Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

Michael Brown's death and the suffocation of Eric Garner in New York for selling untaxed cigarettes indicate something is wrong with criminal justice in America.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.

When I was a kid the police just whupped you. Today, they whup you, and then they arrest you in order to protect themselves.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.

In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so.

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

Either we need to redefine what probable cause means and say that police are not subject to it, or we arrest officers right away just as we would with any other person accused of committing a crime. Either we write new laws or enforce existing ones; we cannot have it both ways.

Just to assassinate Michael Brown's character is wrong.

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

In the criminal justice system, the law-abiding citizen comes first.

There is no good reason why police, or gaols, or the administration of justice, should be differently managed in one part of the kingdom and in another.