I have a lot of respect for our police forces. They are generally honest and effective.
We are very grateful for what the Ontario provincial government is doing, and for cooperation from provincial and local police forces all across Canada.
Police forces collect information to be used in a public court to get people convicted. Security services gather information that does not necessarily lead to people being prosecuted and in many cases needs to remain confidential.
Cops have been complaining about morale since police forces were created. I used to complain about it a lot when I was a young cop.
We have to have a national conversation about how police forces should interact with the African-American community, who happens to be paying their salary, who want to be served and protected, who these officers are take an oath to do so.
The danger to a black child in America is not a white police officer. The danger is another black.
Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
Even in the best of times, there is no tougher calling than serving as a police officer.
Serving as a police officer is the toughest job in our country. As they put themselves on the line to keep us safe, they deserve our gratitude and support.
I've been a police officer for over 20 years, and I've investigated murders and all kinds of different crimes.
It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.
If a police officer is looking for a criminal, he or she might stop a number of people in that particular area and ask to see their driver's license. No one bellyaches about civil rights or privacy issues. We're just happy the cops are trying to find the bad guy.
If I see a police officer behind me, and I can pull over into, like, a shopping center or something, I do it.
Now, can some cops be overbearing, rude? Yeah. But we have a process for that. Do what the officer tells you to do, and file a complaint. That's the process. You don't attack a police officer on the street or resist arrest because you think you're being hassled.
Lives are saved when those potential killers are confronted by a police officer, a strong police presence and actual, honest-to-goodness, up-close 'What are you guys doing on this corner at 1 o'clock in the morning' policing. We need to be careful it doesn't drift away from us in the age of viral videos, or there will be profound consequences.
You used to think the suspect was the guy with the cornrows; now you see the police officers with the cornrows.
Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my police officers on Park Avenue and none in Harlem, thousands and thousands more blacks would've been killed during the eight years that I was mayor.
A functioning police state needs no police.
You show me a highly unequal society, and I will show you a police state. Or an uprising. There are no counterexamples. None. It's not if, it's when.
I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.
