Quotes about police

Apparently he was a bit of a connoisseur, having been introduced to Verdi soon after having risen to the rank of commander. A sudden attack of culture snobbery is a common affliction among policemen of a certain rank and age; it’s like a normal midlife crisis, only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.

It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of the police.

“I’m telling you that I knew Ashu. She was like a daughter to me. There is no way she would have killed herself – and in such a way.”

“The police seem quite sure,” he replied.

“The police in India are like a river, Inspector Singh, always taking the path of least resistance.”

Singh decided to save the metaphor for an occasion when he could use it on Superintendent Chen.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

But policing, crime prevention and detection, is a Red Queen’s race: You have to run as fast as you possibly can just to stand still. You can collar criminals until the cows come home, and there’ll still be a never-ending supply of greedy fuckwits and chancers. It’s like there’s a law of nature: Not only is the job never done, the job can never be done.

Policing, as with all procedural jobs, expands to fill all the time and consume all the resources available for it.

Most police work boils down to minimizing the impact on society of stupidity; of the remainder, the overwhelming majority is about malice and deliberate evil, but it’s still almost all stupid.

"How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.'"

It’s even more important to prosecute police who’ve broken the law than it is to prosecute anybody else, because otherwise nobody trusts the police.

"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place, some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place."

Martin was convinced the military police attracted self-righteous sons of bitches the way spilled sugar drew ants.

I wonder what a badge is, other than a license to steal.