Wilhelm von Humboldt Quotes

You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.

If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place.

Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

Give the park police more ammo.

Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.

Where are the cops when you need them? (Nick) Probably eating beignets. As the old saying goes, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away. (Caleb)

We have to know what we're doing. Right now, our police, in many cases, are afraid to do anything.

I will work with local police and appoint the best prosecutors and federal investigators, whose mission will be to ensure every American is safe.

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

Arming domestic police forces with paramilitary weaponry will ensure their systematic use even in the absence of a terrorist attack on US soil; they will simply find other, increasingly permissive uses for those weapons.

There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

[Ayn] Rand accepts that when she supports military conscription, even indirectly. Also, she starts her politics from the premise that the State must have police power. She fails to take into account the inevitability that once you start with police power you're going to have a police State.