Cop Quote by Daryl Gates

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

— Anonymous

We had a cop or two that were questionable, and probably they shouldn't have been on the job, but they were. You have that:…

— Ron Stallworth

If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to…

— Greg Boyle

When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I…

— Kathryn Bigelow

I had been pulled over quite a bit by police officers, especially in Santa Monica and Culver City.

— Salim Akil

My father was a police officer in Los Angeles.

— Ann Patchett

The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had…

— Al Sharpton

I have tremendous respect for law enforcement.

— John Bel Edwards

The police had a practice of entrapping people. This was done all over the country, but we had a particularly vicious group here in…

— Harry Hay

I understood law enforcement in such a way that I was able to get a law enforcement officer, a veteran, to actually come clean…

— Isaac Wright Jr

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

— Mariska Hargitay

You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you…

— Christopher Meloni