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>> yeah. it was a very difficult decision. and something i thought about a lot and talked about. but essentially i was at a point in my career as attorney general where i had embarked on creating a statewide initiative at re-entry around former offenders and it was becoming a model. i started an open data initiative called open justice where i was for the first time of any public of justice publicly sharing arrest data. we were in the middle -- i created a bureau called the bureau of children's justice because there was no state agency focused on the needs of children and their rights. i wante...

And something i thought about a lot and talked about. but essentially, i was at a point in my career as attorney general where i had embarked on creating a statewide initiative around reentry of former offenders and it was becoming a model. i started an open data initiative called open justice where i was for the first time of any department of justice publicly sharing arrest data, deaths in custody, we were in the middle of -- i created a bureau called the bureau of children's justice, because there was no state agency focused on the needs of children and their rights. and i wanted to see tha...

Phone call to you in 2014. you were attorney general of the state of california and he asked you essentially if you would like to be attorney general of the united states, since he thought that his time in the office should be coming to an end. i can't imagine as a state attorney general or as any level of lawyer saying no, but you said no. >> yeah, it was a very difficult decision. and something i thought about a lot and talked about, but essentially i was in the -- i was at a point in my career as attorney general where i had embarked on creating a statewide initiative around re-entry of for...

Office should be coming to an end. i can't imagine as a state attorney general or as any level of lawyer saying no, but you said no. >> yeah, it was a very difficult decision. and something i thought about a lot and talked about, but essentially i was in the -- i was at a point in my career as attorney general where i had embarked on creating a statewide initiative around re-entry of former offenders and it was becoming a model. i had opened -- i had started an open data initiative called open justice where i was for the first time of any department of justice publicly sharing arrest data, dea...

Meaningful indicator of whether or not racial profiling is taking place would be the description of victims of violent crimes. they said that census data makes no sense because then -- have you -- half the people stopped would be women. they said arrests records were -- arrest data make no sense because it could be biased in and of itself. they said the most meaningful determination -- now in new york city, reality is that roughly 70% of the people described as committing violent crimes are described as being black by the victim. and as far as the stops are concerned we stopped about 52% of ou...