QUOTES
02:27 "36,000 cops, they work the 5 boroughs in New York which is 8.4 million people. It's a majority-minority department. One of the most restrained in the world. They just lost $1 billion of their budget because the city council decided."
05:25 "Groups do not offend equally and if we pretend that they do, we're not being responsible."
06:51 "The vast majority of those 1,000 are armed and dangerous and either trying to kill a police officer or kill an innocent. There is an infinitesimal amount, a tiny percentage, that are unarmed."
12:46 "Recent studies have shown, including a recent Gallup Poll that said that 83% of African Americans believe that the police presence in their neighborhood is appropriate or there should be more police presence."
17:42 "We're going to go through, this is our history in the United States, a sine wave or cosine wave where we do something, the pendulum swings, and then we overcorrect the other way. We're in an overcorrection right now."
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SUMMARY
In this episode of the National Police Association Podcast, Sgt. Betsy Smith interviews James A. Gagliano, a retired FBI agent and CNN analyst. Today, James discusses the most pressing law enforcement issues like the defund the police movement.
He shares how it is a serious threat to the citizens who need police protection the most. He also talks about the realities of police shootings, the unfair portrayal that the organization hunts people for sport, and the ever-present threats of Antifa, radical Islam, and recently, bail reform.
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HIGHLIGHTS
00:29 Defunding the police is "unserious and dangerous"
04:41 Police shootings: Discussing statistics and percentages
08:42 Antifa then and now
13:37 The threats of directed and inspired radical Islam
18:38 Bail reform is an injustice of the justice system
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