Quotes About NYPD

I served in the NYPD for 22 years, and I can vividly recall trying to extract information from people who refused to cooperate.

When I served in the state Senate, I led the charge with then-Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries to end the stop-and-frisk database, which kept the personal information of everyone stopped and frisked by the NYPD, even if they weren't arrested or issued a summons.

The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.

The NYPD has taken steps to engage marginalized communities and attempts to bridge gaps between these neighborhoods and those sworn to protect and serve them.

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

AGES AGO, WHEN THEY swore me in as a NYPD cop, I wore a uniform I'd bought at Jonas Rathburn & Sons, a cop shop around the corner from the old Centre Street headquarters. Over the years I picked up other gear there—handcuffs, a Kevlar vest, a nightstick to replace the one that disappeared one

Traffic heading south through Manhattan was horrible, even with NYPD motorcycle escorts. The gridlock was such that there was nowhere for them to go. Nothing to do but wait for the clots to work themselves through.

The NYPD, they're the finest in the world.

At the NYPD, a judge doesn't need to sign off on opening up an investigation into a mosque as a terrorism organization. The oversight is internal.

For me, being a part of the ASPCA is a great way to tie in my love for animals and my love for New York City. Whether it's fighting puppy mills or working with the NYPD to prosecute people who abuse animals or breaking up fight rings, it's an incredible part of my city life.

Among the tactics employed by the NYPD include the use of so-called "mosque crawlers," who document activities taking place at mosques; "rakers," who spy on Muslims in cafes and bookstores within the Muslim community267 (both involve clear violations of state laws against religious profiling); and the forcible detention and recruiting of informants, who are threatened with arrest unless they comply with police demands.268

Paul has heard stories of wartime brutality more appalling than anything he encountered while working in the NYPD; they are repeated with a clarity of recall that suggests they might have happened yesterday rather than decades ago. He has seen pain borne like a precious inheritance through the ages and writ large on the faces of those left behind.

To the left and at the end of our small wing that held eight prisoners was an NYPD officer named Gilberto Valle, who'd been charged with conspiring to cook and eat his girlfriend. The press had dubbed him the "Cannibal Cop.

According to NYPD figures, a contract killing could be had in Brooklyn for a mere $500. More often than not, though, people in New York were killed for free.

The NYPD is just a branch of corruption connected to a giant, corrupt tree called the United States government.

Fuck the Bureau! Their entire outfit is half the size of the NYPD. I've got more officers who speak Arabic in one precinct that you guys have in the entire D.O.D.!

And the civilian yelled, "I'm from the Times !" which made him a reporter and thus a legal kill in the codebook of the NYPD.

We interviewed many, many men and women from the NYPD and the NYPD Intelligence Division, specifically, and they're really good, dedicated people who want to keep the city safe.

Because, as we used to say in the NYPD: A single death is a tragedy; multiple deaths are a sanitation problem.

To Parker's right, near Koenig, was Captain Henry Wydrzynski, Deputy Chief of Detectives with the Port Authority police. I'd met this guy a few times when I was an NYPD detective, and he seemed like an okay guy, except for his name, which looked like the third line of an eye chart. I mean, somebody should buy this guy a vowel.

Excessive stop-and-frisk divides communities. That's why the New York City Police Department has moved away from it.

Tom McGinnis, or McGirth, as he was more casually known due to his not-so-girlish figure, was the department's chief of detectives, Miriam's boss and perhaps the most egregious power-hungry ballbuster in the NYPD.

The captain was almost as tall as me. He wore his dark hair slicked tightly against his scalp. There were definite cliques inside the NYPD. Divisions happen in all large organizations. The simple old Irish-versus-Italian rivalry had given way to a much more complicated system. Ramirez identified strongly with the Hispanic clique and didn't give a crap if I was Irish, Italian, or black. I wasn't Hispanic so he didn't cut me any slack.

Maybe they'd string it up above the bar with the other toys, was my merry parting thought—the NYPD's contribution to lifestyles of the rich and famous.