Police Quotes - page 7

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible. (Daryl Gates)
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. View quote
Daryl Gates
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. View quote
Daryl Gates
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! View quote
Eliot Ness
In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
If the word gets out, if the perception exists that by speaking to a CBS journalist you are, therefore, inevitably, immediately speaking to the police, I don't think there's any doubt but that people won't talk. And, therefore, the public won't learn. View quote
Floyd Abrams
I would first recommend we appoint a Police Director that commands the respect of the rank and file. View quote
Frank Vincent
Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential. View quote
Gijs de Vries
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. View quote
Gijs de Vries
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife. View quote
Ilie Nastase
Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure. (Irwin Redlener)
I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police! View quote
Isabelle Fuhrman
It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says. View quote
Jan Brewer
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. View quote
Jerry Doyle
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is. View quote
Jessica Savitch
It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force. View quote
Jack Lynch
In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future. View quote
John Olver
When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier. View quote
John Redwood
For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments. View quote
James Brady
We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore. View quote
Louise Mensch
I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there. (Lynn Westmoreland)
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like. View quote
Laurence Housman
To mark the 0-year anniversary of 9/, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund. View quote
Mark Sanchez
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. View quote
Mark Thomas
When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe. View quote
Mary Frances Berry