A genuine cop would never say that. Corrupt administrations tell the cops what to say, and being trained to obey, they comply.
In reality, the politicians want the crooks to just waltz in and take whatever they want - kind of “redistribution of wealth.”
Well, the citizens are merely responding by redistributing their stock of precious metals, leading to redistribution of the bad guys' plasma and red and white blood cells. So as long as it's all redistributive in sort of a barter-y non-cash way, what's the problem?