“It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.” PeopleMorningPoliceOfficersTime TravelDepressingTravellerPolice OfficerEarly MorningMilkman Author:Jacqueline Rayner
“Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.” PeopleInterestPolicePrisonIncarceration Author:Sam Branson
“When I started out as an activist, the issues were much clearer. There's advantage to the new media, but on the other hand, you miss the ability to frame an issue that you had when there were just three TV networks: CBS, NBC, and ABC. So the whole world could see the same police dogs. The same Bull Connor and his white tank. Now you've got narrow-casting. The media is all fragmented. It's so hard to get people to focus in a sustained way.” PeopleWorldWayHardWholeHandsThreeAbilityWhiteIssuesFocusMediaDogMissingTvsAdvantagePoliceWhole WorldActivistCastingBullsTanksFragmentedNbcNew Media Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.” PeopleKindDifferentCultureAttitudeProducePoliceDifferent KindsRepressionFatalism Author:Vijay Prashad
“My party's supporters have seen how European political leaders are allowing asylum seekers and migrants to come to us and how they're spending billions of euros on them. In Dubai, the police drive Lamborghinis. These countries aren't poor. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states should take care of these people. They're closer, have the same religion, the same climate, the same culture.” PeopleShouldCountryStatesCarePoliticalCulturePoorPartyLeaderPoliceClimateTake CareSpendingBillionsAllowingSupporterSeekersArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisEuroAsylumsPolitical LeadersMigrantsDubaiAsylum Seekers Author:Geert Wilders
“There is police brutality. People of color have been targeted by police.” PeopleHas BeensColorPolicePolice BrutalityBrutality Author:Colin Kaepernick
“If people want safer streets, they want police supported, then they should vote for Donald Trump because that's what he'll do.” PeopleIfsWantShouldStreetsTrumpVotePolice Author:Chris Christie
“If we would end the war on drugs, you would see the end of the militarization of our police forces and you would see an end to a lot of the shooting violence that's going on when people are being pulled over for traffic stops and then suddenly executed right in the street.” PeopleIfsWarEndsForceViolenceStreetsDrugPoliceShootingTrafficWar On DrugsPolice Force Author:Jesse Ventura
“The subject matter itself lends itself to the black side because the kids are drug dealers and kids that are getting shot by police and getting shot by themselves. People automatically associate that with blackness because of the news.” PeopleMatterKidsSidesBlackSubjectsDrugNewsShotsPoliceAssociatesSubject MatterDealerBlacknessDrug Dealers Author:Steven Caple Jr.
“We've seen a shift where people were often initially reluctant to call things terrorism until they knew for sure. And now they start out assuming it's terrorism and then work backwards and say it may or may not have been terrorism. And it does matter tremendously because of the resources involved. If it's a crime that's seen as a disturbed individual, then local police will handle it. If it's a crime that's seen as someone who might be linked to an international terrorist group, you get the vast federal U.S. national security bureaucracy as well as tremendous political attention.” PeopleIfsWellsMayDoeHas BeensMatterMightPoliticalIndividualAttentionGroupsSecurityCrimeInvolvedResourcesPoliceAssumingInternationalTerrorismTerroristHandleLocalsBackwardsNational SecurityBureaucracyLinkedDisturbedReluctantTerrorist Groups Author:Daniel Byman
“People who aren't minorities don't know what its like to be one. Of course they'll say, "He must've done something," because they're taught to believe that if you're targeted by the police that you've done something.” PeopleIfsKnowsBelieveDoneCoursesTaughtPoliceMinorities Author:Brandon Marshall
“The disturbing video taken by Keith Lamont Scott`s wife showing the moment her husband was killed by police in Charlotte provides a sobering window into the high level of compliance that people of color feel they need to maintain in their interactions with police.” PeopleNeedsFeelsMomentsLevelsTakenWifeColorHusbandWindowPoliceVideoInteractionDisturbingHigh LevelComplianceKeithCharlotte Author:Chris Hayes
“In the case of Philando Castile, we believe he was complying, it might have been precipitated by a police officer telling him to open the glove compartment.We have other examples in which people have met the same fate when they appear to be complying. Yet the way that the system tends to operate and the way the police when you talk to them view that situation is they are looking for things that trigger their perception of threat and that`s a highly subjective judgment.” PeopleWayBelieveHas BeensMightViewsSituationCasesFateExampleMetsJudgmentPerceptionPoliceThreatOfficersMight Have BeenSubjectiveTriggersGlovesPolice OfficerComplying Author:Chris Hayes
“You build the bonds through the community and police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.” PeopleFeelsForceUnderstandingCommunityComfortablePoliceGapsPolice Force Author:Tim Kaine
“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
“When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.” PeopleFirstsNumbersCitiesNew YorkTenFirst TimeVotePoliceEightRanBusNew York CityOfficersMayorsPolice OfficerFirefighter Author:Rudy Giuliani
“I believe very firmly that dash cams and body cams should be instituted for every single police officer in this country. Admit it, isn't it true that you behave differently when people are watching you? You chew with your mouth closed and you mind your table manners because people are watching. Cops are no different. Dash cams and body cams should be standard operating procedure.” PeopleShouldMindBelieveDifferentCountryBodyI BelieveStandardsMouthsPoliceTablesMannersBehaveOfficersCopProceduresPolice OfficerTable MannersStandard Operating Procedures Author:Nancy Grace
“I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.” PeopleThinkingUseFormChoicesForceJusticeDutyArmyPoliceGuardianFreedom Of Choice Author:Pierre Trudeau
“There is fear, police in fear, people if are in fear, children are fear, but fear and hate must not drive our agenda, love and hope and healing must drive the agenda.” PeopleIfsChildrenHateHealingPoliceAgendasHope And Love Author:Jesse Jackson
“President [Barack] Obama's choice of Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff was questionable, and perhaps coverups around the police violence against black people in Chicago is reflective of Mr. Emmanuel's values.” PeopleValuesChoicesBlackPresidentViolencePoliceChiefsBarackChicagoBlack PeopleStaffPresident Barack ObamaQuestionableEmmanuelPolice ViolenceChief Of Staff Author:Julianne Malveaux
“Hopefully folks will look at the good things that I've done over the years, you know, my 10 years in Congress, my 12 years in state legislature, my many years of community organizing for the environment, for police accountability, for criminal justice reform, economic empowerment, trying to fight for small-business people, all these things.” PeopleKnowsTryingYearsLooksStatesDoneFightingCommunityJusticeEnvironmentEconomicEmpowermentPoliceGood ThingsCongressFolksCriminalsReformHopefullyAccountabilitySmall BusinessLegislatureCriminal JusticeState LegislaturesEconomic EmpowermentCommunity Organizing Author:Keith Ellison
“I would be immediately arrested by the British police and I would then be extradited either immediately to the United States or to Sweden. In Sweden I am not charged, I have already been previously cleared [by the Senior Stockholm Prosecutor Eva Finne]. We were not certain exactly what would happen there, but then we know that the Swedish government has refused to say that they will not extradite me to the United States we know they have extradited 100 per cent of people whom the U.S. has requested since at least 2000.” PeopleKnowsStatesGovernmentHappensWould BeCertainUnitedUnited StatesPoliceBritishCentsSeniorArrestedSwedenProsecutorSwedishStockholm Author:Julian Assange
“The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs.” PeopleMenMeanCountryFacesWhiteTeachSupportTakenDogKingsPoliceClubsBeastWhite ManLutherCaptivityDefenselessReverends Author:Malcolm X
“From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country. So, who killed ? That's another question. Actually, the terrorists have been killing our people since the beginning of this crisis two years and a half ago, and the Syrian people wanted the government and the state institutions and the army and the police to defend them, and that's what happened.” PeopleYearsFirstsHas BeensTwoCountryStatesGovernmentWantedPresidentDecisionHalfHappenedArmyPoliceCrisisInstitutionsKillingTerroristTwo Years Author:Bashar al-Assad
“The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual inhabitants of the dwelling.I was never on that piece of paper. I was always hidden. My grandmother would hide me somewhere if the police did show up. And it was a constant game of hide and seek.” PeopleIfsKnowsLooksShowsGamesHouseNamesPiecesPaperCrossesPoliceConstantSouthChecksGrandmotherSouth AfricaMy GrandmotherDwellingHide And Seek Author:Trevor Noah
“People were encouraged to snitch. [South Africa] was a police state, so there were police everywhere. There were undercover police. There were uniformed police. The state was being surveilled the entire time.” PeopleStatesPoliceSouthSouth AfricaPolice StateUndercoverSnitch Author:Trevor Noah
“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 didn't afford you a phone call. You just disappeared for a while. And what was scary was we lived in a state where some people disappeared forever.” PeopleStatesForeverPolicePhonesScaryPhone Calls Author:Trevor Noah
“I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.” PeopleThinkingWellsCommunityAnswersToo MuchDangerousSafeShotsAreasPoliceCourtLeavingAppearancePassingPassingsCoincidenceDowntownPassing ByBelfast Author:Gerry Adams
“There are still many homeless trans folk wandering the streets. They are still harassed on the street by bystanders and police officers. We still face many administrative hurdles in every aspect of our lives. If anything, things are actually getting harder for us, because now there are people who are using our visibility as an excuse to say that we are already receiving fair and honest treatment, when the reality is that we are still in bad shape as a community.” PeopleIfsStillsRealityFacesCommunityOur LivesStreetsHonestShapesFairsAspectHarderPoliceFolksExcuseWanderTreatmentOfficersReceivingHomelessTransPolice OfficerHurdleAdministrativeVisibilityBystanders Author:Chelsea Manning
“I reject totally the characterization of a transwoman as a mutilated man. First, that formulation presumes that men born into that sex assignment are not mutilated. Second, it once again sets up the feminist as the prosecutor of trans people. If there is any mutilation going on in this scene, it is being done by the feminist police force who rejects the lived embodiment of transwomen. That very accusation is a form of "mutilation" as is all transphobic discourse such as these.” PeopleIfsMenFirstsDoneFormForceSexBornScenePoliceFeministRejectsDiscourseTransAssignmentsEmbodimentAccusationBeing DoneProsecutorCharacterizationPolice ForceMutilation Author:Judith Butler
“You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.” PeopleWarYoungPovertyProgramPoliceAngryResponseVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityInsufficient Author:Danny Glover
“I remember when Langston Hughes used to write a column in black newspapers around this character Jesse B. Semple. He always used that as a voice, sometimes in comic ways, of having everyday people's voice come through this common folk hero, who was an ordinary working guy. He would talk about anything from police brutality to the Korean War. Those kinds of expression and identification are no longer prevalent in our popular culture.” PeopleWayWritingKindWarSometimesCharacterRememberUsedGuyCultureBlackVoiceCommonExpressionHeroOrdinaryPoliceEverydayFolksNewspapersComicRemember WhenPolice BrutalityBrutalityColumnsKoreanIdentificationPopular CultureKorean WarCommon Folk Author:Danny Glover
“It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.” PeopleStatesDifficultJusticeCitiesFailingPoliceDepartmentDifficult ThingsPolice Department Author:Al Sharpton
“The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.” PeopleLawPracticeRightsConstitutionPolicePatternsProtectionEngagedDepartmentBaltimorePolice Department Author:Al Sharpton
“Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.” PeopleBelieveCitiesLet MePoliceThings To DoRight ThingDepartmentConsentDecreeBaltimorePolice Department Author:Al Sharpton
“We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on, the totality of these bodies, to get together.” PeopleWantBodyTogetherTaxesPoliceInstitutionsTotalityGet TogetherScorpionsNational Intelligence Author:Thabo Mbeki
“People are not afraid to be very direct with police. And I think that's part of the problem is that people are angry at the cops and then the cops are stressed out and they, you know, pay it backwards, so to speak.” PeopleThinkingKnowsProblemSpeakPayDirectPoliceAngryNot AfraidCopBackwardsStressedHey YouStressed Out Author:Jeff Ross
“Ninety-plus percent of police/community relations is simply wonderful - where people obey the law, don't resist arrest, don't attack cops and don't threaten lives, everyone gets along just fine. When the president [Barack Obama] constantly sides with the worst thugs out there and with the Black Lives Matter terrorists, and the media lies constantly, we the people better get to the truth ASAP.” PeopleMatterLawLyingSidesBlackPresidentCommunityWonderfulWorstMediaFinePercentRelationPoliceTerroristBarackPlusCopNinetyBlack Lives MatterPresident Barack ObamaThugBlack Lives Author:Ted Nugent
“I say this ironically, not because I favor the State, but because people are not in the state of mind right now where they feel that they can manage themselves. We have to go through an educational process - which does not involve, in my opinion, compromises with the State. But if the State disappeared tomorrow by accident, and the police disappeared and the army disappeared and the government agencies disappeared, the ironical situation is that people would suddenly feel denuded.” PeopleIfsFeelsMindDoeStatesGovernmentProcessSituationOpinionTomorrowRight NowArmyPoliceEducationalAccidentsFavorsManageCompromiseAgencyState Of MindGovernment Agencies Author:Murray Bookchin
“I was hoping that by very publicly going to the police, other people would follow suit. Around this time was the whole Rehtaeh Parsons publication ban bullshit. She died because she couldn't handle the stress of having been assaulted and ridiculed for having been raped. And I was like, "I'm not going to turn into Rehtaeh Parsons for this. I will remain public."” PeopleWholeTurnsStressDiedPoliceHandleSuitsBullshitPublicationBans Author:Lucy DeCoutere
“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
“The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it.” PeopleIfsWellsPoliceRealisingNastyNasty People Author:George Harrison
“I was fortunately able to avoid getting into any trouble with police. There was - I remember I was 12, and I did something really (laughter) - a couple of friends, Cinco de Mayo - we were off school, and we saw some people looking like they were having a party. And we had a little bit too much time on our hands, and so we figured, as kids, a great idea would be to throw some things over the fence and hit all these people with stuff, like eggs and everything.” PeopleLittlesIdeasHandsWould BeKidsAbleSchoolRememberStuffBitsPartySawsToo MuchTroubleCoupleLittle BitLaughterPoliceEggsFenceGreat IdeaCinco De Mayo Author:Mahershala Ali
“I would love to get to a point where people do trust the police and the police trust the citizens, and there is a harmonious way of living. It's rough out there. I've seen it. I've been part of it. I'm hoping for the best.” PeopleWayCitizensPoliceRoughHarmoniousHoping For The Best Author:Cedric Yarbrough
“Stalin was experimenting with telepathy in the 1930's. Winston Churchill had a paranormal office, trying to get people to travel out of their bodies and see behind enemy lines in the Second World War. And the Pentagon... The X-Files is based on a real department in the Pentagon, that's still there now. Pretty much every government, probably as far back in time as we can go, has one. And the police will quite often - and when I say often, I mean often - they will go to mediums if all else fails in the enquiry.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingMeanStillsWarRealBodyGovernmentLinesBehindsEnemyFailingOfficePoliceMediumsWar Of The WorldsParanormalDepartmentFilesSecond World War1930sPentagonBack In TimeTelepathyEnquiryX Files Author:Peter James
“I think America should amass a strategy for success, and set out the milestones. We need to help the Iraqis get their democracy up and running, we've got to help them train their military and police and security people, and we've got to start moving out.” PeopleThinkingNeedsShouldHelpingRunningAmericaMovingDemocracySecurityMilitaryPoliceStrategyTrainMilestoneMoving Out Author:Barbara Boxer
“I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't mean any harm to people of color - this idea that we're beyond all that (so it must be something else) makes it difficult for young people as well as the grown-ups to be able to see clearly and honestly the truth of what's going on. It makes it difficult to see that the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement manifested itself in the form of mass incarceration, in the form of defunding and devaluing schools serving kids of color and all the rest.” PeopleThinkingWellsMeanIdeasKidsAbleSchoolFormYoungCoursesDifficultRaceRightsMovementColorPoliticianMassPoliceHarmHonestlyMythologyCivil RightsRacistServingOfficersCivil Rights MovementPolice OfficerIncarcerationBacklashMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander
“Even CEOs police their own bureaucracy. Trump is not that. He does have more in common with these guys than most elected officials would have, particularly in the Obama administration. Obama didn't have anybody that'd ever worked in the private sector. All they had is a bunch of theoreticians who thought they were smarter than everybody that runs businesses in the private sector. And who knows what kind of pressure was brought to bear. Remember, Obama's agenda was one that was to be governed against the will of the people.” PeopleKnowsKindDoeRunningRememberGuyCommonBearsTrumpPressurePoliceBunchAdministrationOfficialsAgendasSmarterCeoBureaucracyPrivate SectorElected Officials Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We're being subject to incredible amounts of surveillance, the police are taking on draconian powers and violating our rights. I think this attempt to protect ourselves is ultimately going to founder because people don't like living inside prisons.” PeopleThinkingRightsSubjectsAmountProtectPolicePrisonIncrediblesFoundersSurveillanceDraconian Author:Mohsin Hamid