“We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.” IfsTwoImportantSocialHoursCommonWorryMediaMajorsPoliceTrainSocial MediaCommon SenseStationsBusClosingRiotTrain Stations Author:Louise Mensch
“From that point on, the extraordinary system of spies and informers which has played an important part in the political work of the French state into our own time took shape. (Sartine, who became lieutenant general de police in 1759, is supposed to have said to Louis XV, "Sire, when three people are chatting in the street one of them is surely my man.") Eighteenth-century police manuals like those of Colquhoun in England or Lemaire in France are no less than general treatises on the government's full repertoire of domestic regulation, coercion, and surveillance.” PeopleMenSaidImportantStatesGovernmentPoliticalThreeStreetsCenturyShapesEnglandPoliceExtraordinaryFrancePrivacyRegulationSpyCoercionSurveillanceManualsLieutenantsChattingInformers Book:The Formation of national States in Western Europe Source: The Formation of national States in Western Europe
“In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.” SaidTwoImportantLastsAbilityWeekInternetProtectThirdsPolicePhonesPartnersPreservesPrivacyFree SpeechChipsPollsPhone CallsCnn Author:Philip Elmer-DeWitt
“I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.” ThinkingBelieveImportantGovernmentI BelieveInterestConflictBehaviorPoliceIndependentExcuseAgencyDepartmentInvestigatingConflict Of InterestPolice DepartmentMisconductGovernment Agencies Author:Bernie Sanders
“Following the attacks in Paris, French President François Hollande has a completely different set of concerns. France needs more police, more security personnel and a greater emphasis on integration. He says that security is more important than the Stability Pact.” NeedsImportantDifferentPresidentGreaterSecurityConcernPoliceFollowingFranceParisStabilityIntegrationEmphasisPersonnelPact Author:Martin Schulz
“I've worked hard on my doctorate, and I want to be acknowledged for that. But I also wanted to comment on this message that women get that the most important thing they can do is police their appearance.” WantImportantHardWantedCan DoMessagesPoliceImportant ThingsAppearanceCommentDoctorates Author:Alissa Nutting
“I think that some of today's focus on freedom of information and trans rights have a tendency to focus on the actions of individuals and how they should be regulated by governments. However, I think it's important to remember that it is the institutions themselves - schools, tax collection services, banks, human resources decisions, health departments, police departments, prosecutors, courts, and prisons - where the most devastating and systemic problems occur today. The scale of these problems is simply unimaginable.” ThinkingShouldHumansImportantProblemGovernmentTodayActionSchoolRememberIndividualDecisionFocusRightsInformationTaxesResourcesPoliceInstitutionsCourtPrisonScalesTendenciesDepartmentCollectionsTransHuman ResourcesUnimaginableProsecutorPolice Department Author:Chelsea Manning
“Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion - issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.” HumansHas BeensImportantFoundLeftSocialIssuesRightsStreetsSecurityMilitaryWallConcernedAbusePoliceWingsLibertarianCampaignsCivil RightsFirmCorporationsVotingActivistSocial SecurityHighwaysRight WingBrethrenTollsRight To VoteCrusadesHuman FreedomSubordination Author:Michael Lind
“In Boston where community policing is so important, they don't necessarily have to like each other, but they know each other. The cops in Boston make it their business to get out of their vehicles, to engage the public, to walk around the neighborhoods. They live in the community that they police. And I think these things help.” ThinkingKnowsImportantHelpingCommunityWalksPoliceNeighborhoodVehicleCopBoston Author:Jeff Ross
“It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to have people in parade ground formations. You're not going to have a police state. You're not going to people with decorative armbands bullying people on the sidewalks. And the leaders won't stand at microphones for hours ranting at people. All of that is so 80 years ago.” PeopleYearsLooksDoeImportantStatesHoursLeaderCenturyYears AgoPoliceBullying21st Century20th CenturyFormationParadesMicrophonesSidewalkPolice StatePeople Lie Author:David Frum
“I feel that we have, as Mexicans, two things: one, a natural distrust of institutions. I hate organised religion, I hate organised politics, I hate the idea of the military and the police. Because we grew up distrusting all these sacred institutions, the only thing you have left is a vague, national sense of impending doom. Why do we drink and how are we so merry? Because we know that pretty soon, our time's up. There is a sense of fatality that makes us pretty chirpy people. You try to live. The only reason that dying is important is that it gives life sense.” PeopleGivingTryingImportantReasonHateNaturalDyingMilitaryDrinkI HatePoliceDistrustDoom Author:Guillermo del Toro
“I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.” ThinkingWantBelieveImportantI BelieveModernPoliceFlexibleWorkforce Author:Theresa May
“On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.” PeopleKnowsImportantHelpingHandsImaginationViolenceGunPoliceCaptureEqualizer Author:Bobby Seale
“The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult.” ImportantJobsForceDifficultTrainingTasksPoliceOperationsPolice Force Author:John Boehner
“Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as Creative Love that awaits.” WantFirstsImportantInspirationFaithCreativePoliceChristian InspirationalCreative Love Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“The style police think that what we look like is more important than anything, and it is their job to seek out and punish those who break their own fashion rules” ThinkingLooksImportantJobsBreakFashionStylePoliceBody Image Author:Kaz Cooke
“If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany those in their charge. Dialogue must be serious, without fear, sincere. It is important to recall that the language of young people in formation today is different from that in the past: we are living through an epochal change. Formation is a work of art, not a police action. We must form their hearts. Otherwise we are creating little monsters. And then these little monsters mold the People of God. This really gives me goose bumps.” PeopleIfsGivingHeartLittlesArtImportantDifferentTodayActionPastFormYoungLanguageCommunitySeriousOughtCreatingGive MePoliceMonstersDialogueWorks Of ArtSincereDividedRecallsMoldFormationBumpsGeeseAccompanySeminary Author:Pope Francis
“The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.” Has BeensImportantPastForceMilitaryPolicePopulationCatastrophePolice Force Author:Otto Schily
“When placing an emergency call, it is important to remember that a corrupt or incompetent cop may be on their way to you.” WayMayImportantRememberLawPoliceCopEnforcementSheriffCorruptIncompetentCallWhenEmergencyPlacing Author:Steven Magee
“It is important to notify the police that you may be in a dangerous situation until you can remove yourself from that dangerous environment.” ImportantSituationEnvironmentDangerousPoliceRemoveYourselfUntilNotify Author:Steven Magee
“It is important to obtain police reports, video and audio recordings after an encounter with the police, as it often reveals information you were not aware of.” ImportantInformationPoliceEncounterObtainRecordingsPolice ReportsNot Aware OfOften RevealsVideo And Audio Author:Steven Magee