Sajid Javid Quotes

Too often, we see violent criminals return to the streets they have previously terrorized, only to commit more violent crimes.

The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

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

With four of the top ten most violent cities in America, Michigan will never fully flourish unless our governments can fulfill their basic task: protecting public safety.

We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.

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.

More cops on our streets and in our neighborhoods mean safer streets and neighborhoods.

Let's talk about the real issues of crime which people are worried about. What people are worried about is the rise in violent crime. We believe that more community policemen and women are part of the answer to this.

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

Property crime is down 40 percent. We just don't want to see it creep back up. We've had 25 years of very good cooperation.

I believe in community policing. And, in fact, violent crime is one-half of what it was in 1991.

Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

I love Chicago. I know Chicago. And Chicago is a great city. It can be a great city. It can't be a great city if people are shot walking down the street for a loaf of bread.

It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.

Let's make New York the safest state in America - that must be our goal. Let's achieve it together.

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

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.

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.

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

Getting guns off the streets does make communities safer. We can't stand here and say because we don't have the perfect solution, we shouldn't try.

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.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

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