Network please check mobile devices and for those watching own mind simply be really the speaker for everyones future reference. Still leading up program today Ronald Reagan is the distinguished fellow emeritus. [applause] and in welcoming it to the Heritage Foundation land for this program today. There is then a great deal with the policing since we have known each other for a number of years and we were both the harvard. With that section and policing they had a few years ago. But there are some is the exclusive group of the finest people who put the impact policing inside the United States. That is where policing started and as the chief of police for a brief time so bill parker and los angeles they were followed by chicago so there is no question these leaders for a distinguished group and as a person uniquely a place as excellence in this country that is very difficult to duplicate what he has done. He has headed six the Police Departments lead to largest in the company to do a outstanding job and has set a standard for Police Leadership until they came along to develop that now theyre all using some form of fat and in addition in all departments he has provided leadership the first is improve policing and decrease crime in the third is better relationships between the community it is a terrific record i begin this is well worth your attention about policing in the 21st century. Is my pleasure to introduce my friend and outstanding leader. [applause] good morning. Date explore that gracious introduction and we do go back a long ways at the Harvard Kennedy school late 80s and early 90s and the executive sessions more than any other government activity that shapes american policing the dead is a major revolution is the attorney general the Republican Administration funded the executive administration effectively what was Community Policing. And oftentimes bring to these issues but those democratic administrations in the 90s. And with active participation and despite that incredibly busy schedule so he is to be applauded and that is the unheralded accomplishment to remind people how instrumental he was as the attorney general in a very defining way. So for the second time i taking them first time was 1996 sharply before beating the n. Y. P. D. Than those individuals from different spectrums and then to thing that i could work with anybody. End to a knowledge of a report being distributed today by the heritage inundation and the works that came from that i had the opportunity to look at my prepared remarks. And some of those questions that will follow. And written by very close colleagues of mine to have that extraordinary piece with the race on this issue. But again i think those people for their continuing contribution and dialogue. It is like the Heritage Foundation who was interested in these issues and that is my pleasure to be affiliated with the Heritage Foundation so hopefully we have the opportunity to discuss please see those lessons in the past and opportunities for the future and offer some thoughts going for that there is so much potential had this particular point in time i think i have seen policing continuing day period it of the evolution with that policing initiative of that attorneygeneral that i have the privilege of being a part of. And so i explain once again it with the private sector. Into the very limited in my involvement. But the private sectors needs are the same. And to deal with social media issues. And we all have a shared interest so with that and then to prevent crime in the summer. I passionately believe the key to successful policing measuring a response to that with those nine principles because my original copy my bible and my foundation is more relevant today in the 21st century they and 1829. The first principle is the basic mission the event crime and disorder. They go together the board for amy they are successful over these last 50 years they did not. With the guidance of the Community Policing issue. This ninth principle is the absence of crime and disorder. Meaning if we could pick crime and disorder that time could be spent more effectively to collaborate with the communitys working together with the idea to generate so much in todays 21st century not a week goes by that bad video representation was awful. It pushes us apart rather than brings us together. That brings us a long way toward brest together and those principles with those democratic governments as we the police in this country to keep other safe. In the first obligation is Public Safety. With the bill of rights and to be filled principally and a goal of responsibility. And in the lapd in 2003 as part of the rebuilding to effectively ceased to police the city of los angeles more rao was deplorable to come up with the mantra. Thing with those individual actions that the actions of the Police Departments and professionals and to insure that those could be good and with compassionately and consistently for those minority neighborhoods. And all times with the 21st century we need a police with transparency. And in our relations of those that directed those actions 300 years of slavery in more than 100 years of a terrible national legacy. Many actions with immigrants even those native americans whose land this was first are often shaped by societal prejudice and racism and homophobia. Policing in the last quarter is changing for the better with so many fundamental ways and to be privileged to be a part of that change. We need to shape the narrative than the rhetoric and right to the real American Police story under no circumstance could that be framed for those that trust us or those whose seek those agenda is the heartfelt reasonable and effective i have been associated Police Leadership as an Extraordinary Group who face these issues with an open mind and that determination to address those many issues that by default have fallen to us. Natalie with crime the french in the disorder there is the grey debate and they say to you is the central and also on quality of life. We saw a the disaster and they do sell by changing behavior. It with indiscriminate enforcement. And even though that is a crime they do so by working with prosecutors and with the harsh guidelines. And what could be dealt with much more effectively. And then to realize their potential genesis in the genius of Community Policing. It really is that simple. I spent nearly years 50 years walking the beat in in boston through that realestate busting at that time and spend the next number of years dealing with segregation of Public Housing one of the most segregated me began more in the south. And another with 38,000. With the pendulum to response no false modesty i do believe it played a large role to swing back to focus on the change that began in the 1990s. So now we may be swinging back back to the days of the 70s and 80s. And their other ways to do it. It fleecy history as a pendulum and those who took active steps to maintain order and well be authorized that cop of the beat and those whose focus but never with compassion he solved the crime with that lapd model at that time so we must knowledge it wasnt always fair or just an those personal heroes of mine and i had the privilege to for his passing to spend some time and i quote the actions of the police would not stand a challenge that could be unfair and discriminatory that social upheaval sent that pendulum hurtling from one extreme. And to be that exclusionary rule love a the third degree. Those were necessary changes into the 70s and 80s. Police corruption gave rise to oversight and all that cold meals with new ideas and the current commissioner report and i had to take my exam as part of that professionals asian but the books i had to study i was the youngest at the Boston Police department we read this book for Race Relations and the United States and that panel on punishment and very without professional a station of the police but the proceeding cry report said us on the path for the next 20 years with those extraordinary recommendations without legitimacy of those policing efforts the idea we should focus on the response to crime was racism and unemployment demographics they were not and are not thinking that american policing which shaped by that. To alleviate that manpower emphasis should be given to crime spend with life fin poverty and social gambling natalie to diverge of manpower the same in the ghetto community. And not understanding the latinos in their neighborhoods and to be the of prostitutes in the doorway nobody wants the graffiti. But with so many great suggestions to respond to crime and then we get there eight minutes initially. And then celebrated the idea all types of all types of things moving offices around of vehicles to those crimes that have already occurred so over 20 years going down the rabbit hole. In with that Community Leadership but the cause of crime is people those with members or moments of passion certainly diddle have control of those influences so with that shift the report while so valuable to move us in the wrong direction that social upheaval with the pendulum barrels from one extreme to the other shows discretion and giving rise to police oversight. Been thinking less of what johnnie did zhuzhou the desire focuses on the root causes with wellintentioned but not the cause but the influence. Looking at johnnys behavior but joes still remains of victims. And to have that unintended effect because of crime was not about behavior to be deeply entrenched inequities that there wasnt much a car could do to pick up the pieces. In there were a lot of pieces in the 70s and 80s. I had the nypd adopts a Training Program in 2015, generous funding from the Mayors Office to order 6,000 all of them over the next year that the effectiveness should mean we stick them with the failures of the Mental Health system to all and its an epidemic we are dealing with in the 21st centu century. Americas homicides peaked was 1980 but new york city stopped in 1990. For 2245 murders, 7. 5 million people, the cops were not preventing crime, we were responding to it. In 1990 i thought about undoing this perception and finally had a major Police Department i could put into practice ideas that many of the colleagues and leadership shared. Causes when he or she has to act upon isnt root causes, its behavior. I demonstrated that. Working with one of the greatest minds. The behavior always in accordance with the law which is the proxy and they cant control behavior, but again it is within transparency. In 2002 i went to los angeles and the overall crime in the United States went down dramatically in the 1990s and have spikes over the last several years and is still down overall. Los angeles yesterday had its biggest summer going back to the 1960s in terms of homicide and it will end this year with a lower number. They are astronomical in terms of the last 27 years, so we are getting it right and cannot lose focus on how to get it right because of the aberrations and other cities for a variety of eco friday have seen declines. The Deputy Commissioner for the strategies. It became synonymous with the zero tolerance. Having less and less to having to return as a part. In the 21st century the request for numbers was an activity driven policing and the pendulum back and forth. It was flattening out and more enforcement speaking about the arc of the moment for the smaller and smaller returns who gave the resources and support unlike anything experienced in the previous 47. The current crime control would have been possible and resourcing and support thus resourcing and support unfortunately is missing in so many universities and some of the worst problems that we are experiencing at the moment are reflective of that and the Political Support as well as other issues particular to those communities. I cant stress that enough because in many ways what is missing its resources and political and Community Support for those ideas and resources to implement them. It was distributed prior to the meeting and graphic and i will speak to that now as we go forward. With a skyrocketing rate of enforcement and the arrest in the issue metastasized so dramatically. It is leveling off at increasing dramatically even as the city was getting safer and safer. Looking at 2013, 14, 15 and 16 as enforcement plummets, Violent Crime doesnt rise, it falls. Its intelligence led policing. And now is assisted by algorithms technique, precision policing and effectively out of the 90s on steroids for 21st century. It is onto something it already knew, the blanket indiscriminate enforcement isnt the key, prevention is the key supported by the enforcement. This year, 2017, the city is on track to see fewer than 300 murders of 275 pounds for a 221990. It would have this year possibly the lowest number going back almost 50 years. The. They have more than 500 already with about 38 of new york citys population. They are continuing the trend thats gone on for 20 some odd years. They would find a way to effectively control it and deal with it. It brings me to Something Else like that that has come to dominate the public debates in the two thirds america. Those three pulses are the result of a. No one cared to know why a crime rises and falls. The criminologist Association Meeting in boston was given everywhere. That would have been fine for those saved in manhattan but the people of brooklyn might have objected to that. New york city is the leading example and Going Forward you will see evidencebased policing in the city, so everybody finding the house and going down for 27 straight years but have the answer. I think i know and i was happy to play a part in that reduction and the prediction that isnt going to go up in new york city ever again to the levels that we saw in the past. They saw the change in the 90s from 93 to 96. There were seven Police Commissioners an have for many years over 27 years. Crime has gone down every year. There is a different political ideology and Different Police managers, but they were all working in the belief that something could be done about crime. Now you have seen on that hand out over the past four years there were predictions that armageddon was coming through the door. Armageddon did arrive but rather four more years the street crying decline with the idea being that for the rest of the liberal, conservative if you had the right medicines, you could have the right result. This is despite the fact many academics said the crime didnt go over and in some cases it would be tolerable if it meant less intrusive tactics. Imagine that. I think you could have less intrusive tactics and Crime Reduction. While the precision would contribute to prove them wrong falsehood from the left and the police bias is a provision and this is false. Ive been in this profession for 27 years, less than a year ago and now i look at it as an outsider. Bias exists, that is a reality, but its not a professional issue. Individual Police Officers, some Police Department but where it is appropriate is what is needed and the damage that is being created among the Police Forces in terms of their morale among the public into the neighborhoods that need us the most by death broadbrush basically that the american policing is fundamentally bias is wrong and incorrect and i do not think i make a mistake in that statement. I fully acknowledge that they have miles to go in the pursuit of racial inequality. We also need to do a better job of seeing each other, not looking past each other. I use that based on a promise from an activist who came from a sharecropping farm in mississippi or alabama in the 50s and 60s and we spent a lot of time in los angeles, myself, my wife and the lapd working on developing police relationships. Yesterday there was an article that talks about some of these successes dealing with these issues of those areas. We spent a lot of time on the stand when i was leaving to go back to new york after seven years in la, the editorialized the Race Relations in los angeles and there was the delightful southern accent. You know why we like you so much and i said no, why is that . You see us. You really see us. We all need to see each other and if we make false claims and paint with a broadbrush, w broae will never be able to see each other. And i would say to you that american policing in the society is still riveted by so much racial tension as a result of our history. Policing is probably going to be in the position to light the way because we are on the front lines of the issue every day. With regards to the nypd in the representation, the department and many others against any Corporate Office or ivy league campus, and i like my odds that it is more diverse. We reflect diversity of 18 black, 20 women, and i think that we now have three transsexual individuals that went to the operations who have faced no discrimination in the department and we have over a thousand muslim officers and that minority and majority with 700,000 muslims. 60 of the population was so new york city, the city that works, new york city Police Department and the legal we are advocating to reflect the communities they serve, all of this bulletin to the express theyve been experiencing. The leading newspapers could also stand to look like the roll call if you ask me. The great shadow of ra