Bernie Sanders Quotes

There's a bigger percentage of good cops than bad cops. But the bad cops should be penalised like regular people.

I'm afraid because some police are way out of control. My true feeling with police is this: If they do their job, there's no problem.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers?

There's good cops and bad cops, and the good cops have to hold the bad cops accountable. We have to hold the bad cops accountable, too.

The police are paid by the public and carry a public trust, and they take an oath to protect us as citizens. The police have lost sight of that and must be reminded that we pay them to protect us, not to simply engage and cage us.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Did you ever stop to think why cops are always famous for being dumb? Simple. Because they don't have to be anything else.

Police have been given the very confusing and unpleasant task of being society's char cleaners ... so they lie and stick together.

There are 18,000 different police forces in the United States and sometimes something wrong happens.

Calling for police reform is not calling for police retribution.

I still have admiration for the vast majority of police officers, but there is no denying that some are guilty of mistreating the people they are supposed to serve.

In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.

Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.

Police officers see everything, and they experience everything, and they don't always act correctly.

I'll never stop listening to police officers over politicians.

We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.

There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

Law enforcement officers are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility; that is why we hold them to such a high standard. With that said, there are a small number of officers who have not lived up to that standard.

Nobody wants bad cops off the street more than good cops.

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law, just because they are responsible for upholding the law.