one final thing, ray, when janet reno was the attorney general of the united states, she called a summitpolice chiefs, i was there. what are the five more important thing for police. the number one thing they said was public trust. public trust. police leaders under the complexity of the community, and they have to put policies and practices together in a way to generate public trust and public support. >> well, i'm going to try to get a quick answer to my orange question, are you going to behave differently if you think the people on the other end of the street can't hurt you? >> sure, the first step in the first continuum in policing is physical presence, but i don't want to throw this back on the other panelists face, but soft speaking, car carrying a big stick, teddy roosevelt was a genius but the problem is we carry that big stick too often. i would like to look at hold your hands behind the back so the people don't have to see on a daily basis this soldier on the side of the street. i'm not an experiment in camouflage, but even when you look at the uniforms being worn, they are gre

friday, easter friday, i had assurances from someone who worked for janet reno who was the attorney general, the u.s. attorney general, that they would allow us to do that. friday afternoon, i got a call back from somebody in the state department saying that. we called ray. we called everybody. we were at peace. we figured let's get through easter week and then we get it done. easter saturday morning, this happened, in the early morning, 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning. by noon, castro had in his plaza over 100,000 people with a big banner with elian being returned. the logistics of being able to move 100,000 people, it was like he had to have known this was going to happen. no one has done a study on that. the u.s. government knew that this was happening. when they started to hear there was movement within the community, that we would take responsibility for elian because he could not get to the family courts in atlanta, if that happened they would probably rule to keep him with his uncle and aunt the united states. we had to make a quick move. that picture you have up, i have been struggling

bratt, who was a long-time justice department veteran, who, ironically enough, was appointed by janet reno to clean up the citizenship usa scandal under clinton-gore. and that has been well documented over the years. in 1996, before the november '96 election, there was a huge push to naturalize new american citizens. and many procedural safeguards were trampled over in the rush to do that. in fact, at least 6,300 criminal aliens, convicted of felonies, were granted this precious birthright of american citizenship in that rush to essentially beef up the democrat voter rolls. well, after that scandal, after a huge internal investigation, the justice department and reno appointed this guy, bob bratt, to clean up. but he was busy doing other things, and one of the things he was doing was traveling over to moscow, as this high-level official, and hooking up with a russian matchmaker, who found him two nice young women, one of whom he engaged in a sexual relationship, and then later tried to get visas to bring them over to this country. c-span: how do you know this? >> guest: this is all documen

the trendy department of justice for outstanding prosecution, and one from the attorney general janet reno and one from attorney general eric holder before retiring the department of justice in november 2013. mr. chairman, i think erickson expertise and deep knowledge of what works and what doesn't work well aid this committee as it considers the issues currently facing our country in the area of drug control and sentencing policies. i'm pleased to welcome my friend and colleague here today, i'd hope all the members of the task force will benefit from this perspective. thank you. >> thank you very much. our next witness, mr. mark levin, director of the center for effective justice at the texas public policy foundation and policy director of it's right on crime initiative, which he led the effort to develop in 2010. mr. levin, helped develop the right on crime initiative which was launched by the texas public policy foundation at the end of 2010. it has become the national clearinghouse for conservative criminal justice reforms, receiving coverage at outlets such as "the wall street journal