Police quotes

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◆ If a Police Officer says, Anything you say will be taken down & used as evidence... Your answer should always be, Please don't hit me again officer...

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◆ My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

- Frederick Donald Coggan99

◆ You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.

- John Lydon99

◆ Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

- David Mamet99

◆ The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.

- Edwin Meese III99

◆ Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.

- Thurgood Marshall99

◆ The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense attorneys are not going to run this court. The district attorney is not going to run this court. I'm going to run this court.

- Paul H King99

◆ It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.

- Felix Frankfurter99

◆ So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.

- Lucy Parsons99

◆ The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.

- Robert Peel99

◆ A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

- Nancy McKeon99

◆ 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 Gates99

◆ I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

- Brendan Behan99

◆ There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

- Steve Chabot99

◆ I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

- Martin Scorsese99