“I used to have this dream that somebody was knocking at my door. I'd say 'Who is it?' and they'd answer 'Police.' I'd open the door and they would say to me, 'Pack your bags. We realized you have no talent.” DreamUsedAnswersDoorsTalentPoliceBagsInsecurityPacksKnocking Author:Leslie Nielsen
“Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.” HouseDoorsHumorousPolicePhonesInvitesBack Doors Author:Mike Harding
“I went home one afternoon to pick up a script without bothering to change, and a half an hour later the Beverly Hills Police were at my door because a neighbor had reported a suspicious stranger lurking around Ross Martin's house. I had to peel off my beard to prove who I was.” HomeHouseHoursHalfDoorsProvePicksPoliceScriptsStrangerNeighborHillsBotherAfternoonSuspiciousBeardLurkingBeverly Hills Author:Ross Martin
“Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.” ThinkingWayChildrenTodayParentDoorsConsciousPoliceMalesGreekAdolescenceHonoredEroticMagnetism Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.” IfsNightSoundFireDoorsCarLuckyPoliceBroadwayRipEnvelopesSidewalkPolice Cars Book:Tom Stoppard in Conversation Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation
“A lot of black people worked with the police as snitches. We used to call them bimpees where I grew up. And, you know, they were afforded special privileges. They may have been paid by the police. But you never knew who was informing on you. We lived either next door to or - two doors away from us was a known informant in Soweto.” PeopleKnowsMayHas BeensTwoUsedNextBlackKnownDoorsSpecialGrewGrew UpPaidPolicePrivilegeBlack PeopleInformingInformantsSnitch Author:Trevor Noah
“I think it's reasonable that the government, when it has a warrant from a court, when it's exposed to scrutiny by a legal process that would be upheld, not just nationally, but internationally as a reliable and robust standard rights protection, they can enjoy certain powers. This is no different from having the police able to get a warrant to go and search your house, to kick at your door because they think you're an arms dealer or something like that. There needs to be a process involved, it needs to be public, and it needs to be challengeable in court at all times.” ThinkingNeedsDifferentGovernmentWould BeAbleCertainHouseProcessEnjoyRightsDoorsArmsInvolvedStandardsPoliceCourtProtectionAll TimeKicksReasonableExposedDealerScrutinyRobustWarrants Author:Edward Snowden
“When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed to be an adversarial process so that it's used in these extraordinary powers are applied only when there's no alternative. Only when they're absolutely necessary, and only when they're proportionate to the threat faced by these individuals.” GivingUsedIndividualProcessDoorsPoliceThreatExtraordinaryAlternativesSupposed To BeOfficersPolice OfficerWarrants Author:Edward Snowden
“Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.” WarLawGivenProcessDoorsStageActivityEvidenceClaimsPoliceCourtCriminalsMeaningfulSupremeBiasSupreme CourtLaw EnforcementEnforcementLicenseConstraintsJudicialBargainingCourthousesRacial Bias Author:Michelle Alexander