765 Quotes About Police

I am fearful of the police.

The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less people will cooperate with them.

That we imagine we cannot feel the warsis an American feeling. That we cannot see them, that we say they are somewhere else.But someone pays the police. We do.

The white policeman was a man who gave an impression of heaviness. It wasn't that he was fat, but he sagged as if with a moral or psychic burden; his shoulders sagged, his eyes sagged, his suit sagged and he sat sagged in his chair, as if his disappointments with the world were bearing down on him. He made it clear that Shahid was one of these disappointments.

The statement 'I thought he was reaching for a gun' is a police officers license to kill.

The statement ‘He adopted the shooters stance’ is a police officer’s license to kill.

Our effort was mocked by some police supervisors: has the computer caught Ted yet?

When Mary Osmer later told us her story, her eyes glistened with guilt. To her, the stranger seemed friendly, sincere, very polite, and easy to talk to. He had a nice smile and didn’t get upset when she told him she wouldn’t go with him.

Our inexperience was telling, and it favored the killer.