Quotes About Misconduct

The effect of persistent, pervasive corporate misconduct is to promote public distrust of power-holders in general. From Superpower's vantage point public cynicism, far from being deplorable, is one more element contributing to political demoralization and languor.

Don't be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.

The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or kidnap, or throw vitriol, is not only to limit social responsibility unnecessarily, and to privilege the large range of intolerable misconduct that lies outside them, but to divert attention from the essential justification for extermination, which is always incorrigible social incompatibility and nothing else.

Presidents have, of course, acted inappropriately in the past, and our constitutional system has a framework in place for addressing misconduct by the chief executive. But it's designed to deal with straightforward criminal activity, not national security threats.

They were deaf to disaffection, blind to the alternative ideas it gave rise to, blandly impervious to challenge, unconcerned by the dismay at their misconduct and the rising wrath at their misgovernment, fixed in refusal to change, almost stupidly stubborn in maintaining a corrupt existing system. They could not change it because they were part of it, grew out of it, depended on it.

Our State Senate must lead by example, restore trust and transparency, stop sweeping workplace misconduct under the rug, and do everything we can to protect women who work in and around the Capitol.

Honestly, years ago, it was acceptable to have all kinds of workplace misconduct. So many women were being harassed by loser guys in the workplace. That doesn't work anymore. The world has changed.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

Even good doctors can go bad, and when they do, colleagues tend to be almost entirely unequipped to do anything about them.

My thesis is that through most of American history, the Court has usually refused to impose constitutional checks on police or to provide adequate remedies for police misconduct. Instead, it has created a series of legal rules that fail to protect citizens' constitutional rights and that facilitate and even encourage racist policing.

Congress should eliminate absolute immunity for prosecutorial misconduct and for police officers who commit perjury.

Congress also should change the federal civil rights statute, 42 U.S. Code Section 1983, to hold cities liable for the misconduct of their police officers.

Inappropriate behavior makes me laugh.

I've experienced harassment. I've had male comedians be very inappropriate.

Wo alle schuldig sind, ist es keiner; gegen die Entdeckung der wirklich Schuldigen und Verantwortlichen, die Mißstände abstellen könnten, gibt es keinen besseren Schutz als kollektive Schuldbekenntnisse

there's even a word—testilying—for the perjured testimony that an officer gives in court when he's covering up for his own or another officer's misconduct during an investigation.

Nelles explained that its inmates "could be divided into three groups": "those who are feeble-minded," those "of sound mind whose delinquency is associated with some form of misunderstanding or neglect," and "those who wrong-doing has become habitual and who are intentionally, deliberately, and willfully guilty of misconduct.

Nobody can negate the fact that there is a section - not only in media but in every field - which indulge in wrong things.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

Greater transparency is the easiest and simplest solution to prevent officers who have previously been in trouble from getting new jobs. That's why we must create a national registry of police misconduct and disciplinary actions.

Corruption should be investigated. I wont be First!

As of this writing, twenty-six women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, including rape, since the 1970s. The allegations didn't stifle his growing presence.

There is this peculiar blind spot in the culture of academic medicine around whether withholding trial results is research misconduct. People who work in any industry can reinforce each others' ideas about what is okay.

That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.