Park Won-soon Quotes

If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.

We are in a state of emergency. Here in Texas, we are not afraid of ISIS. We are afraid of the police.

Every time there is a perceived crisis, law-enforcement agencies and legislators overreact, and usually due process and civil liberties suffer.

Government troops [police] are worse to the civilians than are the bandits whom the troops are trying to eliminate.

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.

The police seemed to lose their head completely as they dashed into the crowds on their horses and slashed out with their clubs.

In this era of mass incarceration, the police shouldn't be trusted any more than any other witness, perhaps less so.

Everyone could relate to that feeling of when, even if you've done nothing wrong and you see the police behind you, you get nervous.

Their (Liverpool) fans are being man-marked by the Italian police.

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.

If you feel your rights are being abused by the authorities, and you don't say something, sometimes the cops don't know how far to take it. They have a hard job, but at the same time, I think it's just about educating yourself.

Safety and security in East Delhi is a very big concern, and this is an across-class concern. It isn't an issue that one segment faces and another does not... But because Delhi Police comes under the central government, there are virtually no steps being taken.

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

I know how young black men are seen. They're boys - scared little boys, oftentimes. I was one of them. I was completely afraid of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

I think occasionally it's the presence - or increased presence - of federal law enforcement that can cause that fear.

There's a lot of good police officers. There's thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don't get the stories.

I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury - national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture - we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.

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?

A lot of things sound neutral, but they're not. A typical example would involve police violence. It's usually forbidden to call police "murderers," even if they're convicted of murder. People will say that it sounds hysterical and unobjective.

It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're not speeding. You don't have drugs. But you're just thinking, I hope he doesn't notice I'm driving.