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In America there is a channel called TruTV which is just reruns of 'Cops' and 'World's Dumbest Criminals'. I could watch that the entire day. -- Robert Pattinson
I think it's too bad that everybody's decided to turn on drugs, I don't think drugs are the problem. Crime is the problem. Cops are the problem. Money's the problem. But drugs are just drugs. -- Jerry Garcia
Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector -- Frank Serpico
Blue uniforms are real. Cops are a social fiction -- Robert Anton Wilson
Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough. -- Josh Lanyon
Cops, I've learned, are like vampires; they can't come in unless you invite them. -- Jessica Warman
Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error. -- Murray Rothbard
Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it. -- Ronald Perelman
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see. -- Dick Cavett
Cops pull me over just to get a better look. They never give me a ticket, even if I'm speeding, but they will ask to take pictures. -- Ernest Cline
Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime. -- Andre Braugher
There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world. -- Jerry Stahl
I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, which I based on the early seasons of 'Cops' and on the amazing stuff I had read about happening on Japanese shows and the British 'Big Brother'. -- William Gibson
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers. -- Joe Mantegna
I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops. -- Carmine Giovinazzo
We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time. -- Jose Padilha
As a black man, you run from the cops. It's different now, but back when I was coming up, you run. -- Rodney King
What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison. -- Eazy-E
Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else. -- Orson Welles
As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom. -- Natasha Lyonne
When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. -- Paula Poundstone
It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist. -- Gary Bauer
Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone. -- Berry Gordy
What firefighters and people in our military and cops do is separate from what the rest of us do; basically these people say, 'I'm going to protect all these strangers.' -- Denis Leary
Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school! -- Dave Attell
It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops. -- Evan Hunter
Medicine is probably one of the best backgrounds for a writer to find stories. I always think cops and docs have the best background because we see so much of human behavior, such a range of human emotions. -- Tess Gerritsen
Travel is one of the best anti-war weapons that there are. I've been to Iran, and if you're there you see little kids, cops, old people, cemeteries. Once you see that, you can't say, 'Oh, Iran, let's bomb them.' -- Viggo Mortensen
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the first place, or lamenting vindictive excesses in sentencing. Hollywood, supposedly a frothing cauldron of liberalism, has always been conservative on crime. -- Tom Shales
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion, let alone an exercise in irrational conspiracy theorizing. Rather, it speaks to a social reality about which blacks are acutely aware. -- Tim Wise
There is a genocide that is taking place among black men, in particular young black men, but it is not a genocide being perpetuated by white cops, by the Nazis, or by the Klan. Unfortunately and tragically, it is being perpetuated by other young black men. -- Niger Innis
I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the minority but I think it's crazy for 'literary fiction' to divorce itself from stories that are suspenseful, and assign anything with cops or spies or criminals to some genre ghetto. -- Jess Walter
In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions. -- Sherman Alexie
Criminal justice, as it pertains to the Goldmans and Morgan Stanleys of the world, is not adversarial combat, with cops and crooks duking it out in interrogation rooms and courthouses. Instead, it's a cocktail party between friends and colleagues who from month to month and year to year are constantly switching sides and trading hats. -- Matt Taibbi
I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself. -- David Chase
In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know? -- Yoko Ono
I'm not a model; hence I don't see the reason to have a six-pack abs. I can pull off a tough and rugged look of a cop in 'Dhoom' series without taking my shirt off. Cops don't have to move around without a shirt to flaunt their machismo. What makes the character of a cop stand out is his attitude and not his six-pack abs. -- Abhishek Bachchan
Wolf, not dog. You were bitten by a Lycan, not Lassie. -- Shannan Albright
I'm a strict materialist - but the police are brutal materialists. -- Jack Williamson
And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours. -- Shannon L. Alder
I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them. -- Edward Conlon
Do you like being a cop?""I love it, when it doesn't suck, sir. -- Edward Conlon
The cop wanted to know what was in the bag. I said, Another cop. -- Jarod Kintz
Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school. -- Edward Conlon
Do not antagonize the cops, I told myself. Repeat if necessary: Do not antagonize the cops. -- Gillian Flynn
When cops are on the job they love lawyers like lions love hyenas, only minus the mutual respect. -- Reed Farrel Coleman
The thing is, I don't even hate cops. To tell you the truth, I actually feel a little sorry for them. -- Markus Zusak
What we're going to do is keep the peace. That's our job. We're not going to be heroes, we're just going to be ... normal. -- Terry Pratchett
My main problem with cops is that they do what they're told. They say 'Sorry mate, I'm just doing my job' all the fucking time. -- Banksy
I must be a great leader because many people follow me. Most of the people are police officers, if that gives you any indication of my character. -- Jarod Kintz
I egged a cop car, and the police suspected me, but when they searched me they found no evidence. All they found was a pocket full of omelet. -- Jarod Kintz
His voice was languidly dense, as if he was a little slow on the uptake, but Strike knew that tone came from the man's feeling of complete control. -- Richard Price
The problem with being a cop is you spend all your time around criminals. After all, eight hours out of every day of our lives are spent with coworkers. -- Jarod Kintz
Later that day when I passed the Admin lieutenant and the Sargeant standing by the Desk, I said casually, "I'm leaving too, Sarge.""Okay," he said, and I kept on walking. -- Edward Conlon
There's a lot of common ground between criminals and cops. Both savor power, thrills, control. The good cops know they're only a step or two away from the crooks they're arresting. -- Nanci Rathbun
I am a single drop of blood trying to mix in with billions of red paint splatters in this Pollack painting called life. I think the cops are trying to frame me. -- Jarod Kintz
She cried the first time she was pulled over by a cop. I explained to her that there is no reason to cry when getting pulled over--unless you're coming directly from from a crime scene. -- Chelsea Handler
Waldo nodded and looked at the policeman's face. Somehow the water that was dripping from the bill of his cap made him appear almost human. Nah, Waldo thought, it would take a lot more than water to wash that look off. -- Donald Jeffries
You gotta love the cops. They start the night ready to shoot someone's eyes off and at the same time ready to carry a child with a grandmother's tenderness. Ready to shatter and ready to soothe at the touch of a trigger, a good cop is an amazing animal. -- Marc Parent
A song ain't why people kill cops. -- Snoop Dogg
Adverbs and cops always come in pairs. -- Gary Reilly
It's always fun to play cops and robbers. -- Timothy Olyphant
Most police officers are good cops and good people. -- Rand Paul
When David killed Goliath, Mae Young called the cops. -- Jerry Lawler
When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away. -- Clint Smith
Anybody who speeds thinks they can outsmart the cops. -- Ice T
The problem is not cop killers...it's killer cops. -- Tom Morello
Always talk to God, never listen to the cops. -- Lil Wayne
And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops. -- Greg Proops
If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it! -- George Carlin
I grew up in a family of firemen and cops. -- Bonnie Somerville
Anytime you write about priests or cops, they're hot-button professions. -- Ann Patchett
When only cops have guns, it's called a "police state". -- Claire Wolfe
I've done, like, 45 movies, played 40 gangsters and five crooked cops. -- Tony Sirico
Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter. -- Christopher Moore
I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. -- Broderick Crawford
What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now. -- Al Sharpton
I don't want to wake up with cops surrounding my bed tonight. -- Anthony Jeselnik
I've definitely run from the cops in the New York City subways. -- Gillian Jacobs
It's a lot of crooked cops out there. They manipulate the system. -- Ludacris
I've only played gangsters and cops, and I always have to be serious. -- Manny Montana
Went to the shelf and dusted off the AK, cops gotta get pealed. -- Ice Cube
I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life. -- Will Patton
They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me. -- Lawrence Taylor
I know these dirty cops that'll get us in if we murder some Wop. -- Big Pun
Iâ??ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business. -- Broderick Crawford
[Barack Obama] might say more about these rogue cops and their license to kill. -- Julianne Malveaux
His idea of traffic safety is going too fast for the cops to catch up. -- Mira Grant
I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies. -- Dylan McDermott
She had wailed loudly enough to wake the dead and make them call the cops. -- Ilona Andrews
If they want to know if prostitutes are positive, they should test the Vice cops. -- Margo St. James
I've played a lot of different cops in a lot of different law enforcement agencies. -- Samuel L. Jackson
Mmmmmmmmmm....You can almost smell the burning pork...Hey you ever thrown rocks at cops? -- Tre Cool
There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters. -- Rod Dreher
Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don't tell them anything. -- Hunter S. Thompson
That's the world of policing. I've met some bad-ass female cops, who are very cool people. -- David Ayer
They say no one knows if we all see red the same way. Except traffic cops. -- Greg Fitzsimmons
I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky. Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi. -- Lauryn Hill
Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job. -- Michael Dibdin
Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem. -- Tom Robbins
It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't. -- Alain Robert
I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations. -- John King
If we were a dog and God owned us, the cops would come and take us away. -- Bill Maher
All the cops are just workers for the one percent, and they don't even realize they're being exploited. -- Ray Lewis
Arnold Schwarzenegger blew away dozens of cops as the Terminator. But I don't hear anybody complaining about that. -- Ice T
You're going to find this hard to believe, but cops aren't required to carry emergency condoms." Joe Morelli -- Janet Evanovich
The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. -- Lori Foster
The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes. -- Lori Foster
My rhymes are like shot clocks, interstate cops and blood clots, my point is your flow gets stopped. -- Talib Kweli
My mom sent me money for a car, but the cops impounded it because I had no insurance. -- Martin Henderson
I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them. -- Ice Cube
Tequila? It's not even a drink. It's a way for having the cops around without using a phone. -- Dylan Moran
The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window. -- William S. Burroughs
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. -- Gene Fowler
I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. -- Ralph Ellison
Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder. -- James Carville
New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves. -- Theo James
In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around. -- Elizabeth Hurley
Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets. -- Bill Vaughan
In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. -- William Irwin Thompson

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