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Here african-american woman whose son is a police officer. and we got together with them and a group of people including law enforcement clergy, community leaders elected officials, and they have a series of recommendations which will be immediately implemented including a state standard of force and aggressive look at recruiting and hiring practices and beyond that, something that is critical that they did in los angeles. we will develop the standards on transparency data collection of police all of that, but the goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because, look, the end ...

John: on facebook we asked our audience to vote for the topic us would like or panelists to discuss, overwhelming winner, common core. most of america does not know what that is, they should government plan to make sure every government school has same standards. >> that is where common core state standard come in with the same rule everyone can compete on the same staircase. john: sounds like a good thing? >> really, why. centralization. all children are different. states have dftz po department population, a small group of eleetzists in washington want to impose a set of ruling on schools in...

And you heard it in my story as well. when the president says something and other people say something as well. >> kevin, president obama took a stab at republicans in the speech. saying time for folks to stop rooting for failure of obama care. from your side, if you think this law is a failure and bad thing, isn't there something to be said for allowing it to fail? wouldn't that be just strategically -- i mean, if it is so bad. why not allow tight fail? >> the problem is, look, and just so i can weigh in on the earlier comments. look there is both anecdotal and empirical evidence to back up d...

Cameras add up. some bring in the size of an nfl paycheck. there's one camera that's generated $2.5 million in four years. >> reporter: nbc 4 tallied up the fines. >> we found drivers in the d.c. capital region received $18 million in fines in just a one-year period alone. >> reporter: and then there's the yellow light issue. there's no national standard, sometimes, no state standard. the less time on yellow the more red light tickets. in new jersey, steven castman got one but he wasn't even in town that day and he could prove it. someone else was driving his car. so why should he pay for a mo...

Joining us now from boston, state senator robert owe o leary supports the bill. everybody is sympathetic to what happened to phoebe prince but do you actually expect that your law is going to be enforced and how can it be enforced because if i'm a teacher and i say i didn't see it, how can you put me in jail for that? >> well, we're not going to put teachers in jail but we are going to set up a state standard for what is required. and if a teacher becomes aware of a bullying incident, they are required to report it to the principal. if it's a criminal act, the principal is required to report t...