Police departments are always a reflection of the society…

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

— Francis Schaeffer

“A few reasonable policies won't do much good if the surrounding society is insane.”

— Taras Grescoe

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they…

— Ron Wyden

Police do not work at the immediate direction of the communities they serve, but through their institutional connections. Police departments may develop structures, modi…

— John Kleinig

Decade after decade, the police culture has been just the very opposite. And that's been to ignore or to rally around. And that's something…

— Hakeem Jeffries

“Through political opportunism and ineptitude, the city had allowed the [police] department to languish for years as an understaffed and underequipped paramilitary organization. Infected…

— Michael Connelly

Building a police culture that reflects the professionalism of our best officers will require that we pay a decent wage. Treating every American as…

— Conor Lamb

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face,…

— Jean Dubuffet

I do not support the idea of defunding police departments. I believe that it does nothing to solve the root problems we must address…

— Mikie Sherrill

Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable…

— Scott Turow

I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the…

— Bernie Sanders

If police departments (some) are not going to take responsibility for the unlawful & bad actions they did/created then what's the point of police…

— Joseph Rosales

I think one way police departments could make some money would be to hold a yard sale of murder weapons. Many people, for example,…

— Jack Handey

Police departments, since the start of the history of this country, have been used to enforce unconstitutional laws that were designed to discriminate against…

— Lori Lightfoot

“Only in the mid-nineteenth century, after the growth of industrial cities and a rash of urban riots—after dread of the so-called dangerous classes surpassed…

— David Grann