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.

I've done everything there is to do in the criminal justice system, from being a police officer to a prosecutor to a defense attorney. My current opponent still can't compete with that. And I have spent my career in state court, not federal court, and this is a state court bench.

[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.

I and my sister thought otherwise and we went to police as we expected justice. But after a few hours of filing the report the police .changed it.

I think that it reveals a police department that itself lost faith in the justice system and decided that they would be the judge, the jury, the prosecutor and the police officer.

We talked about it on the way over to Police Plaza. But the mayor has a job to do, and you can't let politics stop you from doing your job.