we starred a parolee department, provide re-entry services. police officers now are part of treatment. we provide cognitive life skills, together we were able to reduce the recidivism rate to over 60% to under 20%. after five years the murder rate in 2011 was 47% lower than 2005. our incarceration rates have dropped and i have very confidence in saying we have better police and community relations. for me and my community we recognize that racial profiling, that the focus on people of color especially young men are more likely to occur when law enforcement uses race to start guessing. i'm here to really reinforce that is an ineffective police practicing, it is sloppy, counting on guesswork. the notion that we as a community or we as a nation must use racial profiling to make ourselves secure or sacrifice civil liberty is not only false, it wreaks of hypocrisy. if we were worried about national security in the sense of compromising civil liberties it would make sense, those engaging in racial profiling, would ask for the prohibition of firea fi

a nine time felon parolee nearly took his life. vice president biden and attorney general holder awarded him the medal of valor which is the highest honor given to public safety officers for exhibiting exceptional courage in saving and protecting others whose heroic actions were above and beyond the call of duty. fidel and i are here on behalf of all law enforcement officers shot or killed in the line of duty, their families, and their loved ones to demand that our elected representatives do all they can to keep dangerous people from obtaining guns. to all of those lost or injured officers who are shot in the line of duty you will never be forgotten. thank you. >> let's challenge our leaders who distribute medals of valor for heroism to be heroism they can selves and stand up to the gun lobby. sign this statement of principle against arming dangerous people. reject the george zimmerman armed vigilante act. is christian here? i didn't see him before. no. okay. kaitlin hinckley. >> five years ago my mother and sister went to buy my s

state assembly bills 109 and 117 transferred responsibility of supervising lower-level inmates and parolees to the california department of corrections and rehabilitation to county agencies. the implementation began on october 1 last year. i am working with the leadership of law enforcement agencies and the sheriff's office and enforcement agencies to explain the changes and impacts due to that policy and the impact on a local prison system and law enforcement system. also, at the behest of our office of workforce and altman, i'm calling for a hearing at the land use and economic development hearing which i chair to better understand the upcoming report by the comptroller's office on the city's economic strategy update. the hearing promises to be complex and should the impact on our city's economic present and future. i have a couple of excepts and extends. one support plug in electric vehicles, building infrastructure and readiness and planning in our cities of that we as a region are in the lead for electric vehicles. allow people to know and working closely with the mayor's office and tr

and it's about a reentry program for parolees. it is across the board. >> the cross-government resources will target six-eight areas deemed as trouble spots in the county. they are listed on your screen. the police chief vows this will help lower crime in the county. reporting live, john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> thanks so much. following a developing story from the pentagon. top military officials are condemning newly published photographs of u.s. troops showing soldiers posing with the bodies of dead insurgents in afghanistan. it happened two years ago, but the l.a. times just published the photographs. the paper reports that troops were investigating the accidental deaths of three suicide bombers and then posed next to their bodies. >> new information on the secret service sex scandal. >> the director of the agency has sent more investigators to interview the agency boss. the suspected prostitutes may also be telling their side of the story. now more from karen travers. >> the secret service investigation into what happened with

the defendant is a parolee with six convictions. >>> oracle against google in a courtroom battle. at issue, smartphone technology. oracle accuses google of infringing on seven patents on technology used in smartphones. oracle claims that google used the technology intentionally and without paying for it. >>> the traitest trends of online bullying is part of a new bill headed to the state senate. it would make it easier for schools to punish those harassing others on sites. schools could suspend or expel students for so-called burn pages. those are web pages that attack classmates or fake online profiles that impersonate other kids. >>> if you're a parent, you know that technology and teens are hard to separate. but all that activity may be divisive. some kids so dialed in, they're not learning how to connect emotionally, one-on-one. nbc bay area's jean elle has more on what that means for teens, especially for girls and their futures. >> i go in there. you're texts. you're on the computer. and you have the music going. >> reporter: like most teenagers, jesse is a multitasker. stan

tourists and tells them they wanted to see world but police say it was all icon and nice in wanted parolees is behind bars san mateo county sheriff's deputies arrested thomas baker last night on highway 92 in half moon bay about 500 mi. away. a few days earlier at a san diego hotel and he told a family he had suffered a stroke and is wheelchair-bound and then he convinced them to take him to see world with them once they got their baker allegedly said he needed to go back and his medicine from the car to the family given the keys and that is when investigators say the suspect disappeared and drove roughly 500 mi. to have monday deputies pulled him over while responding to reports and a possible drunk driver. you've heard before they say one person is jump to someone else's treasure now in one-of-a-kind chinese fishing vessel that was slated to be scrapped is on a journey into a permanent new home. today the chinese junk was carefully wrapped and driven from a double island of charge to antioch before it will be sent on to taiwan sharon shannon on a one woman's voyage to save a piece of hist

groups advocate all 50 states adopt model legislation requiring lifetime electronic monitoring for paroleestheir sexual victims were under the age of 12. >> florida passed a law called jesse's law and it closed a lot of loopholes, in the system, that made it possible for a twice convicted sex offender to adduct my little girl and murder her. >> they operate on shoe string budgets, turn out was small but organizers, parent who is have lost the most precious thing in their lives say they will continue to press for better legislation and safety training to help keep children safe in washington john henrehan fox 5 news. >>> as we continue, a look back at the life and career of mike wallace and your forecast, as gwen said get ready for a change we will be right back  -dad, why are you getting that? -that's my cereal. is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. is it a robot? no. is it a jet plane? nope. is it a dinosaur? [ laughs ] [ male announcer ] inside every box of heart healthy cheerios are those great tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help low

year earlier when this amateur video emerged of los angeles police officers beating motorist and paroleerodney king, after a dangerous, high speed chase. >> i was screaming to the death and begging somebody to please come out. screaming as loud as i could so somebody could hear me before i died. >> the video brought long standing complaints of police abuses to a head. >> they were brutalized under served segments of the city. >> four officers were charged with assaulting king and put on trial. >> very happy. >> news of their acquittal hit south central l.a. like a lightening bolt. the epicenter, the intersection of florence and normandy where a shell shocked city would witness another vicious beating. this one, reginald denny. whose idea was it for you to go public? >> i wanted to say something, you know, but i -- i didn't. i pulled back and then lawyer asked me, can you say something? >> can we all get along? >> rodney king's five simple words have guided the last 20 years as l.a. has invested millions of dollars in south central, applying the lessons of 1992. >> you can't grow and be a

his career ended when he nearly lost his life in a line of duty at the hands of a nine-time felon, parolee who had only been out of prison for six months. the firearm was purchased at a gas station out of the trunk of the car by his girlfriend. a dispatch call for a subject with a gun resulted in a foot pursuit that turned into a gun battle after the criminal displayed his firearm and began firing less than seven feet away. after he was shot he returned fire until he stopped the criminal. fidell was shot three times and only one bullet exited. a nine time felon nearly took his life. vice president biden and attorney general holder award him the medal of valor which is the highest honor given to public safety officers for exhibiting exceptional courage in saving and protecting others whose heroic actions were above and beyond the call of duty. he and i are here on behalf of all law enforcement officers shot or killed in the line of duty, their families and their loved ones to demand that our elected representatives do all they can to keep dangerous people from obtaining guns. to all of thos

stabbed to death by a parolee. that night there were 82 beds available on skid row. the business improvement district outreach team could persuade only two people living on the streets to use them. those people have lots of advocates that were living on the streets who didn't have much of a political voice or advocates who are the immigrant entrepreneurs who would, in the morning, have to clean hypodermic needles and feces from their doorsteps or other business owners who needed to get to work. they're mostly immigrant workers. so, i think that there is also -- it's not just individual rights against the government and the common good. i think that simplifies it. it's one group of individuals against another group of individuals, who are not, these days, very well served by our advocacy groups or by the courts. the judges in downtown l.a., who have been ruling on these rolling set of lawsuits that have been brought don't seem to have spent much time on skid row to actually see the efforts of the police there to try and convince people to get treatment, to take advant

we starred a parolee department, provide re-entry services. police officers now are part of treatment. we provide cognitive life skills, together we were able to reduce the recidivism rate to over 60% to under 20%. after five years the murder rate in 2011 was 47% lower than 2005. our incarceration rates have dropped and i have very confidence in saying we have better police and community relations. for me and my community we recognize that racial profiling, that the focus on people of color especially young men are more likely to occur when law enforcement uses race to start guessing. i'm here to really reinforce that is an ineffective police practicing, it is sloppy, counting on guesswork. the notion that we as a community or we as a nation must use racial profiling to make ourselves secure or sacrifice civil liberty is not only false, it wreaks of hypocrisy. if we were worried about national security in the sense of compromising civil liberties it would make sense, those engaging in racial profiling, would ask for the prohibition of firea fi

. >> reporter: oakland police arrested parolee ronaldo marte wearing a black shirt, a brown skirt andshades. >> the suspect did change clothes, he changed into woman's clothing. they did try to disguise his appearance to evade police detection. >> reporter: marte and his acome prince, amanda pearce kidnapped a 58-year-old man last month -- marte and his accomplice. >> there was information he did not want the victim to give us as a result he kidnapped him. >> reporter: they found marte in his car and chased him to the inn. >> they asked if i had seen a man dressed as a woman. i said no because i had just my room for a second. they pulled me out into the fire escape and they told me to leave. >> reporter: police cornered marte into a hoe hoe -- hotel room and talked him into giving up. police say marte has a history of carrying guns. >> great that he's off the streets. we're very happy. >> reporter: the incident brought traffic to a halt. it also brought train service to a halt for hours. christien kafton. >>> fire officials in oakland say a three alarm fire could be arson. it start ou

. >> reporter: oakland police arrested parolee ronaldo marte wearing a black shirt, a brown skirt andes. >> the suspect did change clothes, he changed into woman's clothing. they did try to disguise his appearance to evade police detection. >> reporter: marte and his acome prince, amanda pearce kidnapped a 58-year-old man last month -- marte and his accomplice. >> there was information he did not want the victim to give us as a result he kidnapped him. >> reporter: they found marte in his car and chased him to the inn. >> they asked if i had seen a man dressed as a woman. i said no because i had just my room for a second. they pulled me out into the fire escape and they told me to leave. >> reporter: police cornered marte into a hoe hoe -- hotel room and talked him into giving up. police say marte has a history of carrying guns. >> great that he's off the streets. we're very happy. >> reporter: the incident brought traffic to a halt. it also brought train service to a halt for hours. christien kafton. >>> fire officials in oakland say a three alarm fire could be arson. it start out at

. >> reporter: his 22-year-old brother a parolee did show us his wound healing two weeks ago. >> justilling me right now. i haven't even cried. >> reporter: while the neighborhood mourns another young person acknowledges detectives were investigating 32 homicidessa the this time last year. this year the maimingor crimes unit is working 40. she pointed to the number of isolated home sides pushing the trend upward such as the oikos gunman who took seven lives. >> we have had homicides that have resulted in something to do with the family situation or domestic violence and we have to look at that and say its driven the numbers up. >> these special circumstances account for 11 of the homicides, we have been told there will be a vigil held for last night's victim. >> here are more details now about the oakland homicide. again so far this year there have been 40 killings in the city. there were 103 in all of last year. that was up from 90 in 2010 which was the last year of four in a row that the number of homicides had declined in oakland. in 2006. there were 145 killings that year. >> romn

he is a parolee. >> we know before cody green even gets there that he could be trouble.got a history with police. he was on probation for drunk driving. he tells me in our discussion that he got into trouble again for, i guess, leaving the scene of an accident, and here he is about to get in trouble yet another time. >> he is not coming for handcuffs, but for the other things. >> he shows up in this fairly new, expensive cadillac suv. >> i'm up here. i've got to drop this in the washer. i'm making sweet tea. come on in. >> he comes in, he's got his cap on, he's ready to meet his dream date. >> i made some tea, it's on the table. did you bring me my chocolate? >> hey. >> why don't you just step right over there, please. have a seat in that chair. please, sit down. i need you to sit down. you can tell me all about it, i promise. >> please, sir, i really drove this far for no reason. >> you drove this far for no reason. >> i swear to you, i asked her this. >> you asked who? >> i asked maddie. >> take your time. i'll let you explain the whole thing. >> i said if this is not

they are part of the new caltrans parolee program. recently released non-violent offenders who are glad to have the work. and the cleanup can turn up some nasty stuff. >> personal effects like wallace and money >> bodies? >> bodies, hypodermic needles, bottles filled with bodily fluids. not a pleasant job. >> a bible drenched from low winter rains will be removed. it is a dangerous job also. last year in san diego 3 caltrans workers were killed instantly by a passing car. caltrans for men compares it to this time in the surface. >> it is harder than my military service was. my military service, you know who you are dealing with, here you have no idea who you are dealing with. >> the asset and use the combs and signs, remember that there are people with families who are out there keeping our highways clean. caltrans says that if you do not have eyes on the back of your head when you start this job, you will by the time you leave. along interstate 80, cbs 5. >> roberta, the >> live from east the pavilion we will give you behind-the- sce

. >> san francisco police say dozens of wanted parolees in jail after a city wide sweep. we saw pictures of some of the suspects, 50 people were booked on warrants on wednesday. 17 had parole violations, police chief said they are a deterrant letting them know they are opponent their case. >> dozens were arrested outside a nuclear weapon lab in the east bay. >> on behalf of the state of california i demand you leave immediately. if you fail to leave you will be arrested. >> reporter: we were there as 44 were arrested. they were blocking the main gate of the lab. the religious and anti nuclear groups have held their yearly protests at the lab for the past 30 years. >>> the head of the federal government's nuclear commission said the power plant will remain off line as long as it takes to determine why tubes wearing out in the plant's steam generators. it's on the coast in northern san diego. its been shut down more than two months. initials warn the shut down could lead to rolling blackouts. >> lost and almost destroyed. now returned, a stranger finds treasured love letter

san mateo county sheriff's deputies say they arrested a wanted parolee outside of the family at theiriego hotel, claiming that he was wheelchair-bound. the victims say they agree to take him to the theme park and there, he asked to borrow the car keys to get his medicine but never came back. investigators say they captured him in a stolen car on highway 92 driving recklessly. they also say he gave a fake name and complained of chest pains. he was taken to hospital and then to jail. we will be right back. >>pam: we will show you why people are saying all baby on a popular east a trail. that is ahead. bay area ! here's big news from verizon wireless and xfinity from comcast. now get the xfinity triple play and verizon wireless together. call 855-704-7400 to sign up and get a free smartphone. choose one of our hottest phones. verizon wireless and xfinity. tv, home phone, internet and wireless together. >>pam: we are exactly one week away from the weekend shutdown of the doe will drive. that is the main approach to the golden gate bridge in san francisco. today, we got our first look at a

. >> san francisco police say dozens of wanted parolees in jail after a city wide sweep. we saw pictures of some of the suspects, 50 people were booked on warrants on wednesday. 17 had parole violations, police chief said they are a deterrant letting them know they are opponent their case. >> dozens were arrested outside a nuclear weapon lab in the east bay. >> on behalf of the state of california i demand you leave immediately. if you fail to leave you will be arrested. >> reporter: we were there as 44 were arrested. they were blocking the main gate of the lab. the religious and anti nuclear groups have held their yearly protests at the lab for the past 30 years. >>> the head of the federal government's nuclear commission said the power plant will remain off line as long as it takes to determine why tubes wearing out in the plant's steam generators. it's on the coast in northern san diego. its been shut down more than two months. initials warn the shut down could lead to rolling blackouts. >> lost and almost destroyed. now returned, a stranger finds treasured love letter

. >> 75% of the parolees that i have sent out, i see them come back.the numbers are pretty high. west block, 50. yeah, what's up, man? how many have you got? these are six guys that are paroling tonight. going home for hopefully for the rest of their term. so what we'll do now is we will alert these guys, tell them to pack their bags, get ready, we'll pick them up, we will take them down to r & r, get them on a van and get them out of here. >> all right, gentlemen, listen up. following individuals, thomas, 2 west 33. alexander, 2 west -- >> yeah! >> 2 west 80. torres, 3 west 67. >> i heard them call my name. torres for release 367. >> going to go back home. >> pack it up, you're leaving. >> homey. >> that's just total excitement, let me out of here, please! >> yeah! >> so then you give these guys about 10 minutes, 15 minutes, we'll bring them down. >> hey you, buddy. >> i'm going to catch up with you. >> what are you going to do, man, when you get out there? >> get me a steady job pretty much. >> there you go. just stay out there. you can get one. i do

we starred a parolee department, provide re-entry services. police officers now are part of treatment. we provide cognitive life skills, together we were able to reduce the recidivism rate to over 60% to under 20%. after five years the murder rate in 2011 was 47% lower than 2005. our incarceration rates have dropped and i have very confidence in saying we have better police and community relations. for me and my community we recognize that racial profiling, that the focus on people of color especially young men are more likely to occur when law enforcement uses race to start guessing. i'm here to really reinforce that is an ineffective police practicing, it is sloppy, counting on guesswork. the notion that we as a community or we as a nation must use racial profiling to make ourselves secure or sacrifice civil liberty is not only false, it wreaks of hypocrisy. if we were worried about national security in the sense of compromising civil liberties it would make sense, those engaging in racial profiling, would ask for the prohibition of firea fi

a nine-time felon parolee with a fire arm nearly took his life. vice-president biden and attorney general holder awarded videl the medal of valor, the highest honor given to public safety officers for exhibiting exceptional courage in saving and protecting others in heroic actions or go above and beyond the call of duty. videl and i are here on behalf of law enforcement officers shot and killed in the line of duty, their families and their loved ones, to demand that our elected representatives do all they can to keep dangerous people from obtaining guns. to all those lost or injured officers who were shot in the line of duty, you will never be forgotten. thank you. [applause] >> let's challenge our leaders to distribute metals of valor for heroism, and to be heroic themselves and stand up to the gun lobby. signed a statement of principle against harming dangerous people. reject the george zimmerman armed vigilante act. is christian here? i did not see him before. kaitlin hinckley. >> five years ago, my mother and sister went to buy my siblings and

this is 28-year-old parolee renaldo mart a.ice say he and 21-year-old amanda pierce were wanted for kidnapping a 55- year-old man last month. they took him as far as tehachapi before he could escape. police say he changed into a disguise, hoping to get away. >> the suspect did change clothes. he changed into women's clothing. he did try to disguise his appearance to evade police detection. >>> police however cornered him in a room. >>> a volunteer citizens group will try to keep the streets of east oakland safe tonight. members of the bay area safety patrol will cover international boulevard from high street to 78th avenue. the group largely consists of private security guards. they do not carry weapons. they wear black raids and military fatigue pants. >>> san jose police are investigating a shooting and a stabbing that injured a man and two teenagers. police were called to wad creek land and boynton avenue before 4:00 yesterday afternoon. when officers arrived they found a 16-year-old boy and a 32-year-old man who were shot.

we could either declare war on parolees, engaging to the days further the disparate incarceration rate a gentleman of color or do something different. we chose to use problem-solving is a good relationships. we chose not to engage in racial profiling started a probe reentry program, first in california and which were contracted by department of corrections to provide furniture services are police officers now part of treatment and provide life skills and drug awareness treatment programs and were able to reduce recidivism rate from 60% after five years the murder rate in 27 was 47% in 2005. perspiration rates have dropped in a very confident that we have better police relations. i think for me and my community we recognize that racial profiling on people of color, especially young men are more likely to a court of law enforcement uses race to start guessing. i am here to really reinforce that is a very ineffective policing this. it is sloppy, counting on guesswork. i think the notion we as a community or we as a nation must use racial profiling to make ourselves up your sacrifice liber

in 2006, a mentally ill woman was stomped to death by a parolee.t night there were 82 shelter beds available on skid row. the business improvement district outreach team could persuade only two people who are living on the streets to use them. those people have lots of advocates that were living on the streets who didn't have much of a political voice or advocates, or the immigrant entrepreneurs who would come in the morning, have to clean hypodermic needles and feces from their doorsteps. or other business owners down there who needed to get to work, and they're mostly immigrant workers. so i think that there is also, it's not just individual rights against the government and the common good, i think that simplifies it. is one group of individuals against another group of individuals who are not these days very well served by our advocacy groups or by the courts. that judges in downtown l.a. who have been ruling on these rolling set of lawsuits that have been brought don't seem to have spent much time on skid row to actually see the efforts of the

year earlier when this amateur video emerged of los angeles police officers beating motorist and paroleeous high-speed car chase. king was seriously injury and this week opened up to me about that night. >> how severe was it? >> i was screaming to the death. then somebody -- please come out. screaming as loud as i could so somebody could at least hear me before i died. >> the video brought longstanding complaints of l.a. police abuses against the black community to a head. >> they would brutalize undeserved segments of the city, and that problems that eventually, things will explode. >> four officers were eventually charged with assaulting king and put on trial, but concerned they couldn't get a fair hearing in los angeles, the judge moved the case to suburban ventura county where a jury found them not guilty. >> very happy. >> the news hit predominantly black south central l.a. like a lightning bolt. the epicenter, intersection of florence and normandie where a shellshocked city would witness yet another vicious beating, this one a truck driver reginald denny by an angry mob. >> we've g

>> at this transitional home for teenage parolees, the residents were in conflict with one another, and they were pulling in gang members from throughout the area. it was about to blow up in a major way. >> the problem that we have right now is about some money that led to a fight. right? how much money was it? >> five dollars. >> it was about five dollars, everybody? >> dude said instead of giving him five dollars, give him 15. no, it don't work like that. you ain't gonna get no more than what you owed. >> he said, "i'm not paying you." >> right. >> then five minutes later on, they came up here. >> it took me, as a woman, to stand in the middle of the street with 15 guys that i knew nothing of, and take money out of my pocket to pay $15 to keep peace. no respect for where you live at. >> think this could turn into gun play? >> i think so, because it's gonna escalate, gonna keep going and going. >> if we got to live here, man, i don't want to bring these streets over here, man. i ain't trying to go back to that life. i'm one man. i can't fight all of them. what you think i'm gonna do? >

nearly lost his life in the line of duty from a 9-millimeter firearm at the hands of a nine time colin parolee who had only been out of prison for six months. the firearm was purchased a gas station out of the trunk of a car by his girlfriend. a dispatch call for the subject of the gun resulted in a foot pursuit but quickly turned into a gun battle after the criminal displayed its firearms and began firing less than 7 feet away. after he was shot, he returned fire until he stopped the criminal. he was shot three times coming in only one bullet exited to read a ninth time fell when poorly with a firearm nearly took his life. vice president biden and attorney general holder awarded him the medal of valor which is the highest honor given to public safety officers for its seven exceptional courage and saving and protecting others whose heroic actions were above and beyond the call of duty. we are here on behalf all law enforcement officers shot or killed in the line of duty, their families and their loved ones to demand that our elected representatives do all they can to keep dangerous people from

a woman was stabbed by a parolee. that night, there were 82 shelter beds available on skid row. the business improvement district could persuade only to people who are living on the streets to use them. those people have lots of advocates who were living on the streets or advocates who are immigrant entrepreneurs who are coming in the morning, having to clean hypodermic needles or feces from their doorsteps, or other business owners down there who needed to get to work and they are mostly immigrant workers. i think there is also -- it is not just individual rights against the government and the common good. that is simplified. it is one group of individuals against another group of individuals who are not these days very well served by our advocacy groups or by the courts. the judges in downtown l.a. who have been ruling on the ruling set of lawsuits that have been brought do not seem to have spent much time on skid row to actually see the efforts of the police there to try to convince get treatment, to take advantage of the services that are available to them and improve life f

. -- in 2006, a meantlly -- meantally -- a mentally ill woman was stomped to death by a parolee. that night, there were 82 shelter beds available on skid row. the business improvement district could persuade only t wo people who are living on the streets to use them. those people have lots of advocates who were living on the streets or advocates who are immigrant entrepreneurs who are coming in the morning, having to clean hypodermic needles or feces from their doorsteps, or other business owners down there who needed to get to work and they are mostly immigrant workers. i think there is also -- it is not just individual rights against the government and the common good. that is simplified. it is one group of individuals against another group of individuals who are not these days very well served by our advocacy groups or by the courts. the judges in downtown l.a. who have been ruling on the ruling -- rolling set of lawsuits that have been brought do not seem to have spent much time on skid row to actually see the efforts of the police there to try to convince people to get treat

nearly lost his life in the line of duty from a 9 millimeter pharma at the hands of a nine-time felons parolee who had only been out of prison for six months. a firearm was purchased at a gas station out of the trunk of a car by his girlfriend. a dispatch calls for a subject with a gun resulted in a foot pursuit. that quickly turned into a gun battle. after the criminal despite his farm and began firing at fidel less than 7 feet away. after the bell was shot, he returned fire until he stop the criminal. videl was shot three times and only one bullet exited. a nine-time felons early with a fire arm nearly took his life. vice-president biden and attorney general holder awarded videl the medal of valor, the highest honor given to public safety officers for exhibiting exceptional courage in saving and protecting others who 0 to actions were above and beyond the call of duty. videl and i are here on behalf of law enforced officers shot and killed in the line of duty, their families and their loved ones, to demand that our elected representatives do all they can to keep dangerous people from obtaini