“They really do feel under attack, rank-and-file officers and much of American police leadership, that they feel they're under attack from the federal government at the highest levels. So that's something we need to understand also, this sense of perception that becomes a reality.” NeedsFeelsRealityGovernmentLeadershipLevelsPerceptionHighestPoliceOfficersFederal GovernmentFiles Author:William Bratton
“Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.” WorldHumansShowsRealityGovernmentAmericaRightsTeamPoliceHuman RightsReality Of LifeInterviewsKoreaViolationNorth KoreaTeam America Author:Jennifer Armintrout
“Doing something, however pathetic, is psychologically better than doing nothing. In the current political environment - that is, with no more Cold War tensions - the tendency is to counteract the feelings of fear and vulnerability with a variety of military, paramilitary and police measures, despite the reality that this kind of excessive reliance on force in many ways intensifies the very problem it is purporting to solve.” WayKindWarFeelingsProblemRealityPoliticalForceEnvironmentMilitaryColdPoliceCurrentsSolveTendenciesDespiteVarietyVulnerabilityTensionCold WarReliancePatheticDoing NothingPolitical Environment Author:Richard A. Falk
“Most of the people I've been fortunate enough to work with all share the same passion for creativity, for ingenuity, for playing make-believe and really just having fun. It doesn't matter if we're blowing up cars, or shooting an emotional scene in a police station, deep inside we all know our imaginations are at work, and our imaginations are manifesting into reality - at least momentarily for the cameras to capture.” PeopleIfsKnowsBelieveMatterEnoughRealityPassionFunImaginationCreativityShareCarEmotionalScenePoliceCamerasShootingHaving FunFortunateStationsManifestCaptureIngenuityDeep InsideMake BelieveBlowing UpJust Have FunPlaying Make Believe Author:Gabriel Campisi
“But the reality is that the police serve a certain function, to maintain a certain status quo, and that's one of the things that the movie is about, because it basically gives you three options for looking at the police, as symbolized by Dave Brown.” GivingRealityCertainThreeFunctionPoliceBrownStatus QuoDave Author:Oren Moverman
“I think that's an incredibly overwhelming reality that is really at the basis of how we're going to deal with this. Looking at the film, people will say, "Oh yeah, you're criticizing the police." I say, "No."” PeopleThinkingRealityFilmDealsBasesPoliceYeahCriticizeOverwhelming Author:Oren Moverman
“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
“In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.” RealityTermPolice Author:Michael B. Jordan
“The desire to express in an art form and to compose a tableau and vignette whether it's humorous, burlesque, or poetic comes simply from a desire to compose an image for cinema. It is not my fault that when I go to Ramallah there is a checkpoint and therefore it enters my film. Tell me a way to avoid that politicized image. The fact is that the police are everywhere, the army everywhere and occupation is total. Whether it's a love story or a thriller, you place the camera and these realities will cross the frame.” WayArtFactsStoriesRealityFilmFormDesireHumorousCrossesArmyPoliceCamerasFaultsLove StoryCinemaPoeticOccupationThrillersBurlesqueVignettesCheckpointsTableau Author:Elia Suleiman
“My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.” WorldRealityBeliefCitiesExistenceFashionSourceConsequencePoliceComplexesExpertsProvisionBaffledDwellers Author:James Buchan
“I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down.” RealityLawJudgingProtectUnderstoodFunctionPolicePlentyJail Author:Charles Bukowski
“Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.” StatesRealityForceCitizensPoliceManagementRoseAlternativesThreateningBrutesContagiousPolice StateBrute ForceMemesPerceived Reality Book:Blindsight Source: Blindsight
“The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The reality is there will not be meaningful reform in the Los Angeles Police Department until the culture is changed.” ProblemRealityCultureFailingChangedPoliceMeaningfulReformBoardsDepartmentReportsLos AngelesInquiryPolice Department Author:Erwin Chemerinsky
“If Dr. Mahathir thinks that by ordering the police to act like gangsters he will frighten the people from supporting this reformation movement, he is dreaming. I think he has cut himself off from reality.” PeopleIfsThinkingDreamRealityCuttingMovementPoliceDrsReformationGangsters Author:Wan Azizah Wan Ismail
“They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down.” RealityTruthEconomyFireComedyTaxesPoliceBrokeBudgetPublic Services Author:Lewis Black