Law Enforcement Quotes - Page 2

• The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  Silly, Dumb, Police

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• When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Jobs, Law, Police

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• No one ever said that fighting the war against terrorism and defending our homeland would be easy. So let's support our troops, law enforcement workers, and our mission to keep our nation and our children safe in the days and years to come.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, War, Fighting

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• We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Humor, Able

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• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Police, Enough

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.122, Vintage

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• Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

  Roger Wicker

  Taken, Home, America

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• I don't even talk about whether or not racial profiling is legal. I just don't think racial profiling is a particularly good law enforcement tool.

  Eric Holder

  Thinking, Law, Enforcement

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. May 9, 2010.

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• Jurors realize that instead of having to make that terrible decision (voting for the death penalty), they can vote to put someone in prison and ensure that defendant is no longer a harm to society. It makes it easier for them to return a verdict of life without the possibility of parole.

  Robert Falcon Scott

  Decision, Voting, Return

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• I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

  Rob McKenna

  Thinking, Delay, Death Penalty

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• Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims.

  Gil Garcetti

  Dollars, Crime, Victim

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• Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous crimes and criminals.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Criminals, Serious, Death Penalty

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• The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, White Privilege, Racism

  "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama". Interview with Mike Stivers, www.truth-out.org. April 24, 2013.

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• The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.

  Alex Kozinski

  Mistake, Gun, Rights

  "Ninth Circuit Confirms a 2nd Amendment Right to Carry" by Michael James Barton, www.nationalreview.com. February 14, 2014.

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• Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States.

  Noah Webster

  Army, Gun, Power

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.43

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• Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.

  George H. W. Bush

  Law, Enforcement, Officials

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• You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.

  Phil Robertson

  Children, Law, Discipline

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• Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

  George Gascon

  Death Penalty, Possibility, Conviction

  "S.F's district attorney on the death penalty" by George Gascon, www.sfgate.com. April 30, 2011.

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• I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Police, Enforcement, Policemen

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• As I presided over Massie's execution, I thought about the abuse and neglect he endured as a child in the foster care system. We failed to keep him safe, and our failure contributed to who he was as an adult. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to kill him, what if we spent that money on other foster children so that we stop producing men like Massie in the first place?

  Jeanne Woodford

  Children, Men, What If

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• We need to acknowledge that the death penalty is broken beyond repair.

  George Gascon

  Broken, Needs, Death Penalty

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• The majority of people who join law enforcement are doing it for good, moral reasons, but then there are the few who get through, where you go, 'Whoa, hold on a second. What's this guy doing here?'

  Guy Pearce

  Law, People, Guy

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• But these days, there's also a strong economic argument for doing away with capital punishment. With California facing its most severe fiscal crisis in recent memory... it would be crazy not to consider the fact that it will add as much as $1 billion over the next five years simply to keep the death penalty on the books.

  John Van de Kamp

  Strong, Memories, Crazy

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• The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever design a capital system that reaches only the "right" cases, without dragging in the wrong cases, cases of innocence or cases where death is not proportionate punishment. Slowly, even reluctantly, I have realized the answer to that question is no- we will never get it right.

  Scott Turow

  Real, Punishment, Issues

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• The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

  Chris Chocola

  Wall, Agency, Law

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• The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along.

  Richard Armitage

  Military, War, Fighting

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