Dennis Franz Quotes

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

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.

The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.

As long as I am mayor there will be law and order in Chicago.

We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him as a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.

History shows us that the youth are usually a step ahead of their elders when change is required.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

We have really made an advance in civilization, that the principles on which our political and social order rest are in harmony with the laws of the universe, that we have set up an ideal which may never in genuine happiness certain...We are getting rid of old world things and becoming accustomed to the new. We are forming new creeds, new judgments, new manners; we are becoming a new race of men.

Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement

In a progressive country change is constant;… change … is inevitable

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

The problem in any constitutional change is the great care put to solve the problems of the past instead of grasping those of the future.

Having the support of our communities is absolutely essential to productive and sustainable crime prevention efforts. While there are law enforcement agencies that have meaningful and transparent relationships with all segments of their communities, it is fair to say that there are other agencies that need to further enhance relationships and build trust within their communities, particularly among disenfranchised segments.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

There's a lot of things that need to change. One specifically? Police brutality.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

Our manifesto to the British people promised to finish the job of police reform. And that is exactly what I intend to do.

The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.

To indiscriminately cast all law enforcement as enemies of our communities is to engage in an attempt to divide our nation by turning Americans against each other.

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.

Here in Washington State, I've supported efforts to provide our law enforcement with the proper training and resources required to meet their changing and demanding needs of their job. In doing so, I feel that the community and the law enforcement relationship will gratefully benefit from a renewed sense of responsibility and accountability.

Growing up where I'm from, some people are afraid of cops. They don't really like cops. And what a lot of people don't realize is, they're really not the bad guys. They're really on our side, they're really trying to help us out. And sometimes, we don't understand that.

The world changes, and if you don't go with the change, you're left behind.