{"quotes":[{"text":"In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["aggressive","aggressive-behavior","aggressiveness","angry","angry-people","citizen","citizen-power","citizens","citizens-of-humanity","common","common-good","common-man","era","fellow","fellow-beings","fellow-humans","film","honorable","honorable-person","interact","interactions","officer","officers","people","people","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","policing","public","record","recording","service","service-to-mankind","service-to-others","video"],"id":5452,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["cruelty","fear","heaven","human-nature","love","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","police-reform","police-shootings","spirituality","terrorism","truth","violence","war","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":11647,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"When it is a law abiding common person versus the police internal affairs regarding a corrupt or incompetent police officer, the statistics show that it is the common person that most frequently loses.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["abiding","affairs","common","corrupt","corruption","corruption","frequently","incompetent","internal","law","loses","most","officer","person","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","regarding","show","statistics","versus"],"id":26997,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["among","amongst","corrupt","corrupted","corruptibility","corruption","corruption","encounter","encountered","life-experience","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","most","officer","officers","people","people","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","sheriff"],"id":70654,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["crime","enforce","enforcement","enforcing","enforcing-laws","formally","high","law","laws","legal-system","low","not","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","rate","report","reported","reporting","reports","result","results","results","statistical-analysis","statistics","statistics"],"id":72560,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["afghanistan-war","agape-love","anguish","casualties-of-war","child-victims-of-war","children-killed-in-war","conflict-resolution","faith","fear","grief","gun-laws","gun-violence","hope","love","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","pain","peace","peace-movement","peacemaking","police-reform","police-shootings","russia-and-ukraine-conflict","spiritual-love","syrian-civil-war","tragedy","unconditional-love","violence","war","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":88606,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"You know that when a police officer refuses to produce formal identification on request, they are probably engaging in some form of corruption.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["corruption","corruption","engaging","form","formal","identification","know","officer","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","probably","produce","refuses","request","some"],"id":96902,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["compassion","compassion-heals-lives","doomsday-scenarios","ending-violent-jihad","extinction","human-nature","humanity-and-society","liberation","love","mass-exterminations","national-history-day","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","police-reform","police-shootings","trust"],"id":106254,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["african-americans","agape-love","american-history","black-history-month","civil-rights-movement","compassion-heals-lives","conflict-resolution","courage","dreams","faith","famous-","famous-speeches","great-leaders","hope","human-rights-day","humanity","i-have-a-dream-speech","leadership","love","martin-luther-king-day","martin-luther-king-jr","mlk-day","mlkdream50","national-history-day","nonviolence","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","police-reform","police-shootings","spiritual-visions","spirituality","strength","voting-rights-act-of-1965"],"id":127303,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["americans","barack-obama","choosing","civic-duty","courage","democratic-national-convention","famous","fear","gun-violence","hope","legacies","making-choices","mitt-romney","options","patriotism","police-reform","police-shootings","political-advocacy","political-awareness","political-philosophy","political-responsibility","politics","presidential-election","presidential-election-campaign","by-aberjhani","republican-national-convention","savannah--aberjhani","social-awareness","social-responsibility","the-future","vision-of-america","voting","xenophobia"],"id":143161,"author_id":"Aberjhani"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}