765 Quotes About Police
- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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The need to forgive the officer would not have moved me because, even then, in some inchoate form. I knew that Prince was not killed by a single officer so much as he was murdered by his country and all the fears that have marked it from birth.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Police intentionally murdering a mentally unstable person will always be unacceptable when there are numerous other non-lethal options available to them.
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- Author Dal Maclean
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James felt as he always felt waiting to deliver this kind of news: like an emotional mugger, smashing into other people's calm lives, leaving agony and loss behind. The aloofness of his role built his guilt, his distance from their pain. That he could introduce himself to people to deliver news that ruined them, with no wounds of his own to show in solidarity. He was the professional, like a doctor, slicing through their existence then going back to his own clean life.
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- Author Steven Magee
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While police internal affairs is allowed to protect corrupt police officers that engage in unethical behaviors, illegal activities or murder, there will always be a genuine mistrust by the common people.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Smart people avoid interacting with agencies of a corrupt government.
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- Author Jonny Steinberg
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There are not so many murders in this township, I think to myself, and not so few policemen, that a killing should be treated like an old woman who has lost her cat.
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- Author Steven Magee
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The problem with being a police officer is that it routinely puts you in contact with unstable people who are mentally at the extreme edges of civilized society.
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- Author Steven Magee
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People will remember 2020 for a long time.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Would you approach a crazy person with a loaded gun? Well, that is exactly what you are doing with some police officers when you approach them.
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