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" Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep. "

" A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence. "

" A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings. "

Robert Bourassa

" Afghanistan can't police its borders, and its neighbors give sanctuary and assistance to insurgents. "

" African-Americans have always viewed the protection of black lives as a civil rights issue, whether the threat comes from police officers or street criminals. Far from ignoring the issue of crime by blacks against other blacks, African-American officials and their constituents have been consumed by it. "

James Forman, Jr.

" After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military. "

William S. Burroughs

" After spending time with police officers on ride-alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grass roots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration. "

Malcolm Jenkins

" A functioning police state needs no police. "

William S. Burroughs

" A journalist can make or break a case, in a way, because they can figure out things the police can't, or they can destroy people's lives. "

" All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman. "

" All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers. "

" All these police treating our people wrong, man. Black lives matter, but we got fans of all different colors, so all lives matter. "

" Almost no one refuses the police when confronted on the street or in a train or plane or train station. When you're confronted by the police, very few - either the foolish or the very brave - will refuse consent when confronted by the police. "

Michelle Alexander

" Along came a police lieutenant named Columbo, and my life would never be the same. "

" Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance. "

" A lot of young policemen have told me that they saw 'Singam' and joined the police force because of that. Some tell me they saw the training process and want to be a cop like that. "

" America has a rap sheet. You can't police the world and tell the world how to act when you're just as bad yourself. "

" America needs to be defended. We need missile defense to better police the skies over the United States. "

" A militarized police force facing down innocent protesters with sniper rifles and machine guns is totally unacceptable in America. "

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

" An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this. "

" And across Afghanistan, every single day, Afghan soldiers, Afghan police and ISAF troops are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in some very difficult situations. And our engagement with them, our shoulder-to-shoulder relationship with them, our conduct of operations with them every single day defines the real relationship. "

" And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere! "

Dorothea Benton Frank

" And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do. "

" An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court. "

William Feather

" Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police. "

" A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank. "

Martin Lewis Perl

" A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal. "

" A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run. "

" As a black man who doesn't know another black man who hasn't had strange run-ins with police officers, it's impossible for us not to think about whether that could have been us - based on our country, based on our culture, based on our past experiences. "

" As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own. "

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