Quotes
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Roy Brenner : No man should have to walk a post in a neighborhood where he wore short pants, where everyone expects him to be a regular fellow, where if he's decent, his instinct tells him to be regular.
Dave Robbins : No, sir.
Roy Brenner : I'm afraid a good cop can't be that to those he's policing. He can be fair, sure; honest, dependable, but he can never be well-liked because he has to enforce too many unpopular laws. Now if a man can't take that, he's better off turning in his shield.
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[last lines]
Ernie Brenner : You painted a pretty bad picture of departmental life.
Roy Brenner : Hard? He wants to be a cop - whoever said that was easy? Let's go home, son.