Quotes About Cops

He didn't know if that was good or bad: concealed-carry people actually committed fewer felonies per year than cops did 

Dark humor might have offended some on the other side of the blue line, but it was how cops coped with very grim realities.

The artist in Hansberry saw in the photograph of a black woman being manhandled by white cops all the suffering, all the injustice, all the offense to black life. The brutality was grave enough; the spread of the image transmitted trauma and reinforced the vulnerability of black women and, indeed, the race.

A siren pierced the air, cutting off her breath. "Damn." A scowling Jessie pulled over to the side of the long, otherwise empty road. "I swear," the blonde muttered, "the hick cops have nothing better to do than hassle law-abiding citizen." "Jessie, we're actually—" "Shh. Think law-abiding thoughts.

The cops, however, took his satire on the chin and went on to guard him from assassins.

My intent is to help retire the word "civilian" in drawing a distinction between police and community members. Why? Because, if those served by police are civilians, that makes cops, ipso facto, a military force.)

Harry hiked back to Glory, the nearest small town that we had passed through, to talk to the local cops. They were, or they professed to be, sheriff's deputies. I wonder what you have to do to become a cop. I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal. What did it used to be to make people Bankole's age want to trust it. I know what the old books say, but still, I wonder.

Outrage is conditioned not by the nature of the atrocity but by the affiliation of the victim and the perpetrator. Should the state be accorded more leniency because, legally speaking, it has a monopoly on the legitimate use of force? Or, conversely, should we hold soldiers and cops to a higher standard than paramilitaries?

Whether you take kindly or not…" started the Devil. I cut him off. "Sure we could take kindly, but then there would be a problem. Where would we put it? How would we take care of it? And then the cops would come asking all sorts of embarrassing questions about where kindly was. Quite frankly the whole thing seems more trouble than its worth," I said.

The two of you are trespassing on private property. Get out before I call the cops," said Gary. "Yeah, right, because concerned citizens always open fire with automatic weapons first, then call the police.

Find out what the cops know before you tell them your version. And always call your lawyer!