Police Abuse of Power Quotes

Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.

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.

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

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.

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

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.

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

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.

If you're riding down somewhere, and a cop stops you and starts to put you under arrest, even though you haven't committed any crime, go to jail. Mississippi is not the place to start conducting constitutional law classes for the policemen, many of whom don't have a fifth-grade education.

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.

The worst teacher in America could never do as much damage as the worst police officer in America. But the right wing has never even been slightly curious about evaluating the job performance of police officers.

I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

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

We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years.

I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.

Law enforcement officers are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility; that is why we hold them to such a high standard. With that said, there are a small number of officers who have not lived up to that standard.

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.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

There are some policemen who overuse force, especially when there's an African-American involved, regardless of age.

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.

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

Most citizens viewing the tape of Rodney G. King being beaten by police officers were stunned and uncomprehending. Most citizens, that is, but the urban poor.

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.

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

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.