765 Quotes About Police

You know the Norwegian police? They're a bunch of pussies. They don't carry guns, just like the English. But they stay after things for years and years, nagging and nagging. They're like herpes. You think you're rid of them, and then, when you're a little stressed out, boom! In the end they catch all the killers. They exhaust their prey into submission.

When I reached this policeman in the street, he hit me over the head with his club...I wanted to get protection, but instead the cops hit me...I was afraid to run, because I knew if I did they would hit me again.Harry Reed's affidavit is dated August 22, 1900. And little has changed in a century.

Twenty-five years is a long time in cop years.

This is the best book ever written on its subject. Granted being the only such book takes a lot of the steam out of that accomplishment.

Novelists and police-inspectors do not always see eye to eye as regards publicity.

The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't.

One of the detectives was later heard to comment that Perry Reed was officially in more trouble than any other single human being he'd ever encountered in the course of his entire career....

His face registered the five stages of unlawful investigation: disbelief, skepticism, impatience, irritation, and astonishment.

I write from that dark place in my mind where all the sad, ugly, and twisted cases I've worked are stored. Writing keeps me sane.