no relation, is a criminologist and associate professor at criminal justice program at bowling green state university. we welcome you both to democracy now! samantha pree-stinson, can youu start off by explaining when this happened and what you understand took place? story, very surprising as this woman thinks she is hearing a rate outside, calls the police, waits another kumble of minutes, calls again. when they come come it i is like 1:00 in the morning. she comes out in her pajamas to speak to the police. she comes to the driver's-side police cruiser. she is immediately shot in the abdomen by mohammed noor, the police officer in the passenger sheet shooting across and in front of his police partner. this is apparently what has been said because they had video cameras on them, each officer, but they did not turn it on. can you talk -- take it from there and what is been the response and why we don't know more? for one thing, we don't know more because there is no visual evidence. as you stated, the officer has chosen not to speak and to execute his constitutional right not to. the bca, who is inves

joining me now is philip stenson from criminal justice at bowling green state university. mr.d to have you with us and we just got this statement from the nypd saying the training and policies relating to the use of force only allow for measures that are reasonable and necessary under any circumstances. and it would be irresponsible and unprofessional and sends the wrong message to law enforcement as well as the public to use force other than when it would be necessary. so what is your reaction to the president's hyperbole or ling so that he was demonstrating long island yesterday. >> if you look at police officers behind them, take a look at their faces, it pulls back the kurton on the police sub culture. i study police crime, crime committed by sworn law enforcement officers and i've been doing so since the beginning of 2005 and in the last 13 years 151 police officers across the country have been arrested for assaulting somebody already in handcuffs. in other words somebody no threat to the officer at all. so in some places across the country, this is commonplace. it is acc