Top 80 Police Officers Quotes

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.

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don’t always act correctly.

It’s an interesting situation to be in to play a cop on TV and to know so many police officers through our training and our advisors.

As an early advocate for neighborhood policing, I’ve been heartened to see the tangible impact of police officers spending less time in their station houses and more time on our street corners, developing collaborative relationships with residents and businesses that help us fight and deter crime.

Most people that take jobs as police officers are taking them because they’re good jobs. Many who go into these jobs are doing it because it’s good work.

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.

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, ‘Oh, let’s talk about it when something horrible happens.’ The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

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

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

There are many avenues to peacefully protest, but those rights don’t extend to illegal actions, breaching security perimeters, and threatening police officers.

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.

I’ve got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.

I come from a police family. Both my parents are police officers.

The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies into prison, and to keep police officers out of it.

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.

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.

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.

A ‘Globe’ examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.

We should start with the basics: Police officers are unlikely to be held accountable if the prosecutors investigating and potentially prosecuting them feel indebted to them.

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers, public-health officials, and even the armed forces to vaccinate at will, and, if necessary, at gunpoint.

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.

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.

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.

From maintaining public safety to educating our children to providing critical services, our police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers, teachers, librarians and so many other public employees are there for us when we need them most.

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.

Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.

Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.

There is an apparatus set up to protect politicians, but those within that apparatus will have their own political views. I’ve got mates who are police officers and mates who are in the military, and they often have a very different view to the policy they’re asked to carry out.

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.

Never once has Republican world said hey, maybe we should look into how police officers are carrying out their solemn public responsibility to serve and protect. No – no right wing website in America is investigating or will ever investigate how well police officers do their jobs.

Police officers know that each time they put on their uniform, they are taking on risks to protect others.

Why wouldn’t the police officers be on edge? Why wouldn’t they be alert? And why wouldn’t people in the community trust police officers? Because they are consistently harassing them, and they have experience with police officers doing awful things.

I want our police officers to have the resources and training they need to investigate hate crime fully, and to ensure we have neighborhood police teams that understand and reflect the communities they serve.

Police officers’ disproportionate use of force against people of color is a stain on our nation.

When residents feel like they can talk to the police, officers can stop crime before it starts.

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

In too many ways, Ohio is being run for the benefit of those who have already made it, and too many of our friends and neighbors are being left behind. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cuts to police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and to our local schools, while property and sales taxes are going up.

As a flight instructor 30 years ago, I had quite a few female police officers who wanted to be pilots. But the guys would say ‘no.’ They wanted those jobs to themselves.

I think that Eric Holder has an animosity, a genuine hostility, toward local law enforcement – specifically toward white police officers. He truly believes that every white police officer is a stone-cold racist.

I hope we can figure out the reforms, educate and really retrain our police officers. Getting people to understand that just because I grew up a different way and my lifestyle’s different, doesn’t mean that you need to be afraid of me.

Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

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

I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and doing it the right way.

We have police officers who may devalue the life of Black people. And that’s what we have to change.

The overwhelming number of police officers in Chicago are doing good work under difficult conditions. They put their lives on the line every day in situations none of us can fully comprehend or appreciate.

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

Most police officers are good cops and good people.

In the last 5 years I’ve been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

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.

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.