Quotes About Enforcement

Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there's reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm.

A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician.

We are neither prepared to deal with dubious companies nor have the mechanism for swift investigation. What's more we don't even have a culture, which imposes stringent, debilitating and deterrent punishment on wrong doers.

In the case of non-signatory states like Syria and Iraq, the U.N. Security Council is mandated with enforcement of the International Criminal Court's jurisdictions in matters of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

I do not think that we have a systemic racism problem with law enforcement officers across this country.

When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Fashion is not a government, is not political; and yet it mantles the world much the way religion does. It includes and enforces its own rules, liturgies, disciplines. It has its own territories, its own language, its own hierarchy.

The law is simply human will, written down.

If nobody's losing money or getting hurt, the law doesn't give a fuck.

We call such a prohibition a curfew, a word derived from Norman French covre le feu: "cover the fire!

Once you wake up, as Jesus and Pope Francis have, you know that cleaning up is a constant process that comes on different timetables for different people, around many different issues, and for very different motivations. This is why love and growth demand discernment, not enforcement.

When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?

Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.

The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute.

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

What are politicians going to tell people when the Constitution is gone and we still have a drug problem?

Nothing is more frightening than a law that has never been enforced. When the authorities want to throw someone in jail, all they have to do is suddenly arrest him for breaking a law that no one has bothered to obey yet.

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It is the unrepentant worship of statistics that forms the true orthodoxy of any modern police department.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.