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A resurgence of radicalization in that area. all right professor burns joining us tonight from washington first of ron's we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. or to france now where police unions are urging a work slowdown this week in response to proposed cuts to the national police budget in addition to a heightened terror threat in recent nationwide protest police say that they are buckling under strained resources and unrealistic quotas and it's that pressure that's being blamed for france's police officer maggie biskup ski the w. was scheduled to interview maggie but sadly she to...

They have a lot of hard experience with being courted and abandoned by great powers including the united states in the past i think they probably weren't expecting it to come this quickly when the campaign was still ongoing and so i think that the major danger now is you see in talk that the kurds may release three thousand or so isis prisoners that they're holding which would simply increase the dangers of a resurgence of radicalization in that area. all right professor brands joining us tonight from a washington restaurants we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. or to france now wher...

Precipitously the mayor suggested police were engaged in a work slowdown. >> as long as they plan to cash their paycheck, our expectation, my expectation is that they work. >> meanwhile, homicides in the city spiked. >> police leaders won't acknowledge it so much now, but at the time they were saying we are afraid to do our jobs, we are unsure, things we thought were legal, we're not sure if they're legal anymore. >> reporter: even as arrest numbers crept back up to normal levels, the number of homicides continue to hover above the previous several years. peaking in july. >> it's been another ...

A softer, less aggressive police department. and we've given them that. and now they're realizing that their way of thinking does not work. >> reporter: you don't buy this theory that cops are backing off because of a public backlash? >> no, i don't. >> reporter: cedric alexander is a member of president obama's task force in 21st century policing. >> in terms of a work slowdown or not taking calls or only responding to 911 calls, that's not what's happening across this country. >> reporter: he points to other big cities such as phoenix and los angeles where homicide rates are actually slightl...

Really sees that they asked for a softer, less aggressive police department and we've given them that and now they're realizing that their way of thinking does not work. >> reporter: you don't buy this theory that cops are backing off because of a public backlash? >> no, i don't. >> reporter: cedric alexander is a 38 year law force veteran and a member of president obama's task force on 21st century policing. >> in terms of work slowdown or not taking calls or only responding to 911 calls, that's not what's happening across this country. >> reporter: he points to other big cities such as phoen...