Policing Quotes

39 quotes by 39 authors

Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs to buy, and… — Michele Bachmann
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely. — Napoleon Bonaparte
A code of ethics cannot be developed overnight by edict or official pronouncement. It is developed by years of practice and performance of duty according… — Silas L. Copeland
To blindly trust government is to automatically vest it with excessive power. To distrust government is simply to trust humanity - to trust in the… — James Bovard
We've given Iraq a chance. Now they need to stand on their own. This is a 1,400-year-old conflict, and unless we are prepared to bankrupt… — Rick Nolan
I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a… — David Collenette
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and exercise… — John Michael Sherlock
There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms. — Robert Reich
As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise,… — Neal A. Maxwell
Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it,… — James Q. Wilson
Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS… — Alan Mollohan
In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national… — Thomas Menino
No one can know how long this dumbing-down of American religion will persist. But so long as it does, citizens should probably be more vigilant… — Mark Lilla
We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing,… — Salman Khurshid
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and… — John Seabrook
This was a good example of the fascist policing of public discourse in this country by nominal liberals who have become as unthinkingly wedded to… — Camille Paglia
Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus… — Andy Sawford
I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from… — Ian Rankin
I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities. — Frank Vincent
I don't know much about international policing and I would love to learn more. Especially in this day and age when the Internet is rapidly… — Lisa Gardner

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