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>> right. the reason it's coming back up is because broken windows is back on the table. you got to understand that what this policy focuses on are the kinds of minor crimes that also end up being disproportionately targeted for african-american youth, et cetera. marijuana arrests, for instance. marijuana arrests skyrocketed. it's incredible. in '94 there were something like 1800 arrests. here we go. 1800 arrests in '94. 51,000 in 2000. that's broken windows policing. taking the small things the turnstile jumper, marijuana in public view. now marijuana arrests are actually still ridiculously h...

Same place. >> yeah. i think there are two central issues here. one is historical, one is extremely current. it reminds me of the signs people wore in the civil rights movement that said i am a man. you had to establish your humanity. the inhumanity of how this man was treated, saying he could not breathe and no one coming to his aid. when you think about the historical reality of race in america, the leg city of how black men have been treated in this country and black women have been treated for centuries, he says this stops now. and so the historical narrative is one that many struggle to c...

I think there are two central issues here. one is historical, one is extremely current. it reminds me of the signs people wore in the civil rights movement that said i am a man. you had to establish your humanity. the inhumanity of how this man was treated, saying he could not breathe and no one coming to his aid. when you think about the historical reality of race in america, the leg city of how black men have been treated in this country and black women have been treated for centuries, he says this stops now. and so the historical narrative is one that many struggle to come to terms with, bu...

We're echoing words that eric garner said right before he was killed. a bunch of organizations are coming together. so, they do have demand. they want an end to broken windows policing. they want an end to the police department essentially policing itself. so, you know, as they're trying to figure out what the next steps are, first it's mobilizing the people and that's what they're doing now. >> thank you so much for the update on that story. >> thanks for having me, ronan. we want you to weigh in on one of the big questions today. will the use of police body cameras a policy that many propo...

Is a change to the abusive patterns of this kind of broken-windows policing. i think they can still effectively enforce the law without doing what they're doing. >> that's the question, right? i mean, there's been in the kind of doctrine that a lot of people have adopted there's a connection between them right? we talk about broken windows. the idea is if you let people do things like graffitis, jump turnstiles, that leads to an at tuesday of per mismissiveness that needs to murder. >> right. >> you have to go upstream what upstream means is grabbing people for minor offenses. >> right. what t...