John Sandford Quotes

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

The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You've got people on the one side saying, 'We need to be holding our police accountable.' And you've got a lot of people who support the police saying they're being 'unfairly vilified.'

Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I have absolutely no confidence in the Ferguson police, the county prosecutor.

An increase in press coverage of police shootings isn’t the same thing as an increase in police shootings.

What the media does to Trump is what they did the cops - say the police are really harmful, then later ask why people are so scared of the police.

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

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.

The worst teacher in America could never do as much damage as the worst police officer in America. But the right wing has never even been slightly curious about evaluating the job performance of police officers.

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.

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

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

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

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

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

Let me be clear: as I have said repeatedly, I do not believe that all police officers are bad, nor do I believe that most are bad. But there must be a transparent, impartial and fair system to judge those that engage in criminal or unethical acts.

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

The United States isn't a dictatorship ruling with a brutal army and an iron fist, so our police departments must understand that they are there to serve and protect us - all of us. And when they do commit crimes, they must be arrested and prosecuted like anyone else, bottom line.