John Kasich Quotes

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

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

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.

What we need in our countries is a good police force with a civilian mentality and some cheap light arms, not an army that needs to maintain its power with sophisticated weapons

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

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

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.

Twenty-first century policing reform will require increased investment in law enforcement, not defunding it.

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

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

Everybody has a stake in the story of policing.

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.

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.

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

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

Here's what I learned as a mayor and a governor. The way you make communities safer and the way you make police safer is through community policing. You build the bonds between the community and the police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.

I believe in community policing.