Top 1200 Police Officers Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Shortly after the appointment of Britain's first-ever female police constable with officials powers of arrest, the Home Office declared that women could not be sworn in as police officers because they were not deemed 'proper persons'. It makes you wonder what those Home Office officials would say now to having a female Home Secretary.

A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.

We must honor, protect and support our police officers and their families every day of the year.

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.

Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.

When residents feel like they can talk to the police, officers can stop crime before it starts.

I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of the police officers and fire-fighting apparatus you'd like to have.

Police officers know that each time they put on their uniform, they are taking on risks to protect others.

We need to rebuild bonds of trust between our police officers and our communities.

You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.

If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.

Many police officers watch for vehicles without headlights because it's a telltale of a drunk driver.

Senior politicians and police officers as well as their children get away with murder and run extortion rackets. It is all accepted with some anger and a shrug.

It was that depressing time in the early morning where the only people about were milkmen, police officers- and time travellers.

Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.

I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers.

Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.

I've been in several situations where police officers and district attorneys have had the cooperation of people in the news media without either endangering the reporter or compromising their sources.

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.

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.

We must hire more social workers and counselors in our schools than police officers.

It's a thankless job for police officers, period, but specifically for men and women of color protecting and serving.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

After years of police work, officers often can't help but be influenced by the cynicism they feel.

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.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

Police officers must follow the rules to be able to question if there's reasonable suspicion that someone is carrying that firearm.

One can only guess the amount of magic mushrooms a sane person would have to consume to believe that a frisbee constituted a genuine threat to roughly 3,000 police officers.

To me, there's only 5 real jobs in America: Police Officers, Teachers, Firefighters, Doctors, and the Military Service.

I`m a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when police officers misbehave, they`ve got to be held accountable.

I talk to teachers, nurses, police officers, and families nearly every day in North Carolina. Their desire to make a difference inspires me.

Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

I respect the police officers, but something you learn as a young black man in this country is that... life is a little bit different for you even though, on the surface, it seems to be the same.

There are many avenues to peacefully protest, but those rights don't extend to illegal actions, breaching security perimeters, and threatening police officers.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.

I myself have been scrutinized by militarized police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

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.

Each day, millions of police officers do the selfless work of putting their lives on the line to protect civilians, frequently responding to or preventing crises completely with no recognition.

The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. "There weren't any serious violations," said the officers, "she just rubbed us the wrong way."

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

I still have admiration for the vast majority of police officers, but there is no denying that some are guilty of mistreating the people they are supposed to serve.

I think police officers are modern day heroes. I think they protect us.

Most police officers are good cops and good people.

I had been pulled over quite a bit by police officers, especially in Santa Monica and Culver City.

I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.

I have spent 30 years working with police officers, doing everything I can to help them do their jobs, honoring the sacrifices they make every day.

Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.

Gun control responsibilities are taking police officers off the street and adding to crime.

Police officers' disproportionate use of force against people of color is a stain on our nation.

I got family members that's police officers. I don't got no problem if you a cop, as long as y'all doing y'all job, and y'all not harassing.

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.