- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Criminal Justice Quotes
On fairness, law, and equal treatment.
This page collects criminal justice quotes that grapple with how fairly the system treats different communities, alongside the core legal principle that everyone deserves to be presumed innocent. For related civic themes, see our Justice quotes page.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need transformational change of our criminal justice system - not just, you know, a handful of consent decrees or policy reforms.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really retain much from the first couple semesters of my criminal justice studies.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I discovered the theater at Santa Clara and once I got into the theater program, I never got into specific criminal justice studies.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we will be safer when we can concentrate law enforcement and criminal justice resources and energies on those individuals who truly need, for the safety of society... to be incarcerated.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forensic techniques are enormously useful in a wide range of fields outside the criminal justice system.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ask for calm yet resolute voices to be heard in our communities. It is imperative that people of good will, those who believe in a just and fair criminal justice system, hear our voices.
- Disenfranchised
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who have been unjustly disenfranchised by our criminal justice system and the people who daily fight for them always have, and always will be, the inspiration and focus of my efforts.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost one in three Americans has had some contact with the criminal justice system. When you reach that saturation point, people begin to understand, in a very visceral way, the difficulties of reentry.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020