Gallery: Jacksonville Sheriff's Debate at Jacksonville University

All five candidates for sheriff of Jacksonville on the stage of Jacksonville University's Terry Concert Hall for the only televised debate.

News4Jax anchor and debate moderator Kent Justice briefs the live audience before the broadcast.

Rick Mullaney, director of Jacksonville University's Public Policy Institute and host of Wednesday's debate, talks about the importance of the sheriff's race to the Jacksonville community.

All five candidates for Jacksonville sheriff stand on stage at Jacksonville University.

Lakesha Burton: “We have to start looking from a different lens and understand that we have to address our crime problem from a different approach.”

Wayne Clark: “We’ve had three consecutive years of more than 100 murders back-to-back, 400 shootings every year. Seventy percent of our homicide cases, correction, murder cases go unsolved."

Tony Cummings: “We need to get the public on board, give them a seat at the table and make sure they help us guide our policies and be efficient and effective with your tax dollars."

Burton, Clark and Cummings on stage

Ken Jefferson: “My approach would be proactivity, visibility, using intelligence-led data to take me where I need to go to address these issues, saturate those areas, weed out the bad apples in that area."

T.K. Waters: I’m a guy that I believe in sitting down and talking. I believe in going out and meeting people. I believe in being accessible. I’ve been accessible my entire career."