but bratton says the impact of walk-ins murder on new york didn't end with those arrests. >> it was a seminal case for me. it allowed us to have a tipping point impact. >> the day after the murder, bratton received a call from the governor's office offering $40 million to help fight crime. money that would be used to hire thousands of new cops. and soon, the city's crime rate began to drop. as for the suspects arrested in the watkins case, all would be convicted of murder and sentenced to 25 years to life. but that's not even close to the end of the story. of the seven men convicted of this crime, one says he alone is unjustly paying the price for the murder that commissioner bratton says change new york city. >> i had no involvement in this crime, so it's very, very important to me that my name is cleared. >> coming up. this man and why he now says he's not a villain in the story, but a big dumb. >> he slapped me in my face and kicked me right down to the floor. >> went dateline continues. co rsv can severely affect the lungs and lower airways. but i'm protected with arexvy. arexvy i

bill bratton, former nypd commission or.ot saying anything profound when i talk about time and you never know when your life will end. a lot of policemen, firemen, today know that. they know that's a risk every time they leave their home in the morning and kiss their spouse if good bye and their kids good bye with the risk that they might not come home. i think about last week at this time, he was alive and welch probably -- and well. probably enjoying his 11 is-year-old son, a beautiful -- 11-year-old son, a beautiful marriage -- 1-year-old son not knowing on monday it would all a end, but it keeps happening, bill. this kind of stuff keeps happening. what do you make of it? >> i love being associated with the police for over 50 years now, and you're correct, it keeps happening. every year dozens of police officers are murdered in the line of duty similar to the young officer who's being buried today. president trump, former president trump talked about more needs to be done, no specifics. many politicians talk a lot about t

former commissioner william bratton, arguably probably the most police chief police leader in the world in 2015 at a black church in in queens, new york. he said the worst when it comes to race. worst parts of american would not have been without the police. right. the police are literally the muscle. of the system. right. they are other ways how the system operates in an insidious. but the most tangible representation of the system is law enforcement. so when you think about what what king endured even how jim crow is enforced. it's the police that make it tangible. right. everything is everything is just ink on paper. something makes it real. an unfortunately, that's how law enforcement is used whenever there's not an existing agency or an agency is under-resourced. you send the police and unfortunate the police don't simply enforce law. law enforcement enforces this ideology of a society. right? it upholds the ideas of a society. and because we know the inception of this nation experiment, as some people want to say, the fact that we're still we still have so much work to do, we unfo