Police Quotes - Page 40

• 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.

  Mike Pence

  Men, White, African American

  Source: www.politico.com

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• It's probably why the 330,000 members of the fraternal order of police endorsed Donald Trump as the next president of the United States of America, because they see his commitment to them.

  Mike Pence

  Commitment, Order, America

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We ought to assure the public that we'll have a full and complete and transparent investigation whenever there's a loss of life because of police action.

  Mike Pence

  Loss, Action, Investigation

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias?

  Mike Pence

  African American, Shooting, Action

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We can learn from this history that when the Department of Justice, the FBI, the DEA, and the state and local police and prosecutors were combined in a task force directed by and at the mafia, when they looked at the mafia and really went after them, they were able to get great, great successes and prosecutions out of them in seizing their business interest, in a lot of things; including their business interest, taking them away, and removing their infiltration from legitimate areas of society.

  Donald Trump

  Justice, Mafia, Tasks

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2016.

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• You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

  John Kao

  Quality, Able, Standards

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed. They don't want to be beat. They don't want to be shot down in their neighborhoods, whether it's by police officers or people who live there.

  Ras Baraka

  America, People, Community

  "Newark’s mayor on solutions he is using to change his city making it a better place for all". "PBS NewsHour" with Charlayne Hunter-Gault, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2016.

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• It's what you do when you have Allison Janney.My jaw-dropped at her performance. You think that part is sort of a regular part until she steps into the shoes of the officer. She just filled it with such dimension and by giving her the whole shebang, the whole police thread, I think it was the right choice.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Thinking, Shoes, Giving

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Donald Trump is going to lower taxes, Hillary Clinton's going to raise taxes. He's going to add to our military, she's going to decrease our military. He's going to support the police at a time in which we've had the biggest increase in crime in the last 41 years. He's going to take on radical Islamic terrorism.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Military, Islamic, Years

  "Chuck Todd Grills Giuliani: Trump Wasn't Running For President, So It's Okay To Be A Misogynist?" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 9, 2016.

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• You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Kabul, Poverty, Losing

  "Web Exclusive Interview: Kite Runner author Khaled Hosseini to Speak on Refugee Crisis at Event in Lafayette". Interview with Peter Crooks, www.diablomag.com. April 25, 2009.

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• "Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Salad, Homesick

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

  Van Jones

  Law, Saws, Tough

  Source: aalbc.com

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• I had this radical idea that the police should obey the law. My view was that any human system without adequate checks and balances will tend towards corruption and abuse. That's why you have meat inspectors. Not because you hate butchers, but because of an understanding of human nature.

  Van Jones

  Hate, Views, Law

  Source: aalbc.com

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• When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Eight, Cities

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.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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• Young people increasingly have become subject to an oppressive disciplinary machine that teaches them to define citizenship through the exchange practices of the market and to follow orders and toe the line in the face of oppressive forms of authority. They are caught in a society in which almost every aspect of their lives is shaped by the dual forces of the market and a growing police state.

  Henry Giroux

  Order, Practice, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted to raise tuition and cut social protections. These demonstrations are continuing in a variety of countries throughout the globe and embrace an investment in a new understanding of the commons as a shared space of knowledge, debate, exchange and participation.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Cutting, Police Violence

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to just the young protesters occupying a number of American cities, but also the threat it poses to democracy itself. This threat is being exacerbated as a result of the merging of a war-like mentality and neoliberal mode of discipline and education in which it becomes difficult to reclaim the language of obligation, social responsibility and civic engagement.

  Henry Giroux

  War, Responsibility, Cities

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

  Henry Giroux

  Shadow, Looks, States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The government now requisitions the publics' telephone records and sifts through its emails. It labels whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden as traitors, even though they have exposed the corruption, lawlessness and host of antidemocratic practices engaged in by established governments. Police can take DNA samples of all people arrested of a crime, whether they are proven guilty or not. The United States is incarcerating people in record numbers, imprisoning over 2.3 million inmates while 6 million people at any one time [are] under carceral supervision - more than were in Stalin's Gulag.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Dna, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Everyone is now considered a potential terrorist, providing a rational for both the government and private corporations to spy on anybody, regardless of whether they have committed a crime. Surveillance is supplemented by a growing domestic army of baton-wielding police forces who are now being supplied with the latest military equipment.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, Army, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Military technologies such as Drones, SWAT vehicles and machine-gun-equipped armored trucks once used exclusively in high-intensity war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan are now being supplied to police departments across the nation and not surprisingly the increase in such weapons is matched by training local police in war zone tactics and strategies.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Gun

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Arming domestic police forces with paramilitary weaponry will ensure their systematic use even in the absence of a terrorist attack on US soil; they will simply find other, increasingly permissive uses for those weapons.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Use, Systematic, Weapons

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing the behavior of young people in public schools. Behaviors that were normally handled by teachers, guidance counselors and school administrators are now dealt with by the police and the criminal justice system.

  Henry Giroux

  Teacher, School, Acceptance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being targeted by the police, harassed by security forces, and in some instances killed because they are black and assumed to be dangerous.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Numbers, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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