Quotes About Police Officers

#1. The ideal of the military hero is clearly echoed in other contexts, and it includes those who routinely risk their health and lives in the line of duty, such as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics.

Philip G. Zimbardo

#2. Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in
harm's way every day, every week, every year.

James McGreevey

#3. The concept of the psychopath is, in fact, an admission of failure to solve the mystery of evil - it is merely a restatement of the mystery - and only offers an escape valve for the frustration felt by psychiatrists, social workers, and police officers, who daily encounter its force.

Janet Malcolm

#4. Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.

Edward Snowden

#5. My favorite people to have fun with are police officers 'cause they're so serious, you know.

Gabriel Iglesias

#6. Just because you help others doesn't mean you never need help yourself. Doctors can catch colds. Lawyers can be sued. Police officers can call 911.

Sarah Jakes

#7. Sam's eyes wandered up to the camera again. "Are we being recorded?" "Yes." "Who's watching us right now?" The detective sighed. "A couple of really experienced police officers. Actually, I have no idea. Wave if you want to." Sam lifted a hand and wiggled a few fingers.

Jennifer Hillier

#8. In the context of September 11, there were so many that lost their lives that - how do you single out one person? There were so many acts of heroism that day from so many people, whether it be firemen and police officers in New York and our agents also.

Robert Mueller

#9. When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Mary Frances Berry

#10. I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.

George Eads

#11. The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Frank Serpico

#12. Every day, police officers see the hairy, smelly underbelly of humanity, the most depraved and evil shit human beings are capable of, shit civilians thankfully can't imagine.

Lisa Genova

#13. The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.

Michael D. Barnes

#14. I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

Bobby Seale

#15. We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

Theresa May

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. It is up to us to change laws on the books like 'Stand Your Ground' laws and push elected officials to enact regulations that hold police officers to the same standards as the rest of society. This is why we vote.

Al Sharpton

#19. Nonviolent ideals were cheap to hold if you were a scientist, living inside the Protego bubble cast by the police officers and soldiers whose actions you had the luxury to question.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#20. Good police officers are ugly.' *

Jo Nesbo

#21. When you have police officers like Office Encinia who is a trained professional, who is trained to de-escalate a situation where a motorist may not be in the best of moods because of an encounter that they're having with you, you are trained to respond differently.

Sharon Cooper

#22. At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.

Martin Guevara Urbina

#23. And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

Theresa May

#24. Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

Eric Holder

#25. Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed police officers become strangely commonplace after awhile.

Mike Crapo

#26. We all have inherent biases. All of us. The problem occurs when police officers or community members allow those biases to affect the choices they make as they do their job or have interactions with others.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#27. A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.

Bill Dedman

#28. Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

Karen Salmansohn

#29. I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

Maxine Waters

#30. While we have come a long way, we must go further if we are to ensure greater diversity and truly modern police forces that reflect the communities they serve and provide police officers able to tackle not only traditional crime but also the changing face of crime.

Theresa May

#31. Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.

Al Sharpton

#32. Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'.

Stephen Colbert

#33. When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

William Kunstler

#34. Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.

Vito Fossella

#35. And in the incendiary wake of Michael Brown's and Eric Garner's deaths at the hands of white police officers in the summer of 2014, a conventional production of Driving Miss Daisy that in no way subverts the text now seems nothing short of obscene. There

Jordan Tannahill

#36. If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.

Bill Dedman

#37. When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.

Lennie James

#38. thanks to the many police officers who over the years have given me an insight into their jobs and lives. I also want to ackowledge Tom Mangold

Michael Connelly

#39. Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their day in court in order to argue their side of the story. Police officers must be subjected to the same rules.

Al Sharpton

#40. I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.

Tracy Morgan

#41. If every school would hire two more music teachers, we would need two fewer police officers.

Kurt Masur

#42. In the 1970s, New York City defaulted on its debt, and yes, the consequences were painful. Enrollment plummeted at City University campuses, which until then had offered free education. Seven thousand police officers were laid off. Crime skyrocketed. Services for the poor disappeared.

Charles Duhigg

#43. Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

Joe Orton

#44. She is a walking weapon in society, is what the teachers said. We've never seen anything like it, is what the doctors said. She should be removed from your home, is what the police officers said.
No problem at all, is what my parents said.

Tahereh Mafi

#45. Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.

Monica Johnson

#46. I really admire police officers, surgeons, or anyone who works in high stressed situations.

Yasmin Paige

#47. The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclusively under the German Reich police system and were in no way connected with the administration of the Government General.

Hans Frank

#48. Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.

Steven Magee

#49. In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.

Heath Ledger

#50. Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver.

Robert James Thomson

#51. When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.

Eric Holder

#52. Just last week, gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed two tourism police officers near the gate of the complex that contains the pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx, across the Nile from Cairo and about 400 miles north of Luxor.

Anonymous

#53. In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situation case by case and always pay close attention to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law.

Steven Seagal

#54. people were often surprised to learn that game wardens were in fact real police officers, commissioned with the power to enforce any state law, not just hunting and fishing regulations.

Steve Brewer

#55. The cliche is that misery loves company. Another is that there is fellowship among thieves. But thieves do not seek the consoling presence of the fellowship of police officers. Sinful misery does not love the company of purity.

R.C. Sproul

#56. He had worked out long ago that police officers evaluated a citizen on the
basis of three factors - his appearance, his occupation, and the way he
spoke; according to this assessment, a citizen in a police station would
either be treated with respect or despised and beaten.

Alaa Al Aswany

#57. Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

Loretta Lynch

#58. I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

Edwin Meese

#59. One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

Mark Thomas

#60. I'm delighted that our high school kids are developing these positives relationships with our police officers and getting such terrific hands-on experience. This will provide great benefits to our community now and in the future.

Deb Matthews

#61. 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

#62. That NASA was involved suggests that L.A. was considered so alien both to police officers and to scientists that it resembled the landscape of another world. There is Mars, there is the moon, and there is Los Angeles.

Geoff Manaugh

#63. Firemen, police officers, professional athletes and military service personnel are all trained with this in mind, they are taught to direct their energy, to use stress constructively.

Gudjon Bergmann

#64. I probably saved more black lives as mayor of New York City than any mayor in the history of this city. And I did it by having to use police officers in black areas where there was an astounding amount of crime. If that crime was in white areas, police officers would be in white areas.

Rudy Giuliani

#65. Some folks in the office said I should explain in my complaint that I was a civil rights attorney working on police misconduct cases. It seemed to me that no one should need those kinds of credentials to complain about misconduct by police officers.

Bryan Stevenson

#66. We don't need police officers who see themselves as warriors. We need police officers who see themselves as guardians and parts of the community. You can't police a community that you're not a part of.

Bryan Stevenson

#67. Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.

Dan Phillips

#68. There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.

Clint Eastwood

#69. Jets center Nick Mangold honors murdered NYPD police officers Rafael Ramos (below, l.) and Wenjian Liu by wearing NYPD cap before game against Patriots Sunday. USA TODAY

Anonymous

#70. I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

Alan Autry

#71. My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

James Langevin

#72. Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

Kim Gandy

#73. Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

Irwin Redlener

#74. No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

Daryl Gates

#75. The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.

Theresa May

#76. Unreasonable force is illegal. The force used has to be reasonable under the circumstances to protect the police officers and the public

Kenneth Eade

#77. The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

Trey Gowdy

#78. I do a lot of research and yes, do know quite a few police officers, friends of mine and my husbands. However, most of my books are researched based on Canadian laws or the laws of each country (ie: Mexico and USA) and I do my best to make them accurate.

Franny Armstrong

#79. A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators.

Shannon L. Alder

#80. I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars for reasons other than being police officers.

Romany Malco

#81. 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

#82. If something like one in nine Londoners is a Muslim, then I want one in nine police officers to be a Muslim. Which means we are currently about 2,000 short.

Ian Blair

#83. Remarkable ... Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.

Daniel Horan

#84. It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

Jacqueline Rayner

#85. We pass bills authorizing improvements and grants. But when it comes time to pay for these programs, we'd rather put the country's money toward tax breaks for the wealthy than for police officers who are protecting our communities.

David Price

#86. The English, thought Kate, obviously regarded praying much as they did a necessary physical function, something best done in private. Dalgliesh apologized for interrupting her work: We're police officers and I'm afraid we're here on police business. Were you

P.D. James

#87. Most police officers are good cops and good people.

Rand Paul

#88. The enemy combatants in LA are not the citizens and suspects, it's the police officers,

Christopher Dorner

#89. The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence.

Julian Fantino

#90. Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor.

Rudy Giuliani

#91. Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.

Doreen Cronin

#92. ... it has been very dangerous time to be a black male in America. There have been several high profile cases that have been covered in the national press as well as stories which have not. Many of these involve white police officers killing unarmed black men.

The Prophet Of Life

#93. If cops were viewed as the enemy, the tenuous balance of power could shift. Laws would be broken out of contempt. Authority wouldn't be acknowledged. Police officers might even be attacked, or worse.

J.A. Konrath

#94. I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

Allan Rock

#95. In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.

Brian Lindstrom

#96. 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

#97. I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

Lynn Westmoreland

#98. In the remaining months, we should focus on achieving more robust international involvement in training of Iraqi soldiers, police officers, judges, teachers, and doctors - all key elements needed to end the sectarian and civil conflict and build Iraq's future.

John Olver

#99. Imagine feeling like every kiss goodbye to your loved ones each day might be your last kiss. Police officers and their families feel this way every single day.

Karen Salmansohn

#100. My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

Bernie Mac