Eric Schneiderman Quotes

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

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

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

You need better relationships between the communities and the police, because in some cases, it's not good.

The way you make communities safer and police safer is through community policing.

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

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

We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

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.

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

As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color.

Michael Brown's tragic death has revealed a deep distrust between some in the Ferguson community and its police force. It also developed a need to develop and widely disseminate law enforcement best practices for responding to public demonstrations.

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.

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

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

The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.

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

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.

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

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

I got family members that's police officers. I don't got no problem if you a cop, as long as y'all doing y'all job, and y'all not harassing.

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.

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

Growing up where I'm from, some people are afraid of cops. They don't really like cops. And what a lot of people don't realize is, they're really not the bad guys. They're really on our side, they're really trying to help us out. And sometimes, we don't understand that.