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Former deputy director, and laurie segall and on the phone former new york police detective harry houck. let's talk, laurie, about these protests. because really, for the international audience, for our entire audience, we have to understand, there was a background here of tension, not just in the city, but in this nation when it comes to law enforcement and in particular two recent grand jury rulings. one of them out of ferguson, missouri, and the other out of new york, pertaining to the deaths of african-americans while in the hands of police. you covered the protests here in new york. what ...

Sense the emotion that must have been so powerful in that room. >> it's just an enormously painful day. yes, in that newsroom, around the country right now, all eyes on what has happened in new york city. this, bringing to light about how a lot of -- this is the second attack in a month. just a month a e ago, that hatchet attack. today, two police officers shot and kill ed two police officers. now the question has to be raised, can more really be done in order to warn police officers in this case of what we are hearing from the commissioner, what we are hearing from the mayor who came from thi...

The police and say, i think this person's crossing the line. i think this person may be intending violence or intending harm. on one side or the other. and, you know, that's necessary in every type of investigation from terrorism to any kind of crime that might occur. so i think that, you know, the notion that the police can track every one of these is just not out there. and, again, if this person -- the shooter in this case posted on instagram, you know, what time it was posted, who saw it, who read it, and if he returned to his home area back in brooklyn, you know, where he's familiar with ...

Forcement around the world, basically, but in america that someone would come in. an assassination like this. you're talking about having information about an assassination and could this have been prevented? this is the element of surprise. this guy intended how to kill these guys, what he was going to do and where he was going to do and killed himself. so he had no fear of what he was going to do. it's not impossible to stop these guys, because, you know, you had some kind of evidence ahead of time. but, you know, what could they have done? they're sitting in their car. they're eating. they'...

Forth between police departments, alerts through a variety of systems that can go interstate, police-to-police, or department-to-department or, just in general, to everybody. in this case, they had information from what they were hearing, probably from the girlfriend or their mother, that he may have had intentions to go to brooklyn, which is why they centered the fax to or the cable to brooklyn, n.y.p.d. in bro brooklyn. but, again, you know, i'd like to hear a police officer in management position say what would they do had they gotten that information in that community in that time with eve...