“I`m a former mayor. I know that being a cop is not an easy job. But when police officers misbehave, they`ve got to be held accountable.” KnowsJobsEasyPoliceFormerOfficersCopMayorsPolice Officer Author:Bernie Sanders
“Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.” StoriesBlackWhiteRaceStreetsMediaYouthInvolvedRacismHatredPoliceStrangerChiefsTargetGangMayorsTiptoesBlack Youth Author:Thomas Sowell
“A city suffering from chronic poverty, out-of-control crime, a $76 million budget deficit and a 15 percent unemployment rate (nearly 50 percent for Oakland's youth) can hardly afford such social justice follies. But a pushover Democratic mayor and an overwhelmed police force have left what's left of gainfully employed Oakland taxpayers at the mercy of professional freeloaders and anti-capitalism saboteurs.” SufferingLeftForceSocialJusticeCitiesPovertyMillionsCrimeYouthPercentCapitalismMercyPoliceSocial JusticeDemocraticRateBudgetsFollyUnemploymentEmployedOverwhelmedDeficitTaxpayersMayorsPolice ForceOaklandBudget DeficitUnemployment RateSaboteursPushovers Author:Michelle Malkin
“In a moment when young black voters were key to the election and the reelection of a black president, when the Department of Justice has been led these years by the first two African-American attorneys general, when many big cities boast African-American league prosecutors and police chiefs and mayors, even in this moment, why is it that it still feels to so many young people that there is more power for change on the court than in the courts?” PeopleFeelsYearsFirstsHas BeensStillsTwoMomentsBigsYoungBlackPresidentJusticeCitiesKeysPoliceElectionCourtChiefsAfrican AmericanLeagueDepartmentVotersBoastAttorneyMayorsBig CitiesProsecutorReelection Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“You also had in Detroit that summer, an early variation of Ferguson. A black prostitute was shot in the back by police. And all of the efforts that a very progressive police chief and mayor of that period had put into trying to restore race relations started to fall apart again, and you could see that unraveling for several years until the riots or rebellion of 1967.” TryingYearsFallBlackEffortRacePeriodsSummerShotsRelationPoliceChiefsRebellionProgressiveFalling ApartVariationRace RelationsRiotMayorsDetroitFergusonUnraveling Author:David Maraniss
“If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.” IfsGirlPresidentPoliceClintonChiefsSenatorsMayors Author:Amy Klobuchar
“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.” NeedsGivingWellsTwoDoneTogetherJobsCommunityNew YorkPoliceCreditChiefsExcellentBoardsMayors Author:Hillary Clinton
“When I ran for mayor of New York City, the first time, some people voted eight and ten times. And second time I had firefighters and police officers outside checking on the buses so we take down the number of the bus, the bus had voted ten times, and wouldn't let the bus vote again.” PeopleFirstsNumbersCitiesNew YorkTenFirst TimeVotePoliceEightRanBusNew York CityOfficersMayorsPolice OfficerFirefighter Author:Rudy Giuliani
“For me to come in as the mayor already recognizing some of the problems that we were facing and also having put some of those reforms in place, I recognize what the advocates were talking about. I also recognize what the police department`s concerns were and what the community in general was concerned about.” ProblemCommunityTalkingConcernConcernedPoliceReformDepartmentRecognizingMayorsPolice Department Author:Catherine E. Pugh
“I will lobby tirelessly in cooperation with other mayors around the country to insure that federal funding for our recently added police officers continues.” CountryPoliceCooperationOfficersFundingMayorsPolice Officer Author:Alan Autry
“When I was sworn in as Mayor of Nashville back in 1991, I have to admit to you that I felt for several weeks like a bit of an outsider who had somehow taken over but didnt really belong in this nice palace. I secretly wondered if the real mayor would come back from vacation one day and call the police.” IfsRealFeltBitsTakenNiceWeekOne DayPoliceVacationOutsidersPalacesMayorsNashville Author:Phil Bredesen
“Our supportfor assault weapons ban is very broad...I think we've got all the police, we have all the mayors virtually - the conference of mayors, mayors against guns. We have medical experts, we have virtually dozens of religious organizations of every creed supporting us. We have just lists and lists.” ThinkingReligiousWeaponsGunOrganizationPoliceMedicalListsExpertsBroadsDozenCreedsAssaultConferencesBansMayorsSecond AmendmentAssault WeaponsAssault Weapons Ban Author:Dianne Feinstein
“Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and frisk is like asking an arsonist to help you put out fires. Bratton along with his partner Giuliani started and supported racial profiling stops. A new progressive mayor? I think not!” ThinkingHelpingFireAskingPoliceBillsPartnersHeightHypocrisyProgressiveMayorsAppointmentsRacial ProfilingCommissionersArsonistsStop And Frisk Author:Charles Barron
“Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That doesn't mean the police in London is not independent and does not exercise powers. Ultimately it is the political executive that has to answer.” MeanDoeTwoPoliticalAnswersExerciseOfficePoliceIndependentLondonExecutivesMayorsCommissioners Author:P. Chidambaram