John Abizaid Quotes

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

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.

If the police can shoot a criminal, then why can't we take action against those who are poisoning our society?

Diminishing violence is a goal everyone can support, and I look forward to participating in the debate when specific proposals come before the House.

We must stand our ground to ensure that our laws reduce violence and take a hard look at laws that contribute to more violence than they prevent.

We need to do something about the culture of violence.

Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

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.

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.

There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, but it's something you do much later.

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

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

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.

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

In Chicago in 2000, the Cure Violence health approach saw a 67 percent decline in shootings and killings, which soon replicated to 70 communities nationwide with multiple independent evaluations from world-renowned institutions, such as the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

We have been embarked on what I would call a proactive strategy that looks at our gun violence as a public health crisis, which is what it is. That means we look at the root causes of the violence.

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.

We're asking that the Compton citizens have a zero tolerance policy against violence.

Since 1992 we have made dramatic progress in reducing violent crime.

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

The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal, and to let the criminal start worrying about society. And by "society" I mean you.