Accepting Quote by Gerry Spence

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing…

— Bruce Willis

There's a whole world of bad TV that's along similar themes - the cop drama.

— Emily Mortimer

“We fall into the fallacy of believing we can litigate the complicated story before us into a black-and-white binary of good guys and bad…

— Wesley Lowery

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of…

— Mireille Enos

Cop shows are by definition melodramatic; they're larger than life. They create very stark contrasts and conflicts emotionally. They're provocative, assuming they grapple with…

— Steven Bochco

It concerns me when I see a small child watching the hero shoot the villain on television. It is teaching the small child to…

— Peace Pilgrim

You can't beat a cop drama. That's what everybody seems to want to watch.

— Clark Johnson

When we start fighting crime by any means necessary we become guilty of the same hypocrisy as law enforcement agencies throughout history that break…

— Barrett Brown

There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic…

— Greg Boyle

And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own…

— Veena Sud

We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is…

— Peter Coyote

It's so easy to go the route of thinking about all the situations we've seen and they hurt us all deeply, but I think…

— Monty Williams