is commissioner batts right?ing a storm of violence. >> now there's over 600,000, it's worse. the drugs stolen certainly part of it. also the officers now, a lot of word i'm getting from police officers is they are really not being assertive. they are answering 9/11 calls as they are supposed to but they are very, very -- not timid but reticent given indictments after freddie gray case. >> so in light of that commissioner batts made request for more federal help to fight crime. is that a necessary move? a good move? a bad move? >> it should be unnecessary. this is a fairly big police department per capita. it's a well trained police department. they should be able to handle this. the problem is if people aren't stopping people in the street and taking guns away from people that carry them illegally and shoot other people if they carry them freely you'll see a tremendous spike in crimes. part fueled by drugs, guys opening up martz on their own and there is competition. the fact is if police aren't stopping people

. >> when the officers were convicted last year, crystal says police commissioner anthony batts missed an opportunity to make changes. >> in 2014, batts had two cops under his command who were found guilty by a baltimore jury for taking a guy out of a wagon and assulting him. if you'd taken steps when this man was assaulted, maybe freddie gray didn't have to die. >> commissioner batts declined an interview request. after gray's death, the u.s. department of justice opened an investigation into the 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 pol

baltimore police commissioner anthony batts addressing the uptick in homicides in his city. let's listen in. to thank my local and federal counterparts for being here today and for being a part of this collaboration against violence within the city of baltimore. i'd like to introduce special agent in charge steve volt, of the federal bureau of investigation. assistant special agent in charge gary tuggle special agent in charge george mcmullen of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. supervisory deputy david lutz. section chief, michael hanlin of the united states attorney general's office. the baltimore city sheriff's office and also major jerome howard of the maryland transportation. and those who are on their way stand in support, maryland state police and baltimore school police. we understand fully the concern over the recent violence and level of violence for our community and for all our law enforcement personnel and officers. nothing is more important than the sanctity of human life within this city. mere numbers miss the point. we're talking about people. these are not numb

anthony batts is asking for new federal resources to battle the spike in the crime rate. seeking help from prosecutors and law enforcement agents. let's get more from cnn's miguel marquez. >> reporter: john this is high stakes for the police commissioner. he held an extraordinary press conference with the slew of law enforcement officials, most from the federal government saying this was his effort to bring the level of crime down. baltimore has seen extraordinarily high levels of crime, in particular since the rioting over the death of freddie gray. the murder rate is up 40%. 119 murders right now. may saw the deadliest. 43 dead in baltimore in may. the police commissioner saying that much of the violence is driven by the pharmacies. 27 pharmacies robbed among the hundreds of businesses looted and robbed during the riots. saying the prescription drugs from the pharmacies is helping to fuel the violence. here is how he put the reason he was doing the press conference. >> nothing is more important than the sanctity than human life within this city. mere numbers miss the po

anthony batts, the police commissioner requesting more federal agents and prosecutors be sent to the city after the deadliest month of violence in more than 40 years in baltimore. the police commissioner blaming the recent spike in violence on stolen drugs. an estimated 175,000 drugs stolen from pharmacies and clinics during the april riots. >>> new details in the case that sparked those riots. baltimore state's attorney trying to block the release of freddie gray's autopsy and other so-called sensitive documents. the prosecutor claims she will not be, quote, litigating this case through the media, end quote. six baltimore officers were charged in gray's death, and an attorney representing one of the officers claims mosby is trying to hide something in not releasing the results of the autopsy. >>> joining us milwaukee county sheriff david clarke good to have you with us. first your reaction to the police commissioner again asking for more agents, more prosecutors from the federal government. >> thanks for having me look, commissioner batts is lost all right? he's out of ideas does no

baltimore city's police commissioner anthony batts wants to upgrade its fleet with new partitions, side doors and cameras. immediately they could improve the current fleet of 24 vans at a cost of $15,000 each to including installing cameras, eliminating doors and putting in a center partition to make getting in and out of the vans easier. >> the cameras could be monitored by the driver to see what's happening but more importantly it's recorded. >> reporter: police say all transport van drivers have been retrained since the gray incident in april. they are also considering adding gps tracking to the van. >>> this morning some rockville high school students and staff will be tested for tuberculosis. last week a case of tb was confirmed at the school. dr. jeff boil is chief scientist for the company that creates qft, the blood test that will be administered to people who come in contact with the patient. in the past tuberculosis testing relied on a skin test. dr. boyle says the blood test technology is an easy and accurate alternative to the skin test and he believes it can help lower the

. >> reporter: this is high stakes for the commissioner anthony batts. he had a press conference with a slew of officials, mostly from the government. he said this is his effort to bring the level of crime down. baltimore has seen high levels of crime, in particular since the riots over the death of freddie gray. the murder rate for the year is up 40% at 119 murders right now. in may, the deadliest month. 43 dead in baltimore in may. the police commissioner saying much of the violence is driven by the pharmacies. 27 pharmacies robbed along the businesses looted and robbed during the riots. the prescription drugs is fuelling the violence. >> nothing is more important than the sanctity of human life within this city. mere numbers miss the point. we're talking about people. these are not numbers. these are human beings who lost their lives on the streets of baltimore. we are aggressive in our crime fight using all of the resources that are available to us. this is all hands on deck. >> reporter: despite it is an all hands on deck effort noticeably missing f

if they come out and say anything about commissioner batts, you know they'll be in trouble. continue to follow it and we're going to continue to reach out to those who he has taken direct aim at and see if they can find the courage to offer their response. mark good to see you. >> thank you. >>> also tonight, after the tragedy in charleston south carolina the head of the naacp is calling for the vigorous prosecution of hate groups. judge andrew napolitano next on where that could go. >>> both sides weigh in on a heated race debate after america's first black president just used the most controversial word out there. >> racism. we are not cured of it. clearly. and it's not just a matter of it not being polite to say [ bleep ] in public that's not the measure of whether racism still exists or not. before i had the shooting, burning, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain, these feet... ...served my country... ...carried the weight of a family... ...and walked a daughter down the aisle. but i couldn't bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he pres

. >> reporter: brooke what you're hearing from commissioner batts is him trying to defend his police force. the officer keith mcneil was shot nine times by a suspect last year on st. patrick's day 2014. he is still alive to this day, and it's a remarkable story on its own, but what he was trying to get across is you know there is a lot -- obviously there's problems there in baltimore and the police department needs some help but he says they are standing every day doing their job and not what you were hearing in officers. i was reading "the baltimore sun" and reading a story about a 16-year-old killed and an 8 and 10-year-old shot over the weekend. this is a huge huge crime possible these officers some whom feel like criminals are empowered and i'm not entirely what the solution is. i've covered law enforcement for a long time. >> that's a great point. one of the problems standing at that podium right next to him was marilyn mosby, the state's attorney like the elephant in the room. a couple of people who really haven't been communicating very well and one of the problems has been th

>> greta if anyone is under seej commissioner batts behind me saying all hands on deck. what he described turf war going on because of the onslaught of drugs on the streets in baltimore. announced that at least 27 permanencies were hit in permanencies leading to farmer is is pharmacies. leading to. they are trialing to get a handle. commissioner standing with the head of the fbi and dea trying to get things under control. he addressed also the challenges in morale in the officers out there trying to do the best they can under the situation. we also spoke earlier today to the president of the fraternal order of police. lt. gene rine and he spoke about an after action report that's going to be issued his folks, undertaking this to find out what happened and what all the communications were between the command here and the officers out in the field. he spoke about he says, 160 or more officers and firefighters were hurt in those riots. so, things are very hot here. we spoke with gene ryan, fraternal order of police's head earlier and here is what he had to say. >> morale is

>> couple weeks ago, anthony batts, made a plea for federal help to try to stem some of the violenceimore right now. so today we see some of the federal help coming in the form of the atf making this announcement. showing some of the video, of the incendiary devices, ieds, basically, some were using to set fires to drug stores and to some of the business that were looted in the aftermath of the freddie gray protests. i was also there for the press conference held by rod rosenstein the u.s. attorney he announced the indictment against 14 people who were members of this black guerrilla family gang, responsible according to the feds for a lot of the murder and narcotics trafficking plaguing baltimore. the chief, steve vogt had this warning for members of the gang. >> for gang members listening to the intercepts, i was there listening to man of them. a pretty bleak life you have out there. you are going to go to the morgue or go to jail if you don't get out of the gangs. this is your chance if you are in bgf and in the city. we may be coming for you next. >> and wolf right there you see

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. >> i think commissioner batts has a big big problem.also talked about the prosecutor marilyn mosby. what did they have to say? >> they watched her speech on the steps of the war memorial. they said it sounded like a campaign speech. i just got off the phone with one of these officers because i wanted to follow up on the news that marilyn mosby gave this directive that ultimately down the chain was saying to baltimore police go out to the pen penn north corner i want to see more arrests. and this officer said to me that's odd to me. that's odd to me that you would get a patrolling command coming specifically from essentially the city's attorney. and so he said -- let me just be precise and quote him. referring to these officers they were following orders given by the commander and now something went bad in the process, meaning they were arrested around charged in the death of freddie gray. it's confusing. do you follow an order and run the risk of getting charged? i said will you think twice about following orders? he said no. if somebod

commissioner said in reference to the interview, this is what these two officers said about commissioner battse state's attorney. >> moving forward do you feel like marilyn mosby has your backs? >> no. >> no. >> do you mike like the mayor has your backs? >> she's never had our backs. >> the commissioner just recently spoke to you all, essentially saying i think i let you guys down. people think we're down people are giving up on us we need to show horridw f-ing good we are. i stand ready to lead you out of this. do you trust the commissioner? >> trust is one thing. the thing is you never should have led us into it. what needs to be instituted in a leader you have to be the front line. the whole command staff, this issy your leaders are. you don't sit inside and command things over a radio. things don't work like that. >> pamela in responds to the interview and in pods to your question about the leadership reacting to this interview, the commissioner reacted last night and today, our colleague miguel marquez was able to get a question in. you could tell he was frustrated yes, some of my officer

. >> baltimore police commissioner anthony batts says the surge in drugs and a fight over customers isgotten so bad he's asking for federal help to fight it. >> criminals are selling the stolen drugs. there are turf wars happening which are leading to violence and shootings in our city. >> >> but blood gang members wolf and bones says there's in turf war and they're being unfairly blamed by the police. >> we're not fighting not no drugs, nothing. that's not us. >> what they're trying to do is take the fire and the heat off of them. that's what they're trying to do. they need to do their jobs. >> baltimore city councilman karl stokes says the criminal element is taking advantage of the lack of leadership within the police department and the deliberate slowdown of policing. >> the commissioner lost respect and the confidence of the men and women on the streets, the police officers. what they need is a commander who has the confidence of the troops. >> the city is experiencing the deadliest crime surge in decades. in may alone, 43 homicides, the deadliest month since 1972 pushing baltimor

i asked does moseby have your backs, no, does blake, no, do commissioner batts have your backs. no. it's not okay. it just came out in court documents because they want her recused from this case, especially now that it's come out that she apajtly gave this directive down the chain to police essentially saying i want you to go out to the pen north corner. that's where the cvs was looted. when i asked one of the officers this morning to respond to that, that's key, because down the road if you're following the orders and you go down the road and you're charged, it neegts okay. one says it's confusing. i'm worried i'm going to get charged and i want to go home to my family at night. >> this clearly has to be addressed. they have to feel like they can do their jobs. hopefully this might -- >> with the citizens of baltimore caught in the middle of this. >> brooke baldwin, thank you so much. the whole interview is going to air on brooke's show at 2:00 p.m. eastern time. please watch. >> there's going to be a lot coming out of that interview. >>> we're always talking about this. major emb

that coming from anthony batts. joining me now, senator pugh. a little bit of information on what the commissioner was saying. during the riots, we know 27 pharmacies two methadone clinics were looted. as a result of that 175,000 units of prescription drugs out on the streets. do you agree with the commissioner that the violence is up specifically because of these drugs? >> well i don't know exactly what that number is and i'm not sure what the commissioner's referring to but we do know that 27 pharmacies were looted during the unrest here in baltimore. we do know there's an effort on behalf of not just the police department but our federal leaders to bring in federal help to baltimore so that we can deal with some of these issues. as you reported earlier, spike in the crime in baltimore is not just happening here. it's happening nationwide. this is an issue all cities around the nation are beginning to deal with. this issue of criminal justice issues in the state of maryland will begin a discussion on monday with our commission on how to we dea

. >> a photographer stepped on an ied and lost batt legs and an arm. and that's terrifying. and you know it's-- you ask all the time s it worth that is it worth losing limbs for. i would say no, i would say it's worth risking it but not worth that kind of injury. and you know i have been, i have had some close shaves. i've been lucky so far. >> rose: what is the closest shave? >> that was very close. i have been in the middle of fire fights in afghanistan that lasted seven eight hours n one case where the inside of me was hit. >> rose: is war the only thing that really interested you. >> no, i have done some environmental stories recently. i've done a couple of films about slave labor in due buy recently. -- dubai recently. i think conflict is-- what i'm good at is the right phrase but i can cope there. i can function, i can perform well. and i can get young men with weapons to open up to me and trust me. and maybe even enjoy having me around. >> rose: where wouldn't you go? >> i have never said no to a job. there is nowhere i wouldn't go. >> rose: so if isis said come, we'l

the baltimore police commissioner anthony batts is asking for more federal law enforcement help to helpe city's surging crime rate that's gone up dramatically since the death of freddie gray in police custody. the commissioner asking for more help. what are you learning, miguel? >> well look he is in the hot seat certainly. this is a commissioner who has come under fire not only for the response to the riots but the violence that has happened afterwards. in may in baltimore 43 deaths. that's the most in 40 years. and keep in mind 40 years ago baltimore was 300,000 people bigger. so per capita basis this is probably the deadliest month baltimore has ever seen. for the year murders are up about 40%. 119 people killed so far. police saying they have arrested several people since those riots, that many pharmacies were also trashed and attacked and the drugs, the prescription drugs out of them were taken. and he makes the claim that that is helping fuel the violence. many point to treat-level violence turf wars between gangs and drug dealers as well as driving a lot of the violence there. bu

. >>> baltimore's police commissioner anthony batts claims this recent surge of violence in his citys a result of the flood of streets that happened after the looting in april. he's asking for federal help to control his streets. let's discuss the situation and the needed fix with investigator reporter for the baltimore sun and the pastor of the empowerment church. he's an organize near the community and having unity rallies in baltimore. mark let's start with you. the idea that so many drugs, illegal drugs, prescription drugs were taken at pharmacies during the riots that they're flooding the streets. what is the factual basis for that? >> well what the police commissioner reported yesterday the baltimore sun reported online friday in the paper on sunday that dozens of pharmacies were looed, the narcotics were taken and we found several pharmacy owners who said their most powerful drugs were taken. >> all right. so those are both v best interesting. there's the supply they were looted. this is the kind of stuff with street value. however the idea that he needs help now, what has he