May 5, 2013 - Counterinsurgency Cops, Robin Hood, Invisible Wounds

60 Minutes: Season 45: Episode 30

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May 5, 2013 - Counterinsurgency Cops, Robin Hood, Invisible Wounds

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CBS | Air Date: May 5, 2013
Summary: Law enforcement is taking back the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts, from criminal gangs and drugs by using military counterinsurgency tactics that are used overseas. Lesley Stahl looks at the tactics and the successes achieved using them..Paul Tudor Jones, with inspiration from a 60 Minutes story in 1986, founded the Robin HoodLaw enforcement is taking back the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts, from criminal gangs and drugs by using military counterinsurgency tactics that are used overseas. Lesley Stahl looks at the tactics and the successes achieved using them..Paul Tudor Jones, with inspiration from a 60 Minutes story in 1986, founded the Robin Hood Foundation, a New York charity for the richest of the rich. Scott Pelley reports on the foundation, which has raised as much as $57 million in one night. The charity has distributed over $1.25 billion to New York's neediest with an emphasis on education..CBS News Correspondent David Martin, on assignment for 60 Minutes, reports on how tens of thousands of U.S. battlefield veterans are suffering from permanent and/or traumatic brain injuries from concussions incurred in Iraq and Afghanistan. The situation is one which the military is only recently coming to grips with. David also looks at the steps being taken to help veterans. Expand
Genre(s): Talk & Interview, Business, News

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