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While the L.A. mayoral race has been cast as an ideological showdown between Karen Bass, a progressive who's willing to embrace alternatives to policing, and Rick Caruso, a more conservative law-and-order candidate, their views on public safety are not that different.

Attorneys. i hope the president who seems to be coming back to a leadership in 2022 has the ability to influence these local politicians. >> martha: chief bratton, thank you. great to have you here. lets bring in judge jeanine pirro, former district attorney here in westchester county and co-host of the five and a stunning look at hunter biden. its available now. i want to start by reminding everybody of a sound bite that came from jen psaki over the weekend directed at you where she was mocking...

The determine of prosecutors across the nation to free perpetrators have helped lead our cities -- look at the numbers across the country -- to the highest murder rates weve seen. carjackings, shopliftings, shootings in some cities hitting their highest levels. it doesnt go unnoticed by voter who say 81% of them believe that crime is their biggest concern surpassed only by inflation. so can the president, president biden, begin the process of turning this ship around? mending relationships with ...

Narrative, beginning the process of making it appear at least that the president is tough on crime in the ways that you were talking about? >> well, you know, i have tremendous respect for bill bratton. i hope it makes a difference. do i believe it will? no. ill tell you why. joe biden was focused on guns. hes focused on federal prosecutors and gun trafficking. theyre involved in trafficking of guns from other state. we have enough guns in new york state right now that we dont have to worry abou...

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Youngkin who offer real solutions about real life and go beyond just political ideological language. and i think theres a real opportunity this 22 and 24 and "beyond biden" is a series of chapters explaining what we can do in education, what we can do in the economy, what we can do in national security, what we can do with crime where we know from giuliani and chief bratton how to control crime. they did it brilliantly in new york. and every left-wing democrat has thrown away the book, and it ha...

Been made over the past years have been wiped out in 2020. >> and its gotten to the point where even last friday, californias governor was like, here i am again. and what is wrong with us? what is wrong with us that this happens every day. theres no country in the world thats dealing with a problem like this, to this extent, and the -- you know, facets of it are very obvious, and yet nothing happens. opinion columnist maureen dowd sat down with former nypd commissioner bill bratton and recounts ...

Communities in a position to really have us talking about this as a false choice. >> yeah. and thats the thing, i think, that as this discussion moves forward, mika, we have to move beyond the false choices. its going to take -- its actually going to take, as bill bratton said, he was in los angeles, the only way l.a.s policing was improved at all was a complete and total engagement in all communities. there has to be that engagement in all communities for the police to be effective. its interes...

Melodramatic, but thats where im coming from. >> i dont think its melodramatic at all. over the past four years, weve talked about the tragedy of what happened in north charleston. we talked about the tragedy, the murder, we think its murder at least here, what happened to eric garner. of course, everyone saw what happened to derek chauvin. we have seen that. and erin, its interesting, eddie brought up stop and frisk. theres a great example of a policy that was put in place and as bill bratton s...