Police Community Quotes

You build the bonds through the community and 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.

Being a woman, we talk about equal pay all the time. We're not talking about if you're black or if you are Latina. I would like to get back to that and improving the relationship between the police community and the community of color. I don't know exactly all the right things to say, but I want to engage in that conversation.

I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known.

We have to get to a place in the city where our young officers understand that respectful, constitutional engagement with the community is their most powerful tool.

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

When we let cops talk about themselves as a separate community, then we are letting cops wall themselves off from the rest of us. We don't generally do that with any other jobs. We don't talk about the barista community or the Wal-Mart greeter community.

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

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

We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that's no longer a community: that's an area that's under siege.

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.

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

I have family and friends who are policemen and are close to my heart.

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

Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.

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.

I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.

In Boston where community policing is so important, they don't necessarily have to like each other, but they know each other. The cops in Boston make it their business to get out of their vehicles, to engage the public, to walk around the neighborhoods. They live in the community that they police. And I think these things help.

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.

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

This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

We don't need a specialized gang unit. We need patrol officers who specialize in knowing their community.

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

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

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