Top 35 Quotes About Police Corruption
#1. There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."
Jeff Merkley
#2. The old joke is that psychiatrists are doctors who can't stand the sight of blood. Maybe they can't stand it, but if they work where I work, they damn well better get used to it.
At least surgeons and prizefighters get to wear gloves
Mike Bartos
#3. Dear God, please help me to be the kind of person who my dogs think I am.
Jerrie Brock
#4. As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was redressed and public safety held dear. It was a hectic bazaar, like many other public institutions in Mumbai, and investigating Kalu's death was not a profit-generating enterprise.
Katherine Boo
#5. The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants.
Steven Magee
#6. It is my assessment that most police officers who spend their days driving around USA cities will have some level
of radiation sickness and this is concerning!
Steven Magee
#7. Police are inevitably corrupted ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
Frank Herbert
#8. The corruption in reporting starts very early. It's like the police reporting on the police.
Julian Assange
#9. ...I never once believed what they wanted us to believe - that we as black people are inferior to whites...
Darcus Howe
#10. When the police willfully break the law on video and then deny the event in writing, you know that you are dealing with a blatantly corrupt group of people.
Steven Magee
#11. I have no confidence in USA law enforcement.
Steven Magee
#12. It is the common peoples duty to police the police.
Steven Magee
#13. Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.
Steven Magee
#14. The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle
Steven Magee
#15. The first view is "bad apple." Bad apple is excusable. It's sort of like, something went bad with this man. But the second option is police corruption, so it's a problem with the department.
Oren Moverman
#16. The sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church is the result of what police call "noble cause corruption," the belief that because you are dedicated to doing good, you can do no wrong.
Alex Gibney
#17. The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corrupt.
Steven Magee
#18. I almost forgot to tell you - you have the right to remain silent, but if you do, my boys at the station will process your bones to help you confess.
Rohinton Mistry
#20. It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts ... nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.
Raymond Chandler
#21. Police internal affairs are in the business of protecting corrupt and incompetent police officers from prosecution due to the extensive range of laws that they have blatantly broken.
Steven Magee
#22. If there was special interests affecting police work, I believe that would be called corruption. So, if it has do with donating money versus a popular vote, I think we have a bigger problem in this country and somebody's gotta wake up to that.
Garry McCarthy
#23. There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn't hang up on.
Mark Capell
#24. The police frequently do not enforce the rule of law.
Steven Magee
#25. Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with the government, no criminal record. That is what power is about. That is what corruption is about. And that is what has to change in the United States of America.
Bernie Sanders
#26. So the only problem that you have is actually switch things in the department, changing things, controlling things, putting it maybe under federal supervision, and if you fix the department, you'll fix the problems - with police corruption, with brutality, with evidence tampering, all those things.
Oren Moverman
#27. It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed.
Steven Magee
#28. While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.
Steven Magee
#29. Nobody wants zealotry in a police force, you know? You do want to know that the guy who's got that badge, is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. Like a man steals some food to feed his starving children.
Russell Crowe
#31. If you want to kill someone and get away with it, become a cop.
Steven Magee
#32. I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.
Aman Mojadidi
#33. If you want to routinely break the law and get away with it, then a police officer would be a great career choice for you.
Steven Magee
#34. There is no shortage of despicable law enforcement departments in the USA.
Steven Magee
#35. It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement.
Steven Magee
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