“Jesus liberated us from religion. Jesus taught simple religious practices over major theorizing. The only thoughts Jesus told us to police were our own: our own negative thoughts, our own violent thoughts, our own hateful thoughts-not other people's thoughts.” PeopleThinkingJesusReligiousSimplePracticeTaughtMajorsNegativePoliceViolentHatefulLiberatedNegative ThoughtsReligious Practices Author:Richard Rohr
“The men who are to protect the community against violent aggression easily turn into the most dangerous aggressors. They transgress their mandate. They misuse their power for the oppression of those whom they were expected to defend against oppression. The main political problem is how to prevent the police power from becoming tyrannical. This is the meaning of all the struggles for liberty.” MenProblemPoliticalTurnsCommunityLibertyStruggleDangerousHe ManBecomingProtectPoliceExpectedViolentOppressionAggressionMandatesMisuseAggressorsPolice Power Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can go around saying they're all so violent, just throw them in jail, this is an underclass, what can you do? You can create fear. The issue of violence is very suitable for a repressive society. Then you can have more legislation, more police, more laws to fight crime, when all you need to do is to encourage people in a different way.” PeopleIfsMenWayNeedsWellsDifferentLawYoungFightingIssuesViolenceCrimeMen And WomenPoliceAngryViolentDifferent WaysYoung ManJailEducateLegislationSuitable Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I once went to a demonstration in Aachen against fare increases on public transport. A police officer pulled out a bunch of my hair, and there were a lot of violent beatings. That's when I thought to myself: You'd better leave it alone.” HairIncreasePoliceViolentBunchOfficersDemonstrationTransportPolice Officer Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi
“Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.” WellsSchoolNamesParentKnownTeacherEffectsSeriousProductsStandardsPolicePunishmentViolentApathySpouseWell KnownWithdrawalSullenVandalismTruancy Author:B. F. Skinner
“I think the Occupy movement will, or at least should, become a protean movement of ideas, as well as action, where the element of surprise remains with the protesters. We need to preserve the element of an intellectual ambush and a physical manifestation that takes the government and the police by surprise. It has to keep re-imagining itself, because holding territory may not be something the movement will be allowed to do in a state as powerful and violent as the United States.” ThinkingNeedsShouldWellsMayIdeasStatesGovernmentActionUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesMovementElementsIntellectualPoliceRemainsSurpriseViolentPreservesManifestationTerritoryAmbushElement Of SurpriseOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“The murder clearance rate now in my city Baltimore is almost non-existent. Nobody can solve a murder, nobody can do any actual police work, because they've learned how to do bad police work, chase drugs. Fighting vice, while being unable to respond to sin. Generations of cops have learned how not to police work by policing the drug war. Not only are they police brutal, they're ineffective. Baltimore is more violent than it has ever been in modern history.” WarFightingSinModernDrugMurderPoliceRateViolentCopBrutalWar On Drugs Author:David Simon
“A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.” PeopleIfsSelfGovernmentForceEssentialsFairsPoliceCourtViolentDecentBullyDefencePsychopathPolice ForceSelf DefenceCourt SystemHotheads Author:Steven Pinker
“Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous.” MayDangerousCrimePoliticianPoliceViolentSoccerThreatening Author:Peter Bruce
“Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.” NightFightingDarkCitiesPoliceBlueTrainViolentHeatBombsZeroCagesThrillersPackingGaudyMadhousesDark City Author:Trent Jamieson
“If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.” IfsDoeCan DoCrimeTaughtJudgingPoliceVictimViolentJurySelf DefenseShooterSelf DefenceViolent CrimesFelons Book:Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition Source: Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition
“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
“Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to be small-caliber handguns. Moreover, gun ownership has increased over the past 20 years — the same period in which both the violent crime rate and the killing of police officers have been in decline.” YearsHas BeensPastUsedJusticeStudyCrimePeriodsGunPoliceKillingRateIncludingViolentDepartmentOfficersDeclineOwnershipMultipleOver The PastPolice OfficerHomicideHandgunsCaliberViolent CrimesCrime RatesGun Ownership Author:Radley Balko
“It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconscious convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.” FactsUseFightingPoliceConvincedProofViolentTyrannyDoctrineOppressionSubconsciousAdversariesCorrectnessRecourseHangman Author:Ludwig von Mises