Al Sharpton Quotes

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

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.

Community policing is a great idea. It's worked in the Hoosier state.

Here's what I learned as a mayor and a governor. The way you make communities safer and the way you make police safer is through community policing. You build the bonds between the community and the police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.

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

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

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.

Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It is a problem that has festered in this city for decades.

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.

If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve.

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

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

We need to have law enforcement and the African-American community work together for the safety of everybody.

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.

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals.

In Boston where community policing is so important, they don't necessarily have to like each other, but they know each other. The cops in Boston make it their business to get out of their vehicles, to engage the public, to walk around the neighborhoods. They live in the community that they police. And I think these things help.

You build the bonds through the community and police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.

They [American Muslim community] need to have close working cooperation with law enforcement in these communities, not be alienated and pushed away as some of Donald's [Trump] rhetoric, unfortunately, has led to.

The most effective weapon against crime is cooperation... The efforts of all law enforcement agencies with the support and understanding of the American people.

We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

We need to rebuild bonds of trust between our police officers and our communities.

I'm going to do everything I can to restore trust and build back those bonds between the police and communities.