“A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?” PeopleIfsLostPresidentJusticeCasesSupportSpecialColorBrokenCitizensPoliceCriminalsOfficersPortionsCiviliansPolice OfficerJustice SystemAmerican CitizensCriminal JusticeProsecutorCriminal Justice SystemLost Confidence Author:Russell Simmons
“Say my husband had a dangerous job and I wasn't with him, I don't know how you go, 'Oh honey, how was it with the police department today? You got all your fingers and toes today?' It would scare me. I'd have to become a police officer and work with him; I couldn't do it.” KnowsTodayJobsKnow HowDangerousHusbandPoliceFingersDepartmentMy HusbandScareOfficersHoneyToesPolice OfficerPolice DepartmentFingers And ToesDangerous Jobs Author:Terri Irwin
“Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver.” WatchesPoliceDrunkDriversOfficersVehiclePolice OfficerHeadlights Author:Robert James Thomson
“In the same way that we want to expand mental health service for people with mental illness, we also need to make sure that our police officers are getting the mental health help they need.” PeopleWayWantNeedsHelpingPoliceMental HealthIllnessMental IllnessOfficersPolice OfficerHealth Services Author:Brian Lindstrom
“I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.” IfsThinkingChildrenLongAblePainJobsFeltParentImagineEvidenceDoctorsPoliceIllOfficersEngagementNurseTherapistsPolice OfficerBurn OutEmpathetic Author:Paul Bloom
“I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.” PeopleIfsThinkingLittlesCertainGamesSoundBehaviorGainsPoliceBlameDepartmentOfficersStatus QuoControversialPolice Officer Author:Oren Moverman
“When you have police officers like Office Encinia who is a trained professional, who is trained to de-escalate a situation where a motorist may not be in the best of moods because of an encounter that they're having with you, you are trained to respond differently.” MaySituationOfficePoliceMoodEncountersOfficersPolice Officer Author:Sharon Cooper
“One of the things the police officers told us in the first minutes of being with them is that the way that they cope with their job is by using a lot of inappropriate humour. It's really a lovely opportunity to try to challenge our ideas of what it is to deal with complex issues, and that they're not always dower. Having that kind of humour along with the pathos for what people are going through is a really nice challenge.” PeopleWayTryingFirstsKindIdeasJobsOpportunityChallengesDealsIssuesNiceMinutesHumourPoliceComplexesLovelyOfficersReally NicePolice OfficerInappropriatePathos Author:Kristin Lehman
“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
“I think every school needs a protection plan with a either police officer or certified armed security.” ThinkingNeedsSchoolPlansSecurityPoliceProtectionOfficersPolice Officer Author:Wayne LaPierre
“How can someone live with their own conscience when you reward a domestic terrorist with continued safety and betray the family of fallen police officer waiting for decades for justice for his murder? So let's ask the question. Hillary Clinton as a coddler of the brutal Castro brothers and betrayer of the family of fallen state trooper Werner Foerster and his family.” StatesAsksWaitingJusticeBrotherConscienceMurderPoliceSafetyClintonRewardsDecadesTerroristFallenOfficersBetrayBrutalPolice OfficerCastro Author:Chris Christie
“We're not being invaded by undocumented immigrants who are coming to kill police officers and commit crimes. And I don't think most Americans think it's true.” ThinkingCrimePoliceCommitImmigrantsOfficersPolice OfficerUndocumented Immigrants Author:Mark Shields
“The problem I have these days is that women are often cast in a role - as a police officer, for example - and then are invariably perceived by the other characters as succeeding in a man's job, as if they're doing it in spite of being women.” IfsMenCharacterProblemJobsRolesExampleSucceedPoliceCastsThese DaysSpiteOfficersBeing A WomanPolice Officer Author:Kathy Bates
“We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.” NeedsCountryCommunitySupportStandardsPoliceOfficersPolice Officer Author:Chris Christie
“All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.” LongInspirationMotivationTechnologyDrugMembersPolicePhonesCellsOfficersGangCell PhoneDealerPolice OfficerDrug DealersGang Members Author:Marc Goodman
“To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.” RealJobsAmericaTeacherMilitaryDoctorsPoliceOfficersPolice OfficerFirefighterReal JobsMilitary ServiceJobs In America Author:Charles Barkley
“As far as police go, if officers are really that scared or timid [on the streets], maybe they shouldn't be police officers. Their job is to protect and serve and they're supposed to be the bravest of the brave.” IfsJobsStreetsProtectPoliceBraveScaredSupposed To BeOfficersPolice OfficerProtect And Serve Author:Brandon Marshall
“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
“We also have to recognize, in addition to the challenges that we face with policing, there are so many good, brave police officers who equally want reform.” WantFacesChallengesPoliceBraveReformOfficersPolice Officer Author:Hillary Clinton
“When it comes to policing, since it can have literally fatal consequences, I have said, in my first budget, we would put money into that budget to help us deal with implicit bias by retraining a lot of our police officers.” FirstsSaidHelpingDealsConsequencePoliceBudgetsOfficersBiasPolice OfficerImplicit Author:Hillary Clinton
“Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day.” MenLinesWhiteHe ManMen And WomenPoliceAfrican AmericanOfficersAsianLatinoPolice OfficerHispanic Author:Mike Pence
“When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?” ActionInvolvedPoliceClintonAfrican AmericanShootingOfficersBiasInvolvingPolice OfficerImplicit Author:Mike Pence
“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
“He was in Poland to participate in the NATO conference, President [Barack] Obama did respond well to the back-to-back killings, as well as to the attacks on Dallas police officers that followed.” WellsPresidentPoliceKillingBarackOfficersConferencesPolice OfficerPresident Barack ObamaNatoPolandDallas Author:Julianne Malveaux
“We need to rebuild bonds of trust between our police officers and our communities.” NeedsCommunityPoliceOfficersOur CommunityPolice Officer Author:Hillary Clinton
“When the police officers knock on your door with a warrant, they don't expect you to give them a tour. It's supposed to be an adversarial process so that it's used in these extraordinary powers are applied only when there's no alternative. Only when they're absolutely necessary, and only when they're proportionate to the threat faced by these individuals.” GivingUsedIndividualProcessDoorsPoliceThreatExtraordinaryAlternativesSupposed To BeOfficersPolice OfficerWarrants Author:Edward Snowden
“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
“Police do get obsessed with solving crimes. You know, particularly if there's been a murder, it becomes personal for the police officer very quickly, and it gets to the family. Even after they've retired, they carry on, not letting go.” IfsKnowsCrimeLetting GoMurderPoliceObsessedOfficersRetiredPolice OfficerNot Letting Go Author:Peter James
“Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.” PoliceOfficersOpen MindedPolice OfficerClose Minded Author:Peter James
“The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.” EmotionalDegreesPoliceOfficersEmotional IntelligencePolice OfficerQualifications Author:Peter James
“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
“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
“I'm a professional at what I do. As a police officer you're a professional at what you're supposed to do. You should know your equipment well. You should know the difference between a taser and a handgun.” KnowsShouldWellsDifferencesPoliceOfficersEquipmentPolice OfficerHandgunsTasers Author:Michael B. Jordan
“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
“The truth is, my father stopped bothering me after Stigmata, because I got to play a priest. That fulfilled his dream. The cop thing was a little overdone to him because my brother was already a police officer.” DreamFatherBrotherTruth IsPoliceBotherMy BrotherCopPolice Officer Author:Enrico Colantoni
“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
“History is a continuum, it's not these separate moments. That's how we look at it. In the 1700s in Virginia before there were police officers - there were these groups of men who would wander the countryside - and if they saw a black man or a black woman they would presume that that black man or woman was a slave. If you didn't have the kind of pass that you were supposed to have, then you could be whipped, you could be enslaved, you could be taken into custody - even if you were free. And as I'm reading this I find myself thinking, "How is this any different from stop-and-frisk?"” ThinkingMenKindDifferentMomentsReadingBlackTakenPoliceSlaveWanderBlack WomenCountrysidePolice Officer Author:Titus Kaphar
“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
“There will always be situations in which conflicts arise between individual and communal values - Catholic police officers deployed to enable women to enter abortion clinics without harassment and doctors who oppose performing abortions. No social role is free of such potential conflicts.” ValuesIndividualSituationConflictPoliceCatholicPerformingAbortionDoctor WhoPolice OfficerHarassment Author:John Kleinig
“Russia spends enormous, senseless amounts of money on the army and the police. We have one of the top rankings in the world when it comes to the number of police officers - but when it comes to the number of murders, we are also right at the top.” WorldArmyMurderPolicePolice Officer Author:Alexei Navalny
“Every time a militant Islamist terrorist shoots somebody up, what does Barack Obama do and the Democrats? They come out and they demand that there be no backlash against Muslims. So any time a police officer shoots a black suspect - without knowing why, without knowing the circumstances - why doesn't Obama stand up and warn against a backlash against cops? If we are to guard against backlash against Muslim shooters, where is the sameness?” BlackCircumstancesPoliceDemocratTerroristBarackCopPolice OfficerMilitantSamenessShooter Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You can be as critical as you want of Black Lives Matter. I'm critical of him, too. But to say that they have caused shooting of police officers, I think is a bridge too far.” ThinkingBlackPolicePolice Officer Author:Joe Klein
“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
“Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. And let my say community policing is a great idea. It's worked in the Hoosier state. And we fully support that. Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation.” MenCommunitySupportHe ManMen And WomenPoliceLaw EnforcementLatinoGreat IdeaPolice OfficerLaw And OrderHispanic Author:Mike Pence
“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
“Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example.” AttentionTeacherInfluencePolicyTaxesPoliceCrisisFinancialPay AttentionClassicExtrasNurseMortgagePolice OfficerFinancial Crisis Author:Barack Obama
“Every cop will tell you that their real job is being a social worker. That's what they do all day. The large majority of police officers in this country never even draw their gun, let alone fire it. They do conflict resolution, right? And if that's their job, why do they need to look like they're an occupying force?” RealCountryConflictGunPoliceResolutionCopPolice OfficerSocial WorkerConflict Resolution Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“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