Quotes About Police

I love the police, contrary to many people.

I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my diet. It's like secret little police that I've made for myself.

Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.

I think our police do an excellent job, day in and day out, working to keep us safe.

After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.

I don't know if it's true or not that folks are less likely to tell police when they see things.

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

I myself have been scrutinized by militarized police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

I think the answer to civil disorder in America, the answer to police problems in America, the answer to jail overcrowding and all the problems that we see is - the one answer is that government must go back to its people.

'Blackish' is set in current times. So, doing a police brutality episode in current times when kids are watching our show, it gives them an access point to have these kinds of conversations as family.

When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.

What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.

The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it.

If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve.

The LAPD, like most police departments, is a male-dominated bureaucracy. A woman faces a lot of pushback.

The Pakistani Army, the Frontier Corps, the Frontier Scouts and Police have carried out quite impressive counter-insurgency operations.

In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police.

As liberals in charge and a media question the capabilities of police, they then limply ask why there is an anti-police atmosphere or why cops are holding back.

I'm quite investigative. Believe it or not, my mum and dad were in the police, and I sort of like to read into things and stuff.