Mark Steyn Quotes

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

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

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.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

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

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

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

If you want to cut down crime in America, give people some jobs.

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.

Fighting crime is not cheap, because it requires boots on the ground.

“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.

I gathered, in the investigation I made as Chairman of the Committee of the American Law Institute, statistics from a majority of the States and I have carefully examined those gathered by other committees and commissions, and it is my judgment that of those committing major crimes … not one out of every ten is apprehended and adequately punished … that our system of apprehending and prosecuting those who commit major crimes is only from 10 per cent to 15 per cent efficient; that as to those apprehended and indicted for major offenses, it is only from 25 per cent to 30 per cent efficient … and that as to those actually tried for major offenses, it is not over 50 per cent efficient.

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.

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

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.

Crimes happen, but some are preventable.

Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.

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.

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.

You don't present a show like 'Crimewatch' without developing a real respect for the justice system in this country.

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

Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

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.

Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.