- People
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.
- Police Officers
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
How, possibly, could the police have made the 'mistake' of charging the wrong man with the notorious Red Light Bandit crimes? That also is something that is fully revealed in the Pandora's Box of facts I have prepared.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they left before they tried to steal something. So the police come to my apartment, and they say, 'Oh my God, did they steal everything?' I was like, 'No, it was like that!'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My research has taught me many important lessons, but perhaps none more important than this: drug effects, like semesters, are predictable; police interactions with black people are not.
- Colleagues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fascists, Antifa attacked me, and an all-black police force in Philadelphia, and they claim to be fighting racism.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
It saddens me that African Americans - when they express their pain, when they protest about police violence, when they question inequality, when they raise issues of bondage and discrimination - African Americans are seen as not patriotic.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.
- Cop
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- Nov 07, 2020
An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
Do I think police chiefs, many of which are African-American or Hispanic, wake up and say, 'Let's systemically oppress African-American communities?' No, I don't. Are there instances in which that happens? I'm sure there are.
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- Nov 07, 2020