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Quotes About Police

I always thought if I had a band it would have the energy and feel of early Police, since that's where my roots are, and then the harmonies of the Eagles, and the technique of King Crimson or something like that. Fast, up-tempo, beat-the-hell-out-of-the-drums, because that's my style. Energy, but sophistication, rhythmically and melodically.
~ Taylor Hawkins
When Colin Kaepernick first took a knee, he took it, and he identified police brutality, aggressive policing techniques, he broadened it to things like oppression to inequality.
~ Will Cain
I think it would be difficult to explore some aspects of Ted's past, because 'Line of Duty' investigates fictitious police forces - you never know, and you should never know, who it is we might be investigating.
~ Adrian Dunbar
Ted Hastings is the guy you would hope would be part of the police. He's got his problems, but is relentless in the pursuit of the truth.
~ Adrian Dunbar
The most credible police shows I've ever seen were 'Barney Miller' on TV and 'The French Connection' movie. They showed the tedious side of police work.
~ Dennis Farina
When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
~ Ian Anderson
I really believe in the power of social control coming from within the community itself. The community protecting itself, its children, its teenagers, you know? I think that's far more effective than a police presence.
~ Fernando Haddad
Now, can some cops be overbearing, rude? Yeah. But we have a process for that. Do what the officer tells you to do, and file a complaint. That's the process. You don't attack a police officer on the street or resist arrest because you think you're being hassled.
~ David A. Clarke, Jr.
Our effort was mocked by some police supervisors: has the computer caught Ted yet?
~ Robert D. Keppel
If it can be said that serial killers, through the control they exert and the terror they spread, make victims of the entire communities—families and loved ones, the police who track them, and the general public who must live in fear—then in his own way, Dave was a victim of the Green River killer, just as I became one of Ted Bundy's victims.
~ Robert D. Keppel
The policeman is the most important social worker we have. Often it is far better to settle an argument or disperse a crowd and move on than to make an arrest.
~ Robert Daley
Two detectives worked on the crime-scene sketch.
~ Robert Dugoni
an officer on traffic control. "Welcome to the party," he said
~ Robert Dugoni
It was the type of generic statement Tracy had heard often as a police officer when someone had no specific or rational answer to one of her questions. Instead, they accused her of being a racist. "I'm Norwegian and Swiss," she said. "And a little Irish. What did I rip off from you?
~ Robert Dugoni
Y cuando explotó la primera bomba, sonó dentro del primer vehículo de los nuestros como un estallido detrás de nosotros. Los policías con sus pasamontañas sabían lo que era, y la segunda bomba detonó a 100 metros de distancia mientras yo abría la puerta trasera.
~ Robert Fisk
Can I ask who you are, sir?" "Yeah, I expect so," said Strike, walking past him and ringing the doorbell. Anstis's dinner invitation notwithstanding, he was not feeling sympathetic to the police just now. "Should be just about within your capabilities.
~ Robert Galbraith
Thanks are also due to the two policewomen who didn't arrest me for taking photographs of the perimeter of a nuclear facility in Barrow-in-Furness. To all the lyricists who have
~ Robert Galbraith
The Nazi effort to foster the relationship between the police and society took many forms, including a new public relations event, the 'Day of the German Police'. It was held for the first time just before Christmas in 1934, and every year across Germany thereafter around that time to show the gentler and social side of the police, who collected money for the charity 'Winter Help Works'.
~ Robert Gellately
According to the Himmler–Thierack agreements in 1942, the justice system was in the future mainly for Germans only.150 Their agreements went a long way in recognizing the validity of 'police justice'. Execution orders for Poles, usually carried out as soon as possible and beyond appeal, were formulated in such a way as to make clear that the decision was made by the police, not the courts.
~ Robert Gellately
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
a strong argument could be made that the police are the first line of defense for African Americans.
~ Roger L. Simon
So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control the individual but to free him. The
~ Roger Scruton
I feel that the Photograph creates my body or mortifies it, according to its caprice (apology of this mortiferous power: certain Communards paid with their lives for their willingness or even their eagerness to pose on the barricades: defeated, they were recognized by Thiers's police and shot, almost every one).
~ Roland Barthes
can do something about crime. Not a lot, I admit, but something. Because crime, all crime, is irrational. It is opposed to the logic of life, and so it is evil. And that is why I became a cop.
~ Lawrence Sanders