Ron Stallworth Quotes

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

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

Anyone who wears a badge has the government’s go-ahead to harass, intimidate, even murder law-abiding citizens

It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.

I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood.

This is the problem with the United States: there's no leadership. A leader would say, 'Police brutality is an oxymoron. There are no brutal police. The minute you become brutal you're no longer police.' So, what, we're not dealing with police. We're dealing with a federally authorized gang.

We just were saying no more police brutality. And we had enough of police harassment in the Village and other places.

Do I acknowledge that there are some law enforcement officers that abuse their job? Yes.

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.

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

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

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

The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.

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

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

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.

It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

The term "free society" is a meaningless, empty phrase if it does not mean a society that is free from harassment from its own police.

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

When I was a kid the police just whupped you. Today, they whup you, and then they arrest you in order to protect themselves.

The police seemed to lose their head completely as they dashed into the crowds on their horses and slashed out with their clubs.

It is especially jarring when police officers are the killers because they are an entity of the state itself, so when the state shows a lack of sensitivity, community members feel it is an obvious example of abuse..

The black police in Compton are worse than the white police.

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.