as many of you know, i knew bill bratton since the early 1980s.i have been asked by the chairman of the board of the new state transportation authority to help them deal with what was called a problem of homelessness in the subways, and there was no leadership in terms of dealing with those problems. i persuaded a colleague of mine persuaded a chairperson to recruit bill bratton. bratton. bratton was hired and order was restored in the subway. as far as i'm concerned, the strongest test of the power of broken windows was in the subway. can you imagine me as an academic? i have an idea along with a colleague. we published an article in the atlantic. what a nice place to get published, they would get new york city subway as a place to test our idea. that doesn't happen very often in real life. on top of that, the person who introduces broken windows happens to become commissioner in new york city as well and those ideas are tested in new york city. here is what i think we have to be careful. i think broken windows was part of a repertoire of activit

and as many of you know, i knew bill bratton. i had been asked by the chairman of the board of the new york transportation authority to help them deal with what was called a problem of homelessness in the subway. there was no lead in terms of dealing with those problems. i persuaded the colleague of mine to recruit bill bratton. he was hired an order was restored. as far as i answered the strongest test of the power of broken windows was in the subway can you imagine me as an apt -- academic. i have an idea. we publish an article in the a atlantic. we did new york city subway as a place to test our idea. that does not happen very often. on top of that and the person who introduced us broken windows in new york city as well, and those ideas detested. now, here is. i think broken windows was part of repertoire of activities carried on in the new york city police department under brown's administration. and know nothing about what happened after he left. i have not visited the new york city police department until brown was back aga

. >> that was new york's police commissioner bill bratton on the need for new laws to prevent smart phonehe first state to enact legislation that requires smart phones sold in that state to have what is called a kill switch. it can be useless if it is lost or stolen. they are cutting the rash of phone thefts. more than double from the year before. that's according to a survey by consumer reports. some of those smart phone thefts have had deadly consequences. megan was shot to death for her iphone as she sat in her car in 2012. minnesota's law and other action come too late to help your daughter. tell us about what happened to her that night. >> megan was in st. louis for an alumni game with her volleyball team, and it was 2:00 in the afternoon. a beautiful day, and she was on her cell phone with her mother going to her car as she was about to drive to the game. when someone came and confronted her as she was getting in her car, we don't know exactly what happened but we do know that he shot her quite, and my poor daughter was killed. >> and ever since, you have been on a crusade to talk a

there is bill bratton going out as chief explaining to the residence was going on, they are doing this, why it's important. end at one point you see a guy talking to bill and then pointing at another house on the block providing information. if you want to go down the block into that house, the organist. there are ways when you have to be terribly aggressive because of risk and danger, there are ways to communicate that you're doing this on behalf of a community, not to the community, and it seems to me that that is the big issue that the police have to confront. >> before we get to the next question for the remainder of the event when you're asking a question let us know your name and the organization offers that you represent. i think we have a question over here. >> george burnett, oklahoma attorney general's office. public perception of police shooting seems to have gone volatile over the last few years, more than ever before. the prosecutor's role in making decisions in most cases and complainers decisions to the public. >> will we try to do is immediately after it police shooting

cbs news julianna margulies, bill bratton, among others. who wins this face-off? who's got the best table based on what we just showed you there? you can be objective. >> obviously, nbc. let's be honest. come on. i had a backpack on. it was a backpack shaped like a diamond. i said what's in your backpack? he said, ideas, hopes and dreams. i think we have the best by far. >> ideas, hopes and dreams. >> that gets its own chair. >> that's it. >> you've covered these for a number of years as well. you've seen presidents get up and do their stand-up routine. over the past few years, who would you say -- which president would you say has probably done the best job, objectively? >> i don't know, i think president obama is really good at delivering jokes. and he's the first president that's really been the president since the white house has been able to deliver its message unfettered in a way without having to go through traditional media channels. so they've really taken advantage of this outside of the correspondents' dinner. he has gone out and showcased his comedic t

murders and shootings throughout most of my career in new york city, but my time and fugitives, when bill bratton came along as we were addressing the quality of life crimes these people were getting what was called see summonses. notices of violations to appear in court. at the time might units were going after the robbers, burglars, and murderers. they had set to mow were going to start going after the people that do not answer summonses. we started looking at them, and most of them, back to what you were saying, most of these people, yes, they were doing low-level crimes or quality of life crimes but they had extended records of violence. at the same time we address that . affecting the quality of life and getting the bang for the bachmann. putting them back into the system or possibly. so that was a big change. i had thought of the same time, what is this going to do? we after the bad guys. it really change the way that we started thinking in the police department in seeing crime go down. so i am a big subscriber to it. and have seen the results, and i was fortunate enough to be in the police

and there's bill bratton going out as chief, explaining to the residents what's going on, why they'reing this, why is it important. and at one point you see a guy talking to bill and then pointing at another house down the block, providing information. once you do this house, if you want to go down the block and do that house -- [laughter] be our guest. so there are ways even when you have to be terribly aggressive because of risk and danger, it seems to me there are ways to communicate that you're doing this on behalf of a community, not to the community. and it seems to me that's the big issue that police have to confront. >> before we get to the next question, for the remainder of the event if you, when you're speaking your question, let us know your name and the organization or the office that you represent. thank you. and i think we have a question over here. >> george burnett, oklahoma attorney general's office. public perception of police shooting seems to have gotten volatile in the last few years, more than ever before. how about the prosecutor's role in making decisions in t