James Q. Wilson Quotes

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

Tackling violence on our streets is a complex problem, and we need not only all parties, but whole communities to come together to tackle it.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Our party's committed to tackling failing schools and cutting crime.

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

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

What police do is not really about force. Police preserve peace and order principally by educating, leading, persuading people to cooperate in a peaceful community. Any veteran officer will tell you that the essential police skill is talking to people. That is especially true for dealing with young people, who ... no one else really talks to at all.

As long as I am mayor there will be law and order in Chicago.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

We need to do a better job of working, again, with the communities, faith communities, business communities, as well as the police to try to deal with this problem.

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

In my home State of Minnesota, I have seen firsthand the importance of Byrne grants to local police in reducing crime and drugs and improving public safety.

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

I believe it's important that we ensure that the police have a modern and flexible workforce. I think that's what is necessary, so that they can provide the public with the service that they want.

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

Boston is safe. And we're going to keep it safe.

The police need to come down to street level.