William J. Bratton Quotes

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.

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

You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community.

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

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

Under Superintendent Johnson's leadership, our police department is on a path to earn the respect of every community in the City of Chicago.

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

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

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

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.

We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.

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.

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

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.

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

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

We have to bring back respect to law enforcement.

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

You need better relationships between the communities and the police, because in some cases, it's not good.But you look at Dallas, where the relationships were really studied, the relationships were really a beautiful thing, and then five police officers were killed one night very violently.

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.

We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.