every time police unholster their weapons, they're going to have to report that and fill out a form. they're supposed to promise not to use excessive force and actually give suspects the right to surrender peacefully before whipping out a gun or a pistol or a taser. >> terry is there a reason to think that because of the rising attention to police community issues that we've seen since ferguson baltimore, a whole range of cases tamir rice in cleveland, that the administration is in a more comprehensive way using the tools that you said that congress has granted to try before the president leaves office to touch as many local police departments as possible or is this just a case-by-case thing as it comes up? >> there are 18,000 police agencies all over the country. some are large departments like cleveland, new york, l.a. in some, we have 10 officers. the new u.s. attorney general loretta lynch has said, we can't investigate all these police departments. what we can do is negotiate these kind of settlements, as they did in cleveland this week and try to demonstrate and publicize those

every time a police officer unholster as gun that has to now be reported and investigated by a superior. it prohibits police from using force and simply talking back or them or running away, prohibited police officers from pistol whipping people, and the report said that's a systemic problem from the police force in cleveland. they would hit people in the face. that won't be allowed any more. at least one reporter it is surprising that these aren't in place as standard anyway, but they aren't. and they are particularly proud of these new wash dog groups including a civilian watchdog, this is the idea of how will this all work comes in. improving their interpersonal skills and how do you measure that, and secondly, and this is a problem we found in albuquerque, and other police departments that are under d. o.j. surveillance, and d. o. j. watchdogs are they still relying on the police to self-report, if you have a watchdog, and they are still relying on the police officer to tell their superior hay i unholsterred my gun today fully there's problems there. >> thank you very much indeed. a

every time a police officer unholster unholsters his gun they have to file a report with the federalrseer. they have to take sensitivity training. all of these far left wing anti-police agenda items have been put into place now without any fight from cleveland. this is happening all over the country, lou. it's part of a coordinated effort to lock down under federal mandates large numbers of police forces across the nation. >> to nationalize local police departments? >> well not to effectively take them over but to impose federal standards written by far left wing lawyers out of washington, d.c. who don't like the police. it's not to take them over effectively but it's to put in idealogical rules to tell them how to behave and it happened in los angeles, lou, and crime went crazy after the justice department got involved there. cops wouldn't even work on gang units because of the reporting requirements. >> we are witnessing what at least some in baltimore, including the mayor, is suggesting is the withdrawal of the police department from policing and blaming police for not being proac

>> well i think every time you unholster your weapon is pretty extreme.rying to be made here is accountability. making sure whatever officers do they're held accountable for. yes, if you work in certain areas, in many cities across america you may find yourself unholstering your weapon more often than not. but, you know common sense has to be used. but here's the key, michaela in all of this is that you got to have good supervisors. you got to have good sergeants, good lieutenants out there supervising their men and women making sure they're doing the things they need to be doing and holding them accountable. i don't want any officer out there to second guess themselves. and right now today in light of everything that's going on you will hear that. a lot of officers are second guessing themselves. what i want to say to all of them do what you were trained to do. and what i would say to supervisors out there as well too, pay attention to your people. make sure you understand where they are, how they're feeling, what's bothering them as well too. >> yep. >>

matthew, this agreement spells out every time a police officer in cleveland unholsters his or her gunas a former law enforcement officer, what's your reaction to this? because as you heard some are saying this could have very negative ramifications. >> you know wolf after 27 years in law enforcement, i understand our culture all too well. while i'm very proud that i've carried the gun and the badge, i do understand that there's going to be some pushback. what has to happen here is chief wail williams is going to have to lay out a plan of expectations to his command staff that's going to promulgate down throughout the department it's going to have to be made clear what he expects, what the community expects, what the conditions of the consent deagree are. all he has to do is look south to cincinnati for instance, and see that officers initially were hesitant. but long-term, long range, cincinnati police department is now a model of community policing. >> tom fuentes, former assistant director of the fbi, what do you think? >> i agree with horace about that that cincinnati has made the

it requires officers to document each time they unholster their guns.t stringent policing standards in the nation leaving many wondering if other cities will adopt similar policing standards. >> today's agreement should really serve as a model for those seeking to address very issues in their communities around the country. today cleveland demonstrates to the rest of the country that people can come together across perceived differences to realize a common vision of a safer and more just city. >> back at the table are amy goodman, marcus mabry and richard kim. and joining me now from washington, d.c. is jonathan smith, former chief of the special litigations section of the civil rights division of the doj. he has a no op-ed out today on police reform barriers to reform and police officers bill of rights. jonathan, you write in your piece of the 20 cities where you did investigations and you say in part in many instances we found that force was much more likely to be used against african-americans than against whites. we often saw that police department