Tom Steyer Quotes

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

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.

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 have to restore trust between communities and the police.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

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 NYPD has taken steps to engage marginalized communities and attempts to bridge gaps between these neighborhoods and those sworn to protect and serve them.

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

We need to restore the faith and trust between law enforcement and communities across the country.

I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.

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

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 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.

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.