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Officers to come together because the attorney general elected on a law and order plank basically says we think this is crippling the ability of the police to do their job. others strongly disagree. >> that's my question. if the court doesn't overturn these consent decrees, what's to force the doj to review them in the way the past doj was doing? >> you're absolutely right. in the future when we have future ferguson or a future freddie gray case, the doj can say, hey, we don't think there's a problem mere. we don't want to force the police to sit down with the mayores and it's going to be much...

I.d. law something they're not working against. >> actually withdrew. >> they're not fighting it anymore. >> right. >> getting out of all those agreements with troubled police departments around the country. >> consent decrees, yeah. >> saying that mining companies can dump waste in streams, saying that oil and gas companies -- american oil and gas companies basically, effectively, don't have to disclose anymore if they bribe foreign governments. i mean, all the stuff that there's no fancy -- there's no big signing statement with the children, you know, parade around the president to show this...

Police reform he's against consent decrees. that's down the area many of us have been involved with and the case of walter scott, the man shot in the back in north charleston, south carolina, by police officer that was indicted, the trial waiting. we want to know is he moving forward on that trial and where are they on the department of justice investigation on the chokehold murder of eric garner in new york. so there's a lot of things that we are directly involved in that we want to address him on. >> going to be a busy meeting. i want to switch for a moment to talk about the comments made by...

Communities of color especially, local municipalities like ferguson, buoying their budgets on the backs of black people, that was troubling to say the least. we've seen in those reports, again report after report from ferguson to chicago to baltimore, clear, not just anecdotal evidence, factual evidence that these communities have been abusing these people of color. to see those dialed back is not just troubling to those protesters but again what does this mean, especially a place like ferguson. we were just at kind of the ground level just at the beginning. now certainly these consent decrees...

Demonstration in his office. he said that his staff said that the naacp was nice to them and they were, in fact, nice to us. so we joked about it. but what we did not joke about was the commitment or lack of sufficient commitment to civil rights by the department of justice thus far. in the opening days of his administration, he has talked about the fact that he wants to step away from using consent decrees, step away from using pattern and practice investigations to hold police departments accountable. where we had literally in the force of the last two years over 2,000 people lost at the han...