Remarks as Prepared for Delivery
Thank you, Vice President Rodney Bryant. It is an honor to be with NOBLE here in Cleveland. I would like to begin today by thanking President Brenda Goss Andrews and Executive Director Dwayne Crawford, for inviting me to speak here today and for their leadership and partnership. I would also like to thank the entire Executive Board, Dais, members, and guests here today. Let me also acknowledge that many DOJ colleagues are in attendance.
President Goss Andrews and I have met on several occasions and discussed her priorities – voting, gun safety and recruitment and retention – and I am proud to call her a partner in this work. To note just a couple of ways in which we are aligned in these priorities, the Justice Department has convened law enforcement associations, experts and other stakeholders to inform a forthcoming best practices guide on the law enforcement recruitment and retention crisis, and earlier this year, we published a fact sheet on schoolsafety.gov regarding the safe storage of firearms at home.
I want to focus today on the importance of building and strengthening police-community trust. NOBLE has been at the forefront of having the often uncomfortable conversations we need to have on this topic. We all know that trust and legitimacy are necessary to ensuring public safety. And of course, I say “build” and “strengthen” for a reason – because we also know that trust doesn’t come unless we work for it and nurture it and...
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