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I couldn't be a police officer. It's a very difficult job to put your life in the face of danger for someone else, and that is extremely selfless. To now vilify cops is not really the way I think it should be looked at.

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

I wanted to be a police officer for a long time so I could be just like my dad!

One of the interesting things about being a female police officer in the '60s is they really didn't have opportunities to do any serious police work - they filed, and they made coffee, and they were treated like secretaries.

I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

I've spent my life in the police profession, and I'm proud of that. But I am also very cognizant of the profession's limitations, its potential for abuse, and its potential negative impact.

I was a policeman for 18 years.

In almost all cases now the police are as much an enemy as the others.

My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.

There are certain age limits on police officers. They'd have retired me out at 65.