Andrew Gillum Quotes

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

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.

Certain crimes cannot be prevented unless there is a daily collective work done diligently.

My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.

“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.

Reactive and proactive policing are both necessary. Still, we need to lower expectations that such efforts can ever be responsive to crime.

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

I like going to areas where the murder rate is high and dropping it.

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.

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

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

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.

Having the support of our communities is absolutely essential to productive and sustainable crime prevention efforts. While there are law enforcement agencies that have meaningful and transparent relationships with all segments of their communities, it is fair to say that there are other agencies that need to further enhance relationships and build trust within their communities, particularly among disenfranchised segments.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.

True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.

Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime.

Police ought to protect communities as well as individuals.... Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police - and the rest of us - ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows.

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

Here's what I learned as a mayor and a governor. The way you make communities safer and the way you make police safer is through community policing. You build the bonds between the community and the police force, build bonds of understanding, and then when people feel comfortable in their communities, that gap between the police and the communities they serve narrows. And when that gap narrows, it's safer for the communities and it's safer for the police.

We need to support our police officers and make sure that community policing becomes something that becomes the standard across the country.

Targets don't fight crime.

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

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

Obviously local people will have their local voice through the police and crime commissioners that they've elected to determine their local policing.