“I love cops. I think you have to walk in their shoes to understand, you know when they use violence, Michael Brown in Ferguson, a classic case.” ThinkingKnowsUseWalksCasesViolenceShoesClassicBrownCopFerguson Author:Geraldo Rivera
“Young men kill someone for a handful of coins, then are remorseless, even casual: Hey, man, things happen. And their parents nab the culprit: it was the city, the cops, the system, the crowd, the music. Anyone but him. Anyone but me.” MenHappensYoungParentCitiesResponsibilityViolenceCrowdsThings HappenHeyYoung ManCopCoinsHandfulCasualCulpritRemorseless Book:Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private Source: Thinking Out Loud: On the Personal, the Political, the Public and the Private
“Malcolm X made it very clear that if somebody goes after you - whether it's cops or not - you have to defend yourself. But he was not an advocate for violence the way the Black Panthers were.” IfsWayMadeBlackClearViolenceMade ItCopPanthersBlack Panther Author:Nat Hentoff
“So much of the violence in the movies is b.s. violence: A guy in the middle of a large city with 14 people lying on the ground that he's just killed with his superhuman powers, and there's not a cop to be found. Not a siren to be heard. No price to be paid. That's not true, and I don't like that sort of stuff.” PeopleLyingGuyFoundStuffCitiesViolenceHeardMiddlePaidCopSuperhumanSirensPeople LieLarge CitiesSuperhuman Powers Author:William H. Macy
“America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.” WorldDreamAmericaFormCitiesViolenceLandPlanetsJazzMusicalMessBombsContradictionTemplesMediocrityNew WorldCopSophisticatedVersusIndigenousFascinationHandgunsWeaponryConundrumsEtcetera Author:Anne Waldman
“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
“American cops are the ones who are in the emergency rooms. They're the ones who go to the morgues. They're the ones who have to go tell the families that their son is not coming back, their husband, their wife, is not coming home that night. So when we talk about guns and gun violence and police, let's understand that as well. No one wants guns off the streets more than cops because cops are killed by those guns.” HomeNightWifeViolenceSonHusbandGunPoliceComing HomeCopEmergency Room Author:Don Winslow