Quotes About Police
As the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 demonstrates, mass murder and routine had become one. Normality itself had become exceedingly abnormal.
~ Christopher R. Browning
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Nevertheless, except in Poland and the occupied territories of the USSR,* the Nazis consistently succeeded in enlisting the assistance of much of the established power structure, civil service personnel, and police.
~ Christopher Simpson
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The police, and the strikers also, were determined that there should be no violence; but there was another party interested which was minded to the contrary—and that was the press.
~ Upton Sinclair
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In England where the radicals were allowed to gather in Hyde Park and say what they chose, crimes of political violence were practically unknown. On the other hand, in America, where it was customary for the police to arrest radicals and club and jail them, such crimes were common.
~ Upton Sinclair
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You understand how it is worked—they send their bullies into the country to provoke disturbances, and when the police put them down, that's an atrocity.
~ Upton Sinclair
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All over Prussia Göring was replacing police chiefs with Nazis, and the Stormtroopers were now attending political meetings in force, stopping those in which the government was criticized.
~ Upton Sinclair
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You take the lead. He'll open up more easily to a copper than a mumbo jumbo man
~ Val McDermid
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They think of policemen as they do of Labradors – noble, loyal, good with children, man's protector and friend. In
~ Val McDermid
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He spread his hands in a self-deprecating gesture. 'Well, I'm not a cop. And I'm not a woman.' She couldn't resist. 'I had noticed.
~ Val McDermid
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It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal.
~ Victor Hugo
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At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section of the Barricade-Merry, and still later killed in the insurrection of April 1834, found him standing not far from his bed, with cartridges in his hands, caught in the act.
~ Victor Hugo
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This man of lofty virtue had three domiciles in Paris solely for the purpose of evading the police.
~ Victor Hugo
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With no local police and no one to call for help. All this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.
~ Kristin Hannah
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The rifle tower they built in the field ââ'¬Â¦ that's to scare us, right? What we're doing—a strike—it's legal." "It's legal. Hell, it's the very essence of America. We were built on the right to protest, but laws are enforced by the government. By the police. You've seen how they support big business.
~ Kristin Hannah
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Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?
~ Kurt Russell
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Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.
~ Cassandra Clare
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And tell them what?" Jace said witheringly. "That invisible people are bothering you? Trust me, little girl, the police aren't going to arrest someone they can't see
~ Cassandra Clare
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assailant to freeze, the suspect appeared to raise a weapon, at which time the officer responded with lethal fire.
~ Geraldine Brooks
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Caucasian. When the officer asked the suspected
~ Geraldine Brooks
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
~ Gijs de Vries
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What our investigation has shown is that the real problem, the central mystery of politics is not sovereignty, but government; it is not God, but the angel; it is not the king, but ministry; it is not the law, but the police—that is to say, the governmental machine that they form and support.
~ Giorgio Agamben
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The Police Are Continuing Their Investigation," he said, with capital letters in his voice.
~ Gladys Mitchell
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I don't have time to explain that the women's movement named domestic violence in the first place, sought its prosecution by police and by new laws, created the first shelters, and has been working for thirty years to explain, for instance, that the moment of leaving is the time when a woman is most likely to be murdered, thus answering questions like "Why doesn't she just leave?
~ Gloria Steinem
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In rural America, small-town drivers warned me about the growing power of such neofascist groups as the Posse Comitatus in the Midwest and the Aryan Nation in the Northwest. Local banks were afraid to foreclose on their farms, and police hesitated to help repossess farmhouses and barns when they knew their occupants to be well armed.
~ Gloria Steinem
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