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Maybe what you saw under mayor giuliani? >> i think the city is going in the wrong direction. i was just in san francisco last month. horrid conditions. the quality of life is in the toilet. and i think thats the direction that mayor de blasio is pushing us because he sees himself as a progressive and thats the agenda that he wants to touted in his presidential campaign. unfortunately, thats not where we are. we need someone that is going to stand up for new yorkers and protect us as citizens. s...

But its just not through this type of process. grief is just one of those things that everybody has to find their own way. everybody has to find their own journey. >> sometimes, we talk about this as an accident, but when you think about it, do you think about it as an accident? what happened to your son. >> no. i dont think its an accident. the offender was traveling down the road, hit nathan from behind. nathan was thrown off the lawn mower and landed on the pavement. the offender was high on ...

Questions, and im the only one that can answer those questions. >> this isnt about him anymore. it is about all of us. >> i have spent half my life working with the criminal justice system, and i have seen lives devastated by violence. we like to imagine that after the verdict the story is over, the victim and the offender are never meant to meet again. but for some, the only way to move forward is to come face to face with the person who shattered their lives. im here in twin lakes, wisconsin, ...

Work towards some kind of peace, and i know that my husband finds peace in his own way. but it is just not through this type of process. grief is just one of those things that everybody has to find their own way, everybody has to find their own journey. >> sometimes we talk about this as an accident. when you think about it, do you think about it as an accident, what happened to your son? >> no. i dont think it is an accident. the offender was traveling down the road, hit nathan from behind. nat...

>> i spent half my life working with the criminal justice system, and ive seen lives devastated by violence. we like to imagine that after the verdict, the story is over. the victim and the offender are never meant to meet again. but for some, the only way to move forward is to come face to face with the person who shattered their lives. ♪ so im here in twin lakes, wisconsin, population 6,041. people live here because they expect it to be peaceful and safe for their kids, but the

Judges be as likely to say that about a first-time young black male offender? >> i dont want to talk about the judges -- those judges in particular, but i do worry that judges like all other americans carry with them implicit biases and particularly in the criminal justice sphere. >> how do you fix it? >> you to have the training. you have to make people aware of the fact that they do carry these biases, and make them understand that if you see an african american defendant in front of you, that...

>> hes in there flushing something. hes refusing to shake down. hopefully he wasnt flushing a cell phone. obviously, hes got something in there. he doesnt want to come out. so we have to go in there and physically get him out. >> when i walked in, i saw a cell phone in a case. he was flushing the toilet, i reached in and tried to grab the cell phone and the case. i grabbed the case but the cell phone slipped out and flushed down the toilet. >> the crackdown on contraband suddenly takes an unexpe...

>> thats my camera crew. >> mr. harrison -- >> what now? >> for one thing, youve got to take the curtain down. >> why? >> the next thing, i had to write you up for your little destruction of property with the light switch. >> that aint destructive. it aint destructive. >> as well as i cant get ahold of the cable company today. so youre not going to get any cable today. but you do have to take the curtain down. >> the curtain aint coming down. >> its got to come down, mr. harrison. if you cant ta...

>> that lady in the wheelchair, go ahead and let her come on and visit. we think she has something on her. we have someone in the guard hall in case she tries to pass it. go ahead and tell her the visit is approved. tell her the shift supervisor said it was okay. thanks. now, if the information is right, shes supposed to pass something on this visit. if not, im going to sit here and watch about a two-hour-long visit for nothing. okay, here we go. shes going to be visiting right in that area. the...

All of a sudden the officer is reaching for his cuffs. you see him restraining the offender. >> the offender is josh harrison. >> i disappointed a lot of people in my life. i let a lot of people down. this is my wife, my wife. thats my daughter, thats my son, the twins. my mom, shes going to flip out when she finds out i was in here and i got caught with a knife. >> this is a shank that was turned in from possession of offender harrison. "e" dorm east. and as you can see here, thats a pretty len...