african-american male achievement, a program of oakland unified school district and retired judge ladoris cordell. she's the city of san jose's independent auditor, a former vice provost at stanford university and a former palo alto city councilwoman. thank you all so much for coming in today. you know, we aren't seeing these protests nightly anymore, but we really saw a lot of unrest in our communities in the past few months. this obviously after the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of white police officers and the grand jury decisions to not bring any criminal charges against these officers. we have michael brown of ferguson and eric garner in new york. judge, let's begin with you because you're in sort of a unique position as the independent police auditor of the city of san jose. there's so much distrust between the community and the police departments. where's this coming from. how do we get here and how do we move on from here? >> it's difficult to put into just a couple seconds how we got here but let us just say that the issue of race in america has always been the elephant in the