Defenders Quote by Ayelet Waldman

I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because…

— N. K. Jemisin

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

— Alfred Hitchcock

I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with…

— Jordan Peele

Federal public defenders don't get to pick their clients. They have to represent whoever comes in. And it's a service.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

To be sure, police do a dangerous job and take tremendous personal risks to safeguard the public. Most officers just want to do their…

— Joy Reid

If you grow up in a certain place where you are afraid of the police, it definitely does something to your decisions, how you…

— Jamie-Lee O'Donnell

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no…

— Ice T

Most criminal defendants do not get adequate representation because there are not enough public defenders to represent them. There is a lot that is…

— John Grisham

The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.

— Peter James

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

I was a federal public defender during the most important years of the drug war. I saw people go to jail for nothing, and…

— Ayelet Waldman

Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore…

— Heather Brooke