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Quotes About Police

I used to run away from the cops and now I stand and chat with them about my art. I'm older now and it is harder to run away from them. It would be embarrassing for an older man to get arrested by someone half your age. So I gave up running.
~ Ben Eine
I'm black so I've been getting eyed by cops my whole life.
~ Masego
Growing up, you always heard of cops beating people up behind buildings and letting them go. Now they just shoot them.
~ DJ Yella
I'm the black sheep in a family of cops. I understand how difficult the job is.
~ Montel Vontavious Porter
I've had negative experiences with cops. I've had positive experiences with cops.
~ Aljamain Sterling
Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.
~ William Bratton
'Scott and Bailey' was very much forensically interested in the ins and outs of the way they went about cracking a case from the point of something happening to how they managed to arrest someone.
~ Lesley Sharp
Cops are doing crazy things now, and they catching theyselves; bodycams, carcams. But until they really start giving these cops time - 50 years, 100 years - it's not gonna stop. As long as they keep getting off, nothing's gonna happen. It's been going on since before N.W.A.
~ DJ Yella
It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.
~ Ludacris
I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.
~ Malcolm Jenkins
What we're dealing with is institutional, and unless systems are put into place that will ensure accountability, we can expect racially biased police practices to continue.
~ Michelle Alexander
While we have come a long way, we must go further if we are to ensure greater diversity and truly modern police forces that reflect the communities they serve and provide police officers able to tackle not only traditional crime but also the changing face of crime.
~ Theresa May
I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.
~ George Eads
If my tale has to revolve around a protagonist and there is action around him, I can only imagine him to be someone from the police or the Army.
~ Gautham Menon
Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales.
~ Seanan McGuire
On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo
Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
~ John Blair
Cops are generally color-blind when it comes to brown cars, and this Subaru is too boring for even a soccer mom. It looks like it was made for people into competitive tire filling.
~ Richard Kadrey
Then I heard it again. Like a baby crying. Maybe the police had come and arrested the Jews so fast that they hadn't taken the baby. Or maybe they just didn't take babies; what good were they in labor camp?
~ Richard Lourie
I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!
~ Richard Pryor
To ensure that no African Americans migrated to Richmond unless they were essential to the war effort, the city's police stopped African American men on the street and then arrested and jailed
~ Richard Rothstein
the phone rang once. It was a gal with a thready voice asking that I please hurry to her address because tiny saucer-shaped men were on her roof, screeching down the chimney at her. I told her to call 2680 at City Hall: the police psycho detail; they got calls like that every day.
~ Richard S. Prather
In the US, you even lose legal rights if you store your data in a company's machines instead of your own. The police need to present you with a search warrant to get your data from you but if they are stored in a company's server, the police can get it without showing you anything.
~ Richard Stallman
Has Timmy called?" "Timmy?" "Timothy J. Callahan. My great and good friend." "No. You think I'm running a dating service around here, Strachey? Doing social work among the perverts?" "I just asked if he'd phoned, Ned. Anyway, I'd never accuse the Albany Police Department of social work. Or even, in a good many cases, police work.
~ Richard Stevenson