Doug Baldwin Quotes

The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.

We can only have true public safety with public trust.

What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.

Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

Building trust between law enforcement officers and the communities we serve is one of my highest priorities as attorney general.

Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.

We are demanding police transparency and accountability so we can build trust and work together to make our communities safer.

I thank the officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, who work hard every day to help people in their most vulnerable moments, keep our communities safe, and build relationships and trust with the public.

Our kids' lives depend upon keeping them safe. That has to be a fundamental duty and responsibility for me as mayor. That means we have to continue hard but necessary work of bridging the divide between police and communities they serve.

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

We are safer when communities respect the police and the police respect the communities.

We must transform the relationship between police and the communities they serve.

New Yorkers must be able to trust the men and women of the NYPD. They must come forward to report crimes. And they must come forward as witnesses.

We need to have law enforcement and the African-American community work together for the safety of everybody.

The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.

There is definitely a balance that I have to strike both in terms of supporting the Police Bureau - making sure they have the tools and the resources they need to do their jobs effectively. But I also have an important role to play when it comes to oversight and accountability.

I want the country to be proud of our police.

Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders.

I've, in fact, very specifically said I don't support defunding the police.

I'm dedicated to healing the wounds between police and minority communities so both sides feel safe again.

Cops should not be separate from the black community or any community. Their salaries are paid for by the communities they police. They should be working for the communities they police. But as we saw in Ferguson, Missouri, they are not always doing that.