Community and that that has a profound effect in how they think about their jobs and how they relate to people. but the idea that, one, they re not going where they re told because somehow they re so krachb craven is an insult to law enforcement everywhere, and two that people in black and brown communities are just itching to go do a crime until they see a batch? that makes assertions that prey on people s fears. i think he s laid out there is a variety of things i find distressing about this ferguson effect but that latter one is the one i want to talk to you about. saying these men and women who we knew take tremendous courage to do the work that they do on a daily basis are suddenly so afraid of iphones and of youtube that they are now unwilling to intervene in meaningful ways in the communities where they re asked to police. it is a real issue.
Wednesday night s debate, new jersey governor chris christie did pretty much everything he could to stand out in front of a crowded are field which he languishes in seventh place. including taking a question about presidential moral authority. turning it into a moment of police politics. you know, the fbi director, the president s appointed fbi director, has said this week that because of a lack of support from politicians like the president of the united states, that police officers are afraid to get out of their cars, that they re afraid to enforce the law and he says, the president s appointee, that crime is going up because of this. wes. so chris christie made three statements there, none of which were true. he characterized the fbi director s statements as claiming that the that because of a lack of support
Talk to me a little bit about the work you all have been doing in this city for that. we kind of focused a lot on re-entry in the city of newark. earlier you talked about hotspots but we re not just doing hotspots in terms of crime, we re doing that in terms of following prisoners as they come back to their families to figure out where they re going, what they re doing, services and resources that they have. we have a project called hope where we transition them into jobs and begin to try to help them re-enter into society. we helped them with everything from i.d.s to transitional housing, employment, to all of these things to make sure their transition back into newark is a good and safe one. it s a difficult job, because we still trying to get employers to buy into the fact this they need to hire ex-offenders. but we are working very hard to make that happen. we also help folks on a lot of other things with education, to re-introduce them to their own families, to many things as
From people like president obama police officers are not getting out of their cars. reporter: not doing their jobs. i was in the room for the fbi director s speech. while many people, including the national director of the fop, as well as civil rights groups had real issue with what the fbi director said, he didn t is a you any of those things. if we re going to have an argument or discussion about crime rates potentially going up as it relates to viral videos which was the argument the fbi director was making, we can have that conversation and you had the conversation earlier today where there certainly is anecdotally not impact in some places with police officers feeling more scrutinized and therefore maybe being more hesitant. we don t have any data to link that to rises in violent crime. the fbi director wasn t at any point claiming this was president obama s fault. there was a little bit of something. chris christie is mischaracterizing what the fbi director said. on the other
The officer said the first thing is i saw the man with the gun and then i thought about ferguson. i hesitated. that s real. that s scary. but he went. he was there. he fought crime. he did the most noble thing that men and women in law enforcement can do. and so while it is real that law enforcement is at an unprecedented height of scrutiny, and while accountability and change is incredibly scary for people who are putting their lives often the line to keep all of us safe, while all of that is real, let s be sure when we go a little bit off reservation, right? that we re easily brought back. because what i don t want to see happen is i don t want the scare tactics of the scary black folks and scary brown folks to become a political football that anybody grants any more leg legitimacy than the crazies who are saying it. stick with me. much more on this and there are more voices to bring into this discussion, including the man who president obama s going to visit tomorrow to discuss cr