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The chief made mistake after mistake, misstep after misstep. he was not held accountable, it seems like. and i'm really trying to figure out what took so long for him to resign and even more than that. why did he have the opportunity to take a long time to tender hisress seg nation. >> lizz brown, the grassroot activists, those of us that came in calling for justice, the department of justice responded to that. we should give those young people a lot of credit because had there not been a light, we would have never gotten a report. where does the community go from here? how chief jackson's res...

Settlement with the justice department. other police departments in around st. louis, you know st. louis has this very unusual and frankly toxic situation with lots of small police departments around the city. and it is not an efficient or orderly or effective way of running police. and one solution may be simply to consolidate some of these police forces where you could improve training. improve community policing. i mean here you have a city that is 67% african-american. with a police department that is so overwhelmingly white that is a recipe for disaster. just for starters. i mean there is...

Used to subsidize government in a very intentional way. not for criminal justice purposes for just as a fundraising way. and this is something, this report points to and it's not just in ferguson or even in missouri. >> the more events you create between citizenry and police the more chance you have for good and bad outcomes. jeffrey toobin lizz brown, in some ways this report as hard-fought as it was, is the easy part. what will be the fix? we'll stay on the story. what do you think? tweet us or go to facebook.com/newday. cyberbullies picked on the wrong person when they targeted the daught...

So we're waiting for the full report tomorrow. i can imagine this is only the tip of the iceberg. >> lizz brown, is this a statistical picture of what african-american residents of that community have always been feeling? >> absolutely. if we even step back from the statistics that have been released at this point, there was a report that came out last week saying that the state of missouri is number one in the children that are suspended from school. babies were number one in the nation. and in that region, lawrence, 30% of african-american elementary students are suspended from school. yes, ...

And i think that we can fairly ask a question of whether or not this attorney, this attorney's office has violated their ethical responsibility. and maybe that, that is something that should be explored as well. she knew that this person was not a credible witness and she put them in front of the grand jury and more importantly, she did not question this witness in front of the grand jury. she did not cross-examine this witness in front of the grand jury. so she, she didn't even allow the grand jury to get to whether or not this particular witness was telling the truth. there's a difference be...