i not like you jim epstein, you are on drugs. probably true, by the way. so even though i am not going to charge with a crime i am going to take your iphone, your bike, your fancy camera equipment, and then i am going to share it with my friends back home and we will use that money for my least department. america has had that for a long time. we know it is wrong. we've had studies, commission reports, all of that. we have not change that any government level. i am disappointed that the talks and all of that have not led to more kind of like let's just fix this thing and stop giving bad people tools. the local level. so you have to be deliberative. >> but if the federal program the equitable sharing program is a federal program, that can be ripped up. >> but policing in general is handled at the local level. >> next question. ask you said obama chose the least terrible path in regards said obama chose the least terrible path in regards to war. what are the least terrible laughs in regards to children? when will we end the war? largehink when you have a gro

. >> jim epstein from reason. the book, the invention of brownstone brooklyn, talks a lot about with the early gentrifiers in particular, the striving for authenticity that people were leaving manhattan because the wanted to leave next door to the irish couple like you described do you agree with that and are there any remnants of that, looking for authenticity in the current gentrification wave? >> that's a wonderful book, bill the wimple relied on it quite a built for my chapter on park slope. there's no question that authenticity remains a brooklyn word. it is something that you see thrown around all over the place. now, people who wanted to move next to -- into an irish neighborhood because they thought it was authentic, actually -- aim being -- actually really didn't care for the aluminum siding and the laundry in the backyard. so there were tensions from the very, very beginning. and i quote some of the old-timer immigrants. they were not particularly happy with this new group of what the called beet nicks w

what do you think a bad cop is going to do when you have a tool saying i don't like you, jim epstein, you are probably on drugs -- even though i'm not going to charge you with a freaking crime, and going to take your iphone and your bike and fancy camera equipment and share it with my bro's back home and we are going to use that for our own police department. we know it is wrong. we have not changed it at the federal government will. i'm disappointed the talks have not led to let's just fix this thing and stop getting bad people tools. be deliberative. >> the equitable sharing program is a federal program. in general is handled at the local level. >> you said obama chose the least terrible path with regard to the wars. when the least terrible path be to stop murdering women and children and when do we stop the wars? is anon't think there easy answer to that question. you have a large group that is at war with america in places where they are getting through and killing people at a higher rate. >> it has clearly failed. when do we pullout? access the counterfactual problem. i don't thi