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When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

I'm an equal-opportunity law-enforcement guy - I lock everybody up.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.

There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

State and local law enforcement are the primary protectors of the health, safety, and welfare of the people in the individual states.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.