Shaila Dewan:

It is difficult to tell how much has been seized by state and local law enforcement, but under a Justice Department program, the value of assets seized has ballooned to $4.3 billion in the 2012 fiscal year from $407 million in 2001.

Danah Boyd:

People don't think about the incentive structures of policing, especially in communities where the law is expected to clear so many warrants and do so many arrests per month. When they're stationed in algorithmically determined "high risk" communities, they arrest in those communities, thereby reinforcing the algorithms' assumptions.

Patrick Radden Keefe:

The plan was to arrest low-level soldiers, threaten them with lengthy jail terms, and then flip them, gathering information that could lead to arrests farther up the criminal hierarchy.

Alistair Croll:

The better we are at predicting the future, the less we'll be willing to share our fates with others. And the more those predictions look like facts, the more justice looks like thoughtcrime.

James Comey:

My goal is to urge our fellow citizens to participate in a conversation as a country about where we are, and where we want to be, with respect to the authority of law enforcement.