Criminal Justice Quotes - Page 4

• Race determines everything in the criminal justice system.

  Mark Geragos

  Race, Justice, Criminals

  "Exclusive: Juror pushes for new laws following Zimmerman trial" By Josh Levs. Dana Ford, www.cnn.com. July 18, 2013.

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• In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

  Alan Dershowitz

  People, Justice, Guilty

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• "Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

  Barbara Neely

  Justice, Criminals, Were Meant To Be

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• Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being targeted by the police, harassed by security forces, and in some instances killed because they are black and assumed to be dangerous.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Numbers, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many.

  Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

  Punishment, Justice, Perfection

  Eaton's Case, 22 How. St. Tr. 820-21, 1793.

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• What we were most hoping to achieve with Shots Fired: empathy for all of the characters and conversations about our criminal justice system, which is broken on every level, from the street all the way up to the highest level of government.

  Gina Prince-Bythewood

  Character, Government, Broken

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• It is hard to stay patient about policy matters where everybody agrees about what needs to be done and then it just doesn't happen, like reforming the immigration system and getting rid of family immigration jails and closing Guantanamo and criminal-justice reform. All these issues, there is basically consensus. There's no rational objections whatsoever, but it can't happen because of other stupid steps we have to take in politics.

  Rachel Maddow

  Stupid, Jail, Issues

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• The biggest thing that will define my legacy is how I've done it, and what I've done, and who I am. I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way. Went to the police academy to become a police officer. Get his master's in criminal justice, stayed out of trouble. Played for three different teams. Changed three different franchises around. This is a guy who they would have secret meetings about to change the rules. So, that's going to be my legacy: the most dominant player ever.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Rap

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• Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose the long legacy and current reality of state violence and the rise of the punishing state. Such a struggle suggests not only reclaiming, for instance, education as a public good but also reforming the criminal justice system and removing the police from schools.

  Henry Giroux

  Struggle, School, Reality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In the criminal justice system you see the worst people on their best behavior, unlike the civil system, where the best people behave at their worst.

  Edna Buchanan

  Law, Justice, People

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• I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.

  2 Chainz

  Jobs, School, Voice

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

  Michel Foucault

  Justice, Criminals, Today

  Michel Foucault (2012). “Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, p.19, Vintage

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• Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.

  Ralph Nader

  Justice, Support, Police

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

  Kamala Harris

  Justice, Criminals, Tough

  "Kamala Harris: Democrats' anti-Palin". www.politico.com. December 24, 2010.

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• Be critical of these institutions that we love, whether they be our sports teams or the criminal justice system. Be critical of what the police department is doing about sexual assault. Be critical of why prosecutors are not prosecuting sexual assault.

  Andrea Pino

  Sports, Team, Justice

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I`m a member of Societies of Former World Leaders. And I`ve always been sort of in favor of constructive engagement around the world. And Gary Johnson has influenced me on criminal justice reform. I think I had some influence in discussions with him about the approach to international affairs.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Justice, Leader

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There is one key area in which Zuma has made no attempt at reconciliation whatsoever: criminal justice and security. The ministers of justice, defence, intelligence (now called "state security" in a throwback to both apartheid and the ANC's old Stalinist past), police and communications are all die-hard Zuma loyalists. Whatever their line functions, they will also play the role they have played so ably to date: keeping Zuma out of court - and making sure the state serves Zuma as it once did Mbeki.

  Mark Gevisser

  Communication, Past, Play

  "Can Zuma hold a nation together?" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2009.

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• Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

  Dana Goldstein

  School, Justice, Youth

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know  -  what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that crime. That's how a lot of the criminal justice works. But God's justice is restorative, so it's not as interested in those same questions of "What did they do wrong?" and "What is the punishment for that?" It's more about what harm was done and how do we heal that harm, and that's a much more redemptive version. So, it definitely doesn't turn a blind eye to harm, but it does say we want to heal the wounds of that.

  Shane Claiborne

  Eye, Thinking, Deserve You

  Source: medium.com

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• A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are determined on a local level.

  Aldis Hodge

  Impact, Justice, People

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• At some point - I care about charter schools and criminal justice reform and $20 trillion in debt and real growth. At some point, I want to hear that clash of ideas. I don`t care if it gets ugly. That`s what campaigns are all about.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Real, School, Justice

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think that we need to have an honest conversation in this country. This idea that somehow we're beyond sexism, beyond racism is just wrong. And this is where having an honest conversation with white men about their issues and their concerns, and having honest conversations about the experiences that African-Americans are still having, despite who's the president of the United States, in the criminal justice system that we see in sentencing, we see in policing and a lot of these issues.

  Cory Booker

  Country, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I worked when I was Congress on a second chance act. We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect on institutional bias in criminal justice. But what - what - what Donald Trump and I are saying is let's not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in law enforcement. We truly do believe that law enforcement is not a force for racism or division in our country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Believe, Men

  "Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University". www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2016.

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• There is two types of Larceny, Petty and Grand. They are supposed to be the same in the eyes of the law, but judges always put a little extra on you for Petty, which is kind of a fine for stupidness.

  Will Rogers

  Eye, Law, Two

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The criminal justice system - although this applies less to the U.S., where rehabilitation is not seen as a valuable contribution to criminal justice - in Europe where rehab is supposed to be integral, we have no way of rehabilitating skilled hackers. On the contrary what we do is we demonize them and continue to do so after they come out of jail because we restrict their access to computers by law. Crazy world, crazy people.

  Misha Glenny

  Crazy, People, Justice

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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