according to national criminal justice reference service forty three percent of cops i agree that quote always following the rules is not compatible with getting the job done according the bureau of justice statistics between four hundred and five hundred innocent people are murdered by law enforcement officers every year. for. breaking the set coming away a little later here a naughty melting ice in the arctic may be of huge concern to scientists but it's of huge appeal to commercial shipping the north sea route running along russia's north coast is open up as global temperatures rise and is likely to prove quite a draw to vessels from asia when early in my colleague you know ship of one of a talk to a business presenting pilbeam about why it's such a big deal. well there's two main reasons for this the first one is the potential to save billions of dollars in shipping costs because the route is much shorter than say the suez canal so talking less fuel the more business trips that can be made throughout but it secondly it reduces dependency on the suez canal which is always prone to de

at the response from cops themselves about the inner workings of the force according to national criminal justice reference service forty three percent of cops are green always following the rules is not compatible with getting the job done twenty five percent said that they have witnessed fellow officers her ass in a citizen most likely because of his or her race had to do percent say it's not unusual for officers to turn a blind eye to misconduct done by other officers and forty nine percent feel that the only way a criminal receive any punishment is to punish the individual themselves the way the police feel about their own misconduct probably doesn't comfort the thousands of family members affected by police violence in the u.s. it's a subject one organization is tackling head on with a new documentary called no justice no peace just to warn you some of these images are graphic. thanks. oh. we have a cell phone and they say yeah i'm ten times in the back i made up a right. to believe and. stop. twenty pre-crime one for every your client my sandwich i like and their tax base our already a rail

we hope to transform the criminal justice system on a national basis and what we are learning is san ancisco is going to help many other states in its jurisdiction to find other ways to serve justice and at the same time change lives and reduce recidivism. our counties realignment effort which means that if we have individual treatment plans, we look at the individual and create a case plan based upon his or her needs and not taking a one side approach as we know about the terrible result of the state prison system. the recidivism rate was 78 percent. i'm really happy to report that we have proven that the sky has not fallen since realignment. we have major results and i will share those stats with you. we have certain sanctions which included incarceration but also rewards for positive behavior and there is leaders in san francisco was in terms of a legal approach was -- ensuring that due process rights were under law these flashing incarceration. what it means we provided the court and public defenders and district attorney's and rpgs recommendation was not based on a punishment mod

national security objectives? >> there's law enforcement from the criminal justice. e for the forefforts -- the obaa administration is secretive. we can't tell if there's a trend there and we haven't told what other actions are taking and what it's considering. what about the other 4,000 people. >> hassan, we have less than two heupbs left in the show. the precedence that's being set by the u.s. and u.s. drone policy as other nations around the world develop their own drone system. so, that is the most controversy shall part of the whole thing. this has opened up a new -- it's a number of symptoms the and a number of disease. e i think the thing that the law enforcement can do the job but there's a sequence. drone strikes will strike and you have to work on law enforcement and development to beat the terrorism in a significant fashion. >> josh, can i give you the last word? >> without everyone else on the panel, the other aspects of what president obama laid out back in may i think still needs to come out online. it's still brought a local security course capacity an

they constitute about 3 percent of all criminal justice expenditures in our nations largest counties." i'm going to skip ahead. we interview lawyers, who fire appropriate motions and do many other things that attorneys should be able to do as a matter of course. finally we know there are numerous challenges in the public defense system like budget shortfalls. he acknowledged the challenges the system faced were not new and quoted justice hugo black when gideon came before the supreme court. there can be no equal justice when a trial a man gets can be a pile of money he has. what can be do? he asked the audience. the question resonates, echoing and bouncing off the walls where a player knows what needs to be done to fix the problem but no one can generate the political will necessary to change things. 50 years after combid gideon rights e eludes us. i want to a break from the reading and talk about why that issue is so hard for people to grasp and why reform efforts have been stymied. it's been interesting for me reporting on this last year-and-a-half and trying to talk to people at th

. >> my name is david, national criminal justice association. can you talk about how you see the affordable care act playing into some of the criminal justice reforms you guys are having out there in kentucky? >> you know, in kentucky we've had a tremendous prescription drug abuse problem. and it just has continued to grow by leaps and bounds. and so a couple of years ago i got my leadership in the senate that's republican and my leadership in the house that's democratic, and we sat down and we said we've got to do something, and we've got to do this fast, and we've got to be aggressive. and so we had, for instance, what's called the casper system which is that monitoring system where the prescribers would put into the system what they prescribed for folks, and then you can check it if somebody walks in your office for a prescription, and you can tell that, hey, this guy's been around the corner yesterday to three doctors and got the same bunch of pills. well, it was a voluntary system. we made it mandatory. we said every prescriber's going to b

nation thrive without equal justice for all? u.s. the absence in third world countries are serious problems preventing development and prolonging poverty. now a thai princess and former criminalrosecutor laurjed a campaign to make the rule of law and equal justice goals for the 193 states that belong to the united nations. the princess is also behind thailand's campaign for acceptance of the rules on the worldwide. i had a chance to speak with her royal highness on wednesday. like you, i'm a lawyer. i have a law degree from a third world country. i group up in venezuela, and all countries have laws. my experience is the respect for laws in these countries and the enforcement of laws. is that how you see it so people know where you stand? >> in the whole world there are so many legal systems, and in each legal system they are decided to be suitable for certain countries. but i think the basic principle on the law somehow should be jointly together and i'm here today to talk about the issue on the rule of law. the rule of law with an academy deem ya context and the u.n. context has been discussed for a very long time. i think it is very important because like you mentioned, in

criminal justice system with two of the country's most famous defense attorneys, mark geragos and pat harris. welcome, i'm barry kibrick. mark and pat are two of the premiere trial lawyers in the nation, and have been involved in some of the most famous trials of recent history. their clients have ranged from michael jackson and winona ryder to susan mcdougal and gary condit. now with their book "mistrial," they give us an insider's view of our justice system, to see how it works and why sometimes it doesn't. linda ellerbee: i'm a writer today because i was a reader when i was 11 years old, and it was... deepak chopra: you do not need to prove your state of happiness to anybody. warren christopher: most of these speeches were as much as a month in preparation. stephen j. cannell: the characters, the heroes of this book are seekers of truth in a story that involves a lot of corruption. man: i get a chance to really talk about what's real, and this is the purpose for me. barry: mark, pat, welcome to "between the lines." it's a pleasure to have you on the show. mark geragos: we're happy to be here at "between the lines." pat: thanks so much for having us. we really do appreciate it. bar

1911, is the oldest and largest membership organization in the nation, advocating for equal justice for all people in both the civil ad criminal justice systems, regardless of income. on the half of my defender colleagues, i want to endorse the comments of mr. kramer, on behalf of our ceo jo-ann wallace who was former public defender of the district of columbia. we certainly understand the crisis in federal defense, as was the crisis at the state level. however, today i'm here on behalf of the thousands of attorneys and other advocates in the civil justice system dedicated to ensuring our democratic principle of equal justice under the law. my colleagues across the nation work every day, often at significant personal sacrifice, to make that principle of equal justice our reality for low-income families in communities in every corner of the nation. i wanted to briefly today discussed to areas of federal spending and which the impact of sequestration and the government shut down might well have a significant impact on the provision of civil legal assistance to people living in poverty in the united states. those two areas, the f

nations to impose an arms embargo. what they are calling for really is justice but this cannot happen because syria is not with the criminal and the criminal court is investigating the war crimes and would need approval of the u.n. security council. the situation on the ground is very complicated. the rebel groups who were responsible for these atrocitys and according to the human rights watch reports they do not fall under the authority of the western-backed syria coalition or the army support military council and are foreign fighters linked to al-qaeda and the army of foreigners and in iraq and the groups were singled out. the syria national coalition issuing a statement saying they are deeply disturbed by the report and reiterating that they disavow these groups and these groups do not represent the syrian revolution. but who is in charge of the rebels? there is no unified command structure on the ground. both sides accused of human rights abuses and most of those abuses have been sectarian in nature. >> reporter: i really wanted to get you thoughts as you spent so much time in syria over the past years on how you think