Rush Limbaugh Quotes

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

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

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.

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing.

The police need to come down to street level.

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.

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

I want to foster a positive relationship between police officers and the communities they protect.

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

What I'm really praying is that we, as a people, understand that we are interdependent upon each other. We don't want police to leave; we want policing in our world. But I think that people aren't comfortable with 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.

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

It's been my desire to support efforts to aim at healing the relationship between law enforcement and the community.

I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.

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.

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

No, I absolutely do not support defunding the police. But it's clear we have been investing too much in force and need to reinvest in understanding and serving our communities.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

We need to rebuild bonds of trust between our police officers and our communities.

At a time when we must seek to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the local community, I am deeply concerned that the deployment of military equipment and vehicles sends a conflicting message.

I'm going to do everything I can to restore trust and build back those bonds between the police and communities.

I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.

We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.