Top 192 Policing Quotes & Sayings

We've got to do everything possible to improve policing, to go right at implicit bias.

Cinema has evolved, and it is high time we stop policing it so rigorously.

In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of the car and policing corners - they're on a job slowdown, basically. Right now if the police stopped being brutal, if we got police shooting under control, and the use of excessive force, if we have a meaningful societal response to all that stuff, and the racism that underlies it, the question still remains: what are they policing, and why?

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

Feminism isn't about curating or policing the boundaries of womanhood.

How do you think policing is in places like China, or North Korea? Whatever we experience, in terms of our policing, I also wanted to make known that the rest of the world suffers ten times more because of that power dynamic; because of the fact that there is no Posse Comitatus in other places which is what prevents in our country, or what is supposed to prevent the military from taking on a policing role of its own people.

Women deal with real issues with policing that don't really get talked about.

I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.

Twenty-first century policing reform will require increased investment in law enforcement, not defunding it.

I have met virtually no one in the policing and security world who thinks ID cards are an essential part of what they need to do in the future.

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.

I believe in neighbourhood policing. We also need to look at young people being radicalised.

Just as in policing there is an emphasis on civilians to help with paperwork, we must free up trained and experienced social workers to focus on children, not bureaucracy.

I'll lift up the good work that is happening and hold officers or departments that engage in unconstitutional policing accountable.

The overall policing budget is protected.

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

We cannot have different policing for different communities. It is inherently unfair.

I believe in community policing.

Good counter-terrorism is when you have close relationships between the policing and intelligence services.

The real repercussions of a permanent criminal record - some lose their jobs, their housing, even their families - can go far beyond the primary policing objective.

For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local and very personalized to communities, to cities, to legislators, and so, in that way, I think as we started looking into talking about policing, the thing that you realize is that you can't paint everything with the same brush.

When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see that, over time, there has been a transformation in the relationship between the police and the community, where now they have a partnership and true collaborative policing, co-policing, to make the community safer overall.

Chicago is where the whole idea of community policing began. It remains the - the best and the most comprehensive approach we have in changing the everyday conditions that breed crime and violence - and then breed mistrust. We have more work to do. We need better training to live up to the values and the principles of community policing.

There is a crisis of public morality. Instead of policing bedrooms, we ought to be doing a better job policing boardrooms.

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

My policing was nothing but activism - it had to be.

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.

Well, by all means please let's decentralize policing.

Community policing is a great idea. It's worked in the Hoosier state.

That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people.

We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.

Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax.

The way you make communities safer and police safer is through community policing.

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

Proactive policing has saved tens of thousands of minority lives since the mid-1990s.

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.

When we cannot find enough extra money for policing, yet we are having huge sums to other countries in aid, it is time to start a serious conversation.

Every state need not start with state policing if they can't fund it.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

The use of water cannon could have changed the face of British policing; it would have made a huge difference to British policing.

I want to see traditional policing with a modern flavour. I am completely committed to local, visible policing, but we have to modernise. There are such opportunities for people to interact with police through the digital sphere that we have not achieved yet.

I find that people want aggressive policing if they as a community feel they are part of it. They don't want aggressive policing if they feel it's being imposed upon them and they are a target.

More draconian forms of policing and punishment are no guarantee of a reduction in violent crime.

The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

The alt-right for me is primarily a cultural reaction to the nannying and language policing and authoritarianism of the progressive left - the stranglehold that it has on culture.

Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.

Guilt serves a powerful social function in terms of policing our behavior.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

'Line Of Duty' is first and foremost a thriller. But I hope it will also be seen as a revisionist commentary on 21st century policing.

Questions have arisen about the policing of science. Who is responsible for the policing? My answer is: all of us.

Policing has to be done compassionately and consistently. You cannot police differently in Harlem than you're policing downtown. The same laws must apply. The same procedures must be employed. Certain areas at certain times may have more significant crime and require more police presence or more assertiveness, but it has to be balanced.

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.

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

I believe in a civil society we should do as much as possible not to have firearms in any guise, but obviously they are a necessary function of policing.