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You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.
— Thomas Paine
Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don't matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.
— John Kennedy
Most recently, in order to quell dissent, the progressives are implementing a chilling policy of national surveillance and selective prosecution—using the power of the police to harass and subdue their opposition.
— Dinesh D'Souza
For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices.
— Charles Dickens
Our policemen and women are disrespected. We need law and order, but we need justice, too.
— Donald Trump
When it comes to public safety, I listen to police chiefs and cops, not to a cable-news station.
— Eric Garcetti
Moss was almost certainly dead. That left the police. Or some agent of the Matacumbe Petroleum Group. Who must think that he thought that they thought that he thought they were very dumb. He thought about that.
— Cormac McCarthy
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.
— Jesse Jackson
I will work with local police and appoint the best prosecutors and federal investigators, whose mission will be to ensure every American is safe.
— Donald Trump
Anna clung to him while he explained that the scorpion's tail was up because it was just as scared of her as she was of it. In Detroit, watching baby-faced police handling guns, she remembered the scorpion's rigid tail.
— Toni Morrison
The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to its satisfaction.
— Jack Kerouac
You don't have to be Latino to speak powerfully about how important it is to have a police department that cares for our immigrant communities.
— Eric Garcetti