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If youre an african american male especially and continually being stopped, but you dont go to the cops and say, hey, listen, if youre going to stop an african american male, you need to find a white guy on the corner and stop them too. >> if you say give me five stops a day in that area, that creates a situation. its a policing tool. officers with the proper training know who to stop or know what situations to use to stop. with the constitutional safeguards provided, it is used correctly. right...

The city, especially in the mayoral race who plefs in what when it comes to stop and frisk. bill thompson joined "morning joe" today and this is how he talked about it. take a look. >> when you say give me five stops today, it starts to create the situation its a policing tool and officers with the proper training know who to stop or know what situations to use to stop with the constitutional safeguards that are provided then its correctly but now its not being used correctly. >> to know that ne...

Institutionalize bad policy. in addition, it is a policing tool. it has become bad policy in the city of new york by the bloomberg administration. >> explain how you would change stop and frisk so that were still used but in a way that you think it can be done while protecting, frankly, the constitutional rights of minorities in new york city. >> the first thing i think is getting rid of these quotas. performance goals that have been set -- that have been attached to this. thats the first big st...

The crowd for at least 11 minutes, and none of it mattered. the bombs exploded anyway. one reason, no one was watching. the cameras were passive. recording all of the calm before, all the chaos after. and incapable of preventing the crime despite multiple surveillance cameras at the scene. for it to be preventative, what needs to happen? >> you would need the cameras at the right place at the right time, being monitored, not just by people but by trained people who know what theyre looking for, ...

Evangelicals in states like texas many republicans have been leading the charge to reform the prison system. and fortunately you have some folks in new york who under the previous governor reformed the rockefeller drug laws. i think there is some modest progress but i think when youre looking at the politics of the prison issue, its not republicans and democrats. its a lot of people with anxiety about being accused about being soft on crime who are all very fearful and fortunately some people wh...