Police Work Quotes

“An alibi is only as good as its details.”
― Kenneth Eade, Paladine

“However, if he really wanted to bust me, all he had to do was ask to see my schoolbooks. The front and back covers are the first place graffiti artists start to draw.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“You know those FBI shows on TV? Where they do the profiling?”
“Yeah.”
“Cops hate that stuff. While it's all well and good to sit behind a desk and have assigned characteristics and fancy medical names for criminals,” Jerry said in a prissy voice, “at the end of the day, you just don't know what anybody's gonna do. You gotta prepare for everything. Human beings are unpredictable. After three decades with PD, I still get surprised.”
― Jennifer Hillier, Creep

“This wasn't a bear," Lieutenant Paulding said. The lieutenant was one of King County's designated "This never happened" people. I had to wonder over the years how one got promoted when the cases you worked "never happened".”
― Larry Correia, Grunge

“Knowing the boundaries between school policy and criminal law are essential for an SRO".”
― Mark Walerysiak, School Resource Officer: Functioning as a Cop in Today's High School

“That's one of the frustrations of this job. You meet people, question them, get intrigued by them, eliminate them from inquiries and never see them again.”
― P.D. James, A Certain Justice

“Police work is a question of piecing together tentative solutions. We have to make the gaps speak and the pieces tell us about things that have hidden meanings. We have to try to see through the events, turn them on their heads in order to set them on their feet.”
― Henning Mankell, The Fifth Woman

“Police investigations is often times where Good and evil collide.”
― William R, Ablan

“Imagination (is) to building a police case what mortar is to a bricklayer.”
― Helen Nielsen

“There's a pattern in every crime - something that give us (the police) an edge on the criminal's weakness, and we know he has a weakness or he wouldn't be a criminal.”
― Helen Nielsen

“It won’t bring Lucy and Scarlet back but it will, at least, mean that justice has been done. The words have a cold, biblical ring that surprises him, but when you come down to it that is what police work is all about. Protecting the innocent and punishing the guilty.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Crossing Places