Marlene Dietrich

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.

American Actress

Ben Carson

The P.C. police are out in force at all times... We've reached a point where people are actually afraid to talk about what they want to say.

American Scientist

Jack Nicholson

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

American Actor

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

I think police officers are modern day heroes. I think they protect us.

George Osborne

The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.

British Politician

Keith Ellison

The United States' job is not to police the whole world.

American Politician

Alfred Hitchcock

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.

English Director

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Scottish Writer

Nicola Walker

I completely respect the job our police do.

English Actress

Marc Veasey

The word 'police' is always used as a plural noun and takes a plural verb.

Always Plural

Police is associated with authority and power; be mindful of the tone in sensitive situations.

Authority Connotation

Use 'call the police' to indicate immediate action during emergencies or threatening situations.

Emergency Reference

Policing can refer to general monitoring, not just crime-related activities.

Beyond Crime

Policing implies an organized, systematic approach to maintaining order or standards.

Systematic Supervision

To police in this sense means to actively check and maintain standards or behavior.

Active Monitoring

When someone polices an area, they enforce the rules and maintain order there.

Rule Enforcement

'Police' as a verb extends to various contexts where someone ensures compliance.

Extended Usage

 written by one of the smartest people in history? Let's give it a shot. The world's rarest fish has been stolen from the city aquarium. The police have followed the scent to a street with five identical looking houses. But they can't search all the houses at once, and if they pick the wrong one, the thief will know they're on his trail.

Can you solve...

 and specifically, who in this world is afforded the privilege of being perceived as fully human. Over the course of the past several months, the world has watched as unarmed black men, and women, have had their lives taken at the hands of police and vigilante. These events and all that has transpired after them

How to raise a Black son...

 Not a single one. But can you imagine how many might have if the police had stopped those kids and searched their pockets for drugs as they walked to class? Or had raided their frat parties in the middle of the night? Okay, you might say. But doesn't this high incarceration rate

Alice Goffman: How we're...

 That thing doesn't exist in the world. Whenever you see young people in front of the row trying to fraternize with the police or military, somebody was thinking about it before. Now, at the end, nonviolent discipline. And this is probably the game-changer.

Srdja Popovic: How to...

 I stopped them, those people. I complained to the police. So the policemen, instead of helping me, they threw me in this small, tiny shell, like an animal. And that was the night of anger when one of the brightest and biggest ideas was born.

Kailash Satyarthi: How...

 were the only news website from Kyrgyzstan that was telling the truth about what was going on because all the other media outlets were mostly telling that it is still police controlling this region which was very far from reality

The mega force of youth...

 Kenya's poor are five times more likely to be shot dead by the police who are meant to protect them than by criminals. This was reinforced by the political climate of the day. We had a president, Moi, who was a dictator.

Boniface Mwangi: The day...

 That's incredible. It's amazing how we're not able to hear that with our human ears. It's just this entire different world on a different wavelength of sound. So this here's a FLIR it's typically used by police.

Discovering Wildlife in...

 Talk to us a bit about some of the things that have actually been happening to, for example, boost police training. How hard a process is that? Well, one of the glorious things that's starting to happen now

Gary Haugen: The hidden...

 cops I'm a big supporter of the police department but what I'm not a big fan of is those who take it in their own hands and are abusing their authority and abusing their power and claiming fear

Police

Always Plural

Authority Connotation

Emergency Reference

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