James Q. Wilson
Politician
1931-05-27
Quotes by James Q. Wilson
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Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.
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But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.
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Some people suggest that the problem is the separation of powers. If you had a parliamentary system, the struggle for power would not result in such complex peace treaties that empower so many different people to pursue so many contradictory aims.
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