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The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible.
“The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible.”
— Greg Boyle · Agency
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“The idea that any law enforcement agency or person would ever know these gang members better than Homeboy Industries is impossible.”
“Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.”
“The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.”
“Most employers just aren't willing to look beyond the dumbest or worst thing someone has done.”
“Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.”
“I know two L.A.s. Half my life was around the house my folks had for 46 years at 3rd and Norton. The other half was in Boyle Heights on the Eastside, working with gang members.”
“Domestic violent extremism is not a threat limited to any single law enforcement agency.”
“Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.”
“We have investigative staff who are charged by law and this committee under the Constitution of the United States has a responsibility, taxpayers' money, and an agency which we fund from the government, they bought weapons, we believe and we think that - I don't know who did what.”
“Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government agency.”
“Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me.”
“Today, free agency takes away a lot of your heroes, they go somewhere else. Some of them don't but a lot of them do-take the higher offer to go somewhere else. And, it turns the fans off because they get attached to the players.”