It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right… — Daryl Gates

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

Daryl GatesPublic Servant · American · b. 1926

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Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity. — Michel de Montaigne
The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty. — Zig Ziglar
One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language. — Don DeLillo
They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life. — Daryl Gates
Casual drug users should be taken out and shot. — Daryl Gates
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. — Daryl Gates