Al Sharpton Quotes

Senator [Jeff] Sessions says people, cities sign these decrees because they don't want to be sued by the justice department, as if he is, in some ways, questioning whether the things that are in these decrees are necessary and warranted.

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.

Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those recommendations will be helpful as we continue to count on them to protect us.

We need to work for a day when police shootings are rare and not the stuff of our daily news.

It is clear we can make reforms to better ensure we are giving law enforcement all of the tools they need while maintaining the appropriate safeguards to protect the very freedoms we cherish.

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.

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.

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

I could not stay if the White House was going to engage in activities for which the Justice Department had determined that there was no legal basis.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

I don't understand it and haven't understood in this world of technology: where every building has a camera, every ATM has a camera, why don't we have cameras on police officers?

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.

It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.

While bad cops should face the full consequence of the law, the overwhelming majority of good cops have earned our support.

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

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.

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

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

Despite claims that there are good and bad cops, we know that the system is failing everyone - including the police.

Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.

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.

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.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

I certainly have written a lot about police in my life, and it's not only something that I know about, but always something that interests me.