Richard Blumenthal

The lack of indictment in the Garner case has certainly shocked and appalled countless people

There is absolutely no sense of transparency. There is a loss of trust and commitment not just from police, but from the entire criminal justice community.

I find it unfortunate and embarrassing, as a law enforcement official, that there is not any Federal legislation that requires that cities... are not reporting those types of shootings and deaths to a Federal authority.

We should use our resources to more adequately address public safety and invest in alternatives to incarceration where appropriate.

Profiling is an ineffective law enforcement practice. It is detrimental to public safety and is antithetical to the constitutional right to equal protection under law.

The elected leadership is showing this most clearly is not coming from the Federal level, it is actually coming from the States.

We need to take more accountability.

The suggestion certainly is one that has attracted a lot of support and understandably and rightly so

We must put in place commonsense reforms that prohibit discriminatory profiling, demilitarize local law enforcement, redefine the standards for use of force by police, and establish accountability.

I am also proud to be an original cosponsor of the End Racial Profiling Act which I think is clearly and sorely needed.

There are more African Americans now in prison under criminal supervision, prison, jail, probation, parole than all the slaves in 1850.

Governor Nathan Deal... has cut spending on prisons, reduced penalties for nonviolent offenses.

When you think about it it is so critically important because a school may be really happy to get rid of a rapist.

I think that is a very important point, that survivors can be persuaded at least to provide the information even if they do not pursue a prosecution in the event that the assailant does it again.

The victim should be in charge of the information, should be in charge of what happens with a prosecution if that is the choice or an on-campus adjudication.

When will there be legislation?

Unfortunately, that is not only a possible outcome, it may well be a probable outcome.

I think that is a very apt and articulate description of the way the process can work, ideally, if the survivor chooses to go to the criminal justice system, but not all survivors may have the decisiveness that this woman evidently did.

The controversy about the University of Virginia probably seems like a distraction but it is no excuse for continuing to support this cause of improving the services and the process available to victims and survivors.

Voting discrimination is still a problem for many Americans.

With regard to the revised profiling guidelines issued yesterday by the Department of Justice, I am deeply disappointed that they did not close significant loopholes.

These issues are not Black or White. They are about justice.

FERPA may have a chilling effect in practice, but the law has a specific exception for this purpose.

I anguish over this fact that my country has been evolving through the dedicated determinate acts of Black and White through slavery, through Jim Crow.

Predators commit crime, after crime, after crime, a small minority of college men commit the overwhelming number of rapes and sexual assaults against women.