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I think we've all -- we're not ignoring but papering over a little bit is, you know, we were slow, the american political world was slow to figure out not which side to be on in the '80s to came, we were always rhetorically against apartheid but how to get involved and how passive the american government at times was about what to do with south africa because we were viewing everything through the lens of the cold war and allowing, at the time, sort of which side of the barricade are you on type of foreign policy and you wonder what is the lesson now, right? what do you takeaway from what fran...

Love baio nets, once they hathi equipment they start forming these s.w.a.t. teams. the increase is dramatic. in the early '80s about 15% of towns of 25,000 or more people had a s.w.a.t. team. today well over 80%. the total number of s.w.a.t. raids has gone from about a few hundred per year in the '70s to a few thousand per year in the '80s to 50,000 s.w.a.t. raids per year in this country today. >> but the crime rate has gone down? >> yep. >> so isn't this -- is there an argument that this is actually working? i mean look at here in new york city, it's plummeted dramatically, especially the mu...