“Television is a powerful medium that has to be used for something better than sitcoms and police shows. On the other hand, if you don't recognize the forces that play on what people watch and what they don't then you're a fool and you should be in a different business.” PeopleIfsShouldDifferentPlayShowsHandsUsedForcePowerfulWatchesTelevisionFoolPoliceMediumsSomething BetterSitcom Author:Roone Arledge
“Police thrillers are so widely read and police dramas so commonplace on television that many people think they have a good understanding of what a cop's world is like. But in truth that world is seldom revealed with anything approaching verisimilitude. We get it with The Wagon.” PeopleThinkingWorldUnderstandingTelevisionDramaPoliceCopCommonplaceThrillersWagonsGood Understanding Author:Daniel Horan
“Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.” PeopleKnowsWorldFilmTelevisionPoliceManageRemarkableCaptureOfficersHeroicPolice OfficerPrisms Author:Daniel Horan
“During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, "No federal statutes have been violated." And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words.” Has BeensWholeGovernmentWaterTelevisionMonthsKingsPoliceJailBeatenFederal GovernmentBeggingStatutesSewersPretty Words Author:Malcolm X
“A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.” MenStillsStatesRoomsTelevisionPoliceLiving RoomLawnsDuskRant Author:Richard Yates
“Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.” PeopleThinkingMenMeanLongDoeIdeasStatesMightWould BeAmericaLeftCitiesHalfWatchesStreetsTelevisionOughtGayKissingMajorsPoliceComplainingAfternoonConvenientLeft AloneComplacentGay MenPolice StateDissidents Author:Anthony Gregory
“On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are "solved" to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.” KnowsRealEndsHandsLeftResultsCrimeTelevisionEvidenceMurderPoliceSatisfactionConvictionReal LifeSufficientUncertainViewersProsecutor Author:Alan Dershowitz
“I am a Black revolutionary woman, and because of this i have been charged with and accused of every alleged crime in which a woman was believed to have participated. The alleged crimes in which only men were supposedly involved, i have been accused of planning. They have plastered pictures alleged to be me in post offices, airports, hotels, police cars, subways, banks, television, and newspapers. They have offered . rewards for my capture and they have issued orders to shoot on sight and shoot to kill.” MenHas BeensOrderBlackCarCrimeTelevisionInvolvedOfficeSightPoliceRewardsNewspapersPlanningPostsRevolutionaryHotelCaptureAccusedAirportsSubwayPost OfficePolice Cars Book:Assata: An Autobiography Source: Assata: An Autobiography