potical environment that we live in today, people do not have time to bui and delop these peonal relationspsus i think my father knew that he hadonstituency that would ack him up -- teachers, labor, the african-american community. many communities so that when he had to make tough standr tough vote, he did not havto worry about what would hpen to him every x years when he had to run for reeleion. he knew thatis friends would be they'reupporting him every step of the way. that allowed him to take these risky political sts. tavis: what is you sensef the way th he made of the fact that he was high regaed inside of the african-american community? >> i think my dad always felt for pele who have been left out and fopeople who have been treed unfairly. whether it has be the african- erican experience in this country, the issue that i work on, the civ-rightsmovement for peop with disabilies, refuge. my father was always for the underdog. he always stood up. he honestly felt like had moral obligation to stand up in theace of injuice in this worl i think that african-americans know who their politil f

been written about this notion of commuty-based policing, t your point nowhat police have to have relationsps with the communities ey protect and rve. here in l.a.where you and i live, we've had this debate f years. and you recall it manyears ago, when tom bradley was mayor of this ci, we had this debe about whether or n cops, who ork in l.a.,ught to in fact liven l.a. and in cities acss the country, they've experented wi this, and the logic is that if policemenolice commuties at they live a work in, there's a different onnection. >> yes. tavis: bause this is their communitas well, as opposed to policing here and driving a hour and a half away to another counity where you live, you're not a stakeholder in this particularommunity. i sayll that to ask whatour nse was of the relationship between ose who do the work policing newark withhese communities that you were filming in, the peopl >> i mean, i saw aind of coalescing of the commuties. ory lives there in the neighborhood. gary moved into newark. he's bought a home tre and he lives there >> the police chief. >> right, the police chief. e of t

doest reach in an another retionship where there's not physical rationship or intimate re intimate relationsp and i think we go back to it because there's an interaction inside ourself we can only reach beuse of the otr. that'shat a belie. and it's actuay more about being in touch with the depth of ourselves of the hidden pla of ourselves that wwant so much to be with the other. i don't think it's about t other. you see what i'msang? >> charlie: it's your own what? >> bause you get touchwith places that you'veever been in touch with beforeyou met the person so -- that's why it's unbearable somime and wonderful sometis. cause you're reaching different spaces inside you. you want t reach, o course, a place where the's respect and then love. the respect is ithe mo diicult because y've t to in touch enough whe you can stop, there'the limit to respect the other and ittakes a whil ihink it takes maturity in order to t there and i have good plans -- [lauter] >> charlie: u reached that mature levelou can handl it w. >> i hope so. i'm still a ttle girl and you're little boy m sure because otherwise wh

wead kwn each other a couple of years just reporter, public official, relationsp, and i think it was astonishing to him that somebody like me would have engaged in this kind of malarkey. so his question washy did you do it? anhere is where iould like to pick up. why dii do it? why did we do it? why did millions of seemingly sane adult suddenly take leave of their common sense why do we aljumped off theliff together? we all had our reasons. somef usere despate to fulfil the owning our first home, others wanted a bigger house, better neighborhood and others were dazzled by the seemingly sure-fire profits from soaring real estate prices i d to utterly compelling reasons for takinthe plunge. the money was very and i was in love. the fever for romance a stick with fever to get rich have a lot in common. both are driven by primordial ponder and the bill were of once in a lifetime opportunities. both evolveshrough a series of escalating gambles. the first is small and cautious. a slight flirtation owball bid on a condo but each successful pay off emboldens you to raise the stakes, and if th