This is the Tom Hartman program.

And greetings my friends,

Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice,

believers in peace, freedom freedom in the American way

Tom Harbin here with you we've got a lot on our agenda we're gonna be

talking a little later in the program about Trump's anti-environment agenda

and how that turns out actually to be as well a racist

agenda. Right now however Dr. Cedric Alexander is with us a former law

enforcement professional he's the former president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement. law enforcement

noble was on President of

and President of Barack Obama's task force on 21st century policing. He holds a doctorate in clinical psychology. He's an author of numerous books, his most recent, in defense of public service and his previous book, The New Guardians, Policing in America's communities for the 21st century. His website, CL Alexander Group.com. Do I have that right, Dr. Alexander? The Twitter page is C-A- L'EX, underscore law.

And of course, my Facebook, page, tube,

my company, of course, is Cedric Alexander Group.com.

Something like that. I don't remember how you do once sir.

Close enough. I'm well.

So you know I'm reading how, you know, Camden has been overhipped in terms of reforming police.

I don't know about Compton.

We're hearing conversations about basically rebooting, not just police departments and not just policies you know the

Trump is signing an executive order to create a national database it seems like you know

it's a nice little start but but really fundamentally re-examining the whole idea behind

policing in the United States that our policing in this country came out of a

very different place than for example Canada or most of Europe.

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