Police Intimidation Quotes

“Hello harassing police officer, hello 911 call for a police supervisor to attend.”
― Steven Magee

“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

“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

“Whatever a police officer has done to you, it is likely they have done far worse to other people.”
― Steven Magee

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

“Winston, you have no idea what the city will do to rig the election. I just came from the polls at P.S. 57 and they've got six cops standing out in front of the place. Now people in this neighborhood, especially the people who'd vote for you, wouldn't walk through six policemen to get free beer, much less vote.”
― Paul Beatty, Tuff