Law Enforcement Quotes - Page 6

• We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

  Hillary Clinton

  Lakes, Law, Cities

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• There have been decades of failed policies: zero tolerance, harassment and people being locked up for small crimes -\-\ policies that drive a divide between communities and law enforcement. So many people feel like they are voiceless, that they've been dehumanized. What we saw in the riots is a result of that.

  Marilyn Mosby

  Zero, Law, People

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• In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that telephone companies and other carriers provide law enforcement with access to this new technology.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Technology, Order, Law

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• I think that one of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in Colorado support them, make it much harder for law enforcement to do their jobs.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Jobs, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I’ve consequently played a lot of different cops from a lot of different kind of law enforcement agencies.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Agency, Law, Different

  "Samuel L. Jackson for “Freedomland”". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. February 13, 2006.

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• Well, when people talk about interrogating terrorists, they're acting like this is some sort of law enforcement function. Law enforcement is about gathering evidence to take someone to trial, and convict them. Anti-terrorism is about finding out information to prevent a future attack so the same tactics do not apply.

  Marco Rubio

  Law, People, Acting

  Marco Rubio's speech at the eighth Republican presidential primary debate hosted by ABC News at the St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.cbsnews.com. February 6, 2016.

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• To be a woman in law enforcement on television, I think, is sort of important. It's a powerful position for a woman to be in, but also to be looking at these new technologies, exploring these new technologies.

  Patricia Arquette

  Powerful, Technology, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.

  Patricia Arquette

  Law, Skills, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I was touching on the idea of the autonomous militaristic or autonomous law enforcement idea, but it wasn't the primary driving force.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Law, Ideas, Touching

  Source: collider.com

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• What I do believe happens in a lot of these cases is that we somehow want to place blame on the victim for their behavior or that they brought it upon themself. As law enforcement official, you are held to a higher standard. You are expected to execute your job in that regard.

  Sharon Cooper

  Jobs, Believe, Law

  "Sandra Bland's Family Reacts To Grand Jury's Decision". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 23, 2015.

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• I've been involved with law enforcement for some time. My father was in law enforcement. I went through the training for Homeland Security. I enjoy it very much.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Father, Law, Training

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• New Jersey was threatened like no other region in this country and what we did was we took action within the constitution to make sure that law enforcement had all the information they needed.

  Chris Christie

  Country, Law, Enforcement

  "5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant". 2016 presidential debate in Las Vegas, Nevada, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.

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• If a regular law enforcement agency wants your phone records, all they have to do is issue a subpoena. But now the intelligence agency is not able to quickly gather records and look at them to see who these terrorists are calling.

  Marco Rubio

  Agency, Phones, Law

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Our goal is not to douse the recession with money, which would be useless, as both you and I know. Our goal is to liberate the business initiative, to lower administrative and law enforcement pressure and to make legal protection truly effective

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Law, Goal, Would Be

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• Law enforcement officers should use only the minimum force necessary in dealing with disorders when they arise. A human life-the life of a student, soldier, or police officer-is a precious thing, and the taking of a life can be justified only as a necessary and last resort.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Law, Police, Soldier

  Nixon, Richard M. (1971). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1970”, p.1117, Best Books on

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• The Patriot Act removed major legal barriers that prevented the law enforcement, intelligence, and national defense communities from talking and coordinating their work to protect the American people and our national security.

  Jon Porter

  Talking, Law, People

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• We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

  Timothy Murphy

  Technology, Government, Law

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• At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.

  Eric Holder

  Military, Law, Deployment

  "Ferguson violence: Critics rip police tactics, use of military equipment" by Josh Levs, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2014.

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• War on terror is far less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering, law-enforcement operation.

  John F. Kerry

  Military, War, Intelligence Gathering

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

  Rachel Dolezal

  Law, Justice, Enforcement

  "Former NAACP leader in Washington state could face firing from police panel". www.businessinsider.com. June 18, 2015.

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• I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional. It costs an obscene amount of money.

  Gil Garcetti

  Cost, Death Penalty, Penalties

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• ISIL presents a growing threat not only in Syria and Iraq, but throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and now in the United States as well. Terrorists and their enablers will continue to receive the unwavering attention of law enforcement and the intelligence community.

  Devin Nunes

  Europe, Law, Iraq

  "6 indicted in alleged plot to support ISIS, Al Qaeda". www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2015.

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• For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death.

  James Frey

  Believe, Years, Punishment

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• We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to go around. The people involved in protecting those elephants, like rangers on the ground, are so under-resourced. They have very few vehicles, they have very poor weapons (if any weapons at all), and they are treated as the bottom of the tree when it comes to law enforcement priority.

  Allen Crawford

  Law, Elephants, People

  "Crawford Allen. Senior Director. Traffic. World Wildlife Fund". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.

  John R. Dunne

  New York, Regret, Favors

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