Cops Quotations

As an actor, I can still play a cop, but the bullets are fake, I don't have to get injured, and I'm not faced with the day-in-day-out of what cops have to deal with, which is tragic and dangerous.

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware.

I'm no longer going to play thugs or debauched cops that I can't possibly make complex characters. I'm bigger than that. I owe too much to too many good people at the Goodman, Arena and Playwrights Horizons.

I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.

We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.

I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.

Sometime you go out and you wonder why these people are standing in the rain, and then you realize that years ago you were a fan, too. I, too, was chased by cops for watching my favourite celebrities.

I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs.

Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

Our TV and movie cops are usually in heels and pencil skirts.

Many of us are under the delusion that the police exist solely to deal with crime and keep us safe. That is to ignore the major focus of many of today's top cops on managing reputation - both of their force and, by default, their careers.

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

I was hurt deeply that our people were shown in this way. We are always shown in negative ways on television, like with these videos, shows like Cops and of course the news, always showing us getting arrested and such.

One of the cops came over and asked if we'd seen the guy and to get inside because they've got an armed bank robber across the street.

One thing I would say is real cops have real gallows senses of humor and make incredibly funny and inappropriate jokes in the presence of dead people all the time.

On 'Southland,' when a helicopter joins our scene, we don't skip a beat. The actors talk louder because that's what cops do in real life.

I have directed the zonal inspector general of police to carry out the inquiry and fix responsibility for misbehavior of cops with ordinary citizens.

I don't ever remember seeing that many cops in a courtroom. When I came in and saw all the security, I thought they might have had a bomb scare or something like that.

If we have our cops deaf, dumb and blind as to what the federal government knows in databases in Washington, how are we going to protect our society?

Sixty percent of us got $304. Has your property taxes gone up more than $304 because the president cut cops on the beat, refused to fund special education, refused to fund ""no child left behind?

Mothers don't have to face prosecution, they will remain anonymous and cops will not look for them.

Many in our community have to live in fear of both the cops and the robbers. What concrete steps would you take to end police brutality and racial profiling?

So I told Vince he didn't have to worry, we have plenty of cops in (the group).

Several of agitators and cops were injured when the police intervened to quell the ransacking mob. We have called out the army who is now assisting the police in enforcing the curfew in the town.

I would say morale is already crippled, ... And that means you will have less proactive police work. You'll have cops out there who'll say, 'just keep your eyes down, answer your calls, get your pension and retire,' and that's the worst thing that could happen.

I couldn't say enough good things about him, ... I thought the world of him. He was one of the best cops you'd find.

If we were making a cop comedy about bad cops or cops who were comically bad at the jobs, then the jokes would be more hijinks and more like slapstick.

If the cops hadn't told me I had to get out, I never would have left. I had everything I needed in my house, but what was I going to do? They had guns.

My mom sent me money for a car, but the cops impounded it because I had no insurance.

Like other progressive cities, we can pass a resolution denouncing our nation's failed Drug War, and call for policy that de-penalizes drug users with a focus on treatment, and pass an ordinance that will de-criminalize the responsible personal use of marijuana by adults, direct our police to re-prioritize our enforcement, and level the playing field and ease the tension between cops and the people they serve.

I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto.

(Native people) are constructed as lesser members of Canadian society. Because some of these women are on the wrong side of the law, people rationalize violence and believe that these women get what they deserve, so the cops are inactive.

John Wells and Christopher Chulack were pretty honest from the get-go in our first meeting about 'Southland.' They were looking to create characters that were believable in the environment of the LAPD - multi-dimensional, layered characters with real flaws; good-hearted cops mixed with the perfect amount of heroism and irony.

It is incredibly misleading, it is devious, it is deceptive, ... This initiative does not put more cops on the street. It puts more marijuana on the street.

Like, oh my God, what are, what are we gonna do, how are we gonna explain this? Like, what, what, you know, what are the cops going to say?

I thought she was just gonna bring me home to die. That was my thinking. I don't wanna die here. I wanna go home. She shows up with an ambulance and the cops and i freaked out on her because that's not what I wanted. The last thing you want is cops at a drug house.

Those buildings, it's all marked up with paint. I've seen it but when they call the cops, the cops say you've got to catch them.

We didn't see anybody in them, so we just phoned the cops with the license plate numbers.

We have a million people -- a million Americans out there that have worked every day, that have paid into the unemployment compensation package -- and the bad cops are saying, 'forget about it,'

Mike Bloomberg says he hasn't cut the NYPD budget, but what he doesn't want to talk about is that there are thousands fewer cops on our city streets,

We have some of the busiest roads in the county and one of the biggest daily population of non-residents because the county courts is in our midst but we don't see enough Nassau cops policing the village.

The reality is that sometimes good cops do bad things.

We are telling cops to consider him armed and dangerous,

There are a lot of people who don't lead cops to dead bodies. I led the cops to everything.

We've got an extraordinary number of good cops at the NBA.

When I was in high school and would ride along with my dad, I thought of how cool it would be if we were cops together. I always thought if the opportunity presented itself, I was going to try to get on with Fairview Heights.

Where typically the cops are generally the good guys, 'The Red Road' blurs the lines intelligently and shows corruption from all sides of the law. It provides unpredictable drama where the audience is kept guessing about how these characters will each choose to act.

Corrections officers deal with the same killers, rapists and thugs the street cops do. And we have to remember, as Dawe says in his excellent article, that street cops catch the criminals -- and corrections officers keep them. I think it's time we give these officers the recognition and credit due.

Cops were shooting at Spider-Man. It was a brave, new, dangerous world.

The tourists used to go down to Sancerre (in the Loire region) for the weekend, taste wines and buy for their cellar, ... Now they can't do that anymore. The cops are right outside the winery ... (Vintners) feel betrayed, these people who have devoted their lives to something they think is beautiful. Now they're told it's criminal.

The got a little rowdy at the offices. The cops surrounded the offices... they totally overreacted.

These cops are from a special unit. They are all trained at this -- if anything, they deserve medals.

These cops - these heroes in training - can barely make ends meet when they are in Police Academy. It is disgraceful.

We were talking, we had a table read or something, he said, "Jerry, how are you with horses?" I said, "I grew up with them all my life." He said, "Oh, that's great!" I said, "Yeah, they all had cops on them".

There are lots of cops and robbers shows, but what attracted me to this part was that they've cut out all the jargon. There's no, 'Roger, Roger' or 'Over'. We simply answer the phone, 'Yeah, what do you want?'

I've played a lot of cops and a lot of bad guys, so I would like to play a regular person and just live a regular life with something interesting about it. I love the idea of television and kind of infiltrating that.

Two girls came outside with cell phones threatening to call the cops and the guys took off.

Operation Linebacker is the modern-day version of a COPS program aimed at border security. I think Chairman Sensenbrenner gets the picture.

Thanks to the COPS Secure our Schools Program, parents can send their children to school each day knowing they are safe from harm. I commend the law enforcement community in Mountain Home for securing these additional funds and look forward to working with them in the future to return more federal resources to Baxter County.

I wanted 'Southland' to feel immediate, like a ride-along, and to make it the closest thing possible to a cop reality show. We've got real cops out there every day. A lot of times we'll say, 'You guys just do what you normally do and we'll film it.'

As long as the cops don't live in the area, they aren't going to care,

You see that on TV, on Cops . But it was right here at our school so it was amazing.

As a result, the Arab-Muslim community in Australia cops it both from the Government in terms of ASIO raids and so on as well as demonisation and stereotyping by the media.

There's good cops, but there's more bad cops than good cops around here.

Why change something that's working? ... We desperately need our officers. I find it shocking that Chief Compass would consider doing away with COPS when just a little while ago he was talking about how successful it's been in reducing crime in the developments.

This shows that the cops were right on top of this. To have five people in custody already, that's pretty good. And now the big thing will be to see which of the five is going to flip on everybody else.

Thirteen citizens volunteered to be arrested for Cops for Cancer,

This is an area that will remain one of the hottest topics for the next several decades. You can't possibly have too many cops on the beat here.

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be outraged that Cisco may have helped the cops keep me under surveillance and catch me trying to organize protest activities.

If my business could be made legal, I and women like me could make a big contribution to what Mayor Lindsay calls ""Fun City,"" and the city and state could derive the money in taxes and licensing fees that I pay off to crooked cops and political figures.

If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

I hope that maybe it just gets them to think there are cops out there and they are going to be cracking down more on drunk driving.

I'm really annoyed at the Police Department, giving out his time of employment. There were other cops named Charles Burns.

The best description I ever heard about street cops is that they are high school jocks who couldn't leave the locker room.

Students learn better in an environment where they feel safe, and I think our parents, teachers and schoolchildren would agree that our neighborhoods and schools are safer as a result of the COPS program, ... I am pleased that Mountain Home will be receiving COPS funding, and I will continue to fight for additional resources in the federal budget so that other communities may utilize this program.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show, ... Cops would come by often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

The cops are doing the best they can. They treat me so kindly and with such decency.

The cops aren't going to touch this case, ... They only have enough resources to go after the big cases.

The cops are out at every bar just waiting for you to get in your car and drink and drive.

The cops over-policed it. They walked through the town like a Gestapo, just inviting trouble.

The cops were waiting and promptly arrested them. They were so shocked because they thought they were going home with all that money.

The cops won't let us in because there's blood all over the place - it's the crook's blood,

The issue is personal responsibility. There's no instant answer. We don't have a warehouse here in Pierce County with 100 cops and 100 firefighters sitting around playing cards, waiting for a disaster. If it's a wide enough spread disaster, the big one, we're gonna have problems getting to people right away.

The kids they called the cops on, two weeks before they were calling their brother, and they made an oath that no matter what, these are your brothers for life.

It's very shocking. We're in Gateway. It's a nice area. You don't expect cops at your front door in the morning. You don't expect tragedy like this.

I ran up to her to see if everyone was okay. I looked in the car and said 'is there anyone in the car with you' and she said 'no.' I looked in the suspect's car and he jumped out and started running and the cops took off and started chasing after him.

I live here, I want to be safe and I want the cops to be happy. They've been kicked around and I think it's unfortunate.

Investors know that what was going on on the Street with analysts was wrong, was corrupt and had to be changed, ... The smart business leaders are changing their ways. Those who are putting their heads in the sand are saying, 'Let's get rid of the cops who watch to make sure things get done honestly.'

I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself.

By the time he (the suspect) got to the diner, this place was just swarming with cops and they were out of their vehicles. Some had handguns, some had shotguns aiming at him.

Byrne grants and COPS are the two most important sources of federal funds to boost police and sheriff forces throughout our country, ... one of the gravest threats facing the nation today.

I don't think most cops have read the studies that call the relevance of the machine into question.

They called and asked 'Why don't we have a Cops and Kids Day and combine it with an appreciation program for the evacuees,'

It was like playing cops and robbers all day long. This is a testosterone dream to drive fast cars, shoot guns and blow stuff up. It was definitely amazing.

I remember and know the Bill of Rights. But my instincts tell me to be helpful, and (that attitude) is surprising to a lot of cops who deal with Internet crimes.

After 'Entourage,' it completely opened up my casting within the industry. People saw me for a lot of roles that I hadn't been seen for before. Older roles. I went out this pilot season for a lot of lawyers and doctors. And cops - which I haven't quite mastered yet; I find that quite difficult.

The imperceptible process of age has a point which, once passed, cannot be retraced. I knew I had passed that point and was getting old the day I noticed that all the cops looked so young.

The game definitely has violence in it , people are using weapons killing cops , there's blood in it a lot of bad language .