disgusting. i don t know another way to put. it the way we treat each other. somebody asking for help should not be ridiculed, t s, they should be given every single resource that is available to help them heal. well it s so powerful because i think in law enforcement, just like many industries, there aren t a lot of people who feel comfortable. you re giving voice to that. have you, and i m sure was not always easy to do that, have you heard privately from members of law enforcement communities who are fearful about talking about mental health but now feel they can? i ve had a lot of my coworkers, not a lot, maybe a handful, but even one is just significant to me. they said that they decided to get help and talk to somebody because encouraging them to do so. even if it s just one person, everyone, if everyone in this world reaches one person, then we re all going to be okay. especially if you are helping people talk about the
effective their. sure, so in 1994 the much maligned crime bill, the 94 crime bill that biden for better or for worse gets tons of credit for, gives the position at the federal government can go in and investigate and use its power to essentially regulate out of control law enforcement with investigation and a consent degree. the consent decree is the parties get together, they say this is what we re gonna do is to solve all these problems that just came to light, and there s a lot to put in place to show that the department is in compliance. it gets from the department from the terrible place there into a better place. it clearly has not fixed the departments that have been under consent decree. it is clearly, though, better than nothing. there are things that happen under consent decree, and these people in law enforcement communities say they could ve gotten done if the federal government didn t get involved. but it is week sauce compared
people in law enforcement communities say they could ve gotten done if the federal government didn t get involved. but it is week sauce compared to the size and scope of the problem, in the end individual department, much less the problem we have nationally. while i m glad that it happens, hats off to doj, civil rights kristen clark and her team, it is so small compared to what we see, what we are literally reading about as to be another indictment on our capacity to hold departments and institutions accountable when they engage in such explicitly white supremacist violence. well, yeah, and i wanted to get to that, which is, you can t ignore the origins, the slave patrol origins in this country. i know this is asking the impossible of you, but whether you think we are at the point in the conversation around criminal justice and policing and what it means to have a safe community where policing in the 21st century will look different than it did in the 20th and the 19th centuries. t
secure in cities like new york. this field, this is what republicans are committed to. gettinghouse agriculture, ways d means, budget committee traveling around the country to hear firsthand about where these crises have having. homeland security committee had a hearing at the southern border. democrats are smearing us but the reality is we know we work for the american people and we want to hear their feedback. pete: speaking of democrats smearing you, here is what neither chuck schumer had to say about all of. this the house g.o.p. must be clear and vociferous that defunding the fbi, defunding the department of justice will not happen. instead of calls to defund the federal agencies that do so much to protect new york, house g.o.p. and senate must recognize and appreciate the dedication, devotion, demonstrated every day by men and women central law