“Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate and incarceration rate both falling, we're at a moment when some good people in both parties, Republicans and Democrats and folks all across the country, are coming up with ideas to make the system work smarter and better.” PeopleYearsIdeasCountryMomentsLastsFallJusticePartyCrimeRepublicanRight NowDemocratRateFolksCriminalsGood PeopleSmarterJustice SystemCriminal JusticeIncarcerationCriminal Justice SystemCrime Rates Author:Barack Obama
“If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.” IfsLooksProblemAnswersRichCrimeRepublicanTaxesAssDumbDeficitPaying TaxesDumb Ass Author:Bill Maher
“There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.” MeanWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsCrimeRepublicanSoldierCongressCommittedGravesConventionsPenaltiesDeath PenaltyCommandersBreachWar CrimesGenevaGeneva Convention Author:Noam Chomsky
“U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy plot. First Republicans want to say that illegal aliens are illegal, next they're going to want to take away their voting rights.” WantTryingFirstsNextRightsCrimeRepublicanDemocratAliensVotingPlotIllegalConspiracyAccusedRight To VoteIllegal Aliens Author:Argus Hamilton
“I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.” PeopleIfsWantImportantWarRealGovernmentRunningSchoolStuffRealizingIssuesCrimeSeriousRepublicanGayDrugDemocratIraqArguingImmigrationNeighborhoodIllegalImprovingBetter PlaceCleaningGay MarriageAlabamaIllegal ImmigrationCleaning Up Author:Charles Barkley
“For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme.” ThinkingNeedsStrongDarknessCrimeArmsTrumpRepublicanSpeechCoreThemeConventionsStrong Arms Author:David Brooks
“The Democratic Party was always there on crime, but in the past we let the ideologues on the left dominate. The Republicans may still let the ideologues on the right dominate.” MayStillsPastLeftPartyCrimeRepublicanDemocraticDemocratic PartyIdeologues Author:Charles Schumer