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What do you make of -- >> well, lets take crystals numbers, right? if you have 400 murders in new york city. you also have 8 million people living in a city. a quarter of them were black, a quarter of them hispanic, half of them, 4 million people. you cannot take the demography of a tiny criminal population and extrapolate that on to regular law abiding citizens who are doing nothing wrong and say that that is okay. what the citys argument basically is, is that the means justify the end. no matt...

Suspect theyre in physical danger, they can then frisk the person, and they can get the weapon or anything that could harm them, they hold it, they continue the questioning, then they either give it back to the person or they arrest them. >> here is the problem. that all sounds like its a great way to reduce crime until you start to break down the nmen numbers and it turns out nine out of ten people who were stopped and afrifrisked under t policy were african-american or hispanic. and isnt that ...

Compelling figure on the court to me. dom i want to go to you with this one. what have you learned about justice kennedy arguing before him? hes the decider, in so many ways hes sort of the heart of the court right now. >> hes our center vote. and the thing to keep in mind with him about the outcoming cases hes a big believer in individualialism. he doesnt think about people as members of the groups. same-sex case, may lead him to think of doma as a form of discrimination. but in affirmative act...

Running over a black man who was middle aged, 47 or 48 years old, deliberately with their pick-up truck. and they would go into jackson, mississippi, specifically to find african-americans to attack. i mean, there is tremendous racism in the society. and we just continue to tolerate it, even in new york with the police -- melissa was talking about the sean bell case. but you have 600,000 instances a year of the police stopping people on the streets, in many cases, frisking them, humiliating them...

Are african-american or hispanic. how can we raise that level? >> theres a lot that we can do to raise that level. one of the things that we can do is support alternate route to certification programs where you bring professionals from other fields into education. you can also support academic programs like at colleges and universities, where you want to encourage more and more african-american men to participate in education. of course, any thoroughly funded programming like the one we talked a...

Like you. >> exactly. this economy is the best its ever been. you look at today. unemployment in the last 49 years has only been below 4%. nine months and four of those nine months we lived through this year. more jobs available. pay is going up. its reaching every person across this country. if you just have a high school degree you are in a better position. if you happen to be african-american or hispanic, one of the best numbers youve ever seen. weve been able to turn this around in such a sh...