Michelle Alexander Quotes

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

Never trust police, FBI, or other agents…. there is NO law requiring you to talk to the Police, the F.B.I., or a representative of any other investigative agency.

It is the obligation of every government to yield protection to their citizens as the consideration for their obedience

I. George Washington, President of the United States, do hereby command all persons, being insurgents, as aforesaid, and all others whom it may concern, on or before the 1st day of September next to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes. And I do moreover warn all persons whomsoever against aiding, abetting, or comforting the perpetrators of the aforesaid treasonable acts; and do require all officers and other citizens, according to their respective duties and the laws of the land, to exert their utmost endeavors to prevent and suppress such dangerous proceedings

When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose.

Governmental power is the faculty to beat into submission all those who would dare to disobey the orders issued by the authorities. … Every governmental action is backed by constables, prison guards, and executioners. However beneficial a governmental action may appear, it is ultimately made possible only by the government's power to compel its subjects to do what many of them would not do if they were not threatened by the police and the penal courts.

The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you're wearing a cop uniform.

Historically our government—the FBI for example—has not always earned that trust.

There never was a government without force.... A governement leaving it to a man to do his duty, or not, as he pleases, would be a new species of government, or rather no government at all.

It would not be permissible for you to build a home and not let law enforcement in if they had a search warrant. If they think there's a crime ongoing, they go to court and get a warrant, and they're permitted to come in your home under the Fourth Amendment.

From day one, I told people there are consequences for not abiding by the law.

We have contradictory expectations of police: We want to be perfectly safe and perfectly free. We want total security and total privacy. We want the bad guys stopped and the good guys unmolested. That's great for the consumer; try providing it.

The U.S. Supreme Court has eviscerated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, giving the police license to sweep communities, to conduct 'stop and frisk' operations.

A law is a law, and it has to be respected.

Nobody, no family, is above the law.

At the end of the day, we must respect the rule of law in respective jurisdictions.

I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.

It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone.

I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.

I've never been in trouble with the law.

For many years, I did ride-alongs with patrol cops, which is any citizen's right.

Lack of lawful access certainly affects our ability to do our jobs, but we know where the harm really falls when evidence is kept unavailable - it falls on innocent people, the people we're sworn to protect.

The major thing of our government is to protect the people.

It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.

If you can't respect me, you have to respect the law.