the nypd under his command and under the leadership of commissioner bill bratton went on to reduce violent crime to levels that very very few people ever would have thought possible in new york city 20 years ago. new york's ongoing success in reducing crime and saving lives quite literally led to a revolution of performance measure policing in cities and towns all across the united states. and one of the first of those major cities was my city of baltimore. you see when i was elected mayor in 1999 our city head sadly allowed herself to become the most violent, the most addictive in the most abandoned city in america with more population loss over the prior 30 years than any major city in our country. at the beginning of our administration we were able to put an additional 20 police officers onto the streets of baltimore which presented us with a really important question question, where to send them. now we could have deployed them equally to each of the six council districts. that would be one way to do it or if we wanted to be real political about it we could deploy them to the council d

. >> ready -- >> reporter: they are adamant that the nypd, now under commissioner bill bratton, had ordered retraining months before the garner case. >> police officers after the police academy never get any physical training, tactical training, after that first academy. >> reporter: after they walk out of the academy. >> after the first six months, that's it. >> reporter: and tonight on "nightline," the ride -along. how is this new training being used on the streets? that's right. later tonight, we're in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the city. we asked the officers and the people on the street, will the new training work? is it needed? and what we heard later tonight, right here. >>> in the meantime, there is still much more ahead on "world news tonight" this tuesday. the famous university, images of young women, allegedly posted on facebook, partially undressed. they had no idea. and the other school tonight, the players accused of texting each other about what they were going to do to their own teammates. the investigation tonight. >>> the video so many people are talking ab

police commissioner bill bratton was calling for more police officers.hristian adams former us department of justice attorney. served under both presidents bush and obama. he is the author of injustice. good to see you christian. let me turn to these protests. what is -- this is obviously coordinated and to what end would the president and his attorney general permit this to go on? >> well anybody who has been paying attention lou, has been following this. there is a deep underground movement. anti-police movement around the country. civil rights groups and academia the left. they don't like the police. that's not a secret. but what's happened since the inauguration in 2009 is they have an advocate as the attorney general. they have a civil rights division that has waged a war against police departments using some of the most radical sort of looney tunes anti-police arguments you can have. they're cracking down on cops. the fact the president has injected himself is not an accident. this is part of a deliberate administration policy. >> and what happens

to be honest i think bratton's been under bill de blasio's spell just a little too long. street cop will tell you it's because of the stoppage of stop and frisk that's causing the rise in shootings and homicides. i mean, for bill bratton to link all these shootings to marijuana without backing it up with statistics was kind of bizarre. it's not pot use. >> i believe him. >> if you believe -- >> it's not use, it's the dealers. >> it's not pot use it's pot prohibition. >> it's turf. it's about selling marijuana and they just don't sell marijuana. >> can i just read a quote from the chief of detectives of new york city. these are all ripoff, they're not turf wars, these are ripoffs of marijuana dealers, robberies, according to the chief of -- >> okay. that's part of it. >> -- into the drug dealing word. you have the last word make it a good one, gutfeld. >> homicides in new york are up 20%. why is that? a major city in which got the most liberal mayor in their history and instantly over a year more people are being murdered. it's not about the cannabis, it's about communist.

police commissioner bill bratton was calling for more police officers.hristian adams former us department of justice attorney. served under both presidents bush and obama. he is the author of injustice. good to see you christian. let me turn to these protests. what is -- this is obviously coordinated and to what end would the president and his attorney general permit this to go on? >> well anybody who has been paying attention lou, has been following this. there is a deep underground movement. anti-police movement around the country. civil rights groups and academia the left. they don't like the police. that's not a secret. but what's happened since the inauguration in 2009 is they have an advocate as the attorney general. they have a civil rights division that has waged a war against police departments using some of the most radical sort of looney tunes anti-police arguments you can have. they're cracking down on cops. the fact the president has injected himself is not an accident. this is part of a deliberate administration policy. >> and what happens

i think largely because of the efforts of commissioner bill bratton and his staff that are reaching out back and care deeply about their safety. >> do you think that the mayor has their back? >> i think he is trying to exhibit that he does. he is probably not a bad person but i think he has said some things we can't walk back in the minds of some cops. >> a lot of people say it's time for everyone to get a thicker skin, not the color of the skin, it's the thickness of it. police get their nose out of joint, the president the attorney general. get over it. what do you make of that? >> i think it's sound wisdom. it's time for everybody to do their job whether they're police or activists or whatever, do their job let the police do their job most -- even eric holder said most police do their job they good hard-working-deposits people year do you think police get a fair break in the media? an incident happens and it's covered one way or another. >> i'm a 32 year veteran and i'm prejudiced. no i don't think the police -- very often do not gate fair shake in the media. if it pleads it leads is

nypd chief bill bratton said the beauty of the consent decree is you have no choice but to comply withnd a federal monitor that watches over the department for years. over 20 police departments have been placed under consent decrees decrees. it ends up making the department better. the lapd spent 20 years under a decree. public satisfaction is up and crime is down. transformational change is always hard especially in the tight-end nature of the relationship with police. we have seen the federal government demand and get progress on major racialized issues like immigration, affirmative action and others. consent decrees have been critical to "forcing polices to jet jettison -- now if more than 20 major police departments have had to come under federal monitoring then we know we have a massive nationwide policing problem, but we also have a federal government that's fighting to make change. it's heartbreaking to see so many examples of racist policing and heartbreaking knowing that we still need the federal government to combat racism, but police officers are governmental employees. righ

so i'd be curious to flare billhear from bill bratton if he agrees or has information to corroborateen't revealing the names of the pilots but clearly knew. go to keir simmons, of course live on the scene in france. keir? >> reporter: well mika just absolutely stunned, shock and devastation here at this news that has been breaking over the recent hour and let me just make clear for your viewers exactly why it is that the french prosecutor has reached this conclusion that this was a deliberate attack i mean in a sense it was an attack on the other 149 passengers onboard this plane. the door into the cockpit can be opened from the outside by another crew member unless there was a fault in that door then was deliberately locked and kept locked by the copilot inside. the french prosecutor says that the controls of the plane were deliberately manipulated in order to bring the plane down into the mountain range, the alps, that you can see behind me here. now, as the french prosecutor says, the copilot, as far as we can tell appears to have been pretty much quiet during this devastating des

it was vicious and he was asked what he thought about bill bratton getting viewed by a protester thisesident obama. he said it was the tone set by the president. he said he could take a note by bill cosby who said there should be a focus on family. and we have certain morning and late-night show hosts who are analyzing and laughing. >> he becomes less relevant. and we are talking to somebody who works closely with rudy giuliani nor a close time. he said because when he is not in the conversation it drives him crazy. >> everyone loved you and now look at you. >> i haven't been elekked to any office in 15 years. >> we'll get through this together if you listen to me. >> just one big white blur. just the way rudy giuliani likes it. >> nobody loves america like rudy giuliani. poor rudy. he has fame and money, but never the love of a -- the love of a strong, black man. >> and the outrage was the word commend when he used the word to the smooting. >> and the political class scratching their heads and there were things that we couldn't play by bill maur. and more coming up. i'm talking to co

the nypd under his command and under the leadership of commissioner bill bratton went on to reduce violent crime to levels that very very few people ever would have thought possible in new york city 20 years ago. new york's ongoing success in reducing crime and saving lives quite literally led to a revolution of performance measure policing in cities and towns all across the united states. and one of the first of those major cities was my city of baltimore. you see when i was elected mayor in 1999 our city head sadly allowed herself to become the most violent, the most addictive in the most abandoned city in america with more population loss over the prior 30 years than any major city in our country. at the beginning of our administration we were able to put an additional 20 police officers onto the streets of baltimore which presented us with a really important question question, where to send them. now we could have deployed them equally to each of the six council districts. that would be one way to do it or if we wanted to be real political about it we could deploy them to the council d

my testimony site the station by bill bratton when he was sworn in as please commissioner for a second time a year ago exactly. he said he's come back to new york because he's troubled by observation, his personal observation, realization although crime has been reduced to record lows in -- people in communities of color, particularly young people in communities of color are angry at police. how could this be, he asks, when we've done so well, in his view. how could it be there's so much dissatisfaction. we've talked about this. we talked about it at john jay with the colleagues, stop and frisk era, but it's different, deeper than that. so in addition to procedural justice and legitimacy what i argue for in this testimony and we take on under the national initiative is to imagine a process of racial reconciliation, imagine a process that brings police and community together, not in the way which is the easy way of community councils and public opinion polls but really getting to the deep distrust between the the police that exists for a long time. i'll end with a quote from my colleagu

he trained here for 24 years under bill bratton. we've made remarkable changes.us is getting involved with sea level rise. we've had some flooding on our streets at certain times of the year. we aggressively attacked it. >> how? putting up higher seawalls? >> that was just one area. we're putting in pumps across our city. of course it's been very effective. it's important we take a proactive measure on it. >> all right. biggest challenge you're facing right now? >> i think controlled growth and getting ready for our 26th concert. 100 years of miami beach. >> thank you very much. >> going to see trump while you're here? >> i don't think so. >> you didn't like that tournament? he did a lot with doral, didn't he? >> miami beach is separate. not that mr. trump. >> you know jason. >> i do. who doesn't? >> you were in his wedding. >> i was a groomsman. >>> coming up a private equity powerhouse wants a tall piece of chicago. that's next. plus why are these men running with women over their shoulders? an explanation you won't believe but we're going to tell you about it

commissioner bill bratton, new york city, he knows this. it's, he's an advocate for it.nity to create civic spees so people don't withdraw and get fearful. when mayor de blasio changed the rules, no longer arrests for marijuana use, no longer stop and frisk, will no longer have buy and bust it sent a message hey, it's a free for all. you can bring marijuana in and pretty soon, guess what? the violent consequences started. marijuana has consequences, and it's now degrading the neighborhood with a huge increase, surge in crime and including murder. >> the nypd says the murtders are a result of dealers being ripped off. >> yeah. >> but i think, you know, for our viewers, help us understand how crime in denver could plummet, but crime in new york city could rise? do we have enough data to suggest the two are totally related? >> actually, the crime situation in denver is -- it pretty much is in flux. we are seeing a number of pathologies and indicators ouch colorado that are actually very negative. traffic fatalities, crime rates, school difficulties and delinquency problems.

and the nypd, under his command and the leadership of bill bratton, went on to reduce violent crime toevels that very, very, very few people ever would have thought possible in new york city, 20 years ago. new york's ongoing success in reducing crime and saving lives quite literally led to a revolution of performance measured policing in cities and towns all across the united states. and one of the first of those major cities was my city of baltimore. you see, when i was elected mayor in 1999, our city had sadly allowed for -- allowed ourselves to become the most violent, and abandoned city in america. with more population loss over the prior 30 years than any major city in our country. and at the beginning of our administration we were able to put an additional 20 police officers on to the streets of baltimore, which presented us with a really important question. where to send them. now, we could have deployed them equally, to each of the six council districts. that would be one way to do it. or if we wanted to be really political about it, we could deploy them to the council district