David Milch Quotes

The policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder.

Gentlemen, let's get the thing straight once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create disorder. The policeman is there to preserve disorder.

POLICE, n. An armed force for protection and participation.

I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

The police are the public and the public are the police.

The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police.

Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.

What police do is not really about force. Police preserve peace and order principally by educating, leading, persuading people to cooperate in a peaceful community. Any veteran officer will tell you that the essential police skill is talking to people. That is especially true for dealing with young people, who ... no one else really talks to at all.

Nanny states are interested in social order. Daddy states are interested in public order.

One of the damnable unhappy conditions of life is sometimes Government has to make people be civil.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

Among practical men the idea prevails that government can do nothing but 'keep the peace”.

There is a necessity for police offers to control themselves as well as the people in the streets... Our police are there to help people, not to hurt people.

Having the support of our communities is absolutely essential to productive and sustainable crime prevention efforts. While there are law enforcement agencies that have meaningful and transparent relationships with all segments of their communities, it is fair to say that there are other agencies that need to further enhance relationships and build trust within their communities, particularly among disenfranchised segments.

Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.

It is the police of America who are on the front lines, who are on the streets, who are in the daily contact with American citizens, who translate the dreams of American citizens when they succeed and frustrate the dreams when they fail.

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

Every day, in every city and town across the country, police officers are performing vital services that help make their communities safer.

There is a legitimate role for the police to keep the peace, but there should be a difference between a police response and a military response.

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.