Ian Blair quotes

If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.
-- Ian Blair

#Mean #Police #Want

I'd much rather resign than be pushed.
-- Ian Blair

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What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.
-- Ian Blair

#Thinking #Cities #London

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?' 'I am better than the police,' said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

Surveillance technologies now available - including the monitoring of virtually all digital information - have advanced to the point where much of the essential apparatus of a police state is already in place.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.