P. Chidambaram Quotes

We interviewed many, many men and women from the NYPD and the NYPD Intelligence Division, specifically, and they're really good, dedicated people who want to keep the city safe.

It seemed to me... that the only valid people to deal with crime were cops, and I would like to make the lead character, rather than a single person, a squad of cops.

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

It would be highly useful to government espionage to have reports from all our bookstores, all our hardware and retail stores, all our drugstores…. What one buys at the hardware and retail stores may furnish clues to potential uses of wires, soap powders, and the like used by criminals.

Abolish the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency.

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

… information that has come in has not commenced an investigation …. I never made a lead from rhetoric that came from a Demographics report, and I'm here since 2006

An intelligence unit staffed with full-time personnel should be established to gather, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information on potential as well as actual civil disorders...It should use undercover police personnel and informants.

There's a perception that police are less likely to do the marginal additional policing that suppresses crime: the getting out of your car at 2 in the morning and saying to a group of guys, 'What are you doing here?'

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

Policing is an integral part of governance. It is a whole, but it is also a part of the larger whole. Just like a human organ like the head, it's got intelligence, stamina, strategy and surveillance. But it cannot function independently in the absence of other life-sustaining organs.

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

The inability to access evidence or intelligence despite the lawful authority to do so significantly impacts the FBI's ability to identify, investigate, prosecute, or otherwise deter criminals, terrorists, and other offenders.

Putting cops on streets is the most effective way to combat crime.

As I mentioned we have arrested or detained over 1,000 people here in America to determine to find out what they know.

You don’t know what you don’t know. That’s the nature of the intelligence business.

Americans don’t spy on Americans.

With terrorism becoming the increasing tactic of choice, the military component would become a smaller component of our national security system.

The safety and security of the nation depends more so than ever before on intelligence.

Successful counter-terrorist strategies are based on accurate and detailed intelligence on terrorist networks and activities

The Demographics Unit is at the heart of a [New York City] police spying program, built with help from the CIA, which assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed. Police infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques, monitored sermons and catalogued every Muslim in New York who adopted new, Americanized surnames.

A cop by themselves on every corner is not going to make that much difference.

Cops are some of my best sources. They have so much information.

In order to win the war on terrorism, we have to win the war of information. Information is so very, very valuable. This is an important tool in gathering up information.

It was a great time, and I liked the guys. I liked getting up every morning and being a cop.