Marvin Gaye Quotes

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

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.

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

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

Respect for law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Twenty times as many people in proportion to the population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain. There are fifty times as many robberies. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any civilized country in the world.

Outside of the killings, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

The increasing crimes in Chennai have become a cause for concern. Chain snatching has become a routine affair.

hooting for 'Savdhaan India' in Mathura made me realise that no matter what place you come from be it a holy city, crime still prevails.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.

In Baltimore they can't do police work to save their lives. Now because of Freddie Gray they're not even getting out of the car and policing corners - they're on a job slowdown, basically. Right now if the police stopped being brutal, if we got police shooting under control, and the use of excessive force, if we have a meaningful societal response to all that stuff, and the racism that underlies it, the question still remains: what are they policing, and why?

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.

The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.

In Britain, everything is policed except crime.

I think when you have Baltimore, which in the first night was practically wiped out or brought back 30 years. Because the police were instructed to stand down. You can't let that happen.

War brings out thieves and peace hangs them.

Targets don't fight crime.

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.