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Quotes About Police

I used to have a gun made every month; I would get another pistol made that I would design. I'm very into the military and police stuff like that.
~ Steven Seagal
I've been harassed by police my whole life and seen people who looked like me treated like animals at the hands of law enforcement.
~ Vic Mensa
I have tremendous respect for law enforcement.
~ John Bel Edwards
When the very people that you been taught to believe in - the police, the D.A., these are the people that are supposed to stand for justice - and when you know that they lied to you, it's hard for you to have trust in anybody.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
Be grateful for villainy, I thought. The jobs of millions depended on it, Gerard's included. Police, lawyers, tax inspectors, prison warders, court officials, security guards, locksmiths and people making burglar alarms. Where would they be the world over but for the multiple faces of Cain. "Gerard," I said.
~ Dick Francis
Most recently, in order to quell dissent, the progressives are implementing a chilling policy of national surveillance and selective prosecution—using the power of the police to harass and subdue their opposition.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
A police car went by with its siren going, a rotary slurping noise, it sounded like the blender in their kitchen—she made fruit shakes compulsively that they felt morally bound to drink.
~ Don DeLillo
The police had consulted Adele T. on a number of occasions and she had led them to two bludgeoned bodies, a Syrian in a refrigerator and a cache of marked bills totaling six hundred thousand dollars, although in each instance, the report concluded, the police had been looking for something else. The American mystery deepens.
~ Don DeLillo
Of course not." "How do you know?" "I just know." "Remember how we couldn't go to school?" "That was inside. This is outside." We heard police sirens blowing. I watched Steffie's lips form the sequence: wow wow wow wow. She smiled in a certain way when she saw me watching, as though gently startled out of some absentminded pleasure. Denise walked in, rubbing her hands on her jeans.
~ Don DeLillo
Roberta Marieschi
~ Donna Leon
If criminals can't believe in an illegal deal with the police, what can they believe in?
~ Donna Leon
Do you prepare these speeches when you're washing the dishes, or do such rhetorical flourishes come to you unrehearsed?' She considered his question in the spirit in which it had been asked and answered, 'I'd say they come to me quite naturally, though I imagine I'm aided by the fact that I see myself as the Language Police, ever on the prowl for infelicities or stupidities.' 'Lots of work?' he asked. 'Endless.' She
~ Donna Leon
If cops were viewed as the enemy, the tenuous balance of power could shift. Laws would be broken out of contempt. Authority wouldn't be acknowledged. Police officers might even be attacked, or worse.
~ J.A. Konrath
A cop? You married a bloody cop?" " I married a bloody criminal," Eve muttered, "but nobody ever thinks of that.
~ J.D. Robb
For a number of years, a serial killer roamed Columbia, killing victim after victim. After the body count had reached 300, the police had just about enough clues to identify the perpetrator, Pedro Lopez, and thankfully caught him. At his trial he pleaded insanity, and was sent to a mental asylum. Just four years later, doctors there declared Lopez sane and released him. His current whereabouts are unknown.
~ Jack Goldstein
For a number of years, a serial killer roamed Columbia,
~ Jack Goldstein
JACK NICHOLSON: My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. LOS ANGELES TIMES: Which is? JACK NICHOLSON: That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system. LOS ANGELES TIMES: Let's talk about acting for a minute.
~ Jack Nicholson
I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.
~ Jack Williamson
Knowledge requires that what we believe is true and that we can justify our belief that it is true. In this way, the pursuit of knowledge resembles the work of police detectives: it's not enough to get the right man, you also must have the evidence.
~ Unknown
It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.
~ Jacqueline Rayner
Even when my girls were little, we'd go down there, my grandmother tells us. And people'd be marching. The marching didn't just start yesterday. Police with those dogs, scared everybody near to death. Just once I let my girls march.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
Tay knew that if he gave the Hong Kong police what he had discovered, they wouldn't have been able to touch Albert Chan. He doubted they would have even tried.
~ Unknown
In the annals of Parisian cultural history, the episode is still known as "the scandal of L'Age d'or.") A week later, Police Chief Chiappe closed the theatre; the film was censored, and remained so for fifty years.
~ Luis Bunuel
Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist; but he almost always reveals his genius on a stage crowded with people who behave like the men and women one reads about in the police news.
~ Unknown