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Program in which participation will be voluntary on both sides. it will be used in instances of which there are no allegations of physical abuse or racial insults. under the leadership of bill bratton, an internal investigation looking at more than 300 complaints of racial profiling, found that one accusation it received in 2007 had any merit. the aclu looked at the same data that year and saw that african-americans and hispanics are overstopped, overfrisked and over arrested. there were more stops of black and hispanics in a single year. joining me now is antonio villaraigosa, former democrat...

First of all -- >> you're chomping at the bit. l.a. is not new york, we don't do stop and 23rising. >> it's not a policy of the lapd, the mayor's office. >> absolutely. >> it's not something you have in place with numbers that you -- >> that's exactly right. this program, while just passed tuesday by the police commissioner, which i appointed. is a program that has its genesis in eight years of focusing on what we call constitutional policing. we believe you could be safer when you start from the proposition that nobody's above the law, not even a police officer, a politician or a priest. and ...

On the show with you. first of all -- >> you're chomping at the bit. l.a. is not new york, we don't do stop and 23rising. >> it's not a policy of the lapd, the mayor's office. >> absolutely. >> it's not something you have in place with numbers that you -- >> that's exactly right. this program, while just passed tuesday by the police commissioner, which i appointed. is a program that has its genesis in eight years of focusing on what we call constitutional policing. we believe you could be safer when you start from the proposition that nobody's above the law, not even a police officer, a politi...