EXCERPT:
KENNEDY: “Well, look, it is hard not to notice — I live here part-time — that there are now streets in Washington, D.C. that look like they are out of a scene from ‘Mad Max.’ It wasn’t always that way. What happened? It’s not quantum physics. Three years ago, D.C. lawmakers decided that cops were a bigger problem than criminals, so they defunded the police, cut them $15 million. And those D.C. lawmakers said, ‘We want justice.’ Well, don’t we all? Here’s a newsflash. Without order, there can be no justice. Newsflash number two: Unless you have a history of disappointing your parents, you know or should know that there are some people in this world, I don’t know why, but they are not sick, they are not mixed up, they are not confused, it’s not that their mother or father did not love them enough, they are just anti-social. And by that I mean they hurt other people and they take other people’s stuff. We have to separate them from society. Hugging them and giving them hot cocoa is not going to work. That’s why we need cops.”