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Is where i will start. >> this is where it all started back in 1991. >> this is a pretty violent place back then. i think my first year here precinct covers 1 pulp 6 square miles and i think we had 89 homicides, robberies were commonplace. gunshots were commonplace, we drive on patrol at night and routinely hear gunshots. it was all night long. >> lawrence: how did you all clean it up? what was it about that moment from a leadership perspective and policing perspective that changed your community? >> the public just got sick of the crime. the media was outraged, the cops were outraged. mayor d...

Where it all started. >> this is where it started in 1991. this was pretty violent back then. first year precinct covered 1.6 square miles and 85 homicides, robberies was common place and we would routinely hear gunshots all night long. >> how did you clean it up? what was it about that moment from leadership perspective and policing perspective that changed the community? >> the public got sick of the crime. the media was outraged, the public was outraged. the mayor pushed through the safe streets, safe city program, which brought money to hire 6000 cops in like four years. >> how many cops w...

You have experience with people with long guns, that's not typical of the people other than the police. darren? >> can you hear me? >> let me ask clint, clint, the issue -- we got darren back? >> hello, yes. can you hear me? >> talk to me about the long gun. the idea that this was -- some people are calling it an ar-15. i talked to commissioner bratton about this. you rarely hear of a shooting in new york city of a long gun. >> it's not a common occurrence but i'll tell you from a personal perspective, i worked in that area which is the 44th precinct and you have a lot of violence perpetuated ...

Plan. >>brian: 24 minutes before the top of the hour. >>steve: more headlines. this kid was no killer, but his mom says cops treated him like one. new york city police department officers hauled this seven-year-old who is featured on the front page of the new york post today, out of his classroom in the bronx here in new york and handcuffed him to a pipe behind a chair for hours. then he was taken to the 44th precinct where he was interrogated for his family says ten hours. the reason? because he was accused of scooping up five bucks from the playground. khrarpblgs were dropped against the -- ...