Abuse Quote by Benjamin Watson

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position…

— Frank Herbert

Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on budgetary issues,…

— Radley Balko

Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal…

— D. Todd Christofferson

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

— Earl Warren

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

— Mary Frances Berry

To be sure, police do a dangerous job and take tremendous personal risks to safeguard the public. Most officers just want to do their…

— Joy Reid

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

— Orson Welles

It is not true that the perfection of police power is the result of the state's Machiavellianism or of some transitory influence. The whole…

— Jacques Ellul

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting…

— Rahm Emanuel

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Few professions are given as much power as we entrust to those who wear the uniform of a police officer. These individuals dedicate themselves…

— Lee Zeldin

You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the…

— Michael Parenti