Kiran Bedi Quotes

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

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

If you want to cut down crime in America, give people some jobs.

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

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

Crime is the number one problem in Russia.

I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…

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

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.

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

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

Targets don't fight crime.

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

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.

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

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Trying to solve the crime problem by building more prison cells is like trying to solve the problem of AIDS by building more hospitals.

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

Crime is contagious.

There is no system of regulation or law that can prevent crime, white collar or otherwise.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidate's proposals, but about perceived character and values.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.