- 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
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
- Crime
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- Nov 07, 2020
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.
- Carry
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we do in Connecticut is ban assault weapons. We ban high-capacity magazines. We have true universal background checks, and we require everybody to get a permit from their police department before they can carry a pistol.
- Create
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing police patrol cops - in certain situations - are expert at is spotting anomalies. When you are a black person that is driving in a place that you stick out, that's all they're going to see.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that all police officers decide when they wake up in the morning is that they're going home.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren't calling the police for any reason.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual weapons.' It's always the weapon and never the shooter.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.
- Sleep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was 14, and I left on my own. Living in a subway train, and police used to come in with a nightstick and say, 'You can't sleep here.' I'd get up and go across the street, get on another train, and go back the other way.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I see a police officer behind me, and I can pull over into, like, a shopping center or something, I do it.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020