Evgeny Morozov Quotes

Machine learning signicantly enhances the ability to predict where and when crimes are more likely to happen and who may commit them.

'tis enough to make Laws to punish Crimes when they are committed, and not to put it in the power of any single Man, on pretence of preventing Offences to commit worse.

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

The vast majority of A.D.A.s put everything on the line to make sure justice is served. That's what I love about prosecutors and the New York police.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

People do have a right to protect themselves, and they are not protected by the justice system.

Fetiches are set up to punish offenders in certain cases where there is an intention to make a law specially binding; this refers more particularly to crimes which cannot always be detected. A fetich is inaugurated, for example, to detect and punish certain kinds of theft; persons who are cognizant to such crimes, and who do not give information, are also liable to be punished by the fetich. The fetich is supposed to be able not only to detect all such transgressions, but has power, likewise, to punish the transgressor. How it exercises this knowledge, or by what means it brings sickness and death upon the offender, cannot, of course, be explained; but, as it is believed in, it is the most effectual restraint that can possibly be imposed upon evil-disposed persons.

The time for the State to protect himself against the criminal is before the criminal is made. Most criminals are not born, they are made.... What a State really punishes in a criminal is its own neglect, it's own failure to do its duty to the citizens.

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.

Every intelligent American now knows, that the United States has the most money, the most power, the most laws, and the most criminals of any nation in the world.

Law and order is the responsibility of the state governments.

Trump will be America's law and order president, and I look forward to working with him as the law and order governor of Virginia.

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.

In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.