Police officers Quotes

“If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers”

“Would you approach a crazy person with a loaded gun? Well, that is exactly what you are doing with some police officers when you approach them.”

“It is one thing to train officers on fighting crime. It is a whole other thing to train them to build friendships and relationships, which are integral to fighting crime. This takes time, effort, and patience on the part of police officers.”

“Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.”

“We all have inherent biases. All of us. The problem occurs when police officers or community members allow those biases to affect the choices they make as they do their job or have interactions with others.”

“Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed.”

“I'm amazed at how [police officers] don't want to come to court. They want to make the case and they want it to get prosecuted, but they don't want to come testify. Sorry, but the ultimate way of writing your report is telling it to a jury. When I was a defense lawyer, I used to think all police officers were liars, but now I find that there are only a few. Most of them are pretty straightforward and do a good job. But there are some, and if I know that they are liars or I know they tend to exaggerate, I try to take that into consideration when I'm dealing with their cases.”

“Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.”

“Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.”