Quotes About Patrol

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

Mark held up his plastic bag. Inside it, a small orange fish swam around in a circle. "This is the best patrol we've ever done," he said. "I have never been awarded a fish before.

Early on a spring morning, Policemen Robert Coffman and Jack Carter are working the night watch out of Central Division.

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

Other patrollers carried guns and eagerly cut down any rascal dumb enough to flee

Patrol was not difficult work. They stopped any niggers they saw and demanded their passes. They stopped niggers they knew to be free, for their amusement but also to remind the Africans of the forces arrayed against them, whether they were owned by a white man or not.

The patroller required no reason to stop a person apart from color.

MIKE Nash glanced anxiously at his watch and then eyed the twin flat-screen monitors. Both prisoners were sleeping soundly. If all went according to plan, their slumber wouldn't last much longer. The prisoners had been picked up seven days earlier on a routine patrol. At the time, the young GI's had no idea whom they had stumbled upon. That revelation came later, and by accident. The brass at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan quickly separated the two men from the other 396 enemy

put in a patrol wagon.

Not a good thing for a cop. The sun was still coming up over the

We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.

Like a patrol condemned to ride out some ancient curse.

Fred McLaren's terrific book, Silent and Unseen: On Patrol in Three Cold War

That's like a fairy-tale princess in a patrol car, huh? But hey, even, Disney princesses are toughening up these days. We're all capable of many things, right?

A gang of wild turkeys patrolled the edge of the forest, upright and alert, looking oddly saurian and menacing, like a lost squadron of velociraptors.

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.

More cops on our streets and in our neighborhoods mean safer streets and neighborhoods.

Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.

The only sound was birdsong, soon overwhelmed by the headlong buzz of two Border Patrol officers on all-terrain vehicles, zipping past me much too fast on the flat paths, their big wheels tossing up damp sand.

And there are more than twenty-one thousand Border Patrol agents who work day and night to thwart them.

Operation Hold the Line in 1993 in the El Paso sector. "The idea was to put a huge number of Border Patrol agents in urban areas