Police Perception Quotes

In America, the policeman is a working-class hero. In England, the policeman is a working-class traitor.

Good police officers are ugly.

When we let cops talk about themselves as a separate community, then we are letting cops wall themselves off from the rest of us. We don't generally do that with any other jobs. We don't talk about the barista community or the Wal-Mart greeter community.

I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.

I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

If a cop sees a person running out of a store with a gun he's seeing a crime. He's not seeing a person standing.

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.

I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing.

The only thing police patrol cops - in certain situations - are expert at is spotting anomalies. When you are a black person that is driving in a place that you stick out, that's all they're going to see.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you.

I don't think there's anything quite as dashing as a cop on horseback. To me it's wonderful.

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?

Growing up where I'm from, some people are afraid of cops. They don't really like cops. And what a lot of people don't realize is, they're really not the bad guys. They're really on our side, they're really trying to help us out. And sometimes, we don't understand that.

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.

The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it.