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Several hundred people. i have to say i was most struck initially by how quiet and peaceful they are. in the middle of it all, there are just little white lights that say, black lives matter. i was eavesdropping on a couple of confidences and one man was being asked, we were listening to the police commissioner's conference and the mayor, they were talking about how this in the wake of the nonindictment in this eric garner case, how the entire police force here in new york will be retrained and one gentleman was saying, apparently lit be a three-tay day retraini. people here are thinking how i...

About race, though, it's about living, knowing the people who you serve. >> yeah, absolutely. but, if darren wilson had a darker complexion, he would've acted the same way. this is a situation -- it all comes down to what happened that moment he pressed the trigger. >> let me say this, brooke, if i may. >> yep. >> let me say this, and i can say this with complete confidence. if me, rasheed, were the police officer in that incident where i saw michael brown and his companion walking down the middle of the street, i can say with assurety that he would be alive today. he would've approached it fr...

Be that as it may, getting back to cultural training, sensitivity training, these are two elements that should be a part of in-service training. in most departments. the only thing that's required for police officers in their in-service training is to requalify on the pistol range. they need more training than just being able to shoot their firearm proficiently. they need sensitivity training, particularly when they are patrolling in areas that are ethnically, culturally, tainted towards or leaning towards one particular ethnic group. you can't ignore the sensitivities of those groups. i remem...

Mayor. where do you see the department in in progress of bridging that mistrust. >> we have police legitimacy that the whole department is being trained in. this is almost a sensitivity training how we deal with the public. we're trying to bridge that gap. same police officers on the same beats every day, the accountability we put in place to assure the citizens of chicago are getting the service from the police officers and they're being treated fairly. because of that, it's going to take a little while, we have a lot of work to do, we've made some strides in the chicago police department. we...

In in progress of bridging that mistrust. >> we have police legitimacy that the whole department is being trained in. this is almost a sensitivity training how we deal with the public. we're trying to bridge that gap. same police officers on the same beats every day, the accountability we put in place to assure the citizens of chicago are getting the service from the police officers and they're being treated fairly. because of that, it's going to take a little while, we have a lot of work to do, we've made some strides in the chicago police department. we have a way to go to bring trust down f...