Law Enforcement Quotes - Page 12

• Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.

  Eric Holder

  Law, Long, Enforcement

  "Eric Holder seeks to cut mandatory minimum drug sentences" by Dan Merica, Evan Perez, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2013.

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• But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Friendship, Marriage, Police

  "Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers".

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• The FBI is unique in that it straddles both law enforcement and counterintelligence.

  James R. Clapper

  Unique, Fbi

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Senator Cruz has also strongly condemned the terrorist attacks in Brussels, and yesterday put out this statement saying, quote, "that we need to empower law enforcement to patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized".

  Sean Hannity

  Empowering, Terrorist, Neighborhood

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I worked when I was Congress on a second chance act. We have got to do a better job recognizing and correcting the errors in the system that do reflect on institutional bias in criminal justice. But what - what - what Donald Trump and I are saying is let's not have the reflex of assuming the worst of men and women in law enforcement. We truly do believe that law enforcement is not a force for racism or division in our country.

  Mike Pence

  Country, Believe, Men

  "Transcript: VP debate at Longwood University". www.nytimes.com. October 5, 2016.

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• The more able we are to keep guns out the hand so criminals and spouse abusers all - the better. So the more information we have the better for law enforcement perspective.

  James Comey

  Gun, Perspective, Spouse

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't think young black men, or anybody, should get a criminal record for low-level use. You know, I don't think that we should spend our law enforcement time jailing or imprisoning marijuana users. But to solve that problem, you don't need to go to the other extreme of creating Big Tobacco 2.0. Make no mistake about it: Legalization is not about, you know, Cheech & Chong smoking marijuana or, you know, a Grateful Dead concert; it's about creating the next Marlboro of our time, the next Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, the Big Tobacco all over again.

  Kevin Sabet

  Mistake, Grateful, Marijuana

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Another reform I`m proposing is the passage of legislation named for Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, two law enforcement officers recently killed by a previously deported illegal immigrant. The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed. And they will go fast, believe me. They`re going to go.

  Donald Trump

  Believe, Cooperation, Authority

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In a Donald Trump administration, all immigration laws will be enforced. As with any law enforcement activity, we will set priorities. But unlike Barack Obama administration, no one will be immune or exempt from enforcement.

  Donald Trump

  Priorities, Immigration, Barack

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I think Donald Trump now thinks it`s time for Jeff Sessions to resign. There was a reporting that suggested that when Trump first voiced his exasperation with Sessions, that Sessions made it clear to Trump that if Trump wanted his resignation, he would offer it. It seems to me now Trump is sending a pretty clear signal that what he wants is Jeff Sessions to resign, and it`s also pretty clear to me he`s now at war with everyone in the world of justice and law enforcement in the administration.

  John Heilemann

  War, Thinking, Justice

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• I would suggest to you, what we need to do is assert a stronger leadership at the national level to support law enforcement.

  Mike Pence

  Support, Stronger

  "Expanding the Debate: Ajamu Baraka Spars with Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special–Part 2", www.democracynow.org. October 5, 2016.

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• Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation.

  Mike Pence

  Community, Law And Order

  "Expanding the Debate: October 4th Vice-Presidential Debate", www.democracynow.org. October 4, 2016.

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• Apparently we've got open borders. We've got people in this country all over the place that could be part of cells. After 9/11 happened, you have to understand, leadership and law enforcement after 9/11, they really got reamed for doing a horrible job of preventing it when in many people's minds it was preventable.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, People, Mind

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Since September 11th, federal terrorism investigations have resulted in charges against more than 400 suspects, and more than half those charged have been convicted. Federal, state, and local law enforcement have used the Patriot Act to break up terror cells in New York and Oregon and Virginia and in Florida. We've prosecuted terrorist operatives and supporters. These efforts have not always made the headlines but they've made communities safer. The Patriot Act has accomplished exactly what it was designed to do.

  George W. Bush

  Effort, Community, September 11

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Unless you've ever been a law enforcement officer or a prosecutor handling a difficult homicide case, you cannot know what it's like to launch the type of investigation and come to the right conclusion.

  Angela Corey

  Difficult, Conclusion, Homicide

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• I love the president Donald Trump. He supports law enforcement and I'm very humbled. I said publicly, recently, pardon or no pardon, I will be with him until the end.

  Joe Arpaio

  Support, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.

  Raymond Kelly

  Police, Crime, Committed

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• Those who heralded the decision not to give law enforcement the tools necessary to protect the American people just simply don't see the world the way we do.

  George W. Bush

  People, Giving, Decision

  "Bush: Democrats wrong on Iraq", edition.cnn.com. August 21, 2006.

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• We kind of reduce our responsibility to not saying the N-word and to condemning the Klansmen, rather than saying many of our celebrated institutions are systemically racist. Many of our institutions that deal with law enforcement or controlling the bodies of Black people are systemically racist. Many of our educational institutions are systemically racist. Many of our corporate institutions are systemically racist. We don't have those conversations, so things don't change.

  Nate Parker

  Educational, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The president has a duty and a right to oversee the FBI, and you know, he properly delegate the law enforcement to the FBI and try to insulate it from politics. But that's not to curb the president's authority over the FBI. So if he wants to meet with the FBI and give his opinion or even talk about his hopes, if indeed, he said that, he has every right to do so.

  Laura Ingraham

  Giving, Trying, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Isn't it a little strange the FBI director has a private conversation with the president. Instead of saying to the president, Mr. President, you're new to this job. You're not a legal law enforcement guy. What you're saying is inappropriate to me.

  Christopher Ruddy

  Guy, President, Strange

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Lots of people commit crimes and don't get arrested. That's not the measure. But if you're going to be the president of the United States, we're reasonably going to put you under a microscope. And Donald Trump's tax behavior is absolutely important to understanding, is he qualified, is he morally fit, is he capable, is he trustworthy to have everything from the powers of federal law enforcement to the nuclear codes?

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Understanding, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would like to think that the level of aggressiveness in law enforcement will remain the same, when you're talking about things like keeping the markets fair and government honest. I don't foresee any departure from that, unless I'm missing something big.

  Preet Bharara

  Thinking, Missing, Honest

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• That's an incredibly serious thing if people think that the president of the United States can tell heads of law enforcement agencies, based on his own whim or his own personal preferences or friendships, that they should or should not pursue particular criminal cases against individuals. That's not how America works.

  Preet Bharara

  Thinking, People, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Obstruction, basically, is whether you corruptly influence, obstruct or impede the administration of justice. You tell a chief law enforcement officer get, you know, back off my friend - or I hope you back off my friend and then when he doesn't, you fire him, clearly, that isn't - that is - fits the behavior of obstruction. The question of whether or not you can prosecute the president is open.

  Keith Ellison

  Justice, President, Influence

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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