Kamala Harris Quotes

It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.

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

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

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

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.

“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.

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

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

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

Targets don't fight 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.

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.

Dealing with crime using archaic methods has become impossible. So, it's imperative that we change the ways to counter them.

Regular, everyday working people in my state recognize that communities are going to have crime. They know that. The question is what do communities do about it?

We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of 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.

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

Arresting people is not going to lower the crime rate

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.

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.

Crime prevention has to become a first priority.

Targets don't fight crime; they hinder the fight against crime.