Criminal justice Quote by David Lammy

Stop and search has a controversial history and has not always been carried out professionally by individual officers. Liberal-minded people are right to be…

— Munira Mirza

Race determines everything in the criminal justice system

— Mark Geragos

Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop…

— Michelle Alexander

Ultimately, we must either abandon our reliance on stop and search or abandon any hope for a criminal justice system grounded in equality, impartiality…

— David Lammy

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

— Yance Ford

When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of personal space, privacy and self…

— Henry Rollins

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

— Blanche Lincoln

Racial profiling has to stop.

— Bobby Rush

“In the years since Terry [v. Ohio], stops, interrogations, and searches of ordinary people driving down the street, walking home from the bus stop,…

— Michelle Alexander

The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap.…

— Barack Obama

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

— John Roberts

“We have a racially based justice system that overpunishes, fails to rehabilitate, and doesn't make us safer.”

— Piper Kerman