Steven Pinker Quotes

And it is crucial of course that chief constables are able to make decisions within their budgets about how they deploy their police officers to the greatest effect to ensure that they're able to do the job that the public want them to do.

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.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

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

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Crimes happen, but some are preventable.

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 harsher laws are put in place, less will dare to break them.

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

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.

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.

Attrition through enforcement is simply the self-evident principle that if you ratchet up the level of enforcement and make it more difficult to break the law, fewer people will continue to break the law.

Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.

I see my role as police commissioner as providing strategic oversight, support and accountability for the bureau.

There is definitely a balance that I have to strike both in terms of supporting the Police Bureau - making sure they have the tools and the resources they need to do their jobs effectively. But I also have an important role to play when it comes to oversight and accountability.

The increasing crimes in Chennai have become a cause for concern. Chain snatching has become a routine affair.

hooting for 'Savdhaan India' in Mathura made me realise that no matter what place you come from be it a holy city, crime still prevails.

Only an approach combining tough law enforcement with physical, moral and educational revitalization of high-crime areas offers the prospect of a safer America.

There are many factors that affect crime rates. But we recognize that the main reason crime has decreased has always been - and always will be - the dangerous and stressful work done by state and local law enforcement officers day in and day out.

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

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.