I certainly don't disagree with his observations as a sitting judge and an appellate judge.

This is not rocket science. We need to apply common sense here.

They want ethical, honest, and diligent police officers. They want police officers. They want public safety.

I think you need to look at the facts by piercing those statistics that you have suggesting broad definitions.

Yes, Representative Owens, it would.

That's what I--and I don't want to step out of my lane talking for the sheriffs and the chiefs, but--

Qualified immunity is one facet of a public campaign in some ways to demonize the police.

public safety is the primary value without which nothing else in a community can happen.

The Democrats in charge made sure that that bill was dead on arrival.

We certainly can repurpose some of the funding.

I think that mantra is dying away.

You have an ally in me and my colleagues, certainly on this side of the aisle.

We need police officers, and we must maintain law and order.

We should discuss ways that we can further support our police officers.

The vast majority of police officers in this country are self-sacrificing public servants.

We are the greatest nation in the history of the world and the only way that we will continue that, maintain that, is if we back the blue.

The denial of justice in those kinds of circumstances due to this doctrine of qualified immunity is an injustice.

I will tell you that it has been a position of Members on this Committee whom I quoted earlier who have wanted to defend the police.