Quotes About Police

Wives bleeding and bruised often denied abuse when police appeared to check out a domestic disturbance. They feared even worse if they put their spouses in jail. It happened every day. "Jenny's

He smiled. 'You think I'm a racist, like all cops.' He didn't seem to mind.

I never paid much attention to cops before, and if I did, I saw them as adversaries. Not unlike the way Detective Malloy sees women.

Isn't it just as much the duty of the police to free the innocent, as to bring the guilty to justice?

Now suspicious, Wills called the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police. The nearest uniformed officers responded to the police dispatcher that they were busy putting gas in their squad car (although they were, in fact, drinking at a nearby bar),

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

Cops are some of my best sources. They have so much information.

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

He confessed over and over again to anyone willing to listen, until finally a police officer kindly offered to arrest him.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

I'm going to call the police!" Cindy said. "Hold it," I said, "I can explain everything!" "It better be good," said Cindy. "It better," said Celine. I couldn't think of anything. I just stood there.

American cops are so heavily militarized these days that the only way I can tell the difference between them and the army is the color of their body armor—that, and the army is less trigger-happy.

Yippee. I haven't had this much fun since I was in the Transhuman Police, mixing it up with superpowered neo-Nazis, and by fun I mean fuck me I demand a pay rise and a nice quiet office job—

My children are puppies. The police officer quickly figured out that I was trying to say that my children were lost. He was kind but not overly concerned.

She cried the first time she was pulled over by a cop. I explained to her that there is no reason to cry when getting pulled over--unless you're coming directly from from a crime scene.

But every effort to make this work in practice at any scale failed, largely because the social bonds that police such mutual aid tend to fray when the size of the group exceeds 150 (termed the "Dunbar number"—the empirically observed limit at which the members of a human community can maintain strong links with one another).

Democrats and Republicans agree that police misconduct should be better tracked. But agreement appears to end there.

Rather than arrest the assailant, white police officers hauled off a black bystander who objected to their inaction.

those rare homes in which it's spoken with any regularity are likely under police surveillance.

Anna clung to him while he explained that the scorpion's tail was up because it was just as scared of her as she was of it. In Detroit, watching baby-faced police handling guns, she remembered the scorpion's rigid tail.

running across the street to get out of the way of mounted police meant obstructing traffic. Finally Dr. Rio. A Cadillac. A hammer. A gentle, almost reluctant arrest. After an hour's wait, no charges pressed, no write-up or interview, they gave her back the shopping bag and let her go.

This is why cops shoot people in the back, I thought. They can't keep up. Then

As I said to that policeman, I don't know. I've