Former NYPD Chief Bernard Kerik Discusses Ferguson, Police Militarization, and Clemency

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Former NYPD Chief Bernard Kerik Discusses Ferguson, Police Militarization, and Clemency

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"Any time a police department can get [military] equipment for the department, they're going to try and do that," says Bernard Kerik, the former New York Police Department Commissioner and one-time nominee to be secretary of Homeland Security.

Speaking about events in Ferguson, Missouri and the general militarization of police over the past several decades, he continues: "When you create this militarization of all these smaller agencies and they don't have the ability to communicate with each other, that's going to create a problem."

In 2009, Kerik pled guilty to making false tax statements and eventually served time in federal prison. Released in 2013, Kerik now runs a crisis-management consulting group and advocates for criminal justice reform. 

He recently sat down with Reason TV's Nick Gillespie to discuss the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, the militarization of police, the effect of the drug war on law enforcement, and what it's like to be prosecuted in today's America.

"Every high school student in America, before they graduate high school," says Kerik, "should be forced to read [Reason Contributor Harvey] Silverglate's book [Three Felonies a Day]. No one in America knows that if you give me a stack of subpoenas and give me the power to scrutinize you like they did me, I promise you that you're going to prison."

About 25 minutes. Edited by Amanda Winkler. Shot by Joshua Swain and Todd Krainin. 

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Comments

[The Late P Brooks]

There's a guy whose insight and analysis mean a lot to me.

[Gene]

I thought he was a dick, it looks like he's evolving.

[Jordan]

No, he's still fine with militarization as long as it's the NYPD. It's all those hick towns where everyone else lives that can't be trusted.

[Jordan]

Okay, after actually watching some of the video, I think I was being unfair. Kudos to Kerik for seeing the light.

[Invisible Finger]

Notice how they never see the light while they are on the job.

[Christophe]

That's pretty frequent. People will bend their understanding of reality and their sense of right and wrong in order to continue seeing themselves as good people.

[Another David]

And to continue drawing a paycheck.

[Kaptious Kristen]

Huh. Whodathunk.

[Lady Bertrum]

Nick needs another interviewing comment other than, "Talk a little about....."

Annoyingly redundant.

[Invisible Finger]

I agree. Probably used that before he hired Weigel.

[AlgerHiss]

I puke whenever "NYPD" is mentioned.

Tom Selleck should be whipped for that current POS show he does that glorifies that gaggle of overhyped ass-wipes.

[Creeper]

maybe everyone involved with the criminal justice system should have to spend a week or two in a jail as part of training.....

[gaoxiaen]

Or a few years.

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I DID NOT KNOW THIS GUY INTERVIEWED WITH Al Jazeera. THAT ENDS IT AND HIM FOR ME RIGHT THERE. Not to mention that he was caught with hand in cookie jar, so to speak. Nothing he says is valid.

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