Al Sharpton Quotes

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

There are 18,000 different police forces in the United States and sometimes something wrong happens.

I think maybe there's a political reason why Hillary Clinton can't say it, but I really don't believe - in New York City, stop-and-frisk, we had 2,200 murders, and stop-and-frisk brought it down to 500 murders.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

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

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

The N.Y.P.D. does not use police officers in any capacity to distribute misinformation.

In other words, in order to capture criminals, the law enforcement agencies must act criminally—a little lawbreaking does wonders for law and order.

I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class.

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

The investigators were repeatedly told not by sensation mongers but by observers of high position and ability, long experience and unquestioned disinterestedness that the courts know that some of the prosecutors are crooked and the prosecutors know that some of the courts are crooked, and both know that some of the police are crooked, and the police are equally well informed as to them. If a policeman or detective who has worked hard and effectively to land a bad criminal in jail sees him get off through improper influences, he will tend to be less zealous in the next prosecution. He will be inclined to take the easiest course and merely try to get a confession without a too nice regard for the means employed.

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

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

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.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Police work in major cities - and New York is no exception - has always been vulnerable to corruption. Teddy Roosevelt built his career on it.

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.

If you have a problem, the NYPD is the greatest police force to the world.

When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.

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.

The NYPD, they're the finest in the world.

Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime.