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>> does he have the pow tore do that? >> yes, and he didn't do it. it's a political decision, and we have to get beyond putting cameras on the police officers, which creates a whole 1984 issue. and we have to deal with bold, systemic change. >> bold, systemic change looks like an institutionalized procedure. >> what we have to do is create a system that makes sense, that's transparent and that we can trust. as we've all pointed out, there is a built-in conflict of interest. every time a prosecutorer has a police officer in his clutches, will almost always turn out no indictment. >> let me play...

Interestingly before the supreme court said they had to do it is consequences of taking a plea or having their client found guilty. in the world we live in, if somebody is found guilty, even of minor crimes, they may lose the right to housing authority, they may lose the right to any kind of government benefit. specifically in immigration cases a plea could result in somebody being deported or children taken away. for many of our clients, it's much more important that not happen and they go ahead and try a case. our lawyers are particularly sensitive to these other kinds of issues we're talkin...

That systemic disenfranchisement in this as well. both parties sort of lose their collective will to engage the conversation about the terms under which we vote because whomever wins now has a stake in the system, right? whoever wins has a stake in the system. so it becomes more difficult to get this sort of systemic change. and also i don't want to miss your point here about drug prohibition, because it's a t two-step one because we prohibit not just the sale of drug bus the private use of them. most folks are who are incarcerated are incarcerated because of them. and then often can't vote fo...