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Letitia James
American
Public Servant
Born:
Oct 18
,
1958
City
Life
New
Will
Women
York
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Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.
Letitia James
Work
Day
Police
Crises
Recognition
Responding
Civilians
Preventing
Putting
Police Officers
Protect
Frequently
Line
Selfless
Officers
Each
Each Day
Lives
Millions
Our system of government works best when there are checks and balances led by independent entities that are empowered to conduct fair and rigorous oversight. These are the same principles enshrined in the founding document of our country - our Constitution.
Letitia James
Government
Best
Constitution
Country
Our
Enshrined
System
Independent
Rigorous
Entities
Fair
Checks
Checks And Balances
Document
Empowered
Balances
Principles
Led
Oversight
Conduct
Same
Works
Founding
District attorneys are often some of the finest public servants. However, the system in which they operate to investigate cases of police misconduct leaves a huge window for unintended bias.
Letitia James
Police
System
District
Some
Window
Finest
Cases
Misconduct
Investigate
Attorneys
Bias
Operate
Leaves
However
Huge
Often
Which
Public
Unintended
Public Servants
Servants
Our justice system allows district attorneys to be charged with the great responsibility of prosecuting the very same police officers they work side-by-side with every day and whose union support they seek when running for reelection.
Letitia James
Work
Day
Great
Justice
Every Day
Police
Responsibility
Every
Our
System
Charged
Running
District
Seek
Great Responsibility
Support
Prosecuting
Attorneys
Police Officers
Very
Officers
Same
Union
Whose
Any district attorney knows that an endorsement from law enforcement unions is vital to earning voters' trust. As a result, police unions play an outsized role in district attorney elections.
Letitia James
Trust
Law
Result
Police
Unions
Earning
District
District Attorney
Vital
Law Enforcement
Voters
Attorney
Knows
Role
Any
Endorsement
Enforcement
Elections
Play
A comfortable retirement should not only be a luxury for the wealthy, but a reality for every New Yorker.
Letitia James
Reality
Luxury
Every
Wealthy
Only
Retirement
New
Comfortable
Yorker
New Yorker
Should
New York is celebrated as a leader in our nation's quest for progress because ours is a city built by the labor of a thousand different shades and accents.
Letitia James
Progress
Leader
Nation
Our
Ours
Thousand
City
Shades
New
Accents
Because
Built
Quest
Celebrated
Labor
York
New York
Different
Establishing the two Eids as official holidays will carry important practical and symbolic significance.
Letitia James
Will
Important
Significance
Carry
Practical
Official
Establishing
Holidays
Symbolic
Two
I am proud of the advances we have made in New York where we have continued a legacy of substantive HIV/AIDS policy, but we must continue the fight to end the epidemic and ensure an AIDS-free generation.
Letitia James
Fight
Generation
Made
Ensure
Must
Advances
New
Policy
Proud
Am
Continue
End
Legacy
York
New York
Substantive
Where
Epidemic
It is no secret that New York City has an affordable housing shortage. For those who've returned from the battlefield, the problem is even more pronounced.
Letitia James
Affordable Housing
Problem
Secret
Those
Battlefield
City
More
No Secret
New
Returned
Housing
Affordable
York
New York
New York City
Shortage
Even
For all the manufactured 'Republican versus Democrat' drama that dominates today's cable news and political rhetoric, the most striking feature of our present-day democracy is not partisan divide - it's a corrupt system that protects incumbents from the consequences that real democracy brings.
Letitia James
Today
News
Democracy
Political
Consequences
Drama
Our
Striking
System
Corrupt
Feature
Divide
Cable
Most
Democrat
Partisan
Protects
Real
Versus
Rhetoric
Republican
Brings
Present-Day
Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.
Letitia James
Challenges
Competition
Face
Nation
Drawn
Districts
Rarely
Lawmakers
Around
Up
Precision
Legislators
Aversion
Perverse
Competitive
What's historically been referred to as 'gerrymandering' can more aptly be labeled an incumbent protection program.
Letitia James
Protection
Incumbent
Aptly
More
Been
Referred
Labeled
Historically
Program
Gunfire tracking technology is improving every day and has been successful in many jurisdictions around the country.
Letitia James
Day
Technology
Every Day
Country
Every
Has-Been
Tracking
Around
Been
Improving
Successful
Many
To my dismay, inadequate signage, non-ADA compliant ramps, narrow doorways, and poorly-placed voting machines are preventing hundreds of thousands of people from exercising one of our most basic rights as Americans.
Letitia James
Rights
People
Voting
Our
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Machines
Compliant
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Preventing
Most
Exercising
Narrow
American
Inadequate
Dismay
Basic
Basic Rights
The ADA prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities receive the same opportunities as everyone else to participate in the mainstreams of American life, which includes participating in government programs and services.
Letitia James
Life
Government
People
Opportunities
Programs
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Disabilities
Participate
Participating
Government Programs
Discrimination
American
Same
Which
American Life
Receive
Services
ADA
Guarantees
Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers' rents.
Letitia James
Increases
Impact
Directly
New
Also
Rent
Affect
Stabilized
New Yorkers
All New Yorkers have the right to decent housing, regardless of income and rent.
Letitia James
New
Housing
Rent
Decent
New Yorkers
Regardless
Income
Right
In today's world, access to the Internet is inarguably critical to function in informal and formal spaces - and the costs to digital segregation are rising.
Letitia James
Today
World
Internet
Digital
Critical
Rising
Costs
Segregation
Access
Formal
Informal
Spaces
Function
Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.
Letitia James
Crime
Way
Putting
Combat
Most
Effective
Effective Way
Streets
Cops
Without a doubt, the most fiscally responsible way to increase the number of officers on our streets is to mobilize uniformed officers in administrative jobs and to use civilian employees to fill those jobs.
Letitia James
Employees
Doubt
Increase
Our
Way
Those
Jobs
Responsible
Responsible Way
Administrative
Civilian
Most
Without
Fiscally
Mobilize
Officers
Uniformed
Use
Fill
Streets
Number
I have never had doubts about the courage of the young men and women we sent overseas wearing the uniform.
Letitia James
Courage
Women
Men
Men And Women
Young
Wearing
About
Never
Had
Overseas
Young Men
Sent
Uniform
Doubts
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