Lynn Whitfield Quotes

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.

Having the support of our communities is absolutely essential to productive and sustainable crime prevention efforts. While there are law enforcement agencies that have meaningful and transparent relationships with all segments of their communities, it is fair to say that there are other agencies that need to further enhance relationships and build trust within their communities, particularly among disenfranchised segments.

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

I want to foster a positive relationship between police officers and the communities they protect.

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

Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.

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.

You need better relationships between the communities and the police, because in some cases, it's not good.

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

So the first task of a police force is not to fight crime and enforce the law. It is to establish legitimacy with the law-abiding citizenry and then fight crime and enforce the law.

The biggest qualification to be a good police officer is to have a high degree of emotional intelligence.

Obama believes the cops are the problem. That's why his new philosophy is to have them withdraw and refrain and not be seen because just their presence is provocative.

I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

I live in the Hollywood Hills. When I see a cop driving around there, I actually assume that he has my best interests at heart and that he has the best interests of my property at heart. I think if you'd go to Pasadena, they'd say the same thing. And I think if you knocked on doors in Glendale and asked them, they'd say the same thing.

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

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

It's been my desire to support efforts to aim at healing the relationship between law enforcement and the community.

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 thank the officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, who work hard every day to help people in their most vulnerable moments, keep our communities safe, and build relationships and trust with the public.

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

I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.

I try to bridge the gap between police and local communities.