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Pilot program for body cameras, police body cameras up this year. it is very important as leaders to work to rebuild the bonds of trust that have been broken over time. this incident underscores that need and you have to be proactive and willing to do what the leadership down there did which was to denounce it immediately and to move forward. you can't cover it up. you can't be willing -- you can't be afraid of scrutiny. you have to lead. >> hugh, there has been a study of the pilot programs where there have been cameras on cops and where there have been body cameras the number of complaints a...

And it does present to you why this video makes so much sense. on the front page of the "washington post" today, they have gone back ten years. there are 54 prosecutions of police who have shot people only 11 convictions, some are still pending. and you wonder if bwcs were available, whether those numbers would be different. but the downside is, if you've seen "furious 7," god's eye, do we want police recording everything all the time? >> look, the aclu said this, there is fourth amendment issues here, and frankly also a cost issue too. somebody has to pay for these. >> yes. but all of this wo...

Cameras on cops, is 100%. >> we announced we'll have our pilot program for body cameras, police body cameras up this year. it is very important as leaders to work to rebuild the bonds of trust that have been broken over time. this incident underscores that need and you have to be proactive and willing to do what the leadership down there did, which was to denounce it immediately and to move forward. you can't cover it up. you can't be willing -- you can't be afraid of scrutiny. you have to lead. >> hugh, there has been a study of the pilot programs where there have been cameras on cops and whe...

And i felt that the amount of the money, $8, wcs not the question. we could easily afford that, but the question what you that by paying an $8 fee, twhap would in effect be paying a poll tax? >> you're absolutely right. and the reason you had to get the i.d. at all is because they've imposed this new law. and is it so that you want to therefore go and get new i.d. to vote that was not required before, which is why you and lee were there in the first place, phyllis? >> yes, that's right. >> so all you wanted to do was vote, the legislation requires now you get state voter i.d., or state-issued...

The workers want to remain anonymous. made from bamboo and mud and they completely falling apart we also don't have clean drinking water just wells that we dug ourselves. we don't have proper w.c.s. just latrine pits there's no sewage system here at the water simply drains into the ground. if we try to complain to the management they let us wait all day long and then tell us that the manager doesn't have time to see us. florence min is aware of the hardships faced by the workers he works for a christian aid organization called save a kendra that works to protect their rights mean regularly vis...