Police Quotes

"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves"

"There was a military police brigade with over 3,400 soldiers getting ready to go home because their mission - prisoner-of-war operations - was finished"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"I know when I was here prosecuting homicides in the District of Columbia, one of the most effective units here was the cold case squad, which had on it FBI agents, as well as Metropolitan Police Department homicide detectives working together"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and CSIS have provided extraordinary co-operation, as I mentioned earlier"

Paul Cellucci, Politician

"One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers"

Mark Thomas, Comedian

"The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things"

Ben Okri, Poet

"First of all I thought it was ugly, I thought it was ridiculous that undercover police guys would drive a striped tomato and I've never been a big champion of Ford"

Paul M. Glaser

"Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!"

Eliot Ness, Public Servant

"Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man"

Margery Allingham, Writer

"The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers"

Janis Karpinski, Soldier

"Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?"

Kurt Russell, Actor

"What we're also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing"

Theresa May, Politician

"Well can I just make a point about the numbers because people talk a lot about police numbers as if police numbers are the holy grail. But actually what matters is what those police are doing. It's about how those police are deployed"

Theresa May, Politician

"We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police"

Theresa May, Politician

"Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide"

Pat Brown, Entertainer

"I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police"

John Pomfret

"Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up"

LeBron James, Athlete

"The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp"

John Boyd Orr, Politician

"I remember when the first police scary video thing came out, and you thought, wow, ooh, look at this, come and look, come and look. And now it's on every channel"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure"

Dick Durbin, Politician

"With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities"

Bobby Hull, Athlete

"No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head"

Daryl Gates, Public Servant

"I never saw anything more like real warfare in my life - only the attack was all on one side. The police, in spite of their numbers, apparently thought they could not cope with the crowd"

Walter Crane, Artist

"A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings"

Robert Bourassa, Politician

"I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife"

Ilie Nastase, Athlete

"Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read"

Mariska Hargitay, Actress

"Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria"

Alexander Downer, Politician

"Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force"

Sheikh Hasina

"I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself"

Marc Wallice, Actor

"When my dad first started out in the police force, wearing the uniform was a sense of pride, and it was respected in the community for what the police force was all about. Unfortunately today, the uniform is a target"

Jerry Doyle, Actor

"I decided that if the police couldn't catch the gangsters, I'd create a fellow who could"

Chester Gould, Cartoonist

"I don't want my kids going through what I went through - police stopping you, searching you and all that malarkey"

John O'Neill, Athlete

"I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police"

Stieg Larsson, Author

"My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence"

Robert Peel, Leader

"You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for"

Elizabeth Warren, Public Servant

"A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal"

Nancy McKeon, Actress

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