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Quotes About Police

Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.
~ Robert Crais
The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities. Who has a personal and professional interest in lowering that violence? Cops.
~ Don Winslow
The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.
~ Heather Mac Donald
The police have spent years pursuing Islamic extremism while too often overlooking the growing violent threat posed by the far-right.
~ Dawn Foster
When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'
~ Al Sharpton
In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn't recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent.
~ Vladimir Putin
I am firmly of the view we should keep the police out of politics in Britain, or we risk going the way of American politics, where the Whitewater investigation lasted virtually the whole of the two terms of the Clinton administration but turned up nothing.
~ Jonathan Powell
Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'
~ Matt Smith
Brittles stood at attention until Jack looked at him, then he bowed slightly. "I'm sorry to disturb you, sir, but an Inspector Swindler from Scotland Yard wishes to speak with you. Are you home?" "Of course, I'm home, man. I'm sitting right here.
~ Lorraine Heath
Nat Glover (Jacksonville Sheriff 1995-2003). I appointed him patrolman when I was mayor. In 1965, we had a segregated police department. A black officer could not arrest a white person. When the black officers were recruited, they had their own precinct over on the west side of LaVilla and were given passed down uniforms.
~ Unknown
The madness of crowds was a terrible thing to see. The madness of police with clubs and guns was even worse.
~ Louise Penny
precision and clarity where the police
~ Louise Penny
This election in Ga will be the most important in history, you have nothing to worry about unless you are a tax payer, parent, gun owner, cop, person of faith, or an unborn baby!
~ Unknown
Los borrachos están indefectiblemente solos. Los suicidas vienen acompañados al menos por otra persona, en general varias más. Que tal vez era la idea en un principio. Mínimo dos agentes de la policía de Oakland. Al final he entendido por qué el suicidio se considera delito.
~ Unknown
Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.
~ Lucille Roybal-Allard
the fact that a police officer on TV said what used to be a fist fight or road rage is now a shooting, and what used to be a domestic dispute is now a gun rampage, and what used to be a tardy or disruptive student is now a school shooter, the fact that the police aren't much better themselves, the fact that what used to be an arrest or a warning is now a split-second execution
~ Lucy Ellmann
Few now would associate de-roofing with the police, but the verb 'to detect' originated in detegere —a detective raises the roof, figuratively.
~ Unknown
To control and prevent further homicides due to jealousy and rage, multiple social agencies must be involved. This type of violence cannot be controlled only through the police and judicial systems.
~ Unknown
His years as a policeman had taught him to be not fearless, only to disregard the fact of being afraid.
~ John Banville
If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.
~ Martin Scorsese
The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!
~ Heather Mills
No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.
~ Roberto Bolaño, 2666