Hillary: David Dinkins Helped Clean up Crime in NYC

“The president has provided the idea of matching funds to state and local governments investing in body cameras. We should go even further and make this the norm everywhere and we should listen to law enforcement leaders who are calling for a renewed focus on working with communities to prevent crime, rather than measuring success just by the number of arrests or convictions. 

As your senator from New York, I supported a greater emphasis on community policing, along with putting more officers on the street to get to know those communities. David Dinkins was an early pioneer of this policy. His leadership helped lay the foundation for dramatic drops in crime in the years that followed.” (Applause)