Gary Bauer Quotes

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.

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.

Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

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

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

We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years.

While we all respect the solemn responsibility of our law enforcement officers to protect the public, we must also safeguard the rights of Missourians to peaceably assemble and the rights of the press to report on matters of public concern.

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

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

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

The term "free society" is a meaningless, empty phrase if it does not mean a society that is free from harassment from its own police.

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

There are 18,000 different police forces in the United States and sometimes something wrong happens.

Without the punishment of the Death by a Thousand Cuts, I am afraid people in China would have nothing to fear … and before long there would be more and more criminals, and it would be hard to ensure peace and stability.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers?

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

In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

We are demanding police transparency and accountability so we can build trust and work together to make our communities safer.

We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.