John Bowman Quotes

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

He must be a bold man indeed who is confident that he knows what causes crime.

Crime is a tax on the poor

There was more violent crime among poor Irish immigrants in New York City 100 years ago than there is among blacks and Puerto Ricans today.

Our communities are reeling from poverty, from unemployment, from discrimination of all sorts and different interactions that they're having with the law enforcement, and education system, and so on.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America.

In Britain, where the social safety net is more like a social swaddling cloth, crime rates other than murder are significantly higher than in the United States.

The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.

What too few people mention when discussing crime is the degree to which concentrated poverty, hopelessness and despair are the chambermaids of violence and incivility.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

The crime problem in New York is getting really serious. The other day the Statue of Liberty had both hands up.

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

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

Crime is the number one problem in Russia.

Just because you are poor and have no voice does not mean that you don’t deserve police protection.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.

The main cause of crime is linked very directly to mass immigration.

The wiping out of crime is so largely an economic question because much crime arises from the fact that children grow up in undesirable surroundings and have parents that have been conditioned by the same type of environment.