Police Work Quotes

• 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

  Forever, Tasks, Action

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• Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said. "No work would be possible without coffee." They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.

  Henning Mankell

  Coffee, Silence, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Aug 27, 2011

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• Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

  Tracy Kidder

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Tracy Kidder (1989). “Among School Children”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.

  Garry McCarthy

  Country, Believe, Thinking

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• Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee.

  Henning Mankell

  Coffee, Police

  Henning Mankell (2013). “One Step Behind: A Kurt Wallander Mystery”, p.245, The New Press

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• The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

  Michael Mandelbaum

  War, Believe, Cruise

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• Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

  Crane Wilbur

  Intuition, Needs, Facts

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• I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.

  Eric Hernandez

  Body, Drumming, Stuff

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• Nothing will ever replace good old fashioned police work, but Facebook and Twitter have been like a tool on our belt, In some ways it can help them in their investigations and in some ways it can hinder

  William Bratton

  Tools, Way, Helping

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