Quotes About Safety

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

The police belongs to the people and the people belong to the police.

I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.

I know there are some good American police. But I grew up in a country where we were afraid of the police.

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

I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

I think our police do an excellent job, day in and day out, working to keep us safe.

I don't know if it's true or not that folks are less likely to tell police when they see things.

I myself have been scrutinized by militarized police, but I know officers who actually handle themselves in a certain way that makes me feel safe.

The police protect us, and we're going to protect the police.

When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.

If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long enough to know and respect the people the officers are called on to protect and serve.

If you have a problem, the NYPD is the greatest police force to the world.

There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.

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.

With all the foreign aid the United State does... can't we afford to put a police officer in every single school?

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.

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.