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>> all four officers' conduct involved racist text messages exchanged among themselves and former police officer alex alvarez created a video that was racially biased. the four officers' conduct was inexcusable and there is zero tolerance for this type of behavior within the ft. lauderdale police department. >> the four officers behind this offensive behavior are out, but how were they allowed to become officers in first place? and how do we make sure something like this does not happen again? joining me now are mark claxton, former new york's police officer and director of black law enforceme...

In oakland when we found these officers -- we went back and looked at over a hundred cases. it should be done. >> ken, you are there in the ft. lauderdale area, you're there tonight. this is stunning. let me say this by no means means all police are bad. >> absolutely. >> or even most police are bad, but this gives you an idea of the fear a lot of people have in dealing with law enforcement. this is blatant. i mean the good news is law enforcement did an investigation and uncovered it but do you understand what signal this sends to a people that have already operated under this kind of fear? >...

But you try to weed out psychologically these officers that may have these hidden biases. i know that's a challenge but that's where we're going now because people can have these personal statements and opinions, but the question is do they -- can you uncover them at the early enough stage. and if you don't, do you have the process to limit their ability to engage in this kind of conduct. and if they do engage in it there's a quick process for their immediate termination. >> which is why you need the overall kind of supervision and process that marq was talking about so you can see signs of th...