Albert Wynn Quotes

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

Make it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime.

Forty or fifty executions now would in the next twelve months save thousands of lives.

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

Drug dealers need to understand a simple fact. You shoot a cop and you're going to be severely punished—fast. And if I had my way, I'd say with your life.

Thousands of Americans die at the hands of illegal aliens every year. Every murder, every rape, every violent gang crime committed against Americans by illegal aliens is an utterly preventable crime.

Men are not hang'd for stealing Horses, but that Horses may not be stolen.

[We have to make] a distinction between dangerous violent criminals and people who are engaged in non-violent criminal activities….Your taking somebody out of the economy, breaking up their families, and putting them in a place with hardened criminals. I think that it is pretty hard to argue that has been a positive long-term result.

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

Federal law provides very powerful tools, such as strict mandatory sentences, to go after repeat violent offenders who are illegally in the possession of a gun.

We need to look at the totality of the things that we're labeling as violent and really examine whether we need to have some more proportionality in terms of the punishment fitting the crime that's done. The bright line that we have right now, between violent and nonviolent, does not account for shades of gray.

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

When you criminalize something, only criminals can deal with it. When criminals deal with it, there's no recourse to law, so there's only recourse to violence.

Our laws are too lax, our justice system too weak - particularly when it comes to violent, dangerous offenders.

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.

What Labor has said very clearly is that there should be up to life sentences for people who traffic in guns.

Knife crime devastates communities.

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.

We need law enforcement as the ultimate deterrent to stop irresponsible and rash young people from making mistakes that will harm others and themselves. Put bluntly, we need them to be scared of getting caught and of getting punished.

I've seen other people getting into trouble for glamorising breaking the law.

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.