Michael Parenti Quotes

If crime went down 100 percent it would still be 50 percent higher than it should be.

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.

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

Russia spends enormous, senseless amounts of money on the army and the police. We have one of the top rankings in the world when it comes to the number of police officers - but when it comes to the number of murders, we are also right at the top.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

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

The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

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

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.

The 4 policeman

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

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

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

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.

Having the support of our communities is absolutely essential to productive and sustainable crime prevention efforts. While there are law enforcement agencies that have meaningful and transparent relationships with all segments of their communities, it is fair to say that there are other agencies that need to further enhance relationships and build trust within their communities, particularly among disenfranchised segments.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

All I know is for a number of years, if someone like me called police for a burglary, a mugging, or something happened to me, chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up before a policeman.

While crime is indeed up in some cities in the last month or so since the stay-at-home orders lifted, crime is nonetheless down overall for 2020. Indeed, violent crime has trended downward now for decades.