William Barr Quotes

To control violence [and other crime] requires a police system of professional investigations and good equipment. We don’t have it.

The essence to reducing violent crime in our society is to take these people [criminals] off the street.

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.

Police reform is working, and crime is falling.

The U.S. Attorneys who comprise the Attorney General's Advisory Committee play a critical role in carrying out the Department of Justice's important work, including its efforts to reduce violent crime, combat the opioid crisis, protect the most vulnerable, and enforce the rule of law.

At the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, I worked as an Outreach and Re-entry Coordinator and an Assistant U.S. Attorney. I have seen the best of our law enforcement community and the commitment that they have made to the public's safety. But I've also seen too many examples of where our system falls desperately short.

San Francisco needs a Mayor who will make all our neighborhoods safe, a Mayor with a record of standing up for public safety and fighting for the resources we need.

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

The answer to crime is not gun control, it is law enforcement and self-control.

There's a simple way to solve the crime problem: obey the law; punish those who do not.

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

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.

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

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

The vast majority of A.D.A.s put everything on the line to make sure justice is served. That's what I love about prosecutors and the New York police.

In the 1990s, we introduced Boston's community policing strategy. We reversed the tide of violent crime that threatened our city, and we established a national model for preventing and fighting crime.

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.

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.

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

I lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them…

Any politician who wants to eliminate parole just doesn’t understand law enforcement.

My 26 years experience as a police officer and official, including command of two police districts, tells me that unfortunately the only short-term response that can counter the on-street violence and offer neighborhoods relief from crime and drugs is aggressive law enforcement.... Cities and states have made police the institution of first response rather than of last resort in addressing this crisis.

There's nothing we [the Congress] can do to eliminate crime.

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.