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tactics today our panel guests who have both backgrounds in law enforcement join me to discuss policing and america all right it's time to prove your news i knew. the united states war on drugs was ramped up in the caribbean and eastern pacific with the u.s. military targeting cocaine trafficking on the high seas meantime a new u.n. report indicates that the amount of land being used to grow the coca plant in colombia has actually decreased so what is that all actually mean for that let's turn our to correspondent john how he was live in our miami studio with more on this so john what's going on. in the middle of the un office on drugs and crime as it's called released a report on wednesday showing that the amount of land and you touched on this in the. the amount of land being used to grow the coca plant in colombia dropped by 9

percent in 2019 from 169000 hectors to 15154000 so that's basically the equivalent of 380500 acres here's the thing though while the amount of land being used to plant coca has decreased in colombia according to this u.n. report the output of cocaine has it if you look further down in the report you'll see that the a total the total amount of cocaine seized in 2018 was 413383 kilos and then in 2019 it was 433036 kilos so that's almost basically that's the equivalent of about 500 tons of cocaine despite the drop in land use for coke the u.s. no d.c. said that the estimated cocaine production actually saw an uptick of 1.5 percent from an estimated $1120.00 metric tons to $1137.00 so

despite less land being used there was still an increase in the overall output of cocaine according to the u.n. d o c that said the trump administration has ramped. efforts in the caribbean going after narco traffickers you may remember back in march the us indicted venezuelan president nicolas maduro and several other current and former high ranking venezuelan officials including military officials are narco trafficking charges and accuse them of conspiring with the colombian rebel group far to quote flood the united states with cocaine the secretary of state might pompei o tweeted today that quote the us is taking action to bring justice bring to justice former fork members involved in international narcotics trafficking the colombian people deserve an enduring peace accord with former members who are specked the rule of law and commit to peaceful reintegration into society after the more. indictment of madeira president trump announced also in april that the u.s.

was sending u.s. navy warships to the caribbean and towards the coast of venezuela to intercept narco traffickers well speaking of these types of interceptions the u.s.s. problem navy destroyer with help from the u.s. coast guard seized a smuggling vessel in the eastern pacific earlier this month that was carrying 2000 kilos of coke that's worth more than $40000000.00 on the street according to the u.s. southern command well that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cocaine trafficking last june actually almost a year ago today more than 60 tons of cocaine was see from seized from a cargo ship at the port of philadelphia that's worth more than a $1000000000.00 i said it right a $1000000000.00 well a day later $333.00 pounds of coke worth $10000000.00 was seized at the port of baltimore so figure for the amount of cocaine being found and seized there is certainly as much if not more flowing into the u.s. europe and other parts of the world so the war on drug war on drugs very much rages

on and the about to obviously a demand there john heidi thank you so much. there are numerous ideas being thrown out there regarding police reform in the wake of these nationwide protests following the death of george floyd in minneapolis lawmakers like rand paul looking to end nationwide no knock warrants which rose to popularity in the mid 1990 s. during the clinton administration now rand paul a republican president bill clinton a democrat but that came on the coattails of the war on drugs during the crack epidemic of the 1980 s. that led to the $994.00 crime bill that doubled the u.s. prison population and our next guest wrote an essay about just that called gaslighted by the ruling class which you can find on share post dot com so joining us to discuss pulitzer prize winning journalist and author host on contact chris hedges. all right chris so before we can address the change in policing and the

laws surrounding our criminal justice system we got to understand how we got here take us back if you will to the 1990 s. and explain what happened there on capitol hill that paved the way for today's law enforcement. so this was a. democratic party. led by. to arrest the. warren order. and it was like the players through. which i don't. already clearly and the. author is $30.00 yes it was 6 years for. it federal statutes. for the death penalty. circumstances are crime they're eligible. 78 the.

government runs a drug. establish the computer services or program. and $40000000.00 and local governments. or at least $1000000000.00 to. gleason. celebrated the plot hole. as you mentioned. patient now. the rules prison population or. german convicted he personally. imagine. we'll report community used ost. markets it was stated. was when i. was here to post. this you know.

take me close see where i. or all. who looks funeral. i will go as. far as black lives matter 35. my house and the crime she asked $45000000.00. please budget travel 500. jail who were not. issues that have needed. sensually. they create our communities of color if you tear i don't so i'm 100 people almost all unarmed are killed every year by police chris another interesting thing that you touched on in that essay the folks who are marching out there what do they need to understand about voting and how this isn't really

actually changing the system. well i mean as long as we saw the 2 major dimensions funding the police and apology the police are both black lives matter demands the problem with the funding we've seen the bloggers you do this in new york as you can just play numbers so the new york city police department has a budget of sick. $1000000000.00 a year and de blasio is talking about moving on $100000000.00 of it to community you know community support or something. and i sense that the people who are carrying out these protests understand that this is far more than policing reform i think this is a class and a generational revolt now it's been exacerbated by coded and the economic misery that many of the protesters are suffering i think as a lead them to

a situation where and certainly in economic terms they're much closer to these communities of color that have been during this for decades no i mean change is going to come off the streets changes by organizing in amazon warehouses for strikes. fast food workers all these low wage workers and i think we are seeing a kind of uniting between workers especially frontline workers and these groups i look at this is far more at least if you look at it from the perspective of the people in the streets far more than simply calls for police reform remember black lives matter has been doing this for many years you know for 5 years and and so they're pretty savvy i mean they there is it's going to be much harder i think for the ruling elites to gaslight them as they have in the past that you certainly touch on a myriad of topics that i think you really get down to to the point of how this all erupted in the past couple of months so we'll check out his post at share post dot

com chris hedges we got to leave it right there thank you so much for sharing that insight. as protester. a 51st state with an issue they say has become far more important in the aftermath . a protest for racial justice in both washington and across the country r.t. is fair project is joining us from the news room and fair and this could be a pretty historic vote next week yes so no in order for a bill to become a law it has to go through 8 steps and hopefully doesn't get vetoed by the president at the finish line right now the fight for d.c. statehood is in step 6 which is extremely monumental because d.c. couldn't even get past up to 26 years listen here. for more than 2 centuries the residents of washington d.c. the district of columbia have been denied their right to fully participate in their

democracy instead they have been dealt the injustice of paying taxes. proudly serving in uniform in great numbers and contributing to the economic power of our nation. now the vote is slated for next friday the 26th and there is more than enough congressmen in the democratically controlled house that are officially back in the bill for it to pass however there is an insurmountable opposition in the g.o.p. controlled senate that's also backed by president donald trump telling the new york post last month quote d.c. will never be a state you mean district of columbia state why so we can have 2 more democratic senators and 5 more congressmen no thank you that will never happen monella welfare and back in 1993 then democratic controlled congress shot down a d.c. statehood bill so why would they flip on it now so it was 2 reasons actually that ignited the democrats to bring about this bill the biggest one being that infamous

picture of president donald trump in front of st john's church just 2 weeks ago now it was the much criticized administration's move to use federal forces to clear lafayette park directly across from the white house of protesters with gas canisters for president donald trump and members of his cabinet to take a photo op at one of the church now the house majority leader hoyer says it was a perfect time to introduce the bill and schedule the vote with the merial bows are on board they are very definitely should be soldiers stationed around our city waiting for the go to attack americans in a local policing matter so they knew now that our cause for statehood is certainly about making sure we have 2 voting 2 senators to speak up for us and making sure that our congresswoman has a vote in making sure that we have seats at the table when the governors and state legislatures are talking. now bows are says it was also the recent covert 19 pandemic that shine light on the plight of washington d.c.

so when congress passed the cares act stimulus package back in march d.c. was actually classified as a territory rather than a state well because of that it cost d.c. more than $700000000.00 in federal corona virus relief funding are also pointed out that the d.c. taxpayers get no voting representatives in congress despite contributing more in federal taxes on a per person basis than many states the democrats are doing their best to convince their republican counterparts to go along with the vote but again it's the senate that this vote could get shut down and now however another big point made by the democrats is with just over 700000 residents d.c. actually has a larger population than the states of vermont and wyoming reporting in the newsroom fair and fronsac. out of the latest coded 19 numbers worldwide cases now topping 8400000 with about 450000 reported deaths the top 3 countries with the most confirmed cases the u.s.

still leading the way followed by brazil and then russia now taking a closer look at this country's numbers now at 2100000 cases with about 118000 reported deaths. and as protesters across the nation demand changes to police tactics how do those in law enforcement feel about it a discussion about that coming up and then over at sports or jena ham has the latest on the fate of the upcoming u e f a championship so stick around and keep up with all the latest news and anything you might have missed download our brand new free app called portable t.v. you can watch there 24 seventh's we'll be back in just. wall street is busy trading your money 5 days a week and there are 4 corners. and 3 major stock market. and when you

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nationwide protests against police brutality continue little has really been put forth by those who want to see reform and petey's across this country senator rand paul of kentucky has put forth a bill addressing no knock warrants that would have prevented the death of briana taylor then why p.d. is doing away with plain clothes officer units but protesters say none of that is enough so what will be so we will continue that conversation with 2 former police officers to get their thoughts from the other side of the batch now dominick is oh he's a former former police officer in illinois and author of the book before the badge everything you need to know before becoming a cop and garland next and he's a former police official in the baltimore area and adjunct criminal justice instructor garland also sits on the national board of directors for the a.c.l.u. gentlemen thank you for joining us today adamic i want to go over to you 1st there are

a lot of things that need to be done in the way of police reform off the top of your head what do you view as the most important. i think we need to look at the way that the laws or what laws the police are insourcing are viewed one of the biggest things with the narrative of do you on these it's not going to solve a problem i talked just a couple days ago about a breakdown of looking at all the ability of the police have which is what the public wants to do away with they want to do away with a certain type of use of force there which generates from why the cops were there in the 1st place in other words was it a proactive or reactive interaction with the public and when you break everything down the force that's used with law enforcement on a citizen which is basically because the public has plenty about as you might why are they enforcing laws in the 1st place what are we looking at and specifically what i look at is the war on drugs and the 2nd amendment. if we. look at and we structure why police are dealing with people who are usually interacting with drugs

and guns you're going to take away 95 percent of the issues that stem from proactive policing so the 1st thing we have to look at is not the street cop we have to look at the laws that they're enforcing we straight away from the constitution law enforcement become massively revenue generation and we have to look at what command and village officials are having are cops doing it's not a problem for the police it's what the officials are asking them to do that's a different perspective than i've heard garland same question to you. well to me this is an easy one and one of the issues is this do does the public have confidence that the investigations into law enforcement violence law enforcement use of force is unbiased i think the 1st thing that needs to be done is that law enforcement needs to be relieved of the already to investigate. how many of us you know i mean here's an example would be if someone was accused of robbing a bank would you trust the national bank robbers association to do an unbiased the situation certainly not it's pretty absurd the cia do you trust them to investigate

themselves or do an unbiased investigation no but somehow people think that a police department is going to investigate themselves from a person who is the commander of the investigations division which included internal affairs i'm going to have some guy investigate someone else or girl who's on their bowling league i think not it needs to be taken out of all the states municipalities need an independent investigative unit which can not have a retired police officers on it it should probably be attorneys that will give the public the confidence that police departments aren't covering over their own investigations and that is a good point that was definitely something that was brought up about 5 years ago with the death of freddie gray and baltimore what about before you get the bad comic you wrote a book about this what about the police academy what do they teach you there and should some of this crucial community policing be taught to take young recruits down ik. community policing is a redundant term you're looking at one of the biggest issues i have is the standard

of men and women who are hired today i'm 45 years old i don't want to 21 year old male showing up to my home if he hears neighbors complain about a noise complaint at my home if i'm if i'm with my spouse or significant other what does let life experience as a person have you know the problem and if we look specifically at like chicago police department i'm singling them out if you have you know that the conflict between a commune. of color and the candidates that are there a majority of the time you'll have somebody who's of occasion on the north side of chicago let's say who's spent in the academy that person then spends their or their 3 months in the academy or 3 months on after you know with this preconceived notion about the area he's going to be sent in due to the other exposure from the other a seasoned officers there we know has social media which is tainting the view of the communities of color left and right showing them to be a community which is out of control you have

a very impressionable lack of life experience candidate now going to police these neighborhoods with a bias so we have to start looking at the quality of person we're bringing in we need to bring in more salespeople we need to get more retail people people who have verbal skills to be honest one of the worst things that law enforcement ever did was require a college degree you cannot teach on humanitarian issues by sending somebody to college and i can them to come back to the community and garland what do you think about what i want to teach. well i think that that's not the issue i think that we miss the boat when we talk about teaching when we look at some of the agreed just things that we've been seeing online some of the viral videos you know an old man being pushed down people being mercilessly beaten right in front of a camera we have to finally accept that there is a problem within the culture of police department you train people the rules you train people the laws but they go out into the field and they learn the culture and we have to you know it is the the united states and states a nation of laws are

a nation of people with a nation of people and so what we have is people that don't use the training that they have and they don't apply it correctly because there is a bad culture that's what we have to start looking into and often find that starts from the top we need to put police officials into the partner and police departments that will hold their officers accountable that will address this from a culture perspective and recognize you can't train away a person who's just going to walk up and bop an old man and his with a stick or knock him to the. that's not training yeah that's culture people who accept it as an ok thing to do within the context of of their job sticking with you protesters i mean they talk about this institutionalized racism how do you define that and how do you fix that. i think what we have to accept is that the 1st thing is that it's not just institutionalized racism within the police department that this is a reflection of our current country you know some years ago i bought a new car i went into the local coffee shop and walked out and someone told me yeah somebody said you were probably

a drug dealer in and they said you know i know that guy he's a cop so if a police officer. thinks that i'm a drumbeat over because i'm i have a new car it's it's because that's what america sees and we have to accept that what we're looking at is a reflection of american views of minorities and it's not just that police departments they'll come into america they come out of. the right switching gears to regina hamm at the sports h.q. with some good news for european soccer fans this is really across the globe they're just waiting to see the return of their top like club to action and now the union of european football associations has made their announcement on the champions league you know if i confirm that this year's edition of the champions league well we played just in a little bit of a different format it will be an 8 team tournament based in lisbon portugal and will take place between august 12th to 23rd 2 games in the round of 16 only played in early august before a quarter final start on the 12th the finals match will be played on august 23rd

a benefit at the thought of that it was in the 12 after the 12 they got lead to be determined though are the safety protocols health measures and other decisions that impact players and coaches one thing that's certain there will be absolutely no fans allowed into games a sticking point although the effect fishing domestic season may have on teams competing in the league or also gearing up as well and the last makes its returned out of his hands wider of the sports at the same time. i'm a little bit as the n.b.a. so we're going to be having a lot of sports coming back here in the united states how long they will stay back is to be determined it's not going to be kind of tough with the overlap that's the question that's being posed is you have disney is huge at all understand if you've been there you know how big it is you have all of you know you're playing on soccer fields in basketball you know in the arena so you're out so you're already separated that way but when you have to do the overlap of where they're going to stay where they can stay at the same resort how are they going to train where what

are the different bubbles going to be in you make sure that they're not going to go out and mingle and interact with people hanging out at disney world exactly the n.b.a. put out a $113.00 page document on the bubble of where they can go what they can do where they have to wear a mask they're also to be fitted with a ring that is a health tracker so we'll be able to tell if they develop symptoms apparently pretty well so there's all these rules are going into play as boy you also have players staying in place like the grand floridian are going to other guys not to talk to them right so how they're going to work and i have your autograph how are you going back to becoming exactly so it's you have to figure out how it's going to work but for now there are guidelines in place all right we'll see how that works out all right regina han thank you so much and don't go anywhere we're back at 7 o'clock with a lot more news for you for 8 hours out of work residents in kentucky have stood in long lines for a chance to speak with an actual human at the employment office we're going to discuss this dire situation happening in that state and other parts of the country as well all that and more coming up at 7 o'clock that's it right now make sure you

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