Michael Bloomberg Quotes

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.

To control violence [and other crime] requires a police system of professional investigations and good equipment. We don’t have it.

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

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

Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.

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

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

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

My 26 years experience as a police officer and official, including command of two police districts, tells me that unfortunately the only short-term response that can counter the on-street violence and offer neighborhoods relief from crime and drugs is aggressive law enforcement.... Cities and states have made police the institution of first response rather than of last resort in addressing this crisis.

There's nothing we [the Congress] can do to eliminate crime.

“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.

A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

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.

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.

Having a police presence on public transport is vital to ensuring customers are safe.

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.

I will work with local police and appoint the best prosecutors and federal investigators, whose mission will be to ensure every American is safe.

We are going to take care of our law enforcement because in some ways that's going hand in hand now more and more when you see what's going on.

Targets don't fight crime.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.