Jose Padilha Quotes

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

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.

The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn't as much outrage about that as there is about some broken windows and lost property.

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

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

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

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

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.

I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.

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

In my neighborhood... they view the police as someone who comes to take their loved ones away.

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty. Some of the cops were even friends of ours. But a cop can go both ways.

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

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

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

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

An honest cop still can't find a place to go and complain without fear of recrimination. The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.