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Be susceptible to something like this happening. >> criminally charged in the case of fraga. >> right. and police officers aren't really worried so much about the criminal charges. you know they're worried about the saying that police officers are guilty off the bat -- >> we know that's not the case. >> well police officers want the benefit of the doubt because of the job we have. i'm not saying give them a free pass. what i'm saying is give police officers the benefit of the doubt when an incident occurred. wait until the investigation is conducted, and then take whatever action has to be tak...

Student. this is not all of society's problems. but this is one easy to focus on. >> how do you change the dynamic? talk about your experience in new york where this year, remarkably, you've got the lowest crime rates since the 60s. >> i don't think it is remarkable because we are doing the right things. sensible gun laws, proactive policing. and we incarcerate people when they are dangers to society with tough punishment. >> there's also some searching methods that have been controversial and criticized. >> proactive policing. we send our police officers to problem places where there are prob...

Effect on saving minority lives as the new york proactive policing. you mentioned the statistics, michael, about the proportion of people who have been stopped and their race. what really matters is the proportion of people who are being victimized by crime. blacks and hispanics are 96% of all shooting victims in new york city. but they also commit 98% of all shootings. whites commit 1.4% of all shootings. brownsville, brooklyn, is a particular target of critics now because it has a high stop rate. what you never hear is the per capita shooting rate in brownsville is 81 times higher than baybr...

Effect on saving minority lives as the new york proactive policing. you mentioned the statistics, michael, about the proportion of people who have been stopped and their race. what really matters is the proportion of people who are being victimized by crime. blacks and hispanics are 96% of all shooting victims in new york city. but they also commit 98% of all shootings. whites commit 1.4% of all shootings. brownsville, brooklyn, is a particular target of critics now because it has a high stop rate. what you never hear is the per capita shooting rate in brownsville is 81 times higher than bay r...

Well, do you mean to tell me that the nypd, new york's finest, is wrong 90% of the time? 90% of the people that they stop are so innocent that in an era of zero tolerance, they walk away without even a summons for disorderly conduct. so the nypd isn't stopping suspecting criminals. they're stopping suspected black and latino people. and that's racial profiling and it's illegal. >> miss mcdonald, what do you say? >> race has nothing to do with the way the nypd developed its tactics. it's going into neighborhoods where people are being most victimized by crime. that crime is what drives where th...