Top 100 Quotes About Cops
#1. There are lots of good cops around. Dumb guys who are good cops. Inflexible, limited, tough, self-satisfied types who are all good cops. It would be better if there were a few more good guys who were cops." His
Maj Sjowall
#2. You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.
Joe Mantegna
#3. You had to grow up sometime. The fellows who grew early, they were in jeopardy. They became the cops and the crooks, and the crooks became the gangsters. The crooks became the Al Capones.
Jack Kirby
#4. I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.
Jason Wiles
#5. Negative media reinforcements not only influence how cops, judges, employers, and others view black males, they affect how young blacks view themselves.
Tom Burrell
#7. I used to drink, I did. I had to quit. Man, I was an embarrassing drunk. I'd get pulled over by the cops, I'd be so drunk I'd be out dancing in their lights thinking I'd made it to the next club.
Bill Hicks
#8. So you fake and you flaw, for your cops and your cause. It makes no difference to me. It's love that you stole, that you stole.
Sara Quin
#9. Most police officers are good cops and good people.
Rand Paul
#11. You keep looking around for who's in fucking charge, and there's just nobody like that at all. The cops just ride their horses back and forth through the park, up and down Fifth Avenue. Who the hell's angry on Fifth Avenue, that's what I want to know.
Steve Erickson
#13. I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.
Carmine Giovinazzo
#14. Sometimes criminals work and for cops and criminals have favourite cops... (Person of Interest)
Deyth Banger
#15. We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.
Brad Garrett
#16. Cops, more than firefighters, EMTs or other public safety employees, almost always get the first glance of the human condition at the worst, most lethal moments; nobody calls a cop with good news.
Mike Barnicle
#17. Never talk to the cops, I don't speak pig latin.
Lil' Wayne
#18. I don't think cops should wear mirrored sunglasses; the whole time the guy was chewing me out, all I could think was I should cut my bangs.
Bonnie McFarlane
#19. You let the cops in. Thy've brought in a ram to take down the front door. A white chick in an evening gown will settle the cops faster than a brother with guns.
Faith Hunter
#20. I always get scared of traffic cops when I'm driving, like I freak out even when I'm not doing anything wrong. I still think they're going to pull me over and arrest me.
Leelee Sobieski
#21. So many people wanted an adventure. It was really more about finding the cast that I wanted for 'Expedition Impossible,' so it had good diversity, and people could really say, 'Oh, there's the firefighters, there's the team of cops, there's the grandpa' - so that you can really relate with them.
Mark Burnett
#22. I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to; for example, an internal monologue by a locquacious and verbose narrator is more likely to be larded with adverbs than an exchange of instant messages between cops at a crime scene.
Charles Stross
#23. I had received a t-shirt from my best friend Veronica at my police academy graduation. It reads, 'Throw your donut in the opposite direction and the cops won't get you.' I love wearing that t-shirt.
Suzie Ivy
#24. Outside my window, truckers trucked, hookers fucked, cops cruised, kids smoked, elders yelled, invalids slept, spouses fought, lovers kissed, while I watched a pussycat playing with stars in a black room.
Jardine Libaire
#25. You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.
Dean Norris
#26. The suits love their numbers, Malone thinks. This new management breed of cops are like the sabermetrics baseball people. They believe the numbers say it all, and when the numbers don't say what they want them to, they massage them like Koreans on Eighth Avenue until they get a happy ending.
Don Winslow
#27. Road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him - not hunger, not cops, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself. A crackerjack
Christopher Paul Curtis
#28. Cops are good at keeping secrets.
J.D. Robb
#29. Florida needs a special prison for tourists. Not all tourists - just the ones who trash the place, rob, shoplift, vandalize, drive drunk, assault the cops, puke in the alleys, pee in the medians, and so on.
Carl Hiaasen
#30. Moore relished taking cops down. It wasn't a job to him - he'd received a divine calling.
John Foxjohn
#31. There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.
Warren Ellis
#32. Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".
Immortal Technique
#33. When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.
Donnie Wahlberg
#34. Somewhere across the interstate
Exposure to the drug trade of emotions
And the tsunami and typhoon of feelings
Has made us all cops and robbers
Of what we keep in the cavities
In our chests
Iain S. Thomas
#35. Do you watch Cops on TV?"
"I love Cops," he said. "It's like my life, but with the boring parts taken out.
Jennifer Echols
#36. Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions.
Tess Gerritsen
#37. I've almost never seen in China what Westerners would consider a fair fight. Somebody always pulls out a meat cleaver or picks up a brick to smash your head in. Or they simply gang up on you, like the cops were presently doing.
Rudy Kong
#38. She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops.
Ilona Andrews
#39. Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.
John Blair
#40. If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away.
Bill Maher
#41. It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system.
Ludacris
#42. Nonono, Nick,' Gilpin interrupted. He pulled a chair up to the table and sat on it backward. I wondered if cops actually did that. Or did some clever actor do that, and then cops began doing it because they'd seen the actors playing cops do that and it looked cool?
Gillian Flynn
#43. My grandma leaned out the backseat window, pointing at the cops. "Just so you know, I had no part in this! Ask anyone. They'll all tell you: I hate crime."
"Well, we won't mention to them how you 'forgot' to pay for those slippers at Wal-Mart, now, will we?" my mom hissed.
Emily Cassel
#44. My rhymes are like shot clocks,
interstate cops
and blood clots,
my point is your flow gets stopped.
Talib Kweli
#45. Don't run from the police, my uncle had always joked when we'd watched Cops years ago. You'll only go to jail tired.
Anonymous
#46. Well the days of community policing were over. The world was a bottleful of sparkling darkness and cops the ones charged with keeping the cork in while the rich shook and shook.
Sunil Yapa
#47. I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
Gabriel Basso
#48. I auditioned for so many things - cops, lawyers, doctors and things but they were like, "She just seems too sweet. I don't see that hard side of her."
Christina Hendricks
#49. "Well
I don't know
the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."
Tom Upton
#50. Without the cops or the feds, the two of them were on their own. And Jack had no idea what they were up against. All he knew was that he now had the assumed future president's daughter's life in his hands.
B. J. Daniels
#51. What's to analyze?" she said. "They're all crazy, so they became cops, and they're all cops, so they stay crazy.
James Patterson
#52. I've seen villages in South America with no police whatever. Then the cops would arrive, then the sanitary inspectors, and before you know it they've got all the problems - crime, juvenile delinquency, the whole works - just like us.
William S. Burroughs
#53. I have some crack sources - cops who call me, and say, "Hey, there's a dead body in Civic Park, try not to beat the homicide detectives there."
- Gabriella Giovanni, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD
Kristi Belcamino
#54. The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.
Jeremy Renner
#55. I'm concerned about the woman you're holding prisoner in there," Beckett said. "Knock three times if you're being held against your will."
Phoebe gasped and answered, "I'm fine, too."
"Good." Beckett said with a chuckle. "I was afraid I'd have to call the cops on my cop brother.
Elle James
#56. By all means, tell the cops about the crazy robot lady with the black leather body suit and the Kill Bill sword. Hope you like straitjackets.
J.D. Cunegan
#57. There's a lot of common ground between criminals and cops. Both savor power, thrills, control. The good cops know they're only a step or two away from the crooks they're arresting.
Nanci Rathbun
#58. There are people who walk mules and people walk horses, but I never thought there were people who walk cops.
Mo Yan
#59. I must tell you, I haven't done the drug problem that is faced by cops and people on the border. It's a hard show to do, but I think it's going to say a lot about drugs and the problems related to them. I just hope people can watch it, it's a pretty strong show.
Aaron Spelling
#60. My bedroom is so messy, if I died of natural causes, the cops would be like no he didn't, clearly there was a struggle.
Dov Davidoff
#61. I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.
Erik King
#62. You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime.
Tom Shales
#63. Cops and schoolteachers," Sloan said with satisfaction. "A cop and schoolteacher bar. The teachers drink like fish. The cops hit on the schoolteachers. One big happy family.
John Sandford
#64. It seemed to me ... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.
Evan Hunter
#66. When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?
Frank Costello
#67. What is horrible about politicians and cops is that they look as though they were made for the job.
Georges Perros
#68. Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.
Martin Henderson
#69. his temper which would one day lead him to his very own episode of Cops.
R.L. Mathewson
#70. Even getting a restraining order - a fairly new legal tool - requires acquiring the credibility to convince the courts that some guy is a menace and then getting the cops to enforce it. Restraining orders often don't work anyway.
Rebecca Solnit
#71. It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car; they were being chased by cops; they shot up a truck - and women loved it.
Robin Quivers
#72. I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.
John King
#73. Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.
Ronald Perelman
#74. All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited.
Ray Lewis
#75. One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.
Daniel J. Goor
#76. This is why cops shoot people in the back, I thought. They can't keep up. Then
Kent Walker
#77. Many later commented on the fact that large numbers of those engaged in the most senseless acts of destruction were left well alone by cops, indeed people dressed as Black Block members were seen freely making their way across police lines and talking to cops.
John Blair
#78. Cops were distrustful; they always wanted to know why you decided to dig a hole in the middle of nowhere.
Lou Harper
#79. Do not antagonize the cops, I told myself. Repeat if necessary: Do not antagonize the cops.
Gillian Flynn
#80. What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now.
Al Sharpton
#81. I think the idea of fact-checking, I think the idea that you come up through a system where you know how to cover night cops, and then you go on, and you go on to various beats, including writing obituaries, and you get names right, you know how to spell them, really has some advantages to it.
Juan Williams
#82. Yeah, I saw the guy running out of the building carrying a rifle, I just didn't say anything to the cops because I was so happy that I wasn't the one who got shot.
Zach Braff
#83. It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
Chi McBride
#84. You're a cop aren't you?
A private detective.
Isn't that the same thing?
The cops guarantee order. All I do is uncover disorder.
Manuel Vazquez Montalban
#85. Runners are bouncing up and down at the curb waiting for lights to change. Cops are in coffee shops dealing with bagel deficiencies.
Thomas Pynchon
#86. Now - a profanity-spewing guttersnipe being dragged out of a crack house on Cops. I
Katja Millay
#87. There's a really classic cliche every time you switch the TV on - you see cops arguing. I have spent a day a week for many years in the presence of police and I have never seen them argue. It's a military hierarchy. They do what they're told. There's no bickering.
Peter James
#88. I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
Aaron Douglas
#89. My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!
Josh Hartnett
#90. . 'Because off-duty cops walk around the city wearing sweatshirts advertising they're cops all the time, never mind it's a hundred degrees outside. And never mind you look like the youngest cop ever recruited in the history of policing.'
He tsks at me. 'Have you never seen 21 Jump Street?
Sarah Alderson
#91. Plus her mom was so awesome. She was strict about some things - don't leave your socks lying around - but so not strict about other things, like calling the cops about my bullet wound.
James Patterson
#92. Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins. It's like a morality car wash.
Robert De Niro
#93. I can't stop them. Maybe I can embarrass them from time to time, cost the City some money, but what they're doing here is happening everywhere. We live in a police state and everybody supports the cops.
John Grisham
#94. Ran out of bullets and still had static, grabbed a pregnant lady and out the automatic. Pointed at her head and said the gun was full of lead, he told the cops, back off or honey here's dead.
Slick Rick
#95. When David killed Goliath, Mae Young called the cops.
Jerry Lawler
#96. The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy's," adds another Mardi Gras girl. "All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.
Josh Alan Friedman
#97. They [Cops] were living in the media age, and in the media age, cops didn't get to fire their weapons. Cops were honored if they got themselves killed in the line of duty, but they were never suppose to draw their guns, not even in self-defense.
Lisa Gardner
#98. A war on cops? Then the question becomes who are they warring with? Because if you look at the prison system you can tell who the Prisoners of War are. The Black Man. Words are powerful and we must stop these divisive words that tare our country further apart instead of bringing us together.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#99. I'm a customer and I ask you where I can find Lethal Weapon. What do you do?" Me: "Call the cops?" Martin
T. Torrest
#100. The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, small farmers were being squeezed out, workingmen were working twelve hours a day for a bare living; profits were for the rich, the law was for the rich, the cops were for the rich;
John Dos Passos
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