Tim Kaine Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Having the support of our communities is absolutely essential to productive and sustainable crime prevention efforts. While there are law enforcement agencies that have meaningful and transparent relationships with all segments of their communities, it is fair to say that there are other agencies that need to further enhance relationships and build trust within their communities, particularly among disenfranchised segments.

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

This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and the community understanding its role as it continues to work with the police department.

I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.

So we want to make sure that happens is that we build a relationship with the police department and the community that results in better policing and better cooperation with the community.

Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

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

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

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

What I'm really praying is that we, as a people, understand that we are interdependent upon each other. We don't want police to leave; we want policing in our world. But I think that people aren't comfortable with each other.

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

In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that's no longer a community: that's an area that's under siege.

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.