Quotes About Community

Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost.

My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

I just - I come from a very little town where the militarization of the police force is a very real issue.

I've been learning about defunding our investment in police force mentality, and reinvesting in, what do young people need? What do people who get involved in drugs need, what do families need outside of money to take care of their families?

My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something.

I was a police officer in Augusta, Ga.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.

If I see a police officer behind me, and I can pull over into, like, a shopping center or something, I do it.

My oldest brother was a police officer.

My dream job growing up was to become a police officer.

I know what it's like to be afraid of the police. When you see a police officer, you don't immediately feel safe. You wonder what you've done wrong and what could happen to you.

My father was a police officer in Los Angeles.

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

I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.

Not every officer is a bad police. I work with police officers. I know first responders.

There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.

Most police officers are good cops and good people.

We have police officers who may devalue the life of Black people. And that's what we have to change.

The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.

I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and doing it the right way.

I think that the dialogue between police officers and the black community has to get better, but not better in a way where, 'Oh, let's talk about it when something horrible happens.' The dialogue has to be going on consistently, every day.

Why wouldn't the police officers be on edge? Why wouldn't they be alert? And why wouldn't people in the community trust police officers? Because they are consistently harassing them, and they have experience with police officers doing awful things.