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Quotes About Police

Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.
~ Rahm Emanuel
It's so much more difficult to get police officers to testify against other police officers.
~ Dan Donovan
If we don't have a responsive democracy, all the debates about charter schools, and fracking, and high-stakes testing, and the militarization of police forces - all of which are issues I care about – they aren't real debates.
~ Zephyr Teachout
Some of the cocaine sold at street level is of such poor quality that police have busted dealers and had to release them because the quantity of cocaine in their product is so low that it's not even illegal.
~ Robert Muchamore
hoax played by a drunken officer.
~ Robert Muchamore
road signs pointing to San Francisco and Las Vegas, American cop cars and sixteen lanes of traffic.
~ Robert Muchamore
during the national anthem to protest the killing of African Americans by police; and has consistently avoided unequivocal condemnations of violence perpetrated by white nationalists.
~ Robert P. Jones
These stark divides prompt a simple but fundamental question: why can't White Christian America understand how African Americans feel about the black men who have died at the hands of white police officers? To
~ Robert P. Jones
Omally shook his head. 'Police stations are bad places to break into, this is well known.
~ Robert Rankin
La "inquietud revolucionaria" yo la definiría como un desasosiego colectivo que no se atreve a manifestar sus deseos, todos se sienten alterados, enardecidos, los periódicos fomentan la tormenta y la policía le ayuda deteniendo a inocentes,
~ Roberto Arlt
Most of us laugh at the list first time through. One hundred and forty ways not to re-offend? Including such winners as call the police, take a cold shower, or my personal favorite, jump in the ocean in the middle of winter. I go with the usual: Wasn't alone with children, stayed out of bars, didn't drive aimlessly, didn't place high expectations on myself, and snapped a rubber band.
~ Lisa Gardner
Hamilton also knew that the government needed a police force to ensure that the two elected branches, the legislature and the executive, did not overstep their bounds in an effort to hang onto power.
~ Lisa Paddock
Dionisio arose reluctantly from his bed, went to the window to see what kind of day it was, and went to the telephone to call the police.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Folks who talk about no violence are always the ones who are first to call a policeman and usually they are sure there is one handy.
~ Louis L'Amour
haunted by image after image. People kneeling, beaten. People singing, beaten. Mothers, beaten. Fathers, beaten. Young, beaten. Old, knocked down or beaten. If you approached the police, beaten. If you ran away, kettled, then beaten. Pollux had known good people, seen lives saved by his fellow patrol officers. So who was doing the beating? The uniforms or those inside them? How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really
~ Louise Erdrich
answer him. He and the sergeant went to the head
~ Ruth Rendell
For a Christianity preached by royal functionaries who are paid and made secure by the State and employ the police against other people, such a Christianity has the same relation to the Christianity of the New Testament as swimming with a cork float or with a bladder has to swimming, that is to say, it is play.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Running along the bank was a white rabbit wearing a waistcoat and looking worriedly at a clock. Appearing and disappearing at various points on both banks was a dark blue British police telephone booth, out of which a perplexed-looking man holding a screwdriver would periodically emerge. A group of dwarf bandits could be seen disappearing into a hole in the sky. Time travelers, said Nobodaddy in a voice of gentle disgust. They're everywhere these days.
~ Salman Rushdie
all over India policemen were arresting people, all opposition leaders except members of the pro-Moscow Communists, and also schoolteachers lawyers poets newspapermen trade-unionists, in fact anyone who had ever made the mistake of sneezing during the Madam's speeches
~ Salman Rushdie
Bu kutsal bir sözdür, iyi bilirim: polis hata yapt???nda iz üzerinde olduÄŸunu söyler, hükümet de, polisin süklüm püklüm gelip izin yok olduÄŸunu söyleyeceÄŸi güne kadar sakin sakin bekler.
~ Alexandre Dumas
In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheater, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In comparison, they said, I was lucky.
~ Alice Sebold
Rumors would later abound in the black community that Gates and the LAPD had simply let the initial rioting explode so that, as Bill Parker had suggested twenty-seven years earlier, the white public would later get out and "support a strong police department.
~ Joe Domanick
There is no such thing as a good police shooting, it's either justified or not. - MSNBC 9/21/16
~ Joe Giacalone
Hutter thought, not for the first time, that she hated a lot of cops. Ugly, mean drunks who believed the worst of everyone.
~ Joe Hill