Due Process And Judicial Process Are Not

When You Compare What People Endured In The South In The 60s To Try To Get The Right To Vote For African Americans, And To Compare What People Were Subjected To There To What Happened In Philadelphia - Which Was Inappropriate, Certainly That . . . To Describe It In Those Terms I Think Does A Great Disservice To People Who Put Their Lives On The Line, Who Risked All, For My People.

I Don't Even Talk About Whether Or Not Racial Profiling Is Legal. I Just Don't Think Racial Profiling Is A Particularly Good Law Enforcement Tool.

It's Time To Question Laws That Senselessly Expand The Concept Of Self-defense And Sow Dangerous Conflict In Our Neighborhoods. These Laws Try To Fix Something That Was Never Broken. There Has Always Been A Legal Defense For Using Deadly Force If - And The 'if' Is Important - If No Safe Retreat Is Available. But We Must Examine Laws That Take This Further By Eliminating The Common Sense And Age-old Requirement That People Who Feel Threatened Have A Duty To Retreat, Outside Their Home, If They Can Do So Safely.

I'm A 21st Century Guy, Secure In Who I Am.

I Think That People, Despite My Law Enforcement Background, View Me As Taking These Consistently Progressive Stands, And I Think That, Philosophically, There Is A Desire To Get At That Person. But I Think The Stands I Have Taken Are Totally Consistent With A Person Who Is Looking At Things Realistically, Factually.