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Look at all the other recent incidents, you always come back to this same question. were the pilots properly trained to fly the aircraft into an unusually small number of categories? yes, they learn how to do an engine failure on takeoff. that may happen never. but are they used to hand flying the aircraft at altitude? theyre not encouraged to do it. many of them have never done it. >> what are your thoughts sean? i saw you, you dont necessarily agree? >> well you know i think it goes beyond wha...

>> let me turn to gino here. can any officer assess any situation reasonably in two seconds? >> if you have an honest belief that your life is at risk. this is a training issue. youre not automatically shoot people. youre supposed to make an assessment. he deserves a lot of credit for the panel. he may not be liked at this table. but doj goes into these departments and find out the most basic things are not happening. maybe we dont just take these departments over after people get killed. maybe ...

Caring-type capacity. by the way, were not -- there was this past week, that said cities are criminalizing homelessness. >> yes. >> and how does that measure with people who need help that does not involve the police. >> as a matter of fact, we saw in recent weeks of the woman being beaten by a police officer. we know that is a circumstance of someone who is mentally ill. and so we know that, we see that, of course, the first responder -- its hard to even look at. but i do keep wondering is this...

Weapon. the pistol used to kill cliff merck had been sold to a drug dealer by robert and gerald cowan, but for some reason, the cowans fingerprints did not match those found at the crime scene. >> the person who attempted the comparison was then able to make a match, and he failed to have another examiner verify his conclusions. >> this was a breach of protocol. the standard operating procedure in all crime labs requires a fingerprint examiner to have someone verify his or her conclusions. so th...

Mecks home matched robert cowan. >> it goes without saying that i was highly irritated and embarrassed for the department. >> i initially on the latent evidence being misread, i tend to believe that was probably a training issue. >> it just was simply a situation where the original examiner was in over his head and couldnt handle it. >> armed with the fingerprint evidence and the ballistic test results, robert cowan was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. >> took him bac...

World. it -- not knowing the full investigation into what occurred, my initial gut reaction tells me there was a training issue. during training for deployment of a noise flash device, flash bang grenade. the officers are taught to look where theyre going to deploy that device. we can assume no officer wants to do damage or hurt or injure a child. obviously, there is something wrong. >> i understand there are hardened criminals and i want them like im sure they would want them behind bars. why i...

Cowen. >> it goes without saying that i was highly irritated and embarrassed for the department. >> initially on the latent evidence being misread, i tend to believe it was a training issue. >> this was simply a situation where the originalal examiner was in over his head and couldnt handle it. >> armed with the fingerprint evidence and the ballistic test results, robert cowen was arrested and charged with two counts of first degree murder. >> i took him to the office and showed him where his fi...

Cowan. >> goes without saying that i was highly irritated and embarrassed for the department. >> i initially on the latent evidence being misread, i tend to believe that was probably a training issue. >> this was simply a situation where the original examiner was in over his head and couldnt handle it. >> armed with the fingerprint evidence and ballistic test results, robert cowan was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. >> took him back to the office and found where his ...

Affairs. >> and theres a lot of people who would like video cameras, peter, in those cockpits as well, live video cameras if you will, streaming back to ground control. but pilots unions dont like that idea very much. >> no. the ntsb has made recommendations to have live streaming inside cockpits, but it has been opposed. but youve got three technologies. youve got the streaming technology, youve got deployable recorders. and each of those technologies have some drawbacks, but they can be overco...

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