20th-century Police Officer Quotes

Heinrich Müller

Franz Stangl

Shōshin Nagamine

Bernard Kerik

Charles A. Moose

Charlie Beck

Cargo. They were cargo. I think it started the day I first saw the Totenlager in Treblinka. I remember Wirth standing there, next to the pits full of blue-black corpses. It had nothing to do with humanity-it couldn't have; it was a mass-a mass of rotting flesh. Wirth said, 'What shall we do with this garbage?' I think unconsciously that started me thinking of them as cargo.

If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen … and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.

You are in the hands of the Gestapo. Don't imagine that we shall show you the slightest consideration. The Fuhrer has already shown the world that he is invincible and soon he will come and liberate the people of England from the Jews and Plutocrats such as you. It is war and Germany is fighting for her existence. You are in the greatest danger and if you want to live another day must be very careful.

Heinrich Müller

I think this is a department that reflects the city and reflects it not only in the makeup of the personnel — which is the most diverse department in the city by far — but also in the diversity of our thought and the recognition that policing is a very complicated social contract with the people that live in this city, and that social contract requires action on both parts.

Even after many years, kata practice is never finished, for there is always something new to be learned about executing a movement.

Shōshin Nagamine

I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them.

In America, we vote, we decide as a group of people what our policies are, and that's the way we do business. We don't let violence make those determinations for us.

Charles A. Moose