Betsy Hodges Quotes

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.

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

Any law enforcement authority can only be of value if the people support the law enforcement authority.

New Yorkers must be able to trust the men and women of the NYPD. They must come forward to report crimes. And they must come forward as witnesses.

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

Building trust between law enforcement officers and the communities we serve is one of my highest priorities as attorney general.

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

I want to regain the trust of the Brazilian people and all the sectors of society.

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

We must never take the public's trust for granted - our predecessors worked hard to earn it, and it is our responsibility to continually earn that trust.

I want the country to be proud of our police.

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.

Our kids' lives depend upon keeping them safe. That has to be a fundamental duty and responsibility for me as mayor. That means we have to continue hard but necessary work of bridging the divide between police and communities they serve.

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.

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.

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

In the Middle East persons were more trusted than institutions.

You have to be careful about reform. If you can't trust the system weren't bad shape.

We live at a time when people do not have much trust in government.

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

What I have seen in my travels across this country is the dedication, the commitment, and the resolve of our brave men and women in law enforcement to improving policing, to embracing the 21st Century Task Force recommendations, and to continuing to have a dialogue that makes our country safer for all.

I find that people want aggressive policing if they as a community feel they are part of it. They don't want aggressive policing if they feel it's being imposed upon them and they are a target.

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