It's real easy to be a good cop when you feel like you don't have sh*t to go home to.

Ruben

He gets to enjoy a first class escort to Hell.

Cooper

People will say anything when they are guilty. You taught me that.

Ruben

Every cop in that room was either blessed or lucky.

Cooper

Drug dealers are like a disease spreading their menace from one person to another.

Sgt. HIll

It might be nice to go to dinner and sit with my back to the door.

Lydia

Then it's legally within your right to punch that assh*le in the face.

Cooper

While most threats are external, the most dangerous come from within.

Narrator

Ruben: We'll have a better chance of finding a needle in a haystack.
Lydia: Well, if you know that it's in the haystack, why not keep looking? Eventually you'll find it.

Maybe instead of a gold watch she'll get a gold tooth.

Ben

How does an ugly son of a bitch like Dewey get a such a hot daughter?

Lucero

I tried to tell her to became a lawyer, a doctor, a freaking porn star, anything but a cop but do you think she'd listen.

Dewey

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