“ Chemists employed by the police can do remarkable things with blood. They can weave it into a rope to hang a man. ”
- Margery Allingham- Copy
- 4K
“ However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it. ”
- Bryan Adams- Copy
- 428
“ The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see. ”
- Napoleon Bonaparte- Copy
- 419
“ The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever. ”
- Mario Cuomo- Copy
- 3.2K
“ 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 Frankfurter- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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 Marshall- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. ”
- Dennis Miller- Copy
- 2.6K
“ It's the responsibility of the media to look at the president with a microscope, but they go too far when they use a proctoscope. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. ”
- Stephen Baldwin- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I miss working in narcotics, but I like the stability of working for the police department. ”
- Richard Clark- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. ”
- Bruce Schneier- Copy
- 2.9K
“ The police are finding more and more excuses to inhibit, prohibit demonstrations, build pens that you can't even see over to put demonstrators in. ”
- Larry Holmes- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I think most MPs now believe the police have made a case for an extension but not necessarily as far as 90 days. It is certainly possible that the government could lose it. ”
- Sir John Denham- Copy
- 2.9K
“ He (McVeigh) is deeply concerned and always has been about police overreaching, particularly federal police,... And this is a case where we now know partly that the FBI has done a lot of covering up, delaying things, not wanting to give over things, and our research suggests that there's a whole lot more of that, and that they're not now being honest that they've given us everything… ”
- Richard Burr- Copy
- 2.1K
“ There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment. ”
- Earl Warren- Copy
- 3.1K
“ They prey on their own with extortion and protection rackets, in a culture where people don't go to the police and where most police don't speak the language. ”
- Ronald Goldstock- Copy
- 3.3K
“ 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 Mamet- Copy
- 403
“ With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand. ”
- Federico Garcia Lorca- Copy
- 3K
“ You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch, therefore bear you the lantern. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.7K
“ At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness — not crimes and scandals. ”
- Soren Kierkegaard- Copy
- 2.7K
“ If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they prevent, the number of the former would, in all cases, exceed that of the latter. ”
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt- Copy
- 3.4K
“ It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground. ”
- Germaine Greer- Copy
- 1.9K
“ We now in the United States have more security guards for the rich than we have police services for the poor districts. If you're looking for personal security, far better to move to the suburbs than to pay taxes in New York. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
- 1.8K
“ If a police agency makes a request, trying to clear a homicide that's on their book, we will provide them with whatever information that we can and let that agency make the determination if there's a connectivity, not us, they will do that. ”
- Don Clark- Copy
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