Fred Willard Quotes

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

Nobody's ever asked me to pay for a meal before I've eaten it, I've never been pulled over just because I was driving the wrong kind of car in the wrong kind of area at the wrong time of night.

In Mexico, the people who are put in jail are all the wrong people. The good people are in jail.

I see no reason why big-shot crooks should go free while the poor ones go to jail.

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

The rankest form of hypocrisy. Laws that are good enough for everybody else ought to be good enough for us.

And Justice for Some

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

No American should ever live under the cloud of suspicion because of what they look like.

Justice delayed has the same consequences as justice denied.

In a law enforcement situation, black people are not always treated the same as white people would be.

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

We are saying that when our nation targets law enforcement efforts at someone's appearance or what neighborhood they live in or what job they do, it is not living up to our nation's basic ideals.

We listened to Donald Trump speak at the debate about 'Stop and Frisk.' I don't think it's a good way to go through life. I don't think that's going to solve any of our problems. It's actually going to make racial tension a whole lot worse, and it's going to make us feel like we're singled out.

The other bands are just as bad, but we go to jail more.

Being a woman of color, I can truthfully state that I don't feel safe around those who are sworn to honor and uphold the law.

If I see a cop, it's not like, 'Oh, there's a cop who's gonna keep me safe.' It's more, 'There's a cop who might be having a bad day, so don't make eye contact.'

White people get to do that all of the time. They get to engage in bad behavior, even felonious behavior, but they rarely wind up in jail. But as a black person, losing your temper can cost you your life. Or insisting on your rights can cost you your life.

The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

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.

We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.

Obama believes the cops are the problem. That's why his new philosophy is to have them withdraw and refrain and not be seen because just their presence is provocative.