and this became a big issue in the campaign with our current state's attorney greg bernstein. but to me it was you get a call from kelvin, and he says, look, i could take a murderer off the street right now, but i can't get a warrant. and to me that spoke to, you know, dysfunctionalty in the system that we as citizens of baltimore pay a great deal of money to protect us and that often times seems lost in politics and, you know, a lot of the other things that shouldn't really infect an organization that's trying to take murderers off the street. there should be some sense of priority. but, you know, that was a big problem. >> i see a lot of homicide detectives around in the audience right now who they can also understand what we've been through down on the floor of homicide with we have the suspects out there walking the streets right now that we know should be off the streets. and we had a little bit of help from then the state's attorney's office. but gnaw we've got, as you said, greg bernstein who's in the office who won't let us take these cases to court with these one witn

if we had a little bit of help from then the states attorneys office but now we've got to say greg bernstein was an officer in a who will let us take any cases, these cases to court with these one witnesses and try to get these people prosecuted and off the streets. but for a homicide detective it's frustrating because you're the person committed the murder. you can talk to that person while he's on the streets. you know he did this murder that you don't have the tools to take them off the street because -- i think to some extent that's not fair to the detective who works hard after time to keep murderers off the streets. >> what was it you said to me about the building? used to call me up all the time spent when i was driving into work, drive my vehicle, i would look up at the building, police headquarters and always said, you know, there's more problems in that building right there than it is on the streets. [laughter] if we can just get that turnaround it might be better. step for both of us, kelvin has to go to the homes of people whose son or daughter has been taken from this world. as