Jaime Harrison Quotes

We must transform the relationship between police and the communities they serve.

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

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.

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

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

I don't support defunding the police.

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.

There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the police by the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve.

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.

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.

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

Calling for police reform is not calling for police retribution.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

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.

Law enforcement must be guardians in our communities, not warriors against our own people.

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

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

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

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

I'm dedicated to healing the wounds between police and minority communities so both sides feel safe again.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

I wouldn't call it "police reform," but I would say that police procedure enhancement could be helpful - these police shootings are absolutely horrible.

The horrific cases in Ferguson, in Staten Island with the death of Eric Garner, and all across the country serve as stark reminders that we must have a say in who polices us, and how that policing is done. We must, we must, let our voices be heard on Election Day.