{"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":"Constable N stepped away from the car, into the darkness where Darren could not see where his gun was pointing, and fired two rounds into the air. The gunshots cracked the roof of the night sky and echoed back at us. My first thought was that they could be heard all over Toekomsrus; I wondered how many imaginations had in that instant conjured a different story to explain the gunshots; a record of all those stories, I found myself thinking, would probably document every fear this place has of itself and its young men.","author":"Jonny Steinberg","tags":["crime","police","townships"],"id":8010,"author_id":"Jonny+Steinberg"},{"text":"When you confidently defend fiction, think about reality also.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["arguments","baseless-confidence","fiction","lies","police","political-philosophy","politicians","politics"],"id":8266,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Terrorism is the use of violence or intimidation in the pursuit of a political aim. The highest political aim is the creation and enforcement of law. Cops use violence and intimidation to enforce law. Therefore, all cops are, by definition, terrorists.","author":"Dane Whalen","tags":["anarchism","anarchy","cops","etymology","government","police","political","politics","terrorism"],"id":8597,"author_id":"Dane+Whalen"},{"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":"Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder.","author":"Rohinton Mistry","tags":["corrupt","injustice","police","unjust"],"id":11947,"author_id":"Rohinton+Mistry"},{"text":"There were a lot of things he could say. 'Son of a bitch!' would have been a good one. Or he could say, 'Welcome to civilization!' He could have said, 'Laugh this one off!' He might have said, 'Fetch!' But he didn’t, because if he had said any of those things then he’d have known that what he had just done was murder.","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["morality","murder","police"],"id":12085,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.","author":"Gijs de Vries","tags":["fight","police","control "],"id":13447,"author_id":"Gijs+de+Vries"},{"text":"As Abdul and his family had already learned, the police station was not a place where victimhood was redressed and public safety held dear. It was a hectic bazaar, like many other public institutions in Mumbai, and investigating Kalu’s death was not a profit-generating enterprise.","author":"Katherine Boo","tags":["corruption","police"],"id":15900,"author_id":"Katherine+Boo"},{"text":"Is it possible for white America to really understand blacks’ distrust of the legal system, their fears of racial profiling and the police, without understanding how cheap a black life was for so long a time in our nation’s history?","author":"Philip Dray","tags":["african-american","history","lynching","police","race","racial-profiling"],"id":17520,"author_id":"Philip+Dray"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":258,"pages":26,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}