Police Officer Quotes - Page 6

• I think there's some evidence that when it comes to being a doctor or nurse, a police officer or therapist, that empathetic engagement leads to burn-out. Imagine if you're dealing with severely ill children, and you felt their pain all the time, and the pain of their parents - you wouldn't be able to do that job for very long. It would kill you.

  Paul Bloom

  Jobs, Children, Pain

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That's the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy.

  Theresa May

  Mean, Years, Police

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• I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

  Maxine Waters

  Boys, White, Car

  "FBI Probing Videotaped Beating". CNN.com, July 10, 2002.

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• We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.

  Denzel Washington

  Thinking, Years, Car

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Brother, Father, Thinking

  Interview with Sandra Bullock, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Car, Police, Officers

  "Witherspoon pays $213 fine as arrest video goes public" by Chuck Johnston and Jason Hanna, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2013.

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• And there's a cop over there." "What?" the boy said, glancing at the D.C. police officer that stood at the corner of the street, "You think that guys can do a better job protecting you than I can?" Actually, I thought Liz could have done a better job "protecting" me than he could, but instead I said, "No, I think if you don't leave me alone, I can scream and that cop will arrest you." Somehow the boy seemed to know it was a joke.

  Ally Carter

  Jobs, Boys, Thinking

  Ally Carter (2011). “Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

  Steven Seagal

  Years, Police, Different

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• And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

  Theresa May

  Jobs, Decision, Police

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.

  William Kunstler

  America, Talking, People

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• Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

  Samuel Johnson

  Revenge, Passion, Justice

  Samuel Johnson, John Walker (1827). “A Dictionary of the English Language”, p.617

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• The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence.

  Julian Fantino

  Support, Police, Benefits

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• Bain also asked Kansas City for a $3 million tax break. The Bain executives were taking home $36 million in borrowed funds and were asking Kansas City to forfeit $3 million in public money for police officers, roads and schools? More free stuff!

  Jennifer Granholm

  Home, School, Cities

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• We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.

  Jeff Cooper

  Hurt, Views, Circles

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• It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable suspicion, he would ask and verify your citizenship. I mean, that's the way that it is. That's what the federal law says. And that's what the law in Arizona says.

  Jan Brewer

  Mean, Law, Police

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• I used to think that my career was to be a police officer, and that is what I was put here to do. But I always kept the faith and always worked hard on my goals and I finally found out on Sept. 25, 1998, why I was put here - (God) called me here to be Mr. Olympia.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Thinking, Careers, Goal

  "Living his dream". The News-Star, May 17, 2003.

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• You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.

  Raymond Kelly

  Police, Law Enforcement, Crime

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• In my opinion, New York City police officers are brave.

  Heath Ledger

  New York, Cities, Brave

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• She suddenly began to jump up and down, screaming at the top of her lungs. "The arks are after me! The arks are after me! Help me, the arks are after me!" .... "The arks! You don't understand, I have the ring and the arks are after me!" .... (and so the police officer is puzzled long enough for Miriam and Seth to escape)

  Ted Dekker

  Long, Police, Ark

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• Every single day, we have hundreds, if not thousands of police officers protecting the lives of not just New Yorkers, but the millions who come to New York City to work and to vacation.

  Vito Fossella

  New York, Vacation, Cities

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• I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something.

  Kanye West

  War, Thinking, Police

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• I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

  Lynn Westmoreland

  Money, Firefighter, Police

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• Multiple studies, including from the Justice Department, have shown that the guns used in homicides, including the killing of police officers, overwhelmingly tend to be small-caliber handguns. Moreover, gun ownership has increased over the past 20 years — the same period in which both the violent crime rate and the killing of police officers have been in decline.

  Radley Balko

  Gun, Past, Years

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• To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!

  Steven Seagal

  Blow, Police, Half

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

  Bobby Sherman

  Cpr, Years, Police

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