Ruzek: The name Ruzek's going to stain this department, and I gotta lug that around long after my dad is gone.
Voight: All the people that matter, they know who you are.

Voight: We're talking about trading one life for another.
Ruzek: But one life is Merlin, who's a gang member. He's a rat. Boss, you don't get to the position that Merlin's in by living some clean life.
Voight: Adam. You don't get to the position your father's in by leading a clean life. Do you?
Ruzek: No, sir. But he's my father. I would make the same trade for you every time.

Ruzek: What are you following me?
Burgess: Yes. Yes. Look, you were clearly lying to Voight when you saw that text at your dad's house. I wanted to make sure you weren't doing something extracurricular, just plain ol' stupid. Were you?

Pop's, I hope you're decent. Coming in with a girl!

Ruzek

Atwater: This ain't "Batman," dawg. The criminals don't wear masks. They don't act all crazy. Some of them are smart, and they're charming. They take care of their mothers, and their fathers, and their uncles. And their little brothers too.
Andre: You know, I get that. But I feel like we could've done better. I feel like we could've told Damari what was going on and best thing, he'll cooperate. We could've taken care of Theo. There's gotta be a better way to do this without destroying innocent Black lives. That's all I'm saying.
Atwater: I mean, we had to put Damari into play to get justice for Roy Hills and Bob Hayes. Innocent Black lives. There's not an easy answer to this problem. But us being here is a part of the solution.

This job is hard. Especially when you're trying to do right. The more you care, it actually gets harder. So if this isn't something that you can do, if you don't think you can handle it, step aside. But either way, we got jobs to do, and we gotta get it done.

Atwater

Yeah, well you know it ain't nothing like running from the cops to bring brothers together.

Andre

Atwater: Why you running?
Man: White cops scare me.
Atwater: Yeah. What color am I?
Man: Blue. Just as dangerous.

Voight: My team's handpicked by me.
Miller: You realize I could just assign him to Intelligence, right?
Voight: I do. But you didn't.

Atwater: We gotta stop hiding behind…
Ruzek: Behind what?
Atwater: Being white.
Ruzek: Being white? Really…
Atwater: You don’t gotta be Black to know wrong from right.
Ruzek: I never said that anything that man did was right. Did you hear me say that?
Atwater: Think about what this white man did and how the next Black kid is going to look at you next time you go out there.

Whelan: I’m not the criminal here.
Atwater: No? Who is? The 19-year-old Black kid you shot down?
Whelan: I defended myself.
Atwater: From a college student?
Whelan: I had the right to defend my life.
Atwater: From what?
Ruzek: Kev, don’t.
Atwater: No, from what? I just watched the video you told me to. You murdered a kid and you’re going to stand here in front of me and defend yourself?
Ruzek: Just let it go.
Atwater: Just let it go? He’s standing in front of you too.
Ruzek: All I’m saying is we might be here awhile. None of this is helping. All I’m saying.

Ruzek: There’s something very wrong here… those shooters just made a safe house.
Atwater: What we gotta do is ask ourselves this question: was it an inside job? Only people that know about the safe house are CPD.
Ruzek: Not to mention they just beat patrol by two minutes.

Chicago PD Quotes

But I wanted it. Wanted to be something different than what I was, knew I could. See, I don't people have to end up anywhere near where they started.

Burgess

Yo, Al, don't you got some sort of beef with Father McSorley?

Atwater