Letitia James Quotes

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

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

Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

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

Broken-windows enforcement is really about controlling behavior to such an extent you change it: If you deal with the little things, you can keep them from going into the big things. Zero tolerance implies zealotry. It's oppressive. And it's not achievable. You're never going to be in a position to eliminate all crime.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.

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.

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

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

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 police should be focused on policing criminal activity, and that's sort of the beginning, the middle and the end of it for me.

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.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

The police need to come down to street level.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

“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.

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

Without the punishment of the Death by a Thousand Cuts, I am afraid people in China would have nothing to fear … and before long there would be more and more criminals, and it would be hard to ensure peace and stability.