James Forman Quotes

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

The term "free society" is a meaningless, empty phrase if it does not mean a society that is free from harassment from its own police.

There are 18,000 different police forces in the United States and sometimes something wrong happens.

Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.

The only people who distrust the cops are crooks. They're not out there just harassing innocent people. Maybe sometimes they do. But there's no inherent situation where cops are deliberately out there harassing people.

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.

To indiscriminately cast all law enforcement as enemies of our communities is to engage in an attempt to divide our nation by turning Americans against each other.

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn't as much outrage about that as there is about some broken windows and lost property.

My mother, my relatives, and closest friends have risked their lives in the area of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, 'I hate police.'

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

There's plenty of law at the end of a nightstick

Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded — after all, the cop was protecting us.

It is especially jarring when police officers are the killers because they are an entity of the state itself, so when the state shows a lack of sensitivity, community members feel it is an obvious example of abuse..

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

The black police in Compton are worse than the white police.

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 the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.

I'm scared if the cops pull me over.