Russell Simmons Quotes

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

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

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

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.

Calling for police reform is not calling for police retribution.

Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.

We are demanding police transparency and accountability so we can build trust and work together to make our communities safer.

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 truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.

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.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

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

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

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

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You've got people on the one side saying, 'We need to be holding our police accountable.' And you've got a lot of people who support the police saying they're being 'unfairly vilified.'

In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.

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.

I think the only thing that's really going to make a change in terms of how we feel as citizens in terms of safety and our relationship with the police is if we start seeing more federal indictments, arrests, and convictions of police officers.

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.