“In tracking down and eliminating terrorists, we need to change our metaphor from a "war on terror" - exactly what, pray tell, is that? - to the mind-set of Interpol tracking down master criminals through intense global cooperation among nations, or the FBI stalking the Mafia, or local police determined to quell street gangs without leveling the entire neighborhood in the process.” NeedsMindWarNationsProcessStreetsMastersPrayingPoliceDown AndMetaphorTerrorDeterminedCriminalsTerroristIntenseLocalsNeighborhoodCooperationGangMafiaFbiStalkingWar On TerrorNeed A ChangeEliminatingMind SetTracking Author:Bill Moyers
“It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were "them" and we were "us".” KnowsTryingVoiceStruggleClearPositionGrewNeededGrew UpPoliceNeighborhoodHelpfulRoughPolice BrutalityBrutalityPhiladelphia Author:Will Smith
“Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.” ActorsPoliceNeighborhoodReservesGreat Power Author:Thomas P.M. Barnett
“In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.” ViewsPoliceNeighborhoodLoved Ones Author:Curtis Jackson
“Another option, which I think is the thing that makes more sense, is this fact that the police are a reflection of the occupation of certain neighborhoods and certain parts of cities that are designed, basically, to keep the bottom down and basically maintain the status quo, but out of sight, so that the other side - the people in power, the people with money, the people with comfort, the people that are living in the "safer" areas - are sure that they can sleep safely in their bed while bad thing are happening to people and it's not their problem.” PeopleThinkingFactsProblemCertainSidesSleepCitiesComfortBedHappeningsReflectionAreasSightPoliceDown AndBottomNeighborhoodBad ThingsOccupationStatus Quo Author:Oren Moverman
“African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed. They don't want to be beat. They don't want to be shot down in their neighborhoods, whether it's by police officers or people who live there.” PeopleWantAmericaCommunitySafeBeatsShotsPoliceAfrican AmericanNeighborhoodOfficersNationalityPolice Officer Author:Ras Baraka
“In Boston where community policing is so important, they don't necessarily have to like each other, but they know each other. The cops in Boston make it their business to get out of their vehicles, to engage the public, to walk around the neighborhoods. They live in the community that they police. And I think these things help.” ThinkingKnowsImportantHelpingCommunityWalksPoliceNeighborhoodVehicleCopBoston Author:Jeff Ross
“The American dream is about achieving happiness. When you become a fire fighter, a police officer or a teacher or a nurse, you know you're not going to become a billionaire. And what my parents achieved working as a bartender and a maid at a hotel after arriving here with nothing, no education, no money. The first words my dad learned in English where I'm looking for a job.You know what my parents achieved? They owned a home in a safe and stable neighborhood. They retired with dignity and they left all four of their children better off than themselves.” ChildrenHomeDreamParentTeacherAchieveDadDignityPoliceMy DadFighterHotelNeighborhoodNurseAmerican DreamRetiredBillionaireNo MoneyPolice OfficerBartender Author:Marco Rubio
“For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding, or when they write you a ticket for parking. The rest of the time is patrolling minority neighborhoods like an occupying army. It's suppression of blacks, and it's revenue enhancement. Surveillance is a Band-Aid. That's like saying, "Let's surveil the SS." No! Let's get rid of the SS!” WritingCommonArmyPoliceNeighborhoodPolice Officer Author:Ted Rall
“I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.” WayMeanProblemLawSolutionsConsequenceFunctionPoliceSolveGenuineDiscussionNeighborhoodPartnershipLaw EnforcementEnforcementVenting Author:James Q. Wilson
“We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.” IfsNeedsStreetsSafePoliceLocalsSecureDepartmentNeighborhoodHomelandPersonnelSheriffs Author:Dick Durbin