Nature Quote by Alex Vitale

Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal…

— D. Todd Christofferson

“ Law is not as disinterested as our concepts of law pretend; law serves power; law in large measure is a recapitulation of the…

— William Sloane Coffin

“the police are only doing what they were trained to do, and what they are constantly encouraged to do by the courts.”

— James Duane

We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.

— Michelle Alexander

“It may be that America is developing a whole new category of essentially social criminals … persons who threaten the police and the traditional social structure…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“Life in a police state magnifies the small mercies that it leaves alone until they become disproportionate to their significance; at the same time…

— Patrick McGuinness

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position…

— Frank Herbert

You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change? How do…

— Marian Wright Edelman

“The police, as servants of law, must be of a high order of integrity. For their word is perforce believed by the virtue of…

— Agatha Christie

“Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.”

— Steven Magee

“The police can be more corrupt than the criminals.”

— Steven Magee

It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole…

— Jacques Ellul