Arrest Procedures Quotes

I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

I want to go to police academy, I want to actually go out and make a couple of arrests. I want to go undercover.

The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us - all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line.

I was once arrested for resisting arrest.

Although care must be taken not to kill or injure anyone while these persons are being taken into custody, resistance must be broken!

Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

You shouldn't be shot just because someone yells, "Halt" or resisting arrest or running away from being arrested.

A burning building doesnt help melt peoples hearts, but times change and tactics, Im sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day.

You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police.

When I was a kid the police just whupped you. Today, they whup you, and then they arrest you in order to protect themselves.

Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.

I think racial profiling is wrong. It cannot be defended. It's just flat wrong. And if a matter came before me, and it could be established that the arrest was made strictly on racial profiling, when I was on the bench, it would be gone.

We believe that the way you dress and the shoes you wear are not probable cause for questioning or arrest.