Police Quotes · Page 19

“The illusion of safety that the law-and-order machinery uphold, was the cornerstone of any society.”

— Anonymous

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

— Georges Limbour

If you look at the history of the FBI, it has become effectively America's political police.

— Julian Assange

“I spent the 2022 Thanksgiving holiday researching high altitude police corruption.”

— Steven Magee

The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.

— Greg Boyle

Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man.

— Margery Allingham

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes.

— Earl Wilson

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

— Joe Orton

Greater transparency is the easiest and simplest solution to prevent officers who have previously been in trouble from getting new jobs. That's…

— Mike Espy

What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the…

— Danny Hillis

Thousands of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury's…

— Michelle Alexander

In liberal societies we don't typically require citizens to rearrange their activities, their lives, the way they go about their business, to…

— Edward Snowden

There are 40,000 Iraqi police on duty around the country. If they detect an attack about to happen, the police are the…

— Paul Bremer

Our family really didn't have a car; we had my dad's police cruiser. Later he got a Buick, and that's what I…

— Burt Reynolds

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up…

— Corey Hawkins

Just a look at the face of the officer kneeling on George Floyd's neck is indicative of the cause behind what he…

— Isaac Wright Jr

Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say…

— Alexander Downer

We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they…

— Daniel Byman

Besides interrupting more serious criminal activity, intensive misdemeanor enforcement and proactive street stops send the message to criminals and law-abiding residents alike…

— Heather Mac Donald

I support defunding the police - particularly the militarization of our police force and reallocating those resources toward public health. And not…

— Jamaal Bowman

According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you…

— John Oliver

Every place in the country you should get a license that shows you know how to safely store it, keep it away…

— Michael D. Barnes

Like journalists. The police have an extremely sick sense of humor, very guarded, very private, very male, which they need to survive…

— Helen Mirren

For me what was amazing was consumerism of people survived after Katrina. You see in a yard that the SUV is gone…

— Stanley Greene

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

— Rudy Giuliani

“Law enforcement responding with silence regarding crimes reported by the public is a form of mistreatment.”

— Steven Magee

Police, looking for a, sexy girl who's good in bed ur ugly ass is safe where do I hide??

— Shana Marbina

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly

— Albert Camus

“Warren Lafont was a two-year patrol cop who worked day shifts. “Did Warren return fire?” “No.”

— B.J. Bourg

Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.

— Priti Patel

The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

— Hillary Clinton

Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.

— Chad Wolf

We must transform the relationship between police and the communities they serve.

— Tom Steyer

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

— Maxine Waters

Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.

— Mike Harding

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

— Brendan Behan

A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.

— Robert Blake

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

— Rebekah Brooks

“If I die unexpectedly, law enforcement should be among the top suspects.”

— Steven Magee