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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

The purpose of the criminal justice system is both to rehabilitate and to punish. If we can rehabilitate somebody, that's a huge, huge win.

To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.