Brendan Behan Quotes

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.

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

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

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.

Nearly every day on the television set the hero cop breaks into the bad guy’s house and beats a confession out of him and we cheer on the cop. Propaganda smears our clear vision. It causes us to accept the diminishment of our constitutional protections as something to be lauded — after all, the cop was protecting us.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

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.

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.

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

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.

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

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.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

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.

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.

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

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

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