Cop es una película estadounidense de suspenso criminal neo-noir de 1988 escrita y dirigida por James B. Harris, protagonizada por James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren y Charles Durning. Está basada en el libro de 1984 Blood on the Moon, de James Ellroy. Harris y Woods coprodujeron la película, una primera vez en sus carreras.
“Bad cops are the product of bad policy. And policy is ultimately made by politicians. A bad system loaded with bad incentives will unfailingly produce bad cops. The good ones will never enter the field in the first place, or they will become frustrated and leave police work, or they'll simply turn bad. At best, they'll have unrewarding, unfulfilling jobs.”
“The police, who administer the law which teaches only the path to a better life for society’s victors and submission to authority, lower their sabers and menace human actions, taking everyone who they fear might shake the pillars of power and bam, bind them up one and all.”
“If you ever saw a policeman with a club in his hand, I want to ask you, did you ever see that policeman club a millionaire? But it is "Get out of here, damn you, go on to jail, damn you," if it is a working man.”
“Every law the people has not ratified in person is null and void - is, in fact, not a law.”
“The police are often the least likely people to be able to solve problems, to think in nuanced ways about emotional pain and its projections, and as a result are not the people we need help from if we are interested in creating peace.”
“The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue than Superman — who is only a mere superhero.”
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