Community Quote by Catherine E. Pugh

We will implement this consent decree because we know that it is in the best interests of our city that the police department and…

— Catherine E. Pugh

Let me just say that we are under the consent decree. There are people in our city [Baltimore] along with the police department and…

— Al Sharpton

There are now that 20 consent decrees in place like the one in Baltimore that are helping put broken police departments on a path…

— Al Sharpton

When we look at cities across the country, Cincinnati, for example, where they have come under DOJ guidance with a consent decree, we see…

— Ronnie Dunn

This is not just an agreement for the police department, this is an agreement that gets the police department working with the community and…

— Al Sharpton

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

— Al Sharpton

I'm not blind to the fact that we have to do a better job with our relationships between the community and police.

— Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

— Chris Christie

Police have both extra constraints and extra permissions - on the one hand, they can't dodge involvement in social disorder as the rest of…

— John Kleinig

We are demanding police transparency and accountability so we can build trust and work together to make our communities safer.

— Malcolm Jenkins

We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into…

— John Kasich

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

— Wyatt Cenac