Chad Wolf Quotes

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

I still have admiration for the vast majority of police officers, but there is no denying that some are guilty of mistreating the people they are supposed to serve.

This is the problem with the United States: there's no leadership. A leader would say, 'Police brutality is an oxymoron. There are no brutal police. The minute you become brutal you're no longer police.' So, what, we're not dealing with police. We're dealing with a federally authorized gang.

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.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

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

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

Anyone who wears a badge has the government’s go-ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law-abiding citizens

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..

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.

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

Police cannot be allowed to continue aggressive, violent, and often unconstitutional policing with impunity.

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

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

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

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

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.

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

There is not one single police officer in America that I am not afraid of and not one that I would trust to tell the truth or obey the laws they are sworn to uphold. I do not believe they protect me in any way.

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

The black community has always complained about abuse from cops. It's nothing new. But now, more people are seeing visual examples of what they've been complaining about. That's one thing that has changed over time.

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

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

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.