Kate Crawford Quotes

Our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

We have this long history of racism in this country, and as it happens, the criminal justice system has been perhaps the most prominent instrument for administering racism. But the racism doesn't actually come from the criminal justice system.

There are reasons to doubt that our criminal justice system is fundamentally just.

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

The justice system [in Mexico] is totally inoperative…. 2 percent of all crime is someone put in jail. How bad is that?

The criminal justice system is not working and people want something that works.

I put perople in prison for too long. I had no choice.

The Supreme Court has made it nearly impossible to prove race discrimination in the criminal justice system.

People are swept into the criminal justice system - particularly in poor communities of color - at very early ages... typically for fairly minor, nonviolent crimes.

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

There can be racism in a system even if a particular episode of injustice is not a manifestation of that racism. Every single thing in the criminal justice system is not a manifestation of racism, but many things are.

When I travel and speak across the country, I often tell college students that we are making a significant mistake when we say to each other that this criminal justice of ours is broken. To say it's broken would be to suggest that it was well designed and had good intentions from the start.

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

America should be ashamed to say they have the best justice system in the world when, every day, race plays a part in who goes to prison, who don't go to prison.

There's an awful lot about our criminal justice system that is dysfunctional. Everyone who sets foot in a criminal courtroom will see myriad ways the system is dysfunctional.

Impunity for the great thief, and jail for the thief who steals a loaf.

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system.

The scales of American justice are out of balance.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.

There's no question but that the justice system sucks.

People who are wealthy tend to be treated much more fairly in our criminal justice system.

The fact that the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world's population incarcerates 25% of the world's prisoners is largly due to manditory minimum sentences.