Police Corruption Quotes

I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

… the Mississippi Highway Patrol—some of those are Klansmen, a number of the chiefs of police and the sheriffs are, and therefore you can’t count on the local people to really extend any protection .

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.

You have to accept that Batman is a fact of life in Gotham City, and on top of that, you have to accept that somehow this city manages to function with a police force that's 90% corrupt.

Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

Something very worrying has been going on at Scotland Yard. We now know that in dealing with the phone-hacking affair at the 'News of the World,' they cut short their original inquiry; suppressed evidence; misled the public and the press; concealed information and broke the law. Why?

I've been watching The Wire recently.

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

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

As soon as I understood what was going on in San Francisco, which was in 1965 and '66, I immediately left Chicago where I was working in a nightclub that was being shaken down by the mafia and the police for payments. I mean, it was a real thug world.

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

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

It is monstrous that courts should aid or abet the law-breaking police officer.

A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A. Confidential, for example.

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.

What the police in their ignorance have not figured out is that they have lost all credibility since World War II. They are sort of parasites on the fringe of society and do no particular good for anyone except possibly themselves.

Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

The period of Prohibition … brought on the greatest breakdown of law and order the United States has known until today. I think there is a lesson here. Do not regulate the private morals of people. Do not tell them what they can take or not take. Because if you do, they will become angry and antisocial and they will get what they want from criminals who are able to work in perfect freedom because they have paid off the police.

'Line of Duty' had originally been conceived as a returnable drama, with the premise being that the fictional anticorruption unit AC-12 would move on to a new case in each series, centred on a high-profile antagonist accused of corruption.

One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation.

Police Against the New World Order

I think that perhaps if I looked through the sweatshops myself, we might be in a condition to put things on a new basis, just as … in the police department after you and I began our midnight tours.