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Fraternal Order of Police national president on why his union is endorsing Trump - YouTube
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um these guys are saying you know what
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uh we still think law enforcement's
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doing a good job we still think the
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president
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is doing a good job it's a point no
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doubt echoed by my next guest patrick
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goes is the fraternal order of police
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he's the national president
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so he's the big chief so we're honored
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to have him um and he made
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news by backing uh again this is the
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nation's largest police union
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uh donald trump they've not often done
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that sort of thing
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but they did patrick is here to tell us
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why he did
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very good to have you sir why did you
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thank you throw your support behind the
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president
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you know thank you for having me uh you
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know we've worked very closely with uh
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president trump over the last four years
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on on many initiatives uh one of them
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was the first stepped act which is uh
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the largest police reform act that has
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happened in in recent time and we were
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very proud to be the only labor
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organization that stood
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and recognized that we want to find ways
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to improve in better the uh the criminal
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justice system
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uh we also worked with the uh president
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closely on his executive order
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and uh and also with congress on both
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the house and the senate hoping that we
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can find some
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ways to improve have fact-based
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discussions and improve the quality of
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law enforcement
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uh unfortunately we know what's
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happening in congress and we're kind of
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a stalemate there and
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the president's executive order is
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really the only police reform that has
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come out of all of this uh
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our members are are also members of our
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communities as well we have concerns
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and but we also have i think interesting
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for us uh unlike
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other organizations we have a process
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where our members are actually part of
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the decision in making our endorsement
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and that's it's what happened yesterday
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we've we completed our process with
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uh polling our members across the
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country in each one of the states where
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we exist and uh
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and i had a unanimous uh support uh to
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to endorse president trump for our
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second term
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had any of the group made a pitch for
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joe biden talked to joe biden that's
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what he would do if he were president
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anything like that
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well you know on a local level i mean
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it's very possible the way our our uh
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our process works is each state uh
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addresses or or has uh does their
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polling of their members and each one
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of their state representatives cast a
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vote for their particular state so
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i i would not by be naive to say that
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there are not some that are supporters
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for
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for uh president obama there are some
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that felt maybe no endorsement might be
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but overwhelmingly of all the states it
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was unanimous
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uh in their decision to uh to support
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president trump for a second term you
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know a patrick i just had a
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washington uh democratic congressman on
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adam smith who was saying
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the president has not been as beneficial
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to either law enforcement effort or for
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that matter keeping the peace ever that
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is
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his tone and his tenor has actually
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sparked more unrest what do you think of
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that
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well you know what what i will say is
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this uh you know it i think what we have
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in america today is an
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unwillingness to sit down and have a
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meaningful discussion based on fact
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uh and if when we do that there's no
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solution i mean there's no problem we
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can't find a solution to but
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we're just not motivated on each side to
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be able to do that i can tell you as an
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organization
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uh we have reached out to the president
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on a number of occasions and talked
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about important issues
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with the stability of law enforcement
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and not once have we not
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walked away with that without a very
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meaningful uh
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dialogue in in results uh so
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in that respect i have to say that i
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have a different opinion and a different
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experience than
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than perhaps the congressman
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what are your thoughts on this defund
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police movement
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or at least reallocate their funds which
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i guess would be defunding
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um what do you think of it well look
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it's obvious uh it's it's obvious one
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thing for sure
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we defund police i i i wonder i wonder
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if this is not just a narrative that has
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run awry
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and uh it has turned into a much
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much larger discussion uh that maybe we
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really don't
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can't wrap our arms around it what does
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a society look like without
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without rules and rule of law uh you
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know i if you look at every community
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those who have are least likely to be
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able to to help themselves are the ones
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that are going to be hurt
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the most if you start taking funds away
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from law enforcement agencies
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there are many things that give us the
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uh you know give us the trust in the
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community and one of them is being
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properly trained
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and the other one is is the
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community-based programs we have that
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builds that respect in the community
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if you cut funding those are the two
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things that are going to happen
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that are going to be cut first so our
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ability to be able to
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to build those relationships that allow
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us to have a you know
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thriving communities are going to be
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hampered even worse by by this whole
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thought of taking funds away from law
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enforcement
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patrick rose i want to thank you very
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much i should say uh the fraternal order
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of police national
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president uh following developments
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right now across the country and saying
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as far as his group is concerned the
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president is the one to address this
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not his opponent
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