Hillary Clinton Quotes

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.

I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.

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.

It's been my desire to support efforts to aim at healing the relationship between law enforcement and the community.

We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.

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

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

Cops should not be separate from the black community or any community. Their salaries are paid for by the communities they police. They should be working for the communities they police. But as we saw in Ferguson, Missouri, they are not always doing that.

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 don't need police officers who see themselves as warriors. We need police officers who see themselves as guardians and parts of the community. You can't police a community that you're not a part of.

We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The police, at their best, do three things; they prevent crime, they respond to crime, and they solve crime. In all three of those buckets, they need the trust of the community to do it, so I believe that if we restore the trust that we will change the way police are experiencing communities and ways that will preserve life and make everyone safer.

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

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

I'm dedicated to healing the wounds between police and minority communities so both sides feel safe again.

No, I absolutely do not support defunding the police. But it's clear we have been investing too much in force and need to reinvest in understanding and serving our communities.

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.