peopleppens is, they let plead guilty to possession, or or somepted possession place in the process, there is a negotiation that takes place. so practically speaking, it has in my judgment, not worked particularly well. >> what do you think has been the most important effect here in reducing the homicide rate in new york? it's remarkable. >> i think a lot of things that we're doing. i can tell you one of the most recent programs that we put in the last year, year and a half, is something that we call crew cut. we did an analysis a year and a half ago, two years ago, and we determined about a 30% of our shootings were coming for what we called crews. these are gangs and a couple of levels below the bloods and the crips. these are loosely affiliated. we have about 300 in the city. we put in a program to take them on directly. we increased the size, we doubled the size of our gang division. we took advantage of the fact that these young people can't