the first witness is ronald davis. chief of police for the city of east palo alto, california, since 2005. before that, 19 years with the oakland police department where he rose to the rank of captain. chief davis served ond federal monitoring teams overseeing police reform consent decrees between the u.s. department of justice, waurktsshington, d.c. detroit. among other publications he's co-authored "the justice department monograph, how to correctly collect and analyze racial profiling data, your reputation depends on it." he has a bachelor's of science degree from southern illinois university in carbondale. he testified at both the previous senate hearings of racial profiling and sorry it's been so long since we've resumed this conversation. but it's an honor to have you return a few years later to bring us up to date. at this point, chief davis, the floor is yours for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning, mr. chairman, and distinguished subcommittee members. i am ronald davis, currently chief of p

the first witness is ronald davis. chief of police for the city of east palo alto, california, since 2005. before that, 19 years with the oakland police department where he rose to the range of captain. served on the federal monitoring teams overseeing police reform consent decrees between the u.s. department of justice, washington, d.c., and detroit. among other publications he's co-authored the justice department monograph, how to correctly collect and analyze racial profiling data. your reputation depends on it. he has a bachelor's of science degree from southern illinois university in carbondale. he testified at both the previous senate hearings of racial profiling and sorry it's been so long since we've resumed this conversation. but it's an honor to have you return a few years later to bring us up to date. at this point, chief davis, the floor is yours for five minutes. >> good morning, mr. chairman and distinguished subcommittee members. i am ronald davis, currently chief of police for the city of east palo alto

the first witness is ronald davis. chief of police for the city of east palo alto, california, since 2005. before that, 19 years with the oakland police department where he rose to the range of captain. served on the federal monitoring teams overseeing police reform consent decrees between the u.s. department of justice, washington, d.c., and detroit. among other publications he's co-authored the justice department monograph, how to correctly collect and analyze racial profiling data. your reputation depends on it. he has a bachelor's of science degree from southern illinois university in carbondale. he testified at both the previous senate hearings of racial profiling and sorry it's been so long since we've resumed this conversation. but it's an honor to have you return a few years later to bring us up to date. at this point, chief davis, the floor is yours for five minutes. >> good morning, mr. chairman and distinguished subcommittee members. i am ronald davis, currently chief of police for the city of east palo alto

. >> and, fred davis, ronald reagan had morning in america.a much more robust economy at the beginning of his re-election even thoed he had been through very tough times early in the presidency. in terms of uncertainty about the economy, you say you appreciate the slogan. how much difficult dash how dependent i guess is this president on the economic numbers starting to get better? >> i think the economic numbers right on the surface, the ones that the average guy doesn't spend a lot of time studying the economy sees are beginning to get better. there is a small decrease in gas prices right now. the stock market is doing really pretty well. numbers can always be manipulated but unemployment right at the top level is beginning to decline. as long as he can get the emphasis on the curse sigh numbers, i think he has an easier path to hoe than looking back over. one thing i enjoyed in the seven-minute movie there is one sentence, maybe two, on obama care. that's going to be a little more -- it will have more attention from our side, i think, than