Orson Welles Quotes

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.

There's good cops and bad cops, and the good cops have to hold the bad cops accountable. We have to hold the bad cops accountable, too.

President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. He lauds the men and women in blue and often talks about the need to make it easier for the cops to do their jobs.

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.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

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

There's plenty of law at the end of a nightstick

There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions.

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.

I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.

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

The only people who distrust the cops are crooks. They're not out there just harassing innocent people. Maybe sometimes they do. But there's no inherent situation where cops are deliberately out there harassing people.

People are used to watching cop shows in which the cops are very straight down the line and they solve the crimes, but I think people actually have a much more sophisticated and varied view of the police.

While bad cops should face the full consequence of the law, the overwhelming majority of good cops have earned our support.

We need to statutize what is permissible and what is not permissible. If a law enforcement agent uses a clearly unapproved technique like the knee that was on the neck of George Floyd for over eight minutes, no law enforcement agent thinks that that's right and that officer should be held accountable.

There's a lot of good police officers. There's thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don't get the stories.

Law enforcement officers are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility; that is why we hold them to such a high standard. With that said, there are a small number of officers who have not lived up to that standard.

Nobody wants bad cops off the street more than good cops.

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

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

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

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.

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

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