Quotes About Police

Pragmatic and nonpartisan solutions will increase confidence in law enforcement and support good police while offering more transparency and accountability to citizens who have lost confidence in the justice system.

Greater transparency is the easiest and simplest solution to prevent officers who have previously been in trouble from getting new jobs. That's why we must create a national registry of police misconduct and disciplinary actions.

The police department's focus is on the FBI's Crime Index; those are the seven crimes that are reported monthly to the FBI: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny theft, and motor vehicle theft.

An 1888 police justice came right out and declared that for women only, simply being out at night was probable cause. The way he saw it, "no decent, respectable woman would be found in the street without an escort after 10 P.M.," and therefore, he told a Women's Prison Association investigator, "any woman alone in the street after that hour ought to be arrested." Accordingly, at night police would sometimes sweep up women by the dozens.

the relation between crime and poverty is no more essential than between crime and wealth." Where were the standing armies of police to monitor the crimes of the elite?

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them.

The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever did a DNA test on this sofa, it would be ninety per cent disappointment.

Search warrants designate a specific window of time during which the search must take place. Afterward, police must in a timely manner file a document with the court called a search-warrant return that lists exactly what was seized. It is then the judge's responsibility to review the seizure to make sure that the police acted within the parameters of the warrant.

The citizens want their police to protect them, to keep the plague from their eyes, from their doors. But those same John Q.'s are the first to stare wide-eyed and point the finger of outrage when they see close up exactly what the job they've given the cops entails.

Courts across the country had long approved the use of deception and trickery by police in an interview setting with a suspect, holding that an innocent person would see through the deception and not falsely confess to the crime.

thanks to the many police officers who over the years have given me an insight into their jobs and lives. I also want to ackowledge Tom Mangold

But I also knew that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the legality of the police's lying to a suspect if the lie would reasonably be seen as such by an innocent person.

most visible police department.

Lean in, invade that foot and a half that is all theirs, their own space. Lean back when you get what you want. It's subliminal. Most of what goes on in a police interrogation has nothing to do with what is said.

Just so you know, I'm guessing she had no doubt about whether she was raped, okay, McGee? Her hesitation was most likely about making a report to a department and officers who don't give a shit and don't view rape as much of a crime.

You are under arrest for murder, attempted murder and general conspiracy to be an asshole. - Harry Bosch

captain's office?" he asked.

She keyed the mic. "I'm not in detectives. Hold my 'boyfriend' there. I'll come get him." "Roger that." "Hey, L-T. We have a PO on Hollywood roster

KMA—I'm heading to scene. KMA was an old LAPD designation used at the end of a radio call. Some said it stood for Keep Me Apprised but in use it was the equivalent of over and out. Over time it had evolved to mean end of watch or, in this case, the victim's death.

dramatically the number of homicides. This had spurred a

Mel Gibson saved a lot of lives. All those sideways shooters, they couldn't hit shit. We ought to make him like an honorary cop or something.

The chief didn't respond. He leaned back in his chair and stared at a toy police helicopter hanging on a string from the ceiling. He liked to say it was the tiny department's air squadron.

Far as I know, it was a righteous bust. I'm