Hakeem Jeffries Quotes

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

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

In Rio de Janeiro, every cop has to make a choice. He either turns dirty, keeps his mouth shut, or goes to war.

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

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

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

Police have been given the very confusing and unpleasant task of being society's char cleaners ... so they lie and stick together.

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

When police are shutting down cameras, it is a sign that they know the truth is not going to be kind to them.

The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.

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

There is no such thing as a bad cop, only disturbing and dominant cop thinking that will invariably lead to excessive force and tragic outcomes.

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

Being a cop is often seeing the worst of the human condition and behavior. With all of that said, there is no reason that Mike Brown and also Eric Garner are dead today - except bad policing, excessive force, and the hunt-and-capture-prey mentality many thrill-seeking cops have adapted.

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.

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

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

There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

A lot of police shootings are justified, but many others are not.

In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're going to end up the same as him. He's the most sympathetic character in the movie. So, the naïve cop ends up murdering this Black kid and tries to cover up the evidence. It sort of justifies police brutality and the planting of evidence which is what happened in the O.J. Simpson case.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

For the most part, cops are decent and honorable, but that's how I know that there are bad cops, cops that you think you know so well.

In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of the car and policing corners - they're on a job slowdown, basically. Right now if the police stopped being brutal, if we got police shooting under control, and the use of excessive force, if we have a meaningful societal response to all that stuff, and the racism that underlies it, the question still remains: what are they policing, and why?

The good news is that the American people, not just the African-American community are saying enough is enough. You can't hold people in custody and suddenly find out that they are dead. You can't shoot people in the back.