John: Can't put a price tag on man's best friend.
Ben: Sure you can.

Kid: I didn't know cops talked like that to kids.
John: What are you gonna do? Arrest me?

I find it novel Dewey, every once in a while to give a shit.

There's nothing glamorous about being a detective. Why do you think I stayed in patrol?

I can see why you'd prefer jail.

That's got to be the nicest way anyone's ever told me to shut up.

Cooper: How you feeling?
Tang: I could go another twelve rounds.

You know my old partner? He would have jumped.

How's the fake ID business going?

Cooper: Time flies when your having fun.
Tang: Fun? More like futile.

You can be who you are without making yourself a walking target.

It seems like it changes nothing... but every once and awhile, you get to take a bad guy off the streets for good. And that, my friend, is God's work.

Southland Quotes

It seems like it changes nothing... but every once and awhile, you get to take a bad guy off the streets for good. And that, my friend, is God's work.

John Cooper

Taking a life is a big deal to me.

Ben Sherman