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Biden never mentioned gangs, drugs or families. never said a word about the police, bail reform or some of the district attorneys. he couldnt articulate the painful loss black american families are suffering from every day. the anti-gun agenda was a dodge. new york city was awash with gunned in the 90s when rudy brought the crime rate down. proactive policing was the key. you have got to lock up shooters. in illinois, illegal possession of a firearm calls for 3 to 7 years in prison. but shooters...

In new york city where a stray bullet doesnt hit a child. think about that. and all these sttistics i just cited to you have happened since they cut the police budget. they are down 500 detectives. they go after the major crimes in cities like new york city. when you are cutting the detectives to make your budget, you have got a real problem. lastly, proactive policing which is what i used to deal with, im sure you did trey going after gun traffickers, illegal gun traffickers and all that, those...

Was stopped in new york city by proactive policing. i want to bring backstop and frisk in a constitutional way. its permissible if its color blind. you have to go after these people. you have to -- if you dont search these vehicles, if you dont folks when theyre walking around aimlessly with the ski masks and hoodies, come on. stop them and search them. >> martha: it worked. no doubt. >> policing has to be brought back. >> martha: and amazon selling these t-shirts. black lives murder. you can go...

Proactive policing. because the majority of gun violence is going on in inner cities and it can be solved by cops. 20 blacks a day are killed. thats more than all white and hispanic homicide victims combined. at this year we found 142 victims of mass shootings. we are likely to have about 15,000 gun homicide victims, over half of those will be black this year. theres drive-by shootings going on all the time in the media doesnt care, because it doesnt fit their narrative about a racist society. t...

And maryland and happened in a couple of other large municipalities. this is bad. because proactive policing is essential for large urban areas. who it effects more than anyone else is the poor. steve: joe, there are a lot of young people out there thinking what am i getting out of high school, getting out of college, thinking getting out of the military, what am i going to do next with my life? i would like to be in law enforcement. is it worth it? >> absolutely worth it. no matter what, its th...

This type of backing off is going to cause people to die. is that headline one that you envisioned? is this all related? >> yes, to a certain extent. its probably too soon to get the whole impact of the ferguson effect or whatever, it will go, it will last for a while, but, yeah, i think thats the natural consequence of some of the things that happened in new york. >> i watched thursday morning right here on cnns new day your successor bill bratton, he was talking about the reduction of crime in...

Times had a story on page one, ill put it up on the screen so everybody can see it. talking about the spike in murder rates, murder rates rising sharply in many u.s. cities, it talks about more than 30 big cities across the country. people talking about a ferguson effect that law enforcement now feels restrained. do you buy into a ferguson effect? >> i do. the police have done a terrific job in this country in the last two decades, reducing crime by proactive policing. i think the videos weve se...

Effect? >> i do. i think the police have done a terrific job in this country in the last two decades reducing crime by proactive policing. i think that the videos we have seen, what happened in ferguson, even though the police officer was ultimately exonerated, brought about a reluctance on part of some of the police to engage in a way they have been engaging in the past. >> in the book on page 294, you finish a particular chapter by saying people will lose lives as a result. and youre talking i...

Obviously involves other high-profile cases, disastrous events in north charleston, south carolina, but obviously it means that police officers are thinking twice before they engage. and with the advent of cameras, which i ultimately support, but cameras are going to make police officers hesitate somewhat. in some peoples minds, thats good. in some peoples minds, thats bad. but i think youre experiencing now a reluctance somewhat for police to do what has been done in the last 20 years. crime is...