“The prison-industrial complex employs millions of people directly and indirectly. Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, prison guards, construction companies that build prisons, police, probation officers, court clerks, the list goes on and on. Many predominately white rural communities have come to believe that their local economies depend on prisons for jobs.” PeopleBelieveJobsCommunityWhiteCompanyMillionsEconomyJudgingGoes OnDependsPoliceCourtPrisonComplexesDefenseListsLocalsOfficersConstructionAttorneyClerksProsecutorProbationRural CommunitiesDefense AttorneysPrison GuardsConstruction Company Author:Michelle Alexander
“It is foolish for people to think they can align themselves and be safe in a police state.” PeopleThinkingStatesSafePoliceFoolishPolice State Author:Naomi Wolf
“Millions of people have to restore liberty and have to understand the danger and personal risk they face in a police state.” PeopleStatesFacesLibertyMillionsRiskDangerPolicePolice State Author:Naomi Wolf
“I'm not interested in details that might get someone into trouble. I'm more interested in generalities rather than the particulars, as a journalist would be. Names, dates and times don't interest me at all. I'm interested in feelings and emotions. Most people are game, once they realize that you're on the level as far as that's concerned and you're not about exposing them, then they feel quite free to talk about it. Police officers and social workers are no exception.” PeopleFeelsFeelingsMightWould BeGamesNamesSocialInterestRealizingLevelsEmotionTroubleConcernedPoliceWorkersDetailsJournalistExceptionOfficersNot InterestedFeelings And EmotionsPolice OfficerExposingSocial WorkerGeneralities Author:Irvine Welsh
“How are people who are young and look like Oscar [Grant] portrayed in the media? You gotta think about that. And somebody given a badge and a gun and told to go police in those communities, all of a sudden they got to protect and serve and talk to people they never even spent time with [and] they might have formed opinions about.” PeopleThinkingLooksMightYoungGivenCommunityOpinionMediaProtectGunPoliceGrantsOscarsBadgesProtect And Serve Author:Michael B. Jordan
“There are laws in some countries, I believe, which prohibit anyone from following you in the street, and if someone does, he can be arrested and put into prison. So, spiritually, I wish there were a police system which would put people into a spiritual prison for following others. In fact, it does happen automatically.” PeopleIfsBelieveDoeCountryFactsHappensSpiritualLawI BelieveWishStreetsPolicePrisonFollowingArrested Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak and vulnerable (a major preoccupation in scripture). But this is an old and difficult question and very wise people take different views.” PeopleMayDifferentWarSometimesActionDifficultViewsTakenWiseProtectMajorsWeakPoliceScriptureVulnerableJustifiedPreoccupationVery WiseWise PeopleDifferent ViewsDifficult Questions Author:N. T. Wright
“When killings of black by policeman happen, there's the victim, there's the family, there are the police, there are the politicians, and there is the community. Everybody is affected. Everybody has a point of view. We really wanted to dig into that and get to know all these different people that are changed by it.” PeopleKnowsDifferentHappensWantedBlackCommunityViewsChangedPoliticianPoliceVictimKillingPoint Of ViewAffectedDifferent PeoplesPolicemen Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood
“One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.” PeopleHas BeensCountrySometimesEarthAmericaJusticeMillionsIssuesChangedBrokenRacismPoliceCrisisCriminalsAfrican AmericanJailOther CountriesOngoingJustice SystemHispanicCriminal JusticeCriminal Justice SystemUnarmedCustodyInstitutional Racism Author:Bernie Sanders
“Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments. I think for most Whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they don't interact with the police as much as those in the Black community.” PeopleThinkingKindHas BeensHandsBlackCommunityWhiteAbusePoliceAfrican AmericanSensitiveDepartmentOfficersPolice OfficerBlack CommunityPolice Department Author:Bernie Sanders
“I remember an experience once of a young man in our home who was gay. We just assumed it, based on his outward appearance. Gay people had a hard time in those days, in fifties since the police would create situations to lock them up.” PeopleMenHardHomeRememberYoungSituationGayPoliceAppearanceYoung ManHard TimesLocksGay PeopleOutward Appearance Author:David C. Driskell
“First and foremost, I want people to have a good read, because I want everything I write to entertain people. There are always different layers to the story, though, so if you want to think about social justice, or sexism or racism or homophobia, or really drill down into why the world is a better place when the police force looks like the people they are policing, then that's there, too.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingDifferentJusticeRacismPoliceSocial JusticeSexismHomophobia Author:Karin Slaughter
“In general, I think there are some things that require time before you can talk about them. Some stuff that happened over the summer, for instance - the Philando Castile shooting, Alton Sterling, the police officers in Dallas - there was no room for jokes. But there are, of course, the policies that have given us those events. Now, there's a lot of room for jokes there. When you're looking at something difficult to talk about, there's always a sideways way in that feels a little less personal to people. That's where the joke lives.” PeopleThinkingDifficultPolicySummerJokesPolicePolice OfficerSideways Author:Negin Farsad
“I want people to start getting involved in voting for the Senate, Congress and local elections. I just want to see us get involved more in the political process especially when you see things like police brutality going on and different people complaining about the sheriffs whether it's in Ferguson or Missouri.” PeopleDifferentPoliticalPoliceElectionComplainingVotingGet InvolvedPolice Brutality Author:Charlamagne Tha God
“I think we waste a lot of time trying to convince other people that we're right. A lot of times we don't actually care what another person thinks, we just want to say what we think. To hear it reflected back to us and that we're okay, to hear that we have been understood and that we're correct - so that we can continue to be who we are in the ways we've been being, and we have nothing to feel bad about and everything is just fine. Even if what we're talking about is, like, police brutality.” PeopleThinkingTryingCareOkayPoliceConvincePolice Brutality Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“If there were no controls on the internet - and I shudder to think at letting certain people have control of it. It is content related. Ultimately what they want to control and police is the content. They're liberals! They want to eliminate opposing points of view. They do it with political correctness, which is censorship. They do it in the Drive-By Media by simply ignoring all kinds of news that is not palatable or it conflicts with their worldview, they just ignore it and don't even cover it. It's inarguable.” PeopleThinkingKindPoliticalInternetConflictPolicePoint Of ViewAll KindsCensorshipWorldviewPolitical Correctness Author:Rush Limbaugh
“What we have to ask is this: what can we morally expect of and allow to people whom we deploy to fulfill this or that social role :police officer, school teacher, physician? This may sometimes lead to difficult social decisions - e.g. should police be permitted to illegally import drugs as part of a sting operation? In the end, I think "common - that is, critical - morality" should determine the limits of the police role.” PeopleThinkingSometimesSchoolDifficultDecisionCommonTeacherMoralityDrugPoliceDeterminePolice Officer Author:John Kleinig
“Give us back our tax dollars that we pay for police who do not serve nor protect. Then maybe we can educate our people, make them a better people and make our community a more decent and safe place to live.” PeopleGivingCommunityProtectTaxesPoliceDecentEducate Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Most of the things I'm talking about are essential human rights. I don't think it should be political to say that children should be able to have lunch at school when their families can't afford to feed them properly, or to say women should have access to basic health care, or that Muslims deserve equal protection under the law, or police shouldn't be killing black people and getting away with it - it shouldn't be a political thing to say. A lot of people on the right standing behind Christian values should be standing with us, because equality is a basic tenet of Christianity.” PeopleThinkingChildrenCareSchoolChristianPoliticalValuesBlackChristianityEqualDeservePoliceKillingHuman RightsProtectionHealth CareGet AwayBlack People Author:Zoe Kazan
“People in Indonesia are scared of being assaulted, insulted, robbed or raped. Again, it is because they are unprotected. Police and even the legal system are corrupt or/and on the side of the rich. Victims see no justice. How could you not be scared in almost total lawlessness?” PeopleJusticeRichPoliceVictimScaredInsulted Author:Andre Vltchek
“There have always been Âgangland-type areas in Nottingham - but what's really hit me hard is kids as young as eight are now carrying knives to school. That was something I never saw when I was growing up. The police and Âfamilies have got a Âresponsibility. These young people are Âfeeling trapped. They don't even have somewhere to go to just have fun.” PeopleFeelingsKidsSchoolFunResponsibilityGrowing UpPoliceHaving Fun Author:Jermaine Jenas
“American cops didn't create that atmosphere, they're the ones though who have to live with it on a daily basis. These are generalisations; you can't make generalisations about hundreds of thousands of people. The New York Police Department, for instance, has 38,000 police officers in it. But most cops, when I talk to them, desperately care about the victims of gun violence. They see it, they experience it.” PeopleCareViolenceGunPoliceVictimAtmosphereCopPolice Officer Author:Don Winslow
“Here's what I learned as a mayor and a governor. The way you make communities safer and the way you make police safer is through community policing. You build the bonds between the community and the 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.” PeopleUnderstandingCommunityPolice Author:Tim Kaine
“330,000 members of the Fraternal Order of Police see Trump's commitment to law and order. But they also - they also hear the bad mouthing, the bad mouthing that comes from people that seize upon tragedy in the wake of police action shootings as - as a reason to - to use a broad brush to accuse law enforcement of - of implicit bias or institutional racism. And that really has got to stop.” PeopleReasonActionRacismCommitmentTragedyPoliceBiasLaw EnforcementLaw And Order Author:Mike Pence
“I was just a seventeen-year-old kid, going to Times Square to participate in this left-wing demonstration. The signs were for peace and justice and so on. But then I was attacked by police mounted on horseback and on foot. Before I knew it, I was clubbed and knocked unconscious. So it gave me a radical view of the United States, a critical view of the role of the state and of the instruments of the state - the police, the Army, and so on - as not being neutral at all in political battles, but being generally against workers and against striking people, against dissenters of all kinds.” PeopleKindKidsPoliticalJusticeBattleArmyPoliceAll KindsRadicalUnconsciousPeace And JusticeTimes Square Author:Howard Zinn
“I remember reading about police arresting this filmmaker making this freaky movie and his name was John Waters. And I was like, wow, someone in Baltimore is doing something creative? I didn't know there were people running off and making eight-millimeter movies. Then I got to New York and realized, oh, there's a whole world of people who do these things. I was utterly bored being in the suburbs, but I didn't know why I was bored.” PeopleWorldRunningRememberReadingWaterCreativePoliceBoredFilmmakerFreaky Author:James Wolcott
“The British were doing crime stories first, but the British thing is a very different thing. There, the stories are about restoring a break in the fabric of society. The American thing has never been worrying about breaks in the fabric of society, but about people doing their job, whether it's police procedurals or criminals or whatever.” PeopleDifferentBreakWorryCrimePolice Author:Donald E. Westlake
“I feel that we have, as Mexicans, two things: one, a natural distrust of institutions. I hate organised religion, I hate organised politics, I hate the idea of the military and the police. Because we grew up distrusting all these sacred institutions, the only thing you have left is a vague, national sense of impending doom. Why do we drink and how are we so merry? Because we know that pretty soon, our time's up. There is a sense of fatality that makes us pretty chirpy people. You try to live. The only reason that dying is important is that it gives life sense.” PeopleGivingTryingImportantReasonHateNaturalDyingMilitaryDrinkI HatePoliceDistrustDoom Author:Guillermo del Toro
“People who travel should be on guard. All our military, our police and I think the word has been spread. And people know to be careful to watch, to report. Something that looks suspicious to you, don't be embarrassed to go to an authority and say, "Look, I saw this and it seems suspicious to me."” PeopleThinkingMilitaryAuthorityPoliceCarefulSpreadBe CarefulEmbarrassed Author:Dianne Feinstein
“For me what was amazing was consumerism of people survived after Katrina. You see in a yard that the SUV is gone but they left the Ferrari or the more expensive car because it just wasn't practical. They couldn't get all their stuff in it. So you see this beautiful car totally destroyed; motorcycles. You walk into these houses - we were with the New Orleans police when they would go into the houses - we'd go through these houses and we were just amazed at how much stuff that had been accumulated and how much was left behind.” PeopleBeautifulHouseCarPoliceConsumerismAmazedLeft BehindMotorcycleKatrina Author:Stanley Greene
“No other agency is scrutinized like the police. Everything we do is in a goldfish bowl. We are not the most popular people in society. We do things like use deadly force; we're the bearers of bad news. We're not firefighters, who are viewed as heroic, helping people, with people loving them back. The police have a much more complex and demanding job.” PeopleHelpingPoliceHeroicHelping PeopleFirefighter Author:Raymond Kelly
“Sex workers are the last women police stand in to protect. Sex workers are the last people that room is made for in many ways. You get a different kind of feminism if you put people at the margins at the center. It's a recently resonant lesson, but black feminists have been saying this for decades. Now when I talk to people engaged in sex workers' rights advocacy and people who identify as intersectional feminists, this is the air they breathe. We can't just make feminism about improving the lives of all women. Because there is no such thing as all women and universal female experience.” PeopleKindDifferentBlackFeminismProtectFemalePoliceFeministBreatheDifferent KindsAdvocacy Author:Melissa Gira Grant
“I met a retired police detective. And he said to me that the interesting thing about heatwaves, from a police perspective, is that the number of people who just walk out of their lives when the weather gets unbearable is astronomic. He said the police prepare themselves for it - for a huge rise in the instances of missing persons. People choose to disappear when it's hot. It was fascinating.” PeopleInterestingMissingPerspectiveHotPoliceDisappearRetired Author:Maggie O'Farrell
“The Baathist state did two things extremely well. One was create information-gathering intelligence networks and a filing system. There's actually a lot of information on a lot of people and that is a major achievement of a police state. The second one is the promotion of literature and poetry, and the arts generally. So this is a state that's producing mass police archives - surveillance - and poetry. And in fact a lot of the archives are about what poets are writing or what they should be writing.” PeopleWritingArtLiteraturePoetAchievementPolicePromotionPolice State Author:Elliott Colla
“You get pigeonholed by what you sort of look like. And I don't mean this in a self-deprecating way. I'm grateful for any opportunity to act. But I think that if you're not classically attractive or mainstream attractive, especially as you get older, there's only like three jobs that people think you do. Like, "police officer who may be gay." District attorney is a big one. Lawyer. Doctor.” PeopleThinkingMeanOpportunityGayPoliceGratefulLawyerAttractiveAttorneyPolice Officer Author:Janeane Garofalo
“There was a time when Istanbul was one of the safest cities in the world, because people were afraid of the police. People are no longer as afraid of the police as they used to be. Mugging used to be almost unknown; now everybody is afraid of mugging. In that sense, the downside of liberalization is already being felt in Turkey. And of course some people are afraid of Kurdish ethno-terrorism, which worries Turks very much more than the religious sort.” PeopleWorldReligiousWorryPolice Author:Andrew Mango
“When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.” PeopleAmericaJusticeTalkingJudgingToolsPoliceOfficersEstablishmentPolice OfficerProsecutorWardens Author:William Kunstler
“I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.” PeopleThinkingKnowsIdeasLinesForgetPoliceSafetyImaginaryCrossingsThought PolicePersonal SafetyImaginary Lines Author:Ashton Kutcher
“If Google decided at any point to publish my search history, or your search history, or anyone's search history, there's a litany of things they could idea police you about, and if it was published, you would be publicly shamed. Everyone would be publicly shamed. But we trust Google, and we trust the people that run that company.” PeopleIfsIdeasWould BeRunningCompanyDecidedPoliceGooglePublish Author:Ashton Kutcher
“Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.” PeopleHelpingWealthTeacherWonderfulTeachingCitizensProtectPoliceProfessionRetirementCrucialEducateFirefighterGood Citizen Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.” PeopleEarthForceBornFireRightsDogEventsMovementSightPoliceClubsCivil RightsEpicGood WillCrowCivil Rights MovementDegradationJim CrowSouthernerLynchingCivil Right MovementPlain Sight Author:Jon Meacham
“There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.” PeopleShouldTwoLyingRelationshipDatingPoliceGirlfriendPolicemenPeople In Your LifeYour GirlfriendOld Girlfriend Author:Jack Nicholson
“A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.” PeopleIfsSelfGovernmentForceEssentialsFairsPoliceCourtViolentDecentBullyDefencePsychopathPolice ForceSelf DefenceCourt SystemHotheads Author:Steven Pinker
“I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me!” PeopleKnowsFeelsFunnyAmericaCausesWhiteKnow HowComedyHeardCarPoliceRelaxedPolicemenZimbabwePolice Cars Author:Richard Pryor
“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
“On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.” PeopleKnowsImportantHelpingHandsImaginationViolenceGunPoliceCaptureEqualizer Author:Bobby Seale
“If you think people are inherently good, you get rid of the police for 24 hours - see what happens.” PeopleIfsThinkingHappensHoursPolice Author:Sylvester Stallone
“Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.” PeopleLawChoicesGivenChanceSecretDemocracyOrdinaryPoliceTyrannyDictatorshipDictatorOrdinary PeopleRule Of LawSecret Police Author:Tony Blair
“You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people in power! You are the police--the great, fat smiling men in blue and buttons! You are the Law, and you have never been broken. But is there a free soul alive that does not long to break you, only because you have never been broken?” PeopleKnowsMenFirstsLongDoeSoulLastsLawBreakAliveBrokenPoliceBlueFatsHatedCriedButtons Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Fifty thousand people in Mexico have been murdered. Puerto Penasco, 60 miles south of our border, just had five people and a police officer killed. That is like part of Arizona, and it is spilling over into our state.” PeopleHas BeensStatesFiveThousandPoliceSouthMilesBordersFiftyOfficersMexicoPolice OfficerArizonaSpilling Author:Jan Brewer