“The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the investigation. All this activity sent a signal to Condit. If he didn't play ball, he might find himself called to testify before a grand jury under oath.” IfsPlayMightReadyActivityOfficeToolsBallsPoliceInvestigationVeteranSignalsOathJuryIntimidationFormidableProsecutorHomicideGrand Jury Author:Wolf Blitzer
“A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?” PeopleIfsLostPresidentJusticeCasesSupportSpecialColorBrokenCitizensPoliceCriminalsOfficersPortionsCiviliansPolice OfficerJustice SystemAmerican CitizensCriminal JusticeProsecutorCriminal Justice SystemLost Confidence Author:Russell Simmons
“In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?” PeopleFeelsYearsFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoMomentsBigsYoungBlackPresidentJusticeCitiesKeysPoliceElectionCourtChiefsAfrican AmericanLeagueDepartmentVotersBoastAttorneyMayorsBig CitiesProsecutorReelection Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“We all hope that the police and prosecutors are objective. That's their job, but sometimes it's not true.” SometimesJobsPoliceObjectivesProsecutor Author:John Ridley
“I would be immediately arrested by the British police and I would then be extradited either immediately to the United States or to Sweden. In Sweden I am not charged, I have already been previously cleared [by the Senior Stockholm Prosecutor Eva Finne]. We were not certain exactly what would happen there, but then we know that the Swedish government has refused to say that they will not extradite me to the United States we know they have extradited 100 per cent of people whom the U.S. has requested since at least 2000.” PeopleKnowsStatesGovernmentHappensWould BeCertainUnitedUnited StatesPoliceBritishCentsSeniorArrestedSwedenProsecutorSwedishStockholm Author:Julian Assange
“Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?” ShouldMadeSaidStatesWholeFactsFoundGivenNationsUnitedCasesCrimePoliceInnocentMade ItIllegalRhetoricUnited NationsAsylumsProsecutorSwedishEcuadorStockholm Author:Julian Assange
“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
“I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are not mutilated. Second, it once again sets up the feminist as the prosecutor of trans people. If there is any mutilation going on in this scene, it is being done by the feminist police force who rejects the lived embodiment of transwomen. That very accusation is a form of "mutilation" as is all transphobic discourse such as these.” PeopleIfsMenFirstsDoneFormForceSexBornScenePoliceFeministRejectsDiscourseTransAssignmentsEmbodimentAccusationBeing DoneProsecutorCharacterizationPolice ForceMutilation Author:Judith Butler
“The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police, probation officers, court clerks, the list goes on and on. Many predominately white rural communities have come to believe that their local economies depend on prisons for jobs.” PeopleBelieveJobsCommunityWhiteCompanyMillionsEconomyJudgingGoes OnDependsPoliceCourtPrisonComplexesDefenseListsLocalsOfficersConstructionAttorneyClerksProsecutorProbationRural CommunitiesDefense AttorneysPrison GuardsConstruction Company Author:Michelle Alexander
“Be critical of these institutions that we love, whether they be our sports teams or the criminal justice system. Be critical of what the police department is doing about sexual assault. Be critical of why prosecutors are not prosecuting sexual assault.” SportsJusticeTeamPoliceJustice SystemCriminal JusticeProsecutor Author:Andrea Pino
“When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.” PeopleAmericaJusticeTalkingJudgingToolsPoliceOfficersEstablishmentPolice OfficerProsecutorWardens Author:William Kunstler
“In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent.” StatesPercentPoliceIndependentIndependenceCourtMovedRussiaTroopsProsecutorChechnya Author:Vladimir Putin
“When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.” StatesRecordsMaterialsPoliceSignificantHolding OnIncumbentsProsecutor Author:Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing hall resembled more the grunting of pigs. One was less than a wolf: he was a public prosecutor. The other was more than a pig, he was a chief commissioner of police.” MenTwoSpeechPoliceTablesChiefsHallsPigsProsecutorCommissionersTwo Wolves Author:Jan Neruda
“On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are "solved" to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.” KnowsRealEndsHandsLeftResultsCrimeTelevisionEvidenceMurderPoliceSatisfactionConvictionReal LifeSufficientUncertainViewersProsecutor Author:Alan Dershowitz
“To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.” IfsMenShouldWritingMayBookGovernmentEyeImaginationMoralJudgingProductsGeniusOne DayPoliceArtisticCensorshipOriginalityMediocreJuryBansMillsAnother DayObsceneProsecutorVestsArbiterPlentifulJurors Author:Jerome Frank