Former Baltimore City Councilman Kenneth Harris will be buried today. The 45-year-old two-term member, who represented the Fourth District, created the “Bridge to Manhood,” a program that uses successful African-American businessmen and women as mentors to students. During the past two years, The Examiner talked many times to the outspoken leader, who devoted himself to weeding out corruption and to improving the lives of all Baltimoreans. Here are excerpts from those interviews.

June 5, 2006

As the city continued to make thousands of arrests, Harris introduced legislation calling for Police Commissioner Leonard Hamm to admit the city was forcing officers to make arrests by using quotas.

Harris: “A lot of citizens have no arrest records and have had no trouble with the law before, and it makes me wonder what‘s happened to hardened criminals.”