Aljamain Sterling Quotes

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.

Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders.

We want the police to be young, educated, and have a completely different outlook.

I think one of the things you have to learn if you're going to create believable characters is never to make generalizations about groups of people.

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

When it comes to police officers, I have concerns about the training that they receive. This whole notion of implicit bias, looking at people and having stereotypical reactions to them on the basis of their ethnicity.

In order for us to respect law enforcement, it is necessary for law enforcement to respect us.

Education helps one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Why aren't there enough black cops out there? We need black cops to come in and educate some of the white cops who have issues.

I want our police officers to have the resources and training they need to investigate hate crime fully, and to ensure we have neighborhood police teams that understand and reflect the communities they serve.

While we have come a long way, we must go further if we are to ensure greater diversity and truly modern police forces that reflect the communities they serve and provide police officers able to tackle not only traditional crime but also the changing face of crime.

Just because we finally have a Latino family on TV doesn't mean we're up there to lecture people about what it means to be Latino.

It's clear that the NYPD has prioritized creating a force as diverse as the vibrant city it protects.

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

The growth of race relations management, diversity training and 'promoting good relations' has come at a cost. We are more sensitized to racism, yet far less confident in talking to each other as human beings with similar hopes, problems and aspirations.

I want to change how people perceived me when I came over here, change how the people perceive South-East Asians or Middle Eastern or Muslim or Hindu or whatever their identity is. I want them to just let that go and treat the performer as a performer.

I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to do.

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.

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 need better police training.

Police officers are the best of us. And the men and women, white, African-American, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, they put their lives on the line every single day. And let my say community policing is a great idea. It's worked in the Hoosier state. And we fully support that. Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in this nation.

President Trump rightly points out that law enforcement is mostly made up of good people putting themselves in harm's way to protect us. He lauds the men and women in blue and often talks about the need to make it easier for the cops to do their jobs.

The first rule of multiculturalism is that you can't talk about multiculturalism.

We talk a lot about our identities, and we talk a lot about working to clear misconceptions about those identities. But it'd be really cool to see someone like myself not even have to talk about being Muslim or Egyptian, because it's just understood. We can all just be weird and not have to explain everything.