WASHINGTON Indiana Gov. Mike Pence (R) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) were asked about law enforcement and race relations during the vice presidential debate on Tuesday.

Kaine, who is sharing a ticket with Hillary Clinton, said the way to create better relationships between cops and communities is through community policing.

The way you make police safer is through community policing, he said, emphasizing that a stronger bond needs to be built between communities and law enforcement. When that gap narrows, it is safer for communities and for the police. That model works across our country.

He then turned his attention to the tough-on-crime, law and order policies of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Donald Trump recently said we need to do more stop and frisk around the country. That would be a big mistake because it polarizes the relationship between the police and the community, Kaine said.

Trump claimed during the first presidential debate that stop and frisk brought crime way down in New York, which isnt true. Stop and frisk was struck down in 2013 by a federal judge who called the policy a demeaning and humiliating experience for people of color and a policy of indirect racial profiling.