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"I’m a Christian cop."

"You say you can’t legislate morality? You know what’s happening. Millions of people are going to die in the future in the AIDS epidemic because we decided that the legislation of certain kinds of morality was not the affair of the state...We are increasingly becoming a valueless, a lawless society, and we become so more as we move to that day ‘alternative lifestyle’ is being used for certain forms of perversion. And I have to tell you there is an ‘alternative death style’ which is breeding through our major cities."

"Now here’s a clever myth. Victimless crime. There are certain crimes or events which go on which are essentially private relationships, and government has no business there because these are consensual crimes. And people and Christians are saying, ‘yeah that sounds right, whatever you do in the privacy of your home is okay’. And even if you withdraw the biblical principles you know which are quite clear, for example, on this terrible issue of homosexuality, the other clear evidence in our society shows that, as we have moved away from control of certain criminal activities, the result has become a disaster, a disaster."

"I used to go to court. All police officers go to court to present your case in court. You walk into the hall of justice. It says right there in beautiful letters. After a few trials I replaced in my mind ‘hall of alleged justice.’ Then a few years later, after I saw what really went on in there, I replaced the last word to this word to ‘hall of injustice.’ Justice was not to be found there. Listen to this, here’s a criminal trial written by a police officer: ‘Doings of the dark pit in which criminal suspects, the police and the functionaries of the criminal courts wrestle with each other in sightless ooze.’ Sightless ooze, that’s what a trial is."

"The word permissiveness. Dr. Spock gave that one to us. Let the little darlings do whatever they want to do, and the little darlings grew up, and now their killing each other in Los Angeles in gangs, and destroying the whole society in the process."

"Well, what is society saying to us: save the gray whale, save the California condor…let the babies die. Think about that. Worse yet, in capital punishment in which I won’t get into the discussion of the merits of it, just think of the vicious multiple murderers that are alive and the innocent souls of babies that are being ushered into eternity in the abortion process. And you tell me if judgment is standing far off in the street and if lies are being perpetrated. To have a world society perpetrate a mass murder on innocent babies and all at the same time preserve the whales because they are more important..."

"Do you believe that poverty causes crime?…if poverty causes crime, why is crime on the increase in the wealthy suburbs all of a sudden, more of an increase than in the city centers? If poverty causes crime, why are crime rates lower in the poor countries than in the wealthier ones? Why did crime go down in areas of unemployment?"

"We used to have prisons, we send people to do their sentences. And then over a period of time the word for prison changed. It became prison, and then it became penitentiary. That was a Quaker word that came out of the idea people should go there to do penance, case you didn’t know that. So it was prison and then it was penitentiary. Then it became the reformatory, it became the correctional institution, or the rehabilitation center, the rehab center as many of them were called. All those words are just an indication of, the ideas, of what has happened there. So those of are some of the myths. Don’t buy those myths. Poverty does not cause crime. The sinful nature of humankind causes crime. Victimless crime. Don’t believe it. Rehabilitation, watch out for it. There’s a system that God has in store for those who constantly reject them."

"I see a situation where people are howling for someone to come forward and take command. We are living in an increasingly leaderless world."

"Human history is a record of accomplishments made under leadership. Someone was at the helm of all the great movements of humankind. Someone was guiding and directing and energizing. It was under leadership that these things occurred."

"My experience at graduate school...the first three or four sessions of one class on public administration we spent the entire time on deciding what the format of the class would be, what the classroom setting would be, how we would graded, there would be no leadership there. It was leadership by participation. Just do whatever you want. It was really a sad situation. And I asked myself at graduate school. Who is in charge and where is the command post?"