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Quotes About Policing

In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature.
~ Radclyffe Hall
If you look at African American newspapers from the very early 20th century, there is an ongoing discussion about the problems with policing. Literally nonstop 100 plus year problem... (4/12/2021 on Twitter)
~ Unknown
Stott believed that the key to policing riots was to essentially stop policing riots.
~ Daniel Coyle
When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.
~ Lennie James
Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.
~ Opal Tometi
Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.
~ Alan Mollohan
More draconian forms of policing and punishment are no guarantee of a reduction in violent crime.
~ Ash Sarkar
I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.
~ Chris Grayling
The majority of the public are experiencing the impact of Tory austerity on their public services, from longer waiting times for operations to a lack of visible community policing.
~ Wes Streeting
I want to see traditional policing with a modern flavour. I am completely committed to local, visible policing, but we have to modernise. There are such opportunities for people to interact with police through the digital sphere that we have not achieved yet.
~ Cressida Dick
Being a firearms officer is incredibly highly scrutinised now, and I think it is one of the things that puts off quite a lot of people. And if you think that you are more visible in that role as a woman, you might feel slightly less inclined to go into it than a man.
~ Cressida Dick
We have to ensure we are aggressively enforcing existing laws.
~ Rob Portman
Ever think of becoming a cop?" "I did, but at the time there wasn't much opportunity for women. Lady cops were confined to typing, taking shorthand, and the juvenile division." "And I don't suppose you have any womanly skills like typing or taking shorthand?" I smiled. "No, but I'm a mean shot with a .38 and I bake terrific bread.
~ Marcia Muller
An economic order rooted in a system of production that tolerates and depends upon hierarches of class and race will have to devise systems of control and punishment to deal with social dynamite. This need to control yields the kind of policing, imprisoning, and executing we see today in the political theatrics of state terror, both to move aside those seen as "social junk," and to remove and "neutralize" those seen as "social dynamite.
~ Unknown
As parenting declines, the need for policing increases. There will always be a shortage of police if there is a shortage of effective parents! Likewise, there will not be enough prisons if there are not enough good homes.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
All life produces waste. The act of living produces costs, hazards and disposal questions, and so the (Environment) Ministry has found itself in the center of all life, mitigating, guiding and policing the detritus of the average person along with investigating the infractions of the greedy and short-sighted, the ones who wish to make quick profits and trade on others lives for it.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
Intelligence Model – a formal declaration of how intelligence should be applied to policing OCN – an organized criminal network
~ Unknown