In too many ways, Ohio is being run for the benefit of those who have already made it, and too many of our friends and neighbors are being left behind. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cuts to police officers, firefighters, nurses, teachers, and to our local schools, while property and sales taxes are going up.

Instead of speaking about defunding the police, we should be advocating ways to create partnerships and promoting connectivity between communities and police officers.

I've got hundreds of friends who are police officers. I work with the police.

The government, as a rule, discourages specialization: Military officers and diplomats are constantly transferred from one post to another, from one region to the next. Still, specialists do emerge.

When you have all these new police officers and resource officers coming into schools, what I'm worried is going to happen is we're going to increase the school-to-prison pipeline, which disproportionately affects students of color and lower social status.

The vast majority of law enforcement officers conduct themselves in really honorable, appropriate ways.

I had been pulled over quite a bit by police officers, especially in Santa Monica and Culver City.

We're getting rid of bureaucracy, so that we're releasing time for police officers to be crime fighters and not form writers.

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

I have quite a few good friends in Philadelphia who were police officers.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

My accident happened in what should have been one of the safest places to be: in a police station, at the hands of trained police officers. So more guns are not the answer.

Officers are not fruit. I can't pick them off a tree.

I learned a lot in the naval officers' course. It gave me a lot.

We don't ever want to create an environment where people are afraid of their own local police officers.

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.

Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

Our officers are on the front lines - the first to show up on the scene of a crime. They should be respected; not ridiculed. They and their families protected; not put at risk.

There are many avenues to peacefully protest, but those rights don't extend to illegal actions, breaching security perimeters, and threatening police officers.

I would not put C.I.A. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again.