Lisa Lutz Quotes

I enjoyed being a police officer; I enjoyed the investigations.

If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve.

I was a police officer in Augusta, Ga.

I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.

Before I pursued acting full-time, I had every intention of going into some form of law enforcement work.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

There are actually times when there are crimes out there in the world and I find myself trying to figure it out and I ask myself, what am I doing?

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

I decided to go to school for advertising and graphic design. That was what I was gonna do but acting is that thing, it's like a splinter in your mind and you can't get rid of it. So I decided to move to L.A. a few years ago and it just snowballed into this thing called 'The Hunger Games.'

We must be vigilant in our actions towards criminals, and innovative in our approach towards solving crime.

My 26 years experience as a police officer and official, including command of two police districts, tells me that unfortunately the only short-term response that can counter the on-street violence and offer neighborhoods relief from crime and drugs is aggressive law enforcement.... Cities and states have made police the institution of first response rather than of last resort in addressing this crisis.

I think sometimes the recording of each act which has gone into the perpetration of some crime simply gives new suggestions to less fertile minds. I realize that crimes are "news," but I wonder if they could not be very briefly recorded, leaving out as much detail as possible and by doing so it might be easier for the arm of the law to proceed in unsolved crimes. The public is, of course, to blame, for apparently there is a curious fascination for many people in the reading of all these gruesome details. Is there no way that the public for its own protection can be induced to forego some of this particular type of reading matter?

My father was a police officer in Los Angeles.

I was a policeman for 18 years.

Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.

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.

If you have a problem, the NYPD is the greatest police force to the world.

No one wants dangerous criminals in our communities.

Mike Marshman is a quality choice to fill the role of Portland Police Chief.

I want to bear down on violent crime, in all its aspects from terrorism to sexual offences but definitely knife and gun crime, particularly as it affects young people.

I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.