Quotes About Police

I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.

Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.

During the Umbrella Movement, the police force wasn't in control, and the police ignored the law and tried to use extreme force to hurt people.

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings.

A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America.

The whole drug war is nothing but a pretext to increase police power and personnel, and that, of course, is dead wrong. So many created imagined drug offenses.

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

A police interview is non-accusatory. It is an act of gathering information. An interrogation is accusatory. It is an act of persuasion. "An interrogation is conducted only when the investigator is reasonably certain of the suspect's guilt," according to Essentials of the Reid Technique: Criminal Interrogation and Confessions.

A police officer who does not believe there is such a crime as rape can arrive at only one determination

From 2009 to 2014, the Baltimore County Police Department dismissed 34 percent of rape allegations as false or baseless. The percentage itself was troubling enough. More troubling yet was how it was reached. The department often deep-sixed complaints without even taking the elemental step of having a sex crimes detective interview the alleged victim, a BuzzFeed News investigation found.

The so-called "lawful" way of seeking change was clearly a deception. Thinking about it in her own way based on what she was familiar with, Yasuko wondered if this was the reason why at some of the recent left-wing speech meetings the police outnumbered even the audience.

Sam O'Neill drew a deft little caricature of the two of us as Mulder and Scully (I still have it, somewhere) and Cassie stuck it to the side of her computer, next to a bumper sticker that said BAD COP! NO DOUGHNUT!

They brought in a mandatory sensitivity training session—which was fine by Cal, given the way some of the guys treated, for example, witnesses from bad hoods and rape victims, except the session turned out to be all about what words they were and weren't allowed to use; nothing about what they were doing, underneath all the words, and how they could do it better.

Black people got mad about being treated like crap. Bad cops got mad 'cause they were getting called on their shit all of a sudden. Good cops got mad 'cause they were the bad guys when they hadn't done anything.

The girl wondered: These policemen... didn't they have families, too? Didn't they have children? Children they went home to? How could they treat children this way? Were they told to do so, or did they act this way naturally? Were they in fact machines, not human beings? She looked closely at them. They seemed of flesh and bone. They were men. She couldn't understand.

It was just the wrong race and the wrong time. Police are shady as hell. That's why everybody is locked up.

The average career span for a TV writer is 11 years. The only other thing I could find that had the same career span was a police dog.

Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.

I play a tough cop in 'Very Good' and the role is quite similar to Dhaya Nayak, Mumbai's popular encounter specialist. I have made all efforts to fit the role.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

I've, in fact, very specifically said I don't support defunding the police.

Let's say you are driving in the U.K., and you are pulled over by the police for speeding, and you try to bribe the police officer with £300 to walk away. I guarantee you that at least 99 times out of 100 you are going end up in handcuffs, and you will be charged with the crime of trying to bribe a police officer.

After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.