Dennis Kucinich Quotes

Our policemen and women are disrespected. We need law and order, but we need justice, too.

We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

There is a necessity for police offers to control themselves as well as the people in the streets... Our police are there to help people, not to hurt people.

The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community.

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.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

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

When the penalty for a policeman's mistake is to put a criminal back out on the street, then we are hurting America; we are hurting our law-abiding citizens.

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

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

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

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

The police officer's job is to respect the citizens that they are in control of.

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.

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

Any use of the names of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, in connection with any violence or killing of police, is reprehensible and against the pursuit of justice in both cases.

There's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.

For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding, or when they write you a ticket for parking. The rest of the time is patrolling minority neighborhoods like an occupying army. It's suppression of blacks, and it's revenue enhancement. Surveillance is a Band-Aid. That's like saying, "Let's surveil the SS." No! Let's get rid of the SS!

Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.

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

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.

The term "free society" is a meaningless, empty phrase if it does not mean a society that is free from harassment from its own police.