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Quotes About Dragnet

The gaping wound in America's national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.
~ James Scot
'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.
~ Tom Shales
I settled in to watch a Dragnet rerun. I bought the judge in four of Jack Webb's drunk-driving beefs. I shtupped Jack's ex-wife, soaring songstress Julie London.
~ James Ellroy
Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.
~ Martin Milner
I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.
~ Martin Milner
Well, she doesn't have anything to do with it, Richard, you're just like that guy in 'Dragnet' that always wants the facts.
~ Donna Tartt
Let me emphasize, as well, that given a society pervaded by white racism, as discussed in the previous chapter, it will be the mentally ill of color who are generally taken to be a "criminal element" (instead of having a mental impairment), and so simply swept into the prisons by the states' carceral dragnet operations.
~ Unknown