100+ Police Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Angela Davis: 'There is an unbroken line of police violence in the US that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2014.

topic: Ku Klux Klan, Justice, Police, Edifice, Police Violence

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

- Angie Dickinson

topic: Strong Women, Careers, Police, One Hour, Prime Time

If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Hurt, Hate, Police, Cancellation, Accusing

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

- Anne Fortier

source: Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books

topic: Cousin, Worry, Police, Suspenders, Pulling

Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.

- Anthony Kennedy

topic: Asking Questions, Police, Ordinary, Fourth, Fourth Amendment

Despite your best efforts, you could not invent a better police force for literature than criticism and the author's own conscience.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Effort, Police, Criticism

Let me be clear - no one is above the law. Not a politician, not a priest, not a criminal, not a police officer. We are all accountable for our actions.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

topic: Law, Police, Criminals, Above The Law, Police Officer

I dont want any injustice brought against the bullies. Bullies just dont know any better. Anyone who is crying about police brutality or victimization as an adult needs to stop it and realize the privileges we have in this country.

- Ariel Pink

topic: Country, Bully, Police, Police Brutality, Victimization

The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient

- Aron Nimzowitsch

topic: Keys, Police, Criminals, Chess Pawns, Endgame

The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Police, Half, Beard

The amount of gender violence that I experience is absolutely extraordinary. And a significant part of my day today will be spent filing police reports at home about gender violence that's directed at me in social media.

- Ashley Judd

source: ashley judd @AshleyJudd, twitter.com. March 17, 2015.

topic: Home, Media, Police, Filing

Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.

- August Strindberg

topic: Police, Society, Wardens, Madhouses

What police officer would dare ticket Death's minivan?

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Police, Tickets, Dare, Minivans

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

- Banksy

topic: People, Police, Feelings, Street Art, Wall And Piece

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

- Barack Obama

topic: War, Police, Succeed, International Cooperation

Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

- Barbara Boxer

topic: Law, Safety, Police, Public Safety, Public Servants

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Dream, Police, Fantasy

...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Selfish, Psychology, Police, Informers, Police Force

If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.

- Ben Aaronovitch

source: Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.52, Del Rey

topic: Talking, Advice, Police

Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the â€œsuspicious behaviorâ€ bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with â€œstupidly overpowerful dogâ€ and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-Âexpenses-paid visit to your local police station.

- Ben Aaronovitch

topic: Dog, Winning, Police, Bingo

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

- Ben Aaronovitch

source: Ben Aaronovitch (2013). “Broken Homes”, p.8, Hachette UK

topic: Police, Guilty, Members

Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen's peace - that makes them a police matter.

- Ben Aaronovitch

source: Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Midnight Riot”, p.100, Del Rey

topic: Queens, Worry, Police

I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?

- Ben Aaronovitch

topic: Thinking, Police, Firsts, Greetings, Metropolitan

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

- Ben Elton

topic: Writing, Police, Hot, Police Academy, Adverts

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.

- Ben Okri

topic: Law, Police, World

It's very difficult to speak to a large group of people these days and not offend someone. I know people walk around with their feelings on their shoulders waiting for you to say something - ahh - did you hear that? And they can't hear anything else you say. The PC police are out in force at all times.

- Benjamin Carson

topic: People, Waiting, Police, Large Groups

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

- Benjamin Harrison

source: Benjamin Harrison, United States. President (1889-1893 : Harrison) (1969). “Benjamin Harrison, 1833-1901: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

topic: War, Presidential, Police

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

- Bill James

source: "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

topic: Justice, Police, Faults, Misconduct

In tracking down and eliminating terrorists , we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" exactly what, pray tell, is that? to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia , or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.

- Bill Moyers

topic: War, Police, Mind, War On Terror, Tracking

In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

- Bill Pascrell

topic: Fire, Police, Ems, Nonsensical, Personnel

... the place where [adults] pass the most time and submit to the closest control is at work. Thus, without even entering into the question of the world economy's ultimate dictation within narrow limits of everybody's productive activity, it's apparent that the source of the greatest direct duress experienced by the ordinary adult is _not_ the state but rather the business that employs him. Your foreman or supervisor gives you more or-else orders in a week than the police do in a decade.

- Bob Black

source: Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

topic: Order, Giving, Police, Duress, Supervisors

We need to police ourselves in the media.

- Bob Woodward

topic: Media, Police, Needs

Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.

- Bobby Jindal

topic: Home, Office, Police, Elected Officials

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

- Bobby Seale

topic: Good Friend, Philadelphia, Police

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

- Bobby Sherman

topic: Cpr, Years, Police, Lapd

If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

- Bobcat Goldthwait

topic: Funny, Police, Video Cameras, Funny Comedian

It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

- Bruce Schneier

topic: Technology, Hygiene, Police, Personal Hygiene, Facilitate

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

- Bryan Adams

topic: Rude, Police, Pits

It is not better that all felony suspects die than that they escape. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so. It is no doubt unfortunate when a suspect who is in sight escapes, but the fact that the police arrive a little late or are a little slower afoot does not always justify killing the suspect.

- Byron White

topic: Sight, Police, Doubt, Deadly Force, Felony

The duties which a police officer owes to the state are of a most exacting nature. No one is compelled to choose the profession ofa police officer, but having chosen it, everyone is obliged to live up to the standard of its requirements. To join in that high enterprise means the surrender of much individual freedom.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Mean, Discipline, Police, Individual Freedom

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited.... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Boston, Safety, Police, Public Safety

The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

- Carl Joachim Friedrich

source: Carl Joachim Friedrich (1972). “The pathology of politics: violence, betrayal, corruption, secrecy, and propaganda”, HarperCollins Publishers

topic: Perfection, Police, Evolution, Totalitarian Regimes

Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

- Carl Jung

topic: Fall, Justice, Police

Your hair is so white now it can talk back to the police.

- Cecily Strong

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Hair, White, Police

I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

- Charlaine Harris

topic: Police, Lists, Odd Things

Gene police! You! Out of the pool, now!

- Charles Stross

source: Charles Stross (2006). “The Atrocity Archives”, p.32, Penguin

topic: Police, Pool, Genes

A policemans job is only easy in a police state.

- Charlton Heston

topic: Jobs, Police, Easy, Police State

I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.

- Chester Gould

topic: Police, Gangsters

Without the right tools, we can't police our markets from illegal trade.

- Chris Chocola

topic: Police, Tools, Illegal

All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police

- Chris Patten

topic: Police, Doe, Needs

The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers,

- Christopher Dorner

source: "Alleged cop-killer details threats to LAPD and why he was driven to violence" by Mallory Simon, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2013.

topic: Police, Enemy, Citizens

The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Doors, Essence, Police, Daiquiris, Raspberries

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.

- Clarence Day

source: Clarence Day (1928). “Thoughts without words”

topic: Police, Legacy, Eras

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

- Claude Chabrol

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Police, Eras, Faster

The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.

- Claude Levi-Strauss

topic: Shining, Police, Purpose, Unconcerned

If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.

- Clayton Christensen

topic: Police, Enough

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

- Clement Freud

topic: Men, Thinking, Police

Famous Playboy Hugh Hefner managed to successfully stop an order of monks from operating a business on his property. The police forced the friars to close down their stall, which was outside the Playboy mansion where they had been selling flowers. Said one friar, well, if it was anyone else we may have gotten away from it, but, unfortunately, only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

- Colin Mochrie

topic: Flower, Order, Police, Friars

An 83-year-old male prostitute was arrested. Police say he only charged $20 an hour, but for most of that time, he just talked about his grandkids.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Years, Police, Males, Grandkids

The Thought Police: To censor and protect.

- Craig Reucassel

topic: Police, Thought Police, Protect

Sisters, brothers and the whities, Blacks and the crackers, Police and their backers, They're all political actors

- Curtis Mayfield

source: Song: If There's Hell Below

topic: Brother, Political, Police, Brother Sister

Taking legislative authority away from the federal government doesn't necessarily mean freer individuals. It might just mean granting vastly more authority to the states--which already have far broader police powers than most of us would care to admit.

- Dahlia Lithwick

topic: Mean, Government, Police, Police Power

One of my symptoms included my obsession with ghosts and law enforcement -- I carry around a police badge with me, for example. I became obsessed by Hans Holzer, the greatest ghost hunter ever. That's when the idea of my film Ghostbusters was born.

- Dan Aykroyd

source: "Dan Aykroyd: 'I have Asperger's - one of my symptoms included being obsessed with ghosts' 'I have Asperger's - one of my symptoms included being obsessed with ghosts': Under the microscope with Dan Aykroyd". Interview with Sarah Ewing, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 10, 2013.

topic: Law, Ideas, Police

Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.

- Daniel Horan

topic: People, Police, Television

Police do not belong in war zones.

- Daniel Keys Moran

topic: War, Police, Zone, War Zones

There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!

- Danny Bonaduce

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Police, Listening, Radio

What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.

- Danny Hillis

topic: Independent, Fire, Police, Police Department, Fire Department

I am excited to be doing 'SVU' - I think there's a lot of inherent drama and a lot of inherent conflict in procedural shows. I have a lot of respect for police officers and the work that they do. There's a lot of nobility to depicting what these officers do on a day to day basis.

- Danny Pino

topic: Drama, Thinking, Police

There are three states of legality in Irish law. There is all this stuff which comes under That's grand, then it moves into Ah now don't push it, and finally it comes under Right now you're takin the piss, and that's when the police come in.

- Dara O Briain

topic: Moving, Law, Police, Legality

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

- Daryl Gates

topic: Kings, Police, Done, Parole

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

- Daryl Gates

topic: Honesty, Integrity, Police, Police Department

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

- David

topic: Addiction, Waiting, Police

It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.

- David Horowitz

topic: America, Police, Agents, Beacons

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

- David Icke

topic: Believe, Race, Police, Human Race

We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

- David Price

topic: Country, Community, Police, Our Community, Tax Breaks

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

- Delmore Schwartz

topic: Police, Way, Married, Crackpots

The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.

- Denise Levertov

topic: Block, Silence, Police, Tragic Life

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

- Dennis Kucinich

topic: Police, Citizens, Used

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

- Dennis Miller

topic: Funny, Running, Police

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

- Derrick Jensen

topic: Police, Purpose, Paper

Privatizing our public schools makes as much sense as privatizing the fire department or or the police department

- Diane Ravitch

topic: School, Fire, Police, Police Department, Fire Department

The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.

- Dick Cavett

topic: Sex, Police, Unruly

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

- Dick Cavett

topic: Sex, People, Police, Unruly

We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

- Dick Durbin

topic: Police, Needs, Safe, Sheriffs

We need nearly every department, with the exception of police, fire and rescue, to look at what they can cut. Maybe there are some projects we need to put on hold.

- Don Williams

topic: Cutting, Fire, Police

And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

- Dorothea Benton Frank

topic: Editors, Police, Scare

As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.

- Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

topic: War, Men, Police

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.

- Duane Chapman

source: "Dog the Faithful Bounty Hunter". Beliefnet Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Gun, Fire, Police, Police Officer

Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

- Dusty Baker

topic: Past, Police, Different

The abhorrence of society to the use of involuntary confessions does not turn alone on their inherent untrustworthiness. It also turns on the deep-rooted feeling that the police must obey the law while enforcing the law; that, in the end, life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.

- Earl Warren

topic: Law, Feelings, Police, Abhorrence

Police on my drawers I had to pause 40 ounce in my lap And it's freezing my balls

- Eazy-E

topic: Hip Hop, Police, Lap, Freezing

The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an â€œequalizer.

- Edward Abbey

topic: Military, Police, Democracy, Patriotic Gun, Revolver

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

- Edward Carpenter

topic: Smile, Squares, Police, Easy Going

U.S News: You criticize the Miranda ruling, which gives suspects the right to have a lawyer present before police questioning. Shouldn't people, who may be innocent, have such protection? Meese: Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

- Edwin Meese

source: "Justice under Reagan: Reagan seeks judges with 'traditional approach'". U.S. News & World Report, p. 67, October 14, 1985.

topic: People, Giving, Police, Miranda

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

- Elia Kazan

topic: Organization, Police, Doubt, Police State

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable.

- Elia Kazan

topic: Party, Police, Taste, Unforgettable, Police State

The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Supermanâ€”who is only a mere superhero.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky

source: "Superhero Bias" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. December 1, 2007.

topic: Superhero, Police, Vision, Invulnerability, Police Officer

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

- Eliot Ness

topic: Forever, Police, Tasks, Police Work

You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

- Elizabeth Warren

source: "Elizabeth Warren: 'There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich on His Own'". Campaign video clip, www.cbsnews.com. September 22, 2011.

topic: Fire, Police, Safe, Occupy Movement, Police Force

We watch so many TV shows and movies about jaded or corrupt policemen, we forget people join the police force to do good, and they really care about that.

- Enrico Colantoni

topic: Tv Shows, People, Police

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

- Enrique Pena Nieto

topic: Army, Mexican, Police

I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you, and proceed to the next command.

- Eoin Colfer

topic: Police, Next, Threatening, Informing, Holly Short

The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed.

- Erwin Chemerinsky

source: "Report faults LAPD culture for corruption", www.cnn.com. September 11, 2000.

topic: Meaningful, Reality, Police, Police Department

It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

- Felix Frankfurter

topic: Men, Order, Police

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

- Finley Peter Dunne

topic: Men, People, Police, Scruples, Bad Taste

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

- Flavor Flav

source: "Hip-hop, you don't stop" by Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2006.

topic: Jail, People, Police, Favorite Person

If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn.

- Floyd Abrams

topic: Thinking, People, Police

To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods

- Frances Perkins

topic: Believe, Civilization, Police

The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.

- Frank Abagnale

topic: People, Police, Identity, Identity Theft

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Missing, Police, Criminals

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

- Frank Herbert

topic: Jobs, Police, Kind

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

- Frank Serpico

source: "The Return of Frank Serpico". Frank Serpico's speech before the New York Knapp Commission on police corruption and other misconduct, www.villagevoice.com. October 1971.

topic: Police, Atmosphere, Doe, Reprisal, Police Officer

who are the brain police?

- Frank Zappa

topic: Police, Brain

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

- Franklin P. Adams

topic: Son, Police, Taste

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal.

- Frederic Bastiat

source: Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Law, Judging, Police, Plunder, Criminal Law

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations.

- Fritz Kreisler

source: Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.12, Pickle Partners Publishing

topic: Order, Police, Relaxation, Disturbance

The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.

- Geoff Mulgan

source: "Talk your way out of conflict and misery" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2005.

topic: Police, September 11, Facts

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

- George Hamilton

topic: Men, Italian, Police, Liverpool Fans

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

- George Orwell

topic: Lying, Cities, Police, Prowling, Atom Bomb

There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

- George Orwell

topic: Knowing, Police, Darkness, Thought Police, Guesswork

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

- George W. Norris

source: George W. Norris (1945). “Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris”, p.206, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Police, Navy, Duty

It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, it is the agitation of all menthat alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.

- Georges Bataille

topic: Police, Revolutionary, Disgusting

And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning - enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!

- Georges Bernanos

topic: Men, Justice, Police, Servitude, Layman

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.

- Georges Limbour

topic: Wine, Essence, Police

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

- Gerald Jonas

topic: Police, Promise, Bending

Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.

- Gijs de Vries

topic: People, Police, Doe, Confidential, Police Force

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

- Gijs de Vries

topic: Fighting, Agency, Police

Who's that new guy with the snooty accent who came out and talked to the police?" Evan persisted. "He looks like some kind of male model." "That's just my cousin Ian," Amy explained. "Not much of a family resemblance," Evan noted sourly. "He's like a twenty-fifth cousin, ten times removed." Evan was not satisfied.

- Gordon Korman

topic: Cousin, Guy, Police

I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

- Grace Slick

source: "Somebody to Love?". Book by Grace Slick, 1998.

topic: Florida, Police, Hawaii, Police Department

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

- Grover Whalen

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Law, Police, Ends

Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

- Guy Debord

topic: Army, Police, Violence, Looting

Ten minutes in a video store should convince any impartial observer that we live in a police state of consciousness, far more pervasive than the Nazis.

- Hakim Bey

topic: Police, Video, Consciousness, Police State

There were sirens and the cops were there and they took me to the police station and I got arrested, it was really embarrassing. They actually just- they impeached me over the whole thing, they tried, well, they did impeach me, but I didn't have to actually stop being president, so it was okay. The police weren't actually that involved, it was mostly Congress.

- Hank Green

topic: Police, President, Sirens

Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.

- Hans Frank

topic: Police, Matter, Administration, Concentration Camp

Such an atmosphere is un-American, the most un-American thing we have to contend with today. It is the climate of a totalitarian country in which scientists are expected to change their theories to match changes in the police state's propaganda line.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Country, Police, Atmosphere, Police State

The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!

- Heather Mills

topic: Police, Threat, Be Careful

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound. God may have made men and women, but Colt made them equal. Anon totalitarian regimes and genocides can't happen without gun control Ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.

- Heinrich Himmler

topic: Gun, Men, Police

In the brief monthly reports of the Security Police, I only want figures on how many Jews have been shipped off and how many are currently left.

- Heinrich Himmler

source: "Hitler and the Final Solution". Book by Gerald Fleming, p. 137, 1987.

topic: Police, Want, Figures

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

- Henning Mankell

topic: Coffee, Silence, Police, Police Work

Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

- Henning Mankell

topic: Coffee, Police

Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective troops for Jewish stores. No, the police protect whoever comes into Germany legitimately, but it does not exist for the purpose of protecting Jewish money-lenders.

- Hermann Goring

topic: Hurt, People, Police, Money Lenders, Goering

Every bullet fired from the barrel of a police pistol was my bullet. If you call that murder, then I am the murderer.

- Hermann Goring

topic: Police, Bullets, Nazism

I visited the compound of the American embassy and talked to the police and the people and encouraged them, and I told them to take the proper measure and apply the law against the people who are attacking them and attacking the buildings.

- Hesham Qandil

source: "Egypt PM Hisham Qandil interview". Interview with Khaled Ezz El-Arab, www.bbc.com. September 15, 2012.

topic: Law, People, Police, Embassy

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Jesus, Police, Enemy, Posse

There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Challenges, Police, Risk, Police Power

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Police, Cop

Hollywood is obsessed with police stories.

- Ice Cube

topic: Police, Hollywood, Stories

Gays have become colossal bores. Once interesting and iconoclastic, all they seem to crave nowadays is the State's pension and seal of approval. They ought to go back to the days of the Stonewall Riots, when the police's violations of privacy and private property were the object of their anger and activism.

- Ilana Mercer

source: "Brokeback Mountain' Revisited". WorldNetDaily.com, June 9, 2006.

topic: Gay, Interesting, Police

Who snitched?" "We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim walking down the hallway snickering to himself.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Office, People, Police, Heads Up

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

- Imre Kertész

source: "Detective Story". Book by Imre Kertész, 2008.

topic: Police, Revolution

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

- Irvine Welsh

topic: Police, Skins, Tone, Skin Tone

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

- Irwin Redlener

topic: People, Police, Fireman, Police Officer

I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!

- Isabelle Fuhrman

topic: Mom, Eyebrows, Police

I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.

- Ivica Dacic

topic: Police, Surveillance, Private Life

The only dead bodies from ***** are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.

- Jack Herer

topic: Marijuana, Hands, Police

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

- Jack Lynch

source: "Keeping the hawks at bay while retaining control of the party". www.irishtimes.com. October 21, 1999.

topic: Police, Accepted, Force

My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system.

- Jack Nicholson

topic: Views, Drug, Police, Legality

...to continue to be one of the world centres for scientific research, we have to stand up and be counted in support of researchers, go on marches and demonstrations, and back even tougher action by the police and the courts against these terrorists.

- Jack Straw

topic: Animal, Support, Police, Scientific Research, Researchers

I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists.

- Jack Williamson

topic: Police, Brutal, Strict

When truth is no longer free, freedom is no longer real: the truths of the police are the truths of today.

- Jacques Prevert

topic: Real, Police, Today

For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

- James Brady

topic: Home, Police, Defense, Police Department, Pro Gun Control

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

- James Buchan

topic: Country, Police, Historical, Files, Secret Police

The police have no right to do what they have been doing to the protesters. Their behavior has been designed to chill the protester's constitutional rights. This judge's ruling is wonderful.

- James Lafferty

topic: Rights, Judging, Police, Constitutional Rights

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

- James McGreevey

topic: Years, Firefighter, Police

Gun-wielding recluse gunned down by local police" isn't the epitaph I want. I am hoping for "Witnesses reported the sound up to two hundred kilometers away" or "Last body part finally located".

- James Nicoll

topic: Gun, Two, Police

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution

- James Q. Wilson

source: "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995.

topic: Mean, Law, Police, Venting

Where Church and State are habitually associated, it is natural that minds, even of a high order, should unconsciously come to regard religion as only a subtler mode of police.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Order, Police, Mind

Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.

- Jan Brewer

topic: People, Police, Fifty, Spilling

It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.

- Jan Brewer

topic: Mean, Law, Police, Norwegians

You cannot police me, so get off my areola

- Janelle Monae

source: FaceBook post by Janelle Monáe from Apr 01, 2015

topic: Police

The State has but one face for me: that of the police. To my eyes, all of the State's ministries have this single face, and I cannot imagine the ministry of culture other than as the police of culture, with its prefect and commissioners.

- Jean Dubuffet

topic: Eye, Police, Ministry, Commissioners

Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private security, and which is neither costly nor vexatious; but of that sort of police which bad governments employ to preserve or extend their personal authority at any expense.

- Jean-Baptiste Say

topic: Government, Police, Maintenance, Bad Government

If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim.

- Jeff Cooper

source: Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.44, Paladin Press

topic: Judging, Police, Doe, Shooter, Violent Crimes

The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.

- Jeff Cooper

topic: Family, Gun, Police

I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel.

- Jennifer Saunders

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Games, Scary, Police

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

- Jess Walter

topic: Police, Doe, Needs, Mime, Police Officer

If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Police

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

- Jessica Savitch

topic: Police, Literature, Crime

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

- Jim Ramstad

topic: Home, Safety, Police, Reducing, Public Safety

Good police officers are ugly.

- Jo Nesbo

topic: Police, Ugly, Police Officer

Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.

- Joan Cusack

source: "Rt Interview: Joan Cusack On War, Inc., The Unofficial Sequel to Grosse Point Blank". Interview with Jen Yamato, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. May 22, 2008.

topic: Country, Police, Towers, Street Corners, Bulgaria

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