joining me from massachusetts is alex vitali, the author of and of policing and with us from los angeles is law professor jody david-armor, tha of the hidden costs of being black in america. thank you both for joining us tonight. >>> i nt to start with you. you are a los angeles resident. he announced he would take om50 million the lapd department and reinvesting it in communities of color. what is your reaction? >> that is the right move that we are looking at the budget initially proped at almost 54% of the $5.5 billion roughly annual budget going to the lapd. that meant that s money th was not going towards social housing, education, you can walk through skid row down here in la, one of the largest really, the laenest homeless mpment in the country. it is one of the fiercest expressions of structural violence in the country. you look to your left and right and you will see 75% the faces are black. money could be going towards tt those folks, g them out of that desperate plight and not going into the lapd. i think that is justified. >> in san francisco one of the supervisors announced