Bernie Sanders Quotes About Police

Quotes about: Police

• I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

• One of the ongoing crises in America is institutional racism. We have a very broken criminal justice system. We live in a country where there are more people in jail than any other country on Earth. There are some 2.2 million people currently incarcerated and they are disproportionally African American and Hispanic. Unarmed African Americans have been abused and sometimes killed while in police custody. Clearly these are issues that must be dealt with and changed.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, Jail

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Many White people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African Americans, especially younger African Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments. I think for most Whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they don't interact with the police as much as those in the Black community.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, White, Hands

  Source: www.ebony.com

• Kid gets caught with marijuana, that kid has a police record. A Wall Street executive destroys the economy, $5 billion settlement with the government, no criminal record. That is what power is about. That is what corruption is about. And that is what has to change in the United States of America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Kids, Marijuana

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

• In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Kids, Issues

  Source: billmoyers.com

• The police killings of unarmed African Americans has got to stop.

  Bernie Sanders

  African American, Police, Killing

• I talked to a lot of Black Lives activists in various states. What I learned is that the relationship of police departments around the country with the black community is far, far more severe and awful than I had originally known.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Community, Police

  Source: billmoyers.com

• 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.

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Police, Cop

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

• We need to demilitarize local police departments so that they do not look like occupying armies. We want police departments that look like the communities they are serving.

  Bernie Sanders

  Army, Community, Police

  Source: www.ebony.com

• I intend to introduce legislation that will make police accountable for their actions and limit uses of force in cases where it is unnecessary.

  Bernie Sanders

  Police, Limits, Use

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