and you recall it many years ago, when tom bradley was mayor of this city, we had this debate about whether or not cops, who work in l.a., ought to in fact live in l.a. and in cities across the country, they've experimented with this, and the logic is that if policemen police communities that they live and work in, there's a different connection. >> yes. tavis: because this is their community as well, as opposed to policing here and driving an hour and a half away to another community where you live, you're not a stakeholder in this particular community. i say all that to ask what your sense was of the relationship between those who do the work of policing in newark with these communities that you were filming in, the people. >> i mean, i saw a kind of coalescing of the communities. cory lives there in the neighborhood. gary moved into newark. he's bought a home there and he lives there. >> the police chief. >> right, the police chief. one of the elements we have to look at, too, is the grass-roots element, which is the street warriors, you know, and the fathers who have lost their sons and

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