10 Quotes by Frank DeSalvo

When he dropped his hands to his waistband, the officers are trained to assume he's going for a weapon. That's what the punches were about. Officers who don't assume a suspect is going for a gun end up dead.

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

I see an incident of a man trying to be brought under control who doesn't want to be brought under control.

I understand his attorney is talking about using the suicide attempt, but I don't know how they'll get that information into a courtroom. I believe he's trying to use that to show negligent retention, making the city liable for hiring him and keeping him. But I don't think it's going to fly.

They never thought they'd get a fair shake from this department. The guys fully expected what happened to happen.

They couldn't get him handcuffed. They couldn't do it.

I have some drug offenders who will probably get lucky and go free.

I know that when you see the arrest, it seems overzealous. But their performance was perfectly within the realm of reason.

He surrendered it. He just voluntarily gave it up, forever. He's going to get out of the business.