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Quotes About Police

I broke the silence when I pulled up in front of his building. "The sheriff's police are likely to get a warrant to inspect your computer. You don't have anything on your server that suggests violence against the government, do you?" "We're not building bombs! How many times do I have to tell you and Aunt Lotty that EFS is building projects for life, not death." His voice quivered.
~ Sara Paretsky
Except . . . that would put her in Scarlet's bedroom. She'd instantly become a suspect. But saying nothing made her feel even worse—it was probably a huge crime to lie to a police officer, right?
~ Sara Shepard
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
~ Albert Camus
I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.
~ Grace Slick
Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.
~ Jackie Chan
If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite...wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.
~ Ryan Cabrera
I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.
~ Glenn Close
It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.
~ Jacqueline Rayner
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.
~ Jose Padilha
I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.
~ Tom Mison
In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.
~ Victor Cruz
Listen, Dundy, it's been a long time since I burst into tears because a policeman didn't like me.
~ Dashiell Hammett
Tiddy"? Matthias thought. The big, fierce Population Police officer goes by "Tiddy"?
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.
~ Marilyn Manson
Pretty girls were not perceived as a threat in the city. They moved around freely. They could watch the military and police posts, mapping entrances and exits, defenses, and gun positions, and noting the enemy's numbers and routines.
~ Mark Bowden
Today police have new tools for old crimes. DNA testing offers seemingly magic solutions to decades-old mysteries as long as physical evidence has been preserved.
~ Mark Bowden
Mileski had once been caught in a home burglary and had been shot in the leg by police. Afterward, he limped.
~ Mark Bowden
Nobody ever tells you when you go into police work that it will require dishonesty.
~ Mark Bowden
They knew it was a centuries-old tactic to wait for the right situation to arise, so that the lawmakers could be stampeded into passing some law which seemed only to apply to this given condition but in actuality broadened police powers over a wide area of man's actions.
~ Mark Clifton
I wondered whether Mrs. Shears had told the police that I had killed Wellington and whether, when the police found out that she had lied, she would go to prison. Because telling lies about people is called slander.
~ Mark Haddon
The police asked us whether we wanted counselling. We said we'd prefer a hot supper.
~ Mark Haddon
1 This is not a metaphor, it is a simile, which means that it really did look like there were two very small mice hiding in his nostrils and if you make a picture in your head of a man with two very small mice hiding in his nostrils you will know what the police inspector looked like. And a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.
~ Mark Haddon
I said I'm an exceedingly boring person ... I don't really think that. I think I'm a sort of weird composite of thrill-seeking heedlessness and crippling hyperanxiety—I mean, I've taken LSD before a root canal, but I'm equally capable of calling the police and are hospitals if my wife is even five minutes late coming home from a pedicure, so ...
~ Mark Leyner
Don't be afraid now. They're still in the next neighbourhood. I was in the outhouse when the alarm came." "When the alarm came" meant people leaping over fences in a mad dash to escape the police.
~ Mark Mathabane