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Crime is going down because they're writing fewer jaywalking tickets. it's just not true. unfortunately it's misleading. it's what we've come to expect from this department of veterans affairs in this administration unfortunately. >> since the scandal broke where so many died waiting for care there's been staa -- been statistics given. according to leaked documents from the va one-third of vets waiting care at the va have already died. if they've passed on the president doesn't have to worry about those with statistics. >> that's absolutely correct. the last number you threw out is very alarmi...

Statistics. 90% of all citations were against african-americans during this time. 95% of jaywalking tickets, which are a manner of walking in roadway citations, were against african-americans. this is all a pattern that the justice department says shows the ferguson police were targeting african-americans. they only made up 67% of the population of the city but they were disproportionately being targeted for tickets and for jail in the city's court system ana. >> and i understand that the department of justice went back a couple of years and went through the archives to come to these conclus...

Jaywalking tickets. it's a good way to raise revenue, folks. that happened over the last month. bill: you bump into the telephone pole then you learn your lesson. martha: that is one way to solve it. bill: for the first time in nearly four years uncle sam takes in more money than we spent last month. but one month of surplus is not going to do anything to chip away at that number on the debt. the government is on course to exceed a trillion dollars in deficit spending for the fourth straight year. that brings us now to bya, because you asked. by way of twitter today, how much money per year is...

But right now it's being investigated by the police department. martha: do we really need to give ticket phos jaywalk something. >> we looked into it and found out that seattle takes jaywalking seriously. in 2007, believe it or not, the city wrote 2500 jaywalking tickets. compare that to a year -- a few years ago in new york city with millions and millions more people walking around and they wrote about 100, and that was a so-called crackdown on jaywalking. so you talk to the police department, they say look, we think jaywalking is serious, it leads to people getting hit in crosswalks, it's ve...