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Just a juking of the numbers, a total mathematical innumeracy. when you see people like ted cruz, when you see nikki haley, the governor of south carolina, running a campaign against black lives matter, when you see donald trump, you see people standing up, talking about a war on cops, anybody who thinks progress in the era of prison reform is a done deal really should be humbled by that. it only -- god forbid crime actually rise for real. i mean, forget the ferguson effect. god forbid it actually happened. i think it's highly dependent on the weather. if it rains tomorrow, we'll get prison re...

Initially there was a snip-it and the whole thing was released. and i want to see all the facts before they come in, but i say, could there any some other part to the story, and i don't think so and you don't think so. >> we would have heard it. if he had reason to believe the individual was armed or had just committed some sort of violent act, but all the information we have now is that this was a credit card fraud case and this individual was just picked out by someone who they were working with. and it just seems to be an overreaction. no other way to label it. >> i was reading an advance o...

Here in d.c., we all noticed the phenomenon that a lot more rounds are being fired in each shooting. and overwhelmingly the homicides are driven by people with criminal records shooting people with criminal records. and that's the slice driving our homicide rates. >> there is another theory, commissioner, and that is the so-called ferguson effect. and that's the argument that with police feeling they are being targeted, either in the media or on the street, and with emboldened criminals that police are not going into neighborhoods as aggressively as they used to. and one of the case examples p...

All right. no, this is not a time warp. your eyes are not deceiving you. the guardian angels are back on patrol in new york city with their berets and red jackets. the anti-crime volunteers were a common sight in the city back in the '80s and '90s, and now they're back. a visible symbol of nationwide unease about crime. an op-ed in "the wall street journal" last week declared a new nationwide crime wave, a consequence of the so-called ferguson effect, but let's deal in facts and focus just on new york city for now. as the new york daily news points out, so far this year burglaries, robberies, ...

Summons. >> issued a court summons -- not yesterday, the day prior, yep. >> what's the situation? what are they asking? what are you facing? >> so essentially they are charging myself and ryan riley, the reporter with whom i was arrested, with trespassing and interfering with the police officer. these are charges stemming from our august 13th, 2014 arrest or detention in the mcdonald's where we were working. they were asked to evacuate and they aren't happy with the speed which with evacuated. this comes a year after this alleged offense. we've maintained from the beginning we weren't breaking...