Hillary Clinton Quotes

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

Calling for police reform is not calling for police retribution.

I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.

I've met with a group of very distinguished, experienced police chiefs a few weeks ago. They admit it's an issue. They've got a lot of concerns.

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

It's about time law enforcement got as organized as organized crime.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

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.

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

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

We need women on the police force and we will have them there some day.

When I was a kid the police just whupped you. Today, they whup you, and then they arrest you in order to protect themselves.

The justice system is confused in trying to understand it, but frankly, if it paid attention to the really blatant cases and did a good job with that, we would be light years ahead of where we are now.

I have a problem with the way the media deals with a lot of law enforcement issues.

The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

Here in Washington State, I've supported efforts to provide our law enforcement with the proper training and resources required to meet their changing and demanding needs of their job. In doing so, I feel that the community and the law enforcement relationship will gratefully benefit from a renewed sense of responsibility and accountability.

I don't support defunding the police.

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

You don't present a show like 'Crimewatch' without developing a real respect for the justice system in this country.

My mother, my relatives, and closest friends have risked their lives in the area of law enforcement and corrections, so I never have and never will say, 'I hate police.'

I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see that, over time, there has been a transformation in the relationship between the police and the community, where now they have a partnership and true collaborative policing, co-policing, to make the community safer overall.

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.

Ending police brutality and mass incarceration. There is a growing left-right support for criminal justice reform.