Quotes About Police

As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!' I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.

How many black boys Jamil's age would one day end up staring down the barrel of a police officer's gun because of a quick assumption, or fear?

She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me! .... The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me! .... (and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)

I'm calling you from the booking room. There are about a dozen cops and guards here, and every one of 'em knows I arrested my own mother for disorderly conduct. You know what she kept calling me in front of the bondsman?" [Russ] dropped his voice further. " 'Sweetie!' I'm never gonna live this down.

Scotland Yard men were responsible for following her—and at this point, things went badly wrong. "Whether she had left before the watch began or whether she is still there, I am powerless to say," reported an exasperated Robert Anderson. "The police [are] utterly unfit for work of this kind.

After he tipped his hat and left, Jillian watched him stride down the hallway. Yeah, Big-brotherly overprotection aside, fortysomething looked good on the police captain from this view, too.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.

Wait!" What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup. You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee." Cup coffee?" Taste it." What? Are you the coffee police or something?

Rosa!" Sally says. "The police are here to help you, not to hear a lecture on comparative murder rates.

Racist police, no matter what their rank, have to be weeded from every department and not allowed to work in law enforcement again anywhere.

I mean just like the police don't tell me how to do the interviews, you know, we don't tell them how to do their business.

I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.

The desert's illimitable freedom," the officer murmured, as he poured out Simon's whiskey. "It's not altogether her fault, Mr. Jackson. It's these damned novelists. Every novel written about the desert should be censored by the police.

The police," he said. "You can't carry firearms in England without a licence. Just like dogs. You'll be getting into trouble before you know where you are. Now look here, ma'am," he went on, with increasing confidence, "you'd far better make a clean breast of it." "A clean breast? What do you mean? Why do you pester me like this?" she cried, with sudden terror.

Approximately how many 'inkspots' can a police blotter soak-up before it is retired or replaced?

Where these sociodemographic groups overlap is where police attention is most focused. Thus, millions of Americans have been targeted for more intensive police attention outside of the gaze or knowledge of most middle-class whites. And it has not been trivial at all. It has been humiliating, frustrating, and unfair. Beyond all that, it has been ineffective.

Our analysis suggests that ratcheting up the use of traffic stops as a crime fighting strategy has little positive effect on crime but dramatically negative effects on racial disparities, on alienation and trust in the minority community, and on community cooperation with the police.

As the US Justice Department explains in their report on the Ferguson PD, "the lower rate at which officers find contraband when searching African-Americans indicates either that officers' suspicion of criminal wrongdoing is less likely to be accurate when interacting with African-Americans or that officers are more likely to search African-Americans without any suspicion of criminal wrongdoing. Either explanation suggest bias, whether explicit or implicit" (US DOJ 2015, 65).

Our argument is that it is not contact with the police per se that is problematic. In fact, the results of the study suggest that when the police deal with people in ways that they experience as being fair, contact promotes trust and a variety of types of desirable public behavior. Rather, it is contact that communicates suspicion and mistrust that undermines the relationship between the public and the police.

Collectively, police have a contraband hit rate of 29 percent (or 12 percent, looking only at arrest-worthy contraband).

Taken together, NC police show some alarming tendencies, namely a propensity to search blacks at a much higher rate than whites, even as they are less likely to find contraband on blacks (at least when there is discretion involved).

Altogether, fewer than 10 percent of citizen interactions with the police involve criminal investigations, and almost 60 percent involve traffic stops or accidents, with routine traffic stops by far the most common source of all police contact

Unfortunately, it just so happened that the city-wide camera system, controlled by the police, was down that night from 12:20 AM until 12:35 AM. Seriously? Isn't that convenient… Even more convenient that at the exact same times, there was a complete radio silence on the emergency channels.

On the contrary we must persuade ourselves that colonialism is incapable of procuring for colonized peoples the material conditions likely to make them forget their quest for dignity. Once colonialism has understood where its social reform tactics would lead it, back come the old reflexes of adding police reinforcements, dispatching troops, and establishing a regime of terror better suited to its interests and its psychology. (147)