Quotes About Policing

There has to be a readjustment of resources that is being diverted to police and policing as opposed to community health services, and there certainly has to be control over the police by the communities that they are supposed to protect and serve.

There's more we can do as a community to try to change what policing looks like in our cities.

American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.

Race is something that's always haunted American policing.

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

I'll be honest with you: I think that it's really difficult, this framing around 'good cops' and 'bad cops.' Policing, as a system, is incredibly corrupt, period.

Through Black Lives Matter and social media, we've been able to have a really challenging discussion with America about police and how much it is investing in policing.

I'm really looking for an agenda that looks at safety for our communities beyond policing.

Good counter-terrorism is when you have close relationships between the policing and intelligence services.

We need to have something that is reworked, that deals with immigration, that is not thinking in terms of policing.

I know there are those in the community who, rather than have us invest more in policing, even for community policing, instead want us to disinvest in the police department. We need a police department. We are going to have a police department.

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn't do full public order training, you couldn't carry a firearm as a woman in the Met until 1988, there were no women dog handlers, and there was probably one woman in CID.

It's not for me to challenge operational policing based on one story in the media.

Why aren't there enough black cops out there? We need black cops to come in and educate some of the white cops who have issues.

A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.

To an extent I agree that the FA hasn't done that much to tackle the problem of racism, but it's hard to police racism for the FA. How do they police it? Unless someone makes people aware of what has happened within a stadium, the FA would never know that it is happening.

Women deal with real issues with policing that don't really get talked about.

Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.

How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

As an early advocate for neighborhood policing, I've been heartened to see the tangible impact of police officers spending less time in their station houses and more time on our street corners, developing collaborative relationships with residents and businesses that help us fight and deter crime.

Wasn't that the way of things now? Everybody thought they were better at policing than cops. Cops were suddenly the enemy.