Police Impunity Quotes

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

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

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.

I don't want the books to become PR exercises for the police; I want to have the freedom to write about cops who cross the line: bad cops.

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

Very few police officers are ever held accountable for even the most egregious shootings and acts of violence.

Some cops I don't like - the corrupt, the brutal.

When police are shutting down cameras, it is a sign that they know the truth is not going to be kind to them.

I still have admiration for the vast majority of police officers, but there is no denying that some are guilty of mistreating the people they are supposed to serve.

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..

Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly.

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.