I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops.
My nana was a detective; my nana was a great cop. You also have bad cops that were bullied in school or whatever and think that they have power, and that makes other cops look bad.
Every cop isn't a bad cop just like every NFL player that makes a mistake, we're not all bad guys.
There's a bigger percentage of good cops than bad cops. But the bad cops should be penalised like regular people.
There's good cops and bad cops, and the good cops have to hold the bad cops accountable. We have to hold the bad cops accountable, too.
Nobody wants bad cops off the street more than good cops.
If we were making a cop comedy about bad cops or cops who were comically bad at the jobs, then the jokes would be more hijinks and more like slapstick.
Most good police officers are very open-minded. The bad ones are the ones who are close-minded.
For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.
While bad cops should face the full consequence of the law, the overwhelming majority of good cops have earned our support.
People see police officers and think they're such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.