06/18/2013
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"Maybe most of all, thanks to your faith in our democracy and the American people, the country is better off than when you took office, and we should all be deeply grateful for that."
"President Obama's commission on policing said one of the concerns is that too many cops now have this us-against-them mentality. It's guardian, not warrior."
"Law enforcement culture should embrace a guardian – rather than a warrior – mindset to build trust and legitimacy, both within agencies and within the public."
"Nobody who met us as younger men would have expected us to be where we are today."