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Police

«Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.»
«The idea that the police cannot ask questions of the person that knows most about the crime is an infamous decision.»
Author: Edwin Meese III | About: Police | Keywords: infamous, The Police
«My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.»
«The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.»
Author: Jeff Cooper | About: Police | Keywords: acceptable, mandatory, police, The Police
«You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.»
Author: John Lydon | About: Music, Police
«So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.»
Author: Lucy Parsons | About: Anarchy, Misery, Police
«The police are not going to run this court. The defendants are not going to run this court. The defense attorneys are not going to run this court. The district attorney is not going to run this court. I'm going to run this court.»
«Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.»
«Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.»
Author: David Mamet (Playwright) | About: Police | Keywords: keepers, policemen, protectors, status
«It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.»