Police Quotes · Page 36

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

— Claude Chabrol

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

— Frank Herbert

I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not…

— Yoweri Museveni

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

— Elizabeth Warren

“My parents haven’t raised me to fear the police, just to be smart around them.”

— Angie Thomas

“Hello Mr Police Officer, I know enough about police misconduct to regard you as a bully.”

— Steven Magee

In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.

— Philip Schuyler

I enjoyed being a police officer; I enjoyed the investigations.

— Julia Pierson

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

— Carl Joachim Friedrich

[I]f you want instant, reflexive support for the US government's police and military powers, MSNBC is the place to turn these days.

— Glenn Greenwald

“The police will not let a member of the public report a police officer assaulting a person. Instead, they direct you to…

— Steven Magee

Progress is recognizing that America is not a systematically racist nation and that the actions of bad police officers do not define…

— Byron Donalds

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who…

— Liu Xiaobo

You can't say you're going to ban something in the name of good taste, because then you have directed someone to play…

— John Irving

What we're dealing with is institutional, and unless systems are put into place that will ensure accountability, we can expect racially biased…

— Michelle Alexander

I think it's fair to say there's some significant portion of the community that doesn't feel they can take the Charlotte police…

— Chris Hayes

Take a look at the police and how they treat you, Take a look at these corporations that cheat you. Democrats and…

— KRS-One

Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the…

— Holly Sklar

When our response to all trauma is to call the police, then that gets us into a cycle of perpetuating trauma. Mental…

— Deray McKesson

White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they…

— Assata Shakur

I became politicised in my mid teens, at the time of ska and 2 Tone and the Anti-Nazi League, when I'd get…

— Lennie James

“The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the…

— Don Winslow

If we would end the war on drugs, you would see the end of the militarization of our police forces and you…

— Jesse Ventura

Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced…

— Colin Mochrie

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

— Method Man

“You don't see people getting pulled over by the police for reading ebooks on their smartphones.”

— Jason Merkoski

I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

— O. J. Simpson

“And Quirk’s a captain now,” he said. “Captain Quirk?” The motorcycle cop grinned. “Captain Quirk,” he said.”

— Robert B. Parker

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

— Stephen Baxter

“The police are the problem and internal affairs are not the solution.”

— Steven Magee

“The police ultimately pay the price for poor customer service when armed citizens start shooting them.”

— Steven Magee

The way you make communities safer and police safer is through community policing.

— Tim Kaine

The Worst Feeling: Seeing a cop car make a u-turn behind you.

— Anonymous

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

— Tupac Shakur

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

The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

— Manny Montana

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

— Steven Magee

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

— Peter James

You never wait for the police when you're on the run cause they're not your friends

— Static-Flow