Hillary Clinton Quotes About Police
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Mental health is one of the biggest concerns, because now police are having to handle a lot of really difficult mental health problems on the street.
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I've met with a group of very distinguished, experienced police chiefs a few weeks ago. They admit it's an issue. They've got a lot of concerns.
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Right now - and this is something Donald [Trump] has supported, along with the gun lobby - right now, we've got too many military- style weapons on the streets. In a lot of places, our police are outgunned. We need comprehensive background checks, and we need to keep guns out of the hands of those who will do harm.
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I think one of the big problems we have got - and police tell me this - is most police don't know how to deal with mental health problems. And so we need better mental health response.
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We have to restore trust between communities and the police.
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We need to rebuild bonds of trust between our police officers and our communities.
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I don't think the police, even if we train them, can be, you know, as good as psychologists and psychiatrists and others knowing what is happening to somebody. So we've got to have a more coherent, comprehensive approach.
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I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in America jump to conclusions about each other.
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We have to work to make sure that our police are using the best training, the best techniques, that they're well prepared to use force only when necessary.
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We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.
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I think we're all safer when the police respect the communities they're supposed to serve, and the communities respect the law.
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If you get arrested, you`re supposed to know why you`re arrested. So, Freddie Gray should have known why he was arrested. His friends, his family, his community, they should have known what he was charged with, why he was arrested. And the police should have come out with that right away.
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African-American men are more likely to be killed in police incidents, stopped and searched, and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of similar crimes. Behind these statistics are heart-wrenching stories of lives cut short and families ripped apart.
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We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.
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The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.
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The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African- American men, more than the next nine causes put together. So we have to do two things, as I said. We have to restore trust. We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.
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Rebuilding our communities where the police and citizens all see themselves as being on the same side will require contributions from all of us.
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New York has done an excellent job. And I give credit - I give credit across the board going back two mayors, two police chiefs, because it has worked. And other communities need to come together to do what will work, as well.
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When it comes to policing, since it can have literally fatal consequences, I have said, in my first budget, we would put money into that budget to help us deal with implicit bias by retraining a lot of our police officers.
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We need better police training.
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I'm going to do everything I can to restore trust and build back those bonds between the police and communities.
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[Police chiefs ] want support, they want more training, they want more assistance. And I think the federal government could be in a position where we would offer and provide that.
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We also have to recognize, in addition to the challenges that we face with policing, there are so many good, brave police officers who equally want reform.
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Hillary Clinton
- Born: October 26, 1947
- Occupation: Former United States Secretary of State
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