Rahm Emanuel Quotes

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I grew up in a world of Officer Friendly. It was just the image I had.

I've, in fact, very specifically said I don't support defunding the police.

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

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

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.

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.