Al Sharpton Quotes

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

The full resources of the Department of Justice have been committed to the investigation into Michael Brown's death.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

I think we need to rethink our ideas about what policing is and should be. I think we need to rethink our ideas about the criminal justice system as a whole, including the hysterically named corrections system. I mean, what's being corrected? Look, none of it's working.

Every American expects and deserves the protection of law enforcement that is effective, responsive, respectful and, most importantly, constitutional.

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

You can truly grieve for every officer who's been lost in the line of duty in this country, and still be troubled by cases of police overreach.

The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.

Law enforcement in America is a force for good.

I believe very firmly that dash cams and body cams should be instituted for every single police officer in this country. Admit it, isn't it true that you behave differently when people are watching you? You chew with your mouth closed and you mind your table manners because people are watching. Cops are no different. Dash cams and body cams should be standard operating procedure.

I have long believed that there is no finer group than those who serve in the Department of Justice.

There is nothing just or fair about what happened to Jordan Edwards. And his story is yet another in a long line of tragedies that now powerfully remind us of the long way we still have to go in creating a fair and just relationship between law enforcement, our criminal justice system, and the public our laws are supposed to protect.

We should limit qualified immunity and change the standard for bringing cases against officers who violate victims' civil and Constitutional rights.

I think that a lot of these cops have been put in very difficult situations and tasked with very difficult jobs with very little training and very little help.

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 understand what's going on in this world. But cops have to go home at the end of the day. They have a family. They have to go home, too.

People see police officers and think they're such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.

We can bring this country together. But we must realize that our heroes in blue are part of the solution and not the problem.

There's no question that, in nearly seven weeks of nightly demonstrations, the police have done many things right, and they've done some things wrong as well.

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

There's a lot of good police officers. There's thousands of perfect traffic stops. Lot of good men. Lot of good women. But those don't get the stories.

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.

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

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.