African american Quote by Mark Shields

Our neighborhoods are safer when there is trust between communities and the police who are in charge of protecting them.

— Pete Buttigieg

Building trust between the community and police department is crucial. It makes the department stronger and our neighborhoods safer.

— Kevin Faulconer

The tragedy is that the police and inner city communities should be allies. Who suffers most from violent crime in America? Inner city communities.…

— Don Winslow

We have to restore trust between communities and the police.

— Hillary Clinton

We were raised in the black community not to trust the police, and I believe, in the white community, they were raised to actually…

— Courtney B. Vance

I would love to get to a point where people do trust the police and the police trust the citizens, and there is a…

— Cedric Yarbrough

The relationship between police and African-Americans has probably always been strained.

— Harrison Barnes

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

Fighting crime requires a partnership between the police and the community. And we all know that this partnership has been tested in Chicago. It…

— Rahm Emanuel

This feeling African-Americans have, this skepticism towards the police and the skepticism that the police show towards African-Americans is actually quite old. And it…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

How can we bridge the gap between... African-American males and white cops?

— GloZell

In communities of color, such as Ferguson, it often feels like the police are protecting the white community from us instead of protecting our…

— W. Kamau Bell