P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Police officers that see you video recording them may fabricate a reason to make you leave the area!”
“Police officers today are a protected class, one no politician wants to oppose. Law enforcement interests may occasionally come up short on budgetary issues, but legislatures rarely if ever pass new laws to hold police more accountable, to restrict their powers, or to make them more transparent. In short, police today embody all of the threats the Founders feared were posed by standing armies, plus a few additional ones they couldn't have anticipated.”
“Police officers would be wise to remember that every citizen they interact with is their boss.”
“Police officials routinely execute search warrants on private homes and offices, and Congressional offices should not be treated any differently. There cannot be one set of rules for elected officials and another set of rules for everyone else.”
“Police on my drawers
I had to pause
40 ounce in my lap
And it's freezing my balls”
“Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.”
Source: On Character: Essays
“Police professional standards are a very unprofessional group of people.”
“Police recording of false allegations of rape:
"The data on the pro formas limit the extent to which one can assess the police designations, but their internal rules on false complaints specify that this category should be limited to cases where either there is a clear and credible admission by the complainants, or where there are strong evidential grounds. On this basis, and bearing in mind the data limitations, for the cases where there is information (n=144) the designation of false complaint could be said to be probable (primarily those where the account by the complainant is referred to) in 44 cases, possible (primarily where there is some evidential basis) in a further 33 cases, and uncertain (including where victim characteristics are used to impute that they are inherently less believable) in 77 cases. If the proportion of false complaints on the basis of the probable and possible cases are recalculated, rates of three per cent are obtained, both of all reported cases (n=67 of 2,643), and of those where the outcome is known (n=67 of 2,284). Even if all those designated false by the police were accepted (a figure of approximately ten per cent), this is still much lower than the rate perceived by police officers interviewed in this study. A question asked of all of them was how they assessed truth and falsity in allegations and within this, 50 per cent (n=31) further discussed the issue of false allegations."
A gap or a chasm?: attrition in reported rape cases.”
“Police reform starts with the acknowledgement of police bias.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law
“Police reports are among the most inaccurate and fictitious things I have ever read!”
“Police reports read like stories told by robots. They’re terse and demarcated, with little space for judgment or emotion.”
Source: I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
“Police routinely shooting mentally challenged people is a very disturbing trend.”
“Police should Stop & Frisk White people too. They have better drugs!”
Source: Don't beat your children or they'll turn out like me
“Police Sonnet
Police is not a profession,
But a promise of protection.
So long as you carry the badge,
You must discard self-preservation.
The thin blue line of service,
Is not for self-serving narcissists.
When your sole concern is society,
Only then can you uphold justice.
You mustn't become manikins of politics,
Nor of bureaucratic brutality.
Your allegiance is only to the people,
Their welfare will rescue your humanity.
In the sea of selfishness be the selfless drop,
Taking care of people you become a real cop.”
Source: Boldly Comes Justice: Sentient Not Silent
“Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what a cop's world is like. But in truth that world is seldom revealed with anything approaching verisimilitude. We get it with The Wagon.”
“Police throughout the United States have been caught fabricating, planting, and manipulating evidence to obtain convictions where cases would otherwise be very weak. Some authorities regard police perjury as so rampant that it can be considered a "subcultural norm rather than an individual aberration" of police officers. Large-scale investigations of police units in almost every major American city have documented massive evidence of tampering, abuse of the arresting power, and discriminatory enforcement of laws. There also appears to be widespread police perjury in the preparation of reports because police know these reports will be used in plea bargaining. Officers often justify false and embellished reports on the grounds that it metes out a rough justice to defendants who are guilty of wrongdoing but may be exonerated on technicalities. [internal citations omitted]”
Source: Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas
“Police vetting should [take place] every one to two years. They should go in for a psychological, to see if they're burned out, see if they've been traumatized. If they're having a hard time, help them!”
“Police were on the alert to suppress disorder, except what they created.”
Source: Black No More
“Police work is a question of piecing together tentative solutions. We have to make the gaps speak and the pieces tell us about things that have hidden meanings. We have to try to see through the events, turn them on their heads in order to set them on their feet.”
Source: The Fifth Woman
“POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.”
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“Policeman are soldiers who act alone; soldiers are policeman who act in unison.”
“POLICEMAN. Good luck. (She finds it easiest just to nod in reply) I wish I was a Prince.”
Source: A Kiss for Cinderella
“Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here"
I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a day, a month, a year"
Gotta stand my ground even if it rains or snows
If she changes her mind this is the first place she will go”
“Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.”
“Policemen always have the idea that they can’t have emotions, that you are as hard as a rock, and that’s not true. You are no different than anyone else.”
“Policemen and laws can never replace customs, traditions and moral values as a means for regulating human behavior. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Our increased reliance on laws to regulate behavior is a measure of how uncivilized we’ve become.”
“Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.”
“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.”
Source: Writing in restaurants
“Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.”
“Policework is like having ringside seats to the greatest show on Earth! (Ringling Bro's ref.)”
Source: The Temptation of Paradise
“Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.”
“Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.”
“Policies are designed to undermine working class organization and the reason is not only the unions fight for workers' rights, but they also have a democratizing effect. These are institutions in which people without power can get together, support one another, learn about the world, try out their ideas, initiate programs, and that is dangerous. That's like a referendum in Greece. It is dangerous to allow that.”
“Policies are ephemeral; principles are eternal.”
“Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.”
Source: Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
“Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.”
Source: Developing the Leader Within You
“Policies change, and programs change, according to time.But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is complete freedom, complete justice, complete equality, by any means necessary”
“Policies give direction, SOPs create motion, and guidelines allow wisdom to flow between the two.”
Source: Standard Operating Excellence: The Complete Guide to Building, Implementing, and Mastering SOPs
“Policies seemed almost deliberately designed to suppress new enterprise and job creation. How many Americans will start a business if the interest rates are 150 percent?”
“Policies should also offer a solution. What a concept! Imagine that! A policy that sorted out all the shit in this country once and for all”
Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
“Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.”
“Policies that engage us again in the international fight for real climate protection.”
“Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day.”
“policing is not a malevolent conspiracy; most police officers take seriously their role as public servants. The widely publicized incidents of police violence and abuse often lead us to forget that the vast majority of police officers spend the vast majority of their time helping people who ask for their help. Americans call 911 both in genuine emergencies and for trivial reasons, and police officers don’t get to choose whether to respond.”
Source: Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City
“Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.”
“Policy change is most effectively enacted on the local and state level.”
“Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.”
“Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;
And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.”
Source: Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper