Randall Kennedy

They have an important job, a difficult job.

I want them to be very well paid.

As far as I'm concerned, police should make more money.

They should be given the importance of what they do.

They should have more respect, more prestige, more money.

With all of that, they should be held accountable.

And the way things are now, they're not held accountable.

And every day we see the consequences in our newspapers or just talking with people.

I was in one debate with her.

And one of the things that I said is, it was a debate that was sponsored by the Federalist Society, conservative legal group.

These were conservative law students at Harvard Law School.

She made a presentation and they asked me to respond.

And one of the things that I said was, when we're talking about the police,

I'm disappointed with the reaction of some of my conservative colleagues, and I would consider her to be one of my conservative colleagues, because what are some of the important precepts

of conservatives.

One very important precept of conservatives, limited government, limited government.

You know, conservatives talk about the tendency of government to overreach itself and governmental agents to overreach themselves.

And I say, you're right.

You're right.

I, you know, right on.