we decreased the recidivism rate from 60% to ushnder 20% years. the rate was 60 pfrlt lower than 2005. our incarceration rates have dropped. and i am confident in saying that we have better police and community relations. i think for me and my community, we recognize that racial profiling, that the focus on people of color, especially young minutes men, are more likely to occur when law enforcement uses race to start guessing. i am here to really reinforce that as a very ineffective policing practice. it is sloppy, it is counting on guesswork. i think the notion that we as a community or we as a nation must use racial profiling to make ourselves secure or to sacrifice civil liberties is not only false, it reeks of hypocrisy. if we were truly worried about national security in a sense of compromising civil liberties, then it would make sense that we would also ask or those engaging in profiling would ask for the prohibition of firearms. we lose over -- we have left over 100,000 americans to gun violence since 9/11. that is more than we have lost in