Bret Stephens Quotes

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

Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police.

I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?

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.

I'll be honest with you: I think that it's really difficult, this framing around 'good cops' and 'bad cops.' Policing, as a system, is incredibly corrupt, period.

Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.

My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

We're not anti-police... we're anti-police brutality.

I have no hatred for cops. I have hatred for racists and brutal people, but not necessarily the cops. The cops are just doing what they're told to do.

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

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

It is especially jarring when police officers are the killers because they are an entity of the state itself, so when the state shows a lack of sensitivity, community members feel it is an obvious example of abuse..

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.

There's a bigger percentage of good cops than bad cops. But the bad cops should be penalised like regular people.

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.

We had a cop or two that were questionable, and probably they shouldn't have been on the job, but they were. You have that: a police department reflects the community that it serves, and it's going to have a bad apple or two, but when those bad apples are discovered, they need to be discarded as quickly as possible so the whole bureau doesn't rot.

It was my long-held belief that police brutality would increase under the Trump administration.

I've portrayed cops as heroes for far too long, I think.

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

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.

Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.