Once you became in office in 2012 that number went up in 2018.

The last number year that we have a record for that number was still up, and one of the strategies that our community adopted was to target.

When there were cases where there was gun violence and gang violence, which was slaughtering so many in our community burying teenagers, disproportionately black teenagers, we adopted a strategy that said the drug enforcement would be targeted in cases where there was a connection to the most violent group or gang connected to a murder.

These things are all connected, but that's the point. 00:00:52.930 --> 00:01:5.710 So are all of the things that need to change in order for us to prevent violence and remove the effects of systemic racism, not just from criminal justice but from our economy, from health, from housing and from our democracy itself. 00:01:5.880 --> 00:01:9.310 Senator Warren, is that a substantial answer from Mayor Rudy judge. 00:01:9.370 --> 00:01:18.380 No, you have to own up to the facts.

And it's important to own up to the facts about how race has totally permeated our criminal justice system, you know, for the exact same crime.

Study after study now shows that African Americans were more likely than whites to be detained, to be arrested, to be taken to trial, to be wrongfully convicted and receive harsher sentences.

We need to rework our criminal justice system from the very front end on what we make illegal all the way through the system and how we help people come back into the community.

But we cannot just say that criminal justice is the only time we want to talk about race. 00:01:55.350 --> 00:02:1.330 Specifically, we need to start having race conscious laws housing. 00:02:1.330 --> 00:02:2.140 For example. 00:02:2.150 --> 00:02:5.630 I have great housing plan to build more housing in America. 00:02:5.630 --> 00:02:19.940 But understand it was the policy of the United States of America to discriminate against African Americans and people any other people of color for buying homes until 1965.

You can't just repeal that and say Okay, now everything is even it's not.

We need race conscious laws in education and employment in entrepreneurship to make this country a country of opportunity for everyone, no matter the color of their skin.

Elizabeth.

Hi, everyone.

George Stephanopoulos Here.

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