think we first met when we were first at harvard, for the executive session in policing they had
Letting my dog out earlier, paramedics were parked in front of my house right here. And, i wanted them to know i didnt make a call. They told me to go back inside and lie down. They wouldnt tell me anything. Reporter as a deputy and a sergeant went inside the home, they found a man having what appeared to be a mental break down. They tried to came him down according to the sheriff to no avail. Both members of the Hernando County Sheriffs Office have gone through crisis intervention training but in this case, the team had to use lethal force and shoot the man who later died. You know, they had this training and obviously, in this case, it wasnt success. As hard as you try, you cant be successful every time when you are dealing with humans in crisis. Reporter and as a routine in situations like this, both the deputy and the sergeant are on paid administrative leave. Fdle has traveled to hernando investigating tonight and the Hernando County Sheriffs Office. Investigators are still on sce
Mulberry. We flew above it less than three hours ago, you can see a giant black hole with water flowing into it. Millions of gallons of contaminated water went into the floridan aquifer. There is no way for the liner protecting it to hold with the sink hole. A weeki wachee man is debt after deputies shot him responding to a 911 call at his home. The and surrounded by guns. Reporter a tragic and trying experience. That is how the hernando sheriff described what took place in this quiet weeki wachee neighborhood when deputies responded to a 911 call of a mentally unstable man inside a home threatening to hurt himself. As they arrived to try to calm the man down, the team had to Hernando County to investigate. Not only are you scared to death because you dont know what you are going into. If you are going into a person who wants to hurt themselves it is or going into a situation where the person may want to take somebody with them. Reporter neighbors were terrified earlier. They heard the