Police Quotes

• The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police.

  Todor Zhivkov

  People

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• We don't need police officers who see themselves as warriors. We need police officers who see themselves as guardians and parts of the community. You can't police a community that you're not a part of.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Warrior, Community, Needs

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Enforcement, Law Enforcement, Policemen

  Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott (1985). “Hitchcock”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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  There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

  Jack Nicholson

  Relationship, Girlfriend, Lying

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• 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

  Thank You, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

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• ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

  Saul Bellow

  Struggle, Sleep, Fighting

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  We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.

  Will Rogers

  Punishment, Giving, Criminals

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

  Richard J. Daley

  Silly, Dumb, Enforcement

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• You were put here to protect us.
  But who protects us from you?

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, African American

  Song: Who Protects Us from You?, Album: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (BDP)

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• The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

  Earl Warren

  Integrity, Law, Hypocrisy

  Writing for the court, Spano v. New York 360 U.S. 321, 1959.

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• To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

  Albert Camus

  Time, Law Enforcement, Enough

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.122, Vintage

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• Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Calling, Conflict, Ends

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

  Grover Whalen

  Law, Ends, Plenty

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Nancy McKeon

  People, Made, Force

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• No organization, whether it's police or physicians or whatever, wants to have its errors held up to the light of day, but it's wrong, as is coming out so well.

  William P. Leahy

  Errors, Light, Organization

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• A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  Barbara Boxer

  Law, Safety, Needs

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• The police are the public and the public are the police.

  Robert Peel

  Thought Police, Policemen

  "Introduction to Criminal Justice" by Larry Siegel, Cengage Learning, (p. 202), January 5, 2009.

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• We need to police ourselves in the media.

  Bob Woodward

  Media, Needs, Literature

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• In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

  Tom Metzger

  Enemy, Cases

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• Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Scandal

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Numbers, Evil, Regulation

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

  Margery Allingham

  Men, High Heels, Blood

  Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.113, Ipso Books

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• Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

  Robert Kennedy

  Law, Community, Criminals

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

  Antonia Fraser

  Book, Hands, People

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