‘We are sending real cops, guns & badges, every night, to make arrests. ... We will liberate this city from the criminal element that has plagued it for generations.’

“This is not just a strategy shift. This is an attitude shift. We are not going to live in an environment anywhere where there is a street that belongs to a criminal, [or] a neighborhood that belongs to a gang.

"The idea that there is a square inch of block in this city where a citizen doesn't feel safe is unacceptable. This is Memphis. This is the United States of America and all that bullshit is done. It's over.”