The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They’d have retired me out at 65.

I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in all of human history.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I’m prepared to say that law enforcement should be allowed to seize the guns of those who are suspected to be involved in domestic terrorism.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Here’s what I believe, I think the FBI is the premier law enforcement agency in the history of the world but i think there was some bad apples over there.

Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Two million felons have tried to buy a gun and, because of the background check, have been denied.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Over the course of my career in law enforcement, I have witnessed over and over again the selflessness and sacrifice of law enforcement who lay their lives on the line every day to protect people who they will never meet and people who will never know their names.

When you go to your local police officer, your police chief in the town you live in, big or small, he will tell you the vast majority of the weapons recovered at a crime scene are either stolen weapons, and/or they have been ‚lost‘ or stolen.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Ninety-nine percent of the men and women of the FBI… are just professionals. I don’t want Americans, if an FBI agent knocks on their door, to have to be worried about well, is he a Democrat or a Republican? He’s an FBI agent.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

The majority of my interactions with police were not good. There were a few good ones who were actually protecting the community. But then you have ones from the Valley. They never met me in their life, but since I’m a kid in basketball shorts and a white T-shirt, they wanna slam me on the hood of the car. Sixteen years old.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

Let the punishments of criminals be useful. A hanged man is good for nothing; a man condemned to public works still serves the country, and is a living lesson.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was the big, feared organization. He was ahead of his time as far as building up forensic evidence and fingerprinting. But he took down a lot of innocent people, too.

I’m a felon. I get pulled over all the time.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

The FBI should not be a political body.

‚Getting smart on crime‘ does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.