“My primary concern, in any case, is doing the right thing, no matter the optics, the political pressure, or any external considerations.”
“We have ushered in a new way of thinking about … our role in the justice system, about the power we wield and also about the tools we have at our disposal to actually positively impact the community.”
“We are never going to incarcerate ourselves to safety and we are never going to change our communities by only putting people in prison. Public safety does not require us to adhere to an outdated and ineffective tough on crime approach. Instead, we need to be smart on crime.”
“The solution to what’s happening in our neighborhoods is not solved by institutions, it’s by those who are in the neighborhoods, empowering communities to take hold of what happens to them and around them.”
“You have to train people, re-educate them, and change the culture so that people understand their job is not to obtain convictions. Their job is to seek justice.”
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