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Authorities saying the three suspects used this van to mow down pedestrians on the london bridge before being shot dead by officers after going on to a stabbing rampage. joining us is brian dillon, also michael balbone. thank you both for being here. brian, ill start with you on this. weve got three individuals, three suspects dead. we have 12 more suspects that are in custody. we have a police force in london working hard tonight. youll see a lot of them if you are there. who do you think these...

Where officers should be deployed and posted both armed and unarmed and as i believe police have announced today, members of the public can expect to see more officers out on patrol, very visibly on patrol providing reassurance and the ability to engage very swifltly should any incident take place. >> michael here at the studio as, again, former new york state homeland security advisor. you understand these processes as well as brian does. these are two areas and we were talking about this last ...

Response by any countrys standards. >> michael, is that also the approach here in the united states? skill, speed, move. >> right, absolutely. and the training has gone to the active shooter. in this case it is moving quickly to a mobile attack, to something thats going to move around. what theyre doing now is what we have referred to is reassure and defer because one of the things that you cant say is there is a timetable. there could be a copy cat or other attacks. what were seeing is their ta...

How he contrainteracts with the. >> you have studys those. >> oh sure. in terms of how he interacts. thats something we need to know about him. because undoubtedly he will seek to to that. its quite clear he wants to meet with parishioners. and you are concerned about active shooter, explosive device. you would be concerned with any type of weapon for that matter. >> freaky. joining me to talk about this michael balbone, former new york state security advisor. you heard what the commissioner sai...

Undermined that over many years of hundreds of thousands of innocent people being stopped. its run out of gas. weve got to stop it. >> were going to leave it there. ellis henican and michael balbone, thank you for your time. appreciate it. >> good to be with you, fred. were going to talk more straight ahead about an entertainer in legal trouble. singer chris brown. and guess what? as a result, he has checked himself into rehab. is that a pr strategy? were going to dig a little deeper on that. ...

No crime. critics say officers unfairly target minorities. lets talk to ellis. he lives in new york. and he is a columnist for "newsday." and michael balbone. good to see you as well. so just so people arent confused, were talking about a federal court judge who said this policy is unconstitutional, but an appellate court said we have a problem with this judge. so essentially the stop-and-frisk policy continues in new york city, and thats would were going to talk about right now, the future of i...

>> so if only 1 in 500, as you say, results in someone being in possession of a gun, then why is this a policy that continues to be used? it doesnt seem like that is bringing the kinds of results that were intended from this policy. it would seem that the makers of this policy might be embarrassed that the numbers are as you reflect. ellis. >> well, listen. theres no evidence, firm data, that actually says that its working. on the other hand, you know what? its popular. people -- and some people...