Quotes About Police

Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.

A police officer asked me where I was between 4 and 5? I said kindergarten.

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

Wasn't planning on going for a run today, but those cops came out of nowhere.

Am închis citatul De câte ori închid citatul, Simt în mine Nu ?tiu ce secret? jubila?ie De poli?ist: L-am închis ?i pe-?sta, Mama lui de porc!

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

Part of what academics do is generate ideas and teach. The other, perhaps more important part, is to play the role of "the Bu*l*hit Police." Our job is to look at the ideas and plans interested parties put forward to solve our collective problems and see whether or not they pass the sniff test. Austerity as a route to growth and as the correct response to the aftermath of a financial crisis does not pass the sniff test.

In some major cities today, having a pro football team is a higher priority than providing basic services. The city of Oakland and Alameda County, for example, shell out over $30 million each year to support the Raiders; by 2012, Oakland, with one of the worst crime rates in the nation, had cut 200 police officers to save money. The

In 1991, not counting the regular police, there had been more than 400,000 internal security troops and paramilitaries across the whole USSR – one for every 700 Soviet citizens, and one for every ten regular soldiers. By 1995 there were some 382,500 security and paramilitary troops in the Russian Federation alone, or one for every 392 citizens.

By 2001, United States police violence and brutality had been roundly denounced, decried, and documented by Amnesty International and others as out of compliance with international law. United

Shock and awe" is deployed in U.S. city streets, complete with police in full body armor, helmeted and masked, with rubber-bullets (as well as live ammunition), flash bang grenades, armored personnel carriers, drones and more. Studying over 800 SWAT team actions between 2010 and 2013, the ACLU report, The War Comes Home, details the extraordinary intensification of militarized police.

As the increase of SWAT actions over the 1980s and 1990s suggests, militarized policing is not new. It is not simply a post-9/11 phenomenon. Demonstrators in Seattle in November 1999 confronted fully-outfitted military police in that city's streets when then unprecedented actions of protestors closed down World Trade Organization meetings of that year. "In truth," writes Jeffrey St. Clair, "the police have always been militarized.

Recall that the recently resurgent, militarized U.S. police forces have grown up at the same time as the spectacular rise of the U.S. prison industry. Indeed, the buildup of the U.S. prison archipelago, with its unprecedented rate of construction is itself a kind of spectacle, a grand SWAT operation worked upon our social landscape. Both the rise of prisons and the rising up of militarized policing make a show of spectacular force in the nation today.

Communities suffering a disproportionate number of returnees from prison are not just filled with predators and "super predators." This supposition can become another mantra of white caricature of communities of color, and often is used to justify more systemic surveillance and police violence in those neighborhoods. It is more important to recall that even if some return as violent actors, just as many, or more, return as fearful and broken persons into those communities.

Lockdown America, especially the mass incarceration and police violence that target poor communities of color, drive such leaders underground. Often, they have been murdered by the police. The Black Panther Party leaders, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, who were murdered by Chicago police, together offer perhaps the most memorable case in point. The Philadelphia police bombing and shooting of MOVE Organization members is another example, as discussed at the outset of Part One of this book.

This social leveraging masks how A/AAPIs themselves increasingly experience mass incarceration,[99] and also how some of its youth have experienced racist violence from white vigilantes and police groups[100]—even if their frequency of exposure to carceral violence is less than for blacks and Hispanics. Really,

More recently, the efforts against police violence that rippled through U.S. communities in 2014 as in the #blacklivesmatter movements are one manifestation of popular resistance against a U.S. state terror's long history.

A key to understanding why Lockdown America rises today is to consider our present system of punishment, particularly U.S. mass incarceration and police repression, as related to the production of economic wealth in the recent history of the United States.

Police violence, mass incarceration and the death penalty—the structural triad of the U.S. penal state I term "Lockdown America"—are not just challenges for Christians today, they demand re-thinking and re-creating what Christianity is. The challenges demand not simply sensitizing and mobilizing Christians, but more importantly re-envisioning and redefining just what constitutes "Jesus-followers" today.

United States police have repeatedly been found to use torture in their apprehending and detaining practices, and specific techniques designed by U.S. city police forces have shaped the reigning forms of torture used by U.S. CIA and other government security forces.

The police are often the frontline for surveillance, control, and dissemination of terror in poor communities.

Lockdown America, as that triadic structure of police violence, mass incarceration and the death penalty, is one key assemblage of governing forces, of the state's "jaws." Theorists

So it could be that the Deputy Inspector-General of Police was not quite the innocent worshipper he appeared to be on that morning of 25th April.