Quotes About Enforcement

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.

It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

Police do not belong in war zones.

And the law required enforcement, and that was where control came in. Without the control to enforce the contract, chaos reigned. The power that controlled needed to be greater than the people – otherwise they would challenge it.

We do not have a secure border on our southern flank.

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

Agencies and the executive branch need to enforce the law. They don't need to fill in the spaces if Congress doesn't act.

The Thunderhead sees just about everything, what with cameras everywhere. But it also decides what infractions are worth the effort to address and which ones are not.

Nothing that is against the law ever ceases to exist.

They need a social mechanism to make us require conformity of one other, and the best way to do that is to provide a mechanism to make us punish our own deviants.

Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis

The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.

Because of the failure of the federal government to enforce federal law, we now have 'banks too big to fail,' unregulated Internet monopoly, and the evisceration of a dispersed and independent media.

The judge punishes lawbreakers as a burning house injures its occupants. A person may be burned to death while robbing a home or saving a friend. Similarly, from a moral point of view, the judge's work is good or evil, depending on whether the laws he enforces are good or evil.

President Franklin Pierce, determined to demonstrate the federal government's resolve to enforce the act, dispatched 2,000 soldiers to Boston to recapture a single fugitive.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

this administration will not tolerate frivolous asylum claims or illegal entry.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

As in previous industrial revolutions, regulation will play a decisive role in the adaptation and diffusion of new technologies. However, governments will be forced to change their approach when it comes to the creation, revision and enforcement of regulation. In the "old world," decision makers had enough time to study a specific issue and then create the necessary response or appropriate regulatory framework.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

Unlike in 1981, when Reagan had indicated that treatment for addicts was the route he would take, his speeches and policies now became focused on enforcement, criminals, and harsh, no-mercy punishment.

Laws should be made of iron, not pudding.