Quotes About Authority

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

I love the police, contrary to many people.

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

I myself have been scrutinized by militarized police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.

There is no police brutality.

I clearly remember my father cutting our jumpers and our sports clothes with scissors - because he didn't want us to wear jogging bottoms and hoodies. He thought that would somehow set the police on us.

The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback.

As liberals in charge and a media question the capabilities of police, they then limply ask why there is an anti-police atmosphere or why cops are holding back.

Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well.

The only people in my whole life that have ever called me Edward are the police because it's on my license.

Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.

If you have a problem, the NYPD is the greatest police force to the world.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

If I see a police officer behind me, and I can pull over into, like, a shopping center or something, I do it.

Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.

I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.

I think as a police officer when you're dealing with a member of the public you put something on because you have to appear to be this person who knows what they're talking about, and of course you're also trying to figure out the Rubik's cube of why people behave in the way that they do.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

For police officers who commit this violence, there has been no accountability. Cops are supposed to be held to a standard of conduct, but they always get the benefit of the doubt, inherently. They act like we ain't supposed to question nothing.

I've had guns pointed at me by police officers.