Police Quotes · Page 30

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

— Stephen Baxter

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

— Robert B. Parker

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

— Tim Kaine

We can't just be against 'defund the police.' We have to proactively go out there and recognize that crime hurts.

— Jake Auchincloss

“Hamstead had turned into a pig—an angry, determined pig in a policeman’s uniform.”

— Michael Buckley

Being a good police officer is one of the most difficult, dangerous, idealistic jobs in the world.

— Thomas Hauser

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

— Jose Padilha

“We live in a lawless society with a facade of law enforcement.”

— Steven Magee

I did not defund the police as mayor. I increased the budget. If we want the best and brightest men and women…

— Kevin Faulconer

Our first experience of God is so important, we either experience Him as the police guard that wants to punish or as…

— Pope Benedict XVI

The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to…

— David Lammy

“The region now entered by the police was one of traditionally evil repute, substantially unknown and untraversed by white men.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

It's an interesting situation to be in to play a cop on TV and to know so many police officers through our…

— Jesse Lee Soffer

It's like the journey of a police official, who starts from a low rank and goes on to have a high rank.…

— Ammy Virk

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking…

— Elia Kazan

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

— Samantha Power

African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed.…

— Ras Baraka

American cops are the ones who are in the emergency rooms. They're the ones who go to the morgues. They're the ones…

— Don Winslow

The American dream is about achieving happiness. When you become a fire fighter, a police officer or a teacher or a nurse,…

— Marco Rubio

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had…

— Trey Anastasio

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor…

— Khaled Hosseini

Whenever black folks speak candidly about the horrors of police brutality, the default reaction in the United States isn't to start disrupting…

— Jemele Hill

“The Constables and the Bow Street men from London — for, this happened in the days of the extinct red-waistcoated police —…

— Charles Dickens

After decades of research, I've personally concluded that perhaps the single most effective police action for crowd control would be for the…

— Zeynep Tufekci

“The police are a reflection of their corrupt government employer.”

— Steven Magee

'Come back here, I'm a police officer!' and I shouted back 'No you're not! You're a monster!'

— Russell Howard

The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.

— Anonymous

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

— James Carville

There's a bigger percentage of good cops than bad cops. But the bad cops should be penalised like regular people.

— Michael Pena

The black police in Compton are worse than the white police.

— Eazy-E

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

— Erin McKean

The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.

— Anonymous

This is the only advanced pose (Firefly Pose) I know that you can run away from the police in.

— Dharma Mittra

Once the people are terrorized, you can force a police state on them.

— Mae Brussell

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

— John Wright

You guys called the cops to get your frisbee out of the pond? Is this really a police matter?

— Jonah Hill

“Cops, I've learned, are like vampires; they can't come in unless you invite them.”

— jessica warman

Child pornography is the only crime that you cannot report to the police as an eyewitness.

— Doug Stanhope

“I’ll see if I can find someone in the Toland Police Department who doesn’t use his brains to wipe his backside.”

— Anne Bishop