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mayor of new orleans. talk about the new orleans that you inherited as mayor in 1994. there were 400 plus murders a year the outcry from the african-american community to do something, to fix the problem, was really the clarion call that got me elected. bill bratton was new york city s police commissioner. parents were having their children sleep in bathtubs because of random bullets coming through the apartment windows. the law increased funding to hire 100,000 new police officers nationwide, provided incentives to build more state prisons. included the violence against women act and mandated life sentence for three strikes. that had a profound impact on edward douglas who was sentenced to life after three drug convictions and he was just released as a result of the criminal justice reform law signed by president trump. the day that i bounced out i just cried.
just cried i was overwhelmed. 16 years is a long time, you know, to spend in jail. it s stories like edward s that ar sparking growing backlash 25 years later. i have a plan to end the mass incarceration of millions was this bill essentiall fuelling what we know as mass incarceration? no question that it fueled it. it incentivized prison construction it incentivized states to pass more draconian laws but some who supported the bill say while it had drawbacks, it also helped in many ways. i think it helped a great deal for women to feel that they could get some relief through domestic violence i think it helped our communities a great deal to have community policing. but we cannot lose site of what this country was like in the 1990s. then senator, now presidential candidate joe biden helped write the law and disputes the idea that it contributed to the mass incarceration. still ahead, a
i think if they want to sign up and serve we should invite them an welcome them with open arms. this is an issue that is about it is mu understanding about a thousand transgender members of a million plus in the military. i believe it s the extreme on the right and extreme on the left. i would like to know if it is transservice members when he tweeted staying they should not be able to serve. i disagree. so booker, his guest tonight could be edward douglas. just rae eleased from prison. criminal justice reform is an issue where he has been willing to work with democrats. in a way this is illustrating