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>> with a ratio of approximately one deputy to 27 inmates, and thousands of incarcerated gang affiliates, shear numbers make it impossible to shut down all gang activity. so the jail employs other tactics to stay one step ahead. this afternoon, sergeant hernandez and the team prepare for action. >> i have assigned montoya, mk-9 with a taser. ready? >> it's cell search day. every week without warning, deputies remove inmates from their cells, then search their bunks. they're on the lookout for any contraband, from drugs to homemade weapons called shanks. >> where are the shanks coming from? >> ...

Country? how many news organizations were reporting the number of demonstrators in the streets and ferguson and new york city. >> i challenge the fact that shear numbers of people on the street are exactly indicative of what conversations are going on at home. >> but you would agree that there -- >> there is no doubt. >> we wouldn't want to -- >> certainly the tenants of journalism stand and i agree with you on that, but it is a complicated situation. what i find interesting is parking tickets are actually down 93% year over year so if you are in a business of wanting to illegal park, this is ...

Trenton, i am selling food stamps for $60 cash. >> that's a $100 ebt card that they're selling for $60. you got to figure one of two things. either the person really does need it, but they're hooked on drugs or something like that, so they're going to sell their food card to buy drugs, or they've gotten food stamps and snap cards even though they don't need it. and that's the problem. we want to give it to people who need it. but if you get and you don't need it, that's just not good. >> just by shear numbers alone, certainly we don't want americans hungry. we don't want hunger. this was an ef...

Beverage -- >> what i'm saying is this, that there is a debate going on right now in albany, new york, about restricting that and the argument that those defendants are making is that we should let them choose. >> that is not our argument. >> sean: hang on. the biggest problem we have are the shear numbers. and steve touched on this a little bit. we now have 50 million americans on food stamps. it's doubled under obama. and we have 14 million americans on disability. that's one in five americans getting almost their life sus tennance from the government. >> 8% are senior citizens. >> sean: tha...

Beverage -- >> what i'm saying is this, that there is a debate going on right now in albany, new york, about restricting that and the argument that those defendants are making is that we should let them choose. >> that is not our argument. >> sean: hang on. the biggest problem we have are the shear numbers. and steve touched on this a little bit. we now have 50 million americans on food stamps. it's doubled under obama. and we have 14 million americans on disability. that's one in five americans getting almost their life sus tennance from the government. >> 8% are senior citizens. >> sean: tha...