Fear of Law Enforcement Quotes

I remember my dad always complaining about getting pulled over. I remember the differences in school systems. I remember seeing police officers, not knowing their names, and knowing that they were there not to protect us, not to serve us, but to watch us.

As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run.

I have been pulled over, and I have actually worried, 'Is something going to happen to me even though I am a law abiding citizen?' That is a real fear and is something that we have to come to grips with.

As a black man, you learn at an early age the police are not your friends.

It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

When you have a cop approaching your car with his hand on his gun, I know it may be protocol, but us being the people we are, you automatically feel as if you're a criminal. So where's the respect then? You probably won't respond the correct way. So how do we find a common ground then?

I have anxiety every day about being pulled over.

I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.