Leadership Quote by Laura Wiess

“My parents haven’t raised me to fear the police, just to be smart around them.”

— Angie Thomas

“Mom and dad probably told you I've been arrested. I'm innocent. I want you to know that.”

— Dianne Harman Cornered Coyote

“You can't be a proper officer with your dad holding your hand. Everyone at the police station will laugh at you.”

— Zuni Blue

“There is a cop who is both prowler and father: he comes from your block, grew up with your brothers, had certain ideals.”

— Adrienne Rich

“Sometimes parents needed to be protected.”

— Stephen King

“Dad!” I said, trying to get his attention. “It is so official you are a bad father. Good fathers do not shoot their daughters!”…

— Darynda Jones

“Take care of my cop.”

— J.D. Robb

“It is a good idea to keep the police out of your life.”

— Steven Magee

“I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, and I told my dad. My…

— Carolyn Byers Ruch

“I'd told him what it had been like, living on thew streets. How the police were to be avoided at all costs, how they…

— Sheena Kamal

“Many parents had grown wary of confronting their children for fear of being denounced by them, but not my father.”

— Martha Hall Kelly

“I was an officer at twenty-nine, when Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was still in effect.” Dominic’s”

— Megan Erickson