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Police are crucial. new york city to its great credit in the last month has rolled out a very aggressive plan where theyre going to create mental health infrastructure thats reliable so the police dont get these calls as much. but certainly where the police are the default setting. we need to be doing far more to give the police a knowledge base so they act in a position of strength rather than being in the back foot with these situations. >> the family here, one of the families is questioning w...

Force practices. that announcement came in the last hour as the doj delivered a so-called progress report on the department. nine months after the doj issued a scathing report on hundreds of officer involved shootings. that report found serious deficiencies in key areas and made more than 60 recommendations. 21 of which the department of justice says have been fully implemented. >> i would say progress is nothing less than amazing. and what i mean by that is if you look at what has been done, si...

The police officer that killed 25-year-old ronald johnson. they played a dashcam video and said an independent board decided the officer did nothing wrong. mr. johnson was killed in october of 2014 eight days before laquan mcdonald was killed. video was released two weeks ago. the day that the officer who killed him was charged with first-degree murder. its graphic images sparked protest that flared up again after the release of police reports that contradict what the video itself shows. today t...