Bobby Scott Quotes

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

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

I want to bear down on violent crime, in all its aspects from terrorism to sexual offences but definitely knife and gun crime, particularly as it affects young people.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.

I'm intending to work on juvenile justice reform, sentencing reform, reentry, drug treatment, access to mental health care.

I just think it's shocking how many of these young people wind up in prison and they get turned into hardcore criminals because they had a possession of a very small amount of controlled substance.

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

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

We can either allow our youth to shoot baskets or watch them shoot people.

One of the problems in America is that everybody focuses on their own narrow little bit of the problem without connecting punishment and prevention together, without connecting the schools and the police together, without connecting the pediatricians and the social workers together.

Knife crime devastates communities.

The criminal justice system is not the right place - or it shouldn't be the place of first resort to provide addiction or mental health services. It should happen elsewhere with no police and no judges and no juries and no jails.

It was very difficult when I was young because there are problems with violence, gangs, guns, drugs - a criminal life. I had friends that choose a criminal life. Some of them are in prison, and some of them are dead. They chose the bad way.

Our research shows that nearly 60% of recent offenders who engaged with a community-based alcohol programme did not go on to reoffend in the two years following treatment. Offenders given a community sentence including mental health treatment have also shown to be significantly less likely to reoffend.

The police should be addressing car break-ins and burglaries and things like that. And increasingly what they're doing is providing social services. The majority of police are not trained in the provision of social services.

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.

I think it is very important to keep the kids off the street and out of trouble.

We need to do a better job identifying what's contributing to the crime and making sure we hold people accountable in a way that addresses that root cause.

My top priority as Attorney General is to continue the fight against violent crime, and step it up wherever needed.

It is imperative that state and local jurisdictions not scrimp on investing in law enforcement.

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

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.