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Quotes About Cops

If we are going to rise above the need for cops and laws, we can quit using the old American work ethic of seeing how much you can get away with and how much you can scam and who cares whose back you stab or what you do to get it as long as you get it.
~ biafra jello ii
Ueck asks] 'What are you guys doin'?' They don't really respond, and Ueck tells them to get in line. And, they do—one cop at the front of the line, the other at the rear. We march roughly two or three blocks from that point, led by police officers, to the hotel.
~ Bill Schroeder
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.
~ Tess Gerritsen
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.
~ Jess Walter
When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops or a basketball team; that's what we can do.
~ Jay Chandrasekhar
In a Toyota, the cops don't think about stopping you so much.
~ Chuck Berry
Okay, the cops are gone. I explained about my mother and her obsession with the transvestite killer. They didn't even get that mad.
~ Meg Cabot
In America there is a channel called TruTV which is just reruns of 'Cops' and 'World's Dumbest Criminals'. I could watch that the entire day.
~ Robert Pattinson
Valnikov was momentarily deafened. Natalie was holding her ears. The uniformed cops fired eighteen rounds at the two lights.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
All of them, street cops and supervisors, were now smothered in paperwork designed to prove that they were "reforming" a police force of more than ninety-five hundred souls who ostensibly needed reforming because of the actions of half a dozen convicted cops from both incidents combined.
~ Joseph Wambaugh
Clarence Morrow and Frank Tremont, along with a few local cops, were nearby. They were surreptitiously checking around. There was still faint hope that maybe Guy Novak had kidnapped Reba Cordova and was holding her here, but as the seconds passed, that seemed less and less likely. Guy
~ Harlan Coben
Do we really want to protect our children by giving guns to two underpaid cop wannabes and then mixing them in with a bunch of wiseass teens? Seemed a recipe for disaster. Wilde
~ Harlan Coben
You talk about rowdy - in Oakland the players were on you. The refs were on you. The stands were on you. You had to talk back or you were a sissy; you'd get run out of the league. Afterward? Yeah, it was kind of a, uh, struggle to get out of the gym. Cops had to be everywhere. Which was lucky.
~ Gary Payton
Yeah, I was a delinquent. It was when I was in the ninth grade. I was doing stupid stuff, and the cops came into the class. I was humiliated more than anything.
~ Dwayne Johnson
India is a little different from the developed world because discipline of any kind is alien to us. Along with the right to spit in public, we will resist all attempts to discipline our driving. As pedestrians, we will cross any road at will, and as cops, we will view traffic offences as business opportunities.
~ Sucheta Dalal
The doctor told her that more than thirty cops had showed up the night of her surgery to donate blood for her. He gave her a list of names. Many were from the late
~ Michael Connelly
McCaleb classified these cops as avenging angels. It had been his experience that these cop/angels were the best investigators he ever worked with. He also came to believe that they traveled closest to that unseen edge beneath which lies the abyss.
~ Michael Connelly
I have always believed that the quickest way off a jury panel is to announce that you are convinced that all cops lie or all cops are always right. Either way, a closed mind is a challenge for cause.
~ Michael Connelly
This in itself was an art. He had to describe the bracelet the way he believed other cops would, cops who might be typing in descriptions of a whole inventory of jewelry taken in a robbery or burglary.
~ Michael Connelly
She looked hard-shell and maybe a little weary for so early in the day, the way lady cops and hookers
~ Michael Connelly
'Reno' was originally going to be a sketch show, with the cops as a transitional element.
~ Robert Ben Garant
The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.
~ Lori Foster
If you're looking to get silly, you better go back to from where you came. because the cops don't need you and man they expect the same.
~ Bob Dylan
The southbound motorists crawled past, eyeing the conflagration and the quartet of cops who had arrived to eye it as well.
~ T.R. Pearson