baltimore police department. we took crystal's claims to gene ryan, the president of baltimore's police union, just after a membership meeting. >> do you think there's accountability for police misconduct in baltimore? >> there's investigations. there's been almost 300 officers that have been terminated in the last 12-15 years, and that doesn't count the officers resigned in lieu of termination or the ones that have been punished. there's a system in place, things are happening investigations are done. >> is there a blue wall of silence? >> no. can i finish up now guys? >> what happens to police officers who are still on the force? we're following a couple of cases, where a couple of officers are involved. >> i can't make a comment without knowing the facts, if you wanna call here and leave the information in the morning. >> does this culture of silence make people safer? mr ryan? >> back in sandtown, freddie's god-brother brandon says the gap between police and locals is wider than ever. >> yeah we on! thank y'all! >> people trust the police? >> trust? nah, is there a reason we should trust them? they can't even giv

baltimore police commissioner is imposing changes to improve safety of prisoner support vans. they include installing cameras, adding side doors and removing center partitions. meanwhile, baltimore police union went to see recall commune -- see all communication in the city department before, during after the april unrest. the union want to know the city put officers at risk in the aftermath of freddie gray death in police custody. familiar face hoping to replace maryland congressman chris van holland. former abc7 anchor, kathleen matthews entered the race today seeking the democratic domination for the eighth district seat. van holland is not seeking re-election since he is running for the senate seat of the retiring senator barbara mccolskey. matthew is the wife of chris matthews is the fifth candidate seeking the party nomination. new at 2:00. within the past hour, former roy island governor lincoln chafee announced his candidacy for president. >> if we as leaders show good judgment, and make good decisions we can fix much of what is ailing us. maureen: chafee made the announcement at germ mason in arlington. he is the fourth democrat to enter the race. he was a republican in the eight ye

. >> the spike in crime, the president of the baltimore police union said it's at least in part because are of getting shot on duty. do you believe trepidation could be partly behind the rise in crime? >> i'm sure it could be partly behind the rise in crime. and he knows what's going on he's down there. so the police officers i'm talking to are afraid they saw what happened to these three officers in baltimore and they're afraid if they act proactively and stopping another drug dealer on the corner, then they're susceptible to go to jail. >> there are people who look at shooters in new york and point fingers at the protests and protesters and say they've created an atmosphere hostale hostile to police and it has ramifications. >> i don't know why the black community has to choose between police abuse and neglect. we just want lawful policing and i don't know why that should be so hard to get. you do have a new reality for law enforcement, you do have people with the cell phones and they're recording things. it's going to take a while for law enforcement to get used to that and also a wh

. >> harry, the spike in crime, the president of the baltimore police union said it is at least in partpolice in baltimore are quote, more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty. do you believe trepidation among the rank and file could be partly behind the rise in crime? >> i'm sure it could be partly behind the rise in crime. but i can't dispute chief bats and what he is saying. and so the ones i'm talking to are holding back and they are afraid and saw what happened to the officers in baltimore and they are afraid of if they act proactively and stop a drug dealer on the corner and he resist add rests and something bad happens and then they are going to jail. >> and van. some look at the spike in crimes in baltimore and the shootings in new york and st. louis and the protesters saying they've created an at that is -- an atmosphere that is hostile to police and do you believe that? >> i don't. i don't understand why the black community has to choose between police abuse on one side and neglect on the other side and i don't understand

baltimore's police union said the city won't respond to request for information about what happened during riots in the city. the information will help officers prepare for future unrest. today a maryland board will decide whether to use $20 million in rainy day funds to cover expenses related to the riot. >> i just think we have a guardian angel. >> some church member, calling it a miracle when no children were hurt when a motorcycle crashed into the church. the bike broke in half and then went flying through a window into a classroom at st. clement episcopal school. there were about ten children and a teacher inside. >> glass was all over. children were touched by glass. but it wasn't serious injuries at all. >> the motorcycle driver is in critical condition right now. >>> a man is dead after being hit by a d.c. street sweeper. the 73-year-old man died while cleaning the roadway near clay place and 40th street northeast. he was hit around 10:30 and later died at the hospital. the street sweeper stayed on the scene after the accident. no charges have been filed. >>> in the day ahead, top

baltimore police today. he's also the head of one of the unions here van guard union and he runs about 18 19 20 police officersdistrict here in baltimore and told me what his officers tell him about their worries. >> am i going to receive backup from this administration this police commissioner if someone makes a complaint and it's controversial, it may look bad on television am i going to receive backup from this administration? that's the biggest concern. >> not a good place for a police force to be. >> absolutely not. >> do you think you can get past it with this commissioner? >> i don't know. i really don't know. a lot of guys, like i said before many they feel betrayed. >> reporter: now i was pretty surprised at his last answer. i really expected him to say they would figure it out and get beyond it but to say openly and publicly for the first time we heard that that the commissioner that he feels betrayed by them tough to take. erin? >> it is pretty incredible. the officers, their lawyers are saying it was marlyin mosby, i want more action there, how is that? >> reporter: look in their motion today they

. >> miguel the police union says the freddie gray case has made police in baltimore afraid to do theirety being called racist. now a police commissioner asking for federal government intervention. how unprecedented is it? >> it's happened before in specific cases, even in baltimore it's happened before. but the question is what exactly he wants these extra forces to do. does he want them to investigate? baltimore needs police on the ground. many police officers telng us they're doubling up tripling up, just responding to 911 calls and that's shrinking the number of police and the ability for them to punch into these neighborhoods and provide any force there. so it is not clear what this plan is other than an all-out call for help from everybody and anybody. one thing that was interesting about that press conference today, the slew of federal and law enforcement officials there nobody from the mayor's office and nobody from the baltimore state's attorney's office, two of the main movers in that city. not there at the chief's big press conference. erin. >> miguel thank you. obviously tha

police custody a week later sparking riots and protests throughout baltimore. >>> dirt bikes and atvs are illegal on d.c. streets but a new report by the d.c. police unionhey're also being used in more crimes. in new reports the union says 150 crimes involving dirt bikes took place within just the past 15 months. two-thirds of those cases were dropped. defendants were only found guilty in 33 of them. >> of those, only two were sentenced with a fine. of all 33 none of them had to serve any jail time. >> the union says many of those who were not charged have been rearrested after committing additional crimes involving dirt bikes. they're calling on prosecutors to step up their efforts to prosecute those defendants. >>> we are continuing our coverage into maryland governor larry hogan's health crisis. he's battling an aggressive form of cancer and will undergo 1 weeks of cream therapy. the 59 -- 18 weeks of chemotherapy. the 59-year-old governor noticed a lump while shaving last may. he has more than 30 tumors in his body. mr. hogan's stage three non- hodgkin's lymphoma will be treated aggressively and immediately but he will not step down. rather he will

baltimore. >> um-huh. >> are loathed. loathed. by the police. >> but why is that? >> because. >> they negotiate. the unionsegotiate with the city to get funding. >> they disparage the police. i think the mckinney department is handling it okay. >> they are. but you brought up new york, bill and the way that de blasio treated the police force wagging his finger. >> never going to get over them. >> lecturing them on turning their back on him. >> telling his kid better watch outer for these people. >> so anti-cop in new york right now. >> i have to say the commissioner himself commissioner bratton one of the finest commissioners in history even said there is a cull temperature in the police force that needs to be addressed. that's what they are doing. >> not true. new york city police department is the best at blending in with the citizenry. >> nobody is saying they are not. >> best example. >> policing. >> that's not true. >> they are fabulously successful until de blasio took office. that's cause and effect. >> liberal cities ruin cop forces. >> always a pleasure. directly ahead powerful american clerics te

in baltimore, which we have looked at so closely over the last few weeks, both the police commissioner there and the police unione echoed the same thing. police officers concerned that they don't have proper probable cause of making arrests, and they could now go to jail now that six police officers have been charged there. and the police union there is saying basically the criminals have the upper hand. erin? >> miguel thank you very much. it's fascinating when you look at the statistics. i want to bring in bill stanton, former nypd officer and van jones. bill, let me start with you. you heard miguel go through the statistics in terms of murder rates. overall crime was down in some city petty crime et cetera but murders up chicago, new york baltimore, milwaukee, st. louis, in all of those cases. is this because police are pulling back? they're afraid? they're afraid to do their jobs? they're afraid of going to jail? they're afraid of being called racist or it is ridiculous bunk? >> it's all of the above, erin. when you take away police pride and you take away giving them the benefit of the doubt, and they are m

baltimore mayor will speak at the hilton union scare. her city saw riots in reaction to the death of a man in police custody. race relations and gun violence have been a major to ice at the nonpartisan convention and wraps up with a celebration in china town. >> they were lucky to have clear weather for the fireworks viewing. >> we have clear conditions the next couple of days where we have a few lingering clouds and north boundly operate for this time of the year. we will start in the south bay with our temperatures, in saratoga you are at 50, and album pickup at 51 and a warm spot is mountain view at 55 along with his and campbell and milpitas and cupertino is 53 and los gatos at 54 and we are at 54 in danville and also in lafayette and san francisco and san carlos and san pablo and alameda and redwood city and new arc at 56 and present wood is 59. here is a look from our camera you can see the flags blowing a little bit on shore today and we will not be so stout as year, a little bit of warm the inland, 81 to 88 and the coast is 58 and breezy and 65 in san francisco and 68 to 78 from north to south across

they do get pushback from like police unions and that sort of thing, so i think with the outcry and the protests going on in baltimore there's never been a better time to get it cleaned up. the medial plan for the police department is to kick the can down the road several years from now and then they will issue their report with good criticisms and probably some good recommendations but then the political climate will have changed. everyone will have moved on and they'll make some probably small changes without having a big political fight. that is the pattern that we see over and over again. so sometimes the federal intervention can have an enabling effect for the local officials who do not really want to make hard decisions at the local level. see, sometimes they want to invite the feds in so that the feds can make tough decisions. but, you know, this is why we elect a mayor and a police chief. it's their primary responsibility. and now it was the time for them to do it. and they've avoided and evaded responsibility, i think, by asking the feds to come in and give them recommendations about what to do. >> i would -

baltimore. [applause] elise boddie is a professor rutgers law school sybarite state and local government law. previously a litigation at the naacp legal defense fund. sergeant delroy burton and the chairman the washington d.c. police unionepresenting policemen and a distinguished member of that department for 21 years. and walter mack is a partner with six -- regulatory experience. he served as deputy police commissioner bernard said the internal affairs where he was in charge of investigation of an institute a policy to combat police corruption and brutality. nick i want to start with you, councilman. baltimore just had its most violent month since 1972 if i'm not mistaken 42 homicides. there is also during that same period of time a massive plummeting -- i wish i had a graph appear but it's extremely striking if you look at the data. what is going on a baltimore right now? >> the city of baltimore the first thing i would say is when you look at a place like all to more we see a lot of urban decay and you know urban decay is as american as apple pie. we can continue to look at the criminality of the byproducts of that and we can continue to focus on the wet but we really need to talk about the why. and i say that becau