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" American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing. "
History
Black
Experience
" Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime. "
You
Little Things
Behavior
" Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms. "
People
Through
Process
" Cops have been complaining about morale since police forces were created. I used to complain about it a lot when I was a young cop. "
Police
Complaining
Young
" I disliked everything about the '60s. "
Disliked
About
Everything
" If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation. "
Foundation
Police
Walking
" If there's one crime for which there has to be a certainty of punishment, it is gun violence. "
Punishment
Violence
Which
" I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting. "
Time
Acting
More
" I like having ambitious people around me. I could care less if they want my job. "
People
Care
Job
" It's an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That's a reality. That's not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk. "
Never
Reality
Prison
" I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact. "
I Am
Proud
Life
" I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still. "
September
Remember
Boston
" Many of the best parts of America's history would have been impossible without police. All the freedoms we enjoy - freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear - sit on a foundation of public safety. "
Best
Freedom
Safety
" No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts. "
Better
Place
Immune
" Policing has to be done compassionately and consistently. You cannot police differently in Harlem than you're policing downtown. The same laws must apply. The same procedures must be employed. Certain areas at certain times may have more significant crime and require more police presence or more assertiveness, but it has to be balanced. "
Presence
Crime
Police
" Quality-of-life policing is based on probable cause - an officer has witnessed a crime personally or has a witness to the crime. "
Crime
Witness
Personally
" Race is something that's always haunted American policing. "
Haunted
Race
Always
" Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers. "
Laws
Slavery
Sin
" Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal. "
Some
Brutal
Like
" Stop-and-frisk is not something that you can stop. It is an absolutely basic tool of American policing. It would be like asking a doctor to give an examination to you without using his stethoscope. "
American
Doctor
You
" We all have a fundamental right to live free from fear, free from crime, and free from disorder - but while we share that right, we also share the duty to secure it. "
Duty
Free
Live
" You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community. "
Working
You
Without
" You have to bare your fangs once in a while. "
Once
While
Bare
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