Rahm Emanuel Quotes

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

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

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

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

I remember my first run-in with cops. It took me really getting to hang, well after that, with cops who were cool, and realizing, 'Okay, there are some bad ones.' I ran into some bad ones in Columbus, Ohio, but they're not all bad.

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

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

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

Justice must be done in investigating the tragic death of Mr. Freddie Gray. His family deserves our deepest sympathy and respect for their loss, and our admiration for their courage in calling us, as a city, to act as our better selves.

When the culture of police departments is sometimes infused with bias or preconceived ideas against certain groups, there needs to be reform and retraining throughout. And unfortunately, we cannot rely on local departments to police themselves; we need intervention from the top.

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

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?

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

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

American police departments, by and large, are less corrupt than any other police departments in the world.

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

Laquan McDonald is a wake-up call to all of us. It's a reminder there's a lot broken.

I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers?

Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

Exposing police lying is difficult largely because it is rare for the police to admit their own lies or to acknowledge the lies of other officers. This reluctance derives partly from the code of silence that governs police practice and from the ways in which the system of mass incarceration is structured to reward dishonesty.

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

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.