Quotes About Police

Cops are the same the world over. Once they commit to a position in public they never back down. Trying to make them is a waste of time. Reacher knew that from personal experience. But still, there are standards to uphold.

Military police," Reacher said. "But don't worry. I'm sure by five o'clock we'll have plenty of civilized people here. You can give up on me and get along with them instead." The

There would have been ten squad cars there in a thin minute.

According to court records, during the siege at Wounded Knee, more than two hundred and fifty thousand rounds were fired at our people by U.S. marshalls, FBI agents, the tribal police, the GOONs, and white vigilantes. These boys weren't kidding. And neither were we.

The police have asked for my help. There's been a murder. A murder! Oh, my. Let me just change my shoes, Evie said excitedly. It won't be a minute.

What good is having a friend who's a cop if he won't give me inside information? So you can ask him to look at a piece of shit pistol after you've already bought it, and pronounce it a piece of shit.

I'm calling the police, she said, showing him the phone in her hand. He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. You don't need the police. No, of course she didn't How silly.

The patrolling of the roads was slackest around the noon hour, for to the French police, as to other Frenchmen, mealtime was a sacred hour.

Luka loved the sheriff's department. He moved in a stiff-legged trot, all keen eyes and pricked-up ears. Retired police officer, returning for duty.

I'm not a police officer. I'm not a private investigator. I have no special skills or training. I'm only me. An average, middle-aged white woman with more regrets than belongings, more sad stories than happy ones.

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood.

Society has quite forsaken all her wicked courses, Which empties our police courts, and abolishes divorces.

All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

A flaky skin was particularly bad if you were a criminal, she had read, as it meant that you left a great deal of DNA at the scene of the crime. That had amused her. That would teach any flaky-skinned housebreakers to burgle people's houses. "You really need to do something about your skin," the police might say to such people when they arrested them.

But then she reminded herself that there were plenty of people who were afraid of the police, even if they had clear consciences. These were people who had been the victims of bullying when young--bullying by severe teachers, by stronger children; there were so many ways in which people could be crushed. Such people might feat the police in the same way in which they feared all authority.

That young barista you spoke to," Ulf said. "I think we should have a word with him." Blomquist took a tentative sip of his still-steaming coffee. "Why?" Ulf resisted the temptation to tell the policeman that it was not for him to question the direction of an investigation being carried out by the Sensitive Crimes Department

How strange, continued the king, with some asperity; the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.

Only a man off his trolley would consider riding around in a police car with Homicide. Homicide with psychic hunches.

In one such church in Wilmington, Delaware, the police broke up the meeting by throwing tear-gas bombs through the windows and when the marchers broke out from the church in disorderly fashion, clubbed and arrested those whom they suspected of being the leaders.

Well we certainly don't want to see that kind of thing,' admonished Jeff Stelling. 'Did it calm down?' 'No,' shouted Kamara. 'It got worse. The police were just getting involved when the chairman was hit by a pie thrown from the crowd.' 'Was he injured?' asked Stelling, struggling to suppress a giggle. 'I don't think so,' laughed Kamara. 'He sat down and started eating it!