[Drug dealers and prostitutes hang out at the park] because they can, ... They're almost slick enough to know when police will come by, or who will bother them and who won't.

The Justice Department is starting to recognize that police departments have hundreds of thousands of rape kits ... If we didn't have to store rape kits for years and years because we didn't have the ability to analyze them all, we could stop criminals from repeating crimes.

The police have to do their jobs and not just implicate anyone because it is a black male and the person has a previous record.

to change the perception that this is a bad neighborhood and that you're either crazy or stupid to live here.

To talk about the park is to talk about the history of the neighborhood.

In all these major cities, the police were all white, a big part of them living outside the central city, and they were about the only contact many African-Americans had with the dominant society. There was enormous hostility.