Evan Hunter Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

There's nothing wrong with this country that we couldn't cure by turning it over to the police for a couple of weeks.

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

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

In other words, in order to capture criminals, the law enforcement agencies must act criminally—a little lawbreaking does wonders for law and order.

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

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.

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.

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.

It's so much more difficult to get police officers to testify against other police officers.

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

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

Taking the money from drug operations and all that sort of stuff is something that goes past what most of us in society would expect a policeman should do. That temptation hits the police force at the same time as the temptation to take those drugs that are readily available hits the people on the streets.

There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.