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“My considered professional opinion is that everyone should avoid invoking the assistance of any governmental agency at all costs. Even asking the tax people for assistance on a form might lead to an audit. Get private help.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“So in these cases, you will almost never go wrong by remembering the motto “No questions without counsel.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“there's never any reason to be mean or aggressive. It will never help you. Don't get smart.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Desmond Tutu”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“You know that only by ridding your department of the bad cops will the good cops ever shed the stigma placed upon them.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“Other things being even loosely equal, in a situation where no one should be arrested – meaning no one is in imminent danger of being sliced and diced – the one who calls the cops is the one most likely to be collared.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“a defendant seems clearly guilty yet receives a not-guilty verdict.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“It is depressing to have to report that most of these potential clients were not targeted by Big Brother because their high native intelligence was deemed a threat to the bureaucracy. No, most of them targeted themselves by asking the government for help.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“A simple explanation of a Terry Stop in the United States is "A brief detention of a person by police on reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminal activity but short of probable cause to arrest.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest; but the myth—persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. John F. Kennedy”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“If they have evidence to arrest you, they will. If they don't, you don't want to give them any reason to do so. It's no more complicated than that.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“Then there's the new militaristic style of policing embraced by so many departments across the nation.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“a defendant seems clearly guilty yet receives a not-guilty”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“The powerful impact of jury nullification was felt during the Prohibition Era when juries nullified alcohol-control laws as much as sixty percent of the time. It is argued that this resistance is what contributed to the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, establishing Prohibition in the first place.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“Never open your door and stand there talking.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“Government is not reason or eloquence. It is force. George Washington”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“According to Radley Balko's report “Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America,” the police in Sunrise, Florida, used the fact that Anthony Diotaiuto possessed a valid concealed carry permit as a reason to claim Diotaiuto was potentially dangerous. The police claimed this necessitated the involvement of a SWAT team in the raid of his home on the early morning of August 5, 2005. The raid ended with Diotaiuto dead. His bullet-riddled body was found in a closet.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“About the only thing which demonstrates less mental firepower than calling on the authorities for assistance in the first place is attracting their attention after they arrive.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
“there are readers who are uninformed about the pervasive expanse of law enforcement abuse and the vast extent of criminal justice system corruption.”
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
― Law and Disorder: Abuse, Corruption, and Misconduct in the American Criminal Justice System
