“[in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.” PeopleKnowsWayWantWritingI CanIdeasFactsPoliticalDecisionAnswersMoralWrittenLandFunctionPoliceCourtIntuitionHonestlyBehaveDepartmentTopicsBureaucracyPolitical SystemsPolice Department Author:James Q. Wilson
“In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.” SchoolTermMistakeFunctionMaking MistakesMonopolyPublic SchoolInsisting Author:James Q. Wilson
“I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.” WayMeanProblemLawSolutionsConsequenceFunctionPoliceSolveGenuineDiscussionNeighborhoodPartnershipLaw EnforcementEnforcementVenting Author:James Q. Wilson
