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Quotes About Police

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.
~ William Feather
My first car I bought for $400 and it was a Subaru and it was shaped like a door wedge and it was confiscated by the police.
~ Xzibit
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels.
~ Dennis Miller
There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
~ Peter James
I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying.
~ Tommy Bond
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
~ Benjamin Harrison
There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.
~ Merle Haggard
I was knocked down and dragged by a police Land Rover in a hit-and-run.
~ Adrian McKinty
I know how young black men are seen. They're boys - scared little boys, oftentimes. I was one of them. I was completely afraid of the Los Angeles Police Department.
~ Kehinde Wiley
If you're ringing my doorbell eight times every three minutes and hiding behind my garbage cans, I will call the police. That is literally harassment.
~ James Charles
So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.
~ Tom Lantos
Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.
~ Algee Smith
The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You've got people on the one side saying, 'We need to be holding our police accountable.' And you've got a lot of people who support the police saying they're being 'unfairly vilified.'
~ Dan Abrams
We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.
~ Bobby Seale
The Kerala Police is the best law and order force and investigation agency in the country.
~ Pinarayi Vijayan
Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.
~ Richard Perle
Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We're not talking about if you're black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don't know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.
~ Megan Rapinoe
I think people have always had ambiguous relationships toward the police because of the position in society they occupy. But that anxiety and that animosity isn't as strong in other places as it is in the U.S., partially because the police are armed here.
~ Clare-Hope Ashitey
In 1918, a police chief of Jerusalem was a Montefiore.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Cinematic icons of the police detective are more male role models than female.
~ Frances McDormand
The police need to come down to street level.
~ Alexander McQueen
To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.
~ Frances Perkins
We want the police to be young, educated, and have a completely different outlook.
~ Vitali Klitschko
When I am on E! for the 'Fashion Police,' I only care about being a critic. It loses me many friends.
~ Joan Rivers