#police

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#duties #equipped #even #police #policemen

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things. ↗

— Ben Okri

#acknowledged #cannot #coded #dislike #frontiers

I can't think of a bigger waste of police time than chasing somebody who has said something offensive on Twitter. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#chasing #i #offensive #police #said

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police. ↗

— John Pomfret

#california #county #covering #i #making

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. ↗

— L. Neil Smith

#corners #cup #dubious #employs #find

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On. ↗

— Sting

#called #did #film #had #hit

If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#driving #find #hell #her #into

Even the police have an unlisted number. ↗

— Morey Amsterdam

#number #police

Marriage, laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. ↗

— Dora Russell

#human #incompetence #laws #mark #marriage

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