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Thats never asked, juan, police departments have been trained, the federal government could not find anything wrong with nypd in their investigations with eric holder. what exactly needs to be reformed? we hear the talk of reform. we never hear specifics. the reason is theres very little to be done. theres always training and always community relations, theres beat cops, broken windows, programs that are in place and effective in all communities regardless of color. and the police across this na...

Would hear that there are a lot of people on the street who feel the police are not protecting and serving them. >> there are people who feel they are protecting -- >> i know. >> why dont you talk about the people. >> i feel theyre protecting my property and my life, but im just telling you especially when it comes to poor people, especially people of color, that that trust has broken down and to call for police reforms is not to say you hate the cops. i love -- hook. >> look, what needs to be r...

Knoll leader was a new york city cop for 20 years. >> ive never seen hostilities this heightened before my career. >> reporter: the patrolmans benevolent association has been withering in its attacks on de blasio. >> theres blood on many hands tonight. that blood on the hands starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. >> reporter: he and his organization representing beat cops blame the mayor for the way hes handled recent protests. the lack of indictment of police in the killi...

Officers were taken, fellow police turn their backs on him. a powerful and divisive message to the mayor of this major city who has lost their trust. this man was a new york city cop for 20 years. >> ive never seen hostilities this heightened before my career. >> reporter: the benevolent association has been withering in its attacks on de blasio. >> theres blood on many hands tonight. that blood on the hands starts on the steps of city hall in the office of the mayor. >> reporter: he and his org...

Tonight. that blood on the hands starts on the steps of city hall, in the office of the mayor. >> reporter: he and his organization representing beat cops blame the mayor for the way hes handled recent protests. the lack of indictment of police in the killing of michael brown in ferguson, missouri first set off angry protests here. they grew angrier. a handful of protesters actually calling for the killing of police after a jury in new york failed to indict police over the killing of eric garner...

Of the deaths of unarmed black men like eric garner. it went on to say all of this mistrust is clouding at hand and distrust building for years. >> reporter: a shocking moment, as new york mayor bill de blasio entered the hospital saturday where the mortally injured officers were taken, fellow police turned their backs on him, a powerful and divisive message to the mayor of this major city who has lost their trust. noel leader was a new york city cop for 20 years. >> ive never seen hostilities t...

And serve. within that protection and serving, they have these police come out to be very aggressive. not all police. we have many good cops throughout this country. but we have some that are overzealous. theyre training the police to come out and be aggressive when theyre making charges against these individuals. whos training the general public in terms of how were supposed to respond to police when they come to you in a very aggressive manner. when they come to you with more aggressive police...

Killed. so its a problem that chicago is wrestling with, and theyre doing the best they can. fred? >> and you say, you know, its something the city is wrestling with. but what can the city do when we say its doing the best that it can? >> reporter: well, the citys trying to implement a lot of sort of creative strategies when it comes to policing, when it comes to giving young people, especially young black men options, opportunities. the problem is the culture of gang violence that exists in chi...

from dallas, texas. we have a couple of things going on here. obviously health concerns over the people in richmond, california, near that refinery fire plus the financial hit were all going to take if gas prices spike make above $4 a gallon. >> it has been going on for several weeks now. you blinked and it seems like you missed it. over the course of the last month or so gas prices have gone up about 30 cents, the national average now $3.66 a gallon, up about 30 cents and in the last ...

Like safety in numbers. they wont attack me because everyone is filming. >> you said the blue shirts, the lower ranking, the patrolmen, as they are called, they werent out of control and they werent behaving that way until the white shirts showed up. >> yeah, totally true. at first when they started with the orange nets, they were still blue-shirted beat cops or whatever they were. and they werent pushing people out of the way. they werent being violent about it. they were definitely trying to c...