{"quotes":[{"text":"In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["aggressive","aggressive-behavior","aggressiveness","angry","angry-people","citizen","citizen-power","citizens","citizens-of-humanity","common","common-good","common-man","era","fellow","fellow-beings","fellow-humans","film","honorable","honorable-person","interact","interactions","officer","officers","people","people","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","policing","public","record","recording","service","service-to-mankind","service-to-others","video"],"id":5452,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"He could have killed me for the blunder— which really wasn’t my fault— but I was lucky , and he gave me another chance. The two officers who questioned him were also incredibly lucky for not having had any idea who it was they’d been questioning.","author":"Floyd C. Forsberg","tags":["blunder","breaking-the-law","crime","criminal","criminal-behavior","criminal-minds","criminal-mindset","fault","killed","lucky","officers","police","police-officers","questioning","true-crime"],"id":10080,"author_id":"Floyd+C.+Forsberg"},{"text":"Well, I once recall an old master sergeant once telling me that NCOs look after the men so that officers can figure out how to get them killed. That's the difference between maintenance and command.","author":"Garth Ennis","tags":["command","killed","maintenance","military","ncos","officers","war"],"id":44298,"author_id":"Garth+Ennis"},{"text":"Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["among","amongst","corrupt","corrupted","corruptibility","corruption","corruption","encounter","encountered","life-experience","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","most","officer","officers","people","people","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","sheriff"],"id":70654,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"You can now interact with Sheriff Derrick Decker on Facebook. Just look up Derrick Decker!","author":"Laney Smith","tags":["book-boyfriend","deputy","derrick-decker","laney-smith","law-enforcement","law-of-attraction","lock-creek","love-story","officer","officer-says-i-do","officers","police","police-officer","police-wives","policeman","policemen","romance","sheriff"],"id":88622,"author_id":"Laney+Smith"},{"text":"I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities.Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff. Use can under certain circumstances be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.","author":"Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord","tags":["cleverness","industriousness","laziness","military","officers","stupidity"],"id":101107,"author_id":"Kurt+von+Hammerstein-Equord"},{"text":"Every book of tactics in the regiment was in use from morning until night, and the officers and non-commissioned officers were always studying the problems presented at the schools.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt","tags":["book","military","officers","problems","regiment","studying","tactics"],"id":111775,"author_id":"Theodore+Roosevelt"},{"text":"Surrender is no guarantee that an armed police officer will not shoot you.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["armed","armed-and-dangerous","armed-forces","armed-violence","fire","firearms","guarantee","gun","gun-violence","guns","no","not","officer","officers","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","sheriff","shoot","shoot-first-ask-later","shooter","shooting","shooting-aftermath","surrender","surrendered","surrendering","you"],"id":190045,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Police officers are poorly paid for a very stressful job that has them in very high powered radio frequency (RF) fields and in a daily environment that may result in them being assaulted, maimed or killed.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["assaulted","daily","environment","fields","frequency","high","job","killed","maimed","officers","paid","police","poorly","powered","radio","radio-wave-sickness","radio-waves","radiochemistry","result","rf","stressful","very"],"id":226915,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["believe","blatantly","common","devil","god","officers","people","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","shaft","sheriff","wrong"],"id":262508,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}