Police quotes

“- Danny Witwer: I worked homicide before federal. This is what we call an orgy of evidence. You know how many orgies I had as a homicide cop?
- Fletcher: How many?
- Danny Witwer: None.”
Colin Farrell - Danny Witwer
Neal McDonough - Fletcher

“- Officer Allen: Put your hands high in the air where we can see them! Your hands up!
- Policeman: He's got something in his hands. Looks like knives.
- Officer Allen: Drop your weapons! I repeat: drop your weapons! I'm asking you one more time this is your last warning, drop your weapons! If you fail to do so, we'll have to open fire! Don't...” (continue)(continue reading)
Dick Anthony Williams - Officer Allen

“- Detective Belsik: There were people who saw him.
- Lorenzo: Well, they're wrong. He don't know nothin'.
- Detective Belsik: Listen, Mr. Anello, we could do things the nice way or we could do things the hard way. Alright?”

Mitch Kolpan - Detective Belsik
Robert De Niro - Lorenzo

“- Bud White: He tied me to the radiator. I watched him beat my mother to death with a tire iron. Then he left me there. Three days before a truant officer found us... they never found the old man.
- Lynn Bracken: Is that why you became a cop? To get even?
- Bud White: Maybe.”

Russell Crowe - Bud White
Kim Basinger - Lynn Bracken

“- Alonzo: All right, when's the last time you did a felony stop?
- Jake: Uh, couple weeks ago?
- Alonzo: Good, you need practice.
- Jake: They look like college kids.
- Alonzo: They're gonna get their education today.”

Denzel Washington - Alonzo
Ethan Hawke - Jake

“What do you think you're doing firing at civilians? That is for the police to do.”
Tempestt Bledsoe - Sheriff Hooper

“Cops always expect trouble.”
Jesse L. Martin - Joe West

“When that policeman hurts me, he hurts you. He hurts everybody in this world; but, also, himself. Nelson Mandela taught us this lesson.”
Sam Ngakane - Anderson

“Since when is police brutality too remote from the lives of the American people?”
Samuel L. Jackson - Langston Whitfield

“What does the FBI even stand for? Forever Bothering Individuals?”
Judy Greer - Maggie

“I guess I shouldn’t be surprised I have to tell you this. But it’s probably a bad idea that you willingly talk to the police, being a criminal and all.”
Jonathan Banks - Mike Ehrmantraut

“Getting arrested, that makes people look guilty, even the innocent ones and innocent people get arrested every day.”
Bob Odenkirk - Jimmy McGill

“Hanging out with a cop in Las Vegas is like bringing your grandma to an orgy.”
Tom Ellis - Lucifer Morningstar

“Jim Baxter-Things probably changed a lot since you left.
Joe ‘Deke’ Deacon-You still got to catch him, right?
Jim Baxter-Yeah.
Joe ‘Deke’ Deacon-Not that much has changed then.”
Denzel Washington - Joe 'Deke' Deacon
Rami Malek - Jim Baxter

“A policeman's work is never done.”
Margaret Rutherford - Miss Marple

“- Feathers: How does a... how does a man get to be a sheriff?
- John T. Chance: Gets lazy. Gets tired of selling his gun all over. Decides to sell it in one place.
- Feathers: I'd say you made a poor sale.
- John T. Chance: A lot of people around here'll agree with you.
- Feathers: But... it's still a sale and it's too late to back out.”
Angie Dickinson - Feathers
John Wayne - Sheriff John T. Chance

“Who is the boss? The cop or the law?”
Charlton Heston - Mike Vargas

“A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.”
Charlton Heston - Mike Vargas

“- Pete Menzies: You're a killer.
- Hank Quinlan: Partly. I'm a cop.
- Pete Menzies: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drunk and crazy as you must have been when you strangled him. I guess you were somehow thinking of your wife, the way she was strangled.
- Hank Quinlan: I'm always thinking of her, drunk or sober. What else is there to think about, except my...” (continue)(continue reading)
Joseph Calleia - Police Sergeant Pete Menzies
Orson Welles - Police Captain Hank Quinlan

“- Michael: I trust you.
- Andre Davis: Why's that?
- Andre Davis: Because you're the only cop who hasn't tried to shoot me first.”
Stephan James - Michael
Chadwick Boseman - Andre Davis

“- Johnny Clay: A friend of mine will be stopping by tomorrow to drop something off for me. He's a cop.
- Joe Piano: A cop? That's a funny kind of a friend.
- Johnny Clay: Well, he's a funny kind of a cop.”
Sterling Hayden - Johnny Clay
Tito Vuolo - Joe Piano

“We're not just black, we're cops too! We'll pull ourselves over later!”
Martin Lawrence - Marcus

“Pearl Harbor is the greatest intelligence failure in American history.”
Patrick Wilson - Edwin Layton

“Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit.”
Sam Jaffe - Doc Erwin Riedenschneider

“People are being cheated, robbed, murdered, raped. And that goes on 24 hours a day, every day in the year. And that's not exceptional, that's usual. It's the same in every city in the modern world. But suppose we had no police force, good or bad. Suppose we had... just silence. Nobody to listen, nobody to answer. The battle's finished. The...” (continue)(continue reading)
John McIntire - Police Commissioner Hardy