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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
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like turning on the radio and listening to the high-speed chase that you're leading police on!
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a number of crimes - for instance, burglaries - can be linked to the same offender, police often plot the locations on a map. The art of finding the location of the criminal's home based on the crime sites is a key objective in what is known as geographical profiling.
- Exposition
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were a bunch of things we really liked right off the bat about a police precinct. We loved how instantly relatable it was. We loved how little exposition was required to tell people who these guys were and what they were doing.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of good police officers. There's thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don't get the stories.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually be a policeman.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one of the roles of a lifetime to be able to play someone like Mr. Cochran who was so influential. People knew about his work in regard to police brutality. He was very much a staple in the community - someone who, if there was trouble, people knew, 'Go get Johnnie Cochran.'
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a lot of people that are oppressed. We have a lot of people that aren't treated equally, aren't given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed. There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those.
- Certain Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020