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- Nov 07, 2020
Police Quotes
Different views on a subject everyone has an opinion about.
This collection covers police from several angles: budget and staffing debates in major cities, a lighthearted childhood memory involving a runaway student, and a firsthand account of an outnumbered force facing a hostile crowd. Related reading: Law.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.
- Conversation
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an unfortunate fact that in the male black population, a very significant percentage of them, more so than whites or other minority candidates, because of convictions, prison records, are never going to be hired by a police department. That's a reality. That's not a byproduct of stop-and-frisk.
- Complain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cops have been complaining about morale since police forces were created. I used to complain about it a lot when I was a young cop.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slavery, our country's original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Policing has to be done compassionately and consistently. You cannot police differently in Harlem than you're policing downtown. The same laws must apply. The same procedures must be employed. Certain areas at certain times may have more significant crime and require more police presence or more assertiveness, but it has to be balanced.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If an African-American or a recent immigrant - or anyone else, for that matter - can't feel secure walking into a police station or up to a police officer to report a crime, because of a fear that they're not going to be treated well, then everything else that we promise is on a shaky foundation.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Police officers must act quickly to seize wrongdoers and obtain evidence while protecting themselves and bystanders. It is easy to second-guess their search-and-seizure decisions in a secure courtroom.
- Escalation
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was once understood that resistance is a serious crime because it necessarily triggers an escalation of violence that endangers the life not only of the police office, but also the suspect.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even in the best of times, there is no tougher calling than serving as a police officer.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
- Determination
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020