and this report the d.o.j. found that internal affairs almost never hold officers accountable in baltimore between two thousand and ten and two thousand and fifteen they ruled against officers accused of serious misconduct only two percent of the time. let's be honest this is not something that just exists here in baltimore but this whole you know giving additional deference to law enforcement and treating law enforcement as if they're somehow above the law above the people is just a culture it's a mentality of. during the obama administration department of justice attorney jonathan smith revealed a national trends. d.o.j. investigations of some twenty american cities found the police had failed to police their own finding that accountability systems are in adequate and broken and that in general fairs is not designed to identify and address serious misguided police

officers is a common finding in place department after police department after police department what makes the scandal so serious and significant and political is that over time the department has failed to address its own issues its it failed to engage the community and mistrust has built up. we're for reform isn't always pretty it's messy sometimes in baltimore this man was hired to tackle the problem soon after the protests in two thousand and fifteen kevin davis had a lot of work to do this place was a mess there was no accountability here a lack of accountability in internal affairs contributed to making these guys the monsters that they turned out to be davis made it a priority to improve internal affairs the division began to rule against accused

officers more often i did my very best to identify some organizational terrorists that had horrific reputations in the community as as being brutal and corrupt and we did our very best to remove several of those police officers from the police department and in fact we did i think in the year two thousand and sixteen alone i fired twenty two police officers. but two thousand and sixteen was also the year that sergeant wayne jenkins carried out some of his biggest heists suggs. comes out. this video captures jenkins and his colleagues trying to cover up a robbery. i'm going to think about think about. it. all there is no right to take a picture of it right now i mean like first of all. do not

nobody touches that surgeon jenkins telling his colleagues not to touch the money in the safe but moments earlier they had pocketed one hundred thousand dollars. were you getting a lot of complaints against these officers that. there were there were definitely a good number yes rodney hill was in charge of internal affairs for five years before retiring in two thousand and eighteen i've heard his name many times and i've heard that these guys are doing some really strange things said the new people the f.b.i. task force and ok well we'll see what. any such a good book to give us in a day to tell us what you know all of us are bound to see. this body behind footage shows how jenkins and his crew operated. many of their crimes began with a traffic stop and ended with allegations of planted evidence and home invasion cocaine up in the and right after that you can see a little see the handgun right there. right there saying this man's case

along with hundreds of others was dropped after the officers were arrested the role did this gun task force fill with twenty questions numbers generated stats and that's all it was about you know guns on the table. to bring it up ok they were making a lot of us they were making probably weekly if not daily just. ripping and running snatching guns police officials wanted to prove they could tackle the city's soaring homicide rate so they champion the aggressive tactics of jenkins in the squad when the political pressure calms that's when guys like wayne jenkins and this crew that's when they can really excel because that's when the blind eyes could turn the ends justify the means. is fully supported at a biking like mentality where police officers were. told to go out and get

arrests get jordan street drugs what search warrants good drug seizures seems chorused their worth was judged on the amount of those things that they brought back to the table. while jenkins committed crimes he also racked up accolades this is the country's task forces and their boss praising them a few months before they were arrested couldn't be more proud of the strong weapons team sergeant jenkins and start alice are worth a bronze star here he is receiving an award for valor from commissioner davis. the reality of it all was that that sergeant was in fact a cripple the scrutiny of it all of now as hyper focused as it should be on who knew what and when and if they didn't know anything at all should they have known it. did you know that then tristan's first officers had so many complaints against them personally and. should you have known about the number of complaints against

these detectives and i mean i'm going to shy away from the questions seem like they're getting into a lot of. hindsight i think at least in their mind they were probably feeling that maybe they were invincible story one. that became clear to rodney hill when he watched this surveillance footage in two thousand and fourteen. it should jane. ken's in the gray t. shirt searching this ban. the officers were to report stating that drugs were inside. they used that clean to justify a search of this man's home. but this footage caught jenkins in a lie. there were no drugs in the van. kill recommended that jenkins be demoted got little. i'd say maybe touchy because there were people going come on man his guys doing this white guys mess with him powerful people wanted jenkins to

stay on the street kill says one of the departments highest ranking officials overruled him once left my shop i was privy to any more and they had reduced the punishment. jenkins was not demoted so these guys were kind of getting a pass yeah yeah i would say that. it's not just a matter of a few bad apples this is a culture of corruption that has been allowed to exist and so i think the only solution is we have to have an independent body that's investigating and making disciplinary recommendations that are it here to. joe carter says the city's civilian review board is supposed to do just that nine community leaders are appointed by the mayor to oversee police investigations but the board's power is limited if the stability of the board had more power i don't believe the gun trace task force officers would have been allowed to get it or able to get away with the offenses they committed and the large way that they did it for the length of time

so i know for a fact that civilian review board had cases against at least two of the officers in the gun trades task force that they had made recommendations but those recommendations have been ignored the civilian review board had recommended that two of the corrupt officers be fired but the police didn't have to act on that recommendation there is no requirement that the baltimore police department follow the recommendations of the civilian review board there is not even a requirement that the civilian review boards recommendations are weighted in the ultimate decision that's made about officers fate by the baltimore police department. for now the police still hold the ultimate power to police their own in baltimore it's a system that enabled certain jenkins to remain on the street in late two thousand and sixteen andre crowder encountered jenkins in the south baltimore neighborhood of cherry hill yeah when you whine when put handcuffs on i'm like going oh was

a one off alone pull no. you don't have a seatbelt on at the time i think about it like see you that ten to one of those i've got to know one bills were on a dark lord street. andree was arrested and booked for gun possession he says the gun was planted in his car under it talk to his sister from jail later that night she live. here we claim up the house so my playing up the holes were for what like which many of the police came in here and they ran through the whole sort of according to under his family jenkins had searched their home without a warrant he took whatever he wanted twenty eight at a time when my name you saying that i have pride is a good candidate for me to go ahead and see what i can get out of it and luckily

they came up on a lawyer nine thousand off of me. but andre lost more than money. while he was in jail his three year old son amir was hospitalized. after three days under the posted bail on charges that would later be dropped. he went straight to the hospital to see his son his right lung had collapsed already and he was half way to the left so when he get down to the. shock ominous one all of it unfolded and then i came in. where was i i'm losing focus like. i'm not. so. my son passed seven o'clock saturday morning

last much as. i don't want to. blame it on the situation on the police. because that had nothing to do what my son's health but that. hindered me from spain in those last moments was when i was last time that out of arcadia back. jenkins took over the unit while you were the commissioner right do you accept some of the responsibility then i will not act that this happened in a police while here or the police county police commissioner so i accept responsibility as a commissioner of baltimore for everything everything i'll take one hundred percent of the blame for anything that happened under my tenure. because that's what

leaders do. when a uniform is tarnished like like that like he and others tarnished and it takes a long long time to get out of that hole. davis was replaced as police commissioner earlier this year we still left the place better than we found it because things are now in place systems around the place processes policies a consent decree are now in place to make it better in the future so you think that internal affairs is in a place now to prevent another country's past for scandal from happening though i never said that. the baltimore police department declined months of requests for an interview it's officials are scrambling to prove they can prevent the next corruption scandal. a federal judge isn't forcing new reforms inside the department . but the progress has been slow. and the victims of the latest scandal say new

reforms can't replace what they've lost. the minute that i pay my tax dollars to. fund and yes salary to me. milos ok so when the minack us on camera i mean basically i paid you to do this to me. it's been a decade since police robs kerry brown and. now he's worried about what could happen to a seven year old son. that's a rough place to grow up when the cops will bring along. he's had to teach his son a hard lesson. the police can't always be trusted to do the right thing. what do you want for him for him to get out of he get away his fall from the wasn't mr kohli's as possible that's why we're doing one of our to get him to get away from here that i feel like i did my job is his fault so mantle we can go into lee's

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also ahead as formal debate takes place in a mostly empty senate chamber anger at brett kavanaugh elevation to the u.s. supreme court. on the streets of washington. blasts mystery surrounds the disappearance of interpol's chief mangaung when in china and brazilians prepare to go to the palms in the most divisive election since the country's return to democracy three decades ago. we begin in indonesia where the government disconcerted rain calling off the search for victims of last week's earthquake and tsunami and turning some areas into mass graves the total number of dead on some away sea island has risen to one thousand six hundred fifty heavy machinery can move in areas where the strengths of the earthquake transformed hard ground into mud they're worried about the spread of

disease if more day decaying bodies are pulled from the rubble aid is finally arriving into the most remote parts of central slow way sea but as jimmy linden reports from c.v.s. survivors in the devastated communities don't even know how they'll begin to rebuild. this is what's left of leasehold. everything that she worked hard for it's gone after last week's earthquake but then the lender seen the mud was up to here i tried to run to my neighbor's house there i ran around in a flowing but i held on to a plant for a while and that's how i survived. john all good village in central sulawesi was a home to around four thousand people little is left more than ninety percent of the village is obliterated it is hard to make sense of this devastation

survivors here tell us it was as if a ball came no erupted this mud surfaced fifteen meters from underground and then it started to drag homes and people in waves in waves of mud and rock four kilometers from their original location rescuers here tell us they don't even know where to start digging they fear half of the population here is dead homes schools mosques all swallowed by mud and rock hundreds of survivors are displaced here as well as many other areas in central sulawesi. we met a y. e and sar in one of the mosques just outside the village wide tells us this was not his place of prayer the mosque in the village is gone his parents and brother died in the earthquake too but he says he is not alone with.

his store lou on the gnomes humans like us never really know the real reason why this happened this disaster is a test for the fried food because the more faithful we are the heavier the trials are given to test us survivors is wrong or give village a try to salvage whatever slips of their belongings some of them refusing to leave the devastated area the spite the danger and certainty an act of resistance they say because they know their suffering isn't permanent chameleon dogon al jazeera seek essential silhouettes see indonesian. and convoys of helicopters are now taking aid into areas cut off by road andrew thomas joined one of them.

now the world news u.s. president tom's fake for the supreme court brett kavanaugh is expected to be formally confirmed by the senate in the coming hours these are live pictures right now from the senate which has been in session constantly for more than twenty four

hours a formal debate on cavanaugh has taken place the night though it has consisted mainly of senate democrats speaking to an empty chamber now outside the capitol and at the supreme court itself a growing crowd of protesters has gathered let's go live to gable elizondo who is with these demonstrators and joins us from outside the capitol right now how they got the crowds way you watch today. oh there are. well over a thousand people that you see estimate there they started out for morning here outside of the supreme court too far from us but now they have moved to the u.s. capitol let me just step out so you get a better see what it looks like. here right now i would estimate a couple thousand people at least we spoke to one woman that drove two hours this morning to be here people have come from all over the country as far away as alaska to be here in the big question was given the fact of what happened on friday given

the fact that it appeared appears that this nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court seems almost assured given what the senators say how they're going to vote what would be the reaction today from those who oppose kavanaugh and you can see that question is answered right now with this huge protest you can probably see of kevin the camera man is zooming in on that now you see the police now starting to make some a rest of some of the protesters that are up there on the steps of the u.s. capitol so you can see how divided this country is how how how this nomination of this judge has really been very contentious from the start and has only gotten more so in the last twenty four to forty eight hours here and several protesters were also arrested a few days ago when there was a similar protests against kavanagh's nomination i know you people gave say that they will continue those who oppose this nomination that will continue protesting even after he's confirmed how are they going to keep doing this i mean it seems

like this saga is far from over. it isn't that how are they going to do that it's so one one answer one word answer vote that's what most of the people are telling us here let's remember there's midterm elections about thirty days away in early november and those midterm elections it's a chance for the people that are against brett kavanaugh to get out and vote and change congress right now congress both chambers the senate and the house of representatives are controlled by the republican party and with this midterm elections a lot of the polls are indicating that perhaps there could be this so-called blue wave of democratic voters that get out there that could switch the congress from. republican to democrat so a lot of people feel very inspired by this they feel invigorated that now is their chance to go to go to the polls in november and and vote yeah a lot of the protests where you are obviously about the sex line

a geisha is against brett kavanaugh but also about his views what is his confirmation to the supreme court going to mean for us that the top bench when is it going to change for the supreme court. well he is by far one of the most conservative justices there will be on the supreme court assuming he gets nominated as we expect he's very conservative and things like to roe v wade the right for women to have abortions that could sclera lead be on the table now gun rights also the powers of the presidency there's a whole list of things that will be facing the courts in the coming the supreme court in the coming years that it is believed that brett kavanaugh be very conservative and roll back a lot of social programs social progress that have been made over the last few years and let's remember this is such a critical appointment to the supreme court because he is considered now this swing

vote as they call it these nine justices and with their divided between more liberal and more conservative justices it usually comes down to one that makes a key vote with kennedy now got with the justices now step down the kavanaugh will now be that swing vote and by all accounts he's highly conservative and will perhaps roll back a lot of the a lot of the programs that many people here are fighting to keep thank you very much for that game and his own don't live for us outside the u.s. capitol where protests against kavanagh's confirmation continue in a number of protesters being arrested as we can see on those live pictures we'll keep a close eye on this story and bring all the latest developments as and when they happen. israel has announced new restrictions on gaza in reaction to protests along the border israel's defense minister has ordered the fishing zone for gaza fisherman to be scaled down from nine to six not a whole miles i don't even threaten further measures if what he called the violent

incidents continued israeli forces have killed at least one hundred eighty three palestinians seems weekly protests began in march. into paul is asking china's government if it knows where the president of the international police agency is bang home where he hasn't been heard from since he flew home to china from france late last month a china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. well so far china's government has said absolutely nothing about the disappearance of monk home way the first chinese citizen to become head of interpol state controlled media is so far not reporting this story either and any mention of his name on social media is being deleted that is i think a reflection of just how sensitive this cases but in hong kong the south china morning post newspaper which has connections to the chinese government has been offering more information it says sources have told them that mung was taken away

after his plane landed in beijing it's believed he left france on september the twenty fifth and that he was taken away to an undisclosed destination and that he was now quote under investigation although it's not specified what he's being investigated for now before monk took up his position with interpol in two thousand and sixteen he had been a vice minister of the public security bureau that made him a very powerful man now some important context his boss had been a man who was jailed three years ago for corruption joe young kang had been basically the j. edgar hoover of chinese politics the securities are of china and then in two thousand and sixteen another vice minister of public security was also jailed for corruption so there is a pattern emerging it is quite possible the monk found himself on the wrong side of

the political divide in china at a time when president xi jinping is intensifying his anti corruption crackdown hun khan's immigration authorities have received.