Police Department Quotes - Page 2

• I don't have individuals that are heroes per say but I will suggest that teachers are heroes for me, our firefighters are heroes for me, our police departments are heroes for me and our leaders are heroes for me.

  John Assaraf

  Teacher, Hero, Firefighter

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• As we move forward, I am looking for a new leader of the Chicago Police Department to address the problems at the very heart of the policing profession. The problem is sometimes referred to as "the thin blue line." The problem is other times referred to as "the code of silence." It is this tendency to ignore. It is the tendency to deny. It is the tendency, in some cases, to cover up the bad actions of a colleague or colleagues.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Moving, Heart, Blue

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I believe that if we could see the chapters that are missing from the book [The Autobiography of Malcolm X], we would gain an understanding as to why perhaps - perhaps - the F.B.I., the C.I.A., the New York Police Department and others in law enforcement greatly feared what Malcolm X was about, because he was trying to build a broad - an unprecedented black coalition across the lines of black nationalism and integration. And in way, it presages 30 years ahead of time, the Million Man March.

  Manning Marable

  New York, Book, Believe

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• It`s a difficult thing for a city to be sued by the department of justice and to be told that your police department is systematically failing to serve the people of the state or the city.

  Al Sharpton

  Cities, People, Justice

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police department and the community are working together so that we can resolve many of the issues that we face in our community.

  Catherine E. Pugh

  Cities, Issues, Community

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Community, Police

  Source: billmoyers.com

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• Say my husband had a dangerous job and I wasn't with him, I don't know how you go, 'Oh honey, how was it with the police department today? You got all your fingers and toes today?' It would scare me. I'd have to become a police officer and work with him; I couldn't do it.

  Terri Irwin

  Jobs, Husband, Police

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• Since the police department is becoming more and more militarized we're stuck in a position where we're reverting to that sort of behaviour that other places still suffer from because they're kept in that post-colonial state of development indefinitely so we can reap the benefits of taking whatever natural resources they have.

  Immortal Technique

  Police, Suffering, Behaviour

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments. I think for most Whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they don't interact with the police as much as those in the Black community.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, White, Hands

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• [in 1998] I know my political ideas affect what I write but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them.

  James Q. Wilson

  Writing, Land, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and advocates who believe that this is absolutely the right thing to do.

  Al Sharpton

  Believe, Cities, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

  Al Sharpton

  Agreement, Community, Understanding

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement. I'm asking the Department of Justice to investigate if our police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of stops, searches or arrests that violate the Fourth Amendment.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Law, Practice, Justice

  "Source: Justice Department to investigate Baltimore police" by Dana Ford, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2015.

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• There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path to reform. And this is long work. Baltimore is just embarking down this road.

  Al Sharpton

  Long, Broken, Police

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• For me to come in as the mayor already recognizing some of the problems that we were facing and also having put some of those reforms in place, I recognize what the advocates were talking about. I also recognize what the police department`s concerns were and what the community in general was concerned about.

  Catherine E. Pugh

  Talking, Community, Police

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

  Daryl Gates

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

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• This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community.

  Catherine E. Pugh

  Community, Police, Looks

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.

  James Brady

  Home, Gun Control, Police

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• The Baltimore Police Department had engaged in a pattern of practice of conduct that violated the constitution and federal law, and this conduct had eroded trust and to deprive the people of Baltimore of the rights and the protections guaranteed to every American.

  Al Sharpton

  Rights, Law, Practice

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The New York Police Department says Iran has conducted surveillance inside New York City. They say Iranian operatives are using special mobile surveillance units. I believe they're called taxi cabs.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Believe, Taxi Cabs

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• As you may or may not know, in keeping with the high-class tone of Beverly Hills, our police force is probably the most snobbish group of gendarmes in the world. It is said that the Beverly Hills Police Department is so fancy that it has an unlisted number.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Class, California

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• As the local police department might want to decrypt a phone of a criminal suspect, so would the Chinese or the Russian or the Iranian intelligence agencies like to be able to do exactly the same thing.

  Matt Blaze

  Agency, Phones, Police

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There`s a division in most major police departments called, `Special Victims Unit,` which is what sex crimes are euphemistically called. They`re considered the most heinous crimes, when not only do you violate somebody, but you violate them sexually. So it`s an elite squad that takes care of that.

  Richard Belzer

  Sex, Squad, Police

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• Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments.

  Richard Turner

  Mean, Mirrors, Views

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• Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Past, Law, Community

  "No Country for 'Black Teens'" by Benjamin Jealous, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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