“We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn't any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don't worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.” IfsTwoImportantSocialHoursCommonWorryMediaMajorsPoliceTrainSocial MediaCommon SenseStationsBusClosingRiotTrain Stations Author:Louise Mensch
“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
“An 83-year-old male prostitute was arrested. Police say he only charged $20 an hour, but for most of that time, he just talked about his grandkids.” YearsHoursPoliceMalesArrestedGrandkids Author:Craig Ferguson
“Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.” BelieveEarthForceBlackHoursHellCarExampleWindHugeMetsSittingRainPoliceDrivenMilesHardestSmokeFlamesBritainMetalsThickTwistedEightyLunaticLemonsPragmaticDown To EarthRoaringBlazingSunglassesGrinningBatteredCopperPolice ForceMetropolitan Author:Terry Pratchett
“When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.” OrderPoliticsIndividualHoursPoliceKillingCommittedProtectionRestrainingKilling SomeoneRestraining Orders Author:William Bennett
“I haunted streets, whorehouses, police stations, courtrooms, theater stages, jails, saloons, slums, madhouses, fires, murders, riots, banquet halls and bookshops. I ran everywhere in the city like a fly buzzing in the works of a clock, tasted more than any fit belly could hold, learned not to sleep, and buried myself in a tick-tock of whirling hours that still echo in me.” StillsHoursSleepCitiesFireStreetsStageFitMurderTheaterPoliceClockRanStationsHallsJailBuriedEchoesBellyRiotTickSlumsBanquetsCourtroomBookshopsSaloonsMadhousesTockTick Tock Author:Ben Hecht
“In theory, if a gun is left at the scene of a crime, licensing and registration will allow a gun to be traced back to its owner. But, amazingly, despite police spending tens of thousands of man-hours administering these laws ... there is not even a single case where the laws have been instrumental in identifying someone who has committed a crime.” IfsMenHas BeensLawLeftHoursCasesCrimeTheorySceneGunPoliceCommittedSpendingDespiteOwnersIdentifyingRegistrationLicensing Author:John R. Lott Jr.
“It's very important to understand that 21st century authoritarian rule does not look like 20th century authoritarian rule. You're not going to have people in parade ground formations. You're not going to have a police state. You're not going to people with decorative armbands bullying people on the sidewalks. And the leaders won't stand at microphones for hours ranting at people. All of that is so 80 years ago.” PeopleYearsLooksDoeImportantStatesHoursLeaderCenturyYears AgoPoliceBullying21st Century20th CenturyFormationParadesMicrophonesSidewalkPolice StatePeople Lie Author:David Frum
“Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.” YearsMeanI CanMomentsShowsTodayHoursMillionsPoliceReformPostsOfficersBureaucracyReally MeanPolice OfficerBustingWatersheds Author:Theresa May
“My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test.” OrderHoursTestsPoliceConvictionStrikesBrokeMontrealMayhemRioting Author:Steven Pinker
“If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.” PeopleIfsThinkingHappensHoursPolice Author:Sylvester Stallone
“The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.” FactsSchoolFoundHoursHalfKnownPoliceBagsTexasRifles Author:John Sherman Cooper
“Slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.” WarHoursPoliceSlaveryLocalsCivil WarRegulation Book:The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Source: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
“Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.” MayFactsUseProblemPoliticalEvilHoursResultsCitiesIssuesStreetsCarCrimeApproachPoliceCome UpChiefsShoppingSensiblePolicemenAffordableAssistantsProximityPolitical IssuesCity StreetsAfter HoursIndianapolisPolice Cars Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.” WayFirstsShowsStrongHoursCareersMovementPoliceSeriesPrimeStrong WomenOne HourPrime Time Author:Angie Dickinson
“In the homes of many Western Christians, hours are sometimes spent listening to worldly music. In our homes loud music can also be heard, but it is only to cover the talk about the gospel and the underground work so that neighbors may not overhear it and inform the secret police. How underground Christians rejoice on those rare occasions when they meet a serious Christian from the West!” MaySometimesHomeChristianHoursSinSecretHeardSeriousListeningPoliceWestWesternNeighborCompromiseOccasionsLoudRejoiceWorldlyTime SpentRare OccasionSecret PoliceLoud Music Book:Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition Source: Tortured for Christ: 50th Anniversary Edition
“The police force were outstanding in their field. But all they did was stand in their field. They kept passengers on board while they played with a suspect package for two and three quarter hours. Extraordinary.” TwoThreeForceHoursFieldsPoliceExtraordinaryBoardsSuspectsQuartersPackagesOutstandingPassengersPolice Force Author:Michael O'Leary
“There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.” LooksMayStoriesHoursRecordsPoliceSeriesScriptsRumorOne Hour Author:Merle Haggard