Daryl Gates People Quotations

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.