Killer Mike Quotes

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

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

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

In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

I try to bridge the gap between police and local communities.

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

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

The police need to come down to street level.

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.

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

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.

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.

When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

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.

We can't pick out certain incidentals that don't go our way and act like the cops are all bad... Do you know how bad some of these neighborhoods would be if it wasn't for the cops?

Serious debates are taking place about how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve, about the appropriate use of force.

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

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

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.

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.

Law enforcement must be guardians in our communities, not warriors against our own people.