Jeff Cooper Quotes

No one wants dangerous criminals in our communities.

Victims of crime and the wider community deserve a grown-up debate on our criminal justice system and how we can make it work - for those within it and for those it protects.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

We're so so interested in protecting criminals and people that want to do us harm and I think we have to go back to a little more old fashioned method of thinking, if that makes sense.

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.

Crime prevention has to become a first priority.

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

We must renew our efforts to keep our communities safe, from the dangers of terrorists from foreign lands and from common criminals here at home. Let no criminal believe that tough fiscal times will yield an open cell door and a ticket to freedom.

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

Criminals are punished, that others may be deterred.

As long as I am mayor there will be law and order in Chicago.

If the police can shoot a criminal, then why can't we take action against those who are poisoning our society?

The time for the State to protect himself against the criminal is before the criminal is made. Most criminals are not born, they are made.... What a State really punishes in a criminal is its own neglect, it's own failure to do its duty to the citizens.

Let me remember, when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.

Crime is not going to be stopped by police departments. You have to have police departments but alone they cannot stop crime.

We need the cops, especially in the black community.

Law and order in our communities doesn't arise spontaneously.

No place is unpoliceable; no crime is immune to better enforcement efforts.

We should not judge law enforcement's success by the number of tickets and arrests, but by the security and comfort the community feels in the public square.

I thank the officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, who work hard every day to help people in their most vulnerable moments, keep our communities safe, and build relationships and trust with the public.