Because Quote by Patricia Highsmith

If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.

— Raymond Kelly

If they can't do it in California, it can't be done anywhere.

— Taylor Caldwell

California always struck me as a police state.

— Leon Russell

Cops are everywhere in New York City. Cars drive by every few minutes. Uniforms stand nonchalantly at street corners.

— Chris Gethard

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be…

— James Gray

New York police force seems like unlike any other in America and even the world. There's a very specific culture dynamic, a specific chemistry.…

— Theo James

One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

— L. Neil Smith

If we fight each other, the police state wins.

— Dead Kennedys

There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is…

— Russell Simmons

This is impossible. I can't believe it. We need to change our POLICE system, where in we need to punish police officers

— Mak_786

In New York you can actually run into people on the street, unlike in California where you're always in the car.

— Brad Hall

There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force…

— Alicia Garza