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John is against eliminating cashbailfor all criminal offenses, but he agrees with Republicansand Democrats that the system needs to be reformed – particularly for non-violent, low-level, and non-repeat offenders. – Joe Calvello	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
So, I do think that opportunity to engage in this one tool of, not just direct action but also mass non-violent action as a means of change which we know is pretty effective — the window for doing something in that vein is getting shorter. – Varshini Prakash	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I will focus on the prevention of crime and rehabilitating non-violent offenders away from criminal behavior — not just prosecuting after crimes have already been committed and hoping, despite evidence to the contrary, that the toughest sentences will solve problems. That means maximizing our use of rehabilitation alternative programs where appropriate — getting more people into them, and getting people into them earlier on in the court process. – Sherwood Gazette	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
A non-violent thief who can post $3,000 bail is no more threatening than one who can't, the money is irrelevant; being poor doesn't make a defendant inherently more dangerous. But as practiced, NY’s legal system has long operated as if poverty equals danger. – Getty Images	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If it does turn out that current detainees in the jail are going to be released, they are non-violent, non-dangerous people who are primarily in there because they violated their probation. – Rex Scott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Of course, they give the general political statement ‘nonviolent.’ But we saw what non-violent does in Kenosha. We saw what non-violent releases do across the country with this ‘woke’ system, it’s disgusting. – Mike Dominguez	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Boys who are exposed to princess culture earlier in life tend to do a better job expressing emotion in their relationships, rather than shutting down their feelings or feeling like they should fight someone who challenges them, they can express their emotions in non-violent ways. – Sarah Coyne	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These are exactly the type of situations that police officers are trained for and should be responding to, and we will always support police having the resources they need for appropriate policing actions, wed love to see equally trained non-police professionals respond to addiction and mental health crises and non-violent events so that these brave officers can do the jobs they are so good at handling, as they demonstrated this weekend. – Alyssa Milano	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
George Floyd says in response to Thomas Lane. George Floyd was given no explanation as to why George Floyd was being questioned, according to the news report. Ben Crump, the attorney for the George Floyd family, said the footage reinforces that George Floyd posed no threat to the four officers. The more video evidence you see, the more unjustifiable George Floyds torture and death at the hands of the police becomes, although the allegation against George was for a non-violent offense involving a $ 20 bill, the police officers approached him with guns drawn, simply because he was a Black man. – Ben Crump	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We all watched the horrific death of George Floyd on video as witnesses begged the police officer to take him into the police car and get off his neck, this abusive, excessive and inhumane use of force cost the life of a man who was being detained by the police for questioning about a non-violent charge. – Benjamin Crump	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Judges, prosecutors, and Sheriffs around the country are facing difficult decisions during this health crisis with respect to balancing public health and public safety, sheriffs in Florida and throughout our country have released non-violent, low-level offenders to protect our deputies and the jail population from an outbreak. – Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There is no question Joseph Williams took advantage of this health emergency to commit crimes while Joseph Williams was out of jail awaiting resolution of a low-level, non-violent offense. – Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister	Found on CNN 4 years ago
My message would be very simple. Look around. We have a choice. We must decide. Get out there and vote like we've never ever voted before, the vote is the most powerful non-violent instrument or tool that we have in a democratic society and we must use it. – Bloody Sunday Lewis	Found on CNN 4 years ago
This was still a very substantial sentence, especially for a non-violent, first-time offender of his age. – Mark Allenbaugh	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and non-violent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law, we therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis. – Emily Grossman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Nobody should be in jail for a non-violent crime, when we were in the White House, we released 36,000 people from the federal prison system. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We have been studying defiance from the last 150 years, the way to force change is by attempting disruptive, non-violent, respectful action that has an element of sacrifice. – Linda Davidsen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Heathrow Airport decision has no impact on [ or ] any risk to any person or any flight, which is the whole purpose of Heathrow Airport decision because we are completely non violent. – Linda Davidsen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Well it has, there's people getting paid 8 cents a week working for companies that are privately owned and a lot of them are first-time offenders. A lot of them are non-violent crimes. – Kanye West	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I would like to thank President Trump for his time this afternoon. It is our hope that the President will grant clemency to Ms. Alice Marie Johnson who is serving a life sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug offense, we are optimistic about Ms. Johnson's future and hopeful that she -- and so many like her -- will get a second chance at life. – Kardashian West	Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are ready to continue talks with acting prime minister Karen Karapetyan on Wednesday to ensure a transfer of power to the people, i hope that the high echelons of the (ruling) Republican Party will unequivocally recognise the popular velvet and non-violent revolution. – Nikol Pashinyan	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I hope that the high echelons of the (ruling) Republican Party will unequivocally recognise the popular velvet and non-violent revolution. – Nikol Pashinyan	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The culture in Oklahoma has been to' lock'em up and throw away the key,' but sadly, when non-violent offenders and first-time offenders come into the system, we do not have enough correctional officers to protect them. These greenhorns are forced to join a gang. It's a mess. – Joe Allbaugh	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We need to convince these people, in every possible, non-violent way, that there are shelters in mainland Greece to host them. – Deputy Defense Minister Dimitris Vitsas	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

John is against eliminating cashbailfor all criminal offenses, but he agrees with Republicansand Democrats that the system needs to be reformed – particularly for non-violent, low-level, and non-repeat offenders.

– Joe Calvello

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

So, I do think that opportunity to engage in this one tool of, not just direct action but also mass non-violent action as a means of change which we know is pretty effective — the window for doing something in that vein is getting shorter.

– Varshini Prakash

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I will focus on the prevention of crime and rehabilitating non-violent offenders away from criminal behavior — not just prosecuting after crimes have already been committed and hoping, despite evidence to the contrary, that the toughest sentences will solve problems. That means maximizing our use of rehabilitation alternative programs where appropriate — getting more people into them, and getting people into them earlier on in the court process.

– Sherwood Gazette

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

A non-violent thief who can post $3,000 bail is no more threatening than one who can't, the money is irrelevant; being poor doesn't make a defendant inherently more dangerous. But as practiced, NY’s legal system has long operated as if poverty equals danger.

– Getty Images

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If it does turn out that current detainees in the jail are going to be released, they are non-violent, non-dangerous people who are primarily in there because they violated their probation.

– Rex Scott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Of course, they give the general political statement ‘nonviolent.’ But we saw what non-violent does in Kenosha. We saw what non-violent releases do across the country with this ‘woke’ system, it’s disgusting.

– Mike Dominguez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Boys who are exposed to princess culture earlier in life tend to do a better job expressing emotion in their relationships, rather than shutting down their feelings or feeling like they should fight someone who challenges them, they can express their emotions in non-violent ways.

– Sarah Coyne

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These are exactly the type of situations that police officers are trained for and should be responding to, and we will always support police having the resources they need for appropriate policing actions, wed love to see equally trained non-police professionals respond to addiction and mental health crises and non-violent events so that these brave officers can do the jobs they are so good at handling, as they demonstrated this weekend.

– Alyssa Milano

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

George Floyd says in response to Thomas Lane. George Floyd was given no explanation as to why George Floyd was being questioned, according to the news report. Ben Crump, the attorney for the George Floyd family, said the footage reinforces that George Floyd posed no threat to the four officers. The more video evidence you see, the more unjustifiable George Floyds torture and death at the hands of the police becomes, although the allegation against George was for a non-violent offense involving a $ 20 bill, the police officers approached him with guns drawn, simply because he was a Black man.

– Ben Crump

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We all watched the horrific death of George Floyd on video as witnesses begged the police officer to take him into the police car and get off his neck, this abusive, excessive and inhumane use of force cost the life of a man who was being detained by the police for questioning about a non-violent charge.

– Benjamin Crump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Judges, prosecutors, and Sheriffs around the country are facing difficult decisions during this health crisis with respect to balancing public health and public safety, sheriffs in Florida and throughout our country have released non-violent, low-level offenders to protect our deputies and the jail population from an outbreak.

– Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is no question Joseph Williams took advantage of this health emergency to commit crimes while Joseph Williams was out of jail awaiting resolution of a low-level, non-violent offense.

– Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister

Found on CNN
4 years ago

My message would be very simple. Look around. We have a choice. We must decide. Get out there and vote like we've never ever voted before, the vote is the most powerful non-violent instrument or tool that we have in a democratic society and we must use it.

– Bloody Sunday Lewis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

This was still a very substantial sentence, especially for a non-violent, first-time offender of his age.

– Mark Allenbaugh

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and non-violent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law, we therefore support those who are rising up peacefully against governments around the world that are failing to act proportionately to the scale of the crisis.

– Emily Grossman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Nobody should be in jail for a non-violent crime, when we were in the White House, we released 36,000 people from the federal prison system.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We have been studying defiance from the last 150 years, the way to force change is by attempting disruptive, non-violent, respectful action that has an element of sacrifice.

– Linda Davidsen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Heathrow Airport decision has no impact on [ or ] any risk to any person or any flight, which is the whole purpose of Heathrow Airport decision because we are completely non violent.

– Linda Davidsen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Well it has, there's people getting paid 8 cents a week working for companies that are privately owned and a lot of them are first-time offenders. A lot of them are non-violent crimes.

– Kanye West

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I would like to thank President Trump for his time this afternoon. It is our hope that the President will grant clemency to Ms. Alice Marie Johnson who is serving a life sentence for a first-time, non-violent drug offense, we are optimistic about Ms. Johnson's future and hopeful that she -- and so many like her -- will get a second chance at life.

– Kardashian West

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are ready to continue talks with acting prime minister Karen Karapetyan on Wednesday to ensure a transfer of power to the people, i hope that the high echelons of the (ruling) Republican Party will unequivocally recognise the popular velvet and non-violent revolution.

– Nikol Pashinyan

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I hope that the high echelons of the (ruling) Republican Party will unequivocally recognise the popular velvet and non-violent revolution.

– Nikol Pashinyan

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The culture in Oklahoma has been to' lock'em up and throw away the key,' but sadly, when non-violent offenders and first-time offenders come into the system, we do not have enough correctional officers to protect them. These greenhorns are forced to join a gang. It's a mess.

– Joe Allbaugh

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need to convince these people, in every possible, non-violent way, that there are shelters in mainland Greece to host them.

– Deputy Defense Minister Dimitris Vitsas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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