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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
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama Justice Department put more police departments under federal control for alleged systemic bias than any previous administration had.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Big-city police chiefs feel more pressure from race activists than from the hard-working residents of high-crime areas, who fiercely want more policing but have no spokesmen to defend their interests.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions want to change the false Black Lives Matter narrative, but it doesn't look like they will have many allies among liberal mayors and their police commanders.
- Order
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally, informal social controls, above all the family, preserve public order. But when the family disintegrates, the police are the second-best solution for protecting the law-abiding.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Besides interrupting more serious criminal activity, intensive misdemeanor enforcement and proactive street stops send the message to criminals and law-abiding residents alike that the rule of law is still in effect in troubled neighborhoods and that the police are watching.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A strong police presence keeps individuals involved in 'street life' from triggering the most severe penalties of the law by providing a surrogate for the self-control and parental oversight that they lack.
- Powerless
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- Nov 07, 2020
An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.
- First Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the first things I did when I finished my Ph.D. was work with the police to look at what happened during the London riots in 2011, which took over the city.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
People see police officers and think they're such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up as a little kid, you're always told, 'If you see the police, tell us.' So you're like, 'Whoa, are they the bad people or not?' It makes you think.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an atheist. I was born a Catholic, but after I had traveled to Northern Ireland with some Catholic friends, and we had a horrible experience with the English Protestant police, I lost all taste for formal religion.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020