Police Corruption Quotes

“There was a ringing in his ears, like a dead phone line that he couldn’t hang up on.”
― Mark Capell, Run, Run, Run

“In every place I have worked on civil rights and economic justice issues, police have organized to oppose us. They have lied in court and in the news; they have made threats to me, my family, and my friends; they have intimidated vulnerable allies of mine seeking progressive change for their communities, and they have spent huge sums organizing against even modest changes that are backed by evidence. To take one example, a police chief I had publicly criticized once grabbed the back of my neck in a public hallway, looked at his hand, smiled, and commented that he now had my DNA before telling me the make and model of my rental car”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“When police violence reemerges as a sustained news theme every few years, the words "accountability" and "transparency" are sprinkled into story after story and used as a substitute for informed discussion about the terrible track record of specific policies and broader discussions about how and whether it's even possible to make armed police forces less violent and corrupt as they are currently constituted.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“Copaganda frames police violence as the product of "bad apples," which it contrasts with the supposedly benevolent behavior of most police.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“In my years as a civil rights lawyer, I have seen virtually all the same cycle in city after city: Politicians respond to the fallout from an incident of police violence by pledging various "reforms" that are either meaningless or things the police had been asking for anyway. These pledges are followed by increases in police budgets. Overall police violence grows, and the cycle repeats.”
― Alec Karakatsanis, Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

“A toxic police officer stood so close to me that I had to do a COVID-19 test afterward because he breathed on me and I became sickly with COVID-19 symptoms.”
― Steven Magee

“I like Oregon, USA, but I do avoid their troublesome downtown areas.”
― Steven Magee

“There is no quality control in the police.”
― Steven Magee

“Police reports are among the most inaccurate and fictitious things I have ever read!”
― Steven Magee

“Calling the police is like playing a game of Russian Roulette, as you may land on the bullet of the corrupt police officer!”
― Steven Magee

“It is unfortunate that through experience I now expect to be harassed and possibly hit by a police officer when I make an emergency call.”
― Steven Magee

“I have no doubts there is racism in the USA towards British people because of the July 4th Independence Day celebration of USA victory over the British.”
― Steven Magee

“The day I went to the park carrying a British Union Jack bag was the day I was harassed and hit by USA law enforcement!”
― Steven Magee

“I called 911 reporting harassment. The responding police officer never showed up, I had to call 911 again and when the police officer showed up over an hour later, he harassed me too!”
― Steven Magee

“Police professional standards are a very unprofessional group of people.”
― Steven Magee

“I file my police complaints to the internet.”
― Steven Magee

“Posting to social media is the most effective form of police complaint.”
― Steven Magee

“Harass me and you will probably end up on social media.”
― Steven Magee

“I shoot cops with a video camera.”
― Steven Magee

“The police are consistent. A corrupt entity for a corrupt government. It is nice to see people are waking up to their corruption.”
― Steven Magee

“To riot or not to riot, that is the question.”
― Steven Magee

“To riot for better protection of children or to riot for all of the other toxic government issues, that is the question.”
― Steven Magee

“Most NYPD officers generally treated Malcolm X's murder case not as a significant political assassination, but as a neighborhood shooting in the dark ghetto, a casualty from two rival black gangs feuding against each other.”
― Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention

“What kind of police officer sends a person to prison and their suitcase to lost property for destruction?”
― Steven Magee

“Police officers may throw your confiscated laptop computer around on purpose to damage it.”
― Steven Magee

“Expect some of your confiscated personal property to be damaged or lost when the police return it to you.”
― Steven Magee

“The police can be among the worst vandals you will ever meet!”
― Steven Magee

“Denial of drinking water by police officers to dehydrated prisoners is a human rights abuse.”
― Steven Magee

“the heavy-handed Met swinging its dicks around is hardly anything new”
― Hannah Sharland

“Police were on the alert to suppress disorder, except what they created.”
― George S. Schuyler, Black No More