Cop Quotes - Page 27

• There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.

  Russell Simmons

  Issues, Long, Police

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.

  William S. Burroughs

  America, Police, Village

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• She supported a deal that didn't even require this murderous regime to return a cop killer, JoAnne Chesimard, to face justice. See I know about this personally.

  Chris Christie

  Justice, Faces, Return

  The Republican National Convention Speech in Cleveland, www.macleans.ca. July 19, 2016.

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• [My] dream writers room: "'Naked City.' Because it still holds up as the absolutely quintessential New York pure cop procedural."

  Dick Wolf

  Dream, New York, Cities

  Source: variety.com

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• When I was a kid there was a show called 'Holmes & Yo-Yo' about a robot cop. I LOVED that show and I think it only lasted like three episodes.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Thinking, Robots

  Source: variety.com

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• [Mel Gibson] played this kind of sadistic motorcycle cop. He was terrific. And he had this great sense of visual comedy.

  Keith Carradine

  Motorcycle, Comedy, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everyone wants to be part of the 99%, even the cops are like, "No, no, man. I'm part of the 99% too." No one wants to be part of the 1%.

  Eric Drooker

  Men, Want

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Drama, Eye

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• Well, for one thing, you know my dad was a cop.

  Edward Burns

  Dad, Wells, Knows

  Interview with Maya Singer, www.ign.com. March 9, 2001.

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• Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what a cop's world is like. But in truth that world is seldom revealed with anything approaching verisimilitude. We get it with The Wagon.

  Daniel Horan

  Drama, Thinking, People

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