“I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.” WritingStoriesSidesCitiesAreasPoliceEastUrbanJerseyHarlemEast SideJersey City Author:Richard Price
“We need to be critical of the police and power structure, we need to stand back and solve these problems, and films need to point to that. There are too many stories that end happily and say very little about life.” NeedsLittlesEndsStoriesProblemFilmPoliceStructureSolveCritical Author:Charles Burnett
“I remember thinking about how fun it would be to be a reporter. I had a dream, when I was little, to become a police officer and a crime investigator. It depends on what kind of stories you're reporting, but it's very similar. You're finding out the truth.” ThinkingKindLittlesStoriesDreamWould BeRememberFunCrimeDependsFindingsPoliceOfficersReportersPolice OfficerI Had A DreamInvestigatorsFinding Out The Truth Author:Katia Winter
“Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.” StoriesBlackWhiteRaceStreetsMediaYouthInvolvedRacismHatredPoliceStrangerChiefsTargetGangMayorsTiptoesBlack Youth Author:Thomas Sowell
“A police reporter walks into the worst moment in someone's life on every single story that he covers. It's not like being a sports reporter. That's a great job and all that and takes certain skills. But, you know, they're glad to see you when you show up to cover the football game. Nobody is ever glad to see a police reporter when he shows up.” KnowsMomentsStoriesShowsJobsCertainGamesSportsWalksWorstFootballSkillsPoliceGladReportersGreat JobFootball GameWorst Moments Author:Bob Schieffer
“The thing about superheroes is that they don't have problems, right? A feminist hooker superhero wouldn't have to worry about assault, or pregnancy, or poverty, or disease, or eating and shelter, or police. In order to make her a superhero, you have to divorce her of the very context that makes her story possible. You have to gloss over the trauma.” StoriesProblemOrderPovertyWorryDiseaseEatingPoliceFeministDivorceTraumaPregnancyShelterAssaultSuperheroGloss Author:Daphne Gottlieb
“African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of similar crimes. Behind these statistics are heart-wrenching stories of lives cut short and families ripped apart.” MenHeartStoriesTermWhiteBehindsCuttingCrimePolicePrisonAfrican AmericanStatisticsWhite ManIncidentsRippedHeart Wrenching Author:Hillary Clinton
“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
“I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.” StoriesHorrorPoliceParanormalDetectivesDetective StoriesExorcist Author:William Peter Blatty
“I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.” WellsKindStoriesFunnyLiteratureUnderstandingHellSpecialDrugPoliceStationsHeroinHoustonSmack Author:Dan Rather
“Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever. And I will carry this. It is the police shield of a man named George Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others. It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son. It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not end.” MenWorldTryingDoeEndsStoriesRememberFacesGivenVoiceMemoriesGoneForeverFireSonMomProudTasksDiedPoliceTradeRescueRemindersMemorialShieldsWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:George W. Bush
“Some people call Police Story the greatest action film of all time, and while I have to be humble and say that I disagree, it's definitely the favorite action film I've ever made.” PeopleMadeStoriesActionFilmPoliceHumbleAll TimeDisagreeBe HumbleAction Films Author:Jackie Chan
“There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.” LooksMayStoriesHoursRecordsPoliceSeriesScriptsRumorOne Hour Author:Merle Haggard
“Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.” StoriesNumbersCitiesOffersUniqueMurderPoliceBlueAuthenticityLandscapeVisualsProvidingFlavorDetroitCollarsMichiganSlangBlue Collar Author:Michael Imperioli