Ann Coulter Quotes

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

When crime was spiking in our communities, Dad wrote the crime bill that put 100,000 cops on the streets and led to an eight-year drop in crime across the country.

Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department.

Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

To control violence [and other crime] requires a police system of professional investigations and good equipment. We don’t have it.

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

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

Fighting crime is not cheap, because it requires boots on the ground.

“I’m going to stop crime in the streets.” A president is pressured to make that promise even though a President can’t do anything about street crime.

There is little evidence that the length of a sentence, as opposed to its certainty, has significant deterrent effects. If we cut sentences in half across the board, there is no reason to believe we’d see an appreciable rise in crime, and over time we would most likely see a large drop in the prison population.

The United States makes up 5 percent of the world’s population yet has 25% of its prison population.

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.

We here in America make up 5 percent of the world’s population, but we make up 25 percent of jailed prisoners. We have now over 3000 … Federal crimes.

One per cent of the U.S. population are in prison. In Iran, it’s .2 per cent, and most of them are drug traffickers. Nobody is talking about prisoners in the United States. Should there be an international determination against human-rights abuses in United States prisons? Is there any interest on the part of international organizations to do this? I don’t think so.

Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Targets don't fight crime; they hinder the fight against crime.

Thousands of people go to jail, go to prison, every year without even meeting with an attorney.

If anything, we have an under-incarceration problem.

The truth is you cannot decrease the severity and certainty of sentences without increasing crime. It's simply impossible.

The claim that too many criminals are being jailed, that there is over-incarceration, ignores an unfortunate fact: For the vast majority of crimes, a perpetrator is never identified or arrested, let alone prosecuted, convicted and jailed.

The police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.