Wyatt Cenac Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

At a policy level, we can support protecting and serving as opposed to militarization or disproportionate response. Step one is making sure we don't militarize and actually call for a review of military equipment in New York police forces.

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.

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

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.

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

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.

No, I absolutely do not support defunding the police. But it's clear we have been investing too much in force and need to reinvest in understanding and serving our communities.

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

My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

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

Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.

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

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

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

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

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