#police

That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#police #protection #slaves #their #want

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on. ↗

— Ronnie Barker

#go #local #local police #nothing #police

The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous. ↗

— Jack Herer

#dead #hands #only #police #prisons

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country. ↗

— Ron Paul

#building #country #elections #got #into

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. 'If you want to be a SpecOp,' the saying goes, 'act kinda weird... ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#art #crime #detectives #literary #military

Cops are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you will get. 1) You may get the young rookie that thinks the more tickets/arrests they make will change the world 2) The seasoned level headed veteran that knows everyone makes mistakes 3) Somewhere in between the two A good policeman needs to be a jack of all trades. Being a patrolman is mostly on the job site and life experiences, you need lots of common since and a little book smarts. ↗

— C. Snyder

#arrested #cops #jail #law #law-enforcement

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me! ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#police #humor

Natalie's estate is handled by Global Icons, and they police the world so her picture isn't on a T-shirt or coffee cup unless we approve of it. ↗

— Robert Wagner

#coffee #cup #estate #global #handled

You must have been working very hard here, with so few distractions.” Mary’s eyes darkened and she looked away. “Not quite as much as I hoped for. At times the loneliness and the unanswered questions can get overwhelming, like very loud voices echoing inside my head, just asking ‘why’ ‘who’ and making me think about my wasted life. ↗

— Olga Núñez Miret

#fbi #police-procedural #psychiatry #rape #serial-killer

But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#police #suspicious #nature