. >> reporter: a new neighbourhood, businesses, construction moving into an area with a homeless problemre? >> a lot of drugs, assault. >> reporter: the answer for many businesses is hire off-duty police officers for security work, complete with squad car, gun and uniform. >> most release there's only so much police officers in the city, if they want constant presence, they'll have to take themselves. >> they'll have to pay for it. >> whether it's an off duty officer or security. police. >> for $30 this business hires a police officer to stand quart, complete with squad car. >> you decided to have an off-duty police officer versus a security officer, why? >> they need to act. number one, if they see something happen they need to respond >>> private security and police work together in this area. but some agencies, including bedrock security's paul nelson takes issue with the fact that they have to compete for entity. >> they are great partners. they are competitors. they shouldn't be. >> does the salt lake city have an unfair advantage working against you? >> i think so. they'll know a l

new york. look neighbourhoods in new york are organically diverse. they are fancy buildings near less expensive buildings. i don't think we have to choreograph that. ms christopher is thankful for the lottery, because she ha good homes. >> it's all my dreams come drew. >> more than a million new yorkers are holding n to the dream hoping they'll be lucky too >>> keep in mind the federal minimum wage was $7.25. the rule of thumb is that renters shouldn't pay more than 30% of the money on represent. here is how they rank. hawaii - workers need to make $31.25 an hour. columbia second, california and virginia as the most expensive state. an affordable place to rent is nebraska. you need to make $13.49 to afford a 2 bedroom apartment. arkansas it's $12.50 needed to represent a place there. keep in mind it's $5 more than the federal minimum wage. here is something else to consider. most of the job growth occurred in low-wage industries according to the bureau of labour statistics, it is expected to continue over the next five years. joining us from washingt

saying they are subjected to more pollute ants in their neighbourhoods than white residents in wealthy parts of town one of the latest battles is in new york city. activists are giving a gear to the idea of moving a business into their neighbourhood, saying not in my backyard. mary snow has the report. >> the greatest benefit of buying direct to farmers is having a hand on the volume control. >> online direct touts fresh food it delivers to home. the new york grocer moves its operations some applaud gen pits. actor michael johnson sees pressure. >> it's like the next assault or another assault on this neighbourhood. johnson has led protest and a legal bottle to block fresh direct moving to the south bronx. the company estimates there'll be more than 600 truck tricks per day in and out of its new hub. the way johnson sees it it will worsen bad air quality in a poor neighbourhood surrounded by highways industries and assault, and scenes like this are not uncommon. this woman is tested for asthma which has the highest rates in the states. fresh direct prevailed on legal challenges and is building new headquarters. the state and city prov

, ever more intrusive in day to day lives from people in the neighbourhoods. crime in new york city was down 80% from the bad old days. i liken that to talk about medicine. we have a doctor discovering cancer, radiation and chemo. they treat with heavy doses, but as they get better, they use the dose. as a patient the minority got better. the doctor, a police department administered larger and larger doses and the patient was getting sicker not from the original cancer, but sicker from the new disease, and the disease in new york was unnecessary levels of enforcement. >> was racism behind na? >> federal court found that. i don't believe that. i'm sorry. i'm proud of my profession, that department. >> you don't think it's apples. >> i don't think it's systematic by any stretch of the imagination. this department is not a racist police department. almost 50% of what happened is minority. uniformed officers. over 50%, 70% is minority. over 50% of the cops in the city live in the city. sorry, people can think what they want. i don't believe it is. i have to deal with a percept

. >> the police are taking their extensive network of cameras to a new level, launching a virtual neighbourhood watch, allowing residents to tap into the cameras, a first of its kind programme in the nation. >> i can access a camera, so i can watch the playground. if there's a group of individuals that are displays suspicious behaviour, we can zero in on that. >> reporter: brian morgan coaches little league, it used to be a haven for prostitution and drug. now four surveillance cameras watch the children at play. >> he's playing baseball, taking the first swing on a swing. what can be more natural. surveillance. >> reporter: you can do it on the phone. >> that's the cool thing. those of us connected to the league and other community groups have the ability to log into the camera system >>> a few residents, screened in advance, have been given access to the interactive community alert network, known as icann, tips on anonymous, and are able to use the cameras and zoom in. >> i very good police officer will never know the area as well as the residents themselves. they know all the relationships,

neighbourhoods period. we are going to start in a 7 day, week month or here. we'll start with seven days and they haven't reported that. the newort issing it that is talked about. we are talking about it in the neighbourhood. we don't here one space talking about the fact. >> reporter: this baltimore high school teacher says there's another story ot heard, one that student battle. >> my students come from all over the city. as they come in i have girls that are harassed. i have students whose parents work three different jobs. they have to walk siblings to school. one student has to get six siblings to school breakfast and feed them. when they are accused of tardy possess, you have to -- tardiness, you have to think some are raising their brothers and sisters. some of living without parents. a lot are in noter homes. plenty are homeless. >> reporter: she was taking students home the day the city erupted. >> the car was stopped. cops shut the traffic. our leap was moving -- laneways moving. it took 30 minutes to turn a corner. as we turned the corner, we saw cops that were marching in big linings, linked arm in -- line linked a

new york. >> the types of offenses i see every day in the courthouse in south bronx are not the offenses that are policed in rich, affluent white neighbourhoods. being in the park after dark, or riding your bicycle on the street corner. >> new york city focuses attention in minority areas. >> johnny is a former new york police officer. >> they claim this is where all the crime is taking place, which may have some truth to it. however, when you get to the point where all you are doing is writing summonses, writing summonses, making arrests, without working with people, it's like an army of occupation. it does more harm than good. >> new york's police commissioner credits broken window making the city a safer place. it works, it's essential. it will in new york city. robberies, shootings and murders hit lows, and arrests for misdemeanours like trespassing have fallen over the last few years. do you think minorities have been targeted. why are more arrested? >> the reality is we live in a majority. you are not going to see it at any point in time, a majority being arrested. >> the n.y.p.d. says more than 80% of people arrested for misdemeanours

. >>> and reminder there is plenty more news on our website, the usual address is al jazeera.com. many the neighbourhoods, in places like detroit, st. louis and chicago got poorer still. tonight as we sift through the ashes of the recent unrest we'll look beyond baltimore and try to understand why in some places poverty was concentrated and opportunity in shorter supply. it's "inside story". >>> welcome to "inside story", i'm ray suarez. america doesn't spend a lot of time looking at the lives of people like freddie gray until something terrible happens. in this case people watched the baltimore man loaded into a police wagon. a couple of hours later he was in the hospital. days later he was dead. tens of thousands took to the streets. freddie gray's home town in baltimore is home to some of the highest levels of income equality in the united states. one out of three people don't have a high school diploma. one out of every three homes is vacant even after baltimore demolished thousands of houses. freddie gray suffered lead poisoning. lead levels for kids in his neighbourhood is seven times that of the r

. >>> and reminder there is plenty more news on our website, the usual address is al jazeera.com. many the neighbourhoodss like detroit, st. louis and chicago got poorer still. tonight as we sift through the ashes of the recent unrest we'll look beyond baltimore and try to understand why in some places poverty was concentrated and opportunity in shorter s

neighbourhood. not much has changed in this community in the heart of new dehli. despite optimism at the ballot box, life is as hard as it was 12 months ago. >> translation: i don't know why i voted. what's the use. we are so poor we have nothing. no one helps us we are sick and have no one to turn to. >> before his first day in office the prime ministered tackling the indian sanitation crisis would be the top priority. >> looking around the neighbourhood, it's easy to see why voters are just as disenchanted with this government as with the last. it's not just people in need of the basics who continue to struggle despite the v.j.p.s promise of change. they were excited when last year the government announced plans to turn india into a manufacturing hub. that should have increased orders. business has gone anything but brisk. >> there is a huge fight for small margins. the system has not been upgraded. we get to hear that big changes have been made. as of now we don't see progress. >> that is a common complaint against the party, that won its biggest elect toral ma

the bronx, targetting trucks to fight pollution in a poor neighbourhood >>> in less than a year and a half the american people will elect a new president. that man or woman will play a critical role in describing america's responses or

the bronx, targetting trucks to fight pollution in a poor neighbourhood >>> in less than a year and a half the american people will elect a new president. that man or woman will play a critical role in d

the bronx, targetting trucks to fight pollution in a poor neighbourhood >>> in less than a year and a half the american people will elect a new president. that man or woman will play a critical role in describing america's responses or non-responses to a host of threats beyond our borders threats to peace, democracy and

the bronx, targetting trucks to fight pollution in a poor neighbourhood >>> in less than a year and a half the american people will elect a new president.

news was welcome to the home owners that lost everything. >> every few weeks elmo barnes returned to his old neighbourhood. >> my house was completely under water. >> reporter: a decade after hurricane katrina's flooding barnes and hundreds of others that lost property in the area finally are seeing justice. a federal claims judge determined what residents long insisted that a shipping canal built by the army corp of engineers was largely to blame for the flooding in the lower ninth ward and the parish. and they must pay for damage. >> they didn't do much homework. >> reporter: the core built the mississippi gulf outlet in the 1960s. revved to as mr go. it was a short cut for ships going between the new orleans port and mississippi river. the judge found that 76 mile canal was poorly constructed and maintained and substantially expanded and eroded causing a storm surge exacerbated by a funnel effect. the judge called the canal a ticking time bomb >>> mark davis is an environmental law attorney and professor at 2-lane university. >> she said "you should have foreseen this and since it was foreseeable you'll be responsible." >> reporter: it

news it's all there for you. >>> >>> i'm ali velshi, on target, killed by police in america. who is keeping track. broken promises in baltimore, how a 100 million neighbourhood fix turned into a failure. >>> more than 900,000 law enforcement rick their lives to protect those

news it's all there for you. >>> >>> i'm ali velshi, on target, killed by police in america. who is keeping track. broken promises in baltimore, how a 100 million neighbourhood fix turned into a failure. >>> more than 900,000 law enforcement rick their lives to protect those in cities, towns and state. every year scores pay the ultimate price, last year 117 police and other officers died in the line of duty, that is according to the national law enforce. officer's memorial fund. it's a nonprofit group whose records go back to 1791. the fbi keeps an eye on officers killed by felony or accidentment there's no shortage much information of police officers who die on the job. here is what some consider a different crime. it's impossible to get complete data on the total number of people who die in encounters with police. this is one of many troubling facts to emerge in the aftermath of the deaths of michael brown in ferguson, missouri, ashraf ghani in new york. there's no database. the department of justice compiles data but admits that it misses half of all the homicides caused by police. that is because police departments are not required to report to the feder