Donald Trump Quotes

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

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

You need better relationships between the communities and the police, because in some cases, it's not good.

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.

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 try to bridge the gap between police and local communities.

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

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

Here's what I learned as a mayor and a governor. The way you make communities safer and the way you make police safer is through community policing. You build the bonds between the community and the police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.

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

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

Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

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.