WEBVTT 00:05.308 --> 00:06.972 align:start >>> SUPPORT FOR THIS PROGRAM IS 00:06.975 --> 00:09.805 align:start PROVIDED BY THE FOUNDATION FOR 00:09.808 --> 00:10.239 align:start EXCELLENCE IN LOUISIANA PUBLIC 00:10.242 --> 00:14.905 align:start BROADCASTING. 00:14.908 --> 00:21.072 align:start AND FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. 00:34.307 --> 00:37.472 align:start >>> HELLO AND WELCOME TO A 00:37.475 --> 00:39.038 align:start SPECIAL TOWN HALL EDITION OF 00:39.041 --> 00:41.205 align:start LOUISIANA PUBLIC SQUARE. 00:41.208 --> 00:45.672 align:start I'M BETH COURTNEY, PRESIDENT OF 00:45.675 --> 00:49.438 align:start LPB, AND I'M JOINED BY REVEREND 00:49.441 --> 00:50.372 align:start RAYMONDES -- JETSON, PASTOR. 00:50.375 --> 00:52.405 align:start WE'RE HERE TO DISCUSS HOW THE 00:52.408 --> 00:54.605 align:start CITY AND STATE CAN MOVE BEYOND 00:54.608 --> 00:54.972 align:start THE TRAGIC EVENTS OF THIS PAST 00:54.975 --> 00:56.672 align:start JULY. 00:56.675 --> 00:58.638 align:start >> BETH, WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU 00:58.641 --> 00:59.772 align:start DECIDED TO HAVE THIS IMPORTANT 00:59.775 --> 01:03.072 align:start CONVERSATION HERE AT STARHILL. 01:03.075 --> 01:04.005 align:start AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE ONLY ABOUT A 01:04.008 --> 01:05.139 align:start HALF-MILE FROM WHERE ALTON 01:05.142 --> 01:07.205 align:start STERLING WAS KILLED IN A 01:07.208 --> 01:07.539 align:start CONTROVERSIAL CONFRONTATION WITH 01:07.542 --> 01:09.005 align:start POLICE. 01:09.008 --> 01:11.005 align:start >> WELL, IT WAS JUST 12 DAYS 01:11.008 --> 01:12.306 align:start AFTER ALTON LOST HIS LIFE THAT 01:12.309 --> 01:13.806 align:start THREE OF THE CITY'S LAW 01:13.809 --> 01:15.806 align:start ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS LOST THEIR 01:15.809 --> 01:16.205 align:start LIVES TO A LONE GUNMAN FROM 01:16.208 --> 01:17.906 align:start MISSOURI. 01:17.909 --> 01:19.306 align:start OVER THE NEXT HOUR, WE'LL HAVE A 01:19.309 --> 01:20.906 align:start FRANK, RESPECTFUL, AND 01:20.909 --> 01:22.339 align:start PRODUCTIVE DISCUSSION ON WAYS TO 01:22.342 --> 01:25.806 align:start IMPROVE TRUST BETWEEN THE POLICE 01:25.809 --> 01:32.639 align:start AND THE COMMUNITIES THEY SERVE. 01:32.642 --> 01:33.072 align:start OUR MORD WRAIRTDS REMEMBER -- 01:33.075 --> 01:35.772 align:start ROBINES. 01:35.775 --> 01:38.572 align:start AND BOB MANN. 01:38.575 --> 01:39.505 align:start PASTOR WILLIS JOHNSON LEADS THE 01:39.508 --> 01:39.872 align:start CONGREGATION IN FERGUSON, 01:39.875 --> 01:42.372 align:start MISSOURI. 01:42.375 --> 01:43.739 align:start THE AUGUST 2014 SHOOTING OF 01:43.742 --> 01:44.872 align:start MICHAEL BROWN BY POLICE OFFICERS 01:44.875 --> 01:46.605 align:start AFFECTED MEMBERS OF THE 01:46.608 --> 01:47.039 align:start COMMUNITY DIFFERENTLY, JOHNSON 01:47.042 --> 01:48.605 align:start SAYS. 01:48.608 --> 01:50.906 align:start HE SAYS A PERSON'S BACKGROUND 01:50.909 --> 01:52.839 align:start AND THEIR LIFE EXPERIENCES 01:52.842 --> 01:55.605 align:start INFLUENCES HOW HE OR SHE 01:55.608 --> 01:58.772 align:start PROCESSES THAT INCIDENT. 01:58.775 --> 01:59.105 align:start >> EVERYONE'S TOLERANCE FOR PAIN 01:59.108 --> 02:01.071 align:start VARIES. 02:01.074 --> 02:04.772 align:start THE SEVERITY OF AN INJURY ALSO 02:04.775 --> 02:07.238 align:start WILL SPEAK TO THE -- THE TIME 02:07.241 --> 02:08.873 align:start THAT IT WILL TAKE TO NOT ONLY 02:08.876 --> 02:10.806 align:start REHABILITATION BUT TO BE 02:10.809 --> 02:11.606 align:start FULLY -- REHAB TATE BUT TO BE 02:11.609 --> 02:12.539 align:start FULLY AT STRENGTH. 02:12.542 --> 02:14.672 align:start >> IN BATON ROUGE LIKE IN 02:14.675 --> 02:15.606 align:start FERGUSON, THE FIRST STEP IS 02:15.609 --> 02:16.539 align:start RECOGNIZING THAT EVERYONE IS 02:16.542 --> 02:19.472 align:start APPROACHING THE SITUATION FROM A 02:19.475 --> 02:20.839 align:start DIFFERENT PLACE. 02:20.842 --> 02:27.506 align:start >> UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIMES WE 02:27.509 --> 02:29.873 align:start HAVE TO AWAKENED AND -- AND 02:29.876 --> 02:32.506 align:start STIRRED AND I PRAY FOR YOUR 02:32.509 --> 02:37.539 align:start COMMUNITY AS WE HAVE IN OURS TO 02:37.542 --> 02:41.105 align:start BE A LOT MORE SENSORY IN KNOWING 02:41.108 --> 02:41.506 align:start AND SEEING AND FEELING WHAT IS 02:41.509 --> 02:42.672 align:start HAPPENING. 02:42.675 --> 02:44.639 align:start >> UNIVERSITY PRESBYTERIAN 02:44.642 --> 02:46.772 align:start CHURCH HEAD PASTOR PATTY SNYDER 02:46.775 --> 02:47.205 align:start IS INVOLVED WITH TOGETHER 02:47.208 --> 02:48.539 align:start BATON ROUGE. 02:48.542 --> 02:50.005 align:start THAT'S AN INTERFAITH 02:50.008 --> 02:51.138 align:start ORGANIZATION THAT HAS WORKED 02:51.141 --> 02:53.572 align:start TOWARD BRIDGING THE CITY'S 02:53.575 --> 02:56.806 align:start DIVIDE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. 02:56.809 --> 02:57.138 align:start >> PEOPLE ARE SAYING THIS IS OUR 02:57.141 --> 02:58.071 align:start CHANCE. 02:58.074 --> 02:59.739 align:start THIS IS OUR CHANCE TO ADDRESS 02:59.742 --> 03:01.305 align:start SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT HAVE 03:01.308 --> 03:02.872 align:start BEEN STEWING IN OUR CITY FOR A 03:02.875 --> 03:04.472 align:start LONG TIME. 03:04.475 --> 03:06.472 align:start AND HOPEFULLY TO COME TOGETHER 03:06.475 --> 03:08.039 align:start AND FIND SOME SOLUTIONS. 03:08.042 --> 03:09.338 align:start >> SNYDER COMPARES BATON ROUGE 03:09.341 --> 03:10.705 align:start TO A SIMMERING POT. 03:10.708 --> 03:14.172 align:start THE EVENTS OF LAST SUMMER HAVE 03:14.175 --> 03:14.472 align:start BROUGHT THE CITY TO ITS BOILING 03:14.475 --> 03:16.905 align:start POINT. 03:16.908 --> 03:18.205 align:start >> THERE ARE ISSUES AS FAR AS 03:18.208 --> 03:20.539 align:start ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ACCESS TO 03:20.542 --> 03:23.238 align:start HEALTH CARE. 03:23.241 --> 03:23.605 align:start THE STANDARD OF PUBLIC 03:23.608 --> 03:24.872 align:start EDUCATION. 03:24.875 --> 03:26.338 align:start >> ON THE SURFACE IT MAY NOT BE 03:26.341 --> 03:27.305 align:start EASY TO SEE WHAT ECONOMIC 03:27.308 --> 03:29.172 align:start DEVELOPMENT HAS TO DO WITH THE 03:29.175 --> 03:31.039 align:start DEATH OF ALTON STERLING. 03:31.042 --> 03:33.039 align:start GARY CHAMBERS IS A COMMUNITY 03:33.042 --> 03:35.539 align:start ACTIVIST AND FOUNDER OF THE 03:35.542 --> 03:36.638 align:start LOCAL PUBLICATION, THE ROUGE 03:36.641 --> 03:38.472 align:start COLLECTION. 03:38.475 --> 03:39.072 align:start >> WE'RE IN A CRISIS SITUATION 03:39.075 --> 03:41.072 align:start PRIOR TO THIS. 03:41.075 --> 03:41.505 align:start TWO HOSPITALS CLOSED IN NORTH 03:41.508 --> 03:42.472 align:start BATON ROUGE. 03:42.475 --> 03:44.872 align:start HOW MANY GROCERY STORES AND 03:44.875 --> 03:46.705 align:start BUSINESSES HAVE FLEETED OUR 03:46.708 --> 03:47.638 align:start COMMUNITY? 03:47.641 --> 03:49.305 align:start >> CHAMBERS INSISTS THAT STERL'S 03:49.308 --> 03:50.972 align:start LIFE EXPERIENCE WOULD HAVE BEEN 03:50.975 --> 03:52.039 align:start DIFFERENT IF HE AND HIS FAMILY 03:52.042 --> 03:54.105 align:start WERE WHITE. 03:54.108 --> 03:56.872 align:start >> ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS A KEY 03:56.875 --> 03:58.305 align:start COMPONENT TO BEING ABLE TO HELP 03:58.308 --> 03:59.738 align:start PEOPLE GET AHEAD. 03:59.741 --> 04:00.704 align:start BLACK PEOPLE ARE NOT EXCLUSIVE 04:00.707 --> 04:03.671 align:start TO GOING TO JAIL. 04:03.674 --> 04:06.172 align:start THERE ARE WHITE KIDS WHO GO TO 04:06.175 --> 04:08.472 align:start JAIL, TOO, BUT THEY HAVE UNCLES, 04:08.475 --> 04:09.804 align:start AUNTS, WHO EITHER OWN COMPANIES 04:09.807 --> 04:11.038 align:start OR SIT IN POSITIONS OR KNOW 04:11.041 --> 04:12.172 align:start PEOPLE WHO OWN COMMUNITY THAT IS 04:12.175 --> 04:14.671 align:start GET THEM THE OPPORTUNITIES TO BE 04:14.674 --> 04:16.205 align:start GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE. 04:16.208 --> 04:17.638 align:start >> TOGETHER BATON ROUGE RECENTLY 04:17.641 --> 04:19.638 align:start RELEASED A STUDY COMPILING 04:19.641 --> 04:21.704 align:start FEDERAL VARS ABOUT DRUG USE AND 04:21.707 --> 04:22.272 align:start LOCAL ARREST STATISTIC. 04:22.275 --> 04:23.372 align:start IT -- DATA. 04:23.375 --> 04:24.506 align:start IT SHOWS THAT BATON ROUGE ZIP 04:24.509 --> 04:25.305 align:start CODES WITH AVERAGER 04:25.308 --> 04:27.305 align:start AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULATIONS 04:27.308 --> 04:28.738 align:start HAVE MANY MORE DRUG ARRESTS 04:28.741 --> 04:31.205 align:start DESPITE THE FACT THAT DRUG USE 04:31.208 --> 04:32.671 align:start IS ABOUT EQUAL IN PREDOMINANTLY 04:32.674 --> 04:34.038 align:start WHITE ZIP CODES. 04:34.041 --> 04:36.539 align:start STERLING'S DEATH WAS NOT THE 04:36.542 --> 04:36.971 align:start ONLY HIGH-PROFILE SHOOTING THIS 04:36.974 --> 04:38.506 align:start SUMMER. 04:38.509 --> 04:39.704 align:start THREE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS 04:39.707 --> 04:43.704 align:start WERE KILLED AND ANOTHER THREE 04:43.707 --> 04:45.506 align:start WERE INJURED OOH AN AMBUSH BY -- 04:45.509 --> 04:47.005 align:start AFTER AN AMBUSH BY AN 04:47.008 --> 04:48.305 align:start OUT-OF-STATE GUNMAN. 04:48.308 --> 04:49.738 align:start ROBERT LEADS A GROUP OF OFFICERS 04:49.741 --> 04:50.105 align:start WHO SPECIALIZE IN COMMUNITY 04:50.108 --> 04:51.439 align:start POLICING. 04:51.442 --> 04:53.372 align:start HE WORRIES ABOUT THE PERCEPTION 04:53.375 --> 04:55.771 align:start OF COPS IN THE COMMUNITY. 04:55.774 --> 04:57.239 align:start >> IT SHOULD BE US AS THE POLICE 04:57.242 --> 04:59.172 align:start AND THE COMMUNITY VERSUS THE 04:59.175 --> 05:00.606 align:start ONES THAT'S CAUSING THE PROBLEM. 05:00.609 --> 05:01.172 align:start THAT'S HOW THE US VERSUS THEM 05:01.175 --> 05:02.638 align:start SHOULD BE. 05:02.641 --> 05:03.771 align:start BUT WE GOT IT'S NOT THAT WAY 05:03.774 --> 05:05.938 align:start RIGHT NOW. 05:05.941 --> 05:07.005 align:start >> CHAMBERS ARGUES THAT'S 05:07.008 --> 05:08.871 align:start DIFFICULT TO CHANGE GIVEN HOW 05:08.874 --> 05:10.205 align:start OFTEN THE MEDIA COVERS EXCESSIVE 05:10.208 --> 05:11.905 align:start USE OF FORCE INCIDENTS. 05:11.908 --> 05:13.638 align:start >> WHEN YOU SEE IMAGES LIKE 05:13.641 --> 05:15.838 align:start THAT, HOW DO YOU TEACH BLACK 05:15.841 --> 05:17.371 align:start CHILDREN TO COMPLY WITH OFFICERS 05:17.374 --> 05:21.105 align:start RATHER THAN RUN? 05:21.108 --> 05:22.471 align:start >> THE CITY'S NEW MAYOR, SHARON 05:22.474 --> 05:24.172 align:start WESTON BROOM, HAS INSTITUTED 05:24.175 --> 05:26.038 align:start SEVERAL NEW POLICIES REGARDING 05:26.041 --> 05:27.205 align:start USE OF FORCE. 05:27.208 --> 05:29.572 align:start FIRST, OFFICERS ARE REQUIRED TO 05:29.575 --> 05:31.072 align:start GIVE A VERBAL WARNING BEFORE 05:31.075 --> 05:31.905 align:start USING DEADLY FORCE EXCEPT IN 05:31.908 --> 05:35.138 align:start CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. 05:35.141 --> 05:37.005 align:start THEY ARE REQUIRED TO DE-ESCALATE 05:37.008 --> 05:39.305 align:start SITUATIONS WHEN POSSIBLE. 05:39.308 --> 05:40.471 align:start CHOKEHOLDS AND STRANGLEHOLDS ARE 05:40.474 --> 05:41.305 align:start PROHIBITED EXCEPT IN 05:41.308 --> 05:43.471 align:start EMERGENCIES. 05:43.474 --> 05:45.038 align:start OFFICERS MUST NOT SHOOT AT A 05:45.041 --> 05:45.672 align:start MOVING VEHICLE UNLESS THERE'S A 05:45.675 --> 05:47.838 align:start FATAL THREAT. 05:47.841 --> 05:49.838 align:start AND THEY MUST INTERVENE IF 05:49.841 --> 05:52.072 align:start ANOTHER OFFICER IS USING 05:52.075 --> 05:52.538 align:start EXCESSIVE WORSE FORCE 05:52.541 --> 05:53.705 align:start INAPPROPRIATELY. 05:53.708 --> 05:54.705 align:start ALL THESE PRACTICES HAVE BEEN 05:54.708 --> 05:57.605 align:start TAUGHT IN POLICE TRAINING. 05:57.608 --> 05:59.938 align:start BUT WERE NOT CODIFIED IN POLICY. 05:59.941 --> 06:00.972 align:start THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS FOR EACH 06:00.975 --> 06:02.405 align:start RULE PROVIDING FOR THE SAFETY OF 06:02.408 --> 06:04.739 align:start THE OFFICER. 06:04.742 --> 06:06.239 align:start SOME BATON ROUGE RESIDENTS ALSO 06:06.242 --> 06:07.172 align:start LOOK TO COMMUNITY POLICING TO 06:07.175 --> 06:08.538 align:start IMPROVE RESTS. 06:08.541 --> 06:10.972 align:start >> I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF 06:10.975 --> 06:14.472 align:start OFFICERS OUT THERE THAT -- OUT 06:14.475 --> 06:16.338 align:start THERE DOING ALL -- GOING THAT 06:16.341 --> 06:16.705 align:start EXTRA MILE, YOU KNOW, CONTACTING 06:16.708 --> 06:19.072 align:start PEOPLE. 06:19.075 --> 06:19.472 align:start NOW, DO WE NEED TO DO IT MORE? 06:19.475 --> 06:20.772 align:start YES. 06:20.775 --> 06:21.172 align:start WE NEED TO DO IT MORE, MOST 06:21.175 --> 06:22.372 align:start DEFINITELY. 06:22.375 --> 06:24.005 align:start WHEN YOU HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY, 06:24.008 --> 06:25.005 align:start STOP, GET OUT OF YOUR CAR, AND 06:25.008 --> 06:26.372 align:start SPEAK TO SOMEONE. 06:26.375 --> 06:27.572 align:start STOP AT ONE OF YOUR LOCAL 06:27.575 --> 06:28.172 align:start BUSINESSES AND MEET THE MANAGER 06:28.175 --> 06:29.739 align:start OF 06:29.742 --> 06:31.305 align:start OR THE OWNER AND TALK TO THEM. 06:31.308 --> 06:34.105 align:start ONCE YOU START GETTING THAT 06:34.108 --> 06:36.405 align:start RAPPORT, THINGS GET A LOT BETTER 06:36.408 --> 06:38.172 align:start BECAUSE IT SHOULDN'T BE US 06:38.175 --> 06:39.905 align:start AGAINST THEM. 06:39.908 --> 06:41.905 align:start >> SO HOW DOES BATON ROUGE AS A 06:41.908 --> 06:43.538 align:start COMMUNITY CHANGE FOR THE BETTER? 06:43.541 --> 06:45.105 align:start SNYDER SAYS SHE HEARS SOME OF 06:45.108 --> 06:46.139 align:start HER CONGREGATION WISH THAT 06:46.142 --> 06:47.938 align:start BATON ROUGE COULD JUST BE LIKE 06:47.941 --> 06:49.938 align:start IT WAS BEFORE JULY. 06:49.941 --> 06:51.872 align:start THAT KIND OF TALK IS A SYMPTOM 06:51.875 --> 06:53.305 align:start OF WHITE PRIVILEGE, SHE SAYS. 06:53.308 --> 06:55.938 align:start >> AND THAT'S NORMAL TO FEEL 06:55.941 --> 06:59.305 align:start THAT WAY, THAT YOU WANT YOUR 06:59.308 --> 06:59.739 align:start COMFORT BACK BECAUSE WE ALL FEEL 06:59.742 --> 07:03.038 align:start UNCOMFORTABLE. 07:03.041 --> 07:05.971 align:start BUT I THINK MOST PEOPLE REALIZE 07:05.974 --> 07:07.271 align:start THAT THE PIECE THAT WE ACHIEVE 07:07.274 --> 07:09.038 align:start EVENTUALLY IN THE MIDST OF THIS 07:09.041 --> 07:10.706 align:start IS GOING TO BE A DIFFERENT PIECE 07:10.709 --> 07:12.071 align:start THAN WHAT WE HAD BEFORE. 07:12.074 --> 07:12.372 align:start I HOPE IT WILL BE A DIFFERENT 07:12.375 --> 07:14.238 align:start PIECE. 07:14.241 --> 07:16.938 align:start I HOPE IT WILL BE A PIECE THAT 07:16.941 --> 07:18.171 align:start IS MORE BROADLY SHARED. 07:18.174 --> 07:19.271 align:start >> JOHNSON THE PASTOR FROM 07:19.274 --> 07:21.605 align:start FERGUSON SAYS BATON ROUGE HAS 07:21.608 --> 07:23.238 align:start THE CHANCE TO BE STRONGER THAN 07:23.241 --> 07:25.205 align:start BEFORE, JUST LIKE SOMEONE 07:25.208 --> 07:28.171 align:start RECOVERING FROM A BROKEN BONE. 07:28.174 --> 07:29.971 align:start >> IF YOU BREAK A BONE, IN 07:29.974 --> 07:32.339 align:start THEORY, WHEN IT HEALS AND IF IT 07:32.342 --> 07:34.004 align:start HEALS PROPERLY, YOU'RE NOT TO 07:34.007 --> 07:34.572 align:start BREAK THAT BONE USUALLY IN THAT 07:34.575 --> 07:35.938 align:start SAME PLACE. 07:35.941 --> 07:37.505 align:start THERE'S A STRENGTHENING THAT 07:37.508 --> 07:38.938 align:start HAPPENS IN A HEALING PROCESS. 07:38.941 --> 07:40.672 align:start HEALING TAKES ON A LOT OF 07:40.675 --> 07:44.672 align:start DIFFERENT SHAPES AND FORMS. 07:44.675 --> 07:47.539 align:start AND WE HAVE TO BE WILLING AND 07:47.542 --> 07:50.038 align:start WANTING TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND 07:50.041 --> 07:52.739 align:start ACCEPT THOSE FORMATIONS. 07:52.742 --> 07:54.339 align:start >> THAT STARTS WITH 07:54.342 --> 07:55.339 align:start CONVERSATION. 07:55.342 --> 07:56.271 align:start >> WELL, JOINING US TO HELP WITH 07:56.274 --> 07:58.772 align:start THAT CONVERSATION ARE THE 07:58.775 --> 08:00.439 align:start MEMBERS OF OUR PANEL TONIGHT. 08:00.442 --> 08:02.938 align:start FATHER RICK ANDRUS IS THE PASTOR 08:02.941 --> 08:04.873 align:start OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC 08:04.876 --> 08:05.372 align:start CHURCH AND A MEMBER OF TOGETHER 08:05.375 --> 08:06.971 align:start BATON ROUGE. 08:06.974 --> 08:09.806 align:start PRIOR TO HIS APPOINTMENT IN 08:09.809 --> 08:11.238 align:start TWEERN 2013, HE SERVED AT 08:11.241 --> 08:13.539 align:start ST. ELIZABETH'S IN CHICAGO. 08:13.542 --> 08:16.338 align:start SHARON ROOME IS THE FIRST -- 08:16.341 --> 08:17.406 align:start BROOME IS THE FIRST FEMALE MAYOR 08:17.409 --> 08:21.071 align:start ELECTED IN BATON ROUGE. 08:21.074 --> 08:24.406 align:start SHE HOPES TO BUILD COMMUNITY 08:24.409 --> 08:27.005 align:start POLICING IN THE DEPARTMENT. 08:27.008 --> 08:27.739 align:start DARRELL BASCO SERVES ON THE 08:27.742 --> 08:29.873 align:start COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT 08:29.876 --> 08:31.439 align:start AND THE BODY CAMERA TASK FORCE. 08:31.442 --> 08:33.739 align:start STATE REPRESENTATIVE TED JAMES 08:33.742 --> 08:34.806 align:start IS A DEMOCRAT WHOSE DISTRICT 08:34.809 --> 08:35.238 align:start INCLUDES PART OF NORTH 08:35.241 --> 08:37.305 align:start BATON ROUGE. 08:37.308 --> 08:38.572 align:start JAMES IS ALSO CO-CHAIR OF MAYOR 08:38.575 --> 08:39.338 align:start BROOME'S PUBLIC SAFETY 08:39.341 --> 08:42.205 align:start COMMITTEE. 08:42.208 --> 08:43.839 align:start AND STAFFING STEPHANIE RIEGEL IS 08:43.842 --> 08:44.639 align:start A -- WHO HAS BEEN EDITOR OF THE 08:44.642 --> 08:46.506 align:start GREATER BATON ROUGE BUSINESS 08:46.509 --> 08:52.105 align:start REPORT FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS. 08:52.108 --> 08:52.873 align:start AND NOW I BELIEVE ROBYN HAS THE 08:52.876 --> 08:53.506 align:start FIRST QUESTION. 08:53.509 --> 08:54.606 align:start >> YES, I DO. 08:54.609 --> 08:56.472 align:start OUR FIRST QUESTION COMES FROM 08:56.475 --> 08:57.606 align:start GARY CHAMBERS, IF YOU WOULDN'T 08:57.609 --> 08:59.706 align:start MIND STANDING AND TELL US YOUR 08:59.709 --> 09:00.105 align:start NAME AGAIN AND WHO YOU 09:00.108 --> 09:02.472 align:start REPRESENT. 09:02.475 --> 09:02.873 align:start >> GARY CHAMBERS, WITH THE ROUGE 09:02.876 --> 09:06.372 align:start COLLECTION. 09:06.375 --> 09:08.506 align:start IN THE PAST 72 HOURS, WE'VE HAD 09:08.509 --> 09:10.205 align:start TWO OFFICERS ATTACKED ON 09:10.208 --> 09:12.439 align:start SEPARATE ISSUES. 09:12.442 --> 09:14.806 align:start SEPARATE INCIDENTS. 09:14.809 --> 09:17.806 align:start AND THOSE OFFICERS DID NOT FIND 09:17.809 --> 09:20.171 align:start THE NEED TO FIRE THEIR WEAPON. 09:20.174 --> 09:22.606 align:start THE INDIVIDUALS WHO ATTACKED 09:22.609 --> 09:24.105 align:start THOSE OFFICERS WERE ARRESTED, 09:24.108 --> 09:25.071 align:start DETAINED. 09:25.074 --> 09:27.472 align:start ALTON STERLING NEVER ATTACKED 09:27.475 --> 09:29.406 align:start THE POLICE OFFICERS BUT HE DIED. 09:29.409 --> 09:31.372 align:start SPECIFICALLY, POLICY-WISE, WHAT 09:31.375 --> 09:33.038 align:start HAVE YOU DONE IN THE LAST SEVEN 09:33.041 --> 09:35.806 align:start MONTHS TO CHANGE BATON ROUGE FOR 09:35.809 --> 09:37.272 align:start THE BETTER, BECAUSE WE CAN TALK 09:37.275 --> 09:38.472 align:start IN DIALOGUES LIKE THIS, BUT IF 09:38.475 --> 09:40.406 align:start THERE'S NOT POLICIES AND 09:40.409 --> 09:42.372 align:start PROCEDURES IN PLACE, THEN WE'RE 09:42.375 --> 09:44.038 align:start JUST BLOWING SMOKE. 09:44.041 --> 09:44.938 align:start >> OVER THE LAST SEVEN MONTHS, 09:44.941 --> 09:48.773 align:start I'VE BEEN INVOLVED, FIRST OF 09:48.776 --> 09:50.105 align:start ALL, WITH MAYOR BROOME'S POLICE 09:50.108 --> 09:51.138 align:start REFORM FOR VIOLENCE. 09:51.141 --> 09:53.606 align:start ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE 09:53.609 --> 09:55.238 align:start DONE, I'M ALSO VERY ACTIVE WITH 09:55.241 --> 09:56.773 align:start TOGETHER BATON ROUGE AS WE'RE 09:56.776 --> 09:58.138 align:start LOOKING TO FORWARD TO WAYS THAT 09:58.141 --> 09:59.472 align:start WE CAN BRIDGE GAPS. 09:59.475 --> 10:01.905 align:start SOME OF THE CHURCHES ARE TALKING 10:01.908 --> 10:04.272 align:start VERY DILIGENTLY ABOUT BUILDING 10:04.275 --> 10:04.672 align:start BETTER RELATIONSHIPS WITH 10:04.675 --> 10:06.038 align:start PEOPLE. 10:06.041 --> 10:08.072 align:start PROBABLY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT 10:08.075 --> 10:10.205 align:start I'VE BEEN A VERY STRONG PO 10:10.208 --> 10:11.505 align:start OPPONENT OF OVER TIME IS THE 10:11.508 --> 10:12.439 align:start COMMUNITY POLICING INCIDENT, 10:12.442 --> 10:14.439 align:start BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT WHEN 10:14.442 --> 10:15.305 align:start THERE'S A BETTER, HEALTHIER, 10:15.308 --> 10:16.939 align:start STRONGER RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN 10:16.942 --> 10:19.305 align:start THE POLICE AND THE COMMUNITY, 10:19.308 --> 10:20.738 align:start WHEN THE POLICE WHO ARE IN THE 10:20.741 --> 10:22.738 align:start COMMUNITY KNOW THE COMMUNITY, 10:22.741 --> 10:24.872 align:start AND THE COMMUNITY KNOW THEM, I 10:24.875 --> 10:26.305 align:start BELIEVE THAT THESE KINDS OF 10:26.308 --> 10:27.439 align:start INCIDENTS WILL PROBABLY NOT 10:27.442 --> 10:29.105 align:start HAPPEN AS OFTEN AS THEY HAVE IN 10:29.108 --> 10:31.972 align:start THE PAST. 10:31.975 --> 10:33.472 align:start >> I GLEEF BELIEVE -- BELIEVE IT 10:33.475 --> 10:36.872 align:start WAS THE SECOND DAY THAT I WAS IN 10:36.875 --> 10:37.872 align:start OFFICE, I GATHERED A GROUP OF 10:37.875 --> 10:40.738 align:start INDIVIDUALS, A DIVERSE GROUP OF 10:40.741 --> 10:42.305 align:start INDIVIDUALS FROM OUR COMMUNITY, 10:42.308 --> 10:44.538 align:start INCLUDING LAW ENFORCEMENT AS 10:44.541 --> 10:46.939 align:start WELL AS CITIZENS, TO COME 10:46.942 --> 10:49.472 align:start TOGETHER TO TALK ABOUT HOW 10:49.475 --> 10:51.538 align:start INDEED WE COULD MAKE SOME 10:51.541 --> 10:52.672 align:start TANGIBLE CHANGES AS IT RELATES 10:52.675 --> 10:55.305 align:start TO REFORM. 10:55.308 --> 10:56.972 align:start AS MANY PEOPLE HAVE INDICATED, 10:56.975 --> 10:59.505 align:start WE HAVE A LOT OF MEETINGS BUT 10:59.508 --> 11:01.472 align:start PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR SOME 11:01.475 --> 11:03.705 align:start SUBSTANCE, SOME ACTION STEPS. 11:03.708 --> 11:06.772 align:start AND SO WE RECOGNIZED THROUGH 11:06.775 --> 11:09.305 align:start THAT MEETING THAT POLICY WAS ONE 11:09.308 --> 11:10.672 align:start WAY THAT WE COULD CERTAINLY SHOW 11:10.675 --> 11:12.105 align:start THAT THERE ARE SOME TANGIBLE 11:12.108 --> 11:14.439 align:start STEPS BEING TAKEN. 11:14.442 --> 11:17.105 align:start SO I'M VERY GLAD WITH THE HELP 11:17.108 --> 11:19.139 align:start OF INDIVIDUALS WHO PARTICIPATED 11:19.142 --> 11:21.172 align:start ON THAT ADVISORY COUNCIL, MANY 11:21.175 --> 11:23.906 align:start IN THE AUDIENCE TONIGHT, THAT WE 11:23.909 --> 11:26.472 align:start WERE ABLE TO COME INTO AGREEMENT 11:26.475 --> 11:27.639 align:start AS IT RELATES TO USE OF FORCE 11:27.642 --> 11:29.939 align:start POLICY CHANGES. 11:29.942 --> 11:30.339 align:start WELL, I SHOULD SAY POLICY 11:30.342 --> 11:32.072 align:start ADDITIONS. 11:32.075 --> 11:33.006 align:start MANY PEOPLE SAID, WELL, WHAT IS 11:33.009 --> 11:36.239 align:start THAT ALL ABOUT. 11:36.242 --> 11:36.605 align:start THEY ALREADY TEACH THAT IN THE 11:36.608 --> 11:38.672 align:start ACADEMY. 11:38.675 --> 11:41.406 align:start BUT I CONTEND AND I BELIEVE THE 11:41.409 --> 11:43.605 align:start INDIVIDUALS WHO JOIN ME ALSO 11:43.608 --> 11:46.639 align:start AGREE THAT POLICY AS YOU BRING 11:46.642 --> 11:48.639 align:start UP, CERTAINLY HAS A DIFFERENT 11:48.642 --> 11:51.639 align:start EFFECT THAN JUST TRAINING. 11:51.642 --> 11:52.139 align:start POLICY FOR ME IS SYNONYMOUS WITH 11:52.142 --> 11:54.772 align:start ACCOUNTABILITY. 11:54.775 --> 11:56.739 align:start AND SO I'M VERY GLAD THAT AS A 11:56.742 --> 11:58.305 align:start NEW MAYOR, I WAS ABLE TO BRING 11:58.308 --> 11:59.872 align:start TOGETHER PEOPLE FROM THROUGHOUT 11:59.875 --> 12:01.905 align:start OUR COMMUNITY AND COME UP WITH 12:01.908 --> 12:04.405 align:start SOME TANGIBLE POLICY CHANGES 12:04.408 --> 12:06.271 align:start THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED. 12:06.274 --> 12:07.605 align:start FOR THE DEPARTMENT. 12:07.608 --> 12:09.205 align:start >> WHENEVER THE EVENTS FROM 12:09.208 --> 12:11.905 align:start BATON ROUGE HAPPENED FROM A 12:11.908 --> 12:13.638 align:start STATEWIDE PERSPECTIVE, BEING THE 12:13.641 --> 12:15.138 align:start LEADER OF THE FRATERNAL ORDER OF 12:15.141 --> 12:17.005 align:start POLICE STATEWIDE, SOME OF THE 12:17.008 --> 12:18.238 align:start THINGS THAT WE AS AN 12:18.241 --> 12:20.738 align:start ORGANIZATION RELAYED TO OUR 12:20.741 --> 12:22.905 align:start MEMBERS IS IS THAT -- AND I 12:22.908 --> 12:24.171 align:start THINK -- TALK TO THE POLICEMEN 12:24.174 --> 12:27.305 align:start AND THE OPENING PACKAGE TALKED 12:27.308 --> 12:29.538 align:start ABOUT IT, THAT THE MEDIA'S TAKE 12:29.541 --> 12:31.038 align:start WHERE IT TURNS IT INTO AN US 12:31.041 --> 12:32.038 align:start VERSUS THEM ATTITUDE, THAT 12:32.041 --> 12:34.072 align:start THAT'S THE ATTITUDE THAT WE 12:34.075 --> 12:36.072 align:start DON'T NEED TO HAVE. 12:36.075 --> 12:36.472 align:start WE SERVE AT THE PLEASURE OF OUR 12:36.475 --> 12:38.072 align:start COMMUNITY. 12:38.075 --> 12:40.005 align:start WE SERVE THE COMMUNITIES ACROSS 12:40.008 --> 12:42.205 align:start THE STATE, WHETHER IT'S 12:42.208 --> 12:42.605 align:start SHREVEPORT, BATON ROUGE, 12:42.608 --> 12:45.171 align:start NEW ORLEANS. 12:45.174 --> 12:46.905 align:start WE'VE ALWAYS AS AN ORGANIZATION 12:46.908 --> 12:49.305 align:start ASKED FOR A SEAT AT THE TABLE 12:49.308 --> 12:50.538 align:start FOR THE POLICY CONSIDERATIONS 12:50.541 --> 12:51.838 align:start THAT THE MAYOR IS TALKING ABOUT, 12:51.841 --> 12:53.338 align:start WHETHER IT'S ON A STATE LEVEL 12:53.341 --> 12:56.805 align:start COMING OUT OF THE LEGISLATURE, 12:56.808 --> 12:57.105 align:start TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT A BETTER 12:57.108 --> 12:58.038 align:start WAY. 12:58.041 --> 13:00.205 align:start POLICE OFFICERS OVERALL FOR THE 13:00.208 --> 13:02.072 align:start MOST PART ARE PART OF THE 13:02.075 --> 13:03.405 align:start COMMUNITIES THAT THEY SERVE IN 13:03.408 --> 13:03.772 align:start SOME ASPECT ONE WAY OR THE 13:03.775 --> 13:05.838 align:start OTHER. 13:05.841 --> 13:07.238 align:start I'M FROM THE AREA THAT I POLICE 13:07.241 --> 13:09.105 align:start AND I POLICED AS A YOUNG POLICE 13:09.108 --> 13:12.039 align:start OFFICER AND I WANT TO BE PART OF 13:12.042 --> 13:15.338 align:start THE DIALOGUE THAT'S ONGOING IN 13:15.341 --> 13:16.838 align:start MAKING THE IMPROVEMENTS OR 13:16.841 --> 13:18.205 align:start SHEDDING LIGHT IN HELPING THE 13:18.208 --> 13:20.072 align:start COMMUNITY BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT 13:20.075 --> 13:21.139 align:start OUR JOB IS. 13:21.142 --> 13:21.905 align:start >> WE'VE BEEN HAVING HEARINGS IN 13:21.908 --> 13:24.572 align:start THE LEGISLATURE. 13:24.575 --> 13:26.205 align:start JUST TODAY WE HAD A HEARING OF A 13:26.208 --> 13:27.139 align:start JUDICIARY COMMITTEE AND WE SPOKE 13:27.142 --> 13:28.072 align:start ABOUT CODIFYING CERTAIN 13:28.075 --> 13:30.238 align:start PRACTICES THAT WE KNOW HAVE BEEN 13:30.241 --> 13:31.238 align:start BEST PRACTICES FROM CERTAIN 13:31.241 --> 13:33.938 align:start DEPARTMENTS HERE. 13:33.941 --> 13:36.338 align:start BUT I HAVE BEEN VERY INTENTIONAL 13:36.341 --> 13:39.472 align:start ABOUT DIRECTING SOMEWHAT I HEARD 13:39.475 --> 13:40.838 align:start AS CONCERNS IN THE AFTERMATH OF 13:40.841 --> 13:42.139 align:start MR. STERLING'S KILLING AND I 13:42.142 --> 13:43.972 align:start HAVE LEGISLATION IN THE PIPELINE 13:43.975 --> 13:44.838 align:start TO ADDRESS CERTAIN THINGS WHEN 13:44.841 --> 13:46.838 align:start WE TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT 13:46.841 --> 13:49.305 align:start WE'VE HAD AN OFFICER WHO IS NOW 13:49.308 --> 13:50.139 align:start SEVEN MONTHS ON PAID VACATION. 13:50.142 --> 13:51.372 align:start A LOT OF MEMBERS IN THE 13:51.375 --> 13:53.305 align:start COMMUNITY FELT THAT THERE SHOULD 13:53.308 --> 13:55.405 align:start BE A TIME DELAY ON HOW LONG THAT 13:55.408 --> 13:56.972 align:start WE ALLOW AN OFFICER WHILE IN AN 13:56.975 --> 13:57.972 align:start INVESTIGATION IS GOING ON TO BE 13:57.975 --> 13:58.905 align:start ON PAID LEAVE. 13:58.908 --> 14:00.771 align:start WE'RE LOOKING AT LEGISLATION TO 14:00.774 --> 14:02.004 align:start ADDRESS THAT. 14:02.007 --> 14:03.572 align:start IMMEDIATELY AFTER, WE KNOW THAT 14:03.575 --> 14:05.539 align:start IF THERE'S AN OFFICER-INVOLVED 14:05.542 --> 14:07.505 align:start SHOOTING, THAT HAPPENS WITH OUR 14:07.508 --> 14:08.439 align:start SHERIFF'S OFFICE, THAT'S NOT 14:08.442 --> 14:08.771 align:start INVESTIGATED BY THE SHERIFF'S 14:08.774 --> 14:10.038 align:start OFFICE. 14:10.041 --> 14:10.439 align:start IT'S INVESTIGATED BY THE STATE 14:10.442 --> 14:13.105 align:start POLICE. 14:13.108 --> 14:13.405 align:start THAT SHOULD BE CODIFIED IN STATE 14:13.408 --> 14:15.038 align:start LAW. 14:15.041 --> 14:17.239 align:start THERE SHOULDN'T BE A QUESTION OF 14:17.242 --> 14:18.272 align:start IF WE WANT TO DO THAT. 14:18.275 --> 14:19.904 align:start THAT SHOULD BE A QUESTION OF 14:19.907 --> 14:20.171 align:start WHICH AGENCY IS GOING TO COME 14:20.174 --> 14:21.272 align:start IN. 14:21.275 --> 14:23.205 align:start AND IT'S NOT ANTIPOLICE. 14:23.208 --> 14:23.572 align:start IT SHOWS THAT IT'S A GOOD 14:23.575 --> 14:24.771 align:start PRACTICE. 14:24.774 --> 14:26.071 align:start THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE 14:26.074 --> 14:26.938 align:start ADDRESSING THIS UPCOMING 14:26.941 --> 14:28.771 align:start LEGISLATIVE SESSION. 14:28.774 --> 14:30.838 align:start AND AGAIN, I WILL SAY THAT 14:30.841 --> 14:33.672 align:start HAVING BENEFITED FROM LISTENING 14:33.675 --> 14:34.738 align:start AND SITTING ACROSS THE TABLE 14:34.741 --> 14:36.439 align:start FROM POLICE OFFICERS, BECAUSE A 14:36.442 --> 14:38.405 align:start LOT OF THINGS THAT I FELT IN 14:38.408 --> 14:38.706 align:start JULY I DON'T FEEL THE SAME WAY 14:38.709 --> 14:39.871 align:start TODAY. 14:39.874 --> 14:41.771 align:start WHEN I LOOK AT DIFFERENT 14:41.774 --> 14:42.171 align:start POLICIES THAT I THINK WE SHOULD 14:42.174 --> 14:43.405 align:start ENACT. 14:43.408 --> 14:44.971 align:start >> SPEAKING FOR THE BUSINESS 14:44.974 --> 14:46.339 align:start REPORT, OBVIOUSLY, WE HAVEN'T 14:46.342 --> 14:48.706 align:start CHANGED OUR POLICY. 14:48.709 --> 14:50.938 align:start BUT THE WAY WE HAVE REACTED TO 14:50.941 --> 14:53.272 align:start THE INCIDENTS OF THE PAST SEVEN 14:53.275 --> 14:54.572 align:start MONTHS, I THINK WE HAVE TRIED TO 14:54.575 --> 14:57.071 align:start BE -- I THINK WE'VE TRIED TO 14:57.074 --> 14:57.938 align:start APPROACH THEM WITH A BROADER 14:57.941 --> 14:59.305 align:start PERSPECTIVE THAN WE MAYBE WOULD 14:59.308 --> 15:01.071 align:start HAVE IN THE PAST. 15:01.074 --> 15:03.306 align:start WE IMMEDIATELY COVERED -- WE 15:03.309 --> 15:04.439 align:start DEVOTED TWO ISSUES TO COVERING 15:04.442 --> 15:06.739 align:start WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE 15:06.742 --> 15:08.606 align:start COMMUNITY AND TRIED TO GIVE A 15:08.609 --> 15:10.038 align:start DIVERSITY OF PERSPECTIVE. 15:10.041 --> 15:11.372 align:start I THINK THE MOST -- ONE OF THE 15:11.375 --> 15:15.905 align:start VERY MOST SIGNIFICANT THINGS 15:15.908 --> 15:16.971 align:start THAT WE DID, GARY WAS -- ROLF 15:16.974 --> 15:18.071 align:start McCALLSTER, THE PUBLISHER AND 15:18.074 --> 15:18.372 align:start OWNER SHARED HIS COLUMN WITH 15:18.375 --> 15:20.372 align:start YOU. 15:20.375 --> 15:21.238 align:start THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY 15:21.241 --> 15:23.339 align:start READ OPINION COLUMNS IN 15:23.342 --> 15:25.005 align:start BATON ROUGE AND HE'S OWNED THAT 15:25.008 --> 15:27.372 align:start PAPER FOR 32 YEARS AND NEVER 15:27.375 --> 15:28.938 align:start SHARED THAT COLUMN WITH ANYONE 15:28.941 --> 15:29.739 align:start AND HE GAVE YOU HALF HIS SPACE. 15:29.742 --> 15:31.673 align:start THAT WAS SIGNIFICANT. 15:31.676 --> 15:36.406 align:start AND A COUPLE MONTHS LATER SHARED 15:36.409 --> 15:37.539 align:start IT AGAIN WITH ONE OF THE YOUNG 15:37.542 --> 15:38.472 align:start INTERPROSECUTORS IN THE -- 15:38.475 --> 15:38.838 align:start ENTREPRENEURS IN THE AUDIENCE 15:38.841 --> 15:39.971 align:start TONIGHT. 15:39.974 --> 15:41.539 align:start I THINK THAT WENT A LONG WAY 15:41.542 --> 15:43.272 align:start TRYING TO SHOW THE COMMUNITY, 15:43.275 --> 15:44.639 align:start NOT JUST THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY, 15:44.642 --> 15:46.005 align:start BUT WE WANT TO -- WE HAVE TO 15:46.008 --> 15:46.339 align:start BREAK OUTSIDE OF OUR COMFORT 15:46.342 --> 15:48.138 align:start ZONES. 15:48.141 --> 15:48.572 align:start WE HAVE TO DO THINGS 15:48.575 --> 15:50.439 align:start DIFFERENTLY. 15:50.442 --> 15:51.739 align:start WE WANT TO HEAR FROM DIFFERENT 15:51.742 --> 15:52.805 align:start PEOPLE THAT WE'VE NEVER HEARD 15:52.808 --> 15:53.673 align:start FROM BEFORE THAT MAYBE THE 15:53.676 --> 15:54.871 align:start BUSINESS COMMUNITY WASN'T OPEN 15:54.874 --> 15:55.971 align:start TO BEFORE. 15:55.974 --> 15:58.172 align:start THOSE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS 15:58.175 --> 16:00.673 align:start THAT I THINK WE AS A PUBLICATION 16:00.676 --> 16:02.672 align:start HAVE DONE TO TRY TO OPEN OUR 16:02.675 --> 16:04.705 align:start EYES AND GIVE OUR RADARS A 16:04.708 --> 16:06.105 align:start BROADER PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT'S 16:06.108 --> 16:06.505 align:start GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY IN 16:06.508 --> 16:08.205 align:start BATON ROUGE. 16:08.208 --> 16:09.839 align:start >> I WANTED TO ADD THIS WHILE 16:09.842 --> 16:11.839 align:start WE'RE TALKING ON THIS LEVEL 16:11.842 --> 16:15.205 align:start ABOUT A SURVEY THAT WAS 16:15.208 --> 16:16.138 align:start CONDUCTED BY THE PEW RESEARCH 16:16.141 --> 16:16.505 align:start CENTER IN DECEMBER FOLLOWING THE 16:16.508 --> 16:18.072 align:start SHOOTING. 16:18.075 --> 16:21.005 align:start AND THE STUDY FOUND THAT THERE 16:21.008 --> 16:22.805 align:start IS A RACIAL CONFIDENCE GAP IN 16:22.808 --> 16:25.339 align:start POLICE PERFORMANCE. 16:25.342 --> 16:26.472 align:start SO ONLY ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF 16:26.475 --> 16:27.839 align:start BLACKS BUT ROUGHLY 16:27.842 --> 16:29.339 align:start THREE-QUARTERS OF WHITES SAY 16:29.342 --> 16:32.038 align:start POLICE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES DO 16:32.041 --> 16:33.572 align:start AN EXCELLENT JOB OR A GOOD JOB 16:33.575 --> 16:35.072 align:start IN USING THE APPROPRIATE FORCE 16:35.075 --> 16:37.438 align:start ON SUSPECTS. 16:37.441 --> 16:38.938 align:start TREATING ALL RACIAL AND ETHNIC 16:38.941 --> 16:40.239 align:start MINORITIES EQUALLY AND HOLDING 16:40.242 --> 16:42.072 align:start OFFICERS ACCOUNTABLE WHEN 16:42.075 --> 16:44.172 align:start MISCONDUCT OCCURS. 16:44.175 --> 16:46.372 align:start ROUGHLY HALF OF ALL BLACKS, 16:46.375 --> 16:48.739 align:start HOWEVER, SAY LOCAL POLICE DO AN 16:48.742 --> 16:51.239 align:start EXCELLENT JOB OR A GOOD JOB OF 16:51.242 --> 16:52.605 align:start COMBATING CRIME, A VIEW THAT'S 16:52.608 --> 16:52.938 align:start HELD BY ABOUT EIGHT IN 10 16:52.941 --> 16:54.038 align:start WHITES. 16:54.041 --> 16:56.505 align:start THE SURVEY ALSO FOUND THAT 16:56.508 --> 16:58.572 align:start BLACKS ARE 25 PERCENTAGE POINTS 16:58.575 --> 17:01.139 align:start MORE LIKELY THAN WHITES TO SAY 17:01.142 --> 17:03.239 align:start THAT THE DEATHS OF BLACKS DURING 17:03.242 --> 17:05.605 align:start ENCOUNTERS WITH POLICE IN RECENT 17:05.608 --> 17:07.472 align:start YEARS ARE SIGNS OF A BROADER SO 17:07.475 --> 17:09.972 align:start SOCIETAL PROBLEM AND NOT MERELY 17:09.975 --> 17:10.772 align:start ISOLATED INCIDENTS. 17:10.775 --> 17:11.672 align:start >> MY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IS 17:11.675 --> 17:13.205 align:start GEORGE BELL. 17:13.208 --> 17:14.839 align:start I -- MY NAME IS GEORGE BELL. 17:14.842 --> 17:15.139 align:start I REPRESENT CAPITAL AREA UNITED 17:15.142 --> 17:17.272 align:start WAY. 17:17.275 --> 17:20.472 align:start AND THIS IS A VERY COMPLEX, 17:20.475 --> 17:23.639 align:start DAUNTING CHALLENGE FOR OUR CITY. 17:23.642 --> 17:26.072 align:start AND IN REPRESENTING NONPROFIT 17:26.075 --> 17:27.806 align:start ORGANIZATIONS OVER 50, THAT 17:27.809 --> 17:28.605 align:start OPERATE IN AND AROUND THE 17:28.608 --> 17:30.539 align:start CAPITAL AREA. 17:30.542 --> 17:32.906 align:start MY QUESTION TO MAYOR BROOME IS 17:32.909 --> 17:36.339 align:start WHAT ROLE WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE 17:36.342 --> 17:39.972 align:start THE NONPROFIT COMMUNITY PLAY IN 17:39.975 --> 17:42.539 align:start ADDRESSING THIS CHALLENGE? 17:42.542 --> 17:44.339 align:start >> WELL, THAT'S AN EASY QUESTION 17:44.342 --> 17:47.306 align:start FOR ME BECAUSE I'VE OFTEN SAID, 17:47.309 --> 17:49.272 align:start AND I WILL BE CONSISTENT IN 17:49.275 --> 17:50.439 align:start SAYING, THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO 17:50.442 --> 17:53.072 align:start SOLVE THE CHALLENGES THAT WE 17:53.075 --> 17:54.939 align:start HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITY, EVEN 17:54.942 --> 17:55.972 align:start INCLUDING THE GAP THAT OFTEN 17:55.975 --> 17:58.406 align:start EXISTS BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT 17:58.409 --> 18:01.171 align:start AND THE CITIZENS, IT'S GOING TO 18:01.174 --> 18:02.839 align:start TAKE ALL STAKEHOLDERS AT THE 18:02.842 --> 18:03.973 align:start TABLE AND A,TIVELY INVOLVED -- 18:03.976 --> 18:06.973 align:start AND ACTIVELY INVOLVED. 18:06.976 --> 18:08.472 align:start AND ONE OF MY INAUGURAL 18:08.475 --> 18:09.472 align:start ADDRESSES, I SAID WE NEED 18:09.475 --> 18:10.639 align:start EVERYBODY OFF THE BENCH AND IN 18:10.642 --> 18:13.071 align:start THE GAME. 18:13.074 --> 18:15.806 align:start AND SO THE NONPROFIT SECTOR 18:15.809 --> 18:17.706 align:start CERTAINLY CAN PLAY A VERY ACTIVE 18:17.709 --> 18:19.005 align:start ROLE, WHETHER IT'S BEYOND 18:19.008 --> 18:20.105 align:start CONVERSATIONS AS WE'VE HEARD A 18:20.108 --> 18:22.506 align:start LOT TONIGHT SAYING THAT THAT'S 18:22.509 --> 18:24.238 align:start WHAT WE NEED TO GET BEYOND, AND 18:24.241 --> 18:26.405 align:start WORKING EVEN PERHAPS WITHIN 18:26.408 --> 18:26.839 align:start THEIR OWN INSTITUTIONS AND 18:26.842 --> 18:29.472 align:start ORGANIZATIONS. 18:29.475 --> 18:32.438 align:start YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE A LOT OF THE 18:32.441 --> 18:34.305 align:start CHANGE CAN START IN EACH AND 18:34.308 --> 18:35.205 align:start EVERY PERSON'S INDIVIDUAL SPHERE 18:35.208 --> 18:39.105 align:start OF INFLUENCE. 18:39.108 --> 18:41.939 align:start OFTENTIMES I SEE A LOT OF 18:41.942 --> 18:47.472 align:start ORGANIZATIONS THAT DON'T REFLECT 18:47.475 --> 18:50.171 align:start THE FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITY. 18:50.174 --> 18:51.338 align:start GOOD-WILLED, GOOD-SPIRITED, 18:51.341 --> 18:53.506 align:start GOOD-INTENTIONED, BUT THEY DON'T 18:53.509 --> 18:54.772 align:start REFLECT THE FABRIC OF OUR 18:54.775 --> 18:57.839 align:start COMMUNITY, THE DIVERSITY. 18:57.842 --> 19:01.005 align:start SO THAT'S A GOOD PLACE FOR THE 19:01.008 --> 19:02.372 align:start NONPROFIT SECTOR TO DO A 19:02.375 --> 19:04.372 align:start SELF-EVALUATION WITH THEIR OWN 19:04.375 --> 19:06.739 align:start INDIVIDUAL ORGANIZATIONS. 19:06.742 --> 19:07.606 align:start >> THIS CITY IS FUELED WITH 19:07.609 --> 19:09.806 align:start NONPROFITS. 19:09.809 --> 19:12.405 align:start WHETHER IT'S BUSINESSES OR 19:12.408 --> 19:14.906 align:start CHURCHES OR SYNAGOGUES OR 19:14.909 --> 19:17.138 align:start TEMPLES OR FRATERNAL 19:17.141 --> 19:19.506 align:start ORGANIZATIONS OR -- YOU NAME IT. 19:19.509 --> 19:20.873 align:start WE'VE GOT A RICH RESTORES IN 19:20.876 --> 19:22.305 align:start FRONT OF US. 19:22.308 --> 19:25.739 align:start -- RESTORES IN FRONT OF US AND 19:25.742 --> 19:26.572 align:start I BELIEVE A VERY STRONG 19:26.575 --> 19:28.238 align:start TRANSFORMATIVE RESTORES. 19:28.241 --> 19:29.071 align:start BUT WE'VE GOT TO BRING THE VERY 19:29.074 --> 19:30.438 align:start BEST OF WHAT WE HAVE. 19:30.441 --> 19:32.372 align:start WE HAVE TO LOOK AT ALL THAT 19:32.375 --> 19:34.105 align:start WE'VE GOT AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO 19:34.108 --> 19:34.839 align:start MAKE WHAT ALL WE'VE GOT A WHOLE 19:34.842 --> 19:36.606 align:start LOT BETTER. 19:36.609 --> 19:39.105 align:start AND LET ME JUST SAY THIS. 19:39.108 --> 19:40.772 align:start WHEN THE FLOODS CAME IN THE 19:40.775 --> 19:42.338 align:start MIDST OF THE SUMMER, AFTER THESE 19:42.341 --> 19:45.839 align:start TWO INCIDENTS THAT WE'VE ALREADY 19:45.842 --> 19:49.639 align:start TALKED ABOUT, THE FLOODS I THINK 19:49.642 --> 19:50.071 align:start SHOWED WHAT QUALITY THERE IS IN 19:50.074 --> 19:52.071 align:start BATON ROUGE. 19:52.074 --> 19:54.939 align:start PEOPLE CAME FORTH FROM EVERY 19:54.942 --> 19:55.739 align:start SECTOR, AND THEY PITCHED IN 19:55.742 --> 19:57.672 align:start TOGETHER. 19:57.675 --> 19:59.739 align:start AND THEY SHOWED THE VERY BEST OF 19:59.742 --> 20:01.605 align:start WHAT BATON ROUGE IS CAPABLE OF. 20:01.608 --> 20:02.605 align:start IT SHOWED THE VERY BEST OF WHO 20:02.608 --> 20:04.972 align:start WE ARE. 20:04.975 --> 20:05.305 align:start WE NEED TO KEEP THAT FIRE 20:05.308 --> 20:09.905 align:start BURNING. 20:09.908 --> 20:12.372 align:start AND I ALSO BELIEVE THIS IS A 20:12.375 --> 20:14.272 align:start GOD-GIVEN TIME FOR US TO DO 20:14.275 --> 20:14.772 align:start SOMETHING INCREDIBLE AND 20:14.775 --> 20:17.039 align:start TRANSFORMATIVE. 20:17.042 --> 20:19.105 align:start AND YOU KNOW SOMETHING? 20:19.108 --> 20:20.672 align:start I BELIEVE IT CAN BE DONE. 20:20.675 --> 20:22.439 align:start >> BEFORE I ASK MY QUESTION, I 20:22.442 --> 20:24.172 align:start WANT TO PREFACE IT WITH AN 20:24.175 --> 20:24.572 align:start INTERACTION THAT I HAD WITH LAW 20:24.575 --> 20:26.072 align:start ENFORCEMENT. 20:26.075 --> 20:27.205 align:start IT WAS ACTUALLY JUST AS RECENTLY 20:27.208 --> 20:29.039 align:start AS THE HOLIDAY SEASON. 20:29.042 --> 20:31.072 align:start AND I WAS OUT SHOPPING AT THE 20:31.075 --> 20:32.405 align:start PERKINS ROW AREA AND I WAS 20:32.408 --> 20:33.439 align:start DOCTORED LIKE -- DRESSED LIKE I 20:33.442 --> 20:37.539 align:start AM NOW. 20:37.542 --> 20:39.838 align:start RIDING A 2015 YOU WILL ULTIMA. 20:39.841 --> 20:41.305 align:start I HAD A TEMP TAG IN THE WINDOW. 20:41.308 --> 20:42.672 align:start BRAND NEW CAR. 20:42.675 --> 20:43.505 align:start AND I WAS AT THE RED LIGHT AND I 20:43.508 --> 20:44.972 align:start MADE A RIGHT. 20:44.975 --> 20:45.405 align:start I'M PRETTY SURE IT WAS A LEGAL 20:45.408 --> 20:47.472 align:start TURN. 20:47.475 --> 20:48.672 align:start NOTHING ILLEGAL AND I HAD BLUE 20:48.675 --> 20:50.338 align:start FLIGHTS FLASHING BEHIND ME. 20:50.341 --> 20:51.705 align:start AND I WAS ON THE HEADSET WITH A 20:51.708 --> 20:53.005 align:start FRIEND OF MINE AND I THINK I 20:53.008 --> 20:54.772 align:start THINK THE POLICE IS BEHIND ME, 20:54.775 --> 20:55.338 align:start BUT I HAVE CLEAR WINDOWS, NO 20:55.341 --> 20:56.205 align:start TINT. 20:56.208 --> 20:58.872 align:start DRESSED AS I AM NOW. 20:58.875 --> 21:00.172 align:start AND SO I PULLED OVER AND SAID AT 21:00.175 --> 21:01.572 align:start THE GARAGE RIGHT THERE. 21:01.575 --> 21:02.606 align:start AND BEFORE I CAN GET OUT THE 21:02.609 --> 21:03.572 align:start POLICE OFFICER HERE, GET OUT OF 21:03.575 --> 21:05.539 align:start THE CAR! 21:05.542 --> 21:06.339 align:start AND NOW MY HEART IS LITERALLY 21:06.342 --> 21:07.738 align:start RACING AT THIS MOMENT BECAUSE 21:07.741 --> 21:08.172 align:start I'M LIKE, THIS IS ABOUT TO BE 21:08.175 --> 21:09.272 align:start REAL. 21:09.275 --> 21:10.606 align:start I REALLY DON'T KNOW AT THIS 21:10.609 --> 21:10.871 align:start POINT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO 21:10.874 --> 21:12.305 align:start ME. 21:12.308 --> 21:13.606 align:start SO WHEN I GET OUT OF THE CAR, HE 21:13.609 --> 21:14.539 align:start SAID, COME HERE, TAKE YOUR 21:14.542 --> 21:15.904 align:start HEADSET OUT. 21:15.907 --> 21:17.339 align:start AND I'M LOOKING NERVOUS, AND HE 21:17.342 --> 21:17.938 align:start SAID WHY ARE YOU LOOKING LIKE 21:17.941 --> 21:19.638 align:start THAT. 21:19.641 --> 21:21.339 align:start BECAUSE IN MY MIND, I'M THINKING 21:21.342 --> 21:22.638 align:start ABOUT WHAT EVERYBODY IS SAYING, 21:22.641 --> 21:23.938 align:start IS YOUR PANTS SAGGING THAT GET 21:23.941 --> 21:25.871 align:start YOU WITH THESE TYPES OF 21:25.874 --> 21:27.071 align:start ATTITUDES FROM THE LAW OFFICERS. 21:27.074 --> 21:27.871 align:start IT'S THE GHETTO VEHICLE THAT 21:27.874 --> 21:29.239 align:start YOU'RE DRIVING. 21:29.242 --> 21:30.671 align:start AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 21:30.674 --> 21:31.671 align:start BUT NONE OF THAT WAS THE CASE 21:31.674 --> 21:32.971 align:start WITH MYSELF. 21:32.974 --> 21:34.738 align:start THAT INDIVIDUAL, HIS MIND AND 21:34.741 --> 21:36.172 align:start HIS HEART WAS MADE UP. 21:36.175 --> 21:38.472 align:start AND BEING THAT HIS MIND AND 21:38.475 --> 21:39.606 align:start HEART WAS MADE UP, AND THAT WE 21:39.609 --> 21:43.205 align:start CAN'T LEGISLATE THE HEART AND 21:43.208 --> 21:45.005 align:start THE MIND, REELSICALLY 21:45.008 --> 21:46.506 align:start SPEAKING -- REALISTICICALLY 21:46.509 --> 21:49.205 align:start SPEAKING, WHAT CAN BE DONE TO 21:49.208 --> 21:50.172 align:start BRING ABOUT A BALANCE AND 21:50.175 --> 21:51.871 align:start PEACEFUL RELATIONSHIP WITH LAW 21:51.874 --> 21:52.738 align:start ENFORCEMENT AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN 21:52.741 --> 21:54.239 align:start MALES LIKE MYSELF. 21:54.242 --> 21:55.904 align:start >> I THINK IT'S ABOUT 21:55.907 --> 21:59.539 align:start PERSPECTIVE AND SUPERVISION OF 21:59.542 --> 22:01.838 align:start OFFICERS THAT ARE THERE, WHETHER 22:01.841 --> 22:05.038 align:start IT'S -- WHETHER IT'S THE DAILY 22:05.041 --> 22:06.005 align:start MOM BARDMENT THAT WE -- 22:06.008 --> 22:07.771 align:start BOMBARDMENT THAT WE AS OFFICERS 22:07.774 --> 22:11.438 align:start IN THE COMMUNITY RECEIVES FROM 22:11.441 --> 22:15.072 align:start SOCIAL MEDIA, THE VIDEOS THAT 22:15.075 --> 22:17.072 align:start YOU SEE CONTINUOUSLY, I THINK 22:17.075 --> 22:19.871 align:start THAT PART OF IT IS THAT WHEN I 22:19.874 --> 22:21.438 align:start WAS A YOUNG POLICEMAN, WERE -- 22:21.441 --> 22:21.805 align:start YOU WOULD SEE THE LOCAL 22:21.808 --> 22:24.238 align:start NEWSPAPER. 22:24.241 --> 22:27.971 align:start YOU MIGHT SEE THE 6:00 NEWS. 22:27.974 --> 22:30.505 align:start THERE WASN'T THE CONSTANT 22:30.508 --> 22:32.871 align:start BOMBARDMENT OF WHAT CAN GO WRONG 22:32.874 --> 22:36.072 align:start AND HOW QUICKLY IT CAN GO WRONG. 22:36.075 --> 22:37.738 align:start I THINK IT'S PART OF AN OLDER 22:37.741 --> 22:40.438 align:start SUPERVISOR'S JOB, WHETHER IT'S 22:40.441 --> 22:43.172 align:start FROM THE CHIEF DOWN, A 22:43.175 --> 22:44.038 align:start LIEUTENANT WHO'S YOUR IMMEDIATE 22:44.041 --> 22:46.705 align:start SUPERVISOR, IS TO BE ABLE TO 22:46.708 --> 22:48.105 align:start HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE 22:48.108 --> 22:49.405 align:start YOUNG POLICE OFFICERS THAT 22:49.408 --> 22:51.072 align:start NOT -- THAT THERE'S NOT A BAD 22:51.075 --> 22:54.205 align:start MAN AROUND EVERY CORNER. 22:54.208 --> 22:55.971 align:start IT'S OKAY THAT WE HAVE TO TRAIN 22:55.974 --> 22:57.971 align:start AND UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S A 22:57.974 --> 23:00.872 align:start HEIGHTENED AWARENESS THAT WE ALL 23:00.875 --> 23:03.505 align:start MUST HAVE BECAUSE OF THE 23:03.508 --> 23:03.838 align:start INCIDENTS THAT WE CAN COME 23:03.841 --> 23:05.639 align:start ACROSS. 23:05.642 --> 23:07.905 align:start BUT IN -- ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 23:07.908 --> 23:09.538 align:start IT, THERE'S THAT RESPECTIVE -- 23:09.541 --> 23:11.105 align:start PERSPECTIVE OF THAT, IF YOU 23:11.108 --> 23:13.538 align:start REVERT BACK TO YOUR TRAINING AND 23:13.541 --> 23:16.472 align:start LEARN MORE TO JUDGE PEOPLE, OR 23:16.475 --> 23:18.405 align:start HAVE THAT INTERACTION BETTER, I 23:18.408 --> 23:21.139 align:start HATE THAT IT HAPPENED. 23:21.142 --> 23:23.005 align:start I'M GLAD THAT YOU HAVE KEPT AN 23:23.008 --> 23:25.005 align:start OPEN MIND THAT NOT EVERY LAW 23:25.008 --> 23:28.739 align:start ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IS BUILT THE 23:28.742 --> 23:30.239 align:start WAY OF THE GUY THAT YOU CAME 23:30.242 --> 23:30.538 align:start ACROSS AND I APPLAUD YOU FOR 23:30.541 --> 23:33.372 align:start THAT. 23:33.375 --> 23:34.305 align:start >> I'D LIKE TO FOLLOW UP WITH ON 23:34.308 --> 23:37.338 align:start THAT QUESTION." 23:37.341 --> 23:37.639 align:start AS A YOUNG -- THAT QUESTION AS 23:37.642 --> 23:39.139 align:start WELL. 23:39.142 --> 23:40.139 align:start AS A YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR IN 23:40.142 --> 23:40.972 align:start GENERAL AND LOOKING AT 23:40.975 --> 23:42.338 align:start BATON ROUGE AS A PLACE TO 23:42.341 --> 23:43.772 align:start PERHAPS START THEIR BUSINESS AND 23:43.775 --> 23:45.772 align:start SEEING OR HEARING AN INCIDENT 23:45.775 --> 23:46.872 align:start LIKE THIS, WHAT TYPE OF IMPACT 23:46.875 --> 23:48.372 align:start MIGHT THAT HAVE? 23:48.375 --> 23:50.872 align:start >> WELL, I DEFINITELY THINK IT 23:50.875 --> 23:53.005 align:start HAS -- I DEFINITELY THINK IT HAS 23:53.008 --> 23:54.305 align:start AN IMPACT. 23:54.308 --> 23:55.605 align:start WE WERE BRANDED UNFORTUNATELY 23:55.608 --> 23:55.938 align:start BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED LAST 23:55.941 --> 23:57.739 align:start SUMMER. 23:57.742 --> 23:58.672 align:start AND THAT WORD GOT OUT ALL OVER 23:58.675 --> 24:00.172 align:start THE COUNTRY. 24:00.175 --> 24:03.339 align:start AND NOW WE HAVE TO WORK THAT 24:03.342 --> 24:03.672 align:start MUCH HARDER TO OVERCOME THE 24:03.675 --> 24:06.205 align:start STIGMA. 24:06.208 --> 24:07.505 align:start YOU KNOW, I DO -- I MEAN, I 24:07.508 --> 24:10.439 align:start AGREE TO AN EXTENT THAT THERE IS 24:10.442 --> 24:12.205 align:start A NARRATIVE OUT THERE THAT'S NOT 24:12.208 --> 24:13.806 align:start ENTIRELY ACCURATE. 24:13.809 --> 24:15.238 align:start AND AS IMPORTANT AS IT IS TO 24:15.241 --> 24:16.806 align:start HAVE CONVERSATIONS LIKE THIS, 24:16.809 --> 24:19.505 align:start AND I THINK THIS IS A BIG FIRST 24:19.508 --> 24:23.171 align:start STEP TO OVERCOMING IT, TO AN 24:23.174 --> 24:23.572 align:start EXTENT THAT HELPS PERPETUATE THE 24:23.575 --> 24:24.971 align:start STEREOTYPE. 24:24.974 --> 24:26.038 align:start THE WHOLE IDEA ABOUT THE TWO 24:26.041 --> 24:27.171 align:start BATON ROUGES, THE NORTH 24:27.174 --> 24:27.572 align:start BATON ROUGE VERSUS SOUTH 24:27.575 --> 24:28.472 align:start BATON ROUGE. 24:28.475 --> 24:29.772 align:start THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF 24:29.775 --> 24:31.271 align:start TRUTH TO THAT AND YET WE 24:31.274 --> 24:33.472 align:start TRANSCEND THAT EVERY DAY. 24:33.475 --> 24:35.806 align:start AND SO I HATE TO SAY, WELL, NOW 24:35.809 --> 24:38.271 align:start WE'RE THAT MUCH WORSE OFF, YOU 24:38.274 --> 24:39.305 align:start KNOW, BECAUSE OF WHAT HAPPENED 24:39.308 --> 24:41.938 align:start TO DES. 24:41.941 --> 24:44.104 align:start I THINK THERE ARE BLACK PEOPLE 24:44.107 --> 24:46.104 align:start AND WHITE PEOPLE AND MEN AND 24:46.107 --> 24:48.238 align:start WOMEN AND HISPANIC AND ASIANS 24:48.241 --> 24:49.539 align:start THAT WORK TOGETHER EVERY DAY. 24:49.542 --> 24:51.539 align:start I DEFINITELY THINK THERE'S A 24:51.542 --> 24:51.871 align:start PROBLEM THAT WE NEED TO WORK 24:51.874 --> 24:53.971 align:start THROUGH. 24:53.974 --> 24:56.405 align:start BUT HOW BAD IT IS AND HOW MUCH 24:56.408 --> 24:57.904 align:start WORSE IS IT NOW -- YOU KNOW, I 24:57.907 --> 25:00.505 align:start DON'T -- I DON'T KNOW. 25:00.508 --> 25:02.572 align:start I DO KNOW IN A NATIONALLY -- 25:02.575 --> 25:04.572 align:start THAT NATIONALLY WE SUFFERED AND 25:04.575 --> 25:06.873 align:start TOOK A BIG HIT AS A RUT OF THAT 25:06.876 --> 25:07.806 align:start AND OUR BUSINESS COMMUNITY IS 25:07.809 --> 25:09.739 align:start TRYING TO ADDRESS IT. 25:09.742 --> 25:10.806 align:start THEY STOOD UP IMMEDIATELY AFTER 25:10.809 --> 25:12.372 align:start THE INCIDENT, THE BUSINESS 25:12.375 --> 25:13.338 align:start COMMUNITY CAME TOGETHER, 25:13.341 --> 25:14.839 align:start REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CHAMBER, 25:14.842 --> 25:17.171 align:start GEORGE BELL WAS THERE. 25:17.174 --> 25:19.372 align:start THEY SAID, WE'VE -- YOU KNOW, 25:19.375 --> 25:20.905 align:start FOR A LONG TIME BEEN A CITY TWO 25:20.908 --> 25:21.839 align:start DIVIDED AND WE ADMIT IT AND WE 25:21.842 --> 25:22.938 align:start HAVE TO DO MORE. 25:22.941 --> 25:24.406 align:start AND THEY'VE STARTED TO TRY TO 25:24.409 --> 25:26.506 align:start TAKE STEPS TO ADDRESS THINGS 25:26.509 --> 25:27.639 align:start LIKE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND 25:27.642 --> 25:29.372 align:start EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY 25:29.375 --> 25:31.506 align:start DEVELOPMENT AND TO ENCOURAGE 25:31.509 --> 25:32.238 align:start YOUNG ENTREPRENEURERS TO COME 25:32.241 --> 25:33.572 align:start FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY. 25:33.575 --> 25:35.238 align:start SO CERTAINLY WE HAVE SUFFERED AS 25:35.241 --> 25:38.305 align:start A RESULT OF INCIDENTS LIKE THAT 25:38.308 --> 25:38.873 align:start AND INCIDENTS THAT HAPPENED LAST 25:38.876 --> 25:40.105 align:start SUMMER. 25:40.108 --> 25:41.272 align:start >> JIM, FRATERNAL ORDER OF 25:41.275 --> 25:42.539 align:start POLICE IN NEW ORLEANS. 25:42.542 --> 25:43.971 align:start MR. MANN CAME TO ME EARLIER AND 25:43.974 --> 25:46.005 align:start I ASKED HIM TO HOLD OFF FOR A 25:46.008 --> 25:47.272 align:start WHILE BECAUSE I DIDN'T THINK IT 25:47.275 --> 25:49.272 align:start WAS APPROPRIATE FOR THE QUESTION 25:49.275 --> 25:50.706 align:start THAT I HAD PREPARED SO EARLY IN 25:50.709 --> 25:51.706 align:start THE CONVERSATION. 25:51.709 --> 25:53.071 align:start BUT IT'S IMPORTANT I BELIEVE 25:53.074 --> 25:55.105 align:start THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO 25:55.108 --> 25:56.706 align:start UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER AS A 25:56.709 --> 25:59.672 align:start COMMUNITY, WE HEAR BOTH SIDES OF 25:59.675 --> 26:02.172 align:start THE EQUATION. 26:02.175 --> 26:03.738 align:start LAST YEAR 108 POLICE OFFICERS 26:03.741 --> 26:07.772 align:start TOOK THEIR OWN LIVES. 26:07.775 --> 26:08.772 align:start IN AMERICA. 26:08.775 --> 26:10.905 align:start POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER 26:10.908 --> 26:12.038 align:start IS BECOMING AN INCREASING 26:12.041 --> 26:13.905 align:start PROBLEM IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND 26:13.908 --> 26:15.339 align:start IT HAS TO IMPACT WHEN A POLICE 26:15.342 --> 26:17.072 align:start OFFICER IS STRESSED, THAT HAS TO 26:17.075 --> 26:19.572 align:start HAVE A NEGATIVE IMPACT ON HOW HE 26:19.575 --> 26:23.872 align:start DEALS WITH HIS COMMUNITY. 26:23.875 --> 26:25.305 align:start WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE MENTAL 26:25.308 --> 26:27.238 align:start HEALTH ASSISTANCE MORE AVAILABLE 26:27.241 --> 26:29.172 align:start TO POLICE OFFICERS AND WHAT CAN 26:29.175 --> 26:31.305 align:start WE DO TO MAKE POLICE OFFICERS 26:31.308 --> 26:31.605 align:start MORE AMENABLE TO SEEKING THAT 26:31.608 --> 26:33.705 align:start HELP? 26:33.708 --> 26:35.705 align:start >> WE HAVE TO MAKE MENTAL HEALTH 26:35.708 --> 26:36.105 align:start TREATMENT AVAILABLE TO 26:36.108 --> 26:39.339 align:start EVERYBODY. 26:39.342 --> 26:42.638 align:start AND YOU KNOW, AND I GET THAT. 26:42.641 --> 26:43.939 align:start THE OFFICERS HAVE A VERY 26:43.942 --> 26:46.005 align:start STRESSFUL JOB. 26:46.008 --> 26:47.605 align:start AND RESOURCES ARE SCARCE ALL 26:47.608 --> 26:48.905 align:start ACROSS THE BOARD. 26:48.908 --> 26:50.705 align:start HOWEVER, IF WE DON'T ADDRESS THE 26:50.708 --> 26:53.272 align:start ISSUE OF MENTAL HEALTH IN OUR 26:53.275 --> 26:54.638 align:start COMMUNITY AT LARGE, WE ARE 26:54.641 --> 26:56.272 align:start ALL -- WE'RE STILL FALLING 26:56.275 --> 26:58.005 align:start BEHIND THE WAYSIDE. 26:58.008 --> 26:59.872 align:start HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY, 26:59.875 --> 27:02.305 align:start UNFORTUNATELY WE JUST LET A 27:02.308 --> 27:03.072 align:start LARGE OPPORTUNITY FALL BY THE 27:03.075 --> 27:05.439 align:start WAYSIDE IN DECEMBER. 27:05.442 --> 27:07.006 align:start AND WE KNOW THAT THESE ISSUES 27:07.009 --> 27:09.605 align:start FACING LAW ENFORCEMENT 27:09.608 --> 27:11.906 align:start OFFICERS -- I WILL SAY AS 27:11.909 --> 27:14.039 align:start OPPOSED TO APPLYING FOR GRANTS 27:14.042 --> 27:15.472 align:start AND LOANS TO GET RIOT GEAR, 27:15.475 --> 27:17.339 align:start APPLY FOR GRANTS AND LOANS TO 27:17.342 --> 27:18.739 align:start BRING DOCTORS IN TO HELP 27:18.742 --> 27:22.139 align:start FACILITATE SOME OF THOSE ISSUES. 27:22.142 --> 27:23.639 align:start I WOULD SAY INSTEAD OF 27:23.642 --> 27:26.739 align:start ADDITIONAL TRAINING IN HOW ARE 27:26.742 --> 27:27.572 align:start WE GOING TO RERESPONSIBLE TO 27:27.575 --> 27:29.006 align:start POTENTIAL -- RESPOND TO 27:29.009 --> 27:30.372 align:start POTENTIAL PEACEFUL PROTESTS, 27:30.375 --> 27:32.672 align:start LET'S BRING IN DOCTORS TO HELP 27:32.675 --> 27:34.872 align:start YOU AGUYS ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE 27:34.875 --> 27:36.039 align:start ISSUES, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT 27:36.042 --> 27:38.839 align:start THEY'RE REAL AND THEY HAVE TO BE 27:38.842 --> 27:40.205 align:start A RECOGNITION THAT THE PERSON 27:40.208 --> 27:42.772 align:start YOU ENCOUNTER, HE COULD BE 27:42.775 --> 27:44.205 align:start FACING SOME OF THOSE ISSUES ON 27:44.208 --> 27:50.172 align:start THE DAY YOU PULLED HIM OVER. 27:50.175 --> 27:51.139 align:start AND I THINK THAT'S -- 27:51.142 --> 27:52.239 align:start [APPLAUSE] 27:52.242 --> 27:52.739 align:start >> AND THAT RECOGNITION HAS TO 27:52.742 --> 27:54.172 align:start BE SHARED. 27:54.175 --> 27:55.672 align:start I KNOW ALL THE ONES THAT ARE ON 27:55.675 --> 27:56.739 align:start THE WALL AND I KNOW THEM NOT 27:56.742 --> 27:57.605 align:start JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE IN 27:57.608 --> 27:58.805 align:start COMMUNITY CENTERS. 27:58.808 --> 28:00.305 align:start I KNOW THEM BECAUSE THEY'RE IN 28:00.308 --> 28:03.171 align:start THE SCHOOLS. 28:03.174 --> 28:05.205 align:start AND BACK TO WHAT DESSAID, THAT 28:05.208 --> 28:07.271 align:start NEEDS TO HAPPEN MORE OFTEN. 28:07.274 --> 28:09.072 align:start IT CAN'T JUST BE THE DOUGLAS AND 28:09.075 --> 28:10.705 align:start THE THOMAS AT THE SCHOOLS. 28:10.708 --> 28:11.838 align:start IT NEEDS TO BE EVERYONE BECAUSE 28:11.841 --> 28:12.938 align:start THAT'S HOW YOU BUILD IN A 28:12.941 --> 28:14.438 align:start RELATIONSHIP AND YOU'RE ABLE TO 28:14.441 --> 28:16.605 align:start HAVE POSITIVE EXPERIENCE THAT IS 28:16.608 --> 28:18.405 align:start OVERCOME THE BIAS THAT YOU SAW 28:18.408 --> 28:19.972 align:start OR YOU BELIEVED TO BE PLACED ON 28:19.975 --> 28:21.738 align:start SOMEONE BECAUSE THEY ARE A BLACK 28:21.741 --> 28:23.171 align:start MALE OR BECAUSE -- AND I'LL SAY 28:23.174 --> 28:25.105 align:start IT ON THE OTHER SIDE, BECAUSE 28:25.108 --> 28:26.705 align:start THEY'RE A POLICE OFFICER. 28:26.708 --> 28:27.705 align:start BEARS THERE'S BIAS AND FEAR THAT 28:27.708 --> 28:29.505 align:start EXISTS ON BOTH SIDES. 28:29.508 --> 28:30.638 align:start >> RENTIVE JAMES, FOR THE IN -- 28:30.641 --> 28:31.838 align:start REPRESENTATIVE JAMES, FOR THE 28:31.841 --> 28:33.005 align:start BENEFIT OF OUR VIEWERS WHO MAY 28:33.008 --> 28:34.305 align:start NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH THE 28:34.308 --> 28:36.072 align:start ELECTION YOU WERE REFERRING TO, 28:36.075 --> 28:36.738 align:start YOU WANT TO BRIEFLY EXPLAIN WHAT 28:36.741 --> 28:37.871 align:start YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? 28:37.874 --> 28:39.005 align:start >> HERE IN BATON ROUGE THERE'S A 28:39.008 --> 28:40.871 align:start TAX THAT DIDN'T PASS THAT WOULD 28:40.874 --> 28:42.972 align:start HAVE HELPED US ADDRESS THE LARGE 28:42.975 --> 28:43.405 align:start ISSUE OF MENTAL HEALTH IN OUR 28:43.408 --> 28:45.238 align:start COMMUNITY. 28:45.241 --> 28:47.105 align:start I THINK THAT IT WAS AN 28:47.108 --> 28:48.405 align:start OPPORTUNITY THAT HOPEFULLY WILL 28:48.408 --> 28:48.905 align:start A -- WE'LL ADDRESS AGAIN IN THE 28:48.908 --> 28:49.938 align:start NEAR FUTURE. 28:49.941 --> 28:51.472 align:start BUT IT WAS SOMETHING THAT I 28:51.475 --> 28:53.538 align:start BELIEVE WOULD HAVE HELPED US OUT 28:53.541 --> 28:54.905 align:start SUBSTANTIALLY. 28:54.908 --> 28:56.205 align:start >> UNFORTUNATELY, NOT ONLY IN 28:56.208 --> 28:58.438 align:start THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH I'M 28:58.441 --> 29:00.938 align:start SURE IT EXISTS IN THE POLICE 29:00.941 --> 29:04.005 align:start DEPARTMENT, BUT AS WE TALK ABOUT 29:04.008 --> 29:06.805 align:start MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSALLY, THERE 29:06.808 --> 29:08.472 align:start IS A STIGMA ATTACHED TO THE 29:08.475 --> 29:08.805 align:start RECOGNITION THAT YOU NEED MENTAL 29:08.808 --> 29:10.371 align:start HEALTH. 29:10.374 --> 29:12.671 align:start WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HEALTH CARE, 29:12.674 --> 29:13.838 align:start WE USUALLY THINK ABOUT OUR 29:13.841 --> 29:16.171 align:start PHYSICAL HEALTH. 29:16.174 --> 29:18.072 align:start AND VERY LITTLE EMPHASIS IS PUT 29:18.075 --> 29:18.705 align:start ON OUR MENTAL HEALTH OR 29:18.708 --> 29:23.005 align:start BEHAVIORAL HEALTH. 29:23.008 --> 29:25.038 align:start AND SO I BELIEVE THAT THAT IS 29:25.041 --> 29:27.505 align:start INCUMBENT ALSO UPON THE LEADER, 29:27.508 --> 29:31.038 align:start FOR EXAMPLE, IN IN DEPARTMENTS. 29:31.041 --> 29:32.238 align:start THE LEADERS IN OUR POLICE 29:32.241 --> 29:34.305 align:start DEPARTMENTS SPECIFICALLY, TO 29:34.308 --> 29:36.771 align:start RECOGNIZE THAT THIS -- POST 29:36.774 --> 29:39.972 align:start TRAUMATIC STRESS IS GOING ON AND 29:39.975 --> 29:41.972 align:start MAKE SURE THAT THE OFFICERS GET 29:41.975 --> 29:46.138 align:start THE ASSISTANCE THAT THEY NEED. 29:46.141 --> 29:47.938 align:start BUT FIRST OF ALL, IT HAS TO BE 29:47.941 --> 29:49.205 align:start DE-STIGMATIZED. 29:49.208 --> 29:50.138 align:start >> WE WOULD IMPLEMENT OR START 29:50.141 --> 29:51.505 align:start LOOKING AT WHAT THE MAYOR IS 29:51.508 --> 29:54.005 align:start TALKING ABOUT OF DROPPING THE 29:54.008 --> 29:55.671 align:start STIGMA AND BEING ABLE TO INSIDE 29:55.674 --> 29:57.072 align:start OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENTS OR OUR 29:57.075 --> 29:59.605 align:start SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENTS, ACROSS 29:59.608 --> 30:00.805 align:start THE STATE, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE, 30:00.808 --> 30:01.738 align:start WHETHER IT'S -- MAYBE I'M NOT 30:01.741 --> 30:03.238 align:start USING THE RIGHT WORD. 30:03.241 --> 30:04.705 align:start NOT NECESSARILY A CRISIS 30:04.708 --> 30:06.405 align:start INTERVENTION COUNSELOR, BUT 30:06.408 --> 30:08.405 align:start PEOPLE THAT ARE THERE WHETHER 30:08.408 --> 30:10.639 align:start IT'S PEER COUNSELING, THAT 30:10.642 --> 30:11.572 align:start THEY'RE ABLE TO REACH OUT TO 30:11.575 --> 30:12.938 align:start AND -- TO SHARE WITH. 30:12.941 --> 30:15.372 align:start AND LET ME TELL YOU WHAT. 30:15.375 --> 30:16.438 align:start THAT EXPANDS INTO THE 30:16.441 --> 30:16.905 align:start NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE 30:16.908 --> 30:19.572 align:start COMMUNITIES. 30:19.575 --> 30:23.539 align:start IF YOU HAVE OFFICERS THAT ARE 30:23.542 --> 30:25.405 align:start TRAINED IN PEER COUNSELING, AND 30:25.408 --> 30:28.039 align:start UNDERSTAND HOW TO REACH OUT AND 30:28.042 --> 30:29.005 align:start SEE THOSE THINGS, THOSE 30:29.008 --> 30:31.905 align:start OFFICERS, WHETHER THEY'RE 30:31.908 --> 30:37.272 align:start SERVING IN THE SCHOOLS, IN AN 30:37.275 --> 30:39.072 align:start SR -- A SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER 30:39.075 --> 30:40.905 align:start CAPACITY, IT MAY GIVE THEM AN 30:40.908 --> 30:42.938 align:start EXTRA TOOL TO BE ABLE TO SEE, 30:42.941 --> 30:44.805 align:start THIS YOUNG PERSON OR THIS PERSON 30:44.808 --> 30:47.072 align:start HAS THE POTENTIAL THAT WE MAYBE 30:47.075 --> 30:49.405 align:start NEED TO REACH OUT AND INTERVENE 30:49.408 --> 30:52.405 align:start TO TRY TO GET SOME OF SOME OF 30:52.408 --> 30:52.938 align:start THAT MEL TAN HELP -- MENTAL HELP 30:52.941 --> 30:53.438 align:start THAT THEY NEED. 30:53.441 --> 30:55.539 align:start >> THANK YOU. 30:55.542 --> 30:56.772 align:start THIS MAY BE A GOOD TIME TO SHARE 30:56.775 --> 30:57.772 align:start SOME STREETS FROM THE PEW 30:57.775 --> 30:58.705 align:start RESEARCH CENTER -- STATISTICS 30:58.708 --> 31:00.904 align:start FROM THE PEW RESEARCH CENTER 31:00.907 --> 31:02.339 align:start WHICH SURVEYED ABOUT 8,000 31:02.342 --> 31:03.606 align:start POLICE OFFICERS LAST SUMMER AND 31:03.609 --> 31:04.004 align:start THE CONCLUSIONS ARE VERY 31:04.007 --> 31:07.171 align:start INTERESTING. 31:07.174 --> 31:09.738 align:start WHILE ABOUT 8 IN 10 OFFICERS, 31:09.741 --> 31:10.971 align:start 58%, SAID THEY NEARLY ALWAYS OR 31:10.974 --> 31:13.838 align:start OFTEN FEEL PROUD ABOUT THEIR 31:13.841 --> 31:16.771 align:start WORK, ABOUT HALF, 51%, SAID IT 31:16.774 --> 31:17.171 align:start ALWAYS OR OFTEN MAKES THEM FEEL 31:17.174 --> 31:19.004 align:start FRUSTRATED. 31:19.007 --> 31:20.272 align:start OFFICERS ALSO REPORT THAT THEY 31:20.275 --> 31:22.639 align:start ENCOUNTER A RANGE OF REACTIONS 31:22.642 --> 31:25.004 align:start FROM THE PUBLIC ABOUT EIGHT IN 31:25.007 --> 31:26.305 align:start 10, 79%, SAY THEY HAVE BEEN 31:26.308 --> 31:27.871 align:start THANKED BY A COMMUNITY MEMBER 31:27.874 --> 31:28.372 align:start FOR THEIR SERVICE IN THE PAST 31:28.375 --> 31:30.105 align:start MONTH. 31:30.108 --> 31:31.738 align:start BUT TWO-THIRDS SAY THEY HAVE 31:31.741 --> 31:32.738 align:start BEEN VERBALLY ABUSED BY A 31:32.741 --> 31:33.804 align:start COMMUNITY MEMBER DURING THE SAME 31:33.807 --> 31:36.738 align:start TIME PERIOD. 31:36.741 --> 31:38.105 align:start MANY OFFICERS, 55%, SAID THAT 31:38.108 --> 31:40.138 align:start THEY HAD BOTH EXPERIENCES. 31:40.141 --> 31:41.639 align:start SO SOME VERY INTERESTING 31:41.642 --> 31:43.904 align:start STATISTICS ON THE ATTITUDES AND 31:43.907 --> 31:45.771 align:start EXPERIENCES OF POLICE OFFICERS. 31:45.774 --> 31:47.372 align:start NOW, I'LL TOSS IT BACK OVER TO 31:47.375 --> 31:48.738 align:start ROBYN FOR ANOTHER. 31:48.741 --> 31:49.105 align:start >> I WANT TO GIVE A LITTLE 31:49.108 --> 31:50.639 align:start CONTEXT. 31:50.642 --> 31:52.439 align:start LOCAL AND NATIONAL MEDIA RAN THE 31:52.442 --> 31:53.804 align:start NOW FAMOUS POST OF OFFICER 31:53.807 --> 31:55.672 align:start JACKSON OVER AND OVER WITH THE 31:55.675 --> 31:56.672 align:start PART THAT SAYS, DON'T LET HATE 31:56.675 --> 31:58.672 align:start INFECT YOUR HEART. 31:58.675 --> 31:59.904 align:start BUT MOST OF THEM CONTINUOUSLY 31:59.907 --> 32:02.038 align:start GLOSS OVER THE PART THAT SAID, 32:02.041 --> 32:03.205 align:start OUT OF UNIFORM SOME CONSIDER ME 32:03.208 --> 32:05.038 align:start A THREAT. 32:05.041 --> 32:06.306 align:start AFTER WATCHING THE SERVICES OF 32:06.309 --> 32:08.138 align:start OFFICER DARRELL AND SHERIFF, I 32:08.141 --> 32:12.673 align:start WAS A PART OF THE MEDIA TEAM AT 32:12.676 --> 32:15.038 align:start LIVING FACE CHRISTIAN CENTER IF 32:15.041 --> 32:17.306 align:start THAT FACILITATED THE SERVICE. 32:17.309 --> 32:20.339 align:start WHEN THE PEACE OFFICER 32:20.342 --> 32:21.971 align:start ASSOCIATION GOT UP TO MAKE A -- 32:21.974 --> 32:22.639 align:start I KNEW THEY WEREN'T AT THE OTHER 32:22.642 --> 32:24.038 align:start TWO SERVICES. 32:24.041 --> 32:24.639 align:start AND IT HIT ME AT THE GUT. 32:24.642 --> 32:26.272 align:start THAT'S THE BLACK POLICE 32:26.275 --> 32:27.838 align:start OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION. 32:27.841 --> 32:30.071 align:start SO WHEN I GOT HOME I GOOGLED IT 32:30.074 --> 32:31.238 align:start AND I FOUND OUT THAT WAS AN 32:31.241 --> 32:31.971 align:start ASSOCIATION THAT STARTED THIS 32:31.974 --> 32:33.005 align:start TEXAS BECAUSE BLACK LAW 32:33.008 --> 32:34.706 align:start ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WERE NOT 32:34.709 --> 32:35.706 align:start ALLOWED TO JOIN THE POLICE 32:35.709 --> 32:38.572 align:start ASSOCIATIONS IN LOUISIANA SO 32:38.575 --> 32:39.038 align:start THEY WENT TO TEXAS AND STARTED A 32:39.041 --> 32:40.138 align:start CHAPTER HERE. 32:40.141 --> 32:41.306 align:start SO GIVEN THAT WE'RE PUSHING FOR 32:41.309 --> 32:44.739 align:start UNITY BETWEEN THE BLACK AND THE 32:44.742 --> 32:46.506 align:start BLUE AND ALL OF BATON ROUGE, 32:46.509 --> 32:48.539 align:start WITH THE EXISTENCE OF SEPARATE 32:48.542 --> 32:50.238 align:start POLICE UNITS, YOU HO DO WE GET 32:50.241 --> 32:50.938 align:start THE COMMUNITY TO TRUST THE 32:50.941 --> 32:52.472 align:start BATON ROUGE POLICE DEPARTMENT 32:52.475 --> 32:53.838 align:start WITHOUT THEM FIRST HEALING THE 32:53.841 --> 32:55.205 align:start DIVISION WITHIN THEMSELVES? 32:55.208 --> 32:57.406 align:start >> I THINK IT COMES BACK TO 32:57.409 --> 32:58.272 align:start PARKING 32:58.275 --> 33:00.572 align:start PERSPECTIVE TO WHAT ARE THE 33:00.575 --> 33:02.138 align:start DIFFERENT ASSOCIATIONS 33:02.141 --> 33:06.438 align:start ATTEMPTING TO DO FOR THAT 33:06.441 --> 33:08.572 align:start OFFICER OR FOR THE MEMBER OF -- 33:08.575 --> 33:08.872 align:start OF THE ORGANIZATION THAT'S 33:08.875 --> 33:11.072 align:start THERE. 33:11.075 --> 33:12.172 align:start WE TRY, AND I CAN ONLY -- I ONLY 33:12.175 --> 33:14.005 align:start CAN SPEAK FOR MY ORGANIZATION. 33:14.008 --> 33:15.805 align:start I CAN'T SPEAK FOR ANYONE -- 33:15.808 --> 33:17.605 align:start ANOTHER ORGANIZATION. 33:17.608 --> 33:19.372 align:start WE -- AND I'VE BEEN PRESIDENT, 33:19.375 --> 33:23.972 align:start HAVE REACHED OUT TO TRY AND DO 33:23.975 --> 33:25.572 align:start AS MUCH AS WE CAN TO BRIDGE THE 33:25.575 --> 33:27.405 align:start UNITY THAT -- OR THE UNITY THAT 33:27.408 --> 33:28.938 align:start WE SHOULD HAVE. 33:28.941 --> 33:31.705 align:start I HAVE REACHED OUT I THINK MORE 33:31.708 --> 33:33.272 align:start THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT THAT'S 33:33.275 --> 33:35.405 align:start BEEN BEFORE ME, WHERE WE HAVE 33:35.408 --> 33:37.438 align:start NOT ONLY REACHED OUT TO MAGNOLIA 33:37.441 --> 33:39.538 align:start ON MY LOCAL LEVEL, THAT'S THERE 33:39.541 --> 33:42.672 align:start TO TRY AND SAY, LET'S COME 33:42.675 --> 33:44.472 align:start TOGETHER AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WE 33:44.475 --> 33:47.472 align:start NEED TO DO TOGETHER AS A WHOLE 33:47.475 --> 33:47.839 align:start INSTEAD OF AS FRACTURED 33:47.842 --> 33:49.972 align:start DIVISIONS. 33:49.975 --> 33:52.339 align:start BUT YOU DO HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT 33:52.342 --> 33:56.505 align:start ARE PART OF ALL ORGANIZATIONS 33:56.508 --> 33:56.805 align:start THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO -- LOSE 33:56.808 --> 33:58.739 align:start NAR. 33:58.742 --> 34:01.306 align:start BIT OF POWER, MAYBE, IS THE BEST 34:01.309 --> 34:03.005 align:start WAY TO SAY IT. 34:03.008 --> 34:05.205 align:start AND I THINK YOU NOT ONLY SEE 34:05.208 --> 34:07.839 align:start THAT IN POLICE ORGANIZATIONS. 34:07.842 --> 34:08.272 align:start BUT YOU SEE THAT IN ALL 34:08.275 --> 34:09.672 align:start ORGANIZATIONS. 34:09.675 --> 34:12.339 align:start THAT SOMEBODY IS AFRAID OF WHAT 34:12.342 --> 34:12.639 align:start THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE UP OR 34:12.642 --> 34:15.806 align:start LOSE. 34:15.809 --> 34:18.639 align:start AND MAYBE WE NEED TO DO A BETTER 34:18.642 --> 34:20.239 align:start JOB ORGANIZATIONAL ALREADY WISE 34:20.242 --> 34:21.672 align:start AS TRYING TO BRING THEM -- BRING 34:21.675 --> 34:25.372 align:start THE ORGANIZATIONS TOGETHER, 34:25.375 --> 34:27.605 align:start BECAUSE I THINK THE PERSPECTIVE 34:27.608 --> 34:29.739 align:start IS -- FOR THE MOST PART, IS -- 34:29.742 --> 34:33.972 align:start IS THE SAME. 34:33.975 --> 34:37.472 align:start WHILE YOU CAN'T IGNORE THAT 34:37.475 --> 34:38.272 align:start THERE ARE RACIAL -- THERE'S A 34:38.275 --> 34:39.005 align:start RACIAL DIVIDE IN ANYTHING THAT 34:39.008 --> 34:40.639 align:start YOU DO. 34:40.642 --> 34:42.639 align:start I THINK IT'S THERE BECAUSE THE 34:42.642 --> 34:44.439 align:start PERSPECTIVE IS DIFFERENT. 34:44.442 --> 34:45.939 align:start WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO AS AN 34:45.942 --> 34:47.672 align:start ORGANIZATION IS I HAVE TO TRY 34:47.675 --> 34:49.672 align:start BETTER TO UNDERSTAND 34:49.675 --> 34:50.972 align:start REPRESENTATIVE JAMES' 34:50.975 --> 34:52.605 align:start PERSPECTIVE, WHERE HE NEEDS TO 34:52.608 --> 34:53.039 align:start TRY AND BETTER UNDERSTAND MY 34:53.042 --> 34:54.539 align:start PERSPECTIVE. 34:54.542 --> 34:57.839 align:start IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN ALL DO 34:57.842 --> 34:59.272 align:start BETTER OF TRYING TO -- TO BRIDGE 34:59.275 --> 35:02.205 align:start THAT GAP BETWEEN THEM. 35:02.208 --> 35:03.772 align:start >> IN JULY MY DAUGHTER WENT TO 35:03.775 --> 35:05.706 align:start PROTEST ON THAT SATURDAY WHERE 35:05.709 --> 35:08.238 align:start THEY ARRESTED OVER 200 PEOPLE, 35:08.241 --> 35:09.572 align:start ABOUT 200 PEOPLE. 35:09.575 --> 35:10.372 align:start AND AT THAT TIME I BEGGED HER 35:10.375 --> 35:12.238 align:start NOT TO GO. 35:12.241 --> 35:13.806 align:start BUT SHE WANTED TO DO IT FOR HER 35:13.809 --> 35:16.739 align:start SON, FOR THE FUTURE OF HER SON 35:16.742 --> 35:17.005 align:start OR ANY OTHER CHILDREN THAT SHE 35:17.008 --> 35:19.038 align:start HAS. 35:19.041 --> 35:20.839 align:start WHEN THEY WERE DOWN THERE, AT 35:20.842 --> 35:23.205 align:start THIS TIME IT WAS PEACEFUL. 35:23.208 --> 35:25.572 align:start AND MY OLDEST DAUGHTER CALLED 35:25.575 --> 35:25.939 align:start AND SAID, MOM, THEY'VE GOT 35:25.942 --> 35:26.506 align:start INITIAL. 35:26.509 --> 35:27.271 align:start WHAT DO YOU MEAN. 35:27.274 --> 35:28.405 align:start THEY ARRESTED HER. 35:28.408 --> 35:29.338 align:start MY DAUGHTER WAS IN THE STREET. 35:29.341 --> 35:30.706 align:start NOBODY WAS IN THE STREET. 35:30.709 --> 35:32.271 align:start THEY WERE PICKING PEOPLE AT 35:32.274 --> 35:38.572 align:start RANDOM TIMES JUST TO ARREST. 35:38.575 --> 35:39.672 align:start IT TOOK FIVE MEN ON MY 5'4" 35:39.675 --> 35:40.806 align:start DAUGHTER, PUT HER HEAD IN THE 35:40.809 --> 35:42.105 align:start STREET AND ARRESTED HER. 35:42.108 --> 35:42.572 align:start YANKED HER OUT OF THE CROWD AND 35:42.575 --> 35:43.672 align:start ARRESTED HER. 35:43.675 --> 35:45.105 align:start I HAVE VIDEO OF MY DAUGHTER 35:45.108 --> 35:46.839 align:start STANDING IN THE CROWD AND BEING 35:46.842 --> 35:49.071 align:start YANKED OUT BY BIG POLICE 35:49.074 --> 35:50.271 align:start OFFICERS WITH HER FACE PRESSED 35:50.274 --> 35:51.906 align:start DOWN IN THE STREET. 35:51.909 --> 35:53.338 align:start AND I HAVE PICTURES ON MY PHONE 35:53.341 --> 35:54.305 align:start NOW WHERE SHE HAD BRUISES ALL ON 35:54.308 --> 35:56.071 align:start HER FACE. 35:56.074 --> 35:57.405 align:start WHAT CAN WE DO TO ASSURE THAT 35:57.408 --> 35:59.739 align:start WHEN THEY GO OUT THERE AND 35:59.742 --> 36:01.305 align:start PROATH FOR BETTERMENT OF THEIR 36:01.308 --> 36:03.238 align:start LIVES AND THEIR CHILDREN'S 36:03.241 --> 36:04.605 align:start LIVES, WHAT CAN WE DO TO MAKE 36:04.608 --> 36:05.805 align:start SURE THEY ARE SAFE? 36:05.808 --> 36:07.372 align:start >> MAYOR BROOME? 36:07.375 --> 36:09.305 align:start >> YEAH, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME 36:09.308 --> 36:12.105 align:start SAY I'M SORRY FOR WHAT HAPPENED 36:12.108 --> 36:14.539 align:start TO YOUR DAUGHTER. 36:14.542 --> 36:17.072 align:start SECONDLY, LET ME SAY THAT I 36:17.075 --> 36:20.005 align:start BELIEVE PEACEFUL PROTESTS IS 36:20.008 --> 36:20.405 align:start PART OF THE AMERICAN WAY. 36:20.408 --> 36:23.072 align:start >> YES. 36:23.075 --> 36:25.039 align:start >> AND I ALSO BELIEVE THAT -- 36:25.042 --> 36:26.505 align:start AFTER I HEARD OF WHAT HAPPENED 36:26.508 --> 36:28.672 align:start LAST YEAR -- KEEP IN MIND I WAS 36:28.675 --> 36:30.672 align:start NOT THE MAYOR AT THAT TIME. 36:30.675 --> 36:33.105 align:start BUT I DO BELIEVE IN A EVERYTHING 36:33.108 --> 36:34.972 align:start RISES AND FALLS UPON LEADERSHIP 36:34.975 --> 36:37.605 align:start AND I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE 36:37.608 --> 36:39.572 align:start WAYS THAT SITUATIONS CAN BE 36:39.575 --> 36:41.272 align:start HANDLED SO THAT THERE AREN'T 36:41.275 --> 36:42.838 align:start SITUATIONS LIKE WHAT HAPPENED TO 36:42.841 --> 36:44.772 align:start YOUR DAUGHTER WHO AS YOU'RE 36:44.775 --> 36:46.039 align:start SHARING WITH US NOW WAS 36:46.042 --> 36:47.772 align:start PEACEFULLY PROTESTING. 36:47.775 --> 36:49.172 align:start I'VE BEEN TALKING TO PEOPLE FROM 36:49.175 --> 36:51.372 align:start AROUND THE COUNTRY AND MANY OF 36:51.375 --> 36:53.238 align:start YOU PERHAPS HAVE SEEN SOME 36:53.241 --> 36:55.605 align:start SNAPSHOTS OF DIFFERENT INSTANCES 36:55.608 --> 36:56.605 align:start AROUND THE COUNTRY WHERE SIMILAR 36:56.608 --> 36:59.605 align:start SITUATIONS HAVE HAPPENED. 36:59.608 --> 37:01.606 align:start FOR EXAMPLE, I BELIEVE IT WAS 37:01.609 --> 37:05.272 align:start OKLAHOMA WHEN THERE WAS A 37:05.275 --> 37:08.071 align:start KILLING THERE OF A YOUNG MAN 37:08.074 --> 37:08.472 align:start THAT THE POLICE MARCHED WITH THE 37:08.475 --> 37:10.272 align:start PROTESTORS. 37:10.275 --> 37:11.938 align:start SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT THERE 37:11.941 --> 37:14.139 align:start WAS A VERY PEACEFUL PROTEST THAT 37:14.142 --> 37:16.838 align:start TOOK PLACE. 37:16.841 --> 37:18.871 align:start SO AS MAYOR, IT IS CERTAINLY 37:18.874 --> 37:20.938 align:start GOING TO BE MY OBJECTIVE TO MAKE 37:20.941 --> 37:23.539 align:start SURE THAT PEACEFUL PROTESTS ARE 37:23.542 --> 37:25.172 align:start EXACTLY JUST THAT, AND THAT 37:25.175 --> 37:26.339 align:start THOSE WHO SERVE TO PROTECT AND 37:26.342 --> 37:28.339 align:start SERVE WILL DO THAT. 37:28.342 --> 37:30.938 align:start I ALSO THINK THAT THERE HAS TO 37:30.941 --> 37:33.071 align:start BE AN UNDERSTANDING, AND I'VE 37:33.074 --> 37:34.539 align:start CONSISTENTLY SAID THIS TO -- OF 37:34.542 --> 37:38.038 align:start MUTUAL RESPECT. 37:38.041 --> 37:40.539 align:start I HAVE SAID THAT REFORM, POLICE 37:40.542 --> 37:40.938 align:start REFORM DOESN'T MEAN POLICE 37:40.941 --> 37:42.738 align:start REJECTION. 37:42.741 --> 37:44.904 align:start IT MEANS THAT WE WANT TO 37:44.907 --> 37:46.606 align:start TRANSFORM THINGS SO THAT WE HAVE 37:46.609 --> 37:49.971 align:start A BETTER DEPARTMENT, WHERE 37:49.974 --> 37:50.372 align:start POLICE AND CITIZENS WORK 37:50.375 --> 37:51.038 align:start TOGETHER. 37:51.041 --> 37:52.938 align:start >> THANK YOU, MAYOR. 37:52.941 --> 37:53.305 align:start WE'LL GO BACK TO ROBYN FOR A 37:53.308 --> 37:54.938 align:start QUESTION. 37:54.941 --> 37:56.272 align:start >> MY NAME IS DAWN POWELL. 37:56.275 --> 37:57.372 align:start AND I AM WITH LOUISIANA 37:57.375 --> 38:00.272 align:start FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE BUT I 38:00.275 --> 38:02.005 align:start ALSO AM A DEPUTY SHERIFF ON THE 38:02.008 --> 38:02.672 align:start EAST SIDE OF THE PARISH -- EAST 38:02.675 --> 38:04.205 align:start SIDE OF THE STATE. 38:04.208 --> 38:05.605 align:start AND I WAS JUST CURIOUS, I GUESS 38:05.608 --> 38:06.738 align:start THIS IS MORE FOR THE 38:06.741 --> 38:08.871 align:start REPRESENTATIVE, IF THE 38:08.874 --> 38:11.038 align:start LEGISLATOR IS WILLING TO WORK TO 38:11.041 --> 38:14.971 align:start COMMIT FUNDS FOR REALITY-BASED 38:14.974 --> 38:16.138 align:start SCENARIO TRAINING FOR OFFICERS. 38:16.141 --> 38:18.438 align:start >> SO REPRESENTATIVE JAMES, WE 38:18.441 --> 38:18.771 align:start JUST HEARD A SCENARIO FROM A 38:18.774 --> 38:19.572 align:start MOTHER. 38:19.575 --> 38:22.938 align:start >> YEAH, YEAH. 38:22.941 --> 38:24.638 align:start >> AND HOW MIGHT POLICE HAVE 38:24.641 --> 38:26.138 align:start REACTED A A LITTLE BIT BETTER 38:26.141 --> 38:27.238 align:start GIVEN THE NEED FOR FUNDING? 38:27.241 --> 38:28.738 align:start >> I'M LAUGHING ABOUT FUNDING. 38:28.741 --> 38:31.371 align:start NOT ABOUT THE QUESTION, JUST THE 38:31.374 --> 38:33.471 align:start FUNDING PIECE AS WE -- STRUGGLE 38:33.474 --> 38:35.505 align:start NOW TO FUND BASICALLY SERVICES. 38:35.508 --> 38:37.105 align:start I'LL TELL YOU THAT FOR ME, I 38:37.108 --> 38:39.705 align:start WOULD BE WILLING TO FIGHT FOR 38:39.708 --> 38:41.905 align:start ANY FUNDING THAT WILL IMPROVE 38:41.908 --> 38:44.371 align:start TRAINING FOR POLICE OFFICERS. 38:44.374 --> 38:45.505 align:start I BELIEVE THAT WITH THE 38:45.508 --> 38:46.871 align:start SUPPLEMENTAL PAY, I BELIEVE THAT 38:46.874 --> 38:47.971 align:start WE COULD DO MORE THERE FOR 38:47.974 --> 38:49.438 align:start CERTAIN OFFICERS. 38:49.441 --> 38:51.005 align:start BUT WHEN WE HAVE THESE 38:51.008 --> 38:52.871 align:start CONVERSATIONS, WE TALKED A LOT 38:52.874 --> 38:54.672 align:start ABOUT TRAINING AND IT ALL GOES 38:54.675 --> 38:56.672 align:start BACK TO RESOURCES. 38:56.675 --> 38:58.138 align:start BUT UNFORTUNATELY, SOME -- SOME 38:58.141 --> 39:01.038 align:start OF MY COLLEAGUES DON'T BELIEVE 39:01.041 --> 39:03.172 align:start THAT WE NEED MORE RESOURCES. 39:03.175 --> 39:05.505 align:start SO AS WE STRUGGLE TO FUND BASIC 39:05.508 --> 39:07.572 align:start THINGS HERE IN THE STATE, I KNOW 39:07.575 --> 39:09.271 align:start BASED ON THE FOLKS THAT I SERVE 39:09.274 --> 39:11.638 align:start WITH, IF LAW ENFORCEMENT COMES 39:11.641 --> 39:13.605 align:start TO US WITH A SOLID PROPOSAL, I 39:13.608 --> 39:14.538 align:start THINK THAT WE'LL WORK TO FUND 39:14.541 --> 39:16.871 align:start SOME OF THOSE THINGS. 39:16.874 --> 39:17.205 align:start BUT IT HAS TO BE OF COURSE 39:17.208 --> 39:18.471 align:start EQUITY. 39:18.474 --> 39:20.105 align:start WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT 39:20.108 --> 39:21.338 align:start TRAINING, TRAINING, TRAINING. 39:21.341 --> 39:23.105 align:start AND THOSE ARE CERTAIN THINGS 39:23.108 --> 39:24.405 align:start THAT OUR DEPARTMENTS WOULD NEED. 39:24.408 --> 39:26.705 align:start I THINK THAT THERE WILL BE A 39:26.708 --> 39:27.005 align:start WILL AMONGST THE BODY TO FUND 39:27.008 --> 39:28.405 align:start THEM. 39:28.408 --> 39:29.205 align:start >> I WANTED TO ASK SOMETHING IF 39:29.208 --> 39:31.172 align:start I COULD. 39:31.175 --> 39:31.905 align:start THAT WAS IN THE BATON ROUGE 39:31.908 --> 39:33.871 align:start POLICE DEPARTMENT. 39:33.874 --> 39:35.705 align:start I CERTAINLY BELIEVE THAT 39:35.708 --> 39:36.938 align:start TRAINING HAS TO BE -- OR 39:36.941 --> 39:38.638 align:start ADDITIONAL HEIGHTENED TRAINING 39:38.641 --> 39:40.438 align:start HAS TO BE A PRIORITY. 39:40.441 --> 39:42.238 align:start SO IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH HOW 39:42.241 --> 39:43.871 align:start WE SHAPE OUR PRIORITIES AND HOW 39:43.874 --> 39:46.505 align:start WE SHAPE OUR BUDGET. 39:46.508 --> 39:48.971 align:start SO THAT IS GOING TO BE PRIORITY 39:48.974 --> 39:50.638 align:start AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THE NEXT 39:50.641 --> 39:53.038 align:start BUDGET CYCLE. 39:53.041 --> 39:55.705 align:start >> MY QUESTION IS TO 39:55.708 --> 39:58.005 align:start REPRESENTATIVE JAMES. 39:58.008 --> 39:59.771 align:start FIRST OFF, I'D LIKE TO START BY 39:59.774 --> 40:02.639 align:start SAYING THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT IS 40:02.642 --> 40:05.872 align:start ONE OF THE MOST NOBLE 40:05.875 --> 40:07.072 align:start PROFESSIONS THERE IS. 40:07.075 --> 40:08.338 align:start MANY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS 40:08.341 --> 40:11.739 align:start HAVE DISPLAYED THAT THROUGH THE 40:11.742 --> 40:13.172 align:start COURSE OF THEIR CAREER. 40:13.175 --> 40:16.639 align:start UNFORTUNATELY, IN BLACK, 40:16.642 --> 40:18.072 align:start LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES, I WOULD 40:18.075 --> 40:19.972 align:start BE -- OUR WOULD-BE GUARDIANS 40:19.975 --> 40:20.572 align:start HAVE ASSUMED THE ROLE OF 40:20.575 --> 40:23.372 align:start WARRIORS. 40:23.375 --> 40:25.872 align:start SO NATIONWIDE WHAT WE HAVE SEEN 40:25.875 --> 40:29.105 align:start UNFORTUNATELY IS SYSTEMATIC 40:29.108 --> 40:32.938 align:start FAILURE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AS 40:32.941 --> 40:34.372 align:start WELL AS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IN 40:34.375 --> 40:35.905 align:start TRITION TO TRANSPARENCY. 40:35.908 --> 40:36.838 align:start I THINK THAT'S A HUGE COMPONENT 40:36.841 --> 40:38.139 align:start WITH EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON 40:38.142 --> 40:39.272 align:start HERE IN BATON ROUGE AS WELL AS 40:39.275 --> 40:42.205 align:start ACROSS THE NATION. 40:42.208 --> 40:43.405 align:start SO MY QUESTION TO YOU, 40:43.408 --> 40:48.005 align:start REPRESENTATIVE JAMES, WITH ALL 40:48.008 --> 40:51.072 align:start OF THE MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES 40:51.075 --> 40:52.139 align:start THAT TAKE THE RISK AWAY FROM 40:52.142 --> 40:54.505 align:start POOR PERFORMANCE, BAD 40:54.508 --> 40:55.605 align:start PERFORMANCE BY A POLICE 40:55.608 --> 40:58.872 align:start OFFICERS -- BY POLICE OFFICERS, 40:58.875 --> 41:03.739 align:start THE POLICIES, THE STATE 41:03.742 --> 41:04.772 align:start LEGISLATED INVESTIGATIONS, THE 41:04.775 --> 41:08.472 align:start COLLEAGUE-DRIVEN INVESTIGATIONS, 41:08.475 --> 41:10.205 align:start AS WELL AS THE OFFICER'S WRITTEN 41:10.208 --> 41:12.472 align:start REPORTS, HOW IN THIS ENVIRONMENT 41:12.475 --> 41:14.439 align:start CAN WE ENSURE TRANSPARENCY AND 41:14.442 --> 41:16.706 align:start MOST IMPORTANT, 41:16.709 --> 41:17.439 align:start ACCOUNTEDDABILITY FOR LAW 41:17.442 --> 41:18.706 align:start ENFORCEMENT -- ACCOUNTABILITY 41:18.709 --> 41:19.871 align:start FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WHO 41:19.874 --> 41:21.505 align:start DISPLAY BAD DECISIONS AND 41:21.508 --> 41:22.904 align:start CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR WHEN IT COMES 41:22.907 --> 41:24.739 align:start TO USE OF FORCE? 41:24.742 --> 41:26.971 align:start >> YOU KNOW, I'LL TELL YOU THAT 41:26.974 --> 41:28.205 align:start NUMBER ONE, IT NEEDS TO BE A 41:28.208 --> 41:29.838 align:start RECOGNITION ACROSS THE ENTIRE 41:29.841 --> 41:31.004 align:start BODY THAT WE NEED TO DO BETTER 41:31.007 --> 41:33.439 align:start WITH ACCOUNTABILITY. 41:33.442 --> 41:34.871 align:start I DON'T BELIEVE THAT ALL OF MY 41:34.874 --> 41:36.372 align:start COLLEAGUES GET THAT. 41:36.375 --> 41:37.572 align:start I'LL TELL YOU TODAY I GOT AN 41:37.575 --> 41:38.806 align:start ALERT ON MY PHONE THAT WE HAD AN 41:38.809 --> 41:41.171 align:start OFFICER WHO WAS DISCIPLINED FOR 41:41.174 --> 41:42.938 align:start SHOOTING A DOG. 41:42.941 --> 41:44.405 align:start AND NOT TO MINIMIZE ANYTHING FOR 41:44.408 --> 41:46.205 align:start THE DOG LOVERS, BUT WE STILL 41:46.208 --> 41:49.038 align:start HAVE AN ISSUE THAT TOOK PLACE 41:49.041 --> 41:50.472 align:start DOWN THE STREET AND THIS GUY HAS 41:50.475 --> 41:51.971 align:start BEEN -- ON PAID LEAVE. 41:51.974 --> 41:53.971 align:start SO WHEN THINGS LIKE THAT HAPPEN, 41:53.974 --> 41:55.505 align:start THAT GOES A LONG WAY TO TEARING 41:55.508 --> 41:57.339 align:start UP THE TRUST THAT WE'RE TRYING 41:57.342 --> 41:59.205 align:start TO BUILD BECAUSE THERE SEEMS TO 41:59.208 --> 41:59.505 align:start BE VERY LITTLE ACCOUNTABILITY 41:59.508 --> 42:01.338 align:start THERE. 42:01.341 --> 42:03.071 align:start THERE SEEMS TO BE VERY LITTLE 42:03.074 --> 42:04.005 align:start FAIRNESS THERE WHEN THOSE ISSUES 42:04.008 --> 42:06.238 align:start TAKE PLACE. 42:06.241 --> 42:08.606 align:start WE HAVE ANOTHER OFFICER. 42:08.609 --> 42:10.372 align:start YOU SAW IN THE SENATE, THERE WAS 42:10.375 --> 42:10.739 align:start JUST A DISCIPLINE AGAINST AN 42:10.742 --> 42:13.739 align:start OFFICER. 42:13.742 --> 42:15.539 align:start THE SENATE, WHICH IS A FRATERNAL 42:15.542 --> 42:16.606 align:start A LOVE, A BROTHERHOOD AND 42:16.609 --> 42:17.606 align:start SISTERHOOD, WHEN ONE OF THE 42:17.609 --> 42:19.138 align:start SENATORS STEPPED OUT OF LINE 42:19.141 --> 42:21.773 align:start THERE, WAS DISCIPLINE THERE. 42:21.776 --> 42:23.439 align:start WHEN SOME OF THE OFFICERS 42:23.442 --> 42:25.005 align:start ABIDE -- DON'T ABIDE BY POLICY, 42:25.008 --> 42:26.205 align:start WHEN THEY VIOLATE THE LAW, WE 42:26.208 --> 42:28.372 align:start NEED OFFICERS TO SPEAK UP JUST 42:28.375 --> 42:30.171 align:start LIKE OTHER FOLKS SPEAK UP. 42:30.174 --> 42:31.572 align:start AND IT'S NOT ANTIPOLICE. 42:31.575 --> 42:33.071 align:start IT'S ALL ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY. 42:33.074 --> 42:34.806 align:start IF WE WANT TO BUILD TRUST, WE 42:34.809 --> 42:35.905 align:start HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SAY, MY 42:35.908 --> 42:36.873 align:start BROTHER, I LOVE YOU, BUT YOU 42:36.876 --> 42:37.338 align:start WERE WRONG. 42:37.341 --> 42:38.305 align:start RIGHT? 42:38.308 --> 42:39.606 align:start YOU VIOLATED POLICY. 42:39.609 --> 42:41.773 align:start THAT WAS NOT GOOD POLICING. 42:41.776 --> 42:43.839 align:start AND UNTIL WE CAN HEAR THAT, 42:43.842 --> 42:45.971 align:start UNTIL WE CAN DO THAT, IT'S GOING 42:45.974 --> 42:47.639 align:start TO BE A VERY HARD TIME TO 42:47.642 --> 42:48.773 align:start ESTABLISH THE TRUST, BUT IT'S 42:48.776 --> 42:51.071 align:start ALSO GOING TO BE HARD FOR US IN 42:51.074 --> 42:53.472 align:start THE LEGISLATURE TO FIGHT TO 42:53.475 --> 42:55.071 align:start IMPROVE THESE CHANGES, BECAUSE 42:55.074 --> 42:56.272 align:start JUST GIVEN BY ME SAYING THAT 42:56.275 --> 42:58.238 align:start NOW, I GUARANTEE YOU THAT THERE 42:58.241 --> 42:59.171 align:start WILL BE SOME FEGTIVE COMMENTS -- 42:59.174 --> 43:00.606 align:start NEGATIVE COMMENTS. 43:00.609 --> 43:01.972 align:start I'M GOING TO BE ANTIPOLICE. 43:01.975 --> 43:03.839 align:start BUT IT IS GOING TO BE EXTREMELY 43:03.842 --> 43:07.339 align:start HARD TO BREAK DOWN THOSE 43:07.342 --> 43:08.305 align:start STIGMAS, BECAUSE IT IS AN AN US 43:08.308 --> 43:09.905 align:start VERSUS THEM AND IT SHOULDN'T BE 43:09.908 --> 43:11.538 align:start THAT WAY. 43:11.541 --> 43:13.472 align:start WE SHOULD HAVE A PROCEDURE IN 43:13.475 --> 43:14.638 align:start PLACE TO WHERE OFFICERS WHO 43:14.641 --> 43:17.238 align:start VIOLATE PRACTICE, PROCEDURE, OR 43:17.241 --> 43:18.372 align:start THE LAW, SHOULD BE DISCIPLINED 43:18.375 --> 43:19.305 align:start AND IT GOES A LONG WAY TO 43:19.308 --> 43:20.872 align:start ESTABLISHING THE TRUST THAT WE 43:20.875 --> 43:22.439 align:start ALL WANT. 43:22.442 --> 43:24.439 align:start >> I AGREE WITH THE 43:24.442 --> 43:26.205 align:start REPRESENTATIVE, THAT -- NO GOOD 43:26.208 --> 43:29.538 align:start POLICE OFFICER WANTS TO SEE 43:29.541 --> 43:32.238 align:start ANOTHER BAD POLICE OFFICER STAY. 43:32.241 --> 43:33.839 align:start -- I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE 43:33.842 --> 43:37.772 align:start NEGATIVE CONNOTATIONS THAT'S 43:37.775 --> 43:38.839 align:start BEEN DROPPED ON US OF -- FOR -- 43:38.842 --> 43:40.205 align:start WHETHER IT'S SYSTEMATIC PROBLEMS 43:40.208 --> 43:41.705 align:start OR WHATEVER. 43:41.708 --> 43:43.138 align:start BUT I WANT TO GO BACK AND 43:43.141 --> 43:43.939 align:start ADDRESS SOMETHING THAT THE 43:43.942 --> 43:46.005 align:start REPRESENTATIVE TALKED ABOUT, 43:46.008 --> 43:48.105 align:start ABOUT THE PAID LEAVE. 43:48.108 --> 43:50.572 align:start AND I GUESS -- YOU KNOW, AND 43:50.575 --> 43:52.472 align:start THERE'S ALWAYS THE POLAR ENDS OF 43:52.475 --> 43:54.405 align:start WHAT CAN HAPPEN AND WHAT GOES 43:54.408 --> 43:57.272 align:start WRONG. 43:57.275 --> 43:59.905 align:start WITHOUT -- AS ALL YOU KNOW THAT 43:59.908 --> 44:03.506 align:start NEW ORLEANS IS UNDER A FEDERAL 44:03.509 --> 44:04.439 align:start CONSENT DECREE ASK THEY'RE 44:04.442 --> 44:06.105 align:start ANGATION-DRIVEN -- AND THEY'RE 44:06.108 --> 44:07.739 align:start AL ALLEGATION-DRIVEN SYSTEM. 44:07.742 --> 44:08.506 align:start SO TWO EXAMPLES FROM THE POLICE 44:08.509 --> 44:10.506 align:start OFFICER'S PERSPECTIVE OF WHERE 44:10.509 --> 44:11.872 align:start THE ISSUES COME IN. 44:11.875 --> 44:13.739 align:start ONE, THERE'S AN ALLEGATION GOING 44:13.742 --> 44:15.039 align:start ON RIGHT NOW IN THE CITY OF 44:15.042 --> 44:17.672 align:start NEW ORLEANS WHERE SOMEBODY FROM 44:17.675 --> 44:18.605 align:start AUSTRALIA WAS ABLE TO CALL IN A 44:18.608 --> 44:22.105 align:start COMPLAINT OF SOMETHING THAT WAS 44:22.108 --> 44:24.839 align:start SEEN ON NATIONAL TV THAT -- AND 44:24.842 --> 44:25.839 align:start THIS OFFICER IS HAVING THE 44:25.842 --> 44:28.006 align:start FULL-BLOWN EFFECT OF AN 44:28.009 --> 44:30.039 align:start INVESTIGATION THAT'S GOING ON 44:30.042 --> 44:31.805 align:start FROM SOMEBODY BY A TELEPHONE 44:31.808 --> 44:32.372 align:start COMPLAINT FROM STRAIGHTIA. 44:32.375 --> 44:33.506 align:start -- AUSTRALIA. 44:33.509 --> 44:35.739 align:start THE SECOND ONE IS WE HAVE AN 44:35.742 --> 44:38.672 align:start OFFICER THAT WAS INVOLVED IN A 44:38.675 --> 44:39.105 align:start SHOOTING IN THE CITY OF 44:39.108 --> 44:41.739 align:start NEW ORLEANS. 44:41.742 --> 44:42.906 align:start THE CITY CAME IN, COMPLETE 44:42.909 --> 44:44.272 align:start INVESTIGATION BY THE SHOOTING 44:44.275 --> 44:45.205 align:start TEAM, THAT THE FEDERAL MONITOR 44:45.208 --> 44:46.539 align:start HAS IN PLACE. 44:46.542 --> 44:48.639 align:start AND THE OFFICER WAS CLEARED BY 44:48.642 --> 44:53.506 align:start THE DEPARTMENT. 44:53.509 --> 44:54.439 align:start BUT BECAUSE THE -- THE D.A.'S 44:54.442 --> 44:55.772 align:start OFFICE AT THE TIME WOULD NOT 44:55.775 --> 44:58.872 align:start MAKE ANY MOVEMENT ON COMING IN 44:58.875 --> 45:00.939 align:start AND SAYING WHETHER IT WAS A, 45:00.942 --> 45:02.072 align:start QUOTE, CRIMINAL GOOD SHOOTING, 45:02.075 --> 45:05.238 align:start OR CRIMINAL BAD SHOOTING AT THE 45:05.241 --> 45:06.438 align:start TIME, THE OFFICER SIT OS -- SAT 45:06.441 --> 45:08.338 align:start ON DESK DUTY FOR ABOUT A YEAR 45:08.341 --> 45:09.405 align:start AND A HALF, I THINK, SOMEWHERE 45:09.408 --> 45:11.072 align:start AROUND THERE. 45:11.075 --> 45:12.338 align:start A LOT OF TIEMENTSZ YOU HAVE 45:12.341 --> 45:14.005 align:start OFFICERS -- TIMES YOU HAVE 45:14.008 --> 45:15.072 align:start OFFICERS THAT ARE UNDER 45:15.075 --> 45:17.705 align:start DISCRETION AND THE DEPARTMENT OR 45:17.708 --> 45:18.938 align:start FOR SOME MITIGATING 45:18.941 --> 45:21.038 align:start CIRCUMSTANCES, WE HAVE NO 45:21.041 --> 45:23.038 align:start CONTROL OVER, THAT MAYBE SOMEONE 45:23.041 --> 45:24.938 align:start WITHIN THE CITY HAS NO CONTROL 45:24.941 --> 45:27.671 align:start OVER BECAUSE OF SOMEBODY ELSE 45:27.674 --> 45:29.905 align:start THAT THEY'RE WAITING ON, IS THAT 45:29.908 --> 45:32.472 align:start OFFICER -- WHETHER IT'S A HE OR 45:32.475 --> 45:34.371 align:start A SHE-SUPPOSED TO NOT HAVE 45:34.374 --> 45:35.472 align:start THEIR -- SHE -- SUPPOSED TO BE 45:35.475 --> 45:36.405 align:start ABLE TO FEED THEIR FAMILY OF 45:36.408 --> 45:37.905 align:start WHAT'S GOING ON FOR SOMETHING 45:37.908 --> 45:39.305 align:start THAT'S COMPLETELY UNRELATED. 45:39.308 --> 45:41.005 align:start THAT'S THE KIND OF FLIP SIDE OF 45:41.008 --> 45:43.738 align:start WHAT'S THERE. 45:43.741 --> 45:44.138 align:start AND GO BACK TO MY ORIGINAL 45:44.141 --> 45:46.171 align:start STATEMENT. 45:46.174 --> 45:47.671 align:start NO -- NO GOOD POLICEMAN WANTS TO 45:47.674 --> 45:50.238 align:start SEE IT. 45:50.241 --> 45:52.905 align:start WHETHER WE NEED TO -- I THINK 45:52.908 --> 45:54.405 align:start WHAT THE MAYOR HAS ALREADY 45:54.408 --> 45:55.072 align:start ADDRESSED THROUGH POLICY 45:55.075 --> 45:55.905 align:start IMPLEMENTATION, I THINK IT 45:55.908 --> 45:56.638 align:start SHOULD BE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. 45:56.641 --> 45:59.638 align:start MY DEPARTMENT HAS IT. 45:59.641 --> 46:02.772 align:start THAT YOU'RE JUST AS RESPONSIBLE 46:02.775 --> 46:03.039 align:start TO REPORT THAT AS ANYBODY ELSE 46:03.042 --> 46:04.472 align:start IS. 46:04.475 --> 46:05.805 align:start >> AND SPEAKING OF REPORTING, I 46:05.808 --> 46:08.139 align:start WANT TO GO TO STEPHANIE RIEGEL 46:08.142 --> 46:09.805 align:start AND TALK ABOUT THE MEDIA 46:09.808 --> 46:11.505 align:start PERCEPTIONS OF THESE QUESTIONS. 46:11.508 --> 46:14.238 align:start WHAT ROLE DOES THE MEDIA PLAY IN 46:14.241 --> 46:16.039 align:start HOW THE COMMUNITY SEES THE 46:16.042 --> 46:17.405 align:start POLICE DEPARTMENT, AS PROTECTORS 46:17.408 --> 46:20.938 align:start AND HOW MAYBE THAT THEY'RE NOT 46:20.941 --> 46:22.405 align:start SEEN AS PROTECTORS ALL -- ALWAY? 46:22.408 --> 46:23.705 align:start >> I DO HAVE TO AGREE WITH 46:23.708 --> 46:25.005 align:start SOMETHING THAT SOMEBODY SAID 46:25.008 --> 46:26.238 align:start EARLIER ABOUT THE ROLE THAT -- 46:26.241 --> 46:27.438 align:start AND WHEN I TALK ABOUT THE MEDIA, 46:27.441 --> 46:29.505 align:start YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT THE BUSINESS 46:29.508 --> 46:31.072 align:start REPORT OR THE ADVOCATE PER SE, 46:31.075 --> 46:33.238 align:start BUT JUST THE NATIONAL MEDIA AND 46:33.241 --> 46:35.505 align:start THE FACT THAT WE LIVE IN AN ERA 46:35.508 --> 46:36.938 align:start OF SOCIAL MEDIA WHERE ANYTIME 46:36.941 --> 46:38.205 align:start ANY SINGLE INCIDENT HAPPENS 46:38.208 --> 46:39.805 align:start ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY, IT'S 46:39.808 --> 46:40.172 align:start ALL OF A SUDDEN A NATIONAL 46:40.175 --> 46:41.805 align:start STORY. 46:41.808 --> 46:43.705 align:start NOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT 46:43.708 --> 46:45.772 align:start A TRAGEDY AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN 46:45.775 --> 46:46.572 align:start THAT THE OFFICER INVOLVED WAS AT 46:46.575 --> 46:47.238 align:start FAULT. 46:47.241 --> 46:48.272 align:start BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN WE'RE 46:48.275 --> 46:50.338 align:start WATCHING IT ON CNN IN THE 46:50.341 --> 46:51.505 align:start MORNING WHEN THERE'S ONE POLICE 46:51.508 --> 46:52.338 align:start BRUTALITY INCIDENT IN CALIFORNIA 46:52.341 --> 46:55.039 align:start OR OKLAHOMA. 46:55.042 --> 46:56.372 align:start WHY IS THAT A NATIONAL STORY ANY 46:56.375 --> 46:58.105 align:start MORE THAN ANY MURDER IN 46:58.108 --> 46:59.005 align:start CALIFORNIA OR OKLAHOMA? 46:59.008 --> 47:01.672 align:start IS A NATIONAL STORY. 47:01.675 --> 47:03.038 align:start I REALLY DO THINK THAT THAT HAS 47:03.041 --> 47:04.239 align:start HELPED FEED THIS NARRATIVE. 47:04.242 --> 47:05.606 align:start AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S A 47:05.609 --> 47:07.004 align:start HEALTHY THING. 47:07.007 --> 47:08.971 align:start AGAIN, THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT WE 47:08.974 --> 47:09.439 align:start SHOULDN'T BE HAVING THESE 47:09.442 --> 47:10.606 align:start CONVERSATIONS. 47:10.609 --> 47:13.971 align:start BECAUSE THERE IS IMPERIAL DATA 47:13.974 --> 47:15.572 align:start THAT HAS POINTED TO PROBLEMS -- 47:15.575 --> 47:15.971 align:start EMPIRICAL DATA THAT'S POINTED TO 47:15.974 --> 47:17.004 align:start PROBLEMS. 47:17.007 --> 47:17.505 align:start THERE ARE PROBLEMS AND DATA HAS 47:17.508 --> 47:21.938 align:start ESTABLISHED THAT. 47:21.941 --> 47:22.239 align:start SO IT'S -- IMPORTANT TO TALK 47:22.242 --> 47:24.138 align:start BIT. 47:24.141 --> 47:25.439 align:start BUT I DON'T ALWAYS THINK THE 47:25.442 --> 47:27.272 align:start MEDIA SERVES THE BEST INTEREST 47:27.275 --> 47:28.071 align:start OF SOCIETY AS A WHOLE 47:28.074 --> 47:30.038 align:start WITHBLOWING -- I DON'T WANT TO 47:30.041 --> 47:30.971 align:start SAY BLOWING IT IT OUT OF 47:30.974 --> 47:32.305 align:start PROPORTION, BUT PLAYING IT TO 47:32.308 --> 47:34.738 align:start AND EXTENT THAT THEY DO. 47:34.741 --> 47:37.405 align:start >> WHAT ROLE DOES THAT HAVE FOR 47:37.408 --> 47:38.339 align:start THE BUSINESS HERE? 47:38.342 --> 47:40.838 align:start ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, CREATION 47:40.841 --> 47:42.071 align:start OF JOBS, WHEN THE COMMUNITY GET 47:42.074 --> 47:43.339 align:start AS REPUTATION THAT'S AT 47:43.342 --> 47:43.606 align:start WELCOMING PLACE OR SAFE PLACE TO 47:43.609 --> 47:44.804 align:start BE? 47:44.807 --> 47:46.938 align:start >> I DON'T KNOW AND I HAVE NOT 47:46.941 --> 47:48.205 align:start HEARD EVIDENCE THAT THE 47:48.208 --> 47:50.871 align:start TRAGEDIES THAT WE EXPERIENCED 47:50.874 --> 47:51.272 align:start LAST SUMMER HAVE AFFECTED US 47:51.275 --> 47:52.804 align:start NEGATIVELY. 47:52.807 --> 47:53.105 align:start WE ASK BUSINESS LEADERS AT THE 47:53.108 --> 47:54.738 align:start TIME. 47:54.741 --> 47:55.804 align:start WE ASKED PEOPLE AT THE CHAMBER, 47:55.807 --> 47:57.105 align:start WHAT ARE YOU HEARING. 47:57.108 --> 47:57.505 align:start CERTAINLY IT AFFECTED THE 47:57.508 --> 48:00.405 align:start PERCEPTION. 48:00.408 --> 48:02.038 align:start IT BRANDED US OUT THERE. 48:02.041 --> 48:03.205 align:start I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S TRANSLATED 48:03.208 --> 48:05.138 align:start INTO AN ECONOMIC LOSS PER SE. 48:05.141 --> 48:06.439 align:start BUT THE UNDERLYING ISSUES THAT 48:06.442 --> 48:08.005 align:start LED TO THE ALTON STERLING 48:08.008 --> 48:09.205 align:start SHOOTING IN THE FIRST PLACE, THE 48:09.208 --> 48:11.372 align:start UNDERLYING ISSUES IN THIS 48:11.375 --> 48:13.938 align:start COMMUNITY THAT HAVE CREATED THE 48:13.941 --> 48:15.871 align:start KIND OF ECONOMIC DISPARITIES 48:15.874 --> 48:16.706 align:start THAT UNDER 10 EVERYTHING -- 48:16.709 --> 48:17.539 align:start UNDERPIN EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE 48:17.542 --> 48:19.272 align:start TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT, THOSE 48:19.275 --> 48:22.105 align:start ISSUES AFFECT US ECONOMICALLY. 48:22.108 --> 48:22.439 align:start AND THOSE -- THE EDUCATION, THE 48:22.442 --> 48:23.406 align:start CRIME. 48:23.409 --> 48:24.739 align:start AND THE EDUCATION AGAIN AND 48:24.742 --> 48:26.172 align:start AGAIN AND AGAIN. 48:26.175 --> 48:27.706 align:start AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS 48:27.709 --> 48:28.572 align:start THAT AFFECTS PEOPLE IN NORTH 48:28.575 --> 48:29.639 align:start BATON ROUGE AND SOUTH 48:29.642 --> 48:31.306 align:start BATON ROUGE, TOO. 48:31.309 --> 48:32.739 align:start THOSE ARE THE PROBLEMS THAT KEEP 48:32.742 --> 48:33.572 align:start COMPANIES AWAY. 48:33.575 --> 48:36.005 align:start THOSE ARE THE KIND OF 48:36.008 --> 48:38.472 align:start COMMUNITIES THAT -- ISSUES THAT 48:38.475 --> 48:39.539 align:start KEEP OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY DOWN. 48:39.542 --> 48:42.071 align:start I THINK THAT'S THE BUSINESS 48:42.074 --> 48:43.205 align:start SPEAKING COMMUNITY -- NOT 48:43.208 --> 48:44.572 align:start SPEAKING FOR THEM, THAT'S WHAT 48:44.575 --> 48:46.339 align:start THEY'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS WITH 48:46.342 --> 48:48.639 align:start THESE RESPECT TO THESE YSHEDZ. 48:48.642 --> 48:49.372 align:start THEY'RE TRYING TO FOCUS ON 48:49.375 --> 48:50.306 align:start WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT O 48:50.309 --> 48:51.572 align:start EDUCATION, AND SEE WHERE THEY 48:51.575 --> 48:54.372 align:start CAN BETTER DIRECT THOSE EFFORTS 48:54.375 --> 48:55.871 align:start TO HELP THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE 48:55.874 --> 48:57.172 align:start SO THAT WE CAN MOVE BEYOND THESE 48:57.175 --> 48:58.739 align:start TYPES OF ISSUES OR ADDRESS THEM 48:58.742 --> 49:00.838 align:start MORE EFFECTIVE. 49:00.841 --> 49:01.673 align:start >> MAYOR, ARE YOU -- 49:01.676 --> 49:02.472 align:start EFFECTIVELY. 49:02.475 --> 49:03.905 align:start >> MAYOR, ARE YOU AWARE OF THE 49:03.908 --> 49:05.071 align:start JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S PLANS FOR 49:05.074 --> 49:07.272 align:start RELEASING THE REPORT ON THE 49:07.275 --> 49:09.205 align:start ALTON STERLING SHOOTING? 49:09.208 --> 49:12.071 align:start IS THERE GOING TO BE A REPORT? 49:12.074 --> 49:14.372 align:start IF SO, DISOWF ANY INKLING OF 49:14.375 --> 49:16.071 align:start WHEN IT WILL BE AND WHAT 49:16.074 --> 49:17.706 align:start CONTINGENCIES HAS THE CITY SET 49:17.709 --> 49:18.773 align:start FORTH WHEN THAT REPORT IS 49:18.776 --> 49:20.038 align:start RELEASED, IF IT IS RELEASED? 49:20.041 --> 49:21.739 align:start >> THAT IS THE MOST ASKED 49:21.742 --> 49:24.038 align:start QUESTION THAT I GET THESE DAYS. 49:24.041 --> 49:26.938 align:start AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT NOBODY 49:26.941 --> 49:28.838 align:start KNOWS THAT DATE OR TIME. 49:28.841 --> 49:30.639 align:start I CAN ALWAYS TELL YOU THAT I 49:30.642 --> 49:32.639 align:start BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE CERTAINLY 49:32.642 --> 49:35.005 align:start CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE GOING ON 49:35.008 --> 49:36.805 align:start BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE 49:36.808 --> 49:39.272 align:start COMMUNITY TO PREPARE FOR 49:39.275 --> 49:41.472 align:start WHATEVER OUTCOME TAKES -- OCCURS 49:41.475 --> 49:43.539 align:start FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. 49:43.542 --> 49:47.773 align:start BUT I HAVE SAID, AND I WILL 49:47.776 --> 49:49.838 align:start CONTINUE TO SAY, THAT LAST YEAR, 49:49.841 --> 49:53.138 align:start WITH THE ADVENT OF THE KILLING 49:53.141 --> 49:54.272 align:start OF ALTON STERLING, THAT THE 49:54.275 --> 49:57.673 align:start CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY 49:57.676 --> 49:59.306 align:start RESPONDED IN PEACEFUL PROTESTS. 49:59.309 --> 50:01.339 align:start SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT WE 50:01.342 --> 50:04.938 align:start HAD IN OUR COMMUNITY WERE NOT 50:04.941 --> 50:06.672 align:start FROM THE CITIZENS HERE AND THE 50:06.675 --> 50:09.472 align:start CITY AND PARISH OF BATON ROUGE. 50:09.475 --> 50:11.538 align:start AND SO I AM VERY CONFIDENT THAT 50:11.541 --> 50:13.305 align:start THERE WILL STILL -- WHATEVER 50:13.308 --> 50:15.105 align:start SIDE JUSTICE COMES DOWN ON, THE 50:15.108 --> 50:18.638 align:start DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, I'LL SAY 50:18.641 --> 50:20.772 align:start THAT -- THAT THERE WILL STILL BE 50:20.775 --> 50:21.138 align:start PEACEFUL REACTIONS TO WHAT 50:21.141 --> 50:23.572 align:start HAPPENED. 50:23.575 --> 50:24.938 align:start AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THERE 50:24.941 --> 50:26.805 align:start SHOULD NOT BE REACTION. 50:26.808 --> 50:28.038 align:start BUT I BELIEVE THAT THERE WILL BE 50:28.041 --> 50:30.605 align:start PEACEFUL AND THEN I BELIEVE THAT 50:30.608 --> 50:33.072 align:start THERE WILL BE A COURSE OF LEGAL 50:33.075 --> 50:35.739 align:start ACTION THAT WE HAVE TO LOOK AT 50:35.742 --> 50:37.038 align:start AS A CITY AND AS A STATE WHERE 50:37.041 --> 50:38.038 align:start WE GO, FROM WHATEVER DECISION 50:38.041 --> 50:40.272 align:start COMES DOWN. 50:40.275 --> 50:42.305 align:start >> IF YOU LOOK AT THE 50:42.308 --> 50:44.572 align:start STATISTICS, IN THE AGE GROUPS, 50:44.575 --> 50:46.072 align:start IT'S NOT US ADULTS GETTING 50:46.075 --> 50:47.572 align:start ARRESTED, BECAUSE WE GOT SO MUCH 50:47.575 --> 50:49.305 align:start INVESTED IN LIFE. 50:49.308 --> 50:52.038 align:start IT'S MOSTLY THE KIDS. 50:52.041 --> 50:54.739 align:start HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT 50:54.742 --> 50:56.672 align:start INVITING THE YOUNG KIDS IN AND 50:56.675 --> 51:00.038 align:start DISCUSSING OR DOING A TEEN 51:00.041 --> 51:01.272 align:start SUMMIT ONLY WITH YOUNG KIDS AND 51:01.275 --> 51:03.839 align:start THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SO WE CAN 51:03.842 --> 51:04.872 align:start GET THEIR VIEWS ACROSS. 51:04.875 --> 51:06.406 align:start HOW WOULD YOU APPROACH YOU. 51:06.409 --> 51:07.705 align:start THIS IS WHAT WE THINK OF, WHAT 51:07.708 --> 51:09.205 align:start YOU SHOULD DO FOR US, THIS IS 51:09.208 --> 51:14.172 align:start WHAT WE SHOULD DO FOR YOU. 51:14.175 --> 51:15.572 align:start AND BECAUSE IT'S A BIG GAP AND 51:15.575 --> 51:17.639 align:start DISTRUST -- WOULD THAT HELP TO 51:17.642 --> 51:18.739 align:start GET THE COMMUNITY BACK ON TRACK? 51:18.742 --> 51:20.039 align:start >> I WAS GOING TO TOSS THIS 51:20.042 --> 51:21.605 align:start QUESTION TO REPRESENTATIVE JAMES 51:21.608 --> 51:23.772 align:start IN TERMS OF PUBLIC SAFETY, BUT I 51:23.775 --> 51:26.339 align:start AM GOING TO GO BACK TO DEPUTY 51:26.342 --> 51:27.705 align:start CHIEF BASSCO. 51:27.708 --> 51:30.072 align:start >> I'M GOING TO STEAL HIS 51:30.075 --> 51:30.472 align:start LEGISLATIVE THUNDER. 51:30.475 --> 51:32.306 align:start [LAUGHTER] 51:32.309 --> 51:33.439 align:start >> HE SPOKE EARLIER ABOUT THE 51:33.442 --> 51:34.705 align:start JUDICIARY COMMITTEE THAT 51:34.708 --> 51:35.239 align:start REPRESENTED KATRINA JACKSON, 51:35.242 --> 51:37.105 align:start BROUGHT TOGETHER. 51:37.108 --> 51:39.005 align:start AND WHEN ONE OF THE FIRST 51:39.008 --> 51:40.172 align:start MEETINGS THAT WE HAD WERE -- 51:40.175 --> 51:41.372 align:start WHERE SHE INVITED LAW 51:41.375 --> 51:42.772 align:start ENFORCEMENT AND COMMUNITIES TO 51:42.775 --> 51:45.272 align:start BE INVOLVED, THAT WAS ONE OF THE 51:45.275 --> 51:48.272 align:start FIRST THINGS THAT CAME UP STARKS 51:48.275 --> 51:49.105 align:start PART OF -- UP, IS THAT PART OF 51:49.108 --> 51:51.205 align:start DRIVER'S EDUCATION TRAINING 51:51.208 --> 51:52.639 align:start NEEDS TO INCLUDE LAW 51:52.642 --> 51:55.472 align:start ENFORCEMENT, NOT THE DRIVING 51:55.475 --> 51:57.205 align:start INSTRUCTOR, BUT LOCAL LAW 51:57.208 --> 51:58.139 align:start ENFORCEMENT WITH -- INTERACTING 51:58.142 --> 51:59.705 align:start WITH THOSE DRIVING STUDENTS AND 51:59.708 --> 52:01.706 align:start THAT YOU'RE HITTING AT THE HIGH 52:01.709 --> 52:02.839 align:start SCHOOL, 14, 15 YEARS OLD, OF 52:02.842 --> 52:04.806 align:start TELLING THEM, THIS IS WHAT'S 52:04.809 --> 52:06.305 align:start GOING TO HAPPEN IF YOU GET 52:06.308 --> 52:07.739 align:start STOPPED BY A POLICE OFFICER FOR 52:07.742 --> 52:09.806 align:start SPEEDING, THIS IS THE WAY THE 52:09.809 --> 52:10.138 align:start INTERACTION IS GOING TO TAKE 52:10.141 --> 52:11.038 align:start PLACE. 52:11.041 --> 52:12.171 align:start THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. 52:12.174 --> 52:12.939 align:start THIS IS WHAT THE LAW ENFORCEMENT 52:12.942 --> 52:14.606 align:start OFFICERS IS LOOKING AT. 52:14.609 --> 52:16.539 align:start I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS ACTUALLY 52:16.542 --> 52:18.372 align:start DETERMINED IF THEY'RE GOING -- 52:18.375 --> 52:20.405 align:start NEED LEGISLATION PASSED OR IF 52:20.408 --> 52:22.939 align:start THAT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN BE 52:22.942 --> 52:25.138 align:start DONE BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY 52:25.141 --> 52:27.205 align:start OF THE DEPARTMENT TO IMPLEMENT 52:27.208 --> 52:27.572 align:start THAT WITHIN THE DRIVER'S 52:27.575 --> 52:29.506 align:start TRAINING. 52:29.509 --> 52:30.806 align:start >> I'LL SAY THAT OVER THE 52:30.809 --> 52:32.639 align:start PASSION SEVEN MONTHS, I'VE 52:32.642 --> 52:34.171 align:start WORKED A LOT WITH NOBLE, THE 52:34.174 --> 52:35.438 align:start NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK 52:35.441 --> 52:38.539 align:start LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVES. 52:38.542 --> 52:39.606 align:start AND THEY DO A COURSE IN SCHOOL. 52:39.609 --> 52:41.405 align:start UNFORTUNATELY, NOT EVERY STUDENT 52:41.408 --> 52:43.138 align:start CAN TAKE THAT COURSE. 52:43.141 --> 52:44.772 align:start HOWEVER, IT DOES NOTHING IF WE 52:44.775 --> 52:46.906 align:start TEACH THAT COURSE AND TELL OUR 52:46.909 --> 52:48.772 align:start YOUNG PEOPLE, THIS IS HOW YOU'LL 52:48.775 --> 52:50.138 align:start RESPOND, IF WE ARE NOT HAVING A 52:50.141 --> 52:51.438 align:start CONVERSATION WITH OUR OFFICERS 52:51.441 --> 52:52.639 align:start AND ADDRESSING THAT TRAINING. 52:52.642 --> 52:54.806 align:start THAT DOES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. 52:54.809 --> 52:56.572 align:start [APPLAUSE] 52:56.575 --> 52:59.606 align:start >> SO IT HAS TO BE A RECOGNITION 52:59.609 --> 52:59.939 align:start THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE A TWO-WAY 52:59.942 --> 53:02.105 align:start THING. 53:02.108 --> 53:03.472 align:start WHEN THESE THINGS HAPPENED THIS 53:03.475 --> 53:03.772 align:start SUMMER, WE HEARD ABOUT -- I WAS 53:03.775 --> 53:05.205 align:start THERE. 53:05.208 --> 53:07.172 align:start I DIDN'T HAVE TO HEAR BIT. 53:07.175 --> 53:07.705 align:start I WAS THERE ON THE GROUND WHEN 53:07.708 --> 53:09.472 align:start PROTESTS HAPPENED. 53:09.475 --> 53:10.772 align:start ONLY ONE GROUP HAD THE NECESSARY 53:10.775 --> 53:11.105 align:start TRAINING TO DEAL WITH THOSE 53:11.108 --> 53:12.638 align:start THINGS. 53:12.641 --> 53:12.972 align:start AND IT WASN'T THE YOUNG PEOPLE. 53:12.975 --> 53:14.138 align:start RIGHT? 53:14.141 --> 53:14.505 align:start THOSE YOUNG PEOPLE, THEY WEREN'T 53:14.508 --> 53:15.072 align:start TRAINED. 53:15.075 --> 53:16.872 align:start THEY DIDN'T KNOW. 53:16.875 --> 53:18.772 align:start THEY WERE UP WHY SET. 53:18.775 --> 53:21.505 align:start THEY WERE MAD -- UPSET. 53:21.508 --> 53:23.039 align:start THEY WERE TROUGHS -- FRUSTRATED. 53:23.042 --> 53:24.238 align:start YOU HAVE ANOTHER SEGMENT SUPPOSE 53:24.241 --> 53:26.172 align:start TO BE TRAINED WITH THAT. 53:26.175 --> 53:27.372 align:start SO WE CANNOT ADDRESS THIS 53:27.375 --> 53:29.539 align:start PROBLEM BY ONLY LOOKING AT YOUNG 53:29.542 --> 53:31.272 align:start PEOPLE AND TRYING TO TELL THEM 53:31.275 --> 53:32.972 align:start HOW TO APPROACH IF WE DON'T 53:32.975 --> 53:33.539 align:start ADDRESS THE ACTUAL ACTUAL 53:33.542 --> 53:34.638 align:start APPROACH. 53:34.641 --> 53:37.072 align:start >> DR. JOSE TORRES WITH 53:37.075 --> 53:38.472 align:start LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY. 53:38.475 --> 53:40.539 align:start FORMER PUBLIC HOUSING COMMUNITY 53:40.542 --> 53:42.439 align:start POLICE OFFICER FROM NORFOLK 53:42.442 --> 53:42.805 align:start POLICE DEPARTMENT IN NORFOLK, 53:42.808 --> 53:44.505 align:start VIRGINIA. 53:44.508 --> 53:45.805 align:start LIKE MOST AIR FORCE I QUIT. 53:45.808 --> 53:47.738 align:start -- OFFICERS, I QUIT. 53:47.741 --> 53:49.805 align:start I PURSUED MY Ph.D. 53:49.808 --> 53:50.838 align:start I'M NOW AT LSU WHERE I'M 53:50.841 --> 53:51.605 align:start TEACHING A COURSE ON POLICING 53:51.608 --> 53:52.905 align:start AND RACE. 53:52.908 --> 53:54.072 align:start I INVITE YOU ALL TO COME. 53:54.075 --> 53:56.205 align:start MY FIRST QUESTION IS FOR THE 53:56.208 --> 53:57.205 align:start MAYOR, WHAT ROLE DO YOU SEE 53:57.208 --> 53:59.638 align:start UNIVERSITIES PLAYING IN YOUR 53:59.641 --> 54:06.105 align:start EFFORTS TO DRIVE CHANGE. 54:06.108 --> 54:09.239 align:start SECOND QUESTION, PRESENT FACE, 54:09.242 --> 54:10.606 align:start OFTEN -- PREFACE SAYING, OFTEN 54:10.609 --> 54:11.738 align:start LOW-INCOME COMMUNITIES DON'T 54:11.741 --> 54:12.838 align:start SPEAK OUT, SHARING INFORMATION 54:12.841 --> 54:15.105 align:start AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 54:15.108 --> 54:17.038 align:start WHAT EFFORTS ARE GOING TO BE 54:17.041 --> 54:18.372 align:start MADE TO MAKE SHARING OF 54:18.375 --> 54:19.971 align:start INFORMATION EASIER FOR RESIDENTS 54:19.974 --> 54:21.871 align:start WHO ARE FEARFUL OF SHARING 54:21.874 --> 54:23.339 align:start INFORMATION WITH POLICE? 54:23.342 --> 54:25.071 align:start I KNOW THAT AS A COMMUNITY 54:25.074 --> 54:27.372 align:start POLICE OFFICER, THIS WAS A GREAT 54:27.375 --> 54:29.804 align:start TOOL THAT I HAD. 54:29.807 --> 54:32.405 align:start THE COMMUNITY RESIDENTS SPOKE TO 54:32.408 --> 54:33.038 align:start ME ON MY COMMUNITY-ISSUED WORK 54:33.041 --> 54:35.838 align:start CELL PHONE. 54:35.841 --> 54:38.239 align:start WHENEVER THEY WANTED TO. 54:38.242 --> 54:39.771 align:start WORKING -- WHEN I WAS NOT 54:39.774 --> 54:42.372 align:start WORKING, IT LED TO THE BIGGEST 54:42.375 --> 54:44.439 align:start DRUG BUST ON THE STREET ALL 54:44.442 --> 54:45.871 align:start BECAUSE A CONCERNED CITIZEN 54:45.874 --> 54:46.804 align:start TRUSTED US AND SHARED THAT 54:46.807 --> 54:47.871 align:start INFORMATION FROM A CELL PHONE. 54:47.874 --> 54:48.572 align:start >> SO LET'S -- 54:48.575 --> 54:50.372 align:start >> SO TWO THINGS. 54:50.375 --> 54:52.904 align:start FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LOVE TO 54:52.907 --> 54:54.239 align:start KNOW MORE ABOUT YOUR CLASS, 54:54.242 --> 54:56.339 align:start BECAUSE I THINK PERHAPS WHAT IS 54:56.342 --> 54:58.339 align:start TAKING PLACE IN YOUR CLASS CAN 54:58.342 --> 54:59.506 align:start BE PRACTICALLY APPLIED TO SOME 54:59.509 --> 55:00.971 align:start OF THE INITIATIVES THAT TAKE 55:00.974 --> 55:02.938 align:start PLACE IN OUR COMMUNITY. 55:02.941 --> 55:04.705 align:start AND SO I DON'T WANT TO ANSWER A 55:04.708 --> 55:06.471 align:start QUESTION WITH A QUESTION, BUT I 55:06.474 --> 55:08.805 align:start WOULD SAY BASED ON THE SCENARIO 55:08.808 --> 55:10.871 align:start THAT YOU JUST SHARED WITH US, IN 55:10.874 --> 55:11.805 align:start A YOU HAD DEVELOPED SOME 55:11.808 --> 55:13.172 align:start RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE 55:13.175 --> 55:15.172 align:start INDIVIDUALS IN THAT COMMUNITY, 55:15.175 --> 55:18.038 align:start WHICH IS WHY THEY TRUSTED YOU 55:18.041 --> 55:19.538 align:start AND WHY THEY REACHED OUT TO YOU. 55:19.541 --> 55:20.605 align:start AM I RIGHT ON THAT? 55:20.608 --> 55:23.038 align:start >> 100%, ABSOLUTELY. 55:23.041 --> 55:25.605 align:start >> SO THAT GOES BACK TO THE 55:25.608 --> 55:26.205 align:start WHOLE CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY 55:26.208 --> 55:29.771 align:start POLICING. 55:29.774 --> 55:32.072 align:start AND NOT COMMUNITY POLICING AS A 55:32.075 --> 55:36.572 align:start PROGRAM, BUT COMMUNITY POLICING 55:36.575 --> 55:40.605 align:start AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE WHOLE 55:40.608 --> 55:41.905 align:start BEHAVIOR OF A POLICE DEPARTMENT. 55:41.908 --> 55:48.138 align:start THAT COMMUNITY POLICING IS AND 55:48.141 --> 55:49.871 align:start CULTURE OF A DEPARTMENT. 55:49.874 --> 55:50.771 align:start NOT ONCE OR TWICE AND YOU HAVE 55:50.774 --> 55:53.105 align:start DIFFERENT OFFICERS. 55:53.108 --> 55:55.238 align:start BUT I'M LOOKING TO COMMUNITY 55:55.241 --> 55:57.038 align:start POLICE THAT HAVE TENTACLES IN 55:57.041 --> 55:58.538 align:start THE AREA JUST LIKE WE HAVE 55:58.541 --> 55:59.305 align:start PRECINCT IN ALL AREAS OF OUR 55:59.308 --> 56:01.405 align:start COMMUNITY. 56:01.408 --> 56:03.605 align:start THAT'S HOW WE GET PEOPLE IN THE 56:03.608 --> 56:05.405 align:start COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN THE WHOLE 56:05.408 --> 56:07.472 align:start EQUATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY. 56:07.475 --> 56:07.872 align:start AND WORK WITH THE POLICE 56:07.875 --> 56:08.572 align:start DEPARTMENT. 56:08.575 --> 56:10.005 align:start YOU SAID IT. 56:10.008 --> 56:12.505 align:start IT'S ALL ABOUT TRUST. 56:12.508 --> 56:14.005 align:start >> SO THE FIRST PART OF THE 56:14.008 --> 56:14.538 align:start PROFESSOR'S QUESTION WAS ALSO 56:14.541 --> 56:15.305 align:start ABOUT THE -- 56:15.308 --> 56:16.405 align:start >> THE UNIVERSITY. 56:16.408 --> 56:18.105 align:start >> AND MAYBE -- 56:18.108 --> 56:19.405 align:start >> HOW ARE WE USING THE 56:19.408 --> 56:20.572 align:start RESOURCES THAT OUR UNIVERSITIES 56:20.575 --> 56:21.838 align:start ARE DEVELOPING AND ESPECIALLY 56:21.841 --> 56:23.338 align:start SOMEONE LIKE HIM WHO HAS 56:23.341 --> 56:23.739 align:start EXPERIENCE AS AN OFFICER? 56:23.742 --> 56:25.772 align:start >> YEAH. 56:25.775 --> 56:28.505 align:start WELL, I WOULD PROBABLY SAY, BOB, 56:28.508 --> 56:30.305 align:start MAYBE WE ARE NOT USING OUR 56:30.308 --> 56:32.172 align:start UNIVERSITIES AS MUCH AS WE 56:32.175 --> 56:35.538 align:start SHOULD, AS WE WORK OUT THIS 56:35.541 --> 56:37.105 align:start WHOLE ISSUE OF -- EVEN COMMUNITY 56:37.108 --> 56:38.105 align:start POLICING OR CLOSING THE GAP 56:38.108 --> 56:38.505 align:start BETWEEN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE 56:38.508 --> 56:40.838 align:start COMMUNITY. 56:40.841 --> 56:42.172 align:start SO I WEEK FORWARD TO HAVING 56:42.175 --> 56:43.905 align:start CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR 56:43.908 --> 56:45.838 align:start INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER 56:45.841 --> 56:47.705 align:start EDUCATION, BOTH SOUTHERN AND LSU 56:47.708 --> 56:50.072 align:start AND EVEN BRCC, TO SEE WHAT WE 56:50.075 --> 56:51.572 align:start CAN COME UP WITH TO ADD VALUE TO 56:51.575 --> 56:54.239 align:start WHAT IS TAKING PLACE. 56:54.242 --> 56:55.472 align:start >> THANK YOU, MAYOR. 56:55.475 --> 56:57.172 align:start WE WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR 56:57.175 --> 56:58.605 align:start BEING HERE TONIGHT. 56:58.608 --> 57:00.305 align:start THIS HAS BEEN A VERY 57:00.308 --> 57:01.505 align:start ENLIGHTENING AND INTERESTING 57:01.508 --> 57:03.305 align:start CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE HAD. 57:03.308 --> 57:05.938 align:start WE APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S 57:05.941 --> 57:06.539 align:start PARTICIPATION, ESPECIALLY OUR 57:06.542 --> 57:08.904 align:start PANELISTS. 57:08.907 --> 57:13.138 align:start FATHER ANDRUS, MAYOR-PRESIDENT 57:13.141 --> 57:15.572 align:start BROOME, DEPUTY CHIEF BASSCO AND 57:15.575 --> 57:18.004 align:start MS. RIEGEL ON TONIGHT'S TOPIC. 57:18.007 --> 57:19.205 align:start WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU. 57:19.208 --> 57:23.004 align:start PLEASE COMMENT ABOUT THIS 57:23.007 --> 57:25.505 align:start PROGRAM BY VISITING OUR WEBSITE. 57:25.508 --> 57:27.539 align:start AND WE WANT TO ALSO THANK OUR 57:27.542 --> 57:29.104 align:start AUDIENCE TONIGHT FOR THEIR GREAT 57:29.107 --> 57:31.772 align:start PARTICIPATION AND SPECIAL THANKS 57:31.775 --> 57:34.171 align:start TO REVEREND RAYMOND JET SKIN AND 57:34.174 --> 57:37.472 align:start EVERYONE AT STARHILL CHURCH FOR 57:37.475 --> 57:39.138 align:start OPENING UP THEIR BEAUTIFUL SANG 57:39.141 --> 57:40.339 align:start SANG -- SANCTUARY TO US TONIGHT. 57:40.342 --> 57:41.171 align:start WE APPRECIATE THE WARM WELCOME 57:41.174 --> 57:42.405 align:start WE RECEIVED. 57:42.408 --> 57:45.572 align:start THANK YOU, AND GOOD NIGHT. 57:50.507 --> 58:12.305 align:start ♪