A functioning police state needs no police.
William S. Burroughs
PoliceStateNeedsPolice State
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Benjamin Spock
PoliceRudeIdeaLikeMiddle-Class
We kind of forget because what television tends to do with these professions like lawyers and doctors and police officers, we create them on such a heroic level that you kind of forget that these are really people.
Rocky Carroll
PolicePeopleYouTelevisionCreate
There is no police brutality.
David A. Clarke, Jr.
PoliceBrutality
I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
William Peter Blatty
PoliceStoryHorrorNeverDetective
Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
Zhang Ziyi
PoliceSleepSchoolMeFindGrass
When I was the detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department, in 1978, I launched an investigation into the Ku Klux Klan, a chapter that was forming and trying to expand, in my city.
Ron Stallworth
PoliceCityTryingChapterColorado
In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.
Curtis Jackson
PoliceLovedViewSomeoneTakeAway
Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.
Peter T. King
PoliceHandsSurrenderPolice Officer
We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.
Warren Rudman
DeterminationFirePoliceAmerica
Where blackmail is involved, telling the police is always a good option.
Ruth Rendell
GoodPoliceAlwaysInvolvedWhere
I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.
Chance The Rapper
ChangeRelationshipPoliceSafety
I just went to your typical public schools, and my dad would take us to the movies every week, or he'd buy scalped tickets to San Antonio Spurs games. I remember I was four or five years old and my parents, who were very young, took us to see The Police in Austin, and Iggy Pop opened.
Pedro Pascal
PoliceParentsRememberWeekYoung
Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
Tanya Tucker
PoliceNightSpeakHotelOverHead
Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
Rush Limbaugh
GoodTeacherGreatPolicePeople
Many police departments still use DNA evidence the way they have used fingerprints and tire tracks: to determine whether a suspect committed the crime.
Bill Dedman
PoliceCrimeWayDNAEvidenceUsed
I love race car drivers, I love gymnastics, I love UFC, I love police officers, I love firefighters. I just try to give them the same enjoyment they give me.
Shaquille O'Neal
LoveCarPoliceMePolice Officers
When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
Randi Weingarten
LifeWorkCommunityPoliceSchool
You could make a case for job creation or education, police on the street, but none of those things can happen unless we got our financial house in order.
Mike Quigley
EducationPoliceJobFinancialYou
My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
Bernie Mac
FamilyPoliceBrotherPolice Officers
I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.
Scott Walker
PoliceGovernmentThinkEndHelp
If the City Council wants to hold the police accountable, it has the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to do so. They don't have the courage to do it.
Sal Albanese
PowerCourageResponsibilityPolice
There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.
Mike Colter
PoliceBookBecomeVictimOutHow
I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.
Alan Furst
MyselfPoliceValuePeopleMeKnow
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