Policemen Quotes

“It is the common peoples duty to police the police.”
― Steven Magee

“He asked you to shoot at people who weren’t shooting back,” growled Vimes, striding forward, “That makes him insane, wouldn’t you say?”
“They are throwing stones, Sarge,” said Colon.
“So? Stay out of range. They’ll get tired before we do.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

“The police have lost sight of the fact that they are public servants.”
― Steven Magee

“The German citizen is a soldier, and the policeman is his officer. The policeman directs him where in the street to walk, and how fast to walk. At the end of each bridge stands a policeman to tell the German how to cross it. Were there no policeman there, he would probably sit down and wait till the river had passed by. At the railway station the policeman locks him up in the waiting-room, where he can do no harm to himself. When the proper time arrives, he fetches him out and hands him over to the guard of the train, who is only a policeman in another uniform. The guard tells him where to sit in the train, and when to get out, and sees that he does get out. In Germany you take no responsibility upon yourself whatever. Everything is done for you, and done well.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel

“We all shook hands, and the policeman, having retrieved a piece of chewing-gum from the underside of a chair, where he had parked it against a rainy day, went off into a corner and began to contemplate the infinite.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

“What he lacks in intelligence he makes up for with ego.”
― Jim McGrath, A Death in Spring: 1968

“You know that when a police officer refuses to produce formal identification on request, they are probably engaging in some form of corruption.”
― Steven Magee

“Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?”
― Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

“If you have bought the law enforcement department, then you have done nothing wrong when you willfully break multiple laws.”
― Steven Magee

“There is no shortage of despicable law enforcement departments in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“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

“No amount of community policing will cause the common people to accept a known corrupt police department.”
― Steven Magee

“When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications.”
― Steven Magee

“The police are often as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.”
― Steven Magee

“I know it's become fashionable to depict the police as sadistic Cossacks riding down innocent citizens, but I've become well enough acquainted with law-enforcement agencies across the country to know that's just not the case. Of course, a certain small percentage of policemen are irresponsible...but that doesn't justify the current unjust barrage of propaganda against a tribe of men who are hard-working, underpaid and daily risking their lives to protect us. I'm sure there are isolated instances of police brutality, but the rising crime rate and urban violence constitute a far, far more pressing problem.”
― Truman Capote

“Bow not, my brave officer of the law, before the soul-crunching pressure of corruption - light up the nuclear furnace of responsibility and justice that sleeps dormant within you and crush all corruption to ashes - only then you'll become the very embodiment of courage, conscience and order in the human society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“COP means Caretaker of People.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“But heaven knows there are enough policemen about. They're like a plague of cockroaches. You can't move without stepping on them.”
― Philip Pullman, The Haunted Storm

“If you can't save the life of innocent people at least don't kill their lives like a psychopath”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“When police officers refuse to give you their badge numbers, it is a strong indicator they are engaging in fraud with you.”
― Steven Magee

“As for the job itself, a lifelong crook doing part-time security work wasn't so strange. Half the cops in New York were thieving bitches first and cops second. City like this, it behooves you to embrace the fucking contradictions.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto

“Kayla,' I exclaim. 'There may be bad police officers out there, but I can assure you that there will be no harm towards you or anyone else. Like I said before, a policeman's job is to protect people. And if they can't, that's an issue for the officer. But for now, don't worry about it.”
― Simi Sunny, The White Sirens

“What I'd like is a case. You know how it happens in these crime stories, chaps....I read a good many of them and it's always the same thing. The keen young P. C. happens to be on the spot when there's a homicide, His Super has to call in the Yard and before you know where you are the P. C.'s working with one of the Big Four and getting praised for his witty deductions.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death at the Bar

“People say, most politicians are corrupt – they say, most policemen are corrupt – but never even for a second, they think, what exactly they would do, if they were in their position.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana

“You are to be the lion that keeps all vicious predators away when it roams the neighborhood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“Yours is not like any other profession - upon your duty depends whether a little child in a corner of your neighborhood will sleep sound - upon your duty depends whether a woman can return home safe from work at night - upon your duty depends whether an elderly person can reach home from the bank without being mugged. You matter - your duty matters - not merely for you mark you, but for those countless civilians who rely on your individual sense of responsibility with their very life. You are to be the lion that keeps all vicious predators away when it roams the neighborhood.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“When a burning sense of duty flows through the veins of a police officer like blood, it turns the very word police into an emblem of hope – an emblem of righteousness – an emblem of integrity, dignity and morality.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law

“A true cop will protect your freedom, will not restrict your freedom”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“The fact that the policemen didn’t know their stuff didn’t really surprise me. Not long before, I had asked three different Rome traffic policemen, or vigili, how old a child had to be before being able to ride in the front passenger seat of a car and had gotten three totally different answers. Not so hard to understand, I guess for two reasons. First, if you get your job through pull and not merit then you don’t really need to get good grades on a qualifying exam and, second, if Parliament changes the law every few years it is understandably difficult to keep up.”
― Sari Gilbert, My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

“It's not the Traffic Police being soft; it's just that some drivers have a compass that always points in the wrong direction!”
― Dipti Dhakul