Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay.

But in my district I have heard from law enforcement officials and across the State of Florida about how much this JAG funding helps them fight crime, and to protect and serve the citizens within their jurisdiction.

Criminals are punished, that others may be deterred.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.

Without the punishment of the Death by a Thousand Cuts, I am afraid people in China would have nothing to fear … and before long there would be more and more criminals, and it would be hard to ensure peace and stability.

Nothing will deter crime but the certainty of punishment.

What is the point of the police if wrongdoers aren't afraid of them?

We're going to be working in a stringent way and very good way on crime.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of.

Punishment can do a lot for criminals, and send a message to the rest of society.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

“I’m going to stop crime in the streets.” A president is pressured to make that promise even though a President can’t do anything about street crime.

But passing by all other considerations, and contemplating merely the political institutions of the United States, I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.

Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

Crime prevention has to become a first priority.

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

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.

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.

We have to bring back law and order in this country and I think the police are phenomenal people.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.