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We're back. before we went to break we kind of zeroed in on this question about the structural factor, the structural economic factors and racial factors that play a role in the difficulties young men of color face and how you overcome them through small targeted policy interventions. you've been in your capacity to work on pilot programs. what's your feeling about that? >> i'm actually new to philanthropy. i spent most of my career as a civil rights attorney. i made a living, really, my life's cause to break down those barriers and that's still what i'm doing with philanthropy. people have to...

And -- >> any presidency. >> we have the marshall plan. we understand what it did in europe after world war ii. even the war on poverty or the new deal. >> here's my concern. because this is not the war on poverty or the new deal in materials of scale. what happens often with public/private partnerships, particularly when they're directed toward communities of fail. if they fail, the argument is we tried to help them and it didn't work. it is not a matter of a failure to actually try the take hold of opportunity. it is a deeper structural issue. it can't just be addressed by pilot programs. >>...

We're back. before we went to break we kind of zeroed in on this question about the structural factor, the structural economic factors and racial factors that play a role in the difficulties young men of color face and how you overcome them through small targeted policy interventions. you've been in your capacity to work on pilot programs. what's your feeling about that? >> i'm actually new to philanthropy. i spent most of my career as a civil rights attorney. i made a living, really, my life's cause to break down those barriers and that's still what i'm doing with philanthropy. people have to...

Privacy argument, though? you're on a public street. >> you're keeping information on me. you've got my car information. you know, it's a little bit of a paranoia about big brother. but the legal problem isn't one. the registered owner of the car is responsible so it doesn't matter who's driving it. >> yeah, but that doesn't seem just if your kid's driving the car. >> here's why. when you look at the number of communities declining, there are more cameras out there. sort of ten years into a lot of the pilot programs and stuff, where it's working, they're going whole hog. where they're not sure...

You're rolling into an active intersection can be deadly. these towns want the money, but they also want to stop some of these terrible accidents. ten years into these pilot programs, some towns are saying it's not worth the erroneous tickets because you're ticketing the car's owner not the driver. >> some of the concern is that they're causing, you know, somebody stopped short and then a chain reaction accident half it. >> or speeding up because you want to barrel through. they point to florida and say, look, if you look in florida, 95% of the peej that get one of the summons never get one ag...