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This is not a realistic rule. >> let's say they'll look into this and let's say we'll see the mayor. we can predict some of what we think we'll hear as far as retraining and working with communities. at the end of the day when you are a police officer trying to do your job and you are in the heat of the moment, how are you going to think, okay, this is what i was taught. this is the part of the body i'm not supposed to press. i can't imagine -- >> through good policy and training. the nypd is an outstanding organization on firearms discipline because it's at the center of their culture. 45 sho...

Also, tactical stilkills. there's the issue of use of force. how much force do you need? what's the difference between control holds and takedowns and when do you do those things and after care of a subject. many people we spoke to said had eric garner been given the kind of care he was asking for because there was an emergency medical technician on scene. he had been given that care and sat up and cuffed in front opposed to in back, he may have been able to breathe and it wouldn't have been this issue of positional asphyxiation. all police officers will be retrained because the police commiss...

A lot of money. >> retraining the entire police force. when does that ever happen? >> what's interesting is the cops are starved for this training. cops will not resist it. cops love this especially if it's hands on and relevant. hopefully it allows them to do role plays. that's what they need. training is bureaucratic. filling out forms. and then there's no time to do actual hands on diagnosing of problems and responding to those problems. >> there's a political issue here too. one of the reasons bill de blasio was elected mayor a year ago was outrage in the city's mostly minority parts of th...

Possible. these are fundamental lessons that will be taught here and even in the brief example i saw earlier, you can see the power of experienced instructor helping officers to realize there is some better ways to do things. you'll hear from first deputy commissioner ben tucker. until his promotion last month, ben was the architect of a lot of the training efforts you're seeing here and also in the curriculum of the academy for new recruits. he'll continue to lead those efforts and make sure that this new training produces the changes we need and you'll hear from him in a moment. i think as a...

Both the viewpoint of the police and viewpoint of the community and how foundational a change in training is to everything that comes thereafter. commissioner bratton will talk about the ongoing work he does to bring in community leaders and listen to what they suggest. this is another hallmark of this commissioner. we first started working together and i often had the experience that i would call him and he would be in the middle of a meeting and he would call me back and say he was meeting with one group of community leaders, another group of faith leaders, civil liberties leaders. he was al...