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She said let's give them space to destroy. you can see that. >> as i watch the tape today, megyn, what was clear is that the officers' actions and the strategy used was about officer safety making sure we don't inject officers into a chaotic situation and make what is bad worse. if you have individual officers trying to make an arrest they are exposing themselves to a crowd that outbinoutnumbers them. >> so you are making the point that i just said. in other words, you need a true professional like bill bratten in new york to anticipate this and say these are tax paying citizens whose stores a...

Or go to lifelock.com/go. try lifelock risk-free for 60 days and get this document shredder free -- a $29 value -- when you use promo code "go." that's promo code "go." call now! a new york detective is facing criticism after he was caught on video berating an uber driver. you're going to see his apology in a moment. new york police commissioner bill bratten called the officer's behavior unacceptable. cnn's randi kaye talked with an expert to find out if what the detective did was even legal. >> you understand me? >> air, i am not -- sir, i am not -- >> reporter: you're watching a nasty exch...

Sincerely apologize. >> what do you want him to know? >> that -- excuse me. that i'm not mad at him. i was just -- i was angry in that moment for that exchange. i was angry for that exchange. if the conversation initially went differently, we probably would have shook hands at the end of the encounter. >> reporter: to the passengers in the car -- >> i apologize them, too. i held them up that day. >> reporter: to the police commissioner? >> i sincerely apologize. he is doing a lot of good work to strengthen community relations in the city. i set that back. i will personally work to fix that. >>...

At this level. a different story. you had 2,000 murders in 1990. down to 328 now. they were allowed to have successful policing aggressive policing to protect the people of new york city. this is a different place. you can't sit here and say no mayor has been successful. that is not true. >> i said few mayors. >> even hang on. >> even according to tara liz. >> at what cost? >> police commissioner bill bratten, all mayors have issues with the police department. >> absolutely. >> that's part of it. part of the job. >> listen. these officers are literally, they turned their backs on the mayor i y...

In police activity, the so-called blue flu, a work slowdown by many within the force. total arrests down 56% in the last week. tickets and criminal summons down more than 90% from the previous year. >> at this time, i'd not use the term slowdown, if in fact we feel myself and the leadership team that that's what we're dealing w we'll call it that and we'll deal with it accordingly. >> miguel marquez joins us now. do we know the conditions of the officer right now? >> stable condition for both. they are through surgery, through the worst of it. one of the officers may be released from the hospi...