Political Quotes

Parmenio Adams

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Dec 22, 2014

The New York police department... is one of the finest well-trained professional department.

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Dec 22, 2014

The death of these two fine officers had nothing to do with the mayor has done. The mayor has provided support to our police.

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Dec 11, 2014

But we have Eric Adams who is now the borough president of Brooklyn, 22 year veteran NYPD (INAUDIBLE) captain. He was saying that, you know, what he learned in the academy was different than once he got on the job and he had veteran officer saying, I'm going to show you how the real police - that the way he learned to police in communities, African-American communities was different than he would police on Park Avenue.

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Dec 7, 2014

We're in a state of denial. We are a country that's intoxicated with bad policing and we got to start this process of one step towards recovery and the right training and identifying that we have a problem.

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Dec 7, 2014

Well, the right to take a life and take freedom two places and items that is dear to Americans.

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Dec 7, 2014

No, I do agree. And one of the proposals I had when I was in the state senate is that at the time of the shooting or an incident where a person is seriously injured likely to die, you need an independent apparatus gathering the evidence.

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Dec 7, 2014

When an officer takes the life of an innocent person, his life is destroyed also. But because our unions have become so defensive instead of being proactive and showing how do we police consistently, they're hurting their members.

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Dec 7, 2014

I personally made a lot of errors. And I know black doctors and attorneys, I know black engineers, I know black preachers, and still with all of that information, because of the system that indoctrinated me for many years, I looked at people differently until you have to catch yourself and say, how are you policing?

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Dec 4, 2014

Yes, without a doubt. And you'll be (INAUDIBLE) show just on the topic. You would be real. Many African-American officers when they come into the department, they become indoctrinated and they become part of the culture of policing that believe that the police departments only see one race.

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Dec 4, 2014

We've got to modify the behavior and we've failed in doing that.

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Dec 4, 2014

All of the police agencies in our country, you spend a large number of time training, six months for the NYPD, but once you hit the streets, you receive the indoctrination of those who are in the precincts, particularly being communities of color, and they basically give you the symbol - signal - turning out what you learn in the street, but that is not the same application, when you go to communities that are doing financially well.

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