Kiran Bedi Quotes

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

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.

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

Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what do communities do about it?

“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.

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

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.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

As long as I am mayor there will be law and order in Chicago.

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

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.

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

Only an approach combining tough law enforcement with physical, moral and educational revitalization of high-crime areas offers the prospect of a safer America.

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

Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

Targets don't fight crime.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.