Chesa Boudin Quotes

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

Victims have a right to be heard and be involved in the process … Traditional Navajo law gives them the right to be made whole.

One of my priorities is giving victims the right to choose different paths to restoration and to healing. It's prioritizing having restitution available for economic harm, having victim services for the trauma and also recognizing that victims are far more than simply pieces of evidence to be used in order to secure a lengthy prison sentence.

We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.

The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

Our laws must protect victims.

For far too long, victims' rights have been discussed only in the context of sentencing. Sentencing is very important, but the debate obscures something much more fundamental: most victims have so little faith in our criminal justice system that they do not access it at all.

We need to have a system whereby, when a victim walks into a police station, she can be confident that she will be believed and that every effort will be made find evidence to support her in court.

All victims deserve justice.

I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.

I'm not asking victims to change their behavior. I'm asking perpetrators not to commit crimes.

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

Back in 2003, when I was home secretary, I introduced the victim surcharge on offenders to substantially expand the support available and, I hoped, the protection of witnesses who were brave enough to come forward.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

Let’s open our hearts to [crime] victims and their families and give them something more than vengeance.

Different victims, different survivors of different crimes will choose to pursue different paths. And hopefully, over time, we can collectively transform our culture into one that prioritizes healing and prevention instead of simply focusing on punishment.

There will be occasions when someone has suffered a crime where it is either obvious that they are not looking for an investigation or that there are no investigative opportunities and you just have to be up front about that.

What does justice look like for a survivor? It'll mean different things to different communities.

There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue - those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS - but they remain strangely silent.

Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?