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Quotes About Police

I can't even go to Rolling Loud and perform without the police and the news lying on me, trying to lock me up.
~ Tee Grizzley
I'd be a rubbish policewoman in real life.
~ Claudia Jessie
There are some situations where the police need to have adequate resources on hand in order to be able to go into a situation safely. Their job is to enforce the law, not be martyrs.
~ Ted Wheeler
In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.
~ Angus Deaton
While bad cops should face the full consequence of the law, the overwhelming majority of good cops have earned our support.
~ Lee Zeldin
Our country has a painful history of mistrust between police departments and people of color. The overuse of stop-and-frisk has made those divisions much worse.
~ Bill de Blasio
Despite its size and its long porous border with Nepal and increasing Naxal problems, U.P. had not been treated at par with the Congress-rules states like Delhi and Maharashtra in terms of funding for police modernisation.
~ Mayawati
There was a time not so long ago when you couldn't get into Malawi unless you could slide a Coke bottle between your leg and your jeans. You had to stick the bottle in at the waistband and under the watchful gaze of the Malawi police, move it between the denim and your pelvis and down your inside leg until it popped out through the leghole near your foot. The government claimed that it was to protect the country from the moral decline caused by tight jeans.
~ Peter Moore
Ya para agosto, las brigadas paramilitares derechistas bloqueaban el tráfico con barricadas ardientes y protagonizaban batallas campales con grupos de jóvenes izquierdistas en el centro de Santiago, mientras grupos estudiantiles de democratacristianos buscaban mártires en enfrentamientos con la policía durante manifestaciones contra políticas educacionales juzgadas perjudiciales para las escuelas privadas.
~ Peter Winn
A few years I discovered this wonderful device which boosts my productivity enormously. Fortunately, it comes in handy pint-sized glasses and is called beer." "I figured no one is going to be dumb enough to break into the house of the local police inspector.
~ Phil Hall
In August of 1993, Frank Salerno, the famous bulldog of Sheriffs Homicide, retired from police work for good.
~ Philip Carlo
Serial killers very rarely, if ever, let people into their confidence. Murder is their secret and they guard it carefully. This is one of several reasons police agencies have difficulty apprehending serial murderers: they keep their mouths shut about who they really are, and after the truth does come out everyone is always shocked.
~ Philip Carlo
Julian was introduced to the commandante of the Juarez Police. He immediately liked the way Julian looked and was pleased to hear he knew about the handling of guns from his time in the army. He was sworn in right away, given a uniform and a gun, and told to report for duty the next morning.
~ Philip Carlo
Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks' distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation's history?
~ Philip Dray
My research collaborator Don Moore points out that police officers spend a lot of time figuring out who is telling the truth and who is lying, but research has found they aren't nearly as good at it as they think they are and they tend not to get better with experience. That's because experience isn't enough. It must be accompanied by clear feedback.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
Predictably, psychologists who test police officers' ability to spot lies in a controlled setting find a big gap between their confidence and their skill. And that gap grows as officers become more experienced and they assume, not unreasonably, that their experience has made them better lie detectors. As a result, officers grow confident faster than they grow accurate, meaning they grow increasingly overconfident.
~ Philip E. Tetlock
Billing was at Tower Hill, addressing the 12,000 police who had called a general strike ('Traffic Managing Itself' headlined The Times, noting that at least the reprehensible strikers had agreed to work in the event of an air raid)
~ Philip Hoare
Um bom polícia continua a ser um bom polícia, mesmo que seja um sacana nazi.
~ Philip Kerr
If there's one thing more ridiculous than the idea of a policeman who's thinking, it's a policeman saying he expects something important to come of it.
~ Philip Kerr
wherever Haley's voice rang out with "One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock RAHK…" the gritty drama on the screen was totally eclipsed by mayhem among the audience. Boys and girls alike went literally berserk, shrieking like banshees, tearing at the fabric of their seats, lurching out to dance in the aisles or engage in mass brawls that required dozens of police to contain them.
~ Philip Norman
has amounted at times to a crisis of confidence in the police, especially
~ Philip Norton
Despite a marked increase in police funding, there
~ Philip Norton
dishonesty. The 1984 Police and Criminal Evidence Act requires the recording of all interviews. Most of the major cases involving fabricated evidence predated the act. However, in one case in 1989, the lord chief justice quashed
~ Philip Norton
It's problematic when we have excessive numbers of police taking over the streets. People visiting Seoul for the first time might think... this is a military state.
~ Park Won-soon