Rahm Emanuel Quotes

The most personal thing I've put in [Touch of Evil] is my hatred of the abuse of police power. It's better to see a murderer go free than for a policeman to abuse his power.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

I'M CONFUSED, because I don't know why it's so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don't know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

I think that there are a lot of law enforcement officers out there who work according to their own set of what is right and what is wrong. And that doesn't always include respect for administration cops, you know, people that are higher up the food chain.

Men in authority tend to abuse it – not all men, but many.

It is monstrous that courts should aid or abet the law-breaking police officer.

[A] privilege takes flight when abused.

Men are never very wise in the exercise of a new power.

The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse

The public has been much abused, the time of legislative bodies uselessly consumed and the rights of citizens ruthlessly invaded under the now familiar pretext of legislative investigation.

Absolute power should never be trusted to man. It has perverted the wisest heads, and corrupted the best hearts in the world. I should be afraid to commit my property, liberty and life to a body of angels for one whole year.

While our traditional authority has always been respected, sadly at times, it has also been abused.

The will of the nation" is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.

Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name.

Human experience long ago taught us that if we allow a man or group of men autocratic powers in government or church, that they use the powers to oppress and defraud the public..

It is especially jarring when police officers are the killers because they are an entity of the state itself, so when the state shows a lack of sensitivity, community members feel it is an obvious example of abuse..

Power is always dangerous. It attracts the worst and corrupts the best..

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

I still have admiration for the vast majority of police officers, but there is no denying that some are guilty of mistreating the people they are supposed to serve.

Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.

I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.

No one's pro-police brutality.

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.