Cressida Dick Quotes

We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.

The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is not disarming them. The proven method for saving the lives of innocent Americans is to arrest, prosecute, convict and jail criminal offenders, especially armed career criminals illegally using guns. This is the way to reduce gun violence.

Knife crime devastates communities.

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

I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then. I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.

You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

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.

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.

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

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

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

I suggest we bring some normality back to this country and say if you are carrying a knife, there must be zero tolerance. If it was up to me, everyone caught with a knife would get an automatic ten year sentence.

FBI joint task forces - Violent Crime Safe Streets, Violent Gang Safe Streets, and Safe Trails Task Forces - focus on identifying and targeting major groups operating as criminal enterprises. Much of the Bureau's criminal intelligence is derived from our state, local, and tribal law enforcement partners, who know their communities inside and out.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Knife crime and gun crime is poverty-driven, and poverty leads to insecurity.

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.

If the police can shoot a criminal, then why can't we take action against those who are poisoning our society?

I want the violence among young people in this country to stop - particularly gang violence.

What to do about these increases in crime? Plenty of laws already exist to punish violent criminals, and research questions the level of correlation between longer sentences and lower crime rates.

Simply put, violent criminals break the law - any law - every day with impunity.

Gang members aren't frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.

I think one of the keys to any crime-prevention program that's got to be developed is to focus on punishment - to let people know that there is a sanction and a punishment for hurting others.

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.