Don Winslow Quotes

The justice system is confused in trying to understand it, but frankly, if it paid attention to the really blatant cases and did a good job with that, we would be light years ahead of where we are now.

The role of the federal prosecutor and the purpose of a criminal investigation are well-defined.

You go to traffic court in many locations throughout the country, and you can spell justice - J-U-S-T dash U-S. Just us.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

The players in the promotion business today are, by and large, not in it for the art anymore. It's all about how many bucks can you make on a concert.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.

If you're dealing with criminals, they're not going to want to go to court.

There are reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just.

They got the judges / They got the lawyers / They got the jury rolls / They got the law / They don’t come by ones. / They got the sheriffs / They got the deputies / They don’t come by twos. / They got the shotguns / They got the rope / We git the justice / In the end / And they come by tens.

All lawyers are the natural enemies of the police.

The experience of being a prosecutor gives us a sort of proctologists view of our society.

It is easier to learn to fly by flapping one's arms than it is to get a district attorney to admit having sent an innocent person to prison.

People who make off with large sums of money escape justice or get insignificant sentences, while the thief who steals a handbag … gets six years…. In the United States, Nixon quit for far less.

The net of law is spread so wide, No sinner from its sweep may hide. Its meshes are so fine and strong They take in every child of wrong. O wondrous web of mystery ! Big fish alone escape from thee !

We have far more plea bargains in our system than we do trials.

The prosecutor has more control over life, liberty, and reputation than any other person in America.

The justice system [in Mexico] is totally inoperative…. 2 percent of all crime is someone put in jail. How bad is that?

America today is becoming a Prosecutocracy. Prosecutors have the power when over 97 percent of the convictions are without trial.

Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go to trial.

At the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, I worked as an Outreach and Re-entry Coordinator and an Assistant U.S. Attorney. I have seen the best of our law enforcement community and the commitment that they have made to the public's safety. But I've also seen too many examples of where our system falls desperately short.