Greg Boyle Quotes

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.

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

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.

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

We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.

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

Without a beat officer system, there can be no crime prevention or supportive investigation. This is the very foundation of sound policing. It is the beat officer who connects with the common man on a daily basis and is the five senses of his area.

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

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

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

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

I believe in community policing.

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

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

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.

I want to foster a positive relationship between police officers and the communities they protect.

The power of community policing is in the relationship. This can happen only if an officer sticks around for a while.

Chicago is where the whole idea of community policing began. It remains the - the best and the most comprehensive approach we have in changing the everyday conditions that breed crime and violence - and then breed mistrust. We have more work to do. We need better training to live up to the values and the principles of community policing.

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