Police Quotes

If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

Especially as a teenager, I was always being racially profiled by the police. You just see all this injustice, and you want to do something about it, but you don't know how.

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.

America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

It's a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

I do not believe in people owning guns. Guns should be owned only by the police and military. I am going to do everything I can to disarm this state.

I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!

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

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

There are hundreds of electromagnetic cases where spacecraft have been observed by police, military personnel and civilians to affect car engines, radios and other electric devices.

Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.

I want to make a picture about the Russian secret police - the GOP.

When we got to the hotel, the Hawaiian Village, there were 500 screaming women there. The police were trying to keep the crowd back. It was very dangerous.

I believe that the human race has developed a form of collective schizophrenia in which we are not only the slaves to this imposed thought behavior, but we are also the police force of it.

The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

An 83-year-old male prostitute was arrested. Police say he only charged $20 an hour, but for most of that time, he just talked about his grandkids.

The police of a state should never be stronger or better armed than the citizenry. An armed citizenry, willing to fight, is the foundation of civil freedom. That's a personal evaluation, of course.

I've never been in trouble with the police.

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

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

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

Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.

All the suspects have been arrested. police are looking for them

As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

I'm from Downer's Grove, Illinois. We had a blackout there the other day, but fortunately the police made him get back into his car before he got too far.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

Police do not belong in war zones.

This one time I made love on the back seat of a car and the police came and shined his light on me, and I said I'm strokin'. That's what I'm doing, I be strokin'.

The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil.

I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me.

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

It [terrorism] happened because intelligence, leadership and police failures made it possible.

I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

I have very good friends who are in the army and also friends within the police force. When I say friends, people who love my music and who actually love the messages within my music.