‘Blackish’ is set in current times. So, doing a police brutality episode in current times when kids are watching our show, it gives them an access point to have these kinds of conversations as family. – Tracee Ellis Ross
Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most. – Teju Cole
Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n’ roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties. – Thomas Bangalter
To call the police is a really big deal because you don’t snitch – that’s the culture you grow up in. – Sonja Sohn
What we’re also doing is helping police forces in terms of issues like procurement and IT, so that savings can be made in those areas which I think is the sort of thing that everybody is going to want us to be doing. – Theresa May
I was still a recruit in the Boston Police Academy when I attended my first police funeral. It was September 28, 1970. I remember it still. – William Bratton
Whether you watch ‘Law and Order’ all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like. – Samira Wiley
If the Police could do a reunion… One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It’s not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It’s just rock and roll. – Steven Adler
Slavery, our country’s original sin, sat on a foundation codified by laws enforced by police, by slave-catchers. – William Bratton
Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt. – Samantha Power
I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On. – Sting
My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one’s convictions can be subjected to empirical test. – Steven Pinker
I can’t think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter. – Tony Parsons
Well, I don’t throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981. – Tanya Tucker
Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police. – Vikram Patel
With Stewart International Airport located here, the New Windsor Police Department has an added responsibility to take anti-terrorism precautions while protecting our area. – Sue Kelly
‘CSI’ has not only remained a top-rated show through seven seasons; it has had real-world consequences. Police and prosecutors complain of a ‘CSI’ effect’ that leads juries to demand more physical evidence than they used to expect. College officials use the same term to describe spiking enrollment in forensic-science programs. – Virginia Postrel
The whole reason behind my album ‘Free TC’ is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration. – Ty Dolla Sign
With police wielding unprecedented powers to invade privacy, tap phones and conduct searches seemingly at random, our civil liberties are in a very precarious condition. – Walter Cronkite
Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they’ve elected to determine their local policing. – Theresa May
Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. – Tommy Cooper
We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so. – William Lacy Clay, Jr.
People will be able to raise their concerns: what are local officers doing about the drug dealing in the local park? What’s happening about the pub where all the trouble is? And the police will have to respond. – Theresa May
In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse against a minor. No training was given to priests, teachers, police officers or others who worked regularly with children about how to respond appropriately should such allegations be made. – Sean Brady
In 1995, Russia virtually gave Chechnya de facto statehood and independence even though, de jure, it didn’t recognize Chechnya as an independent state. And I would like to emphasize strongly that Russia withdrew all of its troops, we moved the prosecutors, we moved all the police, dismantled all the courts, completely, 100 percent. – Vladimir Putin
Stop-and-search has the potential to cause immense resentment and honesty to the police, with all the implications that has for generating distrust and ending co-operation from the public, if it is not used fairly. – Theresa May
Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or larger size, New York and Chicago being the most obvious examples. – Scott Turow
I tell people I’m on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they’ll think I’m off my diet. It’s like secret little police that I’ve made for myself. – Stephen Furst