Richard J. Daley Quotes

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.

My 26 years experience as a police officer and official, including command of two police districts, tells me that unfortunately the only short-term response that can counter the on-street violence and offer neighborhoods relief from crime and drugs is aggressive law enforcement.... Cities and states have made police the institution of first response rather than of last resort in addressing this crisis.

Crime is not going to be stopped by police departments. You have to have police departments but alone they cannot stop crime.

More cops on our streets and in our neighborhoods mean safer streets and neighborhoods.

If the police need more help to do their work, I will not hesitate in granting it to them.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

Without the punishment of the Death by a Thousand Cuts, I am afraid people in China would have nothing to fear … and before long there would be more and more criminals, and it would be hard to ensure peace and stability.

It's time to make America safe again. It's time to make America one again. I know it can be done because I did it by changing New York City from 'the crime capital of America' to - according to the FBI - the safest large city in America. What I did for New York City, Donald Trump will do for America.

No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.

Fundamentally, we need to make sure that our neighborhoods are safe - all of our neighborhoods.

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public safety and fighting for the resources we need.

Donald Trump and I are going to make sure that law enforcement have the resources and the tools to be able to really restore law and order to the cities and communities in America.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

And not go to things that sound good that really did not have the kind of impact that we would want. Who disagrees with keeping neighborhoods safe?

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.

The police need to come down to street level.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.