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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
- Departments
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.
- DNA
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.
- Walk
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk around. Your job is to put yourself in this place where a horrible event has happened and try to figure it out. That's what you do, day in and day out. You have to have a certain distance to it. You can't let yourself go too far into it.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some issues just need to be dealt with - that we're still dealing with in the world, with police brutality and racism.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.
- Safe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thank the officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, who work hard every day to help people in their most vulnerable moments, keep our communities safe, and build relationships and trust with the public.
- Hers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the greatest respect for Chief Harteau. I was a very firm supporter of hers when her nomination was brought forward, and I think that her goals and values are in line with mine when it comes to the Police Department.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got rounded up by the police in Quito as I didn't have my passport with me. I was in prison for a night, which was pretty frightening, made more so when one of my male companions started crying.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020