Dragnet 1967

Dragnet 1967



Year:
1967
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Off. Rick Myler:
[Friday and Gannon are investigating a purse snatching. The patrol car unit shows up] . You guys detectives?

Officer Bill Gannon:
That's right. D.H.Q, night watch.

Off. Rick Myler:
I gotta get into that. These radio calls are driving me right out of my mind. Investigation, that's for me.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
How long have you been on the job now?

Off. Rick Myler:
Six months now. I've got this patrol thing well whipped. I'm ready to move into something else now, you know?

Officer Bill Gannon:
Uh, huh. Six months. That means you just got out of the academy last month, right?

Off. Rick Myler:
Yeah, that's right.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
You know it takes a good investigator to do a decent job working a radio car.

Off. Rick Myler:
Yeah, but it's all preliminary. I want to get into follow up. That's where you get the big capers.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
That's a new one on me, son. Here all the time I was under the impression that patrol officers were always in on the big capers.

Off. Rick Myler:
Here's an example: Look at us. Somebody gets their purse stolen and who gets it? Us. It's getting so routine; I'm bored half-stiff.

Officer Bill Gannon:
Rather be out tracking a bank robber, huh?

Off. Rick Myler:
That's the ticket! None of this old lady drops her purse jazz.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
Let me tell you something, youngster: Someday when you get the backs of those ears dried out, you might wake up and see just how important your job really is! Take a look at your partner over there. Sixteen years in a patrol unit, one of the best on the job. Now apparently you haven't been listening to him or you don't want to. For your information, that little old lady didn't just get her purse stolen: It was robbery! Two hoodlums kicked her senseless out on that sidewalk. You got a real large problem, son: You worry more about yourself then what goes on around you. Do me a favor, will you? Sit back and take a real hard look. Look at the victims and try to have a little empathy. It might do you some good. That's what we're all here, to serve these people. Now if you can't see it that way, maybe you ought to look for some other kind of job. I'm sure the department can spare you.

Off. Rick Myler:
I didn't mean to...

Sergeant Joe Friday:
That's right. You don't know what you mean or what you say or how you impress other people. Now you think about it. Try to learn something from your partner: He'll teach you something if you listen. He understands his job, you don't. Now do me a small favor, will you?

Off. Rick Myler:
What's that, sir?

Sergeant Joe Friday:
Do what your partner told you to do: Go out there and get that book, and then get back in here and go to school!

Off. Rick Myler:
Yes, sir. [Myler leaves]

Officer Bill Gannon:
Green recruit, partner. Kind of hard on him, weren't you?

Sergeant Joe Friday:
Those two punks were kind of hard on Mrs. Anderson.

Off. Rick Myler:
[Friday and Gannon are investigating a purse snatching. The patrol car unit shows up] . You guys detectives?

Sergeant Joe Friday:
That's right. D.H.Q, night watch.

Off. Rick Myler:
I gotta get into that. These radio calls are driving me right out of my mind. Investigation, that's for me.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
How long have you been on the job now?

Off. Rick Myler:
Six months now. I've got this patrol thing well whipped. I'm ready to move into something else now, you know?

Officer Bill Gannon:
Uh, huh. Six months. That means you just got out of the academy last month, right?

Off. Rick Myler:
Yeah, that's right.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
You know it takes a good investigator to do a decent job working a radio car.

Off. Rick Myler:
Yeah, but it's all preliminary. I want to get into follow up. That's where you get the big capers.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
That's a new one on me, son. Here all the time I was under the impression that patrol officers were always in on the big capers.

Off. Rick Myler:
Here's an example: Look at us. Somebody gets their purse stolen and who gets it? Us. It's getting so routine; I'm bored half-stiff.

Officer Bill Gannon:
Rather be out tracking a bank robber, huh?

Off. Rick Myler:
That's the ticket! None of this old lady drops her purse jazz.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
Let me tell you something, youngster: Someday when you get the backs of those ears dried out, you might wake up and see just how important your job really is! Take a look at your partner over there. Sixteen years in a patrol unit, one of the best on the job. Now apparently you haven't been listening to him or you don't want to. For your information, that little old lady didn't just get her purse stolen: It was robbery! Two hoodlums kicked her senseless out on that sidewalk. You got a real large problem, son: You worry more about yourself then what goes on around you. Do me a favor, will you? Sit back and take a real hard look. Look at the victims and try to have a little empathy. It might do you some good. That's what we're all here, to serve these people. Now if you can't see it that way, maybe you ought to look for some other kind of job. I'm sure the department can spare you.

Off. Rick Myler:
I didn't mean to...

Sergeant Joe Friday:
That's right. You don't know what you mean or what you say or how you impress other people. Now you think about it. Try to learn something from your partner: He'll teach you something if you listen. He understands his job, you don't. Now do me a small favor, will you?

Off. Rick Myler:
What's that, sir?

Sergeant Joe Friday:
Do what your partner told you to do: Go out there and get that book, and then get back in here and go to school!

Off. Rick Myler:
Yes, sir. [Myler leaves]

Officer Bill Gannon:
Green recruit, partner. Kind of hard on him, weren't you?

Sergeant Joe Friday:
Those two punks were kind of hard on Mrs. Anderson.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
Don't think you have a corner on all the virtue vision in the country or that everyone else is fat and selfish and yours is the first generation to come along that's felt dissatisfied. They all have, you know, about different things; and most of them didn't have the opportunity and freedoms that you have. Let's talk poverty. In most parts of the world, that's not a problem, it's a way of life. And rights? They're liable to give you a blank stare because they may not know what you're talking about. The fact is, more people are living better right here than anyone else ever before in history. So don't expect us to roll over and play dead when you say you're dissatisfied. It's not perfect, but it's a great deal better than when we grew up: a hundred men standing in the street hoping for one job, selling apples on the street corner. That's one of the things we were dissatisfied about, and you don't see that much anymore.

Officer Bill Gannon:
You're taller, stronger, healthier, and you live longer than the last generation; and we don't think that's altogether bad. You've probably never seen a "Quarantine" sign on a neighbor's door. Diphtheria, scarlet fever, whooping cough; probably none of your classmates are crippled with polio. You don't see many mastoid scars anymore. We've done quite a bit of fighting all around the world. Whether you think it was moral or not a lot of people are free to make their own mistakes today because of it. And that may just include you.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
I don't know, maybe part of it's the fact that you're in a hurry. You've grown up on instant orange juice. Flip a dial - instant entertainment. Dial seven digits - instant communication. Turn a key - push a pedal - instant transportation. Flash a card - instant money. Shove in a problem - push a few buttons - instant answers. But some problems you can't get quick answers for, no matter how much you want them. We took a little boy into Central Receiving Hospital yesterday; he's four years old. He weighs eight-and-a-half pounds. His parents just hadn't bothered to feed him. Now give me a fast answer to that one; one that'll stop that from ever happening again. And if you can't settle that one, how about the 55,000 Americans who'll die on the highway this year? That's nearly six or seven times the number that'll get killed in Vietnam. Why aren't you up in arms about that? Or is dying in a car somehow moral? Show me how to wipe out prejudice. I'll settle for the prejudices you have inside yourselves. Show me how to get rid of the unlimited capacity for human beings to make themselves believe they're somehow right - and justified - in stealing from somebody, or hurting somebody, and you'll just about put this place here out of business!

Officer Bill Gannon:
Don't think we're telling you to lose your ideals or your sense of outrage. They're the only way things ever get done. And there's a lot more that still needs doing. And we hope you'll tackle it. You don't have to do anything dramatic like coming up with a better country. You can find enough to keep you busy right here. In the meantime, don't break things up in the name of progress or crack a placard stick over someone's head to make him see the light. Be careful of his rights. Because your property and your person and your rights aren't any better than his. And the next time you may be the one to get it. We remember a man who killed six million people, and called it social improvement.

Sergeant Joe Friday:
Don't try to build a new country. Make this one work. It has for over four hundred years; and by the world's standards, that's hardly more than yesterday.

William Bentley:
You talk about young people in America. I don't recognize them. I don't think they exist. I think your kind creates them. You force them into little molds, and pop them out like little plastic figures off a production line. You stuff them full of preconceived ideas, praise them for turning out so well. But they're not people, they're machines! Then you wind them up like little tape recorders, and send them out into the world to spread another generation of lies. "This is the best of all possible worlds... this is a recording." And the ones who escape your assembly line, the rare ones, you call them delinquents, weirdos, hippies, pillheads, freaks, potheads. You tell them they're sick. They know better. They're not satisfied with a little change. They want it all! They want it now! And they know they can't change the world, so they change themselves. They seek others who believe as they do. They start communities, tribes. They grow, they share, food, shelter, and most importantly, love. All they ask is the right to live the way they want to live, without being harassed, without being told what they can or cannot do. Now, is that too much to ask, Mr. Policeman?

Friday:
No, if that's all they ask. But it's not. They're not asking to be left alone, they're asking for a handout. If they really believed what you say they believe, they'd do something about it besides panhandle in the streets and use narcotics to escape reality. A lot of people started with an idea, and they've made it work, but not by begging or stealing or standing in line to get paid for not working. The Amish did it in Pennsylvania, they built self-supporting communities. The Mormons did it in Utah, they built a city. The Jews did it in Israel, they built a nation. But they were willing to work for it!

William Bentley:
We tried in San Francisco.

Friday:
Yeah. Well, you learned something, didn't you?

William Bentley:
What's that?

Friday:
If you're gonna live with the rest of us, then you'll have to learn to play the game by the rules. And in case you've forgotten the name of the game, we call it democracy.


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