Kelli Giddish Quotes

My role and my obligation was to conduct criminal investigations.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

In the United States, authorities are supposed to investigate crimes and find the people who have committed them.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

Targets don't fight crime.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

When I was growing up and watching 'The Sweeney,' the notion of police officers being an inch away from the villains that they're chasing was commonplace.

I was a prosecutor and an FBI agent for many, many years.

This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.

When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

[Police] officers fought so hard for career advancement, that they had little time for fighting crime.

Fighting crime is not cheap, because it requires boots on the ground.

I gathered, in the investigation I made as Chairman of the Committee of the American Law Institute, statistics from a majority of the States and I have carefully examined those gathered by other committees and commissions, and it is my judgment that of those committing major crimes … not one out of every ten is apprehended and adequately punished … that our system of apprehending and prosecuting those who commit major crimes is only from 10 per cent to 15 per cent efficient; that as to those apprehended and indicted for major offenses, it is only from 25 per cent to 30 per cent efficient … and that as to those actually tried for major offenses, it is not over 50 per cent efficient.

I was a cop in the Las Vegas Police Department in 1957. I was very young when I joined. But then I became a federal narcotics agent after that, in Vegas, and that propelled me into my future to fight the drug traffickers.

I know what it means to prosecute people.

I was a policeman for 18 years.

A shootout is a shootout. You go in and get the bad guys.

I love cops; I'm fascinated by the criminal justice system.

From the smallest misdemeanor up to the biggest crime, everyone is brought before a judge. And that means there's a huge backlog in the American legal system. There are prosecutors and public defenders and judges who are trying to keep their head above water in the tide of this bureaucracy and red tape.

I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.

I come from a police family. Both my parents are police officers.