“Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.” HardMilitaryHard WorkPaidPoliceCommittedDedicatedSchemesParentalPersonnelMilitary Personnel Author:Tony Abbott
“The period of Prohibition - called the noble experiment - brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantStatesTodayAbleLawOrderPerfectUnitedKnownMoralUnited StatesPeriodsLessonsPaidPoliceAngryNobleCriminalsExperimentsBreakdownProhibitionLaw And OrderAntisocialPaid Off Book:Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976 Source: Matters of fact and of fiction: essays, 1973-1976
“If I went back to Zimbabwe, I am not afraid of the police or the soldiers. I am afraid of those elements which are being used by the regime. People who have nothing, I mean, who don't care whether they are paid $50 to kill someone, they could just do it for.” PeopleIfsMeanCareUsedElementsPaidPoliceSoldierDon't CareNot AfraidRegimesJust Do ItZimbabwe Author:Thomas Mapfumo
“I was getting money for showing one man killing another. Two lives were destroyed and I was getting paid for it. (On his 1968 photograph of the summary street corner execution of prisoner Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnam's police chief, Lt. Col. Nguyen Ngoc Loan.)” MenTwoStreetsPaidPoliceSouthKillingPhotographCornersDestroyedChiefsOne ManPrisonerVietnamExecutionLoanVansGet MoneySummaryStreet CornersTwo Lives Author:Eddie Adams
“And with the Occupy Movement, it's really ironic how the police come as representatives and enforcers of the powers that be, even though the people in the Occupy Movement are really on their side - not in terms of their behavior, but in terms of their economic status, in terms of who the police are in society and how much they're paid, and if you boil it down to the economics of it, the police should be out there marching with the Occupy Movement.” PeopleIfsShouldSidesTermEconomicMovementBehaviorEconomicsPaidPoliceIronicRepresentativesOccupy MovementEconomic Status Author:Oren Moverman
“What is reflected in the way this behavior is happening - in the way that minorities are treated, and the way that the incarceration system works, and the way that even the police are treated, and the way they're paid, and the way they're trained, and the whole educational system.” WayWholeBehaviorHappeningsPaidPoliceEducationalTreatedMinoritiesEducational SystemIncarceration Author:Oren Moverman
“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
“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.” GivingInterestCommunityExistenceAttentionSocietyDutyCitizensMembersPaidPoliceWelfareLaw EnforcementPolicemenIncumbents Author:Robert Peel
“The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.” PeopleFirstsPlayJobsActorsFieldsCollegePaidPoliceCopAcademyThugUnrulyCriminologyPolice Academy Author:Jeremy Renner
“You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.” WantForceClearFireSafePercentBuiltPaidPoliceMovedWorkersGoodsEducateFactoriesSocial ContractPolice ForceOccupy Movement Author:Elizabeth Warren
“Not being invited in is one of the boxes on the “suspicious behavior” bingo form that every copper carries around in their head along with “stupidly overpowerful dog” and being too quick to supply an alibi. Fill all the boxes and you too could win an all-expenses-paid visit to your local police station.” FormWinningDogBehaviorPaidPoliceBoxesLocalsCarrieStationsExpensesInvitedSuspiciousCopperBingo Book:Whispers Under Ground Source: Whispers Under Ground
“We have paid the police for information in the past.” PastInformationPaidPolice Author:Rebekah Brooks
“I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.” PaidPoliceOfficersPaymentPolicemenPolice Officer Author:Rebekah Brooks
“I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.” ThinkingTogetherMajorsPaidPoliceGlueCivilisedLife Together Author:Peter James