S.E. Cupp Quotes

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

I actually met a cop who worked with street gangs. I wanted to understand what drives someone who deals with very hardened criminals on a daily basis. How do you turn that off when you go home at night?

Tackling violence on our streets is a complex problem, and we need not only all parties, but whole communities to come together to tackle it.

I want to bear down on violent crime, in all its aspects from terrorism to sexual offences but definitely knife and gun crime, particularly as it affects young people.

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.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

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.

What police do is not really about force. Police preserve peace and order principally by educating, leading, persuading people to cooperate in a peaceful community. Any veteran officer will tell you that the essential police skill is talking to people. That is especially true for dealing with young people, who ... no one else really talks to at all.

Wyatt Earp, who was on our city police force last summer, is in town again. We hope he will accept a position on the force once more. He had a quiet way of taking the most desperate characters into custody which invariably gave one the impression that the city was able to enforce her mandates and preserve her dignity. It wasn't considered policy to draw a gun on Wyatt unless you got the drop and meant to burn powder without any preliminary talk.

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

Gun control is not the answer. Culture control is the answer.

Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence.

I was hired to stop the killing.

Before science all things must fall, including the ramparts of criminality.

… people who are armed make comparatively unattractive victims. A criminal might not know if any one civilian is armed, but if it becomes known that a large number of civilians do carry weapons, criminals will become warier.

You can have bans on assault weapons or whatever weapons you wish, and it's not going to protect from a violent person.

You can't reason with gang violence: you can't talk to it, sit it at the table, and negotiate with it.

Strategies that do show evidence of effectiveness include policing that's focused on high-risk individuals or geographic areas, and/or deterrence-based approaches that hold entire gangs accountable should individual members engage in criminal behavior.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

Given the devastation that crime can visit on families and communities, I will err on being a little too tough on crime than being too soft on crime.

As big a problem as gun violence is for Chicago, it is not beyond our ability to solve. Ending this string of tragedies is our top priority as a city. We are infusing our police department with the manpower, technology and training to meet this challenge head on.

The police should be addressing car break-ins and burglaries and things like that. And increasingly what they're doing is providing social services. The majority of police are not trained in the provision of social services.

Our police officers are on the front line of a battle to maintain control of our streets.

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.

My top priority as Attorney General is to continue the fight against violent crime, and step it up wherever needed.