Roy Blunt Quotes

Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

I don't support defunding the police.

There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.

I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.

I do believe that supporting our First Amendment rights and supporting local law enforcement are not mutually exclusive.

I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.

I do not support the idea of defunding police departments. I believe that it does nothing to solve the root problems we must address and it makes our communities less safe.

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

We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.

A major loss by a Democratic prosecutor at the hands of the BLM movement could alter the political landscape in a way that might actually change the way prosecutors, and ultimately police departments, operate.

The worst teacher in America could never do as much damage as the worst police officer in America. But the right wing has never even been slightly curious about evaluating the job performance of police officers.

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.

How can we bridge the gap between... African-American males and white cops?

I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and doing it the right way.

We need to restore the faith and trust between law enforcement and communities across the country.

There have to be consequences for police who take the law into their own hands. There has to be a shift in the use-of-force policies that are used in departments across the country.

I understand what's going on in this world. But cops have to go home at the end of the day. They have a family. They have to go home, too.

At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing.

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.

We need to statutize what is permissible and what is not permissible. If a law enforcement agent uses a clearly unapproved technique like the knee that was on the neck of George Floyd for over eight minutes, no law enforcement agent thinks that that's right and that officer should be held accountable.

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

Dismantle DHS' is merely an echo of 'Abolish ICE' and 'Defund the Police.'