L. Neil Smith Quotes

We are incapable of maintaining peace and order and to enforce the law with the resources we have.

What police do is not really about force. Police preserve peace and order principally by educating, leading, persuading people to cooperate in a peaceful community. Any veteran officer will tell you that the essential police skill is talking to people. That is especially true for dealing with young people, who ... no one else really talks to at all.

There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.

What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract.

Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.

Law and order is a state responsibility. I can assure you peace will be maintained in Uttar Pradesh.

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.

If there be no officer to enforce the Law, of what avail is the judge?

Order is said to exist where the people of the country have, as a general rule, ceased to prosecute their quarrels by private force, and acquired the habit of referring the decision of their disputes and the redress of their injuries to the public authorities.

We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

We need law and order in America.

Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.

Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use a couple of words, and that's law and order. And we need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

The law must have the last word.

Every cop will tell you that their real job is being a social worker. That's what they do all day. The large majority of police officers in this country never even draw their gun, let alone fire it. They do conflict resolution, right? And if that's their job, why do they need to look like they're an occupying force?

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?