“No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.” PeopleShouldWarStatesGovernmentLawOrderResultsCommonBecomingPoliticianDrugShould HavePoliceSafetyResponseLocalsAgencyPrivacyAmendmentsFourthUnlimitedLaw EnforcementRuinedEnforcementJustifiedViolationAssertionBecoming MoreWar On DrugsNarcoticsUnlimited PowerRight To PrivacyFourth AmendmentInformants Author:James Bovard
“There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers.” PeopleMeanDifferentBodyLostSidesMemoriesSawsTerriblePoliceResponseWorkersSavingOfficersRescueSeptemberSeptember 11Police OfficerIdentificationDifferent TimesFirefighterDevastationSeptember 11th Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I think that the response to the OJ Simpson trial was based on a kind of sensibility that emerged out of the many campaigns to defend black communities against police violence.” ThinkingKindBlackCommunityViolencePoliceResponseCampaignsTrialsSensibilityBlack CommunityPolice ViolenceOj Simpson Author:Angela Davis
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“I think one of the big problems we have got - and police tell me this - is most police don't know how to deal with mental health problems. And so we need better mental health response.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsProblemBigsDealsKnow HowPoliceMental HealthResponseBig ProblemsHealth Problems Author:Hillary Clinton
“You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.” PeopleWarYoungPovertyProgramPoliceAngryResponseVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityInsufficient Author:Danny Glover
“When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental health trauma is different from somebody breaking into a store. Those are not the same things, and our response has to be different.” DifferentPoliceMental HealthResponseTrauma Author:Deray McKesson
“In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of the car and policing corners - they're on a job slowdown, basically. Right now if the police stopped being brutal, if we got police shooting under control, and the use of excessive force, if we have a meaningful societal response to all that stuff, and the racism that underlies it, the question still remains: what are they policing, and why?” CarRacismPoliceResponseMeaningfulBrutal Author:David Simon
“Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.” StatesNaturalViolenceArmyPoliceResponseAbundanceCommodityMonopolyDetachmentUnnaturalInhumanLooting Book:Situationism: A Compendium Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.” WorldCountryOrderWorstCrimeOfficePoliceCamerasResponseExtraordinaryBoundsSpeedViolentLazyOffensiveViolent Crimes Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence.” SilenceCarPoliceResponseLawyerRightPullingEverythingUnarmedOverAfterAreaStationInformRecordingClearlyUsingStoppedAppointFederalUnexpectedlyPopulatedPolitely Author:Steven Magee
“The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner said he was going to leave a dictionary on a public bench so the vandals could at least spell the obscenities correctly.” HumorFunnyMarkPoliceResponsePaintLearnRudeLaughLeadLessonSearchSpellingObsceneGraffitiCorrectSpellVandalismInvestigateStatementDeclareOwnerSuggestionSuggestVandal Book:Marked in Flesh Source: Marked in Flesh