Jerry: We have a permit.
Cooper: To be a dip shit?

You've got a learn to fish, Steel. That one, you throw back.

Cooper

I've just got to get used to it, riding with a celeb. What's next? Dancing With the Stars?

Sammy

Mom: From nursing a baby to examining a corpse. Must feel strange.
Lydia: Which part?

We hold cops to a higher stander because we give them a gun and a badge. The only problem with that is, they're recruited from the human race.

Narrator

Sooner or later the streets are going to eat you.

Ben

It's the rent we pay for our room on this planet.

Cooper

What do you tell a woman with two black eyes? Nothing, you already told her twice.

Ferguson

Are you serious? This kid already gets an A in assh*le and he's not even out of puberty.

Cooper

13 years patrolling. I might just miss this freak show.

Tang

I feel like I let you down.

Sammy

You're a handsome kid and that's a good thing everywhere except prison.

Lydia

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