Police quotes

“- 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

“- 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

“- Stella Atkins: But then you're not a marshal or a sheriff.
- Jeff Castle: He's a town tamer.
- Clint Tollinger: The difference is there are no rules in my end of the business except maybe one - never stay in one town too long.”
Karen Sharpe - Stella Atkins
John Lupton - Jeff Castle
Robert Mitchum - Clint Tollinger

“- Orange Bird Bartender: Are you a cop?
- Tony Lip: Do I look Irish?”
Ninja N. Devoe - Orange Bird Bartender
Viggo Mortensen - Tony Lip

“- Veronica: I'm not involved in Harry's business. I work for the teacher's union.
- Jamal Manning: I understand. Criminals are like cops. They don't bring their shit home.”
Viola Davis - Veronica
Brian Tyree Henry - Jamal Manning

“- Sherlock Holmes: Thank you, Lady Margaret. We'll be as unobtrusive as possible.
- Lady Margaret Carstairs: That would be a novelty from a policeman.”
Basil Rathbone - Sherlock Holmes
Mary Forbes - Lady Margaret Carstairs

“- John Hunt: I figured out who he is.
- Maureen: And?
- John Hunt: He's a guy... who is old... but used to be young... and he just really loves robbing banks.
- Maureen: That's it?
- John Hunt: That's it.
- Maureen: Just like you're a guy... who's a cop... who's gonna catch him.”

Casey Affleck - John Hunt
Tika Sumpter - Maureen

“We got the whole good cop/bad cop thing going on; except we're hookers.”
Sherri Shepherd - Lula

“- Jim Stone: [looks inside cylinder] This is full of cocaine.
- Mechanic: [laughing] Yeah.
- Jim Stone: This needs to be submitted to evidence.
- Mechanic: [stops laughing] Yes, and it will, I'm sorry.”
Nicolas Cage - Stone
Jeff Howard - Mechanic

“- Jim Stone: [indicating bail statement for $200,000 cash] What do you think?
- Jim's Father: Well, I think there's a lot more to making a cop than just paper.
-Jim Stone: Yes, but I just thought it was unusual.
- Jim's Father: It is ... You know, a good cop is going to look at it and know exactly what to do.”
Nicolas Cage - Stone
Jerry Lewis - Stone's Father

“- 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

“It's true what they say: cops and women don't mix. It's like eating a spoonful of Drano; sure, it'll clean you out, but it'll leave you hollow inside.”
Leslie William Nielsen - Frank Drebin

“- Hansen: Couldn't we get this thing resolved quicker with F.B.I. or state help?
- Jesse Stone: The F.B.I. and state police bring the national media. You won't like this town when they're through with it.”

Jeremy Akerman - Hansen
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Lookout: What's up man, you po-po nigga, what's up.
- Jeff Cole: I'm no fucking po-po.”

K.C. Collins - Lookout
Omar Epps - Jeff Cole

“You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village.”
Rafe Spall - DS Andy Cartwright

“It's not cool that you start showing up around here in your cop uniform, then people will start getting the impression that we're in trouble!”

Jeremy Sisto - Larry Pogue, Sr.

“- Lt. Bender: Give the bag to Bozo, drop the gun and put your hands in the air!
- Earl Mott: Who said that?
- Lt. Walters: This could very well be the stupidest person on the face of the earth. Perhaps we should shoot him.
- Lt. Bender: It's the police department!”
Art Evans - Lt. Bender
Bill Pullman - Earl
Clarence Felder - Lt. Walters

“We run from the cops, we run from Radames, we run from security guards, we run from old man Quiles in a fucking bullshit’s store when he comes at us with a bullshit gun. All we do is fuckin’ run, feel like I'm on a goddamn track team.”
2Pac - Bishop

“- Cynthia Webb: Isn't this breaking and entering?
- Divinci: I don't know, I'm homicide, we don't learn that stuff.”

Lela Rochon - Cynthia Webb
Jim Belushi - Det. Frank Divinci

“- Officer Stevens: [to Zach] Do you have any idea what the penalty is for filing a false police report?
- Officer Brooks: Three years!
- Officer Stevens: ...Yeah, close. It... actually, it's a written warning.”
Timothy Simons - Officer Stevens
Amanda Lund - Officer Brooks

“It just didn't sink into his head what the Black Book is and what it meant, being banned from every casino is just one thing but being in this book gets you into the brains of every cop and FBI agent in the state, I mean you're listed in there with Al Capone, but Nicky didn't care.”
Robert De Niro - Sam "Ace" Rothstein

“I should have let him be punished then, along with the other filth. But he was my only son. His mother died giving birth to him. He and I are all each other have. I was afraid for him. Afraid for me. See, I was a public figure. So I did things. I fixed it.”

Pat Hingle - Chief Jannings

“I don't know a thing about any of you. Good or bad, efficient or inefficient. I'm not upsetting any apple cart. Every man keeps the job he's got now until he proves to me he's worth a better one or he has no right on the force at all. I'm not fighting you and you're not fighting me. We're going to fight together.”

Walter Huston - Jim Fitzpatrick

“- Lt. Serdman: I'd say you picked the wrong store to rob this time, pal.
- Franklin Laszlo: Excuse me, Lieutenant but I am not robbing this store.
- Lt. Serdman: I suppose that's a bag of donuts you got there right?
- Franklin Laszlo: They don't even serve donuts here, you should know that, you're a cop.”
Tom Arnold - Franklin Laszlo