George Payne Quotations

The cavalry has arrived, ... I've been telling everyone, 'Hold on. Hold on. Help is coming.'

They had to learn from hard knocks, ... And I want us to be as prepared as we can.

When we took over we had maybe 85 officers on duty. It was dangerous. We now have acceptable staffing levels for the number of people we have in the jail.

Ninety five percent of everybody who came through here today had their drivers license, their insurance and they were buckled up. They're getting the message. Awareness is up. We're announcing it in school. They knew we were going to be out here today. We didn't try to trick anybody. We just told them we were going to do it,

It was mainly opportunists and locals, ... We've had a few out of state. They hit convenience stores. We had so much destruction that it was pretty easy pickings. If I have to, I'd stack them in the hall (at the jail). If you loot, you go to jail.

You couldn't ask for a better group of human beings helping another group of human beings in a time of need,