00:00hey everybody so we're gonna do the dating game no I'm kidding we're gonna
00:10have the mayor's panel this afternoon and we're talking about some of the
00:13issues that are critical not only to the cities that we're discussing today but
00:19really our cities across the nation person-to-person block-to-block neighborhood
00:23to neighborhood people taking control of their environments that they live in
00:28and deciding that you know we're better together than we are apart and as a
00:32consequence the city of New Orleans has been able to jump forward we're gonna
00:34celebrate our 10th anniversary of Katrina and really kind of make sure that
00:38everybody in America knows what we did with the help that you guys gave us and
00:43hopefully we've learned some lessons here the most immediate one is the
00:47relationship now that we're establishing between our community and the police and
00:51making sure that we have a department that protects and serves you see the
00:55situations happening across the country right in Ferguson and New York in
00:58Baltimore and other places where that gets to be a really immediate issue the
01:02thing that I'm proudest of and we all know that police are important but one of
01:07the things that we also know and I think every mayor will tell you is that you can
01:12have ten times more police officers and you will never solve crime unless the
01:18community is involved because it's just not a police issue it's an issue
01:24involving the social institutions that have historically not who have historically
01:32worked in our city but aren't working now families the churches and so
01:38recently we had a very good meeting to engage the faith community in an
01:44unprecedented way and we're excited about it we're excited about the promise of
01:49really getting churches and the faith community to get involved in the community
01:55in a way that police can't even with community policing I have to echo what mayor
02:03Landreau is saying and specifically since we talking about the presidential
02:06election we really need an urban Marshall Plan you know in America not like
02:13Europe most of black brown poor people live in the cities in Europe poor folks
02:17live in the countryside and the rich folks occupy the cities it's the opposite
02:21here in this country and most of America's GDP is produced here in these
02:26cities and so it means that that means massive investment roads bridges hospitals
02:31schools job training needs to happen for countless Americans who've been left out
02:35and they have to look like me and or Latino or poor folks who have been
02:40isolated from this country and they need the kind of investment to help us move
02:45these cities forward and I and Chris Christie is not going to do that when he
02:48becomes the president if he becomes the president United States so and we know
02:52he's not doing that in New Jersey so the reality is this is what we need in order
02:56to jumpstart not only just America's economy but people's lives that have been
03:00left out of the so-called American dream for decades
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