Behave Quote by Ludwig von Mises

The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will.

— Vermin Supreme

“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

“If it doesn't matter how the police -- the system -- treats you, does it matter how you treat them?”

— Wesley Lowery

“The law is clear, but the situation has to do with the enforcement. Laws are used when the good people want something done for…

— David J. Kirk

“The state must answer these questions, too, but whatever it does, it does it without being subject to the profit-and-loss criterion. Hence, its action…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

— Bernie Sanders

“The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as…

— Steven Pinker

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

— Greg Boyle

We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want…

— Don Winslow

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

— Murray Rothbard

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

— James Duane