What we're dealing with is officers on street patrol, which is more effective and more consistent with the Constitution, ... We'll have to see how it is implemented.

The Constitution. . . illustrates the complexity of the American system: that it serves the interests of a wealthy elite, but also does enough for small property owners, for middle-income mechanics and farmers, to build a broad base of support. The slightly prosperous people who make up this base of support are buffers against the blacks, the Indians, the very poor whites. They enable the elite to keep control with a minimum of coercion, a maximum of law--all made palatable by the fanfare of patriotism and unity.

I think the document has to be read from a commonsense perspective. The constitution is not a suicide pact. In a sense, that has to be the answer.

If there was a chapter of the ACLU in Collier County, we would be looking at a wide range of issues in the area. There are too many civil liberties issues for us to focus on.

That's just one of the absurdities of the policy. We're not any safer, just a lot less free.

I stuck to my end of it and if they had, they wouldn't be wearing so much egg on their face. There is never a deal until it's done, and done means everything, all the terms and conditions have to be agreed up, not just some of them. I'm not looking to throw darts, but the fact of the matter is it's really a Baltimore problem.