Best quotes by Michelle Alexander on Police
Checkout quotes by Michelle Alexander on Police
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‟ Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ Our nation has slashed budgets for education, job training, economic development, and drug treatment while investing billions in prisons and militarized police. A penal system unprecedented in world history has been born. Millions have been arrested and stripped of basic civil and human rights.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ Almost no one refuses the police when confronted on the street or in a train or plane or train station. When you're confronted by the police, very few - either the foolish or the very brave - will refuse consent when confronted by the police.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ I no longer believe that we can 'fix' the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true nature of our democracy.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ We cannot 'fix' the police without a revolution of values and radical change to the basic structure of our society.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ The U.S. Supreme Court has eviscerated Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, giving the police license to sweep communities, to conduct 'stop and frisk' operations.
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‟ Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's believing their word over a police officer's are slim to none.
- Michelle Alexander
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‟ In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so.
- Michelle Alexander