Sheila Jackson Lee Quotes

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

Calling for police reform is not calling for police retribution.

There are those who profess to support law enforcement but who have attempted to undermine the efforts of hard-working officers who make difficult decisions.

In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.

I don't support defunding the police.

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

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

Nobody wants bad cops off the street more than good cops.

Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a revolution of the police force here in Venezuela, and I will carry it out without delay, without excuses.

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

As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.

What we need in our countries is a good police force with a civilian mentality and some cheap light arms, not an army that needs to maintain its power with sophisticated weapons

American police departments, by and large, are less corrupt than any other police departments in the world.

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

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.

The way police do what they do is under the microscope. You've got people on the one side saying, 'We need to be holding our police accountable.' And you've got a lot of people who support the police saying they're being 'unfairly vilified.'

Twenty-first century policing reform will require increased investment in law enforcement, not defunding it.

I think the more we see more officers holding each other accountable, the more we will see people trust cops in this country.

We had a cop or two that were questionable, and probably they shouldn't have been on the job, but they were. You have that: a police department reflects the community that it serves, and it's going to have a bad apple or two, but when those bad apples are discovered, they need to be discarded as quickly as possible so the whole bureau doesn't rot.

I think that a lot of these cops have been put in very difficult situations and tasked with very difficult jobs with very little training and very little help.

For me, in trying to talk about something like policing, it's such a huge issue, and it's an issue that's very local and very personalized to communities, to cities, to legislators, and so, in that way, I think as we started looking into talking about policing, the thing that you realize is that you can't paint everything with the same brush.

People see police officers and think they're such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.

I've, in fact, very specifically said I don't support defunding the police.

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.

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