Tony Bouza Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Calling for police reform is not calling for police retribution.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

There's an enormous amount of corruption, and as one American adviser put it to me, "The police in Afghanistan are thugs. We equip them, we train them, and now they are equipped and trained thugs."

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.

I know that all cops are not sterling characters. But you have to have someone to root for. I balance it with rotten cops who will take a bribe, who will beat somebody up.

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.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

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

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers?