Eliot Spitzer Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.

Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

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

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

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.

God forbid that the defendant should not be allowed the benefit of every advantage he is entitled to by law.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

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

Cameras in the courtroom is a great idea.

When police are shutting down cameras, it is a sign that they know the truth is not going to be kind to them.

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

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.

We should start with the basics: Police officers are unlikely to be held accountable if the prosecutors investigating and potentially prosecuting them feel indebted to them.

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

It sounds terribly cynical, but the real surprise in the Philando Castile case is not that the officer was acquitted but that he was charged at all. The prosecutors in the case deserve great credit for even trying. But no one should be shocked about how it turned out.

It is extremely hard to bring a claim for compensation against the police or the Crown Prosecution Service, even when a person has been charged with an offence and later cleared.

District attorneys are often some of the finest public servants. However, the system in which they operate to investigate cases of police misconduct leaves a huge window for unintended bias.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector