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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.
For me to do my job effectively, we need to continue to earn public confidence. That involves transparency and accountability.
Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
I don't think it's any secret that the public has lost confidence in the state government, and there's a lot of work that needs to be done on issues related to public integrity.
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!
There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.
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