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Quotes About Enforcement

ni?an kurdelesini takm?? bir komiser art?k bir insan de?ildir, yasan?n so?uk, sa??r ve dilsiz heykelidir.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Law was always made by the few and in general for the purpose of preserving the existing order, or for the reestablishment of the old order and the punishment of the offenders against it.
~ Alfred Korzybski
It was clear from the start that they were not like other children, therefore Susanna felt she had no choice but to set down rules. No walking in the moonlight, no Ouija boards, no candles, no red shoes, no wearing black, no going shoeless, no amulets, no night-blooming flowers, no reading novels about magic, no cats, no crows, and no venturing below Fourteenth Street. Yet no matter how Susanna tried to enforce these rules, the children continued to thwart her.
~ Alice Hoffman
Nothing was stronger than the law! Now it seemed that fire was stronger still. Law alone, without enforcement, is just breath.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.
~ Joe Orton
Yet all over the United States—all over the world—police officers were noticing something strange. If you arrest a large number of rapists, the amount of rape goes down. If you arrest a large number of violent racists, the number of violent racist attacks goes down. But if you arrest a large number of drug dealers, drug dealing doesn't go down. Another
~ Johann Hari
The 1993 National Household Survey10 on Drug Abuse found that 19 percent of drug dealers were African American, but they made up 64 percent of the arrests for it.
~ Johann Hari
Professor Jeffrey Miron of Harvard University has studied the murder statistics and found that "statistical analysis shows consistently that higher [police] enforcement [against drug dealers] is associated with higher homicide, even controlling for other factors.
~ Johann Hari
The harder you crack down, the stronger the drugs become. The crackdown on cannabis in the 1970s triggered the rise of skunk and superskunk. The crackdown on powder cocaine in the early 1980s led to the creation of crack, a more compact form of the drug. Many drug users want and prefer the milder forms of their drug—but they can't get them under prohibition, so they are pressed onto harder drugs.
~ Johann Hari
1993, in the death throes of apartheid, South Africa imprisoned 853 black men per hundred thousand in the population. The United States imprisons 4,919 black men per hundred thousand (versus only 943 white men). So because of the drug war and the way it is enforced, a black man was far more likely to be jailed in the Land of the Free than in the most notorious white supremacist society in the world.
~ Johann Hari
The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.
~ Ray Lewis
The police department is a vast organization, and a detective is only an organization man.
~ Ed McBain
Apparently, some have forgotten that God, who killed sinners in the Old Testament, died for them in the New Testament. Unfortunately, legalistic Christians love spiritual law enforcement too much to make good New Testament believers. Legalism has never drawn a lost soul to Christ, and it never will. Love does! "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins" (1 Peter 4:8).
~ Eddie Smith
There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.
~ Edward Abbey
Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I don't think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move.
~ Edward Felten
The law is not concerned with trifles.
~ Anonymous
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing... everything else is just figure skating.
~ Anonymous
Yes, Officer, I did see the speed limit sign. I just didn't see you.
~ Anonymous
I don't like people who take drugs. Customs agents, for example.
~ Anonymous
Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
~ Anonymous
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier.
~ Paul Cellucci
In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
~ Barbara Demick
The police should be addressing car break-ins and burglaries and things like that. And increasingly what they're doing is providing social services. The majority of police are not trained in the provision of social services.
~ Ted Wheeler
I am committed to finding new revenue so that state agencies, like the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, can continue to provide essential public safety departments to Alabamians.
~ Robert J. Bentley