Barack Obama Quotes

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.

Respect for law is fading from the sensibilities of our people. Twenty times as many people in proportion to the population are lawlessly killed in the United States as in Great Britain. There are fifty times as many robberies. Life and property are relatively more unsafe than in any civilized country in the world.

The real crime rate and peoples perceptions are two different things.

When I first served as Attorney General back in the early 90s, crime was at its highest in American history, with its peak in 1992.

If we're going to talk about mayors, that under the current mayor [of New York in 2016], crime has continued to drop, including murders.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up.

In America, we have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.

It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison.

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

The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe.

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

The part of London where I grew up has the highest crime rates in the country.

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

If crime went down 100 percent it would still be 50 percent higher than it should be.

Outside of the killings, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

If you ignore the homicides, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.

While crime is indeed up in some cities in the last month or so since the stay-at-home orders lifted, crime is nonetheless down overall for 2020. Indeed, violent crime has trended downward now for decades.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

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

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

Most people seem to assume that this dramatic surge in imprisonment was due to a corresponding surge in crime, particularly violent crime.

We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.