Police Quotes · Page 13

The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

— Larry Wilmore

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

— Tupac Shakur

I guess a lot of police keep their sanity by developing black humour.

— Peter James

“There are serious long-term adverse health effects associated with being a police officer.”

— Steven Magee

To a British politician, a police officer is as invisible as the railings.

— A. A. Gill

We want better policing. We don't want a total defunding of police.

— Ritchie Torres

The progress of any writer is marked by those moments when he manages to outwit his own inner police system.

— Ted Hughes

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

— William S. Burroughs

“When is the Denver Police Department going to start prosecuting Denver based fraudulent Frontier Airlines and its toxic employees for its illegal…

— Steven Magee

You don't have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for…

— Eric Garcetti

“a videotape recording of a black man going down under the withering attack of four white police couldn’t convince you of the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Police vetting should [take place] every one to two years. They should go in for a psychological, to see if they're burned…

— Nancy Grace

There's no question that, in nearly seven weeks of nightly demonstrations, the police have done many things right, and they've done some…

— Ted Wheeler

In the '70s, '80s and '90s, noted actors like Iftekhar used to get mainly police officer roles, Bindu ji would do a…

— Satish Kaushik

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They…

— Gore Vidal

New York police force seems like unlike any other in America and even the world. There's a very specific culture dynamic, a…

— Theo James

The police were also ready with more formidable tools of intimidation. The office also assigned a veteran homicide prosecutor to oversee the…

— Wolf Blitzer

In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of…

— David Simon

What I do believe happens in a lot of these cases is that we somehow want to place blame on the victim…

— Sharon Cooper

I think the first time I really felt that I was Palestinian was a time when I was trying to go back…

— Rula Jebreal

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and…

— Steven Pinker

I am very cynical. That is absolutely what police is doing. But you don't even have to be cynical. I mean, politicians…

— Peter Moskos

I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to…

— Ronnie Coleman

Well apparently nothing as of December 13, 1978. There was 20 trained police officers came to the house, with a warrant..searched the…

— John Wayne Gacy

“I developed my police survival techniques during developing research on utility company corruption.”

— Steven Magee

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police.

— Ludwig Bemelmans

In my society the Pizza Man gets to my house faster than the police!

— Anonymous

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew…

— Marc Goodman

When I am on E! for the 'Fashion Police,' I only care about being a critic. It loses me many friends.

— Joan Rivers

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I see you've destroyed another police vehicle. Perhaps you now hold the record.

— Nora Roberts

My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private…

— Finn Jones

“2020 saw the largest protests ever against police brutality.”

— Steven Magee

There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state.

— Elliott Colla

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

— Kurt Russell

“The presence of the policeman around the corner is the only thing that keeps us civilised.”

— Paul Russell

Black Lives Matter and police brutality are issues that are important to me.

— Jabari Parker

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.

— Donald Trump

With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.

— Jimi Hendrix

I want to foster a positive relationship between police officers and the communities they protect.

— Kenny Stills