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Quotes About Police

After almost ten years as a Denver cop, Sam was sick of seeing what humanity was really capable of. He had grown up reading cop stories, always seeing how the cops would save the day, watching them rescue the innocent and punish the guilty every week on TV, until he finally knew that he had to be one himself.
~ David Archer
In 1931 there were three crimes a year for every police officer. In 2001 there were 44.
~ James Bartholomew
For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.
~ James Brady
No Socialist system can be established without a political police.
~ James C. Humes
If you get lonesome enough, Carrie knew, you'll even call the police.
~ James Purdy
As it turned out Miranda did not much change the practices of law enforcement: police and prosecutors managed to figure out ways of maneuvering around the decision.
~ James T. Patterson
Cloke Rayburn, a school friend of Corcoran's and one of those who first notified police, said that Corcoran 'is a real straight guy - definitely not mixed up in drugs or anything like that.
~ Donna Tartt
Here am I, sweating my brains out to introduce a really sensational incident into your dull and disreputable little police investigation, and you refuse to show a single spark of enthusiasm.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I have rather an unwholesome weakness for policemen.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.
~ Douglas Adams
There were three of them, three police cars left askew across the road in a way that transcended mere parking. It sent out a massive signal to the world saying that the law was here now taking charge of things, and that anyone who just had normal, good and cheerful business to conduct in Lupton Road could just fuck off.
~ Douglas Adams
The air was stifling, but he liked it because it was stifling city air, full of excitingly unpleasant smells, dangerous music, and the distant sound of warring police tribes.
~ Douglas Adams
And I write novels! chimed in the other cop. Though I haven't had any of them published yet, so I better warn you, I'm in a meeeean mood!
~ Douglas Adams
coincidences are strange and dangerous things. Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police—who already think you're guilty—will find it for you.
~ Douglas Adams
The daylight shouldered its way in like a squad of policemen and did a lot of what's-all-thising around the room
~ Douglas Adams
The daylight shouldered its way in like a squad of policemen and did a lot of what's-all-thising around the room, which, like the bedroom, would have presented anyone of an aesthetic disposition with difficulties.
~ Douglas Adams
but do you really think it's wise under the circumstances? I mean, here we are on the run and everything, we must have the police of half the Galaxy after us by now, and we stop to pick up hitchhikers.
~ Douglas Adams
Hey," he said, "I thought you said you didn't want to shoot us!" and ducked again. They waited. After a moment a voice replied, "It isn't easy being a cop!
~ Douglas Adams
There are many essential police skills they don't teach you at the Academy," said Pendergast. "Ass covering, as it is so charmingly termed, being the most important.
~ Douglas Preston
All indications are that burglar/murderer Rudy Guede was a police informant.
~ Douglas Preston
But on the final evening of Amanda's interrogation, she was interrogated all night. Not by just one or two detectives, but by adozen—twelve—detectives. Again, the police not only do not dispute this; they have entered this evidence into court.
~ Douglas Preston
That gimcrack little desk, probably sham antique Louis XIV. She had said something to him once about there being a secret drawer in it. Secret drawer! That would not fool the police long.
~ Agatha Christie
The police, as servants of law, must be of a high order of integrity. For their word is perforce believed by the virtue of their profession.
~ Agatha Christie
Két fiatal fiú ült vele szemben. A rend?rség fiatalkorúnak tekinti ?ket, az ? szemében gyerekek, az újságírókéban kamaszok. Hívjuk ?ket akárminek. A kor termékei. Egyikük sem ostoba, még ha nem is oly magas szellemiségek, ahogy az imént hízelgett nekik, hogy elindítsa a beszélgetést.
~ Agatha Christie